2025 Reading Challenge discussion

513. I just saw this and I will try for all 26.

A: Agra- Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors
B: Britain - A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
C: Chicago - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
D: Derkholm- Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones
E: Eyam - Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
F: Fanteland - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
G: Gotham - Batman & Robin: Batman vs. Robin by Grant Morrison
H: Hogwarts - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
I: India - Life of Pi by Yann Martel
J: Le Jardin - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
K: Korea - The Vegetarian by Han Kang
L: London - White Teeth by Zadie Smith
M: Magrathea - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
N: New York - The Cobra Event by Richard Preston
O: Oia, Greece - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
P: Paris - The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
Q: Queensland - A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
R: Republic of Gilead - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
S: Southern Reach- Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
T: Tull - The Gunslinger by Stephen King
U: United States - Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
V: Vaes Dothrak - A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
W: Wall, TX - Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson
X: Area X - Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Y: Yunkai - A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
Z: Zion- Neuromancer by William Gibson

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1. A book recommended by a librarian Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
2. A book that's been on your TBR list for way too long One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
3. A book of letters - The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
4. An audiobook - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
5. A book by a person of color - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
6. A book with one of the four seasons in the title - The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
7. A book that is a story within a story - Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors
8. A book with multiple authors - Talon, Volume 1: Scourge of the Owls by Scott Snyder (and James Tynion)
9. An espionage thriller - The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
10. A book with a cat on the cover - Life of Pi by Yann Martel
11. A book with an author who uses a pseudonym The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
12. A bestseller from a genre you don't normally read - Biography: Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson
13. A book by or about a person who has a disability - schizophrenia/anorexia- The Vegetarian by Han Kang
14. A book involving travel - The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
15. A book with a subtitle - The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean
16. A book that's published in 2017 - Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
17. A book involving a mythical creature - Heartless by Marissa Meyer
18. A book you've read before that never fails to make you smile - James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
19. A book about food Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
20. A book with career advice - Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination by J.K. Rowling
21. A book from a nonhuman perspective : Into the Wild by Erin Hunter
22. A steampunk novel - The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
23. A book with a red spine - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
24. A book set in the wilderness - The Hobbit (Graphic Novel): An Illustrated Edition of the Fantasy Classic by Chuck Dixon (graphic novel)
25. A book you loved as a child - The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (actual novel)
26. A book by an author from a country you've never visited - Scotland: Batman Incorporated by Grant Morrison
27. A book with a title that's a character's name Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
28. A novel set during wartime - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
29. A book with an unreliable narrator Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
30. A book with pictures - Batman and Robin, Volume 1: Born to Kill by Peter J. Tomasi
31. A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you : Jamaican and Bengali - White Teeth by Zadie Smith
32. A book about an interesting woman - Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
33. A book set in two different time periods - Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
34. A book with a month or day of the week in the title - Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
35. A book set in a hotel - Greenglass House by Kate Milford
36. A book written by someone you admire : Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
37. A book that's becoming a movie in 2017 - The Gunslinger by Stephen King
38. A book set around a holiday other than Christmas -The Fifth Petal by Brunonia Barry
39. The first book in a series you haven't read before - Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
40. A book you bought on a trip The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (it's on the list twice, but I read it twice this year)

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41. A book recommended by an author you love The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin- recommended by Gillian Flynn
42. A bestseller from 2016 -Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
43. A book with a family-member term in the title - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
44. A book that takes place over a character's life span - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
45. A book about an immigrant or refugee The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
46. A book from a genre/subgenre you've never heard of - Cyberpunk (I have heard of this before, but no in relation to novels): Neuromancer by William Gibson
47. A book with an eccentric character - A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
48. A book that's more than 800 pages - (807) A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
49. A book you got from a used book sale - Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
50. A book that's been mentioned in another book - Lord of the Flies by William Golding - I cannot remember which book this was in but I remember seeing it and thinking I'd read this for that challenge.
51. A book about a difficult topic - Uninvited by Lysa TerKeurst - feeling left-out
52. A book based on mythology - Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

596. When I first saw this, I thought it meant all those colors in the TITLE. But.. it's not and this should be pretty easy... I'll start from what I'm reading now (3/15) instead of going back to the beginning of the year (I'd probably be almost done)

1. Read a book with "White" or any shade of white in the cover (ivory, cream, bone, etc...).


2. Read a book with "Pink" or any shade of pink in the cover (rose, magenta, salmon, etc...).


3. Read a book with "Red" or any shade of red in the cover (maroon, brick, scarlet, etc...).


4. Read a book with "Orange" or any shade of orange in the cover (apricot, ginger, carrot, etc...).


5. Read a book with "Yellow" or any shade of yellow in the cover (blond, chartreuse, canary, etc...).


6. Read a book with "Green" or any shade of green in the cover (sage, lime, jade, etc...).


7. Read a book with "Light Blue" or any shade of light blue in the cover (teal, sky, cerulean, etc...).


8. Read a book with "Dark Blue" or any shade of dark blue in the cover (indigo, denim, navy, etc...).


9. Read a book with "Purple" or any shade of purple in the cover (lavender, plum, orchid, etc...).


10. Read a book with "Brown" or any shade of brown in the cover (tan, mahogany, coffee, etc...).



11. Read a book with "Black" or any shade of black in the cover (grey, slate, coal, etc...).


12. Read a book with a Metallic color in the cover (gold, silver, bronze, etc...).
(the words are metallic on the printed version)


13. Read a book with at least 5 colors on the cover.



14. Read a book with a color in the title of the book.


15. Read a book with a word describing colors in the title (rainbow, stripes, polka dots, ect...).

January Reads

Heartless by Marissa Meyer
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks for bookclub
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn NBBC
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Reddit
Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne by Grant Morrison

Total: 5
Favorite: Heartless

February Reads

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick for book club
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams RC Group Read: audio
Batman Incorporated by Grant Morrison
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
Uninvited by Lysa TerKeurst for bible study
Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors NBBC

Total: 6
Favorite: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

March Reads

The Cobra Event by Richard Preston
Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl audio for son, re-read
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Group Read
Batman and Robin, Volume 1: Born to Kill by Peter J. Tomasi
Penguin: Pain and Prejudice by Gregg Hurwitz
Harley Quinn, Vol. 1: Hot in the City by Amanda Conner
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl - audio for son, re-read
Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl - audio for son
Neuromancer by William Gibson - Reddit
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi - NBBC, audio
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson - Book club, audio
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - Twin Read
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Total: 14
Favorite: I can't choose between Handmaid's Tale and Dark Matter. Both amazing!

April Reads

White Teeth by Zadie Smith - Group Read, Reddit
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez - audio
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket - aloud to son, re-read
Into the Wild by Erin Hunter- Twin Read
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling - audio with son, re-read
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare - Buddy Read

Total: 6
Favorite: Harry Potter, even though it was a re-read. White Teeth was my favorite new-to-me one.

May Reads

The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon - Group Read
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - book club, re-read
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling - audio with son, re-read
The Vegetarian by Han Kang - Book club Mia's choice
The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket - aloud to son/audio, re-read

Total: 5
Favorite: Of the 2 that were not re-reads, I enjoyed them both a lot, but they were extremely different so it's hard to say which I liked more. Sun is Also a Star was sweeter and lighter, and I really liked the way it was written. Vegetarian was really weird and dark, but the writing was beautiful and it was interesting.

June Reads

Life of Pi by Yann Martel - Twin Read
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares- RC group read
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis - Popsugar "book of letters" challenge
Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones - for "D" alphabet challenge and metallic color on color challenge
Lord of the Flies by William Golding - twins
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson - audio, Popsugar challenge: espionage
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer - NBBC author discussion

Total: 7
Favorite: Borne

July Reads

Finished:
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling - audio with son, re-read
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - group read
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah - book club Mia's choice
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares - buddy read, audio
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin - buddy read, re-read

Total: 5
Favorite: Game of Thrones, even though it was a re-read.

August Reads

Finished:
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom - audio, Popsugar "days of the week" challenge
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman - group read
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - book club- Amy's choice
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling - audio with son, re-read
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells - Popsugar challenge: Steampunk, audio
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin - buddy read, re-read

September Reads

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon - twins
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin - audio, Popsugar recommended by favorite author (Gillian Flynn)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - group read
A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin - buddy read

Total: 4
Favorite: A Storm of Swords (as always)

October Reads

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane - book club, Carri's
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman - group read
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean - Sept Learning challenge, subtitle challenge, audio
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination by J.K. Rowling - popsugar Career Advice
A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin - Buddy Read
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling - audio with son
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett - group read

Total: 7
Favorite: Shutter Island or Neurosurgeons

November Reads
Finished:
The Fifth Petal by Brunonia Barry - set during a holiday other than Christmas Popsugar

I only finished 1 book this month! :(

December Reads
Finished:
Greenglass House by Kate Milford - popsugar- set in hotel (inn), audio
Talon, Volume 1: Scourge of the Owls by Scott Snyder - popsugar multiple authors. A stretch maybe, but not much time left in the year!
A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin- buddy read
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie- group read
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling- audio with son
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher - popsugar used book sale

Working on:
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon - twins
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling - audio with son
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

CLEAR ALL YOUR BOOKSHELVES CHALLENGE
DURATION: APRIL 1, 2017 to JUNE 30, 2017

This challenge is a way to clean out all of bookshelves: your physical, your electric, and your audible ones! The books you read for this challenge are books you that are already in your possession. Whatever you do for this challenge, you are not allowed to read a book obtained after April 1, 2017.

Intended:

1. Read a book that you borrowed from a friend and want to return when finished. Into the Wild by Erin Hunter
2. Read a book that you have had for two+ years and haven't started. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
3. Read a book you have started, set aside for awhile, and now want to finish. - City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
4. Read a book that you own that will help towards a yearly challenge. - The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket - Popsugar "Author with a pseudonym" and Color "Dark Blue"
5. Read a book from your shelf then donate it to your local Little Free Library, church, shelters, Goodwill, etc. - Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones

List the number of
Physical Books: 6/6 done
Ebooks: 6/6 done
Audible Books: 4 done
you want to read (listen to).

3rd Quarter Triathlon Challenge
1. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
2. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
4. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
5. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
6. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
7. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
8. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
9. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
10. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
11. A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
12. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
13. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
14. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
15. A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin