2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Starting the year off with a goal of 75 books.
Increased to 106.

Yearly Challenges:
Let's Turn Pages
Popsugar Reading Challenge COMPLETED
Clear the Shelves
TBR Jar

Quarterly Challenges:

Monthly Challenges:
Reading Rivalry January
Reading Rivalry February
We Put a Spell On You March COMPLETED
Reading Rivalry March
Reading Rivalry April
O.W.L.s Readathon 2020 COMPLETED
Words & Whimsy Journey to Faerie (June)
Words & Whimsy Dead Men Tell No Tales (July)
Words & Whimsy Kitchen Showdown (August)
Words & Whimsy Virtue & Valour (September)
Words & Whimsy Something Wicked (October)
Words & Whimsy May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor (November)
Words & Whimsy Island of Misfit Toys (December)

Let's Turn Pages
Duration January 1, 2020- December 31, 2020
32,956/37,000 pages
106 Books
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1. The Guinevere Deception (337)
2. Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance (448)
3. Fun Home (234)
4. Gathering Blue (183)
5. Pumpkinheads (209)
6. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (88)
7. Messenger (142)
8. Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered (304)
9. Son (304)
10. Home Work (560)
11. The Grace Year (408)
12. Scavenge the Stars (327)
13. A Curse So Dark and Lonely (484)
14. I Find You in the Darkness (192)
15. Dracula (326)
16. A Heart So Fierce and Broken (450)
17. Every Heart a Doorway (173)
18. House of Earth & Blood (803)
19. Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore (328)
20. The Last Wish (320)
21. Charlotte Bronte Before Jane Eyre (112)
22. All the Stars and Teeth (373)
23. I Am the Messenger (357)
24. shot glass confessional (120)
25. The Little Paris Bookshop (370)
26. Jane Eyre (444)
27. M is for Magic (278)
28. Break Your Glass Slippers (133)
29. The Castle of Otranto (125)
30. The Alcazar (451)
31. Where the Sidewalk Ends (176)
32. Cheshire Crossing (128)
33. Fly Away Home (401)
34. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (370)
35. 20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair (70)
36. Salem's Lot (451)
37. The Kingdom of Back (313)
38. SHOUT (296)
39. Conceal, Don't Feel (312)
40. The Art of Racing in the Rain (321)
41. I Needed a Viking (192)
42. Ten Thousand Doors of January (374)
43. Aurora Burning (512)
44. The Paris Hours (272)
45. Cut & Run (~120)
46. A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Graphic Novel (88)
47. A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (520)
48. The Cheerleaders (384)
49. They Called Me Dragon (174)
50. Silent Squall (208)
51. The Assassin's Blade (435)
52. The Circus Rose (288)
53. One to Watch (423)
54. Witchy (268)
55. Girls Save the World in This One (432)
56. Twilight (498)
57. The Good Luck Girls (352)
58. Bone Crier's Moon (480)
59. Firefly: The Unification War Vol. 1 (144)
60. Where Dreams Descend (452)
61. New Moon (563)
62. The Salt in His Kiss (196)
63. Open Book (416)
64. Dry (390)
65. Ella Minnow Pea (191)
66. Midnight Sun (662)
67. Paris is Always a Good Idea (352)
68. Big Friendship (256)
69. Girl, Serpent, Thorn (336)
70. Goddess in the Machine (389)
71. The Great Gatsby: The Graphic Novel (208)
72. Silver Linings Playbook (290)
73. Star Daughter (435)
74. Baby Teeth (309)
75. The Road (241)
76. Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (277)
77. The Four Loves (135)
78. Anxious People (352)
79. Strawberry Shortcake Murder (320)
80. Fortunately, the Milk (128)
81. Drama (238)
82. The House in the Cerulean Sea (393)
83. Tru & Nelle (341)
84. Horrid (322)
85. Wilder Girls (357)
86. The Haunting of Hill House (235)
87. Blueberry Muffin Murder (320)
88. Lemon Meringue Pie Murder (313)
89. Fatal Throne (389)
90. Devolution (286)
91. One For the Books (300)
92. Beautiful Hero: How We Survived the Khmer Rouge (326)
93. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry (372)
94. Gmorning, Gnight (207)
95. The Backstagers, Vol. 1 (109)
96. Warcross (366)
97. Fable (357)
98. I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf (128)
99. The Duke and I (384)
100. The Girl and the Goddess (352)
101. Death on the Nile (318)
102. Hercule Poirot's Christmas (272)
103. The Backstagers Vol. 2 (112)
104. Advent in Narnia (112)
105. Live in Grace, Walk in Love (432)
106. Agnes at the End of the World (432)
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Popsugar Reading Challenge
Duration January 1, 2020- December 31, 2020

40/40
10/10
COMPLETED 12/7/2020
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1. A book that's published in 2020 - Scavenge the Stars
2. A book by a trans or nonbinary author - Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
3. A book with a great first line - Where Dreams Descend
4. A book about a book club - One for the Books
5. A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics - The Little Paris Bookshop
6. A bildungsroman - Jane Eyre
7. The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed - The Girl and the Goddess: Stories and Poems of Divine Wisdom
8. A book with an upside-down image on the cover - The ​Alcazar
9. A book with a map - A Curse So Dark and Lonely
10. A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club - Every Heart a Doorway
11. An anthology - M Is for Magic
12. A book that passes the Bechdel test - The Grace Year
13. A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it - Fly Away Home
14. A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name - Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
15. A book about or involving social media - One to Watch
16. A book that has a book on the cover - Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
17. A medical thriller - Wilder Girls
18. A book with a made-up language - A Heart So Fierce and Broken
19. A book set in a country beginning with "C" - Beautiful Hero: How We Survived the Khmer Rouge
20. A book you picked because the title caught your attention - Cheshire Crossing
21. A book published the month of your birthday - The Ten Thousand Doors of January
22. A book about or by a woman in STEM - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
23. A book that won an award in 2019 - SHOUT
24. A book on a subject you know nothing about - The Art of Racing in the Rain
25. A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics - shot glass confessional
26. A book with a pun in the title - Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
27. A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins - Dracula
28. A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character - Aurora Burning
29. A book with a bird on the cover - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
30. A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader - Fatal Throne
31. A book with "gold," "silver," or "bronze" in the title - The Silver Linings Playbook
32. A book by a WOC - The Kingdom of Back
33. A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads - The Assassin's Blade
34. A book you meant to read in 2019 - The Haunting of Hill House
35. A book with a three-word title - Conceal, Don't Feel
36. A book with a pink cover - Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance
37. A Western - The Good Luck Girls
38. A book by or about a journalist - Tru & Nelle
39. Read a banned book during Banned Books Week - Drama
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge - (Featuring a mythical creature) - They Called Me Dragon: A Narrative Account of My Adventures on the Planet Earth

Advanced

41. A book written by an author in their 20s: I Am the Messenger
42. A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
43. A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision) - The Last Wish
44. A book set in the 1920s - The Paris Hours
45. A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics - Warcross
46. A book by an author who has written more than 20 books - Gathering Blue
47. A book with more than 20 letters in its title - The Guinevere Deception
48. A book published in the 20th century - 'Salem's Lot
49. A book from a series with more than 20 books - Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
50. A book with a main character in their 20s - Son
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Clear the Shelves
Duration January 1, 2020- December 31, 2020

16/25
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Physical:

3:16 The Number of Hope
Advent in Narnia
All We Ever Wanted
The Art of Racing in the Rain
The Assassin's Blade
Autobiography of a Face
Beautiful Disaster
Beautiful Ruins
Best Friends Forever
The Blue Bear
Bohemian Paris
The Book of the Dun Cow
The Boston Girl
A Change in Altitude
Circling the Sun
Code Name Verity
Committed
Conceal Don't Feel
Crier's War
Crown of Feathers
Dangerous Alliance
The Danish Way of Parenting
The Dovekeepers
Dry
An Ember in the Ashes
Ernest Hemingway: A Biography
Everybody Always
Every Day
Extras
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Classic Works
Facing Your Giants
Fly Away Home
The Forgotten Garden
Fortune's Rocks
The Four Loves
Furyborn
The Gilded Wolves
Goodnight Desdemona
The Grace Year
The Guinevere Deception
The Happiness Project
The Haunting of Hill House
Hocus Pocus and the All New Sequel
I Am the Messenger
I'd Die For You and Other Lost Stories
Islands in the Stream
King of Scars
The Kingmaker's Daughter
The Lady of the Rivers
The Last Boyfriend
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 2
The Little House in the Big Woods
The Little Paris Bookshop
The Lost Girls
Love and Ruin
The Love Dare
Mary, Called Magdalene
Moonlight Over Paris
Nevernight
The Next Always
Once & Future
Paradise Lost
Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings
Peony in Love
Perelandra
The Pilot's Wife
The Perfect Hope
Pretties
The Red Queen
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
The Sex Lives of Cannibals
Shadow of the Fox
Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough
Specials
Ten Thousand Doors of January
The Testaments
Then Came You
They Called Me Dragon
Thunderhead
Tiger Queen
The Toll
Treasure Island
True at First Light
The Trumpet of the Swan
Uglies
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Unconditional Parenting
The Unicorn Treasury
The White Princess
The White Queen
Writers Gone Wild
Year One
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eBooks:
Beautiful Exiles
Beautiful Hero: How We Survived the Khmer Rouge
The Designer
Elfin
Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen
The Great Passage
The Green Ember
Happy Doomsday
Helen of Sparta
Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations
If I Speak True
In the Company of the Courtesan
A Killer's Mind
Killing Hemingway
The King Tides
The Man Who Could Be King
The Marvelous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter
The Mermaid's Sister
Midair
Misadventures of a Virgin
Never Again So Close
Outlander
P.S. from Paris
Paper Boats
The Ripple Trilogy: Books 1-3 of The Ripple Series
Rock Needs River: A Memoir About a Very Open Adoption
The Rule of One
Secondborn
Sisters One, Two, Three
Smoke and Summons
The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores
The Unbroken Line of the Moon
Under the Dome
Whisper Me This
The Winter Sea
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Wreckage
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TBR Jar
Duration January 1, 2020- December 31, 2020
9/12
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My 15 possibilities:
1. Beautiful Disaster
2. The Road
3. Fly Away Home
4. The Storyteller
5. Jane Eyre
6. Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
7. Uglies
8. Tru & Nelle
9. Dry
10. Gathering Blue
11. Love Letters to the Dead
12. The Overneath
13. A Curse So Dark and Lonely
14. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
15. The Forgotten Garden

Reading Rivalry - January
Theme: Friends
Team: Pheobe
Duration: January 1, 2020 - January 25, 2020
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1: Author Highlight (Cassandra Clare, Nora Roberts/JD Robb, Brigid Kemmerer)
2: A Book About Friendship: Pumpkinheads
3: A Book Set In NY or Written by Someone from NY
4: A Book Written by an Asian Author: Shadow of the Fox
5: A Book By An Author Who Has Written More than 10 Books: Gathering Blue
6: A Book With a Couch or Coffee on the Cover
7: A Book With More Than 20 Letters in The Title The Guinevere Deception
8: A Book with a Break Up
9: A Book With A Main Character in Their 20s - Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance
10: A Comedy
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Reading Rivalry - February
Theme: Strong Women
Team: The First Ladies (Michelle Obama)
Duration: February 1, 2020 - February 25, 2020
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1: Author Highlight (Christina Lauren, Kristin Hannah, Lisa Jewell):
2: Book From Oprah's Book Club:
3: Fake to Real Relationship:
4: A Book by a Female Author: Scavenge the Stars
5: A Biography/Autobiography/Memoir: Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years
6: Book Celebrating Black History Month:
7: Book with a Pink/Red Cover: The Grace Year
8: Book with a Male and Female POV: Son
9: Book that Won an Award in 2019:
10: Book You Did Not Get To On Your TBR: A Curse So Dark and Lonely (hide spoiler)]

We Put a Spell on You
March 1, 2020-March 31, 2020
COMPLETED: 3/27/20
6/6

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L - The Last Wish
I - I Am the Messenger
L - The Little Paris Bookshop
A - All the Stars and Teeth
C - Charlotte Brontë Before Jane EyreConceal, Don't Feel
S - shot glass confessional
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Reading Rivalry - March
Theme: Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman
Team: Illuminae
Duration: March 1, 2020 - March 25, 2020
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1: Author Highlight (Marie Lu, Sophie Kinsella, Libba Bray)
2: Book From The "1000 Books You May Have Actually Read" List You've Never Read (https://libraryof1000books.wordpress.... Frankenstein
3: A Book by an Author You Think Should Be Highlighted
4: A Space Opera
5: #SquadGoals : House of Earth and Blood
6: Book With a Characters Name That You Would Use to Name Your Child
7: Revenge Plot
8: Hate to Love
9: Book With an Opening Line that Grabs Your Attention: I Am the Messenger
10: Book Published During Your Birthday Month (hide spoiler)]

Reading Rivalry - April
Theme: Star Wars
Team: Team FinnPoe
Duration: April 1, 2020 - April 25, 2020
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1: Author Highlight (Karin Slaughter, Liane Moriarty, Maggie Steifvater)
2: Book Featuring a Rebellion - The Castle of Otranto
3: Book Featuring a Dynamic Duo - 'Salem's Lot
4: A Dystopian Novel
5: Book That Ends on an Even Numbered Page - SHOUT
6: Book that Takes You To Another Place/World -M Is for Magic
7: Book with a Robot/AI/Cyborg Character
8: Book with a Happy Ending - The ​Alcazar
9: Star Crossed Lovers - Jane Eyre
10: Book with a "Brooding Male" - The Kingdom of Back
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O.W.L.s Readathon 2020
Duration: April 1, 2020 - April 30, 2020

Chosen Profession: Hogwarts Professor
7/7
COMPLETED 4/25/20
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Astronomy - read mostly at night - The Kingdom of Back
DADA - set at the sea/coast - The ​Alcazar
Arithmancy - outside of your usual genre - 'Salem's Lot
Muggle Studies - contemporary - Fly Away Home
Divination - randomizer - Jane Eyre
Potions - under 150 pages - Break Your Glass Slippers
Herbology - title starts with M - M Is for Magic

Mermaid Linguistics Seminar
1/1
Herbology - title starts with M - M Is for Magic

Other:
Charms - Book with a white cover - Where the Sidewalk Ends

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Words & Whimsy Journey to Faerie
Duration: June 1, 2020 - June 28, 2020
Autumn Court
#UnSeelie

Words & Whimsy Dead Men Tell No Tales
Duration: July 1 - July 28, 2020
Shipwreck Bay
#wwShipwreckBay

Words & Whimsy Kitchen Showdown
Duration: August 1 - August 28, 2020
Messy Microwaves
#wwMessyMicrowaves

Words & Whimsy Virtue & Valour
Duration: September 1 - September 28
Faire Maidens
#wwFaireMaidens

Words & Whimsy Something Wicked
Duration: October 1 - October 28
Biddy Early - Irish Herbalist
#wwBiddyEarly

Words & Whimsy May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor
Duration: November 1 - November 28
District 12
#wwDistrict12

Words & Whimsy Island of Misfit Toys
Duration: December 1 - December 23
Charlie-in-the-Box
#wwcharlieinthebox