2025 Reading Challenge discussion

2017 Reading challenge : 52 big books
32. Paper Girls vol 2 Brian K. Vaughan
31. East of the West by Miroslav Penkov
30. The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
29. Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn
28. The Valiant by Lesley Livingston
27. Changeless by Gail Carriger
26. Petit Piment by Alain Mabanckou
25. Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Vallente
24. Paper Girls vol 1 by Brian K. Vaughan
23. Grave Witch by Kalayna Price
22. NewsPrints by Ru Xu
21. The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
20. Soulless, Gail Carriger
19. The library of Mount Char, Scott Hawkins
18. The Long Way to a Small Angry Plnet, Becky Chambers
17. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
16. City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett
15. The Falconer, Elizabeth May
14. Visions in Silver, Anne Bishop
13. Murder of Crows, Anne Bishop
12. Written in Red, Anne Bishop
11. We should all be feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
10. I Know why the caged bird sings, Maya Angelou
9. When you are engulfed in flames, David Sedaris
7. The Year of magical Thinking, Joan Didion
6. The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
5. Closed casket, Sophie Hannah
4. The Invisible Library, Genevieve Cogman
3. The Cursed Child, JK Rowling
2. The Strange Library, Murakami
1. Les Sirènes Noires, Jean-Marc Souvira

Challenge: TBR Randomniser list

1. The Magpie Lord by K.J. Charles
2. Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture by Ytasha L. Womack
3. The Everything Box by Richard Kadrey
4. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
5. Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible by Jerry A. Coyne
6. The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess
7. The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
8. East of the West: A Country in Stories by Miroslav Penkov READ JULY
9. Congo Inc. : Le testament de Bismarck by In Koli Jean Bofane
10. The House of Discarded Dreams by Ekaterina Sedia

Book Clubs

Vaginal Fantasy
July:
June: The Ghost Bride (reading....)

Swords and lasers
July:

2017 Reading Challenge

Wow, your list looks nicely organized. Out of curiosity, what do you consider a big book? About how many pages?

Keri wrote: "Wow, your list looks nicely organized. Out of curiosity, what do you consider a big book? About how many pages?"

It depends on my mood! I would say anything that is not officially classified as a novella. For graphic novels, I have a bit more of a challenge determining if I should count it or not, but it's just for fun.

Otherwise, sometimes 200 pages sounds like a mountain and other time, I go through a 400 page book in no time! More than 500 are x-months kind of book: I get bored after a while so Inned to go back and forth between those and shorter/easier ones. Have you set a challenge for 2017?

Ah okay, yeah, I get that. Some days a book can seem huge when on other days, I would count it as average. It really just depends if I'm in a reading mood. I've discovered that I love book collections of short stories because I can whip through them so fast. XD

When I was reading Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings, it took me either over a year or two years. I can't remember. It was a great book but I had to force myself to sit down to read it because, not only was it super long, it had a ton of characters and plots which made it sometimes exhausting to read. (still loved it though).

If it's a graphic novel longer than normal ones, I would think it should still be counted, right? Big pictures? hehehe.

Yeah, I figured if I make 50 books this year, I'd be happy. But I'm so worried about reaching that goal that I've been reading a lot of mangas just so that I don't fall behind. Rofl.