2025 Reading Challenge discussion

I'm going to try to complete a couple of challenges in 2017! Hopefully having them all in one spot will help me keep track and keep motivated! Tally ho!

A TO Z CHALLENGE -- LOCATION EDITION
Duration: January 1, through December 31, 2017

For this challenge you will read books with cities, states, provinces, countries, and worlds that fit for each letter of the alphabet. You may only use one location per book, and you may use fictional locations for this challenge.

12/26 completed

A: Aurdwynn - The Traitor Baru Cormorant
B: Bulgaria - What Belongs to You
C: California - You'll Grow Out of It
D:
E:
F:
G:
H: Hinterland - Home
I: Ivory Coast - Aya
J:
K:
L: Lagos - Lagoon
M:
N: New Hampshire - The Fireman
O: (The) Outback - How I became the Mr Big of People Smuggling
P: Portland - The Lathe of Heaven
Q:
R:
S: San Francisco - When Dimple Met Rishi
T: Texas - Reboot
U:
V: Virginia - Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
W:
X:
Y:
Z:


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1st Quarter Challenge: 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards Winners
Duration January 1, 2017 - March 31, 2017

Read the winner in as many categories as you can, or if you prefer, you can also include the non-winning nominees in your list.

4.5/9

1. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two (Fantasy Winner)
Age of Myth (Fantasy Nom)
✔ The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (Fantasy Nom) (4)
2. Hamilton: The Revolution (Non-Fiction Winner)
✔ 3. Rebel of the Sands (Debut GR Author Winner) (2)
The Summer that Melted Everything (Debut GR Author Nom)
What Belongs to You (Debut GR Author Nom)
Here Comes the Sun (Debut GR Author Nom)
- 4. The Fireman (Horror Winner) (made it to 605 by 3/31)
✔ 5. The Sun Is Also a Star (YA Fiction Nom) (1)
✔ 6. Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening (Graphic Novels & Comics Nom) (3)
7. Underground Airlines (Science Fiction Nom)
8. You'll Grow Out of It (Humor Nom)
9. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Science & Tech Nom)

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POPSUGAR 2017 READING CHALLENGE
Duration January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017

7/25

1. A book recommended by a librarian - Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
2. A book by a person of color - Between the World and Me
3. A book that is a story within a story - The Thirteenth Tale
4. A book with multiple authors - Hamilton: The Revolution
5. An espionage thriller - In for a Ruble
6. A book with a cat on the cover - The Master and Margarita
7. A bestseller from a genre you don't normally read - The Stand
8. A book by or about a person who has a disability -The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
9. A book involving travel - Binti
10. A book involving a mythical creature
11. A book about food
12. A book with career advice - Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
13. A book from a nonhuman perspective - Rebel
14. A steampunk novel - The Bone Season
15. A book set in the wilderness - The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir
16. A book with a title that's a character's name - Anya's Ghost
17. A novel set during wartime
18. A book with an unreliable narrator
19. A book with pictures
20. A book about an interesting woman
21. A book set in two different time periods - Trillium
22. A book set in a hotel
23. A book set around a holiday other than Christmas
24. The first book in a series you haven't read before
25. A Book of letters

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