2025 Reading Challenge discussion

GROUP READS CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - March 31, 2016

For this challenge, we're going to read old group reads! This challenge was brought back at the suggestion of several members of the group.

1. Check out the list of all past group reads
2. Decide how many you'd like to read this quarter
3. Read!
4. Tell us what you thought of them in this thread.

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Blagica volunteered to lead this challenge - thank you!

Cassandra, I'm about to hop into my time machine so I can do this one. That "Duration: December 1 - December 31, 2014" certainly makes it a toughie, though! ;) :D

In all seriousness, though - is this to be a one-month challenge as instruction #2 suggests, or is it to be a full-quarter challenge as the folder title suggests?

Group Reads Challenge

Duration: Q1

Goal: Read 3 earlier group reads.

1. A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
2. Wool Omnibus, Hugh Howey
3. The Girl with All the Gifts, M.R. Carey

Total: 3/3

Group Reads Challenge

Oops! This was originally a monthly challenge and I think I got interrupted while I was editing it or something. That'll teach me to do Goodreads stuff at work... Maybe. ;)

I am signing up for this one. I always mean to do the group reads and even have many of the books but just never got around to reading them. I am signing up for 6 books.

1. The Martian

2. Blood Red Road

3. All the Light We Cannot See

4.

5.

6.

(These are the ones I am starting with)

I am down to do five:

1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Finished 3/22/2016
2. A Discovery of Witches Finished 2/23/2016
3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower Finished 3/27/2016
4. The Bell Jar Finished 3/14/2016
5. The Help Finished 3/18/2016

(These are all on my challenge lists and fit my word challenges that I have given myself per month).

Total Completed: 5/5 (Completed!)

I will sign up for 3, please.


I read The Martian (finished 1/6/16), The Witches: Salem, 1692 (finished 2/26/16), I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (finished 3/17/16).

1. Lolita (finished 1/31/16)
2. All the Light We Cannot See (finished 2/4/16)
3. Water for Elephants(finished 3/6/16)
4. The Time Traveler's Wife(finished 3/16/16)
5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower(finished 3/25/16)
6. The Catcher in the Rye


8/6 Completed

I would like to join and can lead if you still need someone to going to try for 10

This sounds fun! Put me down for 3! I might be able to do 4, but if I do it will surprise me

A Christmas Carol
Frankenstein
√ Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Many are on my list so I'll try for 6 too.

Linked books have been read.

1. The Goldfinch

2. And the Mountains Echoed

3. The Golem and the Jinni

4. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

5. The Princess Bride

6. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

I'm going to join this with 5.

3/5

1. The Martian 1/9/16
2. The Rosie Project 1/12/16
3. The Secret History 3/8/16
4. The Book of Strange New Things
5. Catch-22
6. Station Eleven
7. All the Light We Cannot See

Group Past Reads (all 51 books)
Cloud Atlas
Matched (Matched, #1)
The Color Purple
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
A Christmas Carol
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Perfume by Patrick Süskind Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Frankenstein
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (Chaos Walking, #1)
The Good Father
The Little Lady Agency (The Little Lady Agency, #1)
Catch 22
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #1)
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland, #1)
The Help
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Americanah
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Goldfinch
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Chocolat by Joanne Harris (Chocolat, #1)
The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
Station Eleven
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Lolita
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Unwind by Neal Shusterman Unwind (Unwind, #1)
Life After Life Atkinson, Kate
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman #1)
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Princess Bride by William Goldman

List of all 51 books so people can look at them here instead of clicking a link!

I'll join in with 3:
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind - completed March 2016
- A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness - completed March 2016
- The Good Father by Diane Chamberlain - completed March 2016

3/3 - challenge completed!!!

I'm in for six please

0/6

I'm in for 6!

1. The Martian
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

I'm in and I'll start with a goal of 5 books.

1. The Golden Compass
✔ 2. All the Light We Cannot See
✔ 3. The Bell Jar
✔ 4. Water for Elephants
✔ 5. Americanah

Read: 4/4

Edit: I have lowered my goal to 4 books

I'm in I'll start with four

1. A Discovery of Witches
2. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
3. The Night Circus
4. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

What the heck, put me in for ... 5. :) {EDIT: I'm increasing my goal to 10 because why not. :D]

1. The Martian (5/1/16)
2. All the Light We Cannot See (6/1/16)
3. The Silver Linings Playbook (24/2/16)
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns (28/1/16)
5. The Golem and the Jinni (1/3/16)
6. Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore (4/3/16)
7. A Discovery of Witches (11/3/16)
8. The Night Circus (16/3/16)
9. I Am Malala (15/3/16)
10. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (17/3/16)
11. The Color Purple (20/3/16)
12. The Secret History (31/3/16)

12/10

I'll go for 5!

Completed 4/5

1. Blood Red Road
2. The Night Circus - 31/01/2016
3. Wool Omnibus - 28/03/2016
4. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making - 16/03/2016
5. Fahrenheit 451 - 21/03/2016

I'm in for 6!

I'm trying not to buy too many books since I have a huge backlog (and fortunately I've read some of those great books already). I do happen to own three on the list that I haven't read, so count me in for three :)

1) A Christmas Carol - Completed 1/1/2016

2) The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared - Completed 1/13/2016

3) Americanah - Completed 1/14/2016

3/3

I'm in for 3.

1.) The Martian
2.) The Goldfinch
3.) The Help

Thanks Blagica for volunteering to lead! We appreciate that.

Participants
Alison | 1/3
Amanda (47)| 3/6
Amanda R| 3/5
Amanda (msg 64)| 1/6
Angela| 3/5
Bromide | 0/4
Carolyn| 0/3
Candiss | 1/3
Charity | 3/5
Chris P | 0/6
Clare L | 4/5
Cory | 2/4
Cynthia | 1/5
Diana S| 3/9
Debra | 0/3
Gabriella| 0/2
Hannah | 2/4
Heather| 0/4
Jacqueline | 0/6
Jenny | 1/3
Jill | 0/4
Jodi | 0/6
Julie | 2/4
Karin| 0/3
Katie | 1/3
Khaoula | 1/6
Laura| 8/12
Lisa (Likenbooks) | 4/5
Lindsey | 0/6
Lulu | 0/4
Maria | 2/6
Maria (81) | 4/5
Merja | 1/6
Maureen| 0/5
Nandini | 0/4
Missy | 0/3
Nidhi| 0/12
Ornina| 2/4
Polly| 1/5
Renee | 0/4
Robyn | 1/3
Rowizyx | 0/5
Sam F | 1/2
Samantha| 0/4
Sharon| 1/3
Sheryl | 2/3
Silja | 2/5
Stefani – SpelingExpirt | 0/6
Sinead | 0/3
Tarah | 0/6
Tanya| 1/2
Willemijn | 3/4


CHALLENGE COMPLETE
Nik | 6/3 Congrats
Jessica | 3/3 Congrats
Blagica | 5/7 Congrats
Willemijn | 4/4 Congrats
Cheri| 4/4 Congrats
Christa| 10/10 Congrats
Jackie B. | 5/3 Congrats
June| 3/3 Congrats
Amanda P | 8/8 Awesome Job
Janine| 4/4 Awesome Job
Marina H | 4/4 Awesome
Emma | 5/5 Awesome job
Winter | 3/3 Great job
Ariel | 3/3 nicely done
Alisia | 6/6 way to go!
Paul | 12/10 way to go!
Susan | 3/3 way to go!
Clare | 3/3 awesome!
Claire | 5/5 awesome!
Megan E | 3/3 awesome job !
Stephanie (R-A) | 5/5 awesome job !
Megan | 4/4 awesome job !
Kadijah Michelle | 6/6 awesome job !
Gretchen | 3/3 awesome job !
Stephanie (Chinchillita) | 5/5 awesome job !
Kelly | 4/4 awesome!

Your welcome my pleasure.

I'll read 4.

welcome to the challenge Cory!

Please put me down for 3.


1. Unwind - Neal Shusterman
2. tbd
3. tbd
Read: 0/3

Added and welcome!

Put me down for 3. I will make my list a bit later, will keep track in my corner but will update here as well!

welcome to the challenge Robyn!

I'll read 5

1) All the Light We Cannot See
2) The Golem and the Jinni
3) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
4) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
5) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Looking over the list, I realized that I have already read a large number of them. I'm going to go for 3 for this challenge.

1. The Golem and the Jinni read 1/24/2016
2. The Color Purple read 3/4/2016
3. The Catcher in the Rye read 3/20/2016

3/3
Challenge completed!

Please sign me up for 4! :)

GROUP READS CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - March 31, 2016

For this challenge, we're going to read old group reads!

1. The Bell Jar ✔
2. The Silver Linings Playbook ✔
3. I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban✔
4. The Night Circus ✔

COMPLETE: 4/4

Added and welcome up to here!

Please put me down for 3. I will update as I go...here and in my corner :)

Added everyone to here and readjusted my goal so i don't bite off more then i can chew.

I'm going to attempt to get 5 this quarter!

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
The Rosie Project
And the Mountains Echoed
5/5

welcome to the challenge!

I'm going for 5:

1. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns
3. The Color Purple
4. The Silver Linings Playbook
5. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

I'm in for 4:

1. The Time Traveler's Wife ✔
2. The Bell Jar ✔
3. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency ✔
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns ✔

4/4

Id like to try for 5 of the groyp reads

1. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
2. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
3. Chocolat by Joanne Harris
4. The Good Father by Diane Chamberlain
5.The Witches: Salem, 1692

Read 5/5

Megan since there are two people in this challenge with the same name just correct me at any point if i make a mistake

welcome to you all!

welcome Amanda!

I'm in for 3 please

1. And the Mountains Echoed
2. The Good Father
3. The Bell Jar

added and welcome!

Cassandra wrote: "GROUP READS CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - March 31, 2016

For this challenge, we're going to read old group reads! This challenge was brought back at the suggestion of several members of the grou..."

I am going to shoot for three reads this quarter
Updated Mar 6, 2016 (2/3)


The Martian - read Jan 2016
A Christmas Carol - read Jan 2016
Fahrenheit 451

Blagica wrote: "Megan since there are two people in this challenge with the same name just correct me at any point if i make a mistake"

No prob. You can call me Megan E if that helps any.

thank you!