2025 Reading Challenge discussion

I'm excited for another year! Hoping to up my reading game a little bit and focus on being a bit more intentional with my reading choices. My goal is to read at least 70 books this coming year

Good luck, Mikaela!

Thank you, Lisa! I appreciate it

Below I have listed the books I have read so far in 2021 and will continue adding books as the year goes on:

January
1) Midnight Sun by Stephanie Meyer
2) Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien
3) The World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4) The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
5) Emma by Jane Austen


February
6) At Home in Mitford - Jan Karon
7) Bikinis and Murder - H Y Hanna
8) Dress Coded - Carrie Firestone
9) You Had Me at Hola - Alexis Daria


March
10) The Lucky Dog Matchmaking Service - Beth Kendrick
11) Front Desk - Kelly Yang
12) Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
13) Tea with Milk and Murder - H Y Hanna
14) The Office of Historical Corrections - Danielle Evans
15) Crescendo of Chaos - Victoria Lauren
16) Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

April
17) Frond and Enemies - H Y Hanna
18) You Can't Touch My Hair - Phoebe Robinson
19) The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20) The Duke and I - Julia Quinn
21) Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
22) The Viscount Who Loved Me - Julia Quinn
23) An Offer From a Gentleman - Julia Quinn
24) Cassandra Steps Out - Isabelle Bottier

May
25) Death by Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake - Sarah Graves
26) Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
27) Romancing Mister Bridgerton - Julia Quinn
28) Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo
29) Dying for Chocolate - Diane Mott Davidson
30) To Sir Phillip, With Love - Julia Quinn
31) Cereal Murders - Diane Mott Davidson
32) The Last Suppers - Diane Mott Davidson

June
33) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone- J K Rowling
34) Killer Pancake - Diane Mott Davidson
35) When He Was Wicked - Julia Quinn
36) How the Penguins Saved Veronica - Hazel Prior
37) The Puma Years - Laura Coleman
38) The Inheritance Games - Jennifer Lynn Barnes
39) Carry On - Rainbow Rowell
40) The Main Corpse - Diane Mott Davidson

July
41) Wayward Son - Rainbow Rowell
42) The Hopefuls - Jennifer Close
43) More Than Just a Pretty Face - Syed M. Masood
44) We Can't Keep Meeting Like This - Rachel Lynn Solomon
45) The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls

August
46) How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy -Jenny Odell
47) The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd
48) The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
49) Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? - Beverly Daniel Tatum
50) Beach Read - Emily Henry
51) Girl in Translation - Jean Kwok
52) The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
53) Chocolat - Joanne Harris

September
54) Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex - Angela Chen
55) The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
56) Return of the King - Brian Windhorst
57) Gap Creek - Robert Morgan
58) The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris - Jenny Colgan
59) White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Robin DiAngelo
60) Death by Darjeeling - Laura Childs
61) The Hawthorne Legacy - Jennifer Lynn Barnes
62) Graceling - Kristin Cashore
63) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J K Rowling

October
64) Laundry Love - Patric Richardson
65) Fifty Words for Rain - Asha Lemmie
66) It's In His Kiss - Julia Quinn
67) The Secret History - Donna Tartt
68) Terrier - Tamora Pierce
69) Sweet Bean Paste - Durian Sukegawa

November
70) Esperanza Rising - Pam Munoz Ryan
71) The Accidental Empress - Allison Pataki
72) Yasmin! - Saadia Faruqi
73) Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
74) The Red Pyramid - Rick Riordan
75) Where Have All the Bees Gone?: Pollinators in Crisis - Rebecca E. Hirsch
76) The Secret of the Old Clock - Carolyn Keene
77) Just like Heaven - Julia Quinn

December
78) The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America - Richard Rothstein
79) Perestroika in Paris - Jane Smiley

I hope you go beyond your 70 book resolution! Best of Luck!

Thank you! I really appreciate it :)

Blagica wrote: "I hope you go beyond your 70 book resolution! Best of Luck!
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Hope your reading is going well!

Blagica wrote: "Hope your reading is going well!"

It is going well! Thank you :)