2025 Reading Challenge discussion

I'm going for 200 in 2016 - this is more books than I have ever read in a year so it will definitely be a huge challenge for me!

Progress so far: 1/200

Started the year well with a lovely story about loving books and people...
1. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Great job at the impressive goal! Good luck!

Good luck meeting your goal, Meg! Hopefully some of the challenges will help keep you on track; I know that's critical for my success.

Good luck.

Meg wrote: "Started the year well with a lovely story about loving books and people...
1. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"

I love that book!

I'm on 16 so far - 7 ahead of schedule! Thanks for the encouragement everyone.
I'm not going to list every book I read here, but I will point out the highlights.
So far I have loved Bird Box (this was so creepy I still think about it constantly) and The Martian Chronicles (one of the greats of classic Sci Fi for a reason)

Yearly challenge: AROUND THE WORLD IN BOOKS
1. USA The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
2. Chile Ripper by Isabel Allende
3. UK World Without End by Ken Follett
4. Australia The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
5. Brazil Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
6. China Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather by Gao Xingjian
7. Japan Hardboiled and Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto
8. Czech The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
9. Ukraine The Master and Margarita
10. Austria The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
11. India The Taliban Cricket Club
12. Sweden A Man Called Ove
13. South Africa Elizabeth Costello
14. Pakistan I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
15. Netherlands Summer House with Swimming Pool
16. Korea The Vegetarian
17. Italy My Brilliant Friend
18. Singapore Crazy Rich Asians
19. Germany The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
20. Spain The High Mountains of Portugal
21. Canada The Stone Diaries
22. Sri Lanka Questions of Travel
23. Ethiopia Cutting for Stone
24. Nigeria Americanah
25. Iceland Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was
26. France The Library of Unrequited Love
27. Zimbabwe We Need New Names

Yearly challenge: EVERY YEAR

1982 The Color Purple
1983 The Woman in Black
1984 Flaubert's Parrot
1985 Ender's Game
1986 The Lady in the Tower
1987 Obernewtyn
1988 The Bean Trees
1989 Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather
1990 The Farseekers
1991 Saint Maybe
1992 Mostly Harmless
1993 Tomorrow, When the War Began
1994 East, West
1995 Behind the Scenes at the Museum
1996 Reality and Dreams
1997 The Secrets of a Fire King
1998 Veronika Decides to Die
1999 Hardboiled and Hard Luck
2000 The Dressmaker
2001 Elizabeth Costello
2002 Spies
2003 Princess in Pink
2004 The Last Love Story
2005 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
2006 Odd One Out
2007 The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
2008 The Dead and the Gone
2009 Twenties Girl
2010 Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
2011 The Song of Achilles
2012 A Man Called Ove
2013 The Aviator's Wife
2014 Fourth of July Creek
2015 The Other Side of the World
2016 Mr. Splitfoot

Update: Now on 31 books so far for the year.

A highlight has definitely been the Wool series.

I've hit 50 books - one quarter of the way there!
Favourite book of the year so far is H is for Hawk

Congratulations on hitting the 1/4 milestone! I need to read H is for Hawk.

Now that we are 1/4 of the way through the year I thought I better update again. I'm now on 59 books - just ahead of schedule!

I've read another 5 star book since my last update: Between the World and Me. My two favourite books of the year so far are both non fiction - what is happening to me!?

It's OK, my favourite book for the year is fiction again! The Enchanted was amazing.
63 books and counting...

I am very behind on my updates! But luckily I am ahead on books - 157 read which is apparently 10 ahead of goal

From Fiction to Reality Challenge:
1a. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (nf)
1b. The Martian Chronicles (f)
Both are about traveling to Mars.

2a. H is for Hawk (nf)
2b. A Wild Sheep Chase (f)
Both are about obsession with a particular animal.

3a. Growing Up Asian in Australia (nf)
3b. Laurinda (f)
Both are about life as an Asian teenager growing up in Australia

4a. Between the World and Me (nf)
4b. Americanah (f)
Both are about what it is like to be Black in America

I finished my challenge!!!
One month to spare, maybe next year I'll go for 225