2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Message #18 update!

✔ 6. The Stranger by Albert Camus 09.12.2018 ★★☆☆☆

15/20

I'm going to call it quits with 4 extra, happy holidays to all!

December update:
Goal: 16/12, 133.33%

Best Gothic Books Of All Time - 4/4
04. Gothic Tales - 08 Dec 2018, 3/5

Update 59. Finished!

I have updated message 130. I have completed this challenge!
Working on next year's list!

Updating Message #150

Listopia Challenge 2018 COMPLETED 11/9/18
"Books that Everyone Should Read at Least Once"

Top 6 - Since I've read one in the top 5 already:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird finished 4/12/18
2. 1984 finished 7/10/18
3. Pride and Prejudice finished 8/25/18
4. Diary of a Young Girl finished 11/9/18
5. Animal Farm finished 8/28/18

Congrats everyone! Well done! I hope you are all exited for the next year now. I am, I love planning out challenges and books :)

Well, not quite. I made it through 11. Maybe next year. :)

LIST ONE: Must Read Classics
At the start of 2018: 58
1. Hamlet
2. Crime and Punishment
3. Anne of Green Gables , finished 10/12, *****
4. Don Quixote
5. Emma , finished 12/3, ***

LIST TWO: Speculative Fiction by Authors of Color
At the start of 2018: 15 books
1. Zahrah the Windseeker , finished 2/23, ****
2. The House of the Spirits , finished 10/9, ****
3. Dawn , finished 2/10, ****
4. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe , finished 9/30, ***
5. A Tale for the Time Being , 5/31, ****

LIST THREE: Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
At the start of 2018: 23 books
1. A Brief History of Time , finished 3/27, ****
2. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark , finished 7/17, ****
3. Last Chance to See , finished 9/27, ****
4. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
5. Cosmos , finished 12/20, *****

COMPLETED: 11/15

I upped my goal to 40 partway through the year, and completed it today! (Original message 88)

40/40

Can't Wait Books of 2018 (6+)

✓ 1. Everless
✓ 2. Obsidio
✓ 3. Leah on the Offbeat
✓ 4. Spinning Silver
✓ 5. The Burning Maze
✓ 6. The Night Masquerade
✓ 7. Legendary
✓ 8. Wildcard
✓ 9. Gone Rogue
✓ 10. Dance of Thieves
✓ 11. Catwoman: Soulstealer
✓ 12. The Muse of Nightmares
✓ 13. Smoke in the Sun
✓ 14. Kingdom of Ash
✓ 15. What If It's Us
✓ 16. City of Ghosts
✓ 17. The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
✓ 18. Unearthed
✓ 19. Vengeful
✓ 20. Archenemies

Can't Wait Books of 2017 (14+)

✓ 1. Flame in the Mist
✓ 2. Wonder Woman: Warbringer
✓ 3. All the Crooked Saints
✓ 4. The Upside of Unrequited
✓ 5. Warcross
✓ 6. A Court of Wings and Ruin
✓ 7. Tower of Dawn
✓ 8. Turtles All the Way Down
✓ 9. The Bone Witch
✓ 10. When Dimple Met Rishi
✓ 11. Ash and Quill
✓ 12. Always and Forever, Lara Jean
✓ 13. The Dark Prophecy
✓ 14. The Ship of the Dead
✓ 15. The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
✓ 16. Our Dark Duet
✓ 17. Renegades
✓ 18. Wires and Nerve
✓ 19. They Both Die at the End
✓ 20. The Bear and the Nightingale

Completed 12/30/18

Updated message 4.

42/40

Update to message 72:
Progress: 34/40 (Incomplete)

Unfortunately I was too ambitious increasing my original goal of 20 to 40 (should've kept it!). Will definitely continue this challenge in 2019 though.

updated message 56

11/15

Last update! Congrats Christa! ^^

Alex - 0 /6
Alison - 0 /15
Amanda - 11 /15
Amanda - 11 /22
Ann - 12 /12 Completed!
Anna - 15 /20
Arushi - 0 /25
Ashley - 3 /35
Berit - 20 /20 Completed!
Betsy - 12 /12 Completed!
Blagica - 2 /30
Brianna - 0 /TBD
Brittany - 9 /16
Candiss - 24 /24 Completed!
Carri - 0 /20
Carrie B. (Salty Goodreads) - 0 /5
Chalmation - 15 /15 Completed!
Charity - 42 /40 Completed!
Christa - 40 /40 Completed!
Clare - 10 /10
Daph - 0 /20
Delitealex - 0 /20
Diane Whitney - 0 /10
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Eggp - 16 /12 Completed!
Eirelyn - 2 /8
Elaine - 0 /18
Elizabeth - 0 /12
Emily (Mcquaid) - 0 /20
Gail - 0 /15
Gem - 0 /40
H. - 0 /20
Ida - 2 /10
Isabela - 1 /20
Jacki - 0 /24
Jacqueline - 0 /12
Janet - 20 /20 Completed!
Jenn - 0 /5
Jennifer - 0 /25
Jessica 0 /20
Jill - 0 /?
Joe - 0 /35
Jordyn - 0 /10
Joy D - 10 /10 Completed!
Julie - 4 /10
Kadijah Michelle - 12 /24
Kara - 11 /15
Kat - 6 /20
Kate - 1 /5
Kate - 0 /20
Katherine - 24 /34
Kellie - 0 /21
Kimberly - 15 /15 Completed!
Kirsty - 4 /50
Kylie - 0 /?
Lara - 0 /6
Lauri - 0 /20
Lily - 0 /10
Lindsay - 14 /12 Completed!
Lois - 0 /?
Lynn - 24 /24 Completed!
Mar - 0 /15
Maria - 0 /25
Maria - 11 /14
Mariela - 0 /20
Martha - 18 /24
Mave - 0 /40
Maxine - 3 /40
Michelle - 5 /5 Completed!
Mie - 10 /10 Completed!
Mindy - 12 /10 Completed!
Nina - 17 /23
Pamela - 4 /11
Rina - 34 /40
Rique - 0 /27
Robin - 0 /10
Satin - 0 /5
Sherry - 0 /9
Sibil - 0 /10
Stefani - SpelingExpirt 10 /35
Stephanie - 12 /12 Completed!
Susan - 1 /65
Susan - 1 /13
Susan C - 12 /12 Completed!
Talia - 3 /20
Tammie - 0 /17
Tanya - 1 /5
Tessa - 0 /15
Tina - 1 /10
Vicki - 0 /24
Waco - 3 /8
Wolf (Alpha) 0 /50