2025 Reading Challenge discussion

I'm coming up a little short for 2013, so I'm going to try the same goal again rather than increasing it. 101 books--here we go!

1. Blackout, ****
2. The Penelopiad, ***
3. The Eye of the World, ****
4. Parasite, ***
5. The Goldfinch, *****
6. Cinder, ****
7. Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16 ,****
8. The Rosie Project, ****
9. A Canticle for Leibowitz, ***
10. Silently and Very Fast, *****
11. Me Before You, ***
12. The Son of Neptune, ****
13. The Mark of Athena, ****
14. The House of Hades, *****
15. San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats, ****
16. Wallbanger, **
17. Blindness, *****
18. The Old Man and the Sea, ****
19. Eleanor & Park, ****
20. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, *****
21. Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential, ****
22. Mrs. Dalloway, ***
23. The Dog Stars, *****
24. How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea, **
25. The Invisible Mountain, *****
26. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, *****
27. The Girl with All the Gifts, ****
28. Mockingbird, ****
29. The Bone Season, **
30. Countdown, ****
31. The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 1, *****
32. Old Man's War, *****
33. Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales, ****
34. The Mists of Avalon, *****
35. The Martian, ****
36. The Picture of Dorian Gray, ****
37. The Housekeeper and the Professor, ****
38. The Empathy Exams: Essays, **
39. Ancillary Justice, ****
40. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, ***
41. The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 2, *****
42. The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 3, *****
43. The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 4, *****
44. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings, ****
45. Unwind, ****
46. Perdido Street Station, ****
47. Annihilation, ****
48. What She Left Behind, **
49. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, *****
50. What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self, **
51. The Rise & Fall of Great Powers, *****
52. This is Not a Test, ***
53. Naked, ***
54. Brilliance, ****
55. Girl in Translation, **
56. The Awakening, ****
57. Dark Places, ***
58. After the End: Recent Apocalypses, *****
59. China Mountain Zhang, ****
60. The English Girl, ****
61. Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys, *****
62. What's Not to Love?: The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer, *
63. The Sea of Tranquility, *****
64. The People in the Trees, ****
65. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, *****
66. All the Light We Cannot See, ****
67. The Darkest Minds, **
68. We Won't Feel a Thing, ****
69. The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains, *****
70. The Paper Magician, **
71. Things to Make and Break, *****
72. Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome, ****
73. Lock In, ****
74. Hunting and Gathering, *****
75. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, ****
76. The Bone Clocks, *****
77. Year of Wonders, *
78. Warchild, ****
79. The Blood of Olympus, ***
80. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, *****
81. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, ***
82. Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, ****
83. The House of the Scorpion, *****
84. The Magicians, *****
85. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus, **

Good luck Kara!

I didn't get Les Mis finished. About 215 pages short! So I didn't make it either last year. I guess I'll try and have a book in the bank tonight! It will give me a head start.

Well, I just made 101! Wheee.

Blackout, Mira Grant
Finished January 1

4.5 stars

This was a solid end to the series, but it didn't quite live up to the promise of the second book, Deadline. This one was way more action and way less emotional punch, but the science part of the science fiction continued to have a wonderfully strong presence.