2025 Reading Challenge discussion

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So far 12/15.

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Middlesex

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Hey everyone!

I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while. We lost internet for a week. I'm working on catching up, but it might take a few days.

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13. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 04.06.2018 ★★★☆☆

9/20

I read six books last quarter for this challenge, which puts me on target, but it's going to really pick up this summer because of the PBS Great American Read coinciding with my Listopia choices.

Updated Message 67 with last quarter's reads.
Status: 16/24

Best Woman-Authored Books
✔The Lottery and Other Stories - 04/19/18
✔Agnes Grey - 05/23/18

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
✔Slaughterhouse-Five - 03/20/18
✔The Sparrow - 03/26/18
✔I Am Legend - 06/07/18

Books You Must Read Before You Die
✔Sputnik Sweetheart - 05/28/18

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19. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë 12.06.2018 ★★★★☆

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So far 13/15.

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4. Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 19.06.2018 ★★★☆☆

11/20

Updated post #24.

I started off this challenge with 10 books from the list Books to read under the Trump Administration, with the ambition to adjust my goal with another five books every time Trump lied or did something extraordinary stupid, a quest soon proved to be impossible.

However, after the heartbreaking reports from the Mexican border, it’s time for a new goal, and I’ll go for 20 books.

So far 13/20

1. The Handmaid's Tale - READ
2. The Color Purple - READ
3. Animal Farm - READ
4. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - READ
5. Brave New World
6. Fahrenheit 451
7. The Hate U Give - READ
8. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - READ
9. The Year of the Flood - READ
10. No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need - READ
11. The Constitution of the United States of America - READ
12. What Happened - READ
13 Lord of the Flies - READ
14. Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency - READ
15. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House - READ
16. 1984
17. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
18. The Diary of a Young Girl
19. Americanah
20. The Vagina Monologues

Updated :) Congrats Joy!!

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✔ 10. The Trial by Franz Kafka 21.06.2018 ★★★★☆

12/20

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I have completed 10/12!
Just finished Middlemarch. It was long, tedious, but worth it! Also read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest which I am glad to have read, but as expected it was disturbing and not particularly enjoyable.

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9/23

I have slight issues with progress for this challange. I guess this is due to the many really big books I've choosen from the lists.

I just joined today, so I hope I'm doing this right. I plan to try and read 10 Books that Exceeded your Expectations https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
3. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
4. The Shack by William Paul Young
5. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
6. Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1) by Gregory Maguire
7. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
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June update:
Goal: 9/12, 75.00%

Times Are A-Changing - 4/4
04. Hunger - 04 Jun 2018, 3/5

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So far 15/20.

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11/15

Eggp wrote: "June update:

Goal: 9/12, 75.00%



Times Are A-Changing
- 4/4
04. Hunger - 04 Jun 2018, 3/5"

What did you think of Hunger?

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I updated message #5.

Read: 14/24

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From BBC Top 200 Books

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

13/20

Hello! I’d like to join this challenge with five books from the “ books you should read before you die” list. Thank you!

Message #18 update!

✔ 5. Perfume by Patrick Süskind 20.07.2018 ★★★☆☆

13/20

Edited post #24.
So far 16/20.

I updated message #5.

Read: 15/24

Welcome Satin ^^

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✔ 17. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis 27.07.2018 ★★☆☆☆

14/20

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Can't Wait Books of 2018 List

4/6

1. Throne of Glass #7
2. A Court of Frost and Starlight #3.1 5-21-18
3. War Storm (Red Queen #4) 7-27-18
4. Legendary
5. The Cruel Prince 5-3-18
6. Still Me(Me Before You, #3)6-24-18

Can't Wait Best New Romance 2018

4/8

1. From Lukov with Love 2-22
2. All Your Pefects
3. Sex, Not Love
4. Midnight Blue 2-23
5. Combust 2-14
6. xo, Zach
7. Cracked Kingdom 3-23
8. Forget You, Ethan

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13/23

Maybe, just maybe there is hope that I am gonna finish this challenge someday.

July update:
Goal: 10/12, 83.33%

Big Fat Books Worth the Effort - 2/4
02. Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1) - 22 Jul 2018, 3/5

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Best British and Irish Literature 2/4

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Completed 24/7/18 Rating 5 stars


The Great American Novel 3/4

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Completed 18/7/18 Rating 3 stars


10/22

I updated message #5.

Read: 16/24

Updated message #61 - Challenge completed! Here's my full set of books.

Books to Read under the Trump Administration
✓ 1. Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science read 2/11/2018
✓ 2. Lilac Girls read 6/19/2018
✓ 3. The Hate U Give read 8/2/2018

Best Books of 2017
✓ 1. Sing, Unburied, Sing read 1/18/2018
✓ 2. Little Fires Everywhere read 4/13/2018
✓ 3. Beartown read 4/22/2018

Historical Fiction 2017
✓ 1. The Half Wives read 1/6/2018
✓ 2. The Chilbury Ladies' Choir read 1/26/2018
✓ 3. Before We Were Yours read 1/26/2018

Quirky Southern Fiction
✓ 1. Backseat Saints read 3/18/2018
✓ 2. Love the One You're With read 3/25/2018
✓ 3. Beach Music read 4/12/2018

12/12 Challenge completed!

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So far 18/20.

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9/14

I updated message #5.

Read: 17/24

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From BBC Top 200 Books

Great Expectations

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