MY READER'S BLOCK: 2026 Challenges/Reading Challenge Addict

SCAM artist alert

Apparently there is someone calling themself "Luigi Calloway" out there who is claiming to be associated with the Mount TBR Reading Challenge. He is contacting authors and telling them if they pay him, then their books will be used for the challenge. It's possible he's also telling people they must pay to participate in any way. Please know that there is absolutely no charge associated in any way with this reading challenge and that this person does not represent me or anything associated with my blog. There will NEVER be a reason for anyone to have to pay for participation in any way for any of my challenges. If only people who exert this much time and effort on scamming people would put it into something worthwhile....like reading their own books!

As I say every year--I think there's very little expectation that I won't sign up for all the things. Every year I tell myself that next year I'm going to cut back on my challenges...And every year I wind up participating in 30-plus. My goal, as ever, is still to read primarily from my own stacks and that might limit my choices on what I read, but there always seems to be plenty of challenges to do even with that resolution. So, here I am again signing up for the Reading Challenge Addict Challenge. With my challenge-aholic ways, I'll be signing up for the top level:

Out of This World: 16+ Challenges (Entered & Completed)

This will also be the place where I keep track of my ever-growing list.

Here we go...

1. Vintage Scavenger Hunt (Commitment met 4/11/26; still reading!)
2. Mount TBR (Commitment met )
3. Virtual Mount TBR (Commitment met 6/23/26; still reading)
4. Reading by the Numbers (Commitment met )
5. Color Coded Challenge (date completed)
6. Read it Again, Sam (Commitment met 4/8/26; still reading)
7. Calendar of Crime (date completed)
8. Medical Examiner (Commitment met 1/31/26; still reading!)
9. Six Shooter (Commitment met )
10. Mystery Marathon (3/23/26)
11. BC by Erin 24.0 (3/5/26)
12. Books: Agatha Christie Perpetual Challenge (Commitment met 4/8/26)
13. My Life in Books (date completed)
14. Cloak & Dagger (6/13/26)
15. Historical Reader (Commitment met 2/22/26; still reading!)
16. 52 Book Club (Commitment met 6/13/26; still reading)
17. Read One Million Pages [Perpetual] (date completed)
18. Nancy Drew Challenge [ongoing] (date completed)
19. Journey Through Time (Commitment met 3/7/26; still reading)
20. 13 Moons (Commitment met 5/2/26; still reading)
21. TBR 26 in '26 (4/1/26)
22. Picture Prompt Book Bingo (7/20/26)
23. Buzzword Reading Challenge (date completed)
24. European Reading Challenge (Commitment met 6/13/26)
25. Reporter's Challenge (date completed)
26. Key Word Challenge (date completed)
27. Motif Challenge (date completed)
28. Alphabet Soup (Commitment met 3/21/26; still reading)
29. Alphabet Soup Authors (Commitment met 2/19/26; still reading)
30. What's in a Name? (5/31/26)
31. 52 Book Club: Mystery Genre Challenge (Commitment met)
32. 100 Years Hence (Commitment met: 2/13/26)
33. Abra Cadavers [Reading Baseball] (4/22/26)
34. The 1961 Club (4/19/26)
35. BC by Erin 25.0 (Commitment met)
36. IU Summer Reading Challenge (8/22/26)
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