2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Completed Kim.

This book is actually on both my lists - BBC Top 200 and Radcliffe's 100 Best Novels. I added it on only once however.

6/30

Updated Message 181
5/50

Rebecca's 2016 Listopia Challenge
I want to participate in the 2016 Listopia Challenge. My goal is to read 5 books from each of the following lists:

Best Detective/Mystery Series

Best Crime & Mystery Books

Cozy Mystery Series
1. Burglars Can't Be Choosers

Best Cozy Mystery Series

The Best British Crime/Mystery Fiction

Detective Fiction

Update: I finally managed to read one from this challenge! Happy dance/shame filled look across the room. "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf from the Best Feminist Books list. I am now 1/25.

Stephanie (R-A) wrote: "Update: I finally managed to read one from this challenge! Happy dance/shame filled look across the room. "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf from the Best Feminist Books list. I am now 1/25."

Yay! Good for you! Do a happy dance :-) I finally managed to get one off of one of my lists too.

Update: I just finished "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath. I now have a total of 2/25 books read.

Update - message 108 - 4/25

Update: I just finished my 3rd book of 25, "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood! I am now 3/25 and the counter at the beginning still shows me at 0...

Update: So, I just finished "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett for my 4 book from the Best Feminist Books list for 4/25 overall.

Updated #176

Must Read Classics
URL : https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/449.Must_Read_Classics

20. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Completed 18/03/16 Rating 3 stars

3/25

Updated message 58.

2/15

Update: I just finished "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" for my 5th book of this challenge. I am now 5/25

Update: I just finished "Little Women," so I am now 6/25.

#125

I read two more books from the "Best Young Adult Books" list, which makes it a total of 7/10.

Update post 110
15/25 Read

Best Beach Reads 2015
4. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion - 3/23/2016 3 Stars

Foreign Lands
3. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 3/27/2016 3 Stars

Hi,

I've updated msg 36 with my March reads

10/15

Update: 3/20 done.

I'm moving kinda slowly here!

Read Death Comes for the Archbishop from
Radcliffe's 100 best novels list

7/30

Updated #29.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou ✔

7/15 complete!

Update message 110

16/25 Completed

Best Beach Reads 2015

5. Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling 3/30/2016

March update:
Goal: 9/30

Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men - 2/10
02. The King Must Die - 08 Mar 2016, 2/5

Forgotten Frights: Overlooked and Underappreciated Horror - 1/5
01. The Terror - 15 Mar 2016, 4/5

Must Read Classics - 4/5
04. The Martian Chronicles - 17 Mar 2016, 4/5

Hello All, we are 1/4 through the year already!

Here are the statistics for this challenge as of the end of March.
We have 82 participants, and we have read 181 our of 1983 books pledged.

I updated message #4.

Read: 6/30

Updated message 10.
13/50

Updated message 28

Awesome idea, will definitely help to expand my reading list. Will probably try to find lists of books I usually don't read. please sign me up for ten books from 3 lists.

Here are the books I've decided to read:

Into the Wild
The World Without Us
Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade—and How We Can Fight It
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
The Autumn Republic
The Dead Lands
Black Wolves
The Edible Woman
Three Day Road
Anne of Green Gables

Message 56 updated
It's been a slow start to the year on these challenges. I am reading 30 total books, 10 each from the Newbery Award Winners, Newbery Honor Winners, and Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge lists.

In March I read Out of the Dust for the Newbery Award Winners and Because of Winn-Dixie for the Newbery Medal winners. Hopefully I can kick it up a bit in April!

5/30

Hi. I'm Jenny, and I know I'm late to the challenge, but I would still like to join in. I'm picking two books from 12 different Listopia lists...

12 Listopia lists, 2 books from each
Jan - Dec 2016, Progress: 7/24

100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
The Martian - read Jan 2016
Slaughterhouse-Five - read 4/22

Can’t Wait Books of 2013:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
The 5th Wave
Doctor Sleep - read 2/6/16

I Only Watched the Movie
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
I, Robot - read Mar 2016
Memoirs of a Geisha

Best Crime & Mystery Books
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
A is for Alibi
The Godfather

Books that Everyone Should read at least once
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Wuthering Heights
Pride and Prejudice

Books for vegans, vegetarians and those concerned with animal rights:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Holy Cow
Beneath the Surface: The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins

Required reading graphic novels
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
Batman HUSH
Preacher Vol 1 - Gone to Texas

Books Referenced in the Gilmore Girls
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
1984
Alice in Wonderland - read 4/19

Best books ever
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
The Giver - read 4/25
To Kill a Mockingbird - read 5/16

Steampunk Romance
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5...
Nefertiti’s Heart
The Girl in the Steel Corset

Best Gothic Books of All Time
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Shadow of the Wind
The Thirteenth Tale

Best Horror Novels
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Salem’s Lot
NOS4A2

Happy reading everyone!

Jenny's 2016 Listopia Bookshelf

Read Atonement

BBC Top 200 Books

8/30

Please update: 4/25

List #2: Favorite Fiction Author's Books series published and read in 2016:

The Vecellio Connection by Estelle Ryan
Spider Game by Christine Feehan
Runaway Vampire by Lynsay Sands

Updated #29.

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank from the list Must Read Classics.

8/15 complete.

Update #58

Now 3/15 - and knocked off a big, chunky classic from the list! Hurrah!

Updated message 28

Completed 2/10

Into the Wild
The Autumn Republic

Updated #175

Must Read Classics
URL : https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/449.Must_Read_Classics

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Completed 3/04/16 Rating 5 stars

4/25

Update: I just finished "Speak" which is on the Feminist book list. I now have 5/10 on that particular list and 7/25 altogether.

Updated message 85 with:
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Maze Runner by James Dashner
and
Robopocalypse by Daniel H Wilson

I've updated msg 36 with my April reads

Just 3 more books to go!

Updated message #108 - I'm 6/25

Updated message 10.


Goal 14/50

May is only a few hours away, so with that here are the statistics with the end of April. We have 83 participants and we have read 212 books out of the 2011 books pledged.

April update:
Goal: 14/30

Best Detective/Mystery Series - 4/5
03. Mystic River - 02 Apr 2016, 4/5
04. The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1) - 26 Apr 2016, 3/5

Forgotten Frights: Overlooked and Underappreciated Horror - 2/5
02. The Halloween Tree - 14 Apr 2016, 3/5

Must Read Classics - 5/5
05. The Metamorphosis - 03 Apr 2016, 3/5

Interesting, Well Written Books that are not by Dead/Old White Men - 3/10
03. To the Lighthouse - 12 Apr 2016, 4/5

BBC Top 200
The Green Mile - May 4

3/15

Updated message 10.

15/50

I just read my 3rd book from "Books That Everyone Should Read Once"- "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak. I am up to 8/25 now.

Updated message 12

11/12

Updated message 58 - 4/15. Hurrah!

I updated message #4.

Read: 7/30

I'm close to wrapping up my other challenges, so I'd like to add this one! I've gone through and done some counts of what I've already read this year and roughly what I plan to read, but I'll likely change some of my numbers as the year goes on. :)

TOTAL GOAL: 67/130

Penguin Drop Caps
Authors A-Z from the Penguin Drop Caps collection
20/26

✓ Pride and Prejudice
✓ Jane Eyre
✓ My Antonia
✓ Great Expectations
✓ Middlemarch
✓ Madame Bovary
✓ Lord of the Flies
Siddhartha
An Artist of the Floating World
✓ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
✓ The Secret Life of Bees
✓ Native Speaker
✓ Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
Five Children and It
✓ BUtterfield 8
✓ Swann's Way
✓ The Greek Coffin Mystery
✓ Haroun and the Sea of Stories
✓ Cannery Row
✓ The Joy Luck Club
Kristin Lavransdatter, I: The Wreath
Candide: Or Optimism
Leaves of Grass and Selected Poems and Prose
✓ Sky Burial
✓ When You Are Old: Early Poems and Fairy Tales
✓ The Shadow of the Wind

YA Novels of 2015
9/21
✓ 1. Queen of Shadows
✓ 2. A Court of Thorns and Roses
✓ 3. The Heir
✓ 4. An Ember in the Ashes
✓ 5. Carry On
✓ 6. The Wrath & the Dawn
✓ 7. Shadow Study
✓ 8. Illuminae
✓ 9. Happily Ever After
Miss Mayhem
Ten Thousand Skies Above You
Soundless
The Invasion of the Tearling
Dumplin'

Can't Wait Books of 2016
12/32
✓ 1. The Raven King
✓ 2. Glass Sword
✓ 3. The Crown
✓ 4. The Hidden Oracle
✓ 5. Stars Above
✓ 6. A Gathering of Shadows
✓ 7. The Rose & the Dagger
✓ 8. Passenger
✓ 9. Night Study
✓ 10. Starflight
✓ 11. Kings Rising
✓ 12. Rebel of the Sands
Empire of Storms
Heartless
A Torch Against the Night
Crooked Kingdom
The Last Star
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Truthwitch
The Hammer of Thor
A Study in Charlotte
The Forbidden Wish
Gemina
Firstlife
Stiletto
The Siren
A Million Worlds with You
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

Best Kick-Ass Female Characters From YA and Children's Fantasy and Science Fiction
9/18
✓ 1. Matilda
✓ 2. Wild Magic
✓ 3. Poison Study
✓ 4. Throne of Glass
✓ 5. Magic Study
✓ 6. Fire Study
✓ 7. Grave Mercy
✓ 8. Storm Glass
✓ 9. Matched
Alanna: The First Adventure
The Goose Girl
So You Want to Be a Wizard
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
The Red Pyramid
Mistborn: The Final Empire

Best Feminist Books
7/15
✓ 1. The Bell Jar
✓ 2. The Color Purple
✓ 3. The Help
✓ 4. A Thousand Splendid Suns
✓ 5. How to Be a Woman
✓ 6. Kindred
✓ 7. Valley of the Dolls
The Red Tent
Herland and Selected Stories
We Should All Be Feminists

Books That Make You Laugh
6/10
✓ 1. The Importance of Being Earnest
✓ 2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
✓ 3. When You Are Engulfed in Flames
✓ 4. Anne of Green Gables
✓ 5. Go the Fuck to Sleep
✓ 6. Life of Pi
The Princess Bride
Coyote Blue

Top 100 Gay Novels of the XXI century
4/8
✓ 1. Almost Like Being in Love
✓ 2. Captive Prince
✓ 3. Prince's Gambit
✓ 4. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
The Song of Achilles
Havemercy

Updated Message 33

8/ 30 completed to date

Update: Just finished "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison from the Best Books of the 20th Century List and "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker from the Best Feminist Books List. Respectively, I am up to 3/10 and 6/10 on those lists and 10/25 total books.

Updated #175

Best Crime Mystery Books
URL: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/11.Best_Crime_Mystery_Books

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Completed 5/05/16 Rating 5 stars

5/25