2025 Reading Challenge discussion

I have already drawn up a list

1: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.
Read this when I was 17 and would like to read it again. I bought the audio version some time ago.
2: The Son-in-Law by Charity Norman; the audio book version
3: The Murder Bag by Tony Parsons; audio book version
4: The Songs of the Kings by Barry Unsworth; audio book version
5: Chilled to the Bone by Quentin Bates; audio book version
6: Where Women Are Kings by Christie Watson; audio book version
✔ 7: The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook; audio book version; gave up on it
8: The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad; audio book version
9: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; audio book version
✔ 10: Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron; audio book version
11: Murder Is Easy by Agatha Christie; audio book version
✔ 12: Orders from Berlin by Simon Tolkien; audio book version
✔ 13: Death in Holy Orders by P.D. James; audio book version
✔ 14: The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville by Clare Mulley; audio book version
15: South Riding by Winifred Holtby; audio book version
✔ 16: Fathers and Daughters by Anthea Fraser; audio book version; gave up on it
✔ 17: Burmese Days by George Orwell; audio book version
18: The Quincunx by Charles Palliser
19: An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
✔ 20: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
21: All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
22: Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter by J. Nozipo Maraire
23: The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
24: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
✔ 25: The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
26: The Constant Gardener by John le Carré; audio book version
✔ 27: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer; gave up on it
✔ 28: The Glass Room by Simon Mawer; currently reading
✔ 29: The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill; audio book version
30: Autobiography by Morrissey; audio book version
31: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
32: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
✔ 33: The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney; gave up on it
✔ 34: Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf; gave up on it
✔ 35: The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland; gave up on this one
✔ 36: What is the What by Dave Eggers; gave up on it
37: The Rebels' Hour by Lieve Joris
✔ 38: A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy by Thomas Buergenthal; gave up on this book
✔ 39: Call of the Jungle by Sabine Kuegler
40: Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
41: Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
✔ 42: Good Morning, Mr. Mandela: A Memoir by Zelda la Grange; gave up on this book
43: The Lighthouse by P.D. James; audio book version
43: China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran
44: Berlin Noir: March Violets / The Pale Criminal / A German Requiem by Philip Kerr. I read March Violets already and still need to read the other two books.
✔ 45: The Discreet Hero: A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa; gave up on this one

Other books I could read or might read: The Picture of Dorian Gray; Independent People; The Messenger of Athens; Layover in Dubai; The Old Man and the Sea; The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

As I easily abandon books, the list will probably change a lot.

I'm doing two yearly challenges: The listopia challenge and The A-Z challenge. And I'm going to keep track of my challenges here.

The A - Z challenge

A: The Silent Angel - Heinrich Böll
B: In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
C: The Coroner's Lunch - Colin Cotterill
D: Burmese Days - George Orwell
E: The Eyewitness - Ernst Weiss
F: Final Witness - Simon Tolkien
G: The Girl with All the Gifts - M.R. Carey
H: Death in Holy Orders - P.D.James
I: Ivanhoe - Walter Scott
J: Child of the Jungle: The True Story of a Girl Caught Between Two Worlds - Sabine Kuegler
K: The Kept - James Scott
L: Every Living Thing - James Herriot
M: The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville, Britain's First Female Special Agent of WWII - Clare Mulley
N: We Are Not Ourselves - Matthew Thomas
O: Orders from Berlin - Simon Tolkien
P: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Q: Martha Quest - Doris Lessing
R: Shadow of the Silk Road - C. Thubron
S: The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
T: Home of the Gentry - Ivan Turgenev
U: Morality Play - Barry Unsworth
V:
W: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Cheryl Strayed
X:
Y: What the Day Owes the Night - Yasmina Khadra
Z:

40+ Main Characters
1: The Picture of Dorian Gray
2:
3:

Best Books for an African Safari
1: The Grass is Singing
2: Martha Quest
3:

Around the World in Books
1: The Coroner's Lunch
2:
3:

Most Brilliant Historical Novels in the past 30 Years
1: Morality Play
2: The Glass Room
3:

Best Memoir, Biography, Autobiography
1: In Cold Blood
2: Child of the Jungle: The True Story of a Girl Caught Between Two Worlds
3: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Sorry for not adding links in post 2; I will add links later.

And I decided to do the I spy challenge as well.

1. Color: Half of a yellow sun
✔ 2. Number: The Third Man by Graham Greene
✔ 3. Things That Grow: The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
✔ 4. Seasons: A Long Winter by Colm Tóibín
✔ 5. First Name: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
✔ 6. Places: Orders from Berlin by Simon Tolkien
✔ 7. Body Part: The Eyewitness
8. Weapon
9. Body of Water:
10. Form of Water:
11. Product of Fire:
12. Celestial Body: A thousand splendid suns;
✔ 13. Architecture: The Glass Room
✔ 14. Senses: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
15. Royal Title: The songs of kings; Where women are kings
16. Family Member: The son-in-law; Daughter of fortune
17. Elements
✔ 18. Time of Day: What the Day Owes the Night by Yasmina Khadra
19. Metal
✔ 20. Emotion/Feeling: Sense and Sensibility; graphic novel by Nancy Butler
21. Animal/Insect:
✔ 22: Something to read: Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
✔ 23: Gender Identifier: The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
✔ 24. Paranormal Being: The Silent Angel by Heinrich Böll
✔ 25: The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill

For some years already, I'm reading 80 books around the world. Since I read only 6 books for this challenge in 2014, I hope to do more in 2015.

1: Indonesia: Call of the Jungle and Child of the Jungle: The True Story of a Girl Caught Between Two Worlds
2: Zimbabwe: The Grass is Singing
3: Algeria: What the Day Owes the Night
4: Myanmar: Burmese Days
5: Laos: The Coroner's Lunch
6: Austria: The Third Man
7: Czech Republic: The Glass Room
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I try to do this yearly challenge as well. Have no idea how far I will get with this one. Just doing this for fun. I intend to do only yearly challenges this year.

1. a book written by someone when they were under the age of 25
✔ 2. a book written by someone when they were over the age of 65: Death in Holy Orders by P.D. James
3. a collection of short stories
4. a book published by an indie press
✔ 5. a book by or about someone that identifies as LGBTQ: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
✔ 6. a book by a person whose gender is different from your own: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
✔ 7. a book that takes place in Asia: Burmese Days by George Orwell
✔ 8. a book by an author from Africa: What the Day Owes the Night by Yasmina Khadra
✔ 9. book that is by or about someone from an indigenous culture (Native Americans, Aboriginals, etc.): Call of the Jungle and Child of the Jungle: The True Story of a Girl Caught Between Two Worlds by Sabine Kuegler
10. a microhistory
11. a YA novel
✔ 12. a sci-fi novel: The Girl with All the Gifts by IvanhoeM.R. Carey
✔ 13. a romance novel: Home of the Gentry by Ivan Turgenev
14. a National Book Award, Man Booker Prize or Pulitzer Prize winner from the last decade
15. a book that is a retelling of a classic story (fairytale, Shakespearian play, classic novel, etc.)
✔ 16. an audiobook: Orders from Berlin by Simon Tolkien
17. a collection of poetry
✔ 18. a book that someone else has recommended to you: Martha Quest by Doris Lessing
✔ 19. a book that was originally published in another language: The Eyewitness by Ernst Weiss
20. graphic novel, a graphic memoir or a collection of comics of any kind: Sense and Sensibility
21. a book that you would consider a guilty pleasure
✔ 22. a book published before 1850: Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
23. a book published this year
24. a self-improvement book: The Spiritual Power of Empathy: Develop Your Intuitive Gifts for Compassionate Connection

So far I read following books from my list:
- Call of the Jungle
- Death in Holy Orders
- Orders from Berlin
- The Grass is Singing
- The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
- Burmese Days
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
- The Coroner's Lunch

I'm doing a decades challenge in another group

- 1800 till 1809
- 1810 till 1819: Ivanhoe
- 1820 till 1829:
- 1830 till 1839
- 1840 till 1849
- 1850 till 1859: Home of the Gentry
- 1860
- 1870
- 1880
- 1890 till 1899: The Picture of Dorian Gray
- 1900
- 1910
- 1920 till 1929: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- 1930 till 1939: Burmese Days
- 1940 till 1949: The Third Man
- 1950 till 1959: The Grass is Singing
- 1960 till 1969: In Cold Blood
- 1970 till 1979: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
- 1980
- 1990 till 1999: Every Living Thing
- 2000 till 2010: What the Day Owes the Night
- 2010 till 2015: The Kept

Is a the decade the book was set in or written in?

Meagan wrote: "Is a the decade the book was set in or written in?"

It is the decade the book was written in.

Other books I read from my list:
Shadow of the Silk Road

Currently reading: The Glass Room