2025 Reading Challenge discussion

20 Friends' Book Recommendations
Duration: April 5, 2014-December 31, 2016
Completed: 4/20

1. Dad: A Girl from Yamhill or Escape from Rwanda
2. Tyler: Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier: The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin
3. Casey: S.
4. Jen: Rocket Boys✓ or The Hunger Games✓
5. Nick: Les Misérables
6. Shai: Eragon
7. Lorayne: (fiction) When Crickets Cry✓ or (non-fiction) The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
8. Carly: The Hummingbird's Daughter
9. Kacey: The Rithmatist or Storm Front
10. Dani: Yearning for the Living God
11. Tiffany G.: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
12. Shilo: The Third Twin
13. Trina: The Kite Runner
14. Richard: The Silmarillion
15. Genna: Where'd You Go, Bernadette
16. Karly: Outlander
17. Andrea: "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity
18. Mia/Liz: The Night Circus ✓
19. Jen St.: The Amish Midwife
20. Emma: Bel Canto ✓

Hoarders Challenge
Completed: 6/10

1. Read the book that has been on your Goodreads TBR list longest.
Pride and Prejudice
2. Read a book from your physical book shelf or any other stash of books.
The Book Thief ✓
3. Read a book you got as a gift or for free.
A Year with Six Sisters' Stuff: 52 Menu Plans, Recipes, and Ideas to Bring Families Together ✓
4. Read a book recommended by or borrowed from a friend.
The Night Circus ✓
5. Read a group read from 2014 Reading Challenge's Bookshelf that you didn't read.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children✓
6. Read the next book in a series that you've neglected.
Unbroken Connection
7. Read the book that you've most recently added to your TBR list.
Edenbrooke
8. Read a book you started and never finished.
The End of Your Life Book Club ✓
9. Read a book you bought with great intentions to read and just haven't got to it yet.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ✓
10. Read a book that you should have read in high school or college but you faked through instead.
The Great Gatsby OR The Scarlet Letter

I-Spy: Book Titles Edition Challenge
Duration: January-December 2016
Completed: 2/15

1. Of Mice and MEN -- The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews
2. A TALE of Two Cities -- The Thirteenth Tale
3. Gone WITH the Wind -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
4. A Wrinkle in TIME -- A Time to Kill
5. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
6. The LITTLE Prince -- A Little Princess✓
7. Alice's ADVENTURES in Wonderland & through the Looking-Glass -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
8. Brave NEW World -- The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
9. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
10. The Joy LUCK Club -- A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
11. The Diary of a YOUNG Girl -- I Walked to Zion: True Stories of Young Pioneers on the Mormon Trail
12. I Know WHY the Caged Bird Sings -- "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity OR The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun OR To Kill a Mockingbird
13. The BOOK Thief -- The Graveyard Book
14. The GOD of Small Things -- Yearning for the Living God
15. Around the World in 80 Days
16. The CURIOUS Incident of the DOG in the Night-Time -- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button OR David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
17. The Time Traveler's WIFE -- The Midwife's Apprentice✓
18. All QUIET on the Western Front -- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
19. The OLD Man and the Sea -- Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier: The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin OR The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry OR Seabiscuit: An American Legend
20. WHERE the Red Fern Grows -- Neverwhere
21. ISLAND of the Blue Dolphins -- Treasure Island
22. Fried GREEN Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop CAFE -- Anne of Green Gables OR "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity
23. GIRL With a Pearl Earring -- The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
24. The Call of the WILD -- Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
25. The GOOD Earth -- Following Christ: The Parable of the Divers and More Good News

The A to Z Challenge: Character Edition
Duration: January-December 2016
Completed: 19/24

A: Ralph Addicott, The Light Between Oceans
B: Bronwyn Bruntley, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
C: Carol Tuttle, The Child Whisperer: The Ultimate Handbook for Raising Happy, Successful, Cooperative Children
D: Ram Dass, A Little Princess
E: Richard S. Ewell, The Killer Angels
F: Felix Callahan, The Actor and the Housewife
G: Georgina Traynor, Me Before You
H:
I: Isabelle Rossignol, The Nightingale
J: Jennifer, The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
K: Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
L:
M: Jonathan Reese Mitchell, When Crickets Cry
N:
O: Bob Ogden, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
P: Rich Purnell, The Martian
Q:
R:
S: Mary Seton, A Room of One's Own
T:
U: Dolores Umbridge, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
V: Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
W: Will Russet, The Midwife's Apprentice
X: Xenophilius Lovegood, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Y:
Z: Alfred Zhong, Mao's Last Dancer

Recommended by Reading Challengers Challenge
Duration: January-December 2016
Completed: 1/10

Books from this Listopia .

1. Me Before You ✓

Ideas
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Frankenstein
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making*
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo*
To Kill a Mockingbird
Life of Pi
Memoirs of a Geisha
Neverwhere*
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking*
The Thirteenth Tale*
Between Shades of Gray
Cinnamon and Gunpowder
Divergent
Sarah's Key
And Then There Were None

Marathon Challenge
Duration: January 2016
Completed 4/5

1. A Little Princess ✓
2. When Crickets Cry ✓
3. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ✓
4. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up ✓
5. The Other Side of Heaven