2025 Reading Challenge discussion

I'm in for the following: (Apologies, I'm not sure how to embed links)

Books that Everyone Should Read At Least Once:

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What to Read Next

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Most Disturbing Book Ever Written:

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Causes of Ugly Crying:

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Newbery Medal Winning Books

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Newbery Honor Books

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Books Everyone's Read But Me

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My other lists:

Update please: Unputdownable Books: 1/10

1) American Born Chinese by Gene L. Yang (rd) ****
2) Wild Seed by Octavia Butler

Bromance!! : Books written by African-American Romance Authors 0/5

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Fiction Novels 0/10

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Message 84 updated - i've upped it to 26 books instead of 25, as I started reading The Jungle Book & didn't enjoy it, so decided to add another book. :)

So i've now done 2/26 :)

I would like to join this challenge please for 25 books

Books that everyone should read at least once

1. To kill a mocking bird
2. 1984
3. The catcher in the rye √
4. Lord of the rings
5. Of mice and men √
6. Brave new world
7. The alchemist
8. The help
9. The colour purple
10. Catch 22

The BOOK was Better than the MOVIE

1. My Sisters keeper
2. The time travellers wife
3. Bridget Jones’s Diary
4. The lovely bones
5. Rebecca

Best Young adult realistic novel

1. The perks of being a wall flower
2. Paper towns
3. Looking for alaska
4. Wonder
5. A walk to remember

The most began “read but unfinished”

1. Moby dick
2. The grapes of wrath
3. 100 years of solitude
4. On the road
5. Lolita

2/25 completed

I'm in! I will read 25 books from these 4 lists:

15/25

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1. I Miserabili by Victor Hugo
2. Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore by Italo Calvino
3. Amok by Stefan Zweig
4. Non lasciarmi by Kazuo Ishiguro
5. Le vergini suicide by Jeffrey Eugenides
6. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
7. Novella degli scacchi by Stefan Zweig
8. Gita al faro by Virginia Woolf
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Best Historical Fiction Set in UK and Ireland
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Historical Fiction - France
1. L'Usignolo by Kristin Hannah
2. The Summer Queen by Elizabeth Chadwick
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Best Crime & Mystery Books
1. Night Film by Marisha Pessl
2. Estate di morte by Harlan Coben
3. Lezioni di morte by Tess Gerritsen
4. Primo a morire by James Patterson
5. Svaniti nel nulla by Harlan Coben

Updated message 85 with Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Book 1 of 15.

I'm in. I'll attempt 25.

16/25 Completed

Best Humorous Books

1. Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill - 1/31/2016 -3.5 Stars
2. Bossypants by Tina Fey - 3/2/2016 - 3.5 Stars
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Foreign Lands

1. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini read 1/22/2016 3.5 Stars
2. Orhan's Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian finished 1/23/2016 4.0 stars
3. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 3/27/2016 3 Stars
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Best Literary Mysteries

1. The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbø 5.0 stars
2. Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith - 2/2/2016 - 5 Stars
3. North of Boston by Elisabeth Elo - 2/21/2016 - 2 Stars
4. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco - 2/26/2016 - 3 Stars
5. The Alienist by Caleb Carr - 2/28/2016 - 4 Stars

Best Beach Reads 2015

1. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes - read 1/16/2016 2.5 stars
2. Circling the Sun by Paula McLain - 1/28/2016 3.0 stars
3. Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter - 2/6/2016 2.0 Stars
4. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion - 3/23/2016 3 Stars
5. Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling 3/30/2016 3 Stars


Best for Book Clubs

1. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt-read 1/8/2016 4.0 stars
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updated post 6 1/40

Completed Heidi from BBC Top 200 list

2/30

Updated post 110
2/25

Best Literary Mysteries - The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbø

Updated message 10.

1/50

Edited post #108 - with Night Film, I'm 1/25.

Updated message 10.

3/50

Updated message 12


4/12

I updated message #4.

Read: 2/30

I'd like to join this challenge with 50 books selected from the following lists:

Best Series

Kick-Ass Female Heroines

Best Dystopian and PA Fiction

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

1/50

1. Bloodlines

Updated message 10.

4/50

Message 84 updated; 5/26

Update message 110

3/25

Best Beach Reads 2015
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

Updated #29.

Best Feminist Books
1. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf ✔
2. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath ✔

3/15

Great challenge! I'd like to read 5 books of the top 100 of these lists.

Deaf, Mute, Speechless Romance Heroes and Heroines
1. Transcendence
2. Archer's Voice
3. It Ain't Me, Babe
4. Never Seduce a Scot
5. Tall, Tatted and Tempting
*6. Smart, Sexy and Secretive

Best Young Adult Books
1. Thirteen Reasons Why
2. Sabriel
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
4. Cinder
5. City of Bones

11/10

I found another great list Kadijah, so you can add those too making my total 1/40

I have updated msg. 18. I'm up to 4/45 :)

UPDATED Message 107

7/25

Completed:
-To kill a mockingbird
-The catcher in the rye
-Of mice and men
-The alchemist
-The perks of being a wallflower
-Paper towns
-Wonder

It's not too late to join this challenge, is it?

Updated #29.

I Only Watched the Movie
2. Mary Poppins - P.L. Travers ✔

4/15

Updated #84 - 8/26

update 2/40 (changed my goal)

Update to post 110

4/25 completed

Foreign Lands - And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

Updated #84 - 9/26

Update to post 110

5/25 completed

Foreign Lands - Orhan's Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian

Updated message 125
3/10

Quality Dark Fiction

Finished January 24
5 stars

1/15

updated message 85 with The Martian by Andy Weir (2/15)

Updated message 12


5/12

Completed 1/10

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer - 3 stars

What did you think of Into the Wild? I read that this month as well.

I overall enjoyed Into the Wild. I liked hearing about the adventures chris/Alex had. I however didn't like how the author included things I didn't feel were important in the novel, like paragraphs about other adventures who died in Alaska too. Or how the author tried to compare himself with Chris/Alex.

Updated message 85 with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling. 3/15

Monique, that was my feeling too. It felt like there maybe wasn't enough material for a book, so he stuffed it with some random anecdotes (which I actually thought were fairly interesting, but not related at all).

I updated message #4.

Read: 3/30

I'll let my starting date be January 1st.
M/M Books Written by Men
1. Doomware by Nathan Kuzack (1/27/16)
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Best Books of the 21st Century
1. The Tent by Margaret Atwood (1/11/16)
2. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (3/27/196)
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Best Books of 2016
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Top 100 Gay Novels of the XXI Century
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Alex wrote: "It's not too late to join this challenge, is it?"

Sorry about taking so long to answer, no, it is never too late to join.

Everyone is all caught up!

Hi there Kadijah, I added myself to this yesterday at message 146, and am at 2/20

I have increased my goal to 40 books Kadijah:) yep, went berserk;)

Updated message 10.

5/50

Update message 110

6/25

Best Beach Reads 2015 - Circling the Sun by Paula McLain

Update Message 76
It
1/31

I've updated msg 36

2 books from Causes of Ugly Crying
1 book from Books that make you laugh
and I'm currently working on 3 Big Fat Books Worth the Effort

3/15