2025 Reading Challenge discussion

January 2013
1. The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton 481
2. Schuyler's Monster 265
3. Astray by Emma Donoghue 288
4. Summer Lies by Bernard Schlink 229
5. Love, Anthony by Lisa Genova 320
6. Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult 448
7. The Lawgiver by Herman Wouk 240
8. The Light Between the Oceans by ML Steadman 362
9. The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler 202
10. Far Above Rubies by Cynthia Polansky 172
11. The Three Incestuous Sisters by Audrey Niffenegger
172
12. Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult 418
13. Wonder by R.J. Placio 316
14. Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper 295
15. Ashenden by Elizabeth Wilhide 336
Total 4544

February
16. The Invisible Bridge by Elizabeth Wildhide 763
17. The Good Father by Diane Chamberlain 368
18. The Beach Trees by Karen White 432
19. The Red Book by Deborah Copake Kogen 368
20. The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis 243
21. Home Front by Kristin Hannah 388
22. The Glass Room by Simon Mawer. 405
23. Still Alice by Lisa Genova. 292
24. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 272
25. The Art Forger by Barbara Shapiro 360
26. Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally. 400
27. A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy. 326
Total 4617

March
28. Have a Little Fath by Mitch Albom 249
29. Camp by Michael Eisner 172
30. The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier 307
31. Until the End of Time by Danielle Steel 336
32. The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom 224
33. Merry Christmas, Alex Cross by James Patterson 400
34. Happy Passover, Rosie by Jane Zalben 35
35. Pearl's Passover by Jane Zalben 30
36. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss 35
37. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry 80
38. Open Heart by Elie Wiesel 90
39. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson 128
40. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 201
41. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney 217
Total

April
42. Sins of the Father by Jeffrey Archer 352
43. Honeymoon by James Patterson 406
44. The Girl on the Cliff by Lucinda Riley 416
45. Coming Home by Lisa Scollotine. 354
46. Tapestry of Fortunes by Elizabeth Berg 320
47. Private Berlin by James Patterson 448
48. The Dark by Lemony Snicket 20
49. Family Pictures by Jane Green 352
50. The Age of Desire by Jennie Fields 365
51. Start Again by Debbie Macomber 352
Total 3385

May
52. The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult 420
53. Auschwitz by Paolo Crico 60
54. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl 184
55. The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian 293
56. Best Kept Secrets by Jeffrey Archer 384
57. Six Years by Harlan Coben 351
58. A Step of Faith by Richard Paul Evans 304
59. Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts 496
Total 2492

June
60. Camp by Elaine Wolf 256
61. Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende 400
62. Secrets from the Past by Barbara Taylor Bradford 369
63. Lighthouse Bay by Kimberley Freeman 432
64. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philip Sendak 325
65. The Color Purple by Alice Walker 295
66. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 205
67. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 215
68. Once We Were Brothers by Ronald Balson 382
69. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray 403
70. Alice's Tulips by Sandra Dallas 256
71. Matilda by Roald Dahl 240
72. The House Girl by Tara Conklin 336
73. Me Before You by Jo Jo Moyes 480
74. Claude and Camille by Stephanie Cowell 352
Total

July
75. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson 356
76. Trains and Lovers by Alexander McCall Smith 256
77. By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham 256
78. The Silver Star by Jeanette Walls 288
79. The Great Cake Mystery by Alexander McCall Smith
96 pages
80. Looking for Me by Beth Hoffman 356
81. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini 416
82. Second Honeymoon by James Patterson 434
83. Joyland by Stephen King 283
84. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman 194
85. First Sight: A Novel by Danielle Steel 384
86.

I stopped posting my titles to this list but suffice to say I read 154 books tis year.

That's great, Nancy! Congratulations on far surpassing your goal.