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20 Questions - 2025
How to Participate:
1. Post here telling the challenge leader how many books you plan to read.
You may choose your books at the beginning, or add them as you go. You may join any time during the year, and may change your goal whenever needed.
2. When you finish books for the challenge, edit your original post or member’s corner thread to add them.
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Every time you post an update, be sure to include your original (sign-up) message number, the number of books you have completed, and your goal. We use your original message number to identify you, since multiple members may have the same profile name.
Example:
Update to message 32: 2/25 books read!
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Participants:
Amy #15 - 15/30
Anna #21 - 0/12
Beth #7 - 0/25
Carmen #6 - 11/20
Carrie #16 - 17/26
D.L. #14 - 8/10
Debra Diggs #5 - 16/24
Julie #17 - 0/20
Kristina #10 - 8/30
Rachael #26 - 0/20
Sarah #22 - 0/28
SarahKat #12 - 5/12
Sherri #9 - 0/6
Tanu #23 - 1/11
TerryJane #8 - 40/44
Victoria #24 - 5/12
STATS
Participants: 16
Completed: 0
Book Goal: 300
Books Read: 111
Updated through Message #57 on Apr 28, 2025.
20 Questions 24/20
Object:
� Clue 1: Set in 80's - The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
� Clue 2: Involves a recording - We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
� Clue 3: Made into a movie or a novelization - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade by Rob MacGregor
Clue 4: Something outdated on cover
- How Can I Help You by Laura Sims
Clue 5: Has the word "rewind" in the title
� Answer: (view spoiler)
Animal:
Clue 1: Set on farm
� Clue 2: Involves racing - Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves by Meg Long
� Clue 3: Western - Where Coyotes Howl by Sandra Dallas
Clue 4: Set in Kentucky
� Answer: (view spoiler)
Famous Person:
Clue 1: Airplane on cover or in title
- Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
� Clue 2: Main character is woman - The Nosy Neighbor by Nita Prose
� Clue 3: Mystery - Promise Not to Tell by Jennifer McMahon
� Clue 4: Adventure story - Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Answer: (view spoiler)
Famous Fictional Person:
� Clue 1: Features a vampire(s) - Night Ride by Robert McCammon
� Clue 2: Set in southern USA - Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
� Clue 3: Main character name starts with an "S" - The Way by Cary Groner
� Clue 4: Features a strong, independent woman - Vendetta by Dreda Say Mitchell
� Clue 5: A series - The Boy in the Iron Box: The Complete Serialized Novel by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
� Clue 6: Made into TV show - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
� Clue 7: Features paranormal activity - The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
� Clue 8: Main character with unusual name - Purrfect Murder by Nic Saint
� Answer: (view spoiler)
Movie:
� Clue 1: Science fiction - Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
� Clue 2: Involves war - People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
� Clue 3: Part of a series - The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Clue 4: Author's first name is George
� Clue 5: Has stars on cover - Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
� Answer: (view spoiler)
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Joining. Five books, four clues each (total of 20 questions, 25 books). The "answer" books are all among the oldest on my TBR.Book 1
Clue 1. A book set in Italy. - The 14th Colony
Clue 2. The first book of a series. - Rules of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #1) by John Sandford
Clue 3. A book under 200 pages. - Poison for Breakfast by Lemony Snicket
Clue 4. A book with "holiday" as an MPG. - A Holly Jolly Diwali
Answer. (view spoiler)
Book 2
Clue 1. A book a female MC. - The Stolen Hours (Joe Talbert, #3) by Allen Eskens
Clue 2. Historical Fiction. - On Fragile Waves by E. Lily Yu
Clue 3. A book about art. - Still Life
Clue 4. A book whose author's first and last initials are the same. - Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Answer. (view spoiler)
Book 3
Clue 1. A book with leaves on the cover. - Delirium (Delirium, #1)
Clue 2. A book by an Asian author. - Before We Say Goodbye (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #4)
Clue 3. A book with "Family" as a MPG. - Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Clue 4. A book between 300 and 400 pages long. - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #1) by Mark Twain
Answer. (view spoiler)
Book 4
Clue 1. A book with a title in green font. - And the Sun Shines Now
Clue 2. A biography. - Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming
Clue 3. A book by an author who uses three names. - Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1) by Tom Rob Smith
Clue 4. A ŷ Choice Award winner (any category, any year). - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Answer. (view spoiler)
Book 5
Clues. (view spoiler)
Answer. (view spoiler)
� 20 QUESTIONS- Yearly ChallengeDuration: January 1 - December 31, 2025
Progress: 40/44
Travel
� Clue 1: A young adult novel
Heir
� Clue 2: A vehicle for hire
I Am the Messenger
� Clue 3: Unknown persons in close proximity
The Vacation
� Clue 4: Untrustworthy characters
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect
� Clue 5: Involves a stalker
Enduring Love
� Clue 6: A bridge scene
Murder at King’s Crossing
� Clue 7: A trip home to family
The Dead Romantics
� Clue 8: A snowy location
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
� Clue 9: Set around Christmas
Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret
� Clue 10: A number in the title
The Crying of Lot 49
� Answer: (view spoiler)
Time
� Clue 1: A killer child
Defending Jacob
� Clue 2: Organized crime element
Shelterwood
� Clue 3: Timepiece on the cover
The Pull of the Stars
� Clue 4: Set in UK
The Oxford Murders
� Clue 5: Female author
Midnight Rainbow
� Clue 6: English author
Excellent Women
� Clue 7: Father's secret
Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father
� Clue 8: Wife seeking answers
The Twilight Wife
� Clue 9: "Time" in the title
A Hero of Our Time
� Clue 10: Time travel
An Ocean of Minutes
� Answer: (view spoiler)
Identity
� Clue 1: About a child
The Red Pencil
� Clue 2: An LGBTQ+ character
How Y'all Doing?
� Clue 3: A large family
A Christmas Carol
� Clue 4: A Jewish character
Happy for You
� Clue 5: A ŷ Award nominee
Me: Moth
� Clue 6: A Reese's Book Club pick
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
� Clue 7: An orange cover
The Minders
� Clue 8: A character named Poppy
Wink Poppy Midnight
Clue 9: A Washington State Book Award Winner
Stones from the River
� Clue 10: Set in Washington state
Listen to Your Sister
Answer: (view spoiler)
Animal
� Clue 1: An Indigenous author
The Things She's Seen
� Clue 2: About the environment
The Light Pirate
� Clue 3: An animal in the title
Memoirs of a Polar Bear
� Clue 4: A Reese's Book Club pick
Broken Country
� Clue 5: Set in South America
Distant Star
� Clue 6: A memoir
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
� Clue 7: A translated work
Idol, Burning
° Clue 8: A South American author The Unworthy
Clue 9: About social justice
Just Mercy
� Clue 10: About nature
Wild Dark Shore
Answer: (view spoiler)
20 QUESTIONSJanuary 01, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Progress: 8/30
Count me in for 30 books!
Member Corner Tracking Post
Welcome everyone! I'm looking forward to playing this game and reading some books with you all this coming year!Debra, great list so far! I got all of yours right except the object, movie, and place... mostly because I got one thing in my head and couldn't get it out (view spoiler)
I'll sign myself up for 12 for now.5/12
Animal
✔Clue 1: Set in Africa
- The Stranger
Clue 2: Gray
- The Gray House
Clue 3: Big
✔AԲɱ: (view spoiler)
Animal
✔Clue 1: Eats (but not really)
Carrots by Colleen Helme
- Clue 2: Ears
✔Clue 3: Easter
Preparing for Easter: Fifty Devotional Readings from C. S. Lewis by C.S. Lewis
✔AԲɱ: (view spoiler)
SarahKat wrote: "Welcome everyone! I'm looking forward to playing this game and reading some books with you all this coming year!Debra, great list so far! I got all of yours right except the object, movie, and pl..."
Thanks, SarahKat.
I will go for 30, questions TBD15/30
1. A book set in New England: Lone Wolf✔️
2. A book containing a diary: Alias Grace✔️
3. A book set in winter: Small Things Like These✔️
4. A historical fiction book: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store✔️
Answer:(view spoiler)✔️
1. A book with a witch: Nettle & Bone✔️
2. 2. A book with magical realism: The Water Dancer✔️
3. 3. A book featuring sisters: Strawberry Shortcake Murder✔️
4. A book in which a parent died: Maame✔️
Answer:(view spoiler)
1. A mystery: The Westing Game✔️
2. A gothic book: Plain Bad Heroines✔️
3. Set in Scotland: Stranger in the Woods✔️
4. English main character: The Jubilee Problem✔️
Answer: (view spoiler)
1. A nonfiction book: The Open-Air Life: Discover the Nordic Art of Friluftsliv and Embrace Nature Every Day✔️
1. A book featuring magic: A Darker Shade of Magic✔️
I want in on this one! It seems fun but a little hard so I hope it is okay if I steal a few ideas to get me started from all of you super creative people.Put me down for 4 sets with 5 books per set to equal a total of 20 books.
� 20 QUESTIONS- Yearly Challenge
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2025
Progress: 17/26
Game 1: 4/5 A Reaction
✔️Hint #1: book that is dystopian
---[[book:The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes|51901147]book:The Handmaid’s Tale|38447] Completed 3/13/25
✔️Hint #2: book that is first in a series
---Part of Your World Completed 1/3/25
✔️Hint #3:book that has a blue cover
---Archer's Voice Completed 1/15/25
-Hint #4: book where cover is a body part or facial feature
--- tbd later
✔️ Answer: (view spoiler)
🥳Game 2: 6/6 A Place
✔️Hint #1: book that is a 2017 ŷ choice award winner
---Little Fires Everywhere Completed 1/12/25
✔️Hint #2: book that is in the fantasy genre
---The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Completed 1/8/25
✔️Hint #3: book with more than 500 pages
---American Gods Completed 2/23/25
✔️Hint #4: book with a pink cover
---Happy Place Completed 2/5/25
✔️ Answer:(view spoiler)
Game 3: 4/5 A Monster
✔️Hint #1: book written by the King of Horror
---Finders Keepers Completed 1/5/25
✔️ Hint #2: book made into a movie
---Eat, Pray, Love Completed 3/31/25
✔️ Hint #3: book first published in the 1980s
---Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Completed 3/27/25
-Hint #4: book that focuses on friendship
✔️ Answer:(view spoiler)
Game 4: 2/5
-Hint #1: book set during a war
-Hint #2: book that flashes back and forth between two diferent time periods
✔️Hint #3: book with a girls name in the title
---The Return of Ellie Black Completed 2/4/25
Hint #4: book chosen for Reeses's book club
---Where the Crawdads Sing Completed 3/16/25
Answer: (view spoiler)
Game 5: 1/5
✔️Hint #1: book with a ghost in it
---A Stitch in Time Completed 2/24/25
-Hint #2: a book that is part of a Nora Robert's trilogy
Hint #3: a book with flowers on the cover
Hint #4: a book published in 2025
Answer: (view spoiler)
I'm in for 20. I'll add the specifics later.
SarahKat, when I worked out details for
Message #8,
I ended up with 22 books rather than the 20 I had originally planned. Thanks!
TerryJane wrote: "SarahKat, when I worked out details for Message #8,
I ended up with 22 books rather than the 20 I had originally planned. Thanks!"
Changed it!
Update to post 7 - added goal of 25 books
Goal: 12Hmmm, so each books becomes at least 4? I will sign up for 12 to begin with, and see how it goes. It will be fun to see how they connect.
Sign me up for 28 books0/28
Animal
Clue 1: A book set in Alaska
- Cold Light of Day
Clue 2: A book with a white cover
- Mahatma Gandhi
Clue 3: A book with ice in the title
- Ice At Heart
Answer: (view spoiler)
Boyband
Clue 1: A book set in Boston
- Love Story
Clue 2: A book released in 1988
- Oscar and Lucinda
Clue 3: A book with a character called Jonathan
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Answer: (view spoiler)
Movie
Clue 1: A book that’s part of a trilogy
- Shadow and Bone
Clue 2: A book set in New England
- The Crucible
Clue 3: A book released in 1975
- Strega Nona: An Original Tale
Answer: (view spoiler)
People
Clue 1: A book set in London
- The Family Remains
Clue 2: A book set in 1926
- The Last Twelve Miles: A Novel
Clue 3: A book where the main character is the eldest daughter
- When Women Were Dragons
Answer: (view spoiler)
Places
Clue 1: A book taking place on New Year’s Eve
- Watching the Ball Drop
Clue 2: A book set in 1904
- Mrs England
Clue 3: A book where a character is a broadway star
- Countdown To A Kiss: A New Year's Eve Anthology
Answer: (view spoiler)
Animal
Clue 1: A book set in Alaska
- Alaskan Holiday
Clue 2: A book set in the ocean
- Billy Budd, Sailor
Clue 3: A book about endangered sea creatures
- Wild Ocean: Sharks, Whales, Rays, and Other Endangered Sea Creatures
Answer: (view spoiler)
Movie
Clue 1: A book set in Austria
- Carmilla
Clue 2: A book where a character is a governess
- The Governess of Highland Hall
Clue 3: A book set in 1938
- The Air Raid Book Club
Answer: (view spoiler)
Sign me up for 11 books, please!Book
1. A book by a Canadian author The Plus One
2. A book by a Black author - The Reformatory by Tananarive Due �
3. A book set in the Caribbean
4. A book set partially or completely in or near the Arctic Circle (Easy Mode: Scandinavian countries such as Norway acceptable).
5. A book featuring flight/aviation
6. A book that has won an award No Country for Girls by Emma Styles - winner of the 2023 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize �
7. A book about slavery/indentured servitude - Fugitive Telemetry �
8. A book featuring scientific research or innovation - Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland �
9. A book whose author has alliterative initials - They Called Us Enemy by George Takei (illustrator Steven Scott) �
10. A book involving a (literal) voyage - The Strange �
11. A book with a place name in the title - Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point �
Answer: (view spoiler)
Members' Corner Thread
20 QUESTIONS CHALLENGE1st January-31st December 2025
Progress: 8/12
Game One: Animal
� Clue 1: A book with the name of a bird in the title
Raven Black30th April 2025 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Clue 2: A book with white on the cover
The Woman in the White Kimono� Clue 3: A book that references a church
Nevernight 16th January 2025 ⭐️⭐️
Answer (view spoiler)
Game Two: Tell the Time
� Clue 1: A book set at night
After That Night (The Will Trent Series, Book 11)24th April 2025 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Clue 2: A book that references a celestial orb in the title
The Moonlight Market� Clue 3: A book with twelve letters in the title
Sea of Poppies16th March 2025 ⭐️
Answer (view spoiler)
🥂 Game Three: A Boy’s Name
� Clue 1: A book about the aristocracy
The Duke Is Mine30th January 2025 ⭐️⭐️
� Clue 2: A book set in the UK
British Bulldog7th February 2025 ⭐️⭐️
� Clue 3: A book about a younger sibling
An Ember in the Ashes16th February 2025 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
� Answer (view spoiler)
Welcome all! I'm enjoying playing all these 20 questions games. I'll get mine all planned out eventually
Sign me up for 20 clues please and I'll add specifics once I've sorted this year's challenges
Update to message 24 completed 2/12� Animal, clue 3
� A boy’s name, clue 1
Update to message 24 completed 4/12� A boy’s name, clue 2
� A boy’s name, clue 3
Update to message 24 completed 5/12
� Tell the time, clue 3
2025 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart (other topics)A Darker Shade of Magic (other topics)
The Turn of the Key (other topics)
The Jubilee Problem (other topics)
Stranger in the Woods (other topics)
More...
Authors mentioned in this topic
C.S. Lewis (other topics)Candace Fleming (other topics)
Stephen Chbosky (other topics)
Julia Quinn (other topics)
Rainbow Rowell (other topics)
More...
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
This open challenge is loosely based on the game, 20 Questions. Select books to represent the answers, and choose three or more books that answer questions about your selections, such as subject, setting, etc.. Feel free to come up with your clues and answers first and find books to fill them later, or just start reading and see if your books naturally provide clues to an answer! You can have as many “games� as you’d like!
For added fun, put your answer under spoiler tags and let your fellow members guess your answer!
- Mark spoilers by placing {spoiler} before the text and {/spoiler} after the text but use the < and > instead of the { and }.
Examples:
In these examples, I’ve included a category so your fellow readers can narrow down their guesses if you want to hide your answers and play the game. Category headings are optional!
Animal
Question 1: A book featuring a zoo
- Zoo
Question 2: A book with stripes on the cover
- The Interestings
Question 3: A book set in Asia
- The Good Earth
Answer: (view spoiler)[Tiger- Read a book with a tiger on the cover
- Life of Pi (hide spoiler)]
Movie
Clue 1: A book set in New Zealand
- A Madness of Sunshine
Clue 2: A book that does NOT pass the Bechdel test
- The Great Gatsby
Clue 3: A book that’s part of a trilogy
- The Golden Compass
Answer: (view spoiler)[Lord of the Rings- Read Lord of the Rings
- The Fellowship of the Ring (hide spoiler)]
Creature
Clue 1: A book set in the ocean
- Daughter of the Pirate King
Clue 2: A book featuring a mythological creature
- Fourth Wing
Clue 3: A book with fish on the cover
- Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight
Answer: (view spoiler)[Mermaid- Read a book featuring a mermaid
- The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock (hide spoiler)]
Thank you to Debra Diggs for the inspiration on this challenge