2025 Reading Challenge discussion

I'm hoping to get through some diverse topics and cover a lot of different genres. I may need your help with some of the classics - I want to read them, but sometimes they are so tedious! I'm so excited to share my reading adventures with everybody.

Here are a few of the classics that I am hoping to get through this year:

And some more recent bestsellers:

And I have only finished one book so far this year:

Megan wrote: "I'm hoping to get through some diverse topics and cover a lot of different genres. I may need your help with some of the classics - I want to read them, but sometimes they are so tedious! I'm so ex..."

That's what buddy reads are for! If you are reading a classic you think you might need help to get motivated to read or you want to discuss put a request in the Buddy Reads folder. There are a lot of us wanting to read more classics.

good luck with Les Mis!! I just finished it. Fyi... you can skip the chapters about the Paris srwer system at the end. You don't need that to follow the story line :)

I'm always having a hard time reading classics. Some of the books in that genre that I have read so far are Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

I always wanted to read Les Miserables but whenever I look at the size of the book, i get this certain urge of running away in the opposite direction!

Good luck Megan! I agree some of the classics are a bit tough to get through. Pride and Prejudice is on my list this year. I've never read it- but like the movie so much I figure I should!

Enjoy Anna Karenina! I've read it twice and both times I found it impossible to put down.

Amy wrote: "Enjoy Anna Karenina! I've read it twice and both times I found it impossible to put down."

This has been on my to-read list for a long time, and I just saw the movie starring Keira Knightley. Have you seen it? Has some bizarre moments but it was such a gorgeous film!

Since I last updated, I have finished:


That makes 3!

And I just watched the film "The Jane Austen Book Club" and it inspired me to pick up one of those classics I listed as well as add the rest of Austen's novels to my to-read list for this year. =) I'll let you know how it goes.

Five down:
Just finished

And we'll add to the finished list:

That makes 7!

Megan, I have a ton of classics on my TBR shelf, so I agree that setting up a buddy read might be a great idea. I will definitely join in if it's one I haven't read before!

#8 is complete and we're only 6 weeks into the year. I hope I can keep up this pace!

And three more are complete!


That makes a total of 11 =)

Finished 3 this month (maybe four if I can get my butt in gear!):

Brings the tally to 14 (nearly a third of the way complete!)

Three more to add to the list:


17 down.

I'm going to shift my focus to my corner, in order to keep all of my challenges in the same place.

Here is the link: My Corner

I reached my goal! Completed 48 books, with just a couple more weeks to see if I can get to 50, which will be my goal for next year.

Congratulations, Megan!