2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Keeping it 20 for 2020, which has a nice ring to it. Same as in 2018 and 2019, it's a solid reading goal to aspire to, so I'm keeping it the same.

See message #3 for my tentative TBR list I'll be reading from.

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2020 READING STATS TO DATE

Total literature read: 25
Total pages read: 8,439
Total novels: 21
Total nonfiction: 2
Total short stories: 2

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Flashback to My 2019 Stats:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

COMPLETED 2020 READING BY THE MONTH

JANUARY
1. 'The Snow Child' by Eowyn Ivey: 1-star
2. 'Killing Commendatore' by Haruki Murakami: 5-stars
3. 'The Bear' by Andrew Krivak: 2-stars

FEBRUARY
1. 'The Water Dancer' by Ta-Nehisi Coates: 2-stars
2. 'With The Beatles' [Short story] by Haruki Murakami: 4-stars

MARCH
1. 'Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: A Story' [Short story] by Sylvia Plath: 5-stars
2. 'The Problem of Pain' by C.S. Lewis: 4-stars
3. 'A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis: 5-stars
4. 'The North Water' by Ian McGuire: 2-stars

APRIL
1. 'Shuggie Bain' by Douglas Stuart: 4-stars

MAY
1. 'The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories' by various: 4.25-stars
2. [Re-read] 'River on Fire' by Scott Pratt: 4.5-stars (Re-read)

JUNE
1. 'When You Are Engulfed in Flames' by David Sedaris: 3-stars
2. 'Lanny' by Max Porter: 1-star

JULY
1. 'The Remains of the Day' by Kazuo Ishiguro: 4-stars

AUGUST
1. 'The Dead' by Christian Kracht: 2-stars
2. 'The Spectator Bird' by Wallace Stegner: 5-stars
3. 'This Tender Land' by William Kent Krueger: 3-stars

SEPTEMBER
1. 'The Damascus Road' by Jay Parini: 4-stars
2. 'The Slaves of Solitude' by Patrick Hamilton: 4.25-stars

OCTOBER
1. 'Temptation' by Janos Szekely: 5-stars

NOVEMBER
1. 'Chess Story' by Stefan Zweig: 3-stars

DECEMBER
1. [Re-read) 'Crime and Punishment' by Fyodor Dostoevsky: 5-stars

TO BE READ POTENTIAL FOR 2020

1. Killing Commendatore - Haruki Murakami ✔
2. Barack Obama Presidential Memoir: A Promised Land
3. A Manual for Cleaning Women - Lucia Berlin
4. The Time of Our Singing - Richard Powers
5. The Spectator Bird - Wallace Stegner ✔
6. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ✔
7. Chess Story - Stefan Zweig ✔
8. Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
9. The North Water - Ian McGuire ✔
10. The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates ✔
11. The Dead - Christian Kracht ✔
12. Temptation - Janos Szekely ✔
13. The Heart's Invisible Furies - John Boyne
14. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
15. The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey ✔
16. This Tender Land - William Kent Krueger ✔
17. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
18. The Eight Mountains - Paulo Cognetti
19. A Death in the Family - James Agee
20. The Slaves of Solitude - Patrick Hamilton ✔
21. Ducks, Newburyport - Lucy Ellmann
22. The Damascus Road - Jay Parini ✔
23. The Bear - Andrew Krivak ✔
24. The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories - Various ✔
25. The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories - Various
26. The New Yorker Short Stories - Various ✔
27. Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart ✔
28. (Re-read) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky ✔
29. Apropos of Nothing - Wood Allen
30. (Re-read) River on Fire - Scott Pratt ✔
31. Lanny - Max Porter ✔

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Great list, Cindle! Best of luck with your reading goal :)

Good luck, Cindle! May you enjoy all those books and many more :)