🌈 CHROMA CREW 🏳️‍⚧️ | ✽ Book Talk Reading Challenge, June 2025 ✽

aryapdane [1-5]
arya212002 [1-5]
Gags05 [1-5]
MoodyMango [1-5]
Srijeeta06 [1-5]
GumnaamHaiKoii [1-5]
Exoticdisaster [6-10]
LizzieBennet [6-10]
ThaneofElsinore [6-10]
missFiesty_69 [11-20]
WildestDreams [11-20]
SoniRita [1-5]
Chir-Cute [1-5]

Team, please reserve a post for your page logs and log your book & page count in the excel as well!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z8Y_73276JpdrHM7p0MfukA5Xu_LyQ3Hlsj6rh2rYIU/edit?usp=sharing

Log only the books you finish or DNF from June 1, 2025 to June 30, 2025.

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 May, 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 keep you awake at night or even push you to ignore real life responsibilities for the sake of bringing up your team’s total. Read what you can, how much you can, when you can! No judgment!

Now for the Pride ka tadka!

Since it’s Pride Month, the theme for June will be Queer Fiction and we have an additional incentive for you in the form of this stunning badge designed by Shibani (oh_nakhrewaali) if you choose to participate in the Pride Prose Challenge.

All you need to do is log 500 pages (approx 2 books) that are LGBTQAI+ themed fiction.

These books can be included in your page logs for your team as well, so you stand to earn 2 badges should you participate in both the Pride Prose Challenge and the regular monthly Reading challenge!!

Note that this is not mandatory.

Your page counts will still be valid in the Reading Challenge if you don’t read any Pride Themed books. Just that you won’t receive the Pride Prose Badge.

If you don’t sign-up for the monthly reading challenge, you can still participate in the Pride Prose Challenge. No additional sign-up is required for this.

However, there will be an additional task for Pride Prose to win this coveted badge - you will need to review the Queer fiction you read and add a couple of quotes from these books in the thread I will be posting for the reviews. Note that only those who complete the required 500 pages will receive the Pride Prose Participant badge!

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missFiesty_69's PRIDE log, June 2025

Serial No. | Book Name | Author name | Pages

-LGBTQ+ reads in red-

1 | Palace of Illustrations | Chitra Divan Banerjee | 384 pages

2 | The Case of the Lucky Legs | Erle Stanley Gardner | 257 pages

3 | Race Against Time | Carolyn Keene | 160 pages

4 | Connected | Fan Fiction | 1419 pages

5 | & Then They Met | Riya Iyer | 422 pages

6 | Mahabharata - Volume 1 | Bibek Debroy | 536 pages

7 | Only Love | Garett Leigh | 358 pages

8 | Karna's wife - The Outcast's Queen | 318 pages

9 | Black Coffee| Agatha Christie | 192 pages

10 | It happened one Autumn | Lisa Kleypas | 391 pages

11 | Dying to Meet You | Sarina Bowen | 370 pages

12 | The Truest Thing by Samantha Young | 394 pages

13 | Five Year Lie | Sarina Bowen | 434 pages

14 | Everyday History | Alice Archer | 332 pages

15 | Red, White and Royal Blue | Casey McQuiston | 377 pages

16 | The Happily Ever After Playlist | 402 pages

17 | False Notes | Carolyn Keene | 160 pages

18 | Mahabharatha Volume 2 | Bibek Debroy | 513 pages

19 | Mirror Crack'd from side to side | Agatha Christie | 351 pages

20 | Pit of Vipers | Carolyn Keene | 160 pages

21 | Walk of Shame | Lauren Layne | 234 pages

22 | Secret of the Spa | Carolyn Keene | 160 pages

23 | St' Clare's Collection #1 | Enid Blyton | 576 pages

24 | I Wish You Were Mine | Lauren Layne | 315 pages

25 | While the Clock Ticked | Franklin. W. Dixon | 192 pages

26 | Forest of Enchantments | Chitra Divan Banerjee | 372 pages

27 | Scarlett Macaw Scandal | Carolyn Keene | 160 pages

28 | The Case of the Fenced-in Woman | 224 pages

29 | Someone Knows | Vi Keeland | 288 pages

30 | The Rosie Project | Graeme Simson | 336 pages

31 | Better Than People | Roan Parrish | 256 pages

32 | Of Sunlight and Stardust | Riley Hart & Christina Lee | 364 pages

33 | The Listerdale Mystery | Agatha Christie | 272 pages

34 | Ever After | Riley Hart & Christina Lee | 268 pages

35 | Then she was gone | Lisa Jewell | 359 pages

36 | Second Form at St' Clare's | Enid Blyton | 192 pages

37 | The Secret Seven #1 | Enid Blyton | 128 pages

38 | The Secret Seven #2 | Enid Blyton | 128 pages

39 | A Wish for Us | Tillie Cole | 432 pages

40 | Ponniyin Selvan | Kalki | 3305 pages

41 | The Charm Offensive | Alice Cochrun | 361 pages

42 | Shikandi & other stories that they don't tell you | Devdutt Pattanaik | 179 pages

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DNF

1. Hollow | Agatha Christie | approx 108 pages ( 34% in Kindle )

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ThaneOfElsinore's Page Log : June 2025

S. No. | Name of the Book | Author's Name | No. of Pages

Lizzie ke pannon ki ginti

LGBTQ+ Reads in Purple

1. No Mercy - John Gilstrap [Continued from May] - 208 pages

2. My Calamity Jane - Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows [Continued from May] (Libby) - 447 pages

3. Boyfriend material - Alexis Hall [Book Club Read-Along, Libby) - 431 pages

4. We could be so good - Cat Sebastian (Libby) - 383 pages

5. The girl in the glass case - Devashish Sardana (Libby) - 310 pages

6. A nobleman's guide to seducing a scoundrel - K.J. Charles (Libby) - 333 pages

7. Little Secrets - Jennifer Hillier (Hardcover) - 352 pages

8. Things we do in the dark - Jennifer Hillier (Hardcover) - 352 pages

9. Becoming Calder - Mia Sheridan (Libby) - 395 pages

10. Finding Eden - Mia Sheridan (ebook) - 326 pages

11. God of Fury - Rina Kent (ebook) - 522 pages

12. To catch a firefly - Emmy Sanders (ebook) - 313 pages

13. Memory Lane - Becky Wade (Libby) - 432 pages

14. Delilah Green doesn't care - Ashley Herring Blake (Paperback) - 400 pages

15. Death Row - Freida McFadden (Prime) - 74 pages

16. Husband Material - Alexis Hall (Libby) - 423 pages

17. The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid - 72 pages (ongoing; tbc in July)

aryapdane's Page Log: June 2025

Sl No.| Name of the Book | Author | Page Count

1. We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson. 133 pages

2. If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio. 422 pages

3. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. 548 pages

4. Sing Me Forgotten by Jessica S. Olson. 359 pages

5. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. 200 pages

6. Down Comes The Night by Allison Shaft. 394 pages

7. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. 400 pages

8. The Stranger by Albert Camus. 160 pages

9. Mythos by Stephen Fry. 416 pages

10. Heroes by Stephen Fry. 415 pages

11. Troy by Stephen Fry. 414 pages

12. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. 416 pages

13. Ariadne by Jennifer Saint. 322 pages

14. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. 240 pages

15. Red Sister by Mark Lawrence. 477 pages

16. Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence. 419 pages

17. Holy Sister by Mark Lawrence. 367 pages

Arya212002’s page log for June 2025

1. Sunshine Avenue - Jan Moran - 230 pages
2. Orange Blossom Way - Jan Moran - 232 pages
   
3. Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan -544 pages
4. The matchmaker - Aisha Saeed - 320 pages

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MoodyMango's Page Log: June 2025

1. Death Row - Freida McFadden - 73 pages
   
2. Twisted Love - Maya Alden - 296 pages
3. Dead Mile - Jo Furniss - 334 pages
4. Whispers of Light - Jennifer Monroe - 216 pages
5. The Wrong Wife - Maya Alden - 329 pages
6. A Deal with a Devilish Duke - Tessa Brookman - 121 pages
7. The Spare Room - Laura Starkey - 308 pages
8. Twisted Love - Ana Huang - 344 pages
9. The Princess‘s Gambit - Bai Lu Cheng Shuang - 1679 pages
   

WildestDreams’s Page Log: June 2025

Stranizza– Valerio la Martire – 175 pages

God of Fury – Rina Kent – 522 pages

The Brit – Jodi Ellen Malpas – 413 pages

The Enigma – Jodi Ellen Malpas – 522 pages

The Resurrection – Jodi Ellen Malpas – 498 pages

The Rising – Jodi Ellen Malpas – 653 pages

The American – Jodi Ellen Malpas – 738 pages

Ruthless Creatures – G.T. Geissinger – 378 pages

Carnal Urges – G.T. Geissinger – 364 pages

Savage Hearts – G.T. Geissinger – 393 pages

For You – Kristen Ashley – 535 pages

At Peace – Kristen Ashley – 621 pages

Darkest Sins – Neva Altaj – 372 pages

Sweet Prison – Neva Altaj – 378 pages

Piume di cenere https://archiveofourown.org/works/49273453/chapters/124332901 (AO3) ( 265 151 words)

Paris (https://archiveofourown.org/works/16828735/chapters/39504052 AO3) 539 907 words
Contractual Obligations by Elle Rivers 328 pages
Silent Vows by Jill Ramsover 332 pages
Dungeon Royale by Lexi Blake 411 pages
A view to a thrill by Lexi Blake 410 pages

SoniRita’s Page Log: June 2025

Harry potter and half blood prince. 672 pages. JK rowling