2025 Reading Challenge discussion

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Yearly Challenge
TBR Twins
Monthly Challenges
An Author's Works

Personal Reading Goal: 29/40 (updated 4/27/19)

A Christmas Carol
Ready Player One
Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space
The Immortalists
Inferno
Speak
The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras
Only Child
Fascism: A Warning
The Casual Vacancy
What Happened
Us Against You
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
The Secret of Raven Point
Brave New World
Small Great Things
The Night Circus
Me Before You
The Night Circus
The Sun Is Also a Star
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Thunderhead
The Alice Network
The Memory Book
One Plus One
The Wonder
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
The Glass Ocean

TBR Twins

January
The Casual Vacancy


February
The Secret of Raven Point
The Night Circus


March
Me Before You


April
The Wonder

May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Monthly Challenges

January: Marathon Challenge

1. A Christmas Carol
2. Ready Player One
3. Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space
4. The Immortalists
5. Inferno
6. Speak
7. The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras
8. Only Child
9. The Casual Vacancy

January: Book to the Future

Ready Player One


February
March

April

Feeling Fraternal - Goal: 2 books

4. In-Laws: Read a story whose protagonist is involved with the legal system or is a criminal or both.
One Plus One - one of the main characters is under investigation for insider trading.

7. Twinning is Winning: Read a story featuring twins.
Atonement - twin boys featured in the book, Jackson and Pierrot.



May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Yearly Challenges:

Clear the Shelves: 0/5

1. Lilac Girls
2. Into the Wild
3. Dunkirk
4. A Game of Thrones
5. The Light Between Oceans

An Author's Works

Jojo Moyes: 2/3
1. Me Before You - FINISHED
2. One Plus One - FINISHED
3. After You

JK Rowling / Robert Galbraith: 1/6
1. The Casual Vacancy - FINISHED
2. Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
3. The Cuckoo's Calling
4. The Silkworm
5. Career of Evil
6. Lethal White


Jodi Piccoult: 1/6
1. Leaving Time
2. Plain Truth
3. My Sister's Keeper
4. Small Great Things - FINISHED
5. The Pact
6. House Rules


Non-Fiction Growth Challenge

Tentative goal - 5 books, to choose from the following categories

6. Read a book to improve your communication skills.
What We Say and How We Say It Matter: Teacher Talk That Improves Student Learning and Behavior

15. Read an autobiography/biography of a woman written by a woman.
Becoming

16. Read an autobiography/biography of a man written by a man.
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

4. Read a book that teaches you how to make better decisions.
5. Read a book on emotional intelligence.
8. Read a book that teaches you leadership skills.
11. Read a book about an ideology that is not your own.
14. Read a collection of essays.
18. Read a book about science or technology.
19. Read a book about a religion or philosophy
20. Read a book about a topic you have always wanted to learn more about.

Quarterly Challenges

Quarter 1: Best of What's to Come - Book Adaptations of 2019
1/7 books completed

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
The Knife of Never Letting Go
The Good Shepherd
Catch-22
The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South
The Sun Is Also a Star - FINISHED
The Nightingale


Quarter 2 - Globetrotter

Goal - 1/5 books

16. Home Away From Home: Read a book that takes place in an area you have visited more than once.
The Alice Network - Based largely in England and France (I lived in England and visited on two separate occasions) - FINISHED

12. Transcontinental Cruising: Read a book that takes place in more than one continent.
The Glass Ocean- takes place in the US and England/Ireland - FINISHED

14. World Traveler: Read a book that takes place in a country that you have not lived in or traveled to before.
The Wonder - Based in Ireland - FINISHED


1. Wanderlust: Read a travelogue.
2. Diaspora: Read a book where the protagonist is living away from their homeland.
3. Exophony: Read a book by an author writing in a language other than their native language.
4. See The World Through Another's Eyes: Read a book that features interracial relations.
5. Walk in Another's Shoes: Read a memoir by an author whose ethnicity differs from your own.
6. Global Capitalism: Read a book about a multinational business enterprise or the effects of globalization.
7. Other Worlds in Other Words: Read a translated work of literary or genre fiction.
8. Fictionalized History: Read a historical fiction about a culture you're unfamiliar with.
9. Borderlines: Read a book about social, cultural, geopolitical, or other boundaries.
10. Flaneuse: Read a book about strolling or exploring a place on foot.
11. Transnational or Transcultural Adoption: Read a story about an adoption that occurred across national or cultural lines.
13. Multi-linguist: Read a book that that includes text written in two or more languages (not translated).
15. Global Reader: Choose a book written by an author from a country other than your own.
17. Minority Voices: Read a story by an author who is an ethnic minority in the country where they reside.
18. Traversing the Terrains: Read a story that takes place on a terrain that is different than ones you are most familiar with.
19 & 20. Our Little Corner of the World: Read 2 or more books that take place in countries that border each other (one book per country).
21. I Am Here: Read a story that takes place in a state with limited recognition.