2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Finished!

BOOKRIOT'S 2018 READ HARDER CHALLENGE

1. A book published posthumously The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying, 6/30, ****
2. A book of true crime The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives, 4/23, ****
3. A classic of genre fiction (i.e. mystery, sci fi/fantasy, romance) Brightness Falls from the Air, finished 12/19, *****
4. A comic written and drawn by the same person The Best We Could Do, finished 1/27, *****
5. A book set in or about one of the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, or South Africa) The Lowland, finished 6/5, *****
6. A book about nature Last Chance to See, finished 9/27, ****
7. A western Dread Nation, finished 4/15, ****
8. A comic written or drawn by a person of color Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening, finished 1/1, *****
9. A book of colonial or postcolonial literature Homegoing, 2/20, *****
10. A romance novel by or about a person of color book: [Crazy Rich Asians|18158562], finished 8/28, ****
11. A children’s classic published before 1980 Anne of Green Gables, finished 10/12, *****
12. A celebrity memoir Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, finished 2/2, ***
13. An Oprah Book Club selection The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence, finished 11/15, ***
14. A book of social science Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, finished 1/20, ***
15. A one-sitting book Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism, finished 5/6, *****
16. The first book in a new-to-you YA or middle grade series Illuminae, 3/26, ****
17. A sci fi novel with a female protagonist by a female author Dawn, finished 2/10, ****
18. A comic that isn’t published by Marvel, DC, or Image Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, finished 12/2, ****
19. A book of genre fiction in translation The House of the Spirits, finished 10/9, ****
20. A book with a cover you hate No-No Boy, finished 6/6, ****
21. A mystery by a person of color or LGBTQ+ author Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 1
22. An essay anthology We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, 3/10, *****
23. A book with a female protagonist over the age of 60 My Own Words, finished 1/26, ****
24. An assigned book you hated (or never finished) Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE, unfinished, unrated

COMPLETED: 24/24

Update to post #59

Finished the challenge 10/10!

I totally failed this challenge.
I only read 1 of the 40 books I planned for this.

One is better than none, Karen. :-)

8/10 is my final tally for this one. I'm not going to get any more in before midnight.

Not that anyone has been tallying. LOL Last update was in April.

Updating post 126

13/6 Woo hoo! One last book off the shelf for 2018!

Update to message 131:
Progress: 26/30 (Incomplete)

Unfortunately I didn't finish this challenge in 2018, but will continue the same books in 2019!

Update message 148
1/5
Will continue with same books into 2019 as well!

Update to message 31: I completed 26/32...short of my goal, but at least I finished 26 books from my TBR in 2018! Aiming for a more realistic goal this year.

updated message 58

only got 4/12

Update message #92

Final: 10/12

Didn't finish but I got to some backlist books I never would have picked up without the challenge.

Thanks for all you do to make this a great challenge!

I only got 6/50. Failed miserably in this challenge but did surpass my reading challenge goal of 150 books read.

I only achieved 5/12

I'm in with 15 books!!!
1. Wildcard
2. We Hunt the Flame
3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
4. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
6. The Red Scrolls of Magic
7. Ghosts of the Shadow Market
8. Sharpe's Triumph
9. Sharpe's Fortress
10. Sharpe's Trafalgar
11. Sharpe's Prey
12. Broken Throne
13. Catwoman: Soulstealer
14. Batman: Nightwalker
15. The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic