2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Last year, I said I'd read 90 books and read quite a bit more than that. I'm stretching my goal to be 191 books. I'm not sure if I'll make it, but it's something to reach for. My initial focus will be to get through many of the physical books that I already own, to clear up my bookshelves. I will also squeeze in e-books and audio books as I can.

My goals for 2017 are this:
Physical books: 62 (55 completed)
Audio Books: 51 (52 completed)
Kindle Books: 38 (55 completed)
Project Gutenberg: 24 (24 completed)
Non-Fiction: 16 (16 completed)

191 books in total (202 completed)

Physical Books
Total Planned: 62 (1 book every 5.887 days)
Current: 55 Expected: 62 Day: 365
7 behind for the year

1. Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2) by J.K. Rowling
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) by J.K. Rowling
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4) by J.K. Rowling
5. The Thousand Orcs by R.A. Salvatore
6. Burning Water (Diana Tregarde, #1) by Mercedes Lackey
7. Dark Currents (Agent of Hel, #1) by Jacqueline Carey
8. A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George by Kelly Carlin
9. Darkover Landfall (Darkover, #1) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
10. Dark Recollections (Adrian's Undead Diary #1) by Chris Philbrook
11. All the Rage (Repairman Jack, #4) by F. Paul Wilson
12. The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox
13. The Dark Talent (Alcatraz, #5) by Brandon Sanderson
14. Hosts by F. Paul Wilson
15. Beyond the Ever Reach (Mortality, #1) by Everly Frost
16. Outlander (Outlander, #1) by Diana Gabaldon
17. In the Blood by R.L. Martinez
18. The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman
19. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
20. Nest by Terry Goodkind
21. Summoned to Tourney (Bedlam's Bard, #2) by Mercedes Lackey & Ellen Guon
22. Devil's Garden: Book One of the Paladin Sequence by Lance Tuck
23. Easy Street: The Hard Way by Ron Perlman
24. No Darker Place by Debra Webb
25. The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
26. Risk Assessment (Torchwood, #13) by James Goss
27. The Undertaker's Gift (Torchwood, #14) by Trevor Baxendale
28. Stormqueen! (Darkover - Chronological Order #3) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
29. Mosig At Last: A Psychologist Looks At H.P. Lovecraft by Yōzan Dirk W. Mosig
30. Consequences (Torchwood, #15) by James Moran (and others)
31. First Born (Torchwood, #16) by James Goss
32. Long Time Dead (Torchwood, #17) by Sarah Pinborough
33. The Men Who Sold the World (Torchwood, #18) by Guy Adams
34. Exodus Code (Torchwood, #19) by Carole E. Barrowman
35. The Wolves of Midwinter (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #2) by Anne Rice
36. Blood Canticle (The Vampire Chronicles, #10) by Anne Rice
37. Prince Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #11) by Anne Rice
38. A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1) by Edgar Rice Burroughs
39. Green Suede Shoes: An Irish-American Odyssey by Larry Kirwan
40. Tourist Hunter by Keith D. Jones
41. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
42. Starbridge (Starbridge, #1) by A.C. Crispin
43. The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4) by Brandon Sanderson
44. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) by J.K. Rowling
45. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) by J.K. Rowling
46. The Fall of Neskaya (Darkover, #3; Clingfire, #1) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
47. The Haunted Air (Repairman Jack, #6) by F. Paul Wilson
48. Silent Dances (Starbridge, #2) by A.C. Crispin
49. Gateways (Repairman Jack, #7) by F. Paul Wilson
50. Amnesia Bites (Shady Arcade #1) by Sharon Stevenson
51. Half-Moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer
52. Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (The Vampire Chronicles, #12) by Anne Rice
53. Sword of Ice and Other Tales of Valdemar (Tales of Valdemar #1) by Mercedes Lackey
54. Crisscross (Repairman Jack, #8) by F. Paul Wilson
55. Wild Man's Curse by Susannah Sandlin

Audio Books
Total Planned: 51 (1 book every 7.156 days)
Current: 52 Expected: 51 Day: 365
1 Ahead for the year

1. The Labours of Hercules (Hercule Poirot, #26) by Agatha Christie
2. Dead Man's Folly (Hercule Poirot, #31) by Agatha Christie
3. The Adventure Of The Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie
4. Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
5. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
6. The Clocks by Agatha Christie
7. Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie
8. Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie
9. Poirot's Early Cases by Agatha Christie
10. The Under Dog and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
11. Curtain by Agatha Christie
12. The Night Eternal (The Strain Trilogy, #3) by Guillermo del Toro
13. The Complete Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
14. Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
15. The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
16. Problem at Pollensa Bay (Hercule Poirot, #40) by Agatha Christie
17. Destination Unknown by Agatha Christie
18. The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1) by Agatha Christie
19. The Body in the Library: A Miss Marple Mystery by Agatha Christie
20. The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #4) by Agatha Christie
21. A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie
22. They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie
23. A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
24. 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #8) by Agatha Christie
25. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie
26. A Caribbean Mystery (Miss Marple, #10) by Agatha Christie
27. At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie
28. Nemesis (Miss Marple, #12) by Agatha Christie
29. Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
30. Miss Marple's Final Cases by Agatha Christie
31. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
32. Emma by Jane Austen
33. The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
34. Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie
35. The Gods of HP Lovecraft by Aaron J. French (and others)
36. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman
37. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
38. Persuasion by Jane Austen
39. The Listerdale Mystery And Eleven Other Stories by Agatha Christie
40. While the Light Lasts by Agatha Christie
41. An Autobiography by Agatha Christie
42. The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
43. Steelheart (Reckoners, #1) by Brandon Sanderson
44. Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos
45. Black Wolves (Black Wolves, #1) by Kate Elliott
46. Murder in the Painted Lady (Peyton Brooks' Mystery #0) by M.L. Hamilton
47. Murder on Potrero Hill (Peyton Brooks' Mystery #1) by M.L. Hamilton
48. The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman
49. Rise: How a House Built a Family by Cara Brookins
50. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
51. Murder in the Tenderloin (Peyton Brooks' Mystery #2) by M.L. Hamilton
52. Murder on Russian Hill (Peyton Brooks' Mystery #3) by M.L. Hamilton

Kindle E-Books
Total Planned: 35 (1 book every 10.428 days)
Current: 55 Expected: 35 Day: 365
20 Ahead for the year

1. To the Sky Kingdom by Tang Qi Gong Zi
2. Maggie for Hire (Maggie MacKay, Magical Tracker, #1) by Kate Danley
3. Darkness Reigns by Jill Williamson
4. Exhume (Dr. Schwartzman, #1) by Danielle Girard
5. Tangled Tides (The Sea Monster Memoirs, #1) by Karen Amanda Hooper
6. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
7. A Touch of Midnight (Midnight Breed, #0.5) by Lara Adrian
8. The Clockwork God (Aboard the Great Iron Horse #1) by Jamie Sedgwick
9. A Quest of Heroes (The Sorcerer's Ring, #1) by Morgan Rice
10. A March of Kings (The Sorcerer's Ring, #2) by Morgan Rice
11. Terminus (Fringe Worlds, #1) by Kevin Hardman
12. Plague Year: The Author's Cut (Plague, #1) by Jeff Carlson
13. Girl 99 by Andy Jones
14. The Girl (Guardians, #1) by Lola St.Vil
15. Above the Bridge (Paige MacKenzie Mysteries, #1) by Deborah Garner
16. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
17. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
18. Anthem by Ayn Rand
19. The House of Worms by Harvey Click
20. Hanover House (The Evelyn Talbot Chronicles, #0.5) by Brenda Novak
21. A Fate of Dragons (The Sorcerer's Ring, #3) by Morgan Rice
22. The Lion Trees by Owen Thomas
23. Beneath the Skin (The Witchbreed, #2) by R.L. Martinez
24. The Night Bird (Frost Easton, #1) by Brian Freeman
25. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
26. Red Mountain by Boo Walker
27. Tapas, Carrot Cake and a Corpse (Charlotte Denver #1) by Sherri Bryan
28. The Silence of Trees by Valya Dudycz Lupescu
29. Black Hills by Jennifer Schneider
30. Walk Into Silence (Detective Jo Larsen, #1) by Susan McBride
31. The Dark of Twilight (Twilight Shifters, #1) by Kate Danley
32. Starship Blackbeard (Starship Blackbeard, #1) by Michael Wallace
33. The Bostonians by Henry James
34. Thirsty for Payback (Sinful Business, #1) by Marie Astor
35. The Last Paradise by Antonio Garrido
36. Wisconsin Vamp (Monsters in the Midwest, Book One) by Scott Burtness
37. Baking is Murder (Bee's Bakehouse Mysteries, #1) by Kathy Cranston
38. Rise of the Six (The Preston Six, #1) by Matt Ryan
39. Nothing New Under The Sun (Carter Devereux, #1) by J.C. Ryan
40. Space Carrier Avalon (Castle Federation #1) by Glynn Stewart
41. Off You Go by Boo Walker
42. Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (The Dowser, #1) by Meghan Ciana Doidge
43. The Dog That Laid Eggs by Jonathan Maas
44. Candide by Voltaire
45. Black Beauty (Everleaf #0.5) by Constance Burris
46. The Good Spy Dies Twice (The Bullseye, #1) by Mark Hosack
47. The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
48. Angel With A Bullet (Dixie Flynn Mystery #1) by M.C. Grant
49. Everblue (Mer Tales, #1) by Brenda Pandos
50. The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan
51. Dubliners by James Joyce
52. The Jekyll Revelation by Robert Masello
53. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
54. The Draper's Daughter by Ellin Carsta
55. Death in the Mind's Eye by Rick Acker

Project Gutenberg, wiki, ePUB & PDF books
Total Planned: 24 (1 book every 15.2 days)
Current: 24 Expected: 24 Day: 365
on schedule for the year

1. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
2. Omoo by Herman Melville
3. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4) by Arthur Conan Doyle
4. Israel Potter by Herman Melville
5. The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
6. The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
7. Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, #7) by Dorothy L. Sayers
8. The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
9. The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7) by Arthur Conan Doyle
10. Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey by Washington Irving
11. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
12. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
13. Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving
14. His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle
15. Santa Olivia (Santa Olivia, #1) by Jacqueline Carey
16. Mardi and a Voyage Thither by Herman Melville
17. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
18. The Three Musketeers (The D'Artagnan Romances #1) by Alexandre Dumas
19. Twenty Years After (The D'Artagnan Romances, #2) by Alexandre Dumas
20. The Vicomte de Bragelonne (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.1) by Alexandre Dumas
21. John Marr and Other Poems by Herman Melville
22. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
23. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
24. The Great Shadow by Arthur Conan Doyle

Non-Fiction
Total Planned: 16 ( 1 book every 22.81 days)
Current: 16 Expected: 16 Day: 365
on schedule for the year

1. Life in Ancient Egypt by Adolf Erman
2. Where Are They Buried?: How Did They Die? Fitting Ends and Final Resting Places of the Famous, Infamous, and Noteworthy by Tod Benoit
3. The Mummy in Ancient Egypt: Equipping the Dead for Eternity by Salima Ikram
4. Civil Engineering Practice: Engineering Success by Analysis of Failure by David D.A. Piesold
5. Egypt of the Pharaohs: An Introduction by Alan H. Gardiner
6. Enchantment of the Faerie Realm: Communication with Nature Spirits & Elementals by Ted Andrews
7. Modified by Caitlin Shetterly
8. The Self-Esteem Workbook by Glenn R. Schiraldi
9. Running on Empty: The Irreverent Guru's Guide to Filling up with Mindfulness by Shelley Pernot
10. Alien Animals by Colin Bord
11. Women's Rituals: A Sourcebook by Barbara G. Walker
12. Celtic Women's Spirituality: Accessing the Cauldron of Life by Edain McCoy
13. Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine by Michael T. Murray
14. Celtic Sacred Landscapes by Nigel Pennick
15. The Secret Life of Your Microbiome by Susan L. Prescott
16. Buddhist Economics by Clair Brown

Great goals! Good luck!

Marcus wrote: "Great goals! Good luck!"

Thanks!