2025 Reading Challenge discussion

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2017 Goal = 75 books

1. Magic Kingdom For Sale/Sold
2. The Whistler
3. Partners: A Rogue Lawyer Short Story
4. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
5. The Testing
6. Tigers in the Cage
7. Stormcrow
8. Paper and Fire
9. Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
10. Ransom My Heart
11. Chocolat
12. Measure for Measure
13. Beastly
14. Queen of Someday
15. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
16. Lamb to the Slaughter
17. J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World: Movie Magic Volume One: Extraordinary People and Fascinating Places
18. A Discovery of Witches
19. Shadow and Bone
20. As Old as Time: A Twisted Tale
21. Carry On
22. From This to That
23. The Handmaid's Tale
24. Emma
25. The Constant Princess
26. The Adventure of the Six Napoleons and Other Cases
27. The Chalk Pit
28. Wool
29. Sonnet 73
30. Shift
31. Dust
32. The Sound of Broken Absolutes
33. Solitaire
34. Much Ado About Nothing
35. The Cuckoo's Calling
36. Northanger Abbey
37. Summer of Secrets
38. Pillars of Light
39. Unfettered
40. Shadowland
41. The Screwtape Letters
42. Sabriel
43. Lirael
44. Abhorsen
45. The Creature in the Case
46. Clariel
47. Goldenhand
48. Skulduggery Pleasant
49. the wonderful world of F in EXAMS
50. Billy and Me
51. A Dark So Deadly
52. Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene
53. Carve the Mark
54. Prince and the pauper
55. The Winter King
56. The Historian
57. Doctor Who: Dr. Twelfth
58. Enemy of God
59. Excalibur
60. A Game of Thrones
61. Doctor Who: Dr. Fourth
62. Miranda and Me
63. A Clash of Kings
64. A Storm of Swords
65. The Tumor
66. The Egg
67. Other People
68. Doctor Who: The TARDIS Handbook
69. Doctor Who: Free Comic Book Day
70. A Feast for Crows
71. The Testing Guide
72. A Dance with Dragons
73. The Dark Thorn
74. Norse Mythology
75. Uprooted
76. Dracula
77. The Children's Book of Books 2000
78. The Mermaid's Sister
79. Origin
80. La Belle Sauvage
81. The Collectors
82. Fifty Fifty
83. The Vanishing Box
84. Lyra's Oxford
85. What I Did In My Christmas Holidays By Sally Sparrow
86. The Lovely Bones
87. The Butterfly Tattoo
88. A Skinful of Shadows
89. The Comedy of Errors
90.Uglies
91. The Night Before Christmas: The Classic Account of the Visit from St. Nicholas
(* Sonnet 97)
92. Only Connect: The Official Quiz Book
93. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Rereads (read before Goodreads introduced the reread feature)
1. Ink and Bone
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

DNF
1. The Coach with the Big Teeth
2. Anna Karenina

Yearly Challenge
Let's Turn Pages

Target = 25,000 pages

January: 2,703
February: 2,021
March: 3,146
April: 2,841
May: 2,608
June: 3,758
July: 3,000
August: 2,351
September: 2,507
October: 2,463
November: 1,814
December: 1,294
Total read =30,506 pages

Yearly Challenge
Genre Bingo Challenge

COMPLETED: 12/12
1. The Whistler
2. Ransom My Heart
3. Beastly
4. Lamb to the Slaughter
5. From This to That
6. The Constant Princess
7. Wool
8. Northanger Abbey
9. Sabriel
10. Billy and Me
11. A Game of Thrones
12. Dracula

See also message 15 here

Yearly Challenge
Serial Reader

COMPLETED: 38/30
1. Magic Kingdom For Sale/Sold
2. The Testing
3. Paper and Fire
4. Chocolat
5. Beastly
6. Queen of Someday
7. A Discovery of Witches
8. Shadow and Bone
9. The Constant Princess
10. The Chalk Pit
11. Wool
12. Shift
13. Dust
14. The Cuckoo's Calling
15. Summer of Secrets
16. Shadowland
17. Sabriel
18. Lirael
19. Abhorsen
20. Clariel
21. Goldenhand
22. Skulduggery Pleasant
23. Billy and Me
24. Carve the Mark
25. The Winter King
26. Enemy of God
27. Excalibur
28. A Game of Thrones
29. A Clash of Kings
30. A Storm of Swords
31. A Feast for Crows
32. A Dance with Dragons
33. The Dark Thorn
34. Origin
35. La Belle Sauvage
36. Fifty Fifty
37. The Vanishing Box
38. Uglies

See also message 17 in this discussion thread

Yearly Challenge
The Tbr Randomiser Challenge

COMPLETED: 12/12
1. Queen of Someday
2. A Discovery of Witches
3. Shadow and Bone
4. Carry On
5. Solitaire
6. Summer of Secrets
7. Shadowland
8. Abhorsen
9. Billy and Me
10. The Tumor
11. Dracula
12. The Mermaid's Sister

See also Message 16 in this thread.

Yearly Challenge
Colour Challenge

COMPLETED: 15/15
1. Magic Kingdom For Sale/Sold
2. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
3. The Testing
4. Beastly
5. Queen of Someday
6. Shadow and Bone
7. Carry On
8. Emma
9. The Constant Princess
10. Wool
11. Shift
12. Dust
13. Much Ado About Nothing
14. Goldenhand
15. Billy and Me

See also message 42 here

2nd Quarter Challenge
Clear the Shelves

COMPLETED: 17/15
1. Wool
2. Shift
3. Dust
4. Solitaire
5. Much Ado About Nothing
6. The Cuckoo's Calling
7. Northanger Abbey
8. Summer of Secrets
9. Unfettered
10. Shadowland
11. Sabriel
12. Lirael
13. Abhorsen
14. Clariel
15. Goldenhand
16. Skulduggery Pleasant
17. Billy and Me

See also message 29 here

3rd Quarter Challenge
Triathlon

COMPLETED: 9/8
1. The Winter King
2. The Historian
3. Enemy of God
4. Excalibur
5. A Game of Thrones
6. A Clash of Kings
7. A Storm of Swords
8. A Feast for Crows
9. A Dance with Dragons

See message 13 here

Monthly Challenge - January
Marathon

COMPLETED: 9/8
1. Magic Kingdom For Sale/Sold
2. The Whistler
3. Partners: A Rogue Lawyer Short Story
4. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
5. The Testing
6. Paper and Fire
7. Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
8. Ransom My Heart
9. Chocolat

See Message 19 here

Monthly Challenge - February
Spanning the Globe

1. Measure for Measure
2. Beastly
3. Queen of Someday
4. A Discovery of Witches

See Message 81 here

Monthly Challenge - March
Title IX

COMPLETED: 3/3
1. The Handmaid's Tale
2. Emma
3. The Constant Princess

See message 11 here. Also creator and leader for this challenge

Monthly Challenge - May
Spell Sunrises

COMPLETED: 5/5
1. Northanger Abbey
2. Summer of Secrets
3. Unfettered
4. Shadowland
5. Sabriel

See also message 4 here where I am also discussion leader as I suggested this idea

Monthly Challenge - July
War and Peace

COMPLETED: 5/4
1. The Winter King
2. The Historian
3. Enemy of God
4. Excalibur
5. A Game of Thrones

See message 11 here

Monthly Challenge - September
Back to School

COMPLETED: 2/2
1. Doctor Who: Free Comic Book Day
2. A Feast for Crows

See message 3 here. Also co-creator of this Challenge and leader of the other Monthly Challenge

Monthly Challenge - October
Folklore

COMPLETED: 4/4
1. Norse Mythology
2. Uprooted
3. Dracula
4. The Mermaid's Sister

See also message 8 here

Monthly Challenge - November
Paired Books

COMPLETED: 4/4
1. The Collectors
2. Fifty Fifty
3. The Lovely Bones
4. The Butterfly Tattoo

See also message 4 here where I am also challenge leader

Monthly Challenge - December
The Long Challenge

COMPLETED: 3/3
1. Uglies
2. The Night Before Christmas: The Classic Account of the Visit from St. Nicholas
3. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

See also message 6 here where I am also discussion leader

Group Reads

1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2. The Handmaid's Tale
3. Norse Mythology

Buddy Reads

1. Carry On
2. A Game of Thrones
3. A Clash of Kings
4. Dracula

Personal Lifetime Challenge
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

See my Shakespeare shelf for what I've read so far.

READ IN 2017:
1. Measure for Measure
2. Sonnet 73
3. Much Ado About Nothing
4. The Comedy of Errors
5. Sonnet 97

2017 Statistics

Number of books read = 93 (plus 2 rereads)
Number of pages read = 30,506
Average number of pages per book = 351

Shortest book = Sonnet 73 (1 page)
Longest book = A Storm of Swords (1,218 pages)

Best Book = Wool
Worst Book = Beastly

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐: 13
⭐⭐⭐⭐: 60
⭐⭐⭐: 16
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⭐: 0
Average rating: 3.9

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