2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Updated message # 108

1. Remembering Diana: A Life in Photographs by National Geographic Society...Finished...1/12/18
2. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy...Finished...1/18/1/
3. Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman...Finished...1/21/18
4.Arsenic and Old Books by Miranda James...Finished...1/23/18

I started the first book from my tbr jar, and it was awful. I didn't finish it :/ I'm talking about all the birds in the sky. Now I'm reading Artemis

Updating message 122:
Just finished 2/12: Mao: The Unknown Story

Update to msg. 84

3/13 complete

Eirelyn wrote: "Update!

Progress: 2/10

1) A Court of Thorns and Roses
2) Caraval
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I just read Caraval as well! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did!

9. Call the Midwife

Progress: 9/36

Book number 2 completed Song of the Skylark

2/20

I'd like to join this challenge. My goal is 18 books

The TBR Jar Challenge

1. read a book from your school's library Island of the Blue Dolphins 11/16 - 19

2. read a book you own Scandal in Spring 7/25 - 31

3. read a book someone recommended

4. read a nonfiction book - history/narrative history

5. read a book that won or was a finalist for the Pulitzer

6. read a book published in 2018

7. read a book published in the 1990s

8. read a young adult book

9. read a book about royals (fiction or nonfiction)

10. read a book set in Korea, South Korea or North Korea

11. read a middle grade or chapter book

12. read a historical fiction book

13. read a memoir/biography book

14. read a book published in the 1980s

15. read a book set in Europe

16. read a book set in Africa

17. read a book set in the Middle East

18. read a book about time travel

finished Kill All Enemies Plague Child

3/30

3/20

11. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
12. One of Us Is Lying
18. The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian

Message #18 update!

10. Dubrovsky by Alexander Pushkin 28.01.2018 ★★★★☆

1/18

updated message 125

I recently put all the books I own (in book or ebook format) on my Want to Read shelf and it is immense, so I am not allowing myself to buy any more books until it has been reduced. I will use the traditional TBR randomizer challenge and let Goodreads choose. I’m going for ten books.

1/10

1. Everblue by Brenda Pandos
2. Come Back / The Edge by Dick Francis
3. The Decrypter: Secret of the Lost Manuscript by Rose Sandy
4. Dream of Me by Quinn Loftis
5. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (cries)
6. Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz
7. Skylark by Jenny Oldfield
8. The Tournament Trilogy by B.B. Griffith
9. Shadow Souls by L.J. Smith
10. Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts by Susan Forest

Message #56 updated.

10/40 (thanks to the 24in48 readathon I was able to knock out 5 of my TBR challenge books this weekend!)

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Just finished #3/12: Mortal Heart

9 of 30 completed
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See tracking @ Chetara’s Try Something Different 2018

2/10 Completed

Into the Land of the Unicorns Completed 01-23-18
Atomic Robo #1 Completed 01-25-18
I am the Messenger
Wildwood Dancing
Runaways, Vol 1, Pride and Joy
Captain Bligh and Mr Christian
Common Phrases and Where They Come From
Dragonflight
The Nixie's Song
Three Theban Plays

Update msg 8

2/12

Updated message 4.

4/20

Updated message 94.

Progress: 4/12

Love this challenge!

Updated #20.

1/12 books read

Finished Artemis
1/12.
Right now I'm picking another book :)

Updated message # 108

6/15

Cress...Finished...1/26/18

Cat Playing Cupid...Finished...1/31/18

Update to Post # 92

2/24

1 Chaos Patricia Cornwell
2 The Roses of May Dot Hutchison

Update post #49
1/6 books read

Update to msg 93:

1/20 completed.

The Bleeding Season - Gifune, Greg F

Updated message 105

Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy! read 1/4/2018
The Half Wives read 1/6/2018

2/20

I finished

4/30

10. Lionheart

Progress: 10/36

Congratulations to everyone who has finished their first books for this challenge! And I love the pictures of the jars. I promise, mine is coming soon.

As of today we have 153 participants and have read 129 books.

Update to message 99

2/25

1. The Midwife's Revolt
2. My Lady Jane

I'd like to join this challenge with a goal of 5 books please.

Completed 0/5

1. The Diviners: Lair of Dreams - Completed 7/8/2018
2. The Girls
3. The Forgotten Garden
4. Purple Hibiscus
5. Bel Canto

11. The Heart's Invisible Furies

11/36

Updated message 57:

3/10

Joining!

Here is my jar, with 40 slips of paper (all books I already own):


Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout finished 12/30/18 3.5 stars
Wildest Dreams by Kristen Ashley
Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
The Cemetery Boys by Heather Brewer
Driven by K. Bromberg
Faking It by Cora Carmack
The Selection by Kiera Cass
Moon Chosen by P.C. Cast
Kaleidoscope Hearts by Claire Contreras
Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
Jet by Jay Crownover
Reason to Breathe by Rebecca Donovan
Real by Katy Evans
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Dangerous Creatures by Kami Garcia
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia
Heart-Shaped Hack by Tracey Garvis-Graves
Dead Sky Morning by Karina Halle
Bright Side by Kim Holden
Hopeless by Colleen Hoover
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
November 9 by Colleen Hoover
Too Late by Colleen Hoover
Carpe Demon by Julie Kenner
Prince of Wolves by Quinn Loftis
The Collectors’ Society by Heather Lyons
Collide by Gail McHugh
Soundless by Richelle Mead
Disastrous by E.L. Montes
White Trash Beautiful by Teresa Mummert
Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver
Jacked by Tina Reber
The Edge of Never by J.A. Redmerski
Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter
Fisher's Light by Tara Sivec
Reboot by Amy Tintera
After by Anna Todd
The Bet by Rachel Van Dyken
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

message 245, page 5

I'm in for 12 books for this challenge.

1. The Two-Family House - completed 3/26/18
2. American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land - completed 6/25/18
3. Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between - completed 2/22/18
4. Sing, Unburied, Sing - completed 7/16/18
5. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances - completed 9/12/18
6. The Vegetarian - completed 3/6/18
7. I Was Anastasia - completed 5/8/18
8. Kindred - completed 5/22/18
9. Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson - completed 4/16/18
10. The Refugees - completed 8/23/18
11. Bel Canto - completed 4/17/18
12. The Black Dahlia - completed 11/08/18

Challenge complete!

updated my message 207 with the book The Englisher by Beverly Lewis

Update message 22 to 2/26.

Okay I am in. I will try 10 books this year.

The TBR Jar Challenge - 2018
Duration: 1/1/18 - 12/31/18
Read: 0/10 books

Read:

Currently Reading:


To Read:

1. Taking Control - Jen Frederick
2. Reckless - Lucia Jordan
3. Stroke of Midnight - Sherrilyn Kenyon & Others
4. Claiming His Fate - Ellis Leigh
5. Everyone Worth Knowing - Lauren Weisberger
6. Falling for the Beast - Angela Blake
7. Red Velvet Cupcake Murder - Joanne Fluke
8. Lusty Lesbian Sex Stories - Sarah Blitz
9. His Captive Bride - Shelly Thacker
10. Princess Charming - Nicole Jordan

Message #56 updated.

14/40

Updated message # 108

Completed: 7/15

7. The Vegetarian...Finished...2/7/18

Doris wrote: "Updating message 122:
Just finished 2/12: Mao: The Unknown Story"
Which one, all the birds in the sky or Artemis?

Message 231 updated:
2/12
Finished The City of Brass

Update to message 141

2/12 read

1. The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez read 2/5/18
2. Blue Is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh read 2/8/18

Book number 4 completed.
Crime on the Fens

4/20 completed

Message #56 updated.

16/40

Updated message 83

1/20

Finally got around to one on the list. I have finished The Camel Club.

1/20

Updated message 24: 1/20

I'd like to sign in for 100 books.
Sometimes I'll just pick a paper from the jar and read the given book, but sometimes I'll choose it (wanna make sure I keep a good balance between genres throughout the year).
So far I've read 2/100