2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Hey everyone!

I had the goal of reading 250 books in 2016, and I managed to read 275 books. I'm glad that I could reach this number, so I'm hoping to read at least 150 books in 2017. I'm planning to read some of the classicals, and mostly long books, so I may or may not raise my goal in the future. I may move to another country next summer, so my reading mostly will consist of my physical books that are lying on my shelves - even though I have so many kindle books waiting for me as well. Well, they can wait, since I cannot seem to move away and leave my precious books behind without reading or rereading them. So, let's do some reading! Chop chop!^^

POPSUGAR 2017 READING CHALLENGE

I'm in for 32 books.

2. A book that's been on your TBR list for way too long - Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire -- READ
5. A book by a person of color - Mom & Me & Mom (Maya Angelou's Autobiography #7) by Maya Angelou -- READ
8. A book with multiple authors - How To Be Parisian: Wherever You Are by Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret, Sophie Mas -- READ
10. A book with a cat on the cover
11. A book with an author who uses a pseudonym - The Carnivorous Carnival (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #9) by Lemony Snicket -- READ
14. A book involving travel
16. A book that's published in 2017
17. A book involving a mythical creature - The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently #2) by Douglas Adams -- READ
18. A book you've read before that never fails to make you smile
19. A book about food
21. A book from a nonhuman perspective
22. A steampunk novel - Doctor Who: The Clockwise Man by Justin Richards -- READ
23. A book with a red spine
24. A book set in the wilderness
25. A book you loved as a child
26. A book by an author from a country you've never visited
27. A book with a title that's a character's name
28. A novel set during wartime
30. A book with pictures
31. A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you
32. A book about an interesting woman - i>The Vegetarian by Han Kang -- READ
33. A book set in two different time periods
36. A book written by someone you admire
37. A book that's becoming a movie in 2017 - The Circle by Dave Eggers -- READ
39. The first book in a series you haven't read before
42. A bestseller from 2016 - Glass Sword (Red Queen, #2) by Victoria Aveyard -- READ
47. A book with an eccentric character
48. A book that's more than 800 pages
49. A book you got from a used book sale
50. A book that's been mentioned in another book
51. A book about a difficult topic
52. A book based on mythology

9/32

LET'S TURN PAGES CHALLENGE

I'm in for 50,000 pages.

Around the World Through Language - 2017

I'm in for 11 books.

1. English: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently #1) by Douglas Adams -- READ
2. French: Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire -- READ
3. Russian:
4. Japanese: Hardboiled & Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto -- READ
5. Chinese:
6. Korean: The Vegetarian by Han Kang -- READ
7. Greek:
8. German:
9. Swedish:
10. Spanish:
11. Turkish:

4/11

GENRE BINGO CHALLENGE

I'm in for 25, roughly one for each square.



1. Urban Fantasy: The Beginning Place by Ursula K. Le Guin -- READ
2. Children's Books: The Witches by Roald Dahl -- READ
3. YA Fantasy: Glass Sword (Red Queen, #2) by Victoria Aveyard -- READ
4. Coming of Age: The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #7) by Lemony Snicket -- READ
5. Chick Lit: How To Be Parisian: Wherever You Are by Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret, Sophie Mas -- READ
6. Short Stories / Novella: Hardboiled & Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto -- READ
7. Memoir: Mom & Me & Mom (Maya Angelou's Autobiography #7) by Maya Angelou -- READ

7/25

TOP TEN FAVES

I'm in for 25.

1. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
2. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
3. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
4. The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
5. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
6. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
8. The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1) by Helene Wecker
9. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
10. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
11. Something Wicked This Way Comes (Green Town, #2) by Ray Bradbury
12. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
13. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
14. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
15. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
16. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
17. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
18. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
19. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
20. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
21. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2) by Douglas Adams
22. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

Rereads:

23. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) by Douglas Adams
24. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
25. The Odyssey by Homer

0/25

*Books read so far : 11
*Pages read so far : 2,894
*GENRE BINGO CHALLENGE : 4
*Around the World Through Language Challenge : 2
*POPSUGAR 2017 READING CHALLENGE : 3
*LET'S TURN PAGES CHALLENGE: 2,894 / 50,000

#1. The Beginning Place by Ursula K. Le Guin - 240 pages
#2. Doctor Who: The Clockwise Man by Justin Richards - 256 pages
#3. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently #1) by Douglas Adams - 306 pages
#4. The Witches by Roald Dahl - 208 pages
#5. The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #5) by Lemony Snicket- 221 pages
#6. The Ersatz Elevator (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #6) by Lemony Snicket - 259 pages
#7. The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #7) by Lemony Snicket - 272 pages
#8. The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #8) by Lemony Snicket - 272 pages
#9. The Carnivorous Carnival (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #9) by Lemony Snicket - 286 pages
#10. Glass Sword (Red Queen, #2) by Victoria Aveyard - 456 pages
#11. Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire - 118 pages

#12.The Circle by Dave Eggers - 493 pages
#13. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently #2) by Douglas Adams - 307 pages
#14. Mom & Me & Mom (Maya Angelou's Autobiography #7) by Maya Angelou - 201 pages
#15. The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events #10) by Lemony Snicket - 337 pages
#16. Hardboiled & Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto - 149 pages
#17. How To Be Parisian: Wherever You Are by Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret, Sophie Mas - 255 pages
#18. The Vegetarian by Han Kang - 192 pages

*Books read so far : 18
*Pages read so far : 4,828
*GENRE BINGO CHALLENGE : 7
*Around the World Through Language Challenge : 4
*POPSUGAR 2017 READING CHALLENGE : 9
*LET'S TURN PAGES CHALLENGE: 4,828 / 50,000