2025 Reading Challenge discussion

I came up short on the 2017 Reading Challenge, so I decided to be more conservative with my goals and to join a group for added motivation...and fun! In 2018 I want to read one book every month for a total of 12 books. I've chosen three from Boxall's list of must reads for the 2018 Quarterly Challenge, and the rest are from my TBR list. Here they are, in no particular order.

1. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
2. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
3. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
4. It Can't Happen Here
5. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
6. Iron Gold
7. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (reread of Kay's illustrated version :-)
8. The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election
9. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (picked it up in 2015 and lost interest halfway through. Want to give it another shot!)

Quarterly Challenge:
10. The Time Machine
11. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (have had this physically sitting on my bookshelf since 2010 and failed to read it!)
12. Thus Spake Zarathustra

Wishing you the best of luck with your goal this year.

Bri wrote: "I came up short on the 2017 Reading Challenge, so I decided to be more conservative with my goals and to join a group for added motivation...and fun! ...

Wishing you the best of luck with your goal Bri and especially lots of fun!! Happy New (reading) Year!

Thank you Susy and Blagica!

Totally forgot about Iron Gold by Pierce Brown. I preordered and it was delivered to my Kindle the other day. WOOT! I'm super excited, can't wait to read. Adding to the 2018 list!

I've heard Dark Money is a must-read. I'll definitely check back to see how you feel about it!

Hope you had a great month reading Bri!

Thank you, I've finished Dark Money and HP so off to a good start!

Bri wrote: "Thank you, I've finished Dark Money and HP so off to a good start!"

👍👍👍

Katie wrote: "I've heard Dark Money is a must-read. I'll definitely check back to see how you feel about it!"

The book was actually easy to read despite the endless list of names, corporations, banks, etc. You need to pay close attention or the families and their various schemes may become muddled. I thought it was well written and I found myself thinking of the things I had learned often. I knew there was a certain level of dark money in politics (it's almost to be expected). But the level of cheating and lying pervades nearly every facet of our society. Was both enlightening and slightly depressing but I would also designate it a must-read.

Bri wrote: "Katie wrote: "I've heard Dark Money is a must-read. I'll definitely check back to see how you feel about it!"

The book was actually easy to read despite the endless list of names, corporations, ba..."

Thanks for the update. Sounds like I'll have to set it aside for a time where I don't mind being disillusioned and slightly depressed about the state of the US haha.

You are doing great! Hoping March is a great month for you.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. I hope that April brings you many more five star reads. Do you have a stand out book so far this year?

“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!