2025 Reading Challenge discussion

This is my first reading challenge, and I've only gotten back into reading regularly in the past year, so I started with a modest goal of 20 books. Much to my surprise, I've already met that goal, so I increased it to 30 books. I'm also challenging myself to make most of the remaining books I read novels, though I won't pass up a good short story or fun quick read if it presents itself! I have 20 books currently on my TBR list, but new recommendations are always welcome.

You're doing great :)

D.L. wrote: "You're doing great :)"

Thank you, D.L.! I appreciate the encouragement :)

I forgot to list my books so far, so here you go. They're listed from oldest to newest:

1. The Silent Patient
2. Nine Horses
3. Everything My Mother Taught Me
4. The Weddings
5. Can You Feel This?
6. Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants
7. The Lion's Den
8. Zenith Man
9. Where the Forest Meets the Stars
10. She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
11. Know My Name: A Memoir
12. The Overdue Life of Amy Byler
13. A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
14. Adulthood Is a Myth
15. Big Mushy Happy Lump
16. Herding Cats
17. The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
18. The Murmur of Bees
19. The Stillwater Girls
20. The Storyteller's Secret
21. One Child: The True Story of a Tormented Six-Year-Old and the Brilliant Teacher Who Reached Out

22. Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes

My two newest books:

23. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
24. In the Dream House: A Memoir

25. What's Left of Me Is Yours

26. The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story

27. Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison

28. The Last of the Moon Girls

I think I'm going to have to increase my challenge again. I've had more time to read lately!

29. The Turn of the Key

30. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

Challenge completed :)

31. Norwegian Wood

32. Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

33. My Dark Vanessa

34. Honeysuckle Season

35. The Color Purple

36. The Vanishing Half

37. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

38. No Ordinary Life

39. Cardiff, by the Sea: Four Novellas of Suspense
40. Don't Look for Me
41. The Tiger's Child: What Ever Happened to Sheila?

42. Stray
43. Please Like Me But Keep Away
44. Confessions on the 7:45

45. Death By Scrabble
46. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
47. Home Before Dark

48. Dear Child
49. Circle of Doubt
50. Seven Perfect Things: A Novel
51. A Turtle's Guide to Introversion

52. Invisible Girl

53. Void Fate: A Novel
54. Goodnight Beautiful
55. Single Mother
56. The Bright Side of Going Dark
57. When I Was You

58. My Monsterpiece
59. Come Take Me: A Celestial Satire
60. The Midnight Library
61. A Caller's Game
62. The Good Sister