2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Challenges
📚 Goodreads 2019 - 57/100
📚 Monthly TBR Challenge - 32/48
📚 A-Z - 20/26
📚 Ultimate Popsugar Challenge - 27/50
📚 Clear your Shelves
📚 Serial Reader

Bookclubs / Readalongs
📖 Booksplosion - 4/12
📖 Book In A Jar/Quaterly BC -> RRR - 2/6
📖 Once Upon A Readalong
📖 New Release BC
📖 Book Junkie BC

Readathons
📚 Booktube Games
📚 OWLs
📚 The Bookie Trials - 11/17
📚 NEWTs - 0/8
📚 Read-O-Rama - 0/9

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Goodreads Yearly Reading Challenge: 100 Books

January
Books This Month: 6 -> Current Total To Stay On Track: 6/8


Februrary
Books This Month: 11 -> Current Total To Stay On Track: 17/16


March
Books This Month: 11 -> Current Total To Stay On Track: 28/25


April /8
Books This Month: 7 -> Current Total To Stay On Track: 35/33


May
Books This Month: 4 -> Current Total To Stay On Track: 39/41


June
Books This Month: 4 -> Current Total To Stay On Track: 43/50


July
Books This Month: 14 -> Current Total To Stay On Track: 57/58


August
Books This Month: -> Current Total To Stay On Track: /66
September
Books This Month: -> Current Total To Stay On Track: /75
October
Books This Month: -> Current Total To Stay On Track: /83
November
Books This Month: -> Current Total To Stay On Track: /91
December
Books This Month: -> Current Total To Stay On Track: /100

My Monthly TBR Challenge
No official Challenge. I decided at the beginning of the year that I want to challenge myself each month to the following TBR-challenges
📖 Achieve >50% of TBR
📖 >1 Buddyread
📖 >1 Readalong (In time for Live Discussion)
📖 Oldest off Wishlist (or delete 10 off wishlist)
📖 Oldest on TBR Shelf (or Unhaul)
📖 >1 NonFantasy
📖 >1 Non YA
📖 Oldest Release on TBR Shelf (or Unhaul)

📚 January 📚 6/8 Challenges Completed
😭 Goal: 22 Books, 8,448 Pages - Achieved: 6 Books, 2,307 Pages
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📖 >1 Buddyread (Sawkill Girls, Scarlet, Vicious, Sadie, Neverworld Wake)
📖 >1 Readalong (In time for Live Discussion) (Eragon, The Husband's Secret)
📖 Oldest off Wishlist (or delete 10 off wishlist) Deleted 10
📖 Oldest on TBR Shelf (or Unhaul) (The Selection)
📖 >1 NonFantasy (Sadie)
📖 >1 Non YA (The Husband's Secret)
😭 Oldest Release on TBR Shelf (or Unhaul)
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📚 February 📚 6/8 Challenges Completed
📖 Goal: 17 Books, 6,999 Pages - Achieved: 11 Books, 3,784 Pages
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📖 >1 Buddyread (Cress, More Than This, My Plain Jane, Die Krone der Dunkelheit, Rivers of London, Ash Princess, Sky in the Deep)
📖 >1 Readalong (In time for Live Discussion) (Two Can Keep a Secret)
📖 Oldest off Wishlist (or delete 10 off wishlist) Deleted 10
😭 Oldest on TBR Shelf (or Unhaul)
📖 >1 NonFantasy (Two Can Keep a Secret)
📖 >1 Non YA (Rivers of London)
😭 Oldest Release on TBR Shelf (or Unhaul)
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📚 March 📚 7/8 Challenges Completed
📖 Goal: 16 Books, 6,276 Pages - Achieved: 11 Books, 3,801 Pages
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📖 >1 Buddyread (Shadow and Bone, Slayer, Mirage)
😭 >1 Readalong (In time for Live Discussion)
📖 Oldest off Wishlist (or delete 10 off wishlist) (The Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are)
📖 Oldest on TBR Shelf (or Unhaul) (Heist Society)
📖 >1 NonFantasy (Heist Society)
📖 >1 Non YA (The Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are)
📖 Oldest Release on TBR Shelf (or Unhaul) (The Princess Bride)
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📚 April 📚 7/8 Challenges Completed
😭 Goal: 18 Books, 6,904 Pages - Achieved: 7 Books, 2,022 Pages
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📖 >1 Buddyread (The Elite)
📖 >1 Readalong (In time for Live Discussion) (To Best the Boys)
📖 Oldest off Wishlist (or delete 10 off wishlist) deleted 10
📖 Oldest on TBR Shelf (or Unhaul) (Geekerella)
📖 >1 NonFantasy (Breach)
📖 >1 Non YA (Zehnter September)
📖 Oldest Release on TBR Shelf (or Unhaul) (In the Hand of the Goddess)
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📚 May 📚 2/8 Challenges Completed
😭 Goal: 16 Books, x Pages - Achieved: 4 Books, x Pages
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📖 >1 Buddyread (Unravel Me)
📖 >1 Readalong (In time for Live Discussion) (The Princess and the Fangirl)
😭 Oldest off Wishlist (or delete 10 off wishlist)
😭 Oldest on TBR Shelf (or Unhaul)
😭 >1 NonFantasy
😭 >1 Non YA
😭 Oldest Release on TBR Shelf (or Unhaul)
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📚 June 📚 4/8 Challenges Completed
😭 Goal: 15 Books, Pages - Achieved: 4 Books, Pages
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📖 >1 Buddyread (Godsgrave)
😭 >1 Readalong (In time for Live Discussion)
📖 Oldest off Wishlist (or delete 10 off wishlist) deleted 10
😭 Oldest on TBR Shelf (or Unhaul)
📖 >1 NonFantasy (This Time Will Be Different)
📖 >1 Non YA (Godsgrave)
😭 Oldest Release on TBR Shelf (or Unhaul)
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📚 July 📚 5/8 Challenges Completed
📖 Goal: 18 Books, 6,099 Pages - Achieved: 11 Books, 4,179 Pages
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📖 >1 Buddyread (Making History, Turtles All the Way Down, The Gilded Wolves)
😭 >1 Readalong (In time for Live Discussion)
📖 Oldest off Wishlist (or delete 10 off wishlist) deleted 10
😭 Oldest on TBR Shelf (or Unhaul)
📖 >1 NonFantasy (Undead Girl Gang)
📖 >1 Non YA (Making History)
😭 Oldest Release on TBR Shelf (or Unhaul)
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📚 August 📚 0/8 Challenges Completed
📚 Goal: 17 Books, 6,484 Pages
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😭Achieved: 0 Books, 0 Pages
😭 >1 Buddyread
😭 >1 Readalong (In time for Live Discussion)
😭 Oldest off Wishlist (or delete 10 off wishlist)
😭 Oldest on TBR Shelf (or Unhaul)
😭 >1 NonFantasy
😭 >1 Non YA
😭 Oldest Release on TBR Shelf (or Unhaul)
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📚 A-Z
20/26

A: Ash Princess
B: Breach
C: Cress
D:
E: Eragon
F: From The Ashes
G: Geekerella
H: The Husband's Secret
I: In the Hand of the Goddess
J:
K: Kingdom of Ash
L: Legendary
M: My Plain Jane
N: Neverworld Wake
O: Onyx and Ivory
P: The Princess and the Fangirl
Q:
R: Rivers of London
S: Sadie
T: Two Can Keep a Secret
U: Unravel Me
V: Vicious
W:
X:
Y:
Z: Zehnter September

📚 Ultimate Popsugar Challenge 📚 27/50

Normal 24/40
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🔲 A book becoming a movie in 2019 (Alaska)
✅ A book that makes you nostalgic Slayer
✅ A book written by a musician (fiction or nonfiction) Shadow and Bone
✅ A book you think should be turned into a movie Light Years
✅ A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads The Alchemist
✅ A book with a plant in the title or on the cover To Best the Boys
✅ A reread of a favorite book - Making History
✅ A book about a hobby Geekerella
✅ A book you meant to read in 2018 Onyx and Ivory
🔲 A book with POP, SUGAR, or CHALLENGE in the title
✅ A book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover Amber & Dusk
✅ A book inspired by myth/legend/folklore Romanov
🔲 A book published posthumously
🔲 A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie
✅ A retelling of a classic A Curse So Dark and Lonely
🔲 A book with a question in the title
🔲 A book set on college or university campus
✅ A book about someone with a superpower Crown of Feathers
✅ A book told from multiple POVs Shadow of the Fox
✅ A book set in space Mirage
🔲 A book by two female authors
🔲 A book with SALTY, SWEET, BITTER, or SPICY in the title
🔲 A book set in Scandinavia
🔲 A book that takes place in a single day
✅ A debut novel Ash Princess
✅ A book that's published in 2019 This Time Will Be Different
✅ A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature Eragon
🔲 A book recommended by a celebrity you admire
🔲 A book with LOVE in the title
🔲 A book featuring an amateur detective
✅ A book about a family Sadie
🔲 A book author from Asia, Africa, or South America
🔲 A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in title
✅ A book that includes a wedding The One
✅ A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter Scarlet
✅ A ghost story My Plain Jane
✅ A book with a two-word title Sawkill Girls
🔲 A novel based on a true story
✅ A book revolving around a puzzle or game The Gilded Wolves
✅Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading challenge: A book about mental health Turtles All the Way Down
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Advanced 3/10
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✅ A "cli-fi" (climate fiction) book The Last Singer: The Falcon Chronicles Book 1
🔲 A "choose-your-own-adventure" book
🔲 An "own voices" book (The Upside of Unrequited)
✅ Read a book during the season it is set in The Cruel Prince
🔲 A LitRPG book (Warcross)
🔲 A book with no chapters / unusual chapter headings / unconventionally numbered chapters
🔲 Two books that share the same title (The Immortalists, The Thief, Heartless)
🔲 Two books that share the same title
✅ A book that has inspired a common phrase or idiom The Princess Bride
🔲 A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent (Red Sister?)
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📚 Clear your Shelves

📚 Serial Reader

Books Read (excl. #1 in a series): 11/33
Series started and finished: 0
Series started: 10 (4 books excl. #1 in a series)
Series finished: 2 (2 books)
Series partly read: 4 (5 books)

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Series started and finished:

Series started:
 01. Villains [1/3]
     #1: Vicious - 01/26/19, 3/5

 02. Slayer [1/2]
     #1: Slayer - 03/15/19, 4/5

 03. The Shadow and Bone Trilogy [2/3]
     #1: Shadow and Bone
     #2: Siege and Storm

 04. The Selection [3/6]
     #1: The Selection - 2/1/19, 4/5
     #2: The Elite - 4/15/19, 4/5
     #3: The One - 5/15/19, 3/5

 04. Shatter Me [2/6]
     #1: Shatter Me
     #2: Unravel Me

 05. Shadow of the Fox [1/2]
     #1: Shadow of The Fox

 06. Crown of Feathers [1/2]
     #1: Crown of Feathers

 07. Onyx and Ivory [1/2]
     #1: Onyx and Ivory

 08. Light Years [1/2]
     #1: Light Years

 09. The Last Singer [1/2]
     #1: The Last Singer

 10. The Cruel Prince [1/3]
     #1: The Cruel Prince

Series finished:
 01. Throne of Glass [8/8]
     #8: Kingdom of Ash

 02. Everless [2/2]
     #2: Evermore

Series partly read:
 01. The Lunar Chronicles [X/X]
     #2: Scarlet - 1/27/19, 5/5
     #3: Cress - Date, Rating - 2/17/19, 5/5
 
 02. Caraval [2/3]
     #2: Legendary  
 
 03. Tortall []
     #2: In the Hands of the Goddess

 04. Nevernight [2/3]
     #2: Godsgrave
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📖 Booksplosion (4/12)

✅ January - Eragon
✅ February - Two Can Keep a Secret
🔲 March - Restore Me
✅ April - To Best the Boys
✅ May - The Princess and the Fangirl
🔲 June - The Red Scrolls of Magic
🔲 July - King of Scars
🔲 August - Looking for Alaska
🔲 September - Frankly in Love
🔲 October - The Fountains of Silence
🔲 November
🔲 December

📖 Book In A Jar/Quaterly BC -> RRR
2/8

🔲 January - Renegades
❌ January - Wake of Vultures
✅ February - Gilded Wolves
✅ March - An Ember in The Ashes
🔲 May/June - Dread Nation
🔲 July/August - Sorcery of Thorns
🔲 September/October
🔲 November/December

📖 Once Upon A Readalong
0/0

🔲 January - Girls of Paper and Fire
🔲 February - On The Come Up
🔲 March - The Bloodspell
🔲 April - Batman: Nightwalker
🔲 May - Nexus
🔲 June - The Rest of the Story
🔲 July - Daisy Jones & The Six
🔲 August - Dance of Thieves
🔲 September
🔲 October
🔲 November
🔲 December

📖 New Release BC
0/0

🔲 July - Wilder Girls
🔲 August -
🔲 September
🔲 October
🔲 November
🔲 December

📖 Book Junkie BC
2/11

🔲 January - Circe
🔲 February - The Hate You Give
🔲 March - Priory of the Orange Tree
🔲 April - The Night Circus
🔲 May - The Astonishing Color of After
✅ July - Nevernight
✅ August - Godsgrave
🔲 September - Darkdawn
🔲 October
🔲 November
🔲 December

📚 Booktube Games

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📚 OWLs

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📚 The Bookie Trials - 12/17

✅Dwarf Mount - hint of romance Light Years
🔲Apothecary Towers - random book pick Colours
✅The Great Library - on TBR forever Undead Girl Gang
✅The Drowning Deep - rich world-building The Last Singer: The Falcon Chronicles Book 1
✅Orc Grove - gruesome, gory, gritty Midnight Blade
🔲Ol' Pirate Road - takes place on sea Warrior Prime
✅Glimmer - beautiful or colorful book Crown of Feathers
✅Draconic Isle - features dragons Onyx and Ivory
✅The Elven Guard war, military, or political themes
🔲On the Hallow Isle atmospheric or horror book Wicked Deep
✅Empty Barrel Inn an indulgent read The Gilded Wolves
🔲Giant Squid book that intimidates you The Alchemist
✅Crimson Peaks re-read a favorite Making History
✅Queendom Stone features royalty The Cruel Prince
✅The Forgotten Forests next in a series Siege and Storm
✅The Weeping Falls a tear-jerker Turtles All the Way Down
🔲The Bookie Grail group book Stardust

📚 NEWTs

🔲Charms (A) A gorgeous cover A thousand pieces of you
🔲DADA (A) Black under the dust jacket Looking for Alaska
🔲Potions (A) Your friends favorite book A Darker Shade of Magic
🔲Transfiguration (A) LGBTQ+ rep City of Heavenly Fire
🔲History of Magic (A) Fantasy The Shadow Queen
🔲History of Magic (E) Includes a map Sorcery of Thorns
🔲History of Magic (O) Reread a favorite / classic Picnic at Hanging Rock
🔲Muggle Studies (A) Cover includes an actual photograph Clockwork Prince

📚 Read-O-Rama

🔲Own Voices The Upside Of Unrequited
🔲Fave Color on te Cover City of Heavenly Fire
🔲Stand Alone The Upside Of Unrequited
🔲Favorite Genre Wake
🔲RAMA in the Title/Author A Darker Shade of Magic
🔲Non Traditional Format Hold Still
🔲From your TBR A Darker Shade of Magic
🔲Host Book Hold Still
🔲Blacklist Looking for Alaska

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