The Literary Looters 💰 | Book Talk Reading Challenge, October 2025

missFiesty_69 (C) log

Queen0fdarkness log

LizzynDarcy log

monsoon_barsha log

Gumnaamhaikoii log

Gags05 log

Ramya_98 log

Foreverlazy log

SoniRita log

aryapdane** log

Amru4krish** log

Swetha-Sai** log

** -- Members in Pink are not playing Bingo

Team, Please reserve a post in this thread and log your pages in the excel as well

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lyxF2LeKbpTG7KzbfVqHvHTTpoo8SvKWJaUaF1vWTv4/edit?usp=drivesdk

Log only the books you finish or DNF from October 1, 2025 to October 31, 2025. The logging will start and end at midnight whatever time zone you're in. The logging will officially stop at midnight PST October 31. (Pacific Time).

Log books within 3 days of finishing / DNFing them. Please DO NOT log pages that you intend to read or page counts of books that are in your TBR. ONLY FINISHED PAGES SHOULD BE LOGGED!

Add the book title/ author/ format and page count to the post you have reserved in your team’s thread (which will be posted by your captain). You will edit this post as you keep reading. You will also be adding the same page counts in the Google sheet that will be shared in your team’s thread.

Wherever possible, please use Amazon’s page counts for logging pages. For ebooks and audiobooks, use Kindle page counts. For paperbacks and hardcovers, use paperback page counts. If you cannot find the book on Amazon, you can use other legitimate sources.

For online fiction, use word count divided by 300 to log pages.

If you DNF, or if you are continuing a book from June, log only the pages you’ve read. You can use percentage read (at the point of DNF) for ebooks, actual page numbers for paperbacks and for audiobooks, log pages based on number of hours read (40 pages per hour at normal speed)

You are responsible for tracking your own reading. Please keep an accurate log of the books you finish. We trust you to be honest. And while we understand the spirit of competitiveness, please also remember that the Reading Challenge is designed to motivate you to read more and beat your own personal counts, so you are competing with yourself!

Lastly, have fun! This is not meant to stress you out, or cause a burn out, it's meant to nurture a love of reading. Read what you can, how much you can, when you can!

Each team will have 25 tasks to do; and each team member will be required to complete at least 2 tasks (aka read 2 books) for your team in order to win the participation badge

Captains, please post your team’s thread like always. The first post will have names of team members, rules, link to excel sheet and in the second post, you can post the Bingo Rules & mention who is doing what task.

The Bingo card will be posted on Oct 1st at 8 pm IST. You will have until Oct 3rd 8 pm IST to decide on the tasks and then the Bingo will officially begin. You also have this time period to clear any doubts/ queries about the tasks.

If a team member is non-responsive (hasn't volunteered for any task) by Oct 7th OR if a team member signs up and does not complete at least one task by Oct 15th, you can assign the same task to someone else in your team/ another volunteer can pick it up.

Each completed task carries 10 points.

Every row (5), diagonal (2) & colored group task (5) completed by a team carries an additional 50 points, but will be awarded only to the first team to complete them. For eg: If your team finishes all the Red colored tasks first, your team is awarded 50 points. Only those teams that tag me (I will be checking the time stamps) on completion will be considered for points.

Completing all the tasks on the grid (aka Bingo) carries 100 points, and will be awarded to the first team that completes it.

At the end of the challenge, we will total up the points and the winning team gets a special siggy.

When you complete a task on the grid, please also mention how the book relates to the task given. For eg: If the task is ‘Read a mystery book’, please post a short blurb of the book that highlights the genre, so that it’s easy for me to verify if the task has been completed accurately.

Captains (or anyone else in the team who's available) can make a master post with your team's target and then edit it later to add the links to the completed tasks posted by each team member. For eg: A volunteer can make a post stating that your team is going after the Middle Row and then edit it to add links as the tasks are completed. Then tag me, with the link to the master post and I will check based on the time stamp for when I was tagged. Since calling out 'Bingo' only counts even in the real game, if a team completes a row/diagonal/colored group ahead of everyone else but fails to tag me, then they don't win that row.

We know it's a team challenge and everyone gets competitive and wants to win, but please please don't cheat and mark the task as completed without reading the book just so your team can win/ claim Bingo.

The same thread can be used for Bingo and the Reading Challenge, meaning Captains will post both sets of Rules, then individual team members will reserve their log posts and then the discussion for Bingo can begin.

Books or FFs can count towards a challenge unless explicitly mentioned, but the minimum page number criterion of 60 pages must be maintained. Meaning you cannot read multiple one page FFs and log them as one task.

DNF pages will also not count; for a task to be considered completed on the Grid, only finished books will count.

Bingo Card Template credit: oh_nakhrewaali

Explanations available in this thread:

https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/post/167371886

Completed (UN & post link)

LizzynDarcy

Task #11, Task #16, Task #19: https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/post/167379839

Gumnaamhaikoii

Consolidated Book Bingo: https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/post/167467172

missFiesty_69

Consolidated Book Bingo: https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/post/167469969

SoniRita

Consolidated Book Bingo: https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/post/167465303

Queen0fdarkeness

Task #21: https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/post/167383127

Task #12: https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/post/167401299

foreverlazy

Consolidated Book Bingo: https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/post/167467182

Ramya_98

Task #10 : https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/post/167407794

Task #14: https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/post/167410979

Author & Book | No of Pages

Book Bingo Reads

Him by Sarina Bowen | 338 pages
The Case of Drowning Duck by Erle Stanley Gardner | 270 pages
The Cyclone ( PS, translated by Gowri Ramnarayan ; originally written by Kalki) | 544 pages
Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez | 400 pages
Flat Share by Beth O' Leary | 354 pages
Match me If you Can by Susan Elizabeth Philips | 416 pages
Scandal in Spring by Lisa Kleypas | 384 pages
Wait for It by Mariana Zapata | 418 pages
Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie | 304 pages
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T J Klune | 416 pages
Warrior Queen of Sivaganga: The Legend of Rani Velu Nachiyar by Shubendra | 222 pages
Sivakamiyin Sabatam by Kalki | 1461 pages
The Bride Test by Helen Hoang | 322 pages
One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune | 340 pages
Murder on the Eiffel Tower: A Victor Legris Mystery: 1(Victor Legris Mysteries, 1) by Claude Izner | 289 pages
The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren | 369 pages
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides | 340 pages
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green | 336 pages
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” by Taylor Jenkins Reid | 398 pages
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto | 303 pages
One Day by David Nicholls | 401 pages
In the Hello and in the Goodbye by Melissa Whitney | 328 pages
Circe by Madeline Miller | 347 pages
Sita's sister by Kavitha Kane | 320 pages

FanFictions

Love is a dagger by CloseToSomethingReal | 67327/300 =224 pages
You can have Both - FiveFootTwo | 44326/300 = 148 pages

Other Books

Author & Book | No of Pages

The Case of the Velvet Claws by ESG | 183 pages
Mahabharata - Volume #4 by Bibek Debroy | 624 pages
Hashtag Holidate by Lucy Lennox | 336 pages
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins | 448 pages
The Score by Elle Kennedy | 361 pages
The Legacy (Off campus #5) by Elle Kennedy | 339 pages
One Day by David Nicholls | 442 pages
Nandipurathi Nayagi (pdf) by Vikraman | 1699 pages
Sweet Thing by Renee Carlino | 320 pages
From the Ashes by Athena Bartim | 222 pages

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1. Own Voices: Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender - 368 pages (It’s written by a Black, queer, nonbinary author, and it authentically portrays the experiences of a Black, queer, transgender teen navigating identity and self-acceptance.)

2. NY Times Best Seller list: Mate By Ali Hazelwood - 457 pages

3. Holiday/ Festival themed: Hercules Poirot’s Christmas by A.C. - 288 pages

4. A translation: Diary of a young girl by Anne Frank - 304 pages (Translated by B.M Mooyaarat-Doubleday)

5. Rated below 3 stars on Good Reads: I Kissed The Grump Next Door by Charity Bee Ames - 142 pages

6. Education/ Science themed: Humiliated Wife By Elise Camden- 398 pages (FMC is educator and lot of plot revolves around it)

7. Single Word Title: Overruled by Lana Ferguson - 419 pages

8. Superhero Fanfiction: No Rush (Just Let Me Take A Breath) by JAWorley- 63 pages (It’s a Ironfam centric FF with special appearances of other Avengers as well.)

9. Part of series: Out on a limb by Hannah B Young - 408 pages (#1 in Out series)

10. Written in first person: The Devil in disguise by BirdOfHermes - 62 pages

11. Movie/ Series adaptation: The Summer I turned pretty by Jenny Han - 288 pages

12. Animated Book Cover:Business Casual by BK Borrison- 372 pages

13. Read by someone else in August: Turn of Key by Ruth Ware - 352 pages (Read By LizzieBennet & heavenlybliss in August)

14. Number in Title: The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle - 142 pages

15. Punny Title: The Most Wonderful Crime Of The Year by Ally Carter -303 pages

16. Futuristic or Dystopian: Tower by Claire Kent - 174 pages (Post-apocalyptic world)

17. Author's name starts with S: We are all guilty here By Karin Slaughter- 446 pages

18. Author's debut: Fate knows the Best by Alanea Alder - 210 Pages

19. Non- human characters: My Haven By Alanea Alder - 240 pages

20. A Retelling: Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher — 128 pages (a retelling of Sleeping Beauty)

21. Historical Fiction: Mrigayani by that_crazy_girl - 156 pages (Set in ancient India)

22. Published in the 2000s: Portrait in death by JD Robb - 347 pages (First Published on Feb 25,2003)

23. Recommendation by a member of another team:Live not on evil by memoriaeterna- 109 pages (recommended by Stuti from Manuscript Marauders team)

24. Set in India: Murder Under the Red Moon By Harini Nagendra — 289 Pages (It’s part of Bangalore Detectives Club series)

25. More than 400 pages- Bride By Ali Hazelwood- 416 pages

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Non Bingo Reads:

1. My Wife’s Secretary By Elise Camden - 326 pages
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TOTAL PAGE COUNT : 7065
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Ramya’s log

1. Circe - Madeline Miller - 400 pages (Book Bingo task # 10: Written in first person)

2. Towards Zero - Agatha Christie - 242 pages (Book Bingo task # 14: Number in the title)

3. The Locked Door - Freida Mcfadden - 320 pages

4. Eddie Winston is Looking For Love - Marianne Cronin - 304 pages

5. Christmas crimes at the mysterious bookshop - Otto Penzler - 140 pages (DNF at 50%)

Gags05's Page Log

(Currently reading in blue)

1. 'The Lottery' By Shirley Jackson

Overall rating : 5/5 Stars

2. 'Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales' by Heather Fawcett (contd. from previous month, from page 159 onwards).

3. 'Is she really going out with him' by Sophie Cousens (cont. from previous month, from page 85 to page 285) | DNF @ 70%

Overall rating : 2.5/5 Stars

Soni’s log

Total 2219 pages.

Harry potter and deathly hallows by JK rowling. Part of bingo challenge series- 784 pages

Part of your world by abby jimenez. Part of bingo challenge animated book cover Ebook 400 pages

Yours truly by Abby Jimenez. Part of bingo challenge 400 pages Ebook- 416 pages

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling. Read by LadyWhistledown August 2025. 337 pages

Jekel Loves Hyde by Beth fantaskey. 282 pages hardcover.

Amru's Log

I completed Enid blyton 6 to 10 book series as part of my creative writing project.... So here is the list ...

No.TitlePages
Five On Kirrin Island Again ~192 pages

Five Go Off to Camp ~256 pages

Five Get Into Trouble ~188 pages
Five Fall Into Adventure ~182 pages
Five On A Hike Together ~192 pages