2025 Reading Challenge discussion

My goal is to read 80 books this year - could be more or less as I sign up for TBR Twins, monthly and quarterly challengers, as well as reading the group discussion books for the month.

I am participating in the Anything Goes Mini Challenge - reading the entire Divergent series, so 3 books for that challenge.

I'll be reading from the following yearly challenges:
Monthly Themes - 12
Read the Month Around the World - 12
Ramdomizer Challenge - 10
2014 Goodreads Choice Awards Challenge - 15
Recommended by Reading Challengers - 5
Listopia Challenge - 12
Monopoly Genre Challenge - 8

I have slight OCD so in addition to listing my books in the topic sections on here, I also have a notebook at home to keep track of everything :)

I am starting a bit early since it is December and I just joined, but I will be picking up The Golem and the Jinni tonight from the library to participate in this month's group read!

Listopia Challenge (1/12)

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
1. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. 1984 by George Orwell
3. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
4. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Best Books of the 21st Century
1. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
2. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
4. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
5. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Best Series
1. Matched (Matched #1) by Ally Condie
2. Crossed (Matched #2) By Ally Condie
3. Reached (Matched #3) by Ally Condie

Monopoly Genre Challenge

Young Adult
Coming of Age The Perks of Being a Wallflower
YA Fantasy Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Romance
Historical Romance The Paris Wife by Paula McClain
Paranormal Romance City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Chick Lit What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

Suspense
Crime Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Horror NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
Mystery The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

Randomizer Challenge (0/10)

1. Inferno by Dan Brown
2. Let it Snow by John Green
3. Night Film by Marisha Pessel
4. The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
5. Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult
6. Some Day I'll Find You by Richard Madeley
7. The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
8. The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates
9. The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberol
10. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

2014 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS CHALLENGE

1. The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
2. Tenth of December by George Saunders
3. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
4. Joyland by Stephen King
5. Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
6. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
7. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
8. The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin
9. Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain
10. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
11. The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
12. Lexicon by Max Berry
13. Red Hill by Jamie McGuire
14. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
15. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

Recommended by Reading Challengers

1. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
2. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
3. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
4. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
5. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Read the Month Around the World



1. ENERO: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
2. FIFRI: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
3. MAC: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
4. APREL Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
5. MAI: A Widow for One Year by John Irving
6. JUNI: Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
7. JULAI: Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Ansay
8. HADUKI: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
9. IRAIL: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
10. KELE: The Engagements by J. Courtney Sullivan
11. LARA: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
12. TESEMO: The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obrent
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2014 Monthly Themes 1/12

1. And the Mountains Echoed
2. The Rosie Project
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I just completed my first book of 2014, so I am thinking I might not complete 80 books this year unless I really step it up! I have a little one at home, so it is hard to get a lot of reading done.

I read for TBR Twins in January. I overall enjoyed this book, however I did get bored and lost at some parts. I give it ***.

FIRST QUARTER CHALLENGE: LILAC'S RAINBOW CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - March 31, 2014

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Thank you to Lilac for this lovely idea! Make a rainbow out of the book covers. You can use as few as four books (red, yellow, green, blue) or as many as you like as long as the final result is a rainbow of books.

CANDY HEARTS MINI CHALLENGE
Duration: February 1 - 28, 2014

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1. Love me. This one's easy! Read a romance novel.


2. Puppy love. Read a book that features animals.


3. Love bug. The word "bug" means a few different things. Read a book with a title that contains a word with multiple meanings.


4. Tweet me. Read a book that involves technology in some way.