2025 Reading Challenge discussion

1. Testament Prometeusza by Paweł Kowal ★★★☆☆
2. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden ★★★★★
3. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham ★★★★☆
4. To Live by Yu Hua ★★★★★
5. China in Ten Words by Yu Hua ★★★★★
6. Tragedia na Przełęczy Diatłowa. Historia bez końca by Alice Lugen ★★★★☆
7. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick ★★★★★
8. Geisha, a Life by Mineko Iwasaki ★★★☆☆
9. The Manson Women and Me: Monsters, Morality, and Murder by Nikki Meredith ★☆☆☆☆
10. Hadji Murád by Leo Tolstoy ★★★★★
11. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore ★★★★☆
12. Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie ★★★☆☆
13. The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up by Liao Yiwu ★★★★★
14. Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews ★★★★☆
15. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson ★★★☆☆
16. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead ★☆☆☆☆
17. Palace of Treason by Jason Matthews ★★★★☆
18. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder ★★★★☆
19. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust ★★★★★
20. The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald ★★☆☆☆
21. Kwiaty w pudełku. Japonia oczami kobiet by Karolina Bednarz ★★★★★
22. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer ★★★★☆
23. Armenia. Karawany śmierci by Andrzej Brzeziecki, Agnieszka Nocuń ★★★★★
24. Planeta Kaukaz by Wojciech Górecki ★★★★★
25. Toast za przodków by Wojciech Górecki ★★★★★
26. Buran. Kirgiz wraca na koń by Wojciech Górecki ★★★★★
27. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier ★★★★★
28. Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov ★★★★★
29. Kolyma Stories by Varlam Shalamov ★★★★★
30. The Luzhin Defence by Vladimir Nabokov ★★★★★
31. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami ★★★★★
32. The Double and The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky ★★★★★
33. Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov ★★★★★
34. Frontier by Can Xue
35. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima ★★★★★

That is an awesome goal! Best of luck :)

That's so cool, Karolina! One of my foci this year is also to read more in foreign languages. I should be reading in Spanish, French, Danish (and maybe Portuguese) but guess we'll see how that goes.
Good luck to you!

ƒ wrote: "I agree! I'm not fluent yet in my target languages but I would love to read at least one book in French & one in Mandarin before the end of this year. Good luck to both of you!"

Lisa wrote: "That's so cool, Karolina! One of my foci this year is also to read more in foreign languages. I should be reading in Spanish, French, Danish (and maybe Portuguese) but guess we'll see how that goes..."

Great to see people there with similar goals, good luck!