2025 Reading Challenge

message 1: by Ashton (last edited Dec 24, 2017 01:02PM) (new)

Dec 23, 2017 10:28PM

For my reading challenge in 2018, I'm reading at least 104 books. I've made a list longer then that but 104 books seems like a good goal to start with. I plan to read at least 104 books from the list below. Part of the reason I've set such a high goal is becasue, I'm an cleaner who mostly works alone, so I get through at lot of audio books at work. For a full list in rough reading order please look at the following shelf I created, 2018 Reading List

This year I've tried to read more non-fiction then I typically do because there are a lot of non-fiction books I want to read even though I mostly stick to speculative fiction. I'm aiming to read the books I own but haven't read, though I also need to take advantage of my Audible and Kindle Unlimited subscriptions. I'm splitting my list into sections, so its not a large wall of text, that no one is going to look at.

Fiction
Of Mice and Men
An Unlikely Agent
The Nightmare Stacks
The Ashes of London
Turtles All the Way Down
Cell
Library of Souls
Necropolis
Bloodline
Hoarfrost
Maelstrom
Fallow
Draakenwood
Wayward
The Last Town
11/22/63
The Picture of Dorian Gray
It
To Kill a Mockingbird
Grave Peril
Summer Knight
Death Masks
Blood Rites
Dead Beat
Proven Guilty
White Night
Small Favor
Turn Coat
Changes
Ghost Story
Cold Days
Skin Game
Backwards to Oregon
Hidden Truths
Beyond the Trail
Ready Player One
The Book Thief
American Gods
A Tale of Two Cities
The Handmaid's Tale
1984
Lord of the Flies
Little Women
Little Men
Jo's Boys
Moon Over Soho
Whispers Under Ground
Broken Homes
Foxglove Summer
Foxglove Summer
The Hanging Tree
Fahrenheit 451
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Carmilla
'Salem's Lot
The Night Circus
Rebecca
Northanger Abbey
The Gunslinger
Outlander
Nightmare Abbey
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Invisible Man
The Time Machine
The Secret Garden
The Mysterious Island

Re-reading Old Favourites
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant
Undeath and Taxes
Bloody Acquisitions
The Fangs of Freelance
Coraline
Changeless
Blameless
Heartless
Timeless

Longer Books to Slowly Listen To
War and Peace
A Storm of Swords
Under the Dome
A Feast for Crows
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
A Dance with Dragons
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Les Misérables
The Complete Sherlock Holmes

More Books to Listen To
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Dracula
Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece
Interview with the Vampire
Super Powereds: Year 1
The Heiress of Linn Hagh
The Magicians
Looking for Alaska
The Deathsniffer's Assistant
NPCs
Off to Be the Wizard

Non Fiction
The Elements of Style
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The God Delusion
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
The Sherlock Holmes Handbook
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
You're Never Weird on the Internet
Night
Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It
Into the Wild
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
The Art of War
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
The Selfish Gene
A Brief History of Time
The Origin of Species
Lies My Teacher Told Me
How to Win Friends and Influence People
1776
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Girt
True Girt

*Edit added more titles to the list

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message 2: by Susy (new)

Dec 23, 2017 10:50PM

Quite an impressive list Ash! Recognize quite a few I either have read or have on my TBR list. Looking forward to see how you like the others (have to keep that everlasting TBR growing so I’ll have enough to read in all my lifetimes right? ;p)

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message 3: by Ashton (last edited Dec 23, 2017 11:20PM) (new)

Dec 23, 2017 11:19PM

Susy wrote: ...(have to keep that everlasting TBR growing so I’ll have enough to read in all my lifetimes right? ;p)

It feels that way. I have over 1,000 books on my TBR list now. There's too many books to read and not enough time. I still don't have all the books I've read on my read list either, I've added everything I've read since starting on the site but there's some books from before I haven't added yet.

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message 4: by Blagica , Challenges (new)

Dec 24, 2017 08:51PM

good luck in the coming year in all things, and happy reading!

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message 5: by Ashton (new)

Dec 24, 2017 10:30PM

Blagica wrote: "good luck in the coming year in all things, and happy reading!"

Thank you. I hope you have fun reading as well.

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message 6: by Lisa (new)

Jan 04, 2018 06:08AM

That's so cool, that you already have a list planned out for 2018 :) Looks like you're all set for a fantastic reading year!

Best of luck reaching your goal in 2018! :)

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message 7: by Ashton (new)

Jan 04, 2018 05:28PM

Lisa wrote: "That's so cool, that you already have a list planned out for 2018 :) Looks like you're all set for a fantastic reading year!

Best of luck reaching your goal in 2018! :)"

Thanks. I've never had a reading list before, this year I realised I needed one. When my TBR list got to a 1,000 books I decided that most of the books I'd read in 2018 would be books from that list or my own collection.

Good luck on your reading challenge.

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message 8: by Jasmine (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ (new)

Jan 08, 2018 04:49PM

Good luck on your goal! And thanks for listing them because now I've found some new things I would love to check out (:

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message 9: by Ashton (new)

Jan 09, 2018 03:33PM

Jasmine (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ wrote: "Good luck on your goal! And thanks for listing them because now I've found some new things I would love to check out (:"

Thanks. I'm glad I could help you find more things to read.

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message 10: by Blagica , Challenges (new)

Feb 07, 2018 01:14PM

You are doing great keep up the great reads!

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message 11: by Blagica , Challenges (new)

Mar 08, 2018 08:16PM

Two months down ten to go. I hope you are enjoying your book adventures so far this year you are doing great!

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message 12: by Blagica , Challenges (new)

May 05, 2018 05:37PM

April Showers bring May flowers I hope May brings lots of great reads and sunshine!