2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Post 653 updated
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✅ P. Pagten - 4⭐️

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R- Immortal Reign

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11/26

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hello! this is my update 7/26

C. Creativity Inc. Ed Catmull
E. Carta sobre el poder de la escritura. Claude-Edmond Magny
F. Flash Boys. Michael Lewis
H. Aliados y adversarios: Historia del TLCAN. Carlos Salinas
P. Para combatir esta era. Rob Riemen
U. La Uruguaya. Pedro Mairal
V. El Viaje del Elefante. José Saramago

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13/26

Update message 83, 14/26

R: River Notes: The Dance of Herons by Barry Lopez (finished 2/27), my review is here

Update message 194 10/26 finished Never Let You Go

Thank you!

Update: 16/26. All uphill from here as I start to hit the trickier letters!

A: Paris Adrift
B: Beartown
C: The Death Cure
D: The Dark Days Club
E: The Exact Opposite of Okay
F: The Fever Code
G: Goldenhand
H: High-Rise
I:
J:
K: The Kill Order
L: The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
M:
N: Nerve
O: Outliers: The Story of Success
P: A Confusion of Princes
Q:
R: Ruin and Rising
S: The Scorch Trials
T:
U:
V:
W: The Hazel Wood
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February Update
Message 309: 12/24

Updated message 8.

11/21

update message 286

Update!

Progress: 8/15

A:
B:
C: Caraval
D:
E:
F: The Onesies, Fall (Totlandia #1)
G: The Girl With All the Gifts (The Hungry Plague #1)
H: Heartless
I:
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N:
O: Sharp Objects
P:
Q: Island Games: Mystery of the Four Quadrants
R: Ready Player One
S:
T: A Court of Thorns and Roses
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Updated #57

13/26 books read

A-Z READING CHALLENGE (Original Post: Page 2 - Message 53)
14 of 26 completed *Revised on 3/1/18*

See tracking @ Chetara’s Try Something Different 2018

Karen wrote: "Ooh, this looks fun. I'm in! I've got a good start already, but some of these may be tough.

UPDATE - As an extra personal challenge for myself, I'm going to try to read both a fiction and nonfict..."

UPDATE to post 653 - currently at 24/52

updated message 12
6/26

✔B: Between the World and Me

1/26
Y: Yes Please

A from Painting Acrylics.

15/26

Great progress everyone!

I love the idea of this! I think I will go for the first ten letters and see how I go!
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updated message 12
7/26

✔N: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Updating message 83, progress 15/26

Z: Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife (finished 3/2), my review is here

Karen wrote: "Ooh, this looks fun. I'm in! I've got a good start already, but some of these may be tough.

UPDATE - As an extra personal challenge for myself, I'm going to try to read both a fiction and nonfict..."

That is so awesome. I don't think I could do it... I read 90 books last year, but a lot of them were easy-peasy, 100MPH books. I think it's great that you are doing both novels and non-fiction!!!
Brava!!!

Update to message 88: I have read 10/26.

Update msg. 125 - 15/26 :)

Another one for me, #127

12/26

A: After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse
B: The Baby
C: Curious Minds
E: The Ex
G: Misadventures of a City Girl
H: Never Love a Highlander
M: The Medical Examiner
N: Never Seduce a Scot
P: Pop Goes the Weasel
R: Real Murders
W: Highlander Most Wanted
S: Grave Sight

Update msg 5: 12/22
✅ G. Gøgens kalden - 5⭐️

update msg 147

Hit goal of 15/15!!
Increased to 26 :)

Winter I have a question I just finished
In Deep Water

Is it ok to use it for the letter I?

I want to join this challenge!
I am aiming for all letters, so 26/26!
I am going to use the books I have already read so far in 2018.

A-Z Challenge 2018

A:
B: Beartown - Fredrik Backman, Birdbox - Josh Malerman
C: The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
D:
E:
F: Things We Lost in the Fire - Mariana Enriquez
G: The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
H: This Is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz
I:
J:
K:
L: Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Shiguro
M:
N: Night - Elie Wiesel
O: Option B - Sheryl Sandberg, Our Souls at Night - Kent Haruf
P: The Princess Saves Herself In This One - Amanda Lovelace
Q:
R:
S: A Separation - Katie Kitamura
T: Turtles All The Way Down - John Green
U: The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
V:
W: We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Y:
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13/26

Updated message #217

Late to the game, but I'd like to join please!

21/26

A. The Atomic City Girls
B. The Belles
C. Caraval
D. Daughter of Smoke & Bone
E. Eternal Life
F. The Family Plot
G. Grave Mercy
H. The Handmaid's Tale
I. Ink and Bone
J.
K.
L. Lucky Boy
M. The President Is Missing
N. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
O. Outpost
P. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Q. The Queen's Rising
R. Reign the Earth
S. The Smell of Other People's Houses
T. Tomorrow
U. Into the Bright Unknown
V.
W. Whichwood
X. The Poet X
Y.
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Update: 13/26

E: Emma by Jane Austen

Update to #461 - added E and G for 13 out of 26. :)

Update msg 5: 13/22
✅ D. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - 3⭐️

Updated #272
Now 7/26
M - A Man Called Ove (03/04/18)

Updated message #10

4/26

Added and updated :)

Updated message 23. 17/26

Update: 14/26

K: The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson

Update message 676.
19/26

16/26

B - Before We Were Yours
D - Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Q - Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
T - The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

Update to message 529: 17/26 completed

Updating message 83, progress 16/26

G - Good Behavior by Blake Crouch (finished 3/7), my review is here

Updated message 54


14/26

Y - The Year I Became Isabella Anders 3-7

Update: 3/26
D: The Diary of a Young Girl
F: The Fires of Calderon
T: A Torch Against the Night

A:
B: Butterfly Summer- Anne-Marie Conway
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F: The Fever Code - James Dashner
G: Goosebumps: Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls - R.L. Stine
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L: Life and Death- Stephenie Meyer
M:
N: Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
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T: Touchy, Feely, Squeezy: Musings of a Masseuse - Mandy Urena
U:
V: Valentine's at the Graff - Sinclair Jayne
W:
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Y:
Z: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - Akira Himekawa

Please update

8/26

M - "Mask of Shadows" by Linsey Miller

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