2025 Reading Challenge discussion

I've now completed 10 books in this challenge (message 88). I will try to complete some more while starting also the 2016 Popsugar challenge.

The Popsugar Reading Challenge

Changed some to my own suits, and some because there was no legal targets. For the banned book, I can't find a way to find banned books today, so I read one that has been banned.

1. A book with more than 500 Pages - The Bonfire of the Vanities
2. A classic romance - Persuasion
3. A book that became a movie - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
4. A book published this year (2015) - Mistress Of The Ages
5. A book with a number in the title - Around the World in 80 Days
6. A book written by someone under 30 - Frankenstein
7. A book with nonhuman characters - Legend of the Sword
8. A funny book - The Cat Who Came In From The Cold
9. A book by a female author - The Misremembered Man
10. A mystery or thriller - The Skull Ring
11. A book with a one word title - Elfhunter
12. A book of short stories - Tales of Oescienne, Volume One
13. A book set in a different country - Mønsteret rakner
14. A nonfiction book - Xerxes
15. A popular author's first book - When the Lion Feeds
16. A book from an author you love that you haven't read yet - Dead Soul
17. A book a friend recommended - Little Women
18. A Pulitzer Prize winning book - To Kill a Mockingbird
19. A book based on a true story - Heart of Darkness
20. A book at the bottom of your to-read list - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
21. A book your mom loves - The House of the Spirits
22. A book that scares you - The Shining
23. A book more than 100 years old - Oroonoko
24. A book based entirely on its cover - The Home and the World
25. A book you have planned to read since school, but didn't - A Wrinkle in Time
26. A memoir
27. A book that you can finish in a day - The Time Machine
28. A book with antonyms in the title
29. A book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit - Drop City
30. A book that came out the year you were born
31. A book with bad reviews - The Turn of the Screw
32. A trilogy - The Lord of the Rings
33. A book from your childhood - Victoria
34. A book with a love triangle - Stormfulle Høyder
35. A book set in the future - The Glass Bead Game
36. A book set in high school - Carrie
37. A book with a color in the title - A Clockwork Orange
38. A book that made you cry - Never Let Me Go
39. A book with magic - Ravenshade
40. A book you have postponed for a long time - Almost Heaven
41. A book by an author you've never read before - Thaïs
42. A book you own, but have never read - Fire and Ice
43. A book that is written by someone from your hometown - Jernjomfruen
44. A book that was originally written in a different language - Broken April
45. A book set during Christmas - A Christmas Carol
46. A book written by an author with two of your initials (D.M.H.Ø).
47. A play - Et Dukkehjem
48. A banned book - Trekket mot nord
49. A book based on or turned into a TV show - Jane Eyre
50. A book you started, but never finished - The Weight of Blood

46/50

So close, but I doubt I will be able to fill in more. Hopefully next year I will do every task!

Winter wrote: "
The Popsugar Reading Challenge


Changed some to my own suits, and some because there was no legal targets. For the banned book, I can't find a way to find banned books today, so I read one that..."


I am totally impressed! You should do a glory dance for getting so much reading done.

Thank you ^^

Here is my 2015 Pop Sugar challenge, all done :) This was a lot of fun. I won't be doing it for 2016 for various reasons, but I am proud to have finished it for 2015.

✔500+ pages: City of Saints and Madmen ★★★★★ (Counted twice, for 500+ pages and for the trilogy, but also read twice.)
✔Classic romance: Carmilla ★★★★☆ (Yeah, I know. But Wuthering Heights is 500 pages.)
✔Book that became a movie: Heart of Darkness ★★★★☆
✔Published this year: Secrets from the Eating Lab: The Science of Weight Loss, the Myth of Willpower, and Why You Should Never Diet Again ★★★★☆
✔Number in the title: The Seventh Bride ★★★★☆
✔Author under 30: Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters ★★★☆☆
✔Nonhuman characters: Streets of Shadows★★★★☆
✔Funny book: I Could Pee on This And Other Poems by Cats ★★★★☆
✔Female author: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing ★★★★★
✔Mystery/Thriller: Wylding Hall ★★★★☆
✔One word title: Alice ★★★★★
✔Book of short stories: The Knife Thrower and Other Stories★★★★☆
✔Set in a different country: Tainaron: Mail from Another City ★★★☆☆
✔Nonfiction: A Culture of High Performance: Achieving Higher Quality at a Lower Cost ★★★★☆
✔Popular author's first book: The Martian ★★★★☆
✔Book from an author you love that you haven't read yet: A Red-Rose Chain, ★★★★★
✔Book a friend recommended: Rolling in the Deep ★★★★☆ (Thanks, Karen!)
✔Pulitzer Prize winner: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History ★★★★★ (2015 nonfiction Pulitzer)
✔Based on a true story: Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography, ★★★☆☆
✔From the bottom of your TBR: The Turn of the Screw, ★★☆☆☆
✔Book Mom loves: The Annotated Hobbit: The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again, no rating
✔Book that scares you: Between the World and Me ★★★★★
✔More than 100 years old: The Castle of Otranto ★★☆☆☆
✔Book based entirely on its cover: Wild Children ★★★★★★
Supposed to read in school but didn't: Life is too short to force myself to read Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose works are the only thing that fit this category.
✔Memoir: Crazy Brave: A Memoir ★★★☆☆
✔Finish in a day: Captive Prince: Volume Two ★★★★☆
✔Antonyms in the title: Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things ★★★★★
✔Set somewhere you've always wanted to visit: Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 2015: The Travel Skills Handbook ★★★☆☆
✔Published the year you were born: Doorways in the Sand ★★★★★★
✔Book with bad reviews: The Sea Came in at Midnight★★★★★★ (Don't they all have bad reviews? From somebody? Somewhere? Some of the reviews on this one are quite amazingly bad.)
✔✔✔Trilogy: Ambergris (City of Saints and Madmen, Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch) Overall, ★★★★☆
✔Book from your childhood: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, ★★★★★
✔Has a love triangle: The Land of Laughs ★★★★☆
✔Set in the future: The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories ★★★☆☆ (Book published in 1895 set in the 1920s.)
✔Set in high school: Lips Touch: Three Times ★★★★★ (First story, "Goblin Fruit," is set in high school.)
✔Color in the title: Blue Horses: Poems ★☆☆☆☆
✔Book that made you cry: A Monster Calls ★★★★★★ (I teared up, at least. Counts!)
✔Book with magic: The Last Wish ★★☆☆☆
✔Graphic novel: Personal Demons★★★★☆
✔By an author you've never read before: Captive Prince: Volume One★★★★☆
✔Book you own but have never read: HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! & Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects, ★★★★☆
✔Set in your hometown: River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado ★★☆☆☆
✔Originally written in a different language: Final Poems ★★★★★
✔Set during Christmas: Letters from Father Christmas ★★★☆☆
✔By an author with your same initials: Boy Nobody ★★★☆☆
✔Play: Macbeth: Third Series ★★★☆☆
✔Banned book: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories★★★★★
✔Based on or turned into a TV show: The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition ★★★★☆ (TV miniseries "Alice")
✔Book you started but never finished: The Winter Long ★★★★☆