2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Shakespeare challenge: read one work of Shakespeare every month

January: Henry V ✔
February: Winter's Tale ✔
March: King Lear ✔
April: The Comedy of Errors ✔
May:
June:
July: Troilus and Cressida
August:
September:
October:
November:
December:

4/12

Previously read: Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, King John, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth

Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge:

Official list: https://www.buzzfeed.com/krystieyando...

59. Henry V ✔
60. Great Expectations ✔
61. The Joy Luck Club ✔
62. The Comedy of Errors ✔
63. A Separate Peace ✔
64. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ✔
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Already read 58/339 on the list. Goal is 80/339 this year.

64/339

2017 Popsugar Reading Challenge:

A book recommended by a librarian:
A book that's been on your TBR for way too long:
A book of letters:
An audiobook:
A book by a person of color:
A book with one of the four seasons in the title: The Winter's Tale ✔
A book that is a story within a story: A Great and Terrible Beauty ✔
A book with multiple authors: Welcome to Night Vale ✔
An espionage thriller:
A book with a cat on the cover:
A book by an author who uses a pseudonym: The Reptile Room ✔
A bestseller from a genre you don't normally read: Milk and Honey ✔
A book by or about a person who has a disability:
A book involving travel: Kafka on the Shore ✔
A book with a subtitle: Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English ✔
A book published in 2017:
A book involving a mythical creature: 'Salem's Lot ✔
A book you've read before that never fails to make you smile:
A book about food:
A book with career advice:
A book from a nonhuman perspective: Animal Farm ✔
A steampunk novel:
A book with a red spine:
A book set in the wilderness:
A book you loved as a child:
A book by an author from a country you've never visited:
A book with a title that's a character's name: Henry V ✔
A novel set during wartime:
A book with an unreliable narrator: Under the Harrow ✔
A book with pictures: I Am Spock ✔
A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you:
A book about an interesting woman:
A book set in two different time periods: The House Between Tides ✔
A book with a month or day of the week in the title:
A book set in a hotel:
A book written by someone you admire:
A book that's becoming a movie in 2017:
A book set around a holiday other than Christmas:
The first book in a series you haven't read before: The Bad Beginning ✔
A book you bought on a trip:

Alternates:
A book recommended by an author you love:
A bestseller from 2016:
A book with a family member term in the title:
A book that takes place over a character's lifespan:
A book about an immigrant or refugee:
A book from a genre/subgenre that you've never heard of:
A book with an eccentric character: The Wide Window ✔
A book that's more than 800 pages: A Breath of Snow and Ashes ✔
A book you got from a used book sale:
A book that's been mentioned in another book:
A book about a difficult topic: Reasons to Stay Alive ✔
A book based on mythology: American Gods ✔

18/40

Dewey Decimal Nonfiction Challenge:

1. 000-099:

2. 100-199:
Man's Search for Meaning✔
Reasons to Stay Alive ✔
Thinking, Fast and Slow

3. 200-299:
The Hero With a Thousand Faces

4. 300-399:
Her Best-Kept Secret: Inside the Private Lives of Women Who Drink ✔

5. 400-499:
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English ✔

6. 500-599:
The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic ✔

7. 600-699:

8. 700-799:
I Am Spock ✔

9. 800-899:

10. 900-999:
I Will Bear Witness, Vol 1: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-41
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey

6/10

A-Z Location Challenge:

A: Agincourt - Henry V ✔
B: Briny Beach - The Bad Beginning ✔
C:
D: Devil's Moor (Hemmersmoor) - Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone ✔
E:
F: Fraser's Ridge - A Breath of Snow and Ashes ✔
G:
H: Hollywood - I Am Spock ✔
I:
J: Jerusalem's Lot - 'Salem's Lot ✔
K:
L: Lake Lachrymose - The Wide Window ✔
M: Manor Farm - Animal Farm ✔
N: Night Vale - Welcome to Night Vale ✔
O: Outer Hebrides - The House Between Tides ✔
P: Paltryville - The Miserable Mill ✔
Q:
R:
S: Sicily - The Winter's Tale ✔
T: Takamatsu - Kafka on the Shore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt6E5...
U:
V: Vermont - It Can't Happen Here ✔
W:
X:
Y:
Z:

14/13