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In this thread, we can talk about what we plan to read for the 2025 challenge, ask questions, and share our progress!

Read an original tale, collection of tales, retelling, or novel set in these ecosystems:

1. Desert
2. Forest
3. Ocean
4. Freshwater
5. Tundra/Polar
6. Rainforest
7. Mountains
8. Subterranean
9. Sky & celestial space
10. City
11. Free space
12. Free space

I also set up the challenge. When I set it to not show on the home page until January 1 it occurred to me you might have done it already

Jalilah wrote: "I also set up the challenge. When I set it to not show on the home page until January 1 it occurred to me you might have done it already"

I didn't set it up!

Margaret wrote: "Jalilah wrote: "I also set up the challenge. When I set it to not show on the home page until January 1 it occurred to me you might have done it already"

I didn't set it up!"

Ok! It’s set up now!

Jalilah wrote: "Margaret wrote: "Jalilah wrote: "I also set up the challenge. When I set it to not show on the home page until January 1 it occurred to me you might have done it already"

I didn't set it up!"

Ok!..."

Thanks!

Katy's Placeholder 2025

Read an original tale, collection of tales, retelling, or novel set in these ecosystems:

1. Desert
2. Forest: Solstice Wood by Patricia A. McKillip
3. Ocean
4. Freshwater
5. Tundra/Polar: The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell
6. Rainforest
7. Mountains: Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey
8. Subterranean - Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
9. Sky & celestial space
10. City - Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
11. Free space
12. Free space

Margaret's Placeholder

January: Tundra/Polar
-Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
-Folklorn by Angela Mi Young Hur
-Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories
-Ember and the Ice Dragons by Heather Fawcett
-North Is the Night by Emily Rath
-Lost at Windy River: A True Story of Survival by Trina Rathgeber
-When the Whales Leave by Yuri Rytkheu
-Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey

February: Sky & celestial space
-Little Moons by Jen Storm
-One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe by Dara Horn
-The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu
-Alliana, Girl of Dragons by Julie Abe

March: Gardens/Farms
-Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
-The Enchanted Hacienda by J.C. Cervantes
-This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron
-Homegrown Magic by Jamie Pacton and Rebecca Podos
-A Bit of Earth by Karuna Riazi
-Garlic and the Vampire: A Graphic Novel by Bree Paulsen

April: Freshwater
-The Secret Language of Birds by Lynne Kelly
-This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke
-A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross
-Camp Twisted Pine by Ciera Burch
-Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline

May: Forest
-Snow & Rose by Emily Winfield Martin
-Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
-After the Forest by Kell Woods
-Pilu of the Woods by Mai K. Nguyen
-The Flicker by H.E. Edgmon
-Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
-Among the Beasts & Briars by Ashley Poston

June: Desert

July: Ocean

August: Rainforest/Jungle

September: Subterranean

October: Mountains

November: Grasslands

December: City

2025 Ecosystem Challenge

Books Read: 15/12

Read an original tale, collection of tales, retelling, or novel set in these ecosystems:

Desert

Forest
�Mother of Rome by Lauren J.A. Bear - 01.02.2025
�Fog & Fireflies by T.H. Lehnen - 01.18.2025

Ocean
�Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa - 04.18.2025
�Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller - 05.14.2025
� The Deep by Rivers Solomon - 05.24.2025

Freshwater
�Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris - 03.29.2-25

Tundra/Polar
�How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu - 03.24.2025

Rainforest/Jungle
�Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez - 02.02.2025

Mountains
�Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell - 02.26.2025

Subterranean

Sky & celestial space
�The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard - 02.10.2025
�On a Red Station, Drifting by Aliette de Bodard - 02.23.2025

City
�The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar by Indra Das - 01.15.2025 [Calcutta]
�The City & the City by China Miéville - 05.11.2025

Free space
�Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - 02.12.2025

Free space
� The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo - 03.18.2025

Read an original tale, collection of tales, retelling, or novel set in these ecosystems:

1. Desert
2. Forest
3. Ocean
4. Freshwater
5. Tundra/Polar
6. Rainforest
7. Mountains
8. Subterranean
9. Sky & celestial space
10. City
11. Free space
12. Free space

2025 Ecosystem Challenge Placeholder - Finished

1. Desert - The Haunted Mesa
2. Forest - Walk the Wild With Me
3. Ocean - A Letter to the Luminous Deep
4. Freshwater - Lakelore
5. Tundra/Polar - A Haunting in the Arctic
6. Jungle/ Rainforest - The Jungle Book
7. Mountains - When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
8. Subterranean - Neverwhere
9. Sky & celestial space - Binti
10. City - The City We Became
11. Free space- Garden - The Secret Garden
12. Free space - House - The Tradition of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices

Andy's placeholder:

1. Desert
2. Forest
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales �
Where the Dark Stands Still �

3. Ocean
A Letter to the Luminous Deep �

4. Freshwater
Greenteeth �

5. Tundra/Polar
The Prisoner’s Throne �

6. Rainforest
The Night Tiger

7. Mountains
8. Subterranean
Ordinary Monsters
Inanna
The Library of the Unwritten

9. Sky & celestial space
Defiant �

10. City
The Maid and the Crocodile

11. Free space
12. Free space

Read an original tale, collection of tales, retelling, or novel set in these ecosystems:

1. Desert The Four Profound Weaves
2. Forest The Butcher of the Forest
3. Ocean
4. Freshwater
5. Tundra/Polar
6. Rainforest
7. Mountains
8. Subterranean
9. Sky & celestial space
10. City: The City in Glass
11. Free space
12. Free space

Read an original tale, collection of tales, retelling, or novel set in these ecosystems:

1. Desert
2. Forest
3. Ocean
4. Freshwater
5. Tundra/Polar
6. Rainforest
7. Mountains
8. Subterranean Dealing with Dragons
9. Sky & celestial space Calypso
10. City
11. Free space
12. Free space

1. Desert She Who Knows Nnedi Okorafor
The Wood Wife Terri Windling
2. Forest The Last Unicorn Peter S Beagle The Green Man of Eshwood Hall Jacob Kerr
3. Ocean
4. Freshwater Goddess of the River Vaishnavi Patel
5. Tundra/Polar
6. Rainforest The Night Tiger Yangsze Choo
7. Mountains The Grey King Susan Cooper
8. Subterranean
9. Sky & celestial space
10. City The Changeling Victor Lavalle Maps of the Abandoned City Helen Ivory
11. Free space
12. Free space

What's everyone thinking for their free spaces? I might make one post apocalyptic. Not sure about the other.

Margaret wrote: "What's everyone thinking for their free spaces? I might make one post apocalyptic. Not sure about the other."

I'll wait to fill those with books stolen off of the other members' lists.

LOL Katy. That's one way of doing it.

Dunno Margaret. Haven't thought about it yet.

Katy wrote: "Margaret wrote: "What's everyone thinking for their free spaces? I might make one post apocalyptic. Not sure about the other."

I'll wait to fill those with books stolen off of the other members' l..."

Ha! :)

I usually add as many books as I want to each challenge item, and use the free spaces for different themes. But maybe I'll do something different this year!

I am hesitantly leaning all the way in on the ecosystem challenge for my 2025 reading and assigned each month an ecosystem (see placeholder), and plan to read multiple books a month set in that ecosystem, not just folklore-related. We'll see how that goes!

Margaret wrote: "What's everyone thinking for their free spaces? I might make one post apocalyptic. Not sure about the other."

I was thinking about gardens or farmland/orchards- The Silver Bough or In the Night Garden for example. And moor/plain/grasslands? Thursbitch

Rose wrote: "Margaret wrote: "What's everyone thinking for their free spaces? I might make one post apocalyptic. Not sure about the other."

I was thinking about gardens or farmland/orchards- [book:The Silver B..."

Those are great ideas! I decided against post apocalyptic and currently have grasslands as a free spot, and then divided freshwater into two, but I love the idea of gardens/farmland! I might do that instead!

I think we had some debate about whether rivers/lakes and bog/marshland/swamp feel like different categories so that definitely works as another free spot I think. I like gardens, feel like there will be some good recommendations for that- 80's /90's children's fairy tale-esque gardens springing to mind Tom's Midnight Garden, Moondial, !

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I like the idea of gardens and bog, marshes for the free spots. I might have to break out my Signet Classic copy of The Secret Garden.

1. Desert
Niedokonany by Tadeusz Miciński [Poland]
[untranslated, poetry, biblical retelling, temptation of Christ from Satan's point of view]

2. Forest
Asterix the Gaul by René Goscinny [France]
[comics, humour, classics]

Where the Dark Stands Still by A.B. Poranek [Canada]

[slavic-kinda, fantasy, romance, B&TB retelling, countryside]

3. Ocean
4. Freshwater
5. Tundra/Polar
6. Rainforest
7. Mountains

8. Subterranean
Reguła zakonu by Piotr Górski [Poland]
[fantasy, Polish lit, untranslated]

9. Sky & celestial space

Spektrum każdy myśliwy pragnie wiedzieć by Sergei Lukyanenko [Russia]
[science fiction fantasy, untranslated, portal, importance of storytelling]

Against All Gods, Miles Cameron [Canada]
[fantasy, inspired by bronze age, Gods' quarrelings]


10. City
Phaedra by Jean Racine [France]
[retelling, Greek mythology inspired, classic, play, french lit]

Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung [South Korea]
[short stories, translated, horror/magical realism, twisty, occasionally inspiration from Korean folklore]

Age of Witches by Marina Dyachenko & Sergei Dyachenko [Ukraine]
[witches, inquisitors, urban fantasy, dystopia, translated, butchered ENG translation, one of my faves]


11. Free space - Steppes/Plains
Tatarskie Bajanie. Złotowłosy Totambaj [Crimea/Ukraine]
[crimean tatar fairy tales, translated]

12. Free space

1. Desert
2. Forest
3. Ocean
4. Freshwater
5. Tundra/Polar
6. Rainforest
7. Mountains
8. Subterranean
9. Sky & celestial space
10. City
11. Free space - swamp--Beowulf
12. Free space

Andy wrote: "Andy's placeholder:

1. Desert
2. Forest
3. Ocean
A Letter to the Luminous Deep

4. Freshwater
5. Tundra/Polar
6. Rainforest
The Night Tiger

7. Mountains
8. Subterr..."

I loved The Night Tiger. Hope you enjoy it!

Susan wrote: "Andy wrote: "Andy's placeholder:

1. Desert
2. Forest
3. Ocean
A Letter to the Luminous Deep

4. Freshwater
5. Tundra/Polar
6. Rainforest
The Night Tiger

7. Mountai..."

Thank you! :) I loved another book of hers this year! I am looking at the suggestion threads and trying to find out some good books to plan 2025! :)

I like the idea of using the free spaces for post- apocalyptic and the other for climate disaster (cli/fi)

2025 Ecosystem Challenge Placeholder

1. Desert
2. Forest
3. Ocean
4. Freshwater
5. Tundra/Polar
6. Rainforest
7. Mountains
8. Subterranean
9. Sky & celestial space
10. City
11. Free space
12. Free space

1. Desert
2. Forest
3. Ocean: Burning Bright
4. Freshwater
5. Tundra/Polar
6. Rainforest
7. Mountains
8. Subterranean
9. Sky & celestial space: Blade Witch: A Science Fiction Holiday Novella
10. City: The Maid and the Crocodile
11. Free space: The Dead Weight (river/freshwater)
12. Free space

I'm on board the post-apocalyptic and climate disaster train for the Free Spaces! Thanks for the suggestions!

I'll probably just fill in the Free Spaces with more outer space. I mean, I'm assuming I'll be able to use one of my SF reads for 9. Sky & celestial space, or am I misunderstanding?

Cheryl wrote: "I'll probably just fill in the Free Spaces with more outer space. I mean, I'm assuming I'll be able to use one of my SF reads for 9. Sky & celestial space, or am I misunderstanding?"

Nope, that's fine!

What I typically do is read more than one book for each part of the challenge, and use my free spaces for additional topics. Other people use books that would count for challenge topics there. It's up to you! No wrong way!

I just realized I have not set up a placeholder yet! I’m starting late this year!

Read an original tale, collection of tales, retelling, or novel set in these ecosystems:

1. Desert
Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
2. Forest
The Thorns Remain by J.J.A. Harwood
In the Forests of Serre by Patricia A. McKillip
3. Ocean
4. Freshwater
Gilgamesh by Emily H. Wilson
5. Tundra/Polar When the Whales Leave by Yuri Rytkheu
6. Rainforest
7. Mountains
8. Subterranean
Inanna
9. Sky & celestial space
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Heart of the Sun Warrior by Sue Lynn Tan
10. City
The Great Night by Chris Adrian
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
11. Free space
12. Free space