The Reading Challenge Group discussion

This challenge is a little different and a throw-back to the origins of the Reading Challenge group.

Mission: Read 50 books this year.

Plan: Keep track of your books any way you wish (in the Personal Goal folder, for example), then update here each month with your total for the month and the year so far.

p.s. I have no plans to keep an overall group tally.

Renee's January Total: 16 books
Number of books to date: 16 books

Marianne's January books to date: 6

Rosemarie's January books: 29 to date

I'm in! :)

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Just the number we read each month? Like the first year? Omg I love this. I'm in.

January - 4
February - 4
March - 3
April - 4
May - 3
June - 5
July - 4
August - 7
September - 2
October - 5
November -4
December - 7

year to date: 52

I know there is a week to go but I am at 52!

Lol. Yep. I was feeling a little nostalgic.

Reserved

I am in. 50 was also my planned total for the year
Year to date- 50
Jan - 5 books
Feb - 5 books
Mar - 5 books
Apr - 6 books
May - 6 books
June - 5 books
July - 5 books
August - 4 books
Sept - 4 books
Oct - 5 books

Well, I'll be in - but probably more than 50!

Dreaming the Serpent Spear

How to Train Your Dragon

The Witch in the Wood

The Train

Disordered Minds

Hugh and Bess: A Love Story

Rome: The Emperor's Spy

I may add a 50+ Challenge later in the year for those who complete this one.

Well I did almost 160 this year, so I *should* be able to do this.

I am in :)
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January

1. Divergent
2. A Christmas Carol
3. A Dangerous Place: A Maisie Dobbs Novel
4. The Trial
5. The Capture
6. My Notorious Life
7. Beyond Depression: Essays About Feeling Low, Feeling Stuck, And Finding Healing
8. Insurgent
9. Melting the Ice
10. Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene
11. Open and Shut
12. The Blue Bath
13. Hold Me
14. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
15. Conspiracy in Death

February

16. All the Missing Girls
17. Journey to Munich
18. Allegiant
19. Fever Dream
20. Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
21. American Housewife
22. Bel Canto
23. The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House
24. Kiss Me

March
25. When Breath Becomes Air
26. Rattlesnake Crossing
27. Thrill Me
28. The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
29. Holiday Grind
30. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
31. Terrorist
32. Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed
33. Resisting Roots
34. Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
35. Marry Me at Christmas

April:
36. I Let You Go
37. The Walk
38. The Edge of Dreams
39. The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
40. Pros and Cons
41. Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos
42. Love Warrior
43. Miles to Go
44. The Color Thief: A Family's Story of Depression
45. In This Grave Hour
46. The Road to Grace
47. Snow White: A Graphic Novel

May
48. A Step of Faith
49. Walking on Water
50. Moonglow
51. With Love from the Inside
52. Murder on Fifth Avenue
53. Murder in Chelsea
54. Past Darkness
55. Tempting Dusty
56. The Invention of Wings

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Total: 56

I'm in! :)

Im in! :)

JANUARY
1. The Mark of Athena
2. Cinder
3. Throne of Glass
4. The House of Hades
5. Gone Girl
6. Scarlet

FEBRUARY
7. The Girls
8. The Night Circus
9. Rebel of the Sands
10. Origin of the Sphinx
11. Who Could That Be at This Hour?
12. Crown of Midnight
13. The Blood of Olympus
14. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

MARCH
15. 1984
16. Room
17. City of Glass
18. A Dog's Purpose
19. The Sword of Summer
20. Thirteen Reasons Why

APRIL
21. Cress
22. Things I Should Have Known
23. Traitor to the Throne
24. The Hammer of Thor
25. Caraval
26. So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847
27. Daughter of the Pirate King

MAY
28. Heir of Fire
29. Kindred Spirits
30. A Court of Thorns and Roses
31. Separated @ Birth: A True Love Story of Twin Sisters Reunited
32. The Hidden Oracle
33. Fairest
34. By Your Side

JUNE
35. Flame in the Mist
36. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
37. The Dark Prophecy

JULY
38. The Upside of Unrequited
39. New World: Rising
40. A Court of Mist and Fury
41. Made You Up

AUGUST
42. The Last Ever After
43. The Perks of Being a Wallflower

50 Books in 2017

Number of books to date: 53
January: 12
February: 7
March: 7
April: 7
May: 7
June: 13

I'm in...

Dan's books to date:

Sam F's Book Total
Number of books to date: 50

1. Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
2. Light Years by James Salter
3. A Soft Place to Land by Susan Rebecca White
4. The Prison Book Club by Ann Walmsley
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
6. Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs
7. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
8. All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister
9. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable about Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny by Robin S. Sharma
10. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
11. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
12. Good Harbor by Anita Diamant
13. Bones to Ashes by Kathy Reichs
14. The Selection by Kiera Cass
15. The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion by Tim Crothers
16. One Good Friend Deserves Another by Lisa Verge Higgins
17. Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer
18. The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu
19. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
20. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn
21. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
22. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
24. A Place at the Table: A Novel by Susan Rebecca White
25. Tamarind Mem by Anita Rau Badami
26. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
27. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
28. The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
29. The House of Blue Mangoes by David Davidar
30. Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs
31. Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
32. Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith
33. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
34. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
35. At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
36. Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
37. The Killing Circle by Andrew Pyper
38. The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
39. The Wrath & the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
40. Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez
41. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
42. Blindness by José Saramago
43. Mating for Life by Marissa Stapley
44. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
45. 419 by Will Ferguson
46. Emma by Jane Austen
47. Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright
48. Chaos in Kabul: A Malko Linge Novel by Gérard de Villiers
49. All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
50. The Manning Sisters: The Cowboy's Lady\The Sheriff Takes a Wife by Debbie Macomber

Count me in.

Currently finished three:

1. Catch the Jew!
2. Outwitting History
3. My Grandfather's Son

I'm in.

I'm in! Sounds fun!

JANUARY
Total: 15

by Brandon Sanderson
by Rachel Vincent
by Kiersten White
by Pierce Brown
by Marissa Meyer
by Jennifer Niven
by Holly Black
by Catherine Fisher
by Saul David
by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
by Patrick Ness

FEBRUARY
Total: tbd

I am in!

January
1 - Sense and Sensibility *Read*
2 - Of Human Bondage *Read*
3 - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall *Read*
4 - It Had to Be You *Read*
5 - The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan *Read*
6 - Bang My Car *Read*
7 - The Book of Tea *Read*

February
8 - Love May Fail *Read*
9 - Tender Is the Night *Read*
10 - The Mayor of Casterbridge *Read*

March
11 - Heroes Are My Weakness *Read*
12 - A History of Korea *Read*
13 - Pulling Down Strongholds *Read*
14 - Silas Marner *Read*
15 - A Tale of Two Cities *Read*

April
16 - A Separation *Read*
17 - Chess *Read*
18 - The Life of a Stupid Man *Read*
19 - Norse Mythology *Read*
20 - My Father's Tears: And Other Stories *Read*
21 - Fortune Smiles *Read*

May
22 - The Burrow *Read*
23 - Judaism: An Introduction *Read*
24 - The Death of Ivan Ilyich *Read*
25 - The Accusation *Read*
26 - French Rhapsody *Read*

June
27 - The Caller *Read*
28 - The Devotion of Suspect X *Read*
29 - War with the Newts *Read*
30 - Malice *Read*
31 - Human Acts *Read*

July
32 - The Song Rising *Read*
33 - The Atheist's Mass *Read*
34 - Into the Water *Read*
35 - The Graveyard Apartment *Read*
36 - Rumpole Rests His Case *Read*
37 - The Quiet American *Read*
38 - Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism *Read*
39 - The Reader on the 6.27 *Read*
40 - History's Fiction: Stories from the City of Hong Kong *Read*

August
41 - Existentialism and Human Emotions *Read*
42 - Villain *Read*
43 - Yevgeny Onegin *Read*
44 - The Queen of Spades and Selected Works *Read*
45 - The Invisible Man *Read*
46 - Three Plays - Absurd Person Singular, Absent Friends, Bedroom Farce * Read*
47 - The Gods Will Have Blood *Read*
48 - The Pearl *Read*
49 - Slaughterhouse-Five *Read*

September
50 - Xanadu *Read*

I'm in.

Linda's 50-Book Challenge

I'm in.

Shirley's 50= book challenge.

JANUARY

1) Cinder by Marissa Meyer
2)Ghostly Paws by Leighann Dobbs
3)Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
4) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5)Hush,Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
6) Poison Princess by Kresley Cole
7) Heart of Stone by Diana Palmer
8) Die for me by Amy Plum
9) To kill mockingbird by Harper Lee
10) Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
11) Wolf Prince by Cathryn Constable
12) The Staggerford Murders by Jon Hassle
13)Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
14)Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.R Rowling
15)Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire

FEBRUARY

16) Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris
17)The Vincent Boys by Abbi Glines
18)These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman
19)Dead Locked by Charlaine Harris
20)Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
21) The Scribe by Elizabeth Hunter
22) Dead Ever After by Charlanie Harris
23) Real Murders by Charlaine Harris
24) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Colline
25) Wicked 1 witch & curse by Nancy Holder
26) A Seal's Oath by Cora Seton


MARCH

27)Wicked 2 legacy & spellbound by Nancy Holder
28) Cress by Marissa Meyer
29) The Obsession by Nora Roberts
30) The last battle by C.S Lewis
31) Wicked Resurrection by Nancy Holder

APRIL

32)Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris
33)Easter in Dry Creek by Janet Tronstad
34) The Julius House by Charline Harris
35) Protector by Diana Palmer
36) The Awakening by L.J Smith
37)The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa
38) The Struggle by L.J. Smith
39) The Fury by L.J Smith
40) The Secret Of The Old Clock by Navy Drew
41)Dead Over Heels by Charline Harris
42) Forsaken by Leanna Ellis
43) Winter by Marissa Meyer

MAY

44)BlackBird House by Alice Hoffman
45) Shatter Me by Taheteh Mafi
46)A Wedding in Provence by Ellen Sussman
47) I'm The Vampire, That's Way by Michele Bardsley
48) The Cowboy Inherits A Bride by Cora Seton
49) The Cowboy Wins A Bride by Cora Seton
50) The Cowboy Imports A Bride by Cora Seton

TOTAL 50/50

I can easily do this.

1 - Hooked into Murder by Celeste Bennett
2 - The Last Town by Blake Crouch
3 - A Body in the Bargain by Charlotte Moore
4 - The Mirror in My Dorm Room by Lashonda Beauregard
5 - Meg: Nightstalkers by Steve Alten
6 - goodight, nobody by Jennifer Weiner
7 - Still Surviving Henry by Erin Taylor Young
8 - I've Got You Under My Skin by Mary Higgins Clark
9 - "I" is for Innocent by Sue Grafton
10 - Specimen 313 by Jeff Strand
11 - Fracture by Katherine McKenzie
12 - Home by Harlan Coben
13 - The Ghost Writer by Damon Norko
14 - "J" is for Judgement by Sue Grafton
15 - Graverobbers Wanted by Jeff Strand
16 - Putting on the Witch by Joyce and Jim Lavene
17 - Holiday Buzz by Cleo Coyle
18 - Summer Blowout by Claire Cook
19 - Force of Nature by C.J. Box
20 - Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa
21 - Everywhere That Mary Went by Lisa Scottoline
22 - The Bronxville Book Club by Pam Hobson
23 - Final Appeal by LIsa Scottoline
24 - Breaking Point by C. J. Box
25 - Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs
26 - Running from the Law by Lisa Scottoline
27 - The Twenty Three by Linwood Barclay
28 - One Mile Under by Andrew Gross
29 - Three Silver Doves by Deborah Garner
30 - Earnest by Kristin Von Kreisler
31 - Just Life by Neil Abramson
32 - Suspendered Sentence by Laura Bradford
33 - Toby's Tale by G.A. Whitmore
34 - An Affair to Dismember by Elise Sax
35 - The Grownup by Gillian Flynn
36 - Shopaholic to the Rescue/Sophie Kinsella
37 - The Widow/Fiona Barton
38 - Hugo by Michael McEachern
39 - Under the Knife by Tess Gerritsen
40 - The Breakdown by B.A. Paris
41 - A Churn for the Worse by Laura Bradford
42 - The Fireman by Joe Hill
43 - The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
44 - The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
45 - The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
46 - Murder in Christmas River by Meg Muldoon
47 - The Bookshop on the Corner/Jenny Colgan
48 - The Final Season by Tom Stanton
49 - The Haunting by Kay Hooper
50 - The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

My aim was 52 books this year so I'm in for this one!

I'm in my goal is 50 books anyway so this fits! :)

January books to date: 3
February books to date: 4
Total: 7

Hello All,

I am in too, since I was able to complete a similar goal last year. Plus, I am hoping to tick off at least 5 from this list, http://appliedbookreviews.com/reading... , as part of my 50 book-challenge for 2017.

Jan books to date : 2

Happy Reading!

Count me in

I'm in! I've set myself a target of 52 anyway. Would love to aim for more but with 2 kids I hardly have the time like I used to...
Books to date: 1

My goal is to finish January with 9 books read. I'm in my fifth (:

i love this idea hoping to read more than 50 but will see how it goes

I've had such a bad start to this challenge!! Not even half way into my second book yet. Reading with a two year old and a baby is almost impossible! haha but I WILL catch up! #determined!!!

Michaela, reading anything with two little ones is great accomplishment!

It's time to share your totals for January!!

How many books did you finish and what is your total-to-date?

(You can post January Totals until the end of February, at which point we will start posting February Totals.)

So far I have read 30 books in January, which is a lot for me. Starting mid April I am going to look after my one year old granddaughter couple of days a week, so I will have a lot less reading time, which is why I am reading so much right now.

Some members are opting to update "placeholder" posts. If you want to see some of the impressive reads just scroll back to the beginning of this tread. :)

30 books in one month is pretty impressive even if you're "storing up for winter."

I think that it is a personal record for me. I blame it on the creative challenges (smile).

I squeaked in one more book for a total of 31. It is a reread of The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, one of the first gothic novels.

Awww! Heeheehee!

9 so far. I might finish a 10th book but that wll depend on my little man's napping (he only slept for 10 minutes this morning!!!!).

I've read 9 books in January.

I'm in!
Read 3
Total 3
Monsters of Men
The Solace of Leavimg Early
The The Truth According to Us

Thanks for setting up Renee and I like how some of you are listing your books. It's great for what to read next!

Total for January: 8
Total for February: 16

Total for 2017: 24 so far

Looks great, Everyone!
If you're new to the group, feel free to post your totals from January!

January - 31
February - 10 so far

January - 3
February - 1 (so far)

my goal 50 books
so far 5

I'm hoping to read 50 books or more this year :) I'll be updating here every month just to show my progress.

January

A Cat Called Birmingham
Suicide Squad: The Official Movie Novelization
All The Single Ladies
Love Me or Leave Me
Tyrant

Total of books read so far: 5/50 books

January Total: 7
February Total: 17
Year to date: 30

January:
1. The DUFF - Kody Keplinger
2. Prisoners of Geography - Tim Marshall
3-7. A Series of Unfortunate Events (Books 1-5) - Lemony Snicket

February:
8-15. A Series of Unfortunate Events (Books 6-13) - Lemony Snicket
16. Horseradish - Lemony Snicket
17. Lemony Snicket the Unauthorized Biography - Lemony Snicket
18. Four Warned - Jeffrey Archer
19-24. Princess Diaries (Books 1-6) - Meg Cabot

March:
25-29. Princess Diaries (Books 7-11) - Meg Cabot
30. His Bloody Project - Graeme Macrae Burnet