QBD Reading Challenge 2025 Completed

I didn’t think I would complete this within the first three months of the year, but there you go! Given there were a few like the translated book I wasn’t sure what I would get to – I ended up having quite a few options for that one. Others I had decided to fill as I came across them throughout the year, and I was lucky that all the books I read in the first three months filled this out completely. I do have a few other challenges and book bingos I am doing, and am at various stages in each of those, and hope to complete those by the end of the year.

1. A Novel Case (Read a book outside your usual genre – science fiction): The Surface Trials by HM Waugh
2. Keep Your Friends Close (A book written by an Australian author): The Edge Of Everything by Miranda Luby
3. And Your Enemies Closer (A book featuring a problematic main character): Panic by Catherine Jinks
4. A New Lead (A trending book): Silverborn: The Mystery of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend
5. Most Wanted (QBD Top 100): The 113^th Assistant Librarian by Stuart Wilson
6. Today we Slay (An LGBTQIA Book): A Good Kind of Trouble by Brooke Blurton and Melanie Saward
7. A Red Herring (A book that features an animal): Legend of the Lighthouse Moon by Helen Edwards
8. Stranger than Fiction (A non-fiction book):Caution! This Book Contains Deadly Reptiles by Corey Tutt, art by Ben Williams
9. Fresh Evidence (a 2025 debut novel): How to Be Normal by Ange Crawford
10. You’ve cracked the code (A book translated from another language): Heidi by Johanna Spyri
11. Pick from the line up (QBD book of the month): Bravepaw and the Rotwood Mire by L.M. Wilkinson and Lavanya Naidu
12. Case closed (A book with a feel-good happy ending): Salty by Sandi Parsons
13. Free Choice: How to Sail to Somewhere by Ashleigh Barton