2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Update to message #326.

✔ 1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1,536 pages) ★★★★★
Read from September 02 to 12, 2016
✔ 2. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (912 pages) ★★☆☆☆
Read from September 13 to 16, 2016
3. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
✔ 4. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (592 pages) ★★★★☆
Read from October 13 to 19, 2016
5. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
✔ 6. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville (896 pages) ★★☆☆☆
Read from October 04 to 08, 2016
7. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
✔ 8. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (592 pages) ★★★★★
Read from October 06 to 11, 2016
✔ 9. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (895 pages) ★★★☆☆
Read from September 28 to October 04, 2016
✔ 10. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1,856 pages) ★★★★★
Read from September 15 to October 03, 2016

7/10

I updated message #4.

Read: 20/30

Update to message #58. I've now completed 6/15.

UPDATE -COMPLETE!


10/10

best science fiction and fantasy books
Best Science Fiction of 21st Century

Gathering Blue
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
A Game of Thrones
The Martian
Messenger
Son
The Time Traveler's Wife
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Red Rising

Updated #175

Best Crime Mystery Books

15. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Completed 18/10/16 Rating 4 stars

1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Completed 23/10/16 Rating 3 stars

16/25

Update #326.

✔ 7. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (512 pages) ★★★★☆
Read from October 19 to 26, 2016

8/10

Update to message 353

Absalom, Absalom!

26/30

Updated #29.

11/15 complete.

Updated message 10.

32/50

I updated message #4.

Read: 21/30

Updated message 85 with The Gunslinger by Stephen King this completes my challenge!! :) 15/15

Update to message 363

Tropic of Cancer

27/30

Update to message #326.

✔ 5. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (974 pages) ★★☆☆☆
Read from October 26 to November 05, 2016

9/10

Message #58 updated - I have now completed 6/15.

Update to message #325.

***COMPLETE***

✔ 1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1,536 pages) ★★★★★
Read from September 02 to 12, 2016
✔ 2. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (912 pages) ★★☆☆☆
Read from September 13 to 16, 2016
✔ 3. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1013 pages) ★★★★☆
Read from October 27 to November 06, 2016
✔ 4. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (592 pages) ★★★★☆
Read from October 13 to 19, 2016
✔ 5. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (974 pages) ★★☆☆☆
Read from October 26 to November 05, 2016
✔ 6. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville (896 pages) ★★☆☆☆
Read from October 04 to 08, 2016
✔ 7. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (512 pages) ★★★★☆
Read from October 19 to 26, 2016
✔ 8. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (592 pages) ★★★★★
Read from October 06 to 11, 2016
✔ 9. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (895 pages) ★★★☆☆
Read from September 28 to October 04, 2016
✔ 10. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1,856 pages) ★★★★★
Read from September 15 to October 03, 2016

10/10

I updated message #4.

Read: 22/30

Update to message 367

Trainspotting

28/30

Updated message 10.

33/50

I updated message #4.

Read: 23/30

I finished this one up a couple of weeks ago!

TOTAL GOAL: 140/140

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

✓ 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
22/22
✓ 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
✓ 10. Miss Mayhem
✓ 11. The Invasion of the Tearling
✓ 12. Dumplin'
✓ 13. The Rose Society
✓ 14. Ten Thousand Skies Above You
✓ 15. Soundless
✓ 16. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
✓ 17. The Heart of Betrayal
✓ 18. The Darkest Part of the Forest
✓ 19. Golden Son
✓ 20. The Mime Order
✓ 21. The Girl at Midnight
✓ 22. Their Fractured Light

Can't Wait Books of 2016
36/36
✓ 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
✓ 13. The Last Star
✓ 14. The Siren
✓ 15. Stiletto
✓ 16. Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure
✓ 17. The Forbidden Wish
✓ 18. Truthwitch
✓ 19. What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
✓ 20. Firstlife
✓ 21. A Study in Charlotte
✓ 22. The Bands of Mourning
✓ 23. League of Dragons
✓ 24. This Savage Song
✓ 25. The Abyss Surrounds Us
✓ 26. A Court of Mist and Fury
✓ 27. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
✓ 28. The Beauty of Darkness
✓ 29. The Star-Touched Queen
✓ 30. Empire of Storms
✓ 31. A Torch Against the Night
✓ 32. Crooked Kingdom
✓ 33. The Hammer of Thor
✓ 34. Gemina
✓ 35. A Million Worlds with You
✓ 36. Heartless

Best Kick-Ass Female Characters From YA and Children's Fantasy and Science Fiction
24/24
✓ 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
✓ 10. Mistborn: The Final Empire
✓ 11. Daughter of Smoke & Bone
✓ 12. Touch of Power
✓ 13. Alanna: The First Adventure
✓ 14. In the Hand of the Goddess
✓ 15. The Goose Girl
✓ 16. The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
✓ 17. Lioness Rampant
✓ 18. Terrier
✓ 19. So You Want to Be a Wizard
✓ 20. The Red Pyramid
✓ 21. Vampire Academy
✓ 22. Wolf-Speaker
✓ 23. Emperor Mage
✓ 24. The Realms of the Gods

Best Feminist Books
14/14
✓ 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
✓ 8. The Red Tent
✓ 9. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
✓ 10. Herland and Selected Stories
✓ 11. We Should All Be Feminists
✓ 12. Cat's Eye
✓ 13. The Penelopiad
✓ 14. The Second Sex

Books That Make You Laugh
10/10
✓ 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
✓ 7. The Princess Bride
✓ 8. Coyote Blue
✓ 9. Dead Until Dark
✓ 10. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

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

Completed 11/11/2016

Updated #174

1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling Completed 26/11/16 Rating 5 stars

17/25

No 11 updated

I updated message #4.

Read: 24/30

Updated msg 70. One to go!

Updated #174

1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

18. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Completed 11/12/16 Rating 4 stars

Favorite Chick Lit

19. The Help by Kathryn Stockett Completed 9/12/16 Rating 4 stars


19/25

I updated message #4.

Read: 25/30

Finished!

Listopia Challenge
Lists Completed: 5/5
Books Completed: 25/25
Duration: January 1-December 31, 2016

Best Young Adult Books
1. (3/10/16)
2. (3/12/16)
3. (1/14/16)
4. (3/14/16)
5. (5/12/16)

Best Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
1. (11/4/16)
2. (2/7/16)
3. (4/1/16)
4. (7/27/16)
5. (5/15/16)

Best Fantasy Series, Trilogies, and Duologies
1. (4/26/16)
2. (6/17/16)
3. (10/23/16)
4. (10/8/16)
5. (2/20/16)

Books That Blew Me Away...
1. (12/6/16)
2. (5/5/16)
3. (6/3016)
4. (3/26/16)
5. (12/12/16)

Everyone's Read It But Me
1. (8/29/16)
2. (8/13/16)
3. (7/17/16)
4. (6/22/16)
5. (7/7/16)

Updated message 28

Read 10/10

I finished my challenge.

Brainpicking's Best Science and Technology Books
Save Our Science: How to Inspire a New Generation of Scientists
Wonders of the Universe (Wonders of Brian Cox #2)

You Read a Book about What?
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Spook

Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
The Cloudspotter's Guide
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

7/7

Updated #29.

Didn't quite make it but managed 13/15!

Updated #174

1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

20. Northern Lights by Philip Pullman Completed 30/12/16 Rating 4 stars

Must Read Classics

21. Animal Farm by George Orwell Completed 19/12/16 Rating 4 stars

21/25

Update Message #44. Completed the challenge. Loved this one, and am looking forward to doing it again in 2017. Thanks! :)

Finished 28 out of 30 books for this challenge. The last two have been ordered through interlibrary loan but did not make it in in time to complete the challenge. I finished all the other challenges of the year however.

Update to message 102:

5/12 books completed