2025 Reading Challenge discussion

A place to plan my reading and collect the things I sign up for.

My 2020 Member's Corner

Personal Challenge:
40 books in 2021.
My Personal challenge thread

Progress: 78/40, challenge completed on August 18th!

Yearly Challenges:

📚Give us a Clue: Message 29, Progress 18/18, challenge completed!

📚Listopia: Message 13, Progress 10/10, challenge completed!

📚Popsugar: Message 19, Progress 20/20, challenge completed!

📚Serial Reader: Message 14, Progress 21/21, challenge completed!

📚Spell a Better World: Message 51, Progress 6/6, challenge completed!

Quarterly Challenges:
📚Q1: Best in Show. Hugo or Nebula shortlists/winners. Message 3, Progress 5/5, challenge completed!

Monthly Challenges:
📚March: One-Word Wonder, Message 9, progress 2/2, challenge completed!
📚April: Leading my own challenge We All Live in a Yellow Submarine, Message 5, progress 3/3, challenge completed!
📚June: Brain Power, Message 3, progress 3/3, challenge completed!
📚August: Opposites Attract, Message 14, progress 2/2 pairs, challenge completed!
📚October: Leading my own challenge Spooky Spelling, message 11, progress 5/5, challenge completed!
Magical Moments, message 11, progress 5/5, challenge completed!
📚November: Things with Wings, message 6, progress 3/3, challenge completed!
📚December: All the Jingle Ladies, message 6, progress 1/2, challenge not completed.

TBR Twin:
📚Participated in January: started reading Ninth House with Molly (but didn’t work out) and read Warbreaker with Kate
📚Participated in October: read The Twisted Ones with Lori

Buddy Reads:
📚January: I read The Gunslinger. Buddy read thread
📚February: I suggested and read Howl's Moving Castle. Buddy read thread
📚March: I suggested and read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Buddy read thread
📚April: I read Gemina. Buddy read thread
📚May
📚June: I read Vicious. Buddy read thread
I read The Thursday Murder Club. Buddy read thread
📚July: I read Vengeful. Buddy read thread
I suggested and read Obsidio. Buddy read thread
📚September: I signed up to read Assassin's Apprentice, ended up reading it in October Buddy read thread
📚October: I suggested and read Before the Coffee Gets Cold. Buddy read thread
I read Needful Things. Buddy read thread
📚December: I suggested and read One by One. Buddy read thread

Group Reads:
📚June: I read The Midnight Library
📚December: I read The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Books to read soon(ish):
A bit of a planning post, because I don’t want to forget prioritizing these.

📚Continuing series:
The Obelisk Gate The Stone Sky
The Dragon Republic The Burning God
The Secret Commonwealth (possibly reread original trilogy first or wait until after the tv series is done?)
Shadow's Edge Beyond the Shadows
Lirael Abhorsen
Gemina Obsidio
The Drawing of the Three
The Rosewater Insurrection
The Jinni Key The Cursed Hunter?
A Clash of Kings
Artificial Condition Rogue Protocol
The Light Fantastic Equal Rites Mort Sourcery (reread)
The Very First Damned Thing A Symphony of Echoes
The Well of Ascension
Good Girl, Bad Blood
The Survival of Molly Southbourne
Scarlet
Royal Assassin
Crown of Midnight
Thunderhead
The Bone Shard Emperor

📚Books from my physical owned TBR:
Any bookmarked books (my books-i-started-but-never-finished shelf) that I didn’t manage to read for the 2020Q4 Anything Goes quarterly challenge. Started the year with 9 books left. Currently 4 books left.

📚Other:
Warbreaker (I want to get started on Brandon Sanderson soon)
Wanderers (my Goodreads Secret Santa’s gift)
Rosewater, Vagabonds and The Hole (mytbr.co recs)
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was, Amatka and 1q84: de complete trilogie (mytbr.co round 2)
The Final Empire
Cloud Atlas (continue at some point this year)
Ninth House (continue soon)
Grunts!, Rusalka and Black House (anderwereld mystery box)
Orphan X (borrowed from Dad)

Keeping track of my owned TBR:
Starting point of my owned TBR, including books I’m currently reading:
1/1/2021: 51 books: 45 physical books, 6 ebooks.
31/12/2021: 51 books: 44 physical books, 7 ebooks.

Minus: read/dnf-ed/unhauled without reading
Plus: bought/gifted/got for free

📚January: 51 books: 44 physical: -1, 7 ebooks: +4 -3
📚February: 50 books: 44 physical: +/- 0, 6 ebooks: +3 -4
📚March: 49 books: 44 physical: +/- 0, 5 ebooks: +2 -3
📚April: 51 books: 46 physical: +5 -3, 5 ebooks: +3 -3
📚May: 52 books: 46 physical: +2 -2, 6 ebooks: +3 -2
📚June: 58 books: 52 physical: +7 -1, 6 ebooks: +2 -2
📚July: 57 books: 51 physical: -1, 6 ebooks: +3 -3
📚August: 58 books: 51 physical: +3 -3, 7 ebooks: +3 -2
📚September: 57 books: 49 physical: +1 -3, 8 ebooks: +2 -1
📚October: 53 books: 46 physical: -3, 7 ebooks: +2 -3
📚November: 52 books: 45 physical: -1, 7 ebooks: +2 -2
📚December: 51 books: 44 physical: +1 -2, 7 ebooks: +1 -1

Reading plans Q1:

📚January: ✅Finish Illuminae, ✅buddyread The Gunslinger, 📖TBR twin book Ninth House, ✅TBR twin book Warbreaker, ✅Redshirts
📚February: ❌Finish Ninth House, ✅Buddyread Howl’s moving castle, ✅Recursion with Alya, ✅The Obelisk Gate, ✅Gun with occasional music
📚March: ✅Buddyread Jonathan Strange&Mr. Norrell, ✅Spoonbenders, ✅Rosewater, ✅start Vagabonds, ❌reread Neverwhere?, 📖Raising Steam, ✅The Time Machine

Reading plans Q2:

📚April: ✅Buddyread Gemina, ✅finish Raising Steam, ✅Lirael, ❌finish Vagabonds (dnf), ✅The Bone Shard Daughter (space sirens bookclub), ✅Rubbernecker (random physical TBR pick)
📚May: ✅The once and future witches with Alya, ❌The Unbroken (space sirens bookclub, dnf), ✅Hex, ✅Haar naam was Sarah (random physical TBR pick), ❌ The French Affair (Dothethingathon, dnf)
📚June: ✅Buddyread Vicious (Scribd!), ✅Buddyread The Thursday Murder Club (random physical TBR pick & poll pick for Whateverathon), ✅The Midnight Library (Group book & poll pick), ✅The Stone Sky (Instagram poll), ✅maybe The Stolen Kingdom (space sirens, scribd), 📖Binti (audio)

25K Celebration:

📚 Participated in the two-week team readathon (25/3 - 7/4). Team Thread
📚 Signed up for the quarterly challenge (1/3 - 31/5). Message 8, progress 8/8, challenge completed!

Planning post for the 25K team readathon:
Definite reads:
✅Last two hundred pages of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, prompts: title consisting of 25 characters, 25 languages, 25 chapters, 25000 ratings, bibliophile.

Possible reads:
Reread Neverwhere, prompts: published 1996, 25000 ratings, author who has written for 25 or more years.
✅The Time Machine, prompts: 25 languages, 25000 ratings, author who has written for 25 or more years, author who has written 25 or more books.
✅Lirael, prompts: title with L, 25000 ratings, recommend to 25year old self, shelved in first month
✅Raising Steam, prompts: in a series with at least 12 or 25 books, 25000 ratings, author who has written for 25 or more years, author who has written 25 or more books
De kat in den boom, prompts: 25th book on TBR, shelved in first month
Nod, published in 2012
To Cut a Long Story Short, 12th book on TBR, shelved in first month
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text, written when author was under 25

Reading plans Q3:

📚July: ✅buddyread Vengeful (S+audio), ✅buddyread Obsidio and ✅Memento (S), ❌Abhorsen, ✅Shadow’s Edge, ❌The Dragon Republic? (S), ❌finish Grunts, ✅finish Binti, ✅Game of Thrones readalong, ✅The Space Between Worlds? (Space sirens), 📖Rabbits (audio), 📖1984 (HMD)
📚August: ❌Dry with Alya (S), ✅All Systems Red with Lana (S audio), ❌The City&the City? (random Wanttoread pick, S), ✅Abhorsen, ✅Rebecca (HMD), ✅Lupin?, ❌finish Grunts?, ✅To Cut a Long Story Short (book chain), ✅finish Rabbits, ✅finish 1984, ✅The Jinni Key, ✅The Colour of Magic (reread), ✅Just One Damned Thing After Another (HMD), ❌Cinder (HMD), 📖The Tempest
📚September: ❌buddyread Assassin’s Apprentice, ✅Dial A for Aunties (Rachel’s bookclub&bookoplathon), ✅Horrorstör (Chloe’s bookclub), ✅Kings of the Wyld with Lana, ✅The Light Fantastic (reread&bookoplathon), ❌Russisch blauw (bookoplathon), 📖Ilium (reread&bookoplathon), ✅The Final Empire (poll pick bookoplathon), ✅finish The Tempest, ❌Cinder (HMD)

Challenges/games elsewhere:
Done:
📚CCC readathon 28/8-2/9: message 4
📚September challenge Higher Education (CCC): message 15
📚CCC readathon 28/9-3/10: message 5
📚CCC readathon 28/11-3/12: message 2

Ongoing:
📚Help Me Decide (CCC): message 608
📚Shrink That TBR (CCC): message 62
📚Book Title Chain (CCC): thread
📚Journey on the Orient Express (CCC): message 16
📚Connections (CCC): message 7

Reading plans Q4:

📚October: ✅finish Ilium, ✅Before the coffee gets cold (buddyread), ✅A good girl’s guide to murder (S + audio, start at 3pm), ✅Needful Things (buddyread), ✅The Twisted Ones, ✅The Murders of Molly Southbourne, ✅Equal Rites, 📖Assassin’s Apprentice, ❌Frankenstein?, ✅Desperate Measures, ✅Artificial Condition, ✅Cinder, 📖The Martian
📚November: ✅finish Assassin’s Apprentice, ✅finish The Martian, 📖Mort, ✅Tender is the Flesh (Chloe’s bookclub, Scribd or NL from library?), ✅No One Will Miss Her (Saturdaybookstaclub), ✅Orakel (library), ❌Occupy Me (library)(dnf), ❌Orphan X, ✅Throne of Glass (Barbs readalong, S), ✅Scythe (Last to read bookclub, S), ❌Iron Widow (Space Sirens), ✅The Dragon Republic (S+ audio), ❌Stardust? (S plus audio), ❌The City of Brass? (S + audio), ✅Reread House in the Cerulean Sea, ✅The very first damned thing
📚December:
✅finish Mort
✅Without Disruption (ARC)
✅In a Holidaze
✅The Miniaturist (library)
✅The invisible life of Addie Larue (groupbook)
✅The door to december
✅This is how you lose the time war?
📖Thunderhead
📖Stories of your life and others
✅One by One (buddyread)
📖The Holiday Swap
❌Orphan X?
❌Crown of Midnight?
❌The Christmas Killer?
❌Wanderers
❌Iron Widow
❌Far from the light of heaven?
❌The bear and the nightingale? (NL bieb)
❌Wild Beauty? (Rachel’s bookclub)

Plans for 2022:

-Goodreads goal: 80? Change in plan: goal of 1 book. Don’t focus on getting big numbers!
-Make TBR jar for physical TBR
-Continuing alllll the series
-Try out no fully set TBR for the first quarter
-More library visits
-Netgalley?
-Continue HelpMeDecide challenge
-Diversify more
-Longer reviews?
-Bookstagram story reading updates?
-More non-English authors

2021 stats
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