2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Recommended by Readers Challenge

7/12

1. A Thousand Splendid Suns - ✔
2. Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore - ✔
3. Frankenstein
4. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks- ✔
5. 11.22.63
6. Gone With the Wind
7. Crime and Punishment
8. Anna Karenina
9. Fall of Giants
10. The Thorn Birds
11. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian ✔
12. A Man Called Ove- ✔

Potential additions/alternatives
Assassin's Apprentice - ✔
Beauty Queens- ✔
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Purple Hibiscus
Americanah

June there as some really good books here. Good luck.

Zara wrote: "June there as some really good books here. Good luck."

Thanks Zara. The plan was for fewer challenges and just some big books for 2016. Ah well, the best laid plans with book addicts.

1st Quarter Box Sets COMPLETED
Total read: 5/6

Love me some ya
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1st Quarter Challenge - Group Reads

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Listopia Challenge 2016

12/24

1. 2015: What Women Born in 1970s have read so far this year

a. Everything I Never Told You- ✔
b. The Good Girl - ✔
c. Lock In - ✔
d. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian- ✔


2. Printz Award Winners and Honor Books
a. I Am the Messenger- ✔
b. I'll Give You the Sun- ✔
c. The Scorpio Races
d. Monster- ✔


3. Best Fantasy Series, Trilogies and Duologies
a. The Eye of the World
b. The Way of Kings
c. Words of Radiance
d. The Lies of Locke Lamora


4. Interesting Well Written Books not by Dead/Old White Men
a. Beloved- ✔
b. Half of a Yellow Sun
c. Villette
d. The Awakening


5. Big Fat Books Worth the Effort
a. Mansfield Park
b. Dune- ✔
c. The Brothers Karamazov
d. David Copperfield


6. Best Dystopian and Post Apocalyptic Fiction
a. The Chrysalids- ✔
b. The Postman- ✔
c. Across the Universe- ✔
d. The Scorch Trials

From the box set challenge for the 1st Quarter

Highly recommend: Faking Normal, captivating writing, emotional read. Often I wanted to just hug these characters or rant with them. Not always comfortable read but worth it.

One challenge completed - Box set - Group Reads.

If I had to pick a favourite, which is hard, the edge goes to .........

mainly because it is not the usual ya novel and it dealt with WW II but a unknown portion of it. And it was pretty accurate.