2025 Reading Challenge discussion

I'm going to try 40 this year. I'm participating in Book Riot's "Read Harder" challenge as well, so this will help me towards my goal!

On a somewhat related note, I have baskets of books to be read scattered throughout the house and one of my goals is shrink those baskets!

Wishing you the best of luck with your goal Chickadee & a very happy New (reading) Year!

It's not actually called Clear the Baskets Challenge but still you might be interested in joining the Clear the Shelves Challenge :)

Good luck with all your reading goals this year!

Hoping you had fun getting lost in some pages in your first month!

Two months down ten to go! I hope March is a success for you.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. I hope that April brings you many more five star reads.

“Reading brings us unknown friends” While the warm weather is coming I hope you make some new friends in May! You are doing great keep it up!

Well, I'm not quite going to reach my goal this year, but I'm OK with that. Had a death in the family and my mom had double bypass this summer and I hit a pretty big reading slump after her heart attack. But here is what I read this year:

Waiting for the Barbarians - Coetze
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1 - Coates
A Wrinkle in Time - L'engle
Spaceman - Massamino
IQ - Ide
Bluebird, Bluebird - Locke
My Lead Dog was a Lesbian - O'Donoghue
All Systems Red - Wells
This Savage Song - Schwab
The Space Between the Stars - Corlett
Woman at a 1000 Degrees - Helgason
Crime Song - Swinson
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Chambers
Tropic of Kansas - Brown
True Grit - Portis
Leviathan Wakes - Corey
The Hatching - Boone
Denali: A Literary Anthology - Sherwonit
Fire on the Mountain - Abbey
Before the Storm - Golden
The Cold, Cold Ground - McKinty
S Street Rising: Crack, Murder, and Redemption in D.C. - Castaneda
The Wild Dead - Vaughn
Strange Practice - Shaw
Athenian Blues - Koutsakis
Dark Matter - Paver
American War: A Novel - Akkad
The Mauraders - Cooper
Calypso - Sedaris
I Hear Sirens in the Street - McKinty
30 Days of Night - Niles
Strange Case of the Alchemist Daughter - Goss
Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century - Jarausch

I did read quite a few books that I would not have ordinarily read for the challenge. I still have a list of the books I wanted to read for the 2018 Read Harder challenge that I still may read in 2019.