The Reading Challenge Group discussion

This year I have planned to read books that have been on my physical and Kindle shelves for a very long time. I guess I really need to dust those cobwebs off! Am also planning to read bigger books - both classics as well as fantasy and enjoy the journey. While my listed number is 150 for this year's challenge, I am more interested in reading good books rather than merely going for the number. With that thought, I will present here my planned reads and more.

I have also decided to write a review for all the books that I read this year. Hoping all my plans do succeed.

Happy reading to everyone! :)

Planned Books for 2016

Physical Books

✔ 1. The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War
2. A Suitable Boy
3. India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
4. Tigana
5. Winter of the World
6. In Xanadu: A Quest
7. The Pillars of the Earth
8. O Jerusalem
9. The Idiot
10. From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East
11. A Prayer for Owen Meany
12. In Cold Blood
13. The Orphan Master's Son
14. Deadhouse Gates
15. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
16. Raiders from the North
17. Schindler's List

Kindle Books

✔ 1. Anna Karenina
2. Les Misérables
3. Seabiscuit: An American Legend
4. The Eye of the World
5. The Passage
6. The Quiet Game
7. Lonesome Dove
8. Reliquary
9. Speaks the Nightbird
10. War and Peace
11. The Brothers Karamazov
12. A Clash of Kings
13. The Prisoner of Heaven
14. Under Heaven
15. A Song for Arbonne
16. The Light Between Oceans
17. Before They Are Hanged
18. Last Argument of Kings
19. The Way of Kings
20. Coraline
21. Child 44
22. The Stand
23. The Gunslinger
✔ 24. Cloud Atlas
✔ 25. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
✔ 26. 2666
✔ 27. The Happy Prince and Other Tales
✔ 28. The Nightingale

Others - Non planned

✔ 1. Yayati: A Classic Tale of Lust - (Kindle Unlimited)
✔ 2. The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes - (Ebook)
✔ 3. What I Talk about When I Talk about Running - (Library)
✔ 4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - (Library)

Summary list of Books read in 2016

Books read from January - April

Books read in January 2016

1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
2. Yayati: A Classic Tale of Lust
3. Anna Karenina
4. The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes
5. The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War
6. The Happy Prince and Other Tales
7. What I Talk about When I Talk about Running
8. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
9. Cloud Atlas
10. 2666


Books read in February 2016

1. The Nightingale

Books read in March 2016

Books read from May -August

Books read from September - December

1. - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Date read: 1/4/2016
Rating: 4 stars

Review: Link to review

2. - Yayati: A Classic Tale of Lust - by Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar

Date read: 1/5/16
Rating: 4 stars

Review: Link to review

3. - Anna Karenina - by Leo Tolstoy

Date read: 1/9/2016
Rating: 5 stars

Review: Link to review

4. - The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War - by Denise Chong

Date read: 1/12/16
Rating: 4 stars

Review: Link to review

5. - The Happy Prince and Other Tales - by Oscar Wilde

Date read: 1/16/16
Rating: 5 stars

Review: Link to review

6. - What I Talk about When I Talk about Running - by Haruki Murakami

Date read: 1/19/16
Rating: 3 stars

Review: Link to review

7. - The Unbearable Lightness of Being - by Milan Kundera

Date read: 1/21/16
Rating: 4 stars

Review: Link to review

8. - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Date read: 1/24/16
Rating: 5 stars

Review: Link to review

9. - 2666 by Roberto Bolaño

Date read: 1/30/16
Rating: 5 stars

Review: Link to review

10. - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Date read: 2/3/16
Rating: 2 stars

Review: Link to review