2025 Reading Challenge discussion

This is my place to plan my reading, track my goals, and collect all the things I sign up for. Welcome to any visitors or passers-by! Feel free to say hi :)


My 2021 Member's Corner
My 2020 Member's Corner

Reading goals
- Goodreads challenge: 1 book. An experiment to not focus on number of books this year.
- Making an actual TBR jar to get through my existing physical TBR
- Continuing allllll the series
- Experiment: moodread in stead of having a set TBR for the first quarter
- Diversify (higher % POC authors than 2021, same for female authors and non binary authors)
- More non-English authors (higher % than 2021)
- Read 75% of books hauled in the year I hauled them

Yearly challenges
📚Bookworms Take Shelfies, message 25 Completed
📚Penguins & Polar Bears, message 13 Completed
📚TBR Jar, message 10

Quarterly challenges

Monthly challenges

📚May: Meme Myself and I. Message 8

Challenges/games elsewhere
Ongoing:
📚Help Me Decide 2021/22 (CCC): message 608
📚Help Me Decide 2022/23 (CCC): message 32
📚Reading Roulette: message 9
📚Shrink That TBR (CCC): message 62
📚Book Title Chain (CCC): thread
📚Journey on the Orient Express (CCC): message 16
📚Connections (CCC): message 7
📚Deck of Cards (CCC): message 34

TBR Twins
📚January: I read The Final Girl Support Group with Caitlin

Buddy reads
📚March: Fahrenheit 451, Buddy read thread
📚July/August: A Clash of Kings, Buddy read thread
📚October: We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Buddy read thread

Group reads

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

📚Continuing series:
-The Wormwood Trilogy: The Rosewater Insurrection
-The Thursday Murder Club: The Man Who Died Twice
-Mistborn, Era 1: The Well of Ascension
-The Murderbot Diaries: Rogue Protocol
-The Lunar Chronicles: Scarlet
-The Farseer Trilogy: Royal Assassin
-The Poppy War: The Burning God
-A Song of Ice and Fire: A Clash of Kings
-Imperial Radch: Ancillary Sword
-The Talisman: Black House
-Throne of Glass: Crown of Midnight Heir of Fire
-The Arcadia Project: Phantom Pains Impostor Syndrome
-Stillhouse Lake: Killman Creek Wolfhunter River?
-Between Earth and Sky: Fevered Star
-A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder: Good Girl, Bad Blood As Good As Dead
-The Green Bone Saga: Jade War Jade Legacy
-Supernatural Investigations: Amari and the Great Game
-The Chronicles of St. Mary’s: A Symphony of Echoes A Second Chance
-The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three The Waste Lands
-Fred the Vampire Accountant: Undeath and Taxes
-Discworld (reread): Sourcery Wyrd Sisters Pyramids Guards! Guards!
-The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth (but reread original trilogy first after the tv series is done)
-Alex Stern: Hell Bent (not out yet)
-The Drowning Empire: The Bone Shard Emperor The Bone Shard War(not out yet)
-The Kystrom Chronicles: unnamed book 2 (not out yet)
-Arc of a Scythe: The Toll
-Molly Southbourne: The Survival of Molly Southbourne The Legacy of Molly Southbourne
-Night Angel: Beyond the Shadows

📚Books from my physical owned TBR:
-The 4 remaining books on shelf “books-i-started-but-never-finished”. If I don’t read them in 2022 I’ll never read them.
-The 4 books I put on “paused” in 2021. 1 left!
-Go through the rest with a TBR jar.

📚Other:
-House of Leaves buddyread with Ashley or Chloe
-GoT 3 with booksforcee once I’m there?
-Crime and Punishment with Jayne
-The Shining with Chelsea

Keeping track of my owned TBR
Starting point of my owned TBR, including books I’m currently reading:
1/1/2022: 51 books: 44 physical books, 7 ebooks.

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

📚January: 53 books: 47 physical: +4 -1, 6 ebooks: -1
📚February: 52 books: 46 physical: -1, 6 ebooks: +1 -1
📚March: 49 books: 43 physical: +1 -4, 6 ebooks: +2 -2
📚April: 50 books: 43 physical: +/-0, 7 ebooks: +4 -3
📚May: 52 books: 46 physical: +5 -2, 6 ebooks: +2 -3
📚June: 61 books: 55 physical: +10 -1, 6 ebooks: +3 -3
📚July: 59 books: 54 physical: -1, 5 ebooks: +1 -2
📚August: 58 books: 52 physical: +1 -3, 6 ebooks: +3 -2
📚September: 60 books: 56 physical: +4, 4 ebooks: -2
📚October: 63 books: 58 physical: +2, 5 ebooks: +2 -1
📚November: 64 books: 56 physical: +2 -4, 8 ebooks: +5 -2
📚December: 69 books: 58 physical: +2, 11 ebooks: +4 -1

January
📚Plans: ✅The Toll (LastToRead bookclub), ✅Iron Widow (Space Sirens bookclub), ❌Wild Beauty (Rachels bookclub), ✅The Final Girl Support Group (TBR twin). ❌Caraval buddyread?
✅Do Zack and Casey’s readathon.
❌HelpMeDecide challenge.
✅TBR jar.

📚Reality:
Finished Thunderhead
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons (TBR jar, reread)
The Final Support Group
Sourcery (reread)
Orphan X
Fence volume 1
Iron Widow
Holes
The Toll

February
📚Plans: ✅City of Brass (buddyread with Olivia, from the 6th), ✅Ancillary Justice (Space Sirens, 19-25), ✅Girl A (Chloe’s bookclub, 1-5), 📖Anna Karenina (buddyread BnB), ❌Well of Ascension (buddyread BnB), ✅The Scorpion’s Head (ARC)
✅Flashback February readathon (Casey)
❌Help Me Decide
❌TBR jar

📚Reality:
Flashforward (reread)
Girl A
The Scorpion’s Head (ARC)
Ancillary Justice
The City of Brass

March
📚Plans: ✅Fahrenheit 451 (buddyread with Ushashi and others), ✅Stringers (Arc, dnf), ✅Caraval (Last to read bookclub, from the 23rd), ✅Wyrd Sisters (reread), ❌Royal Assassin, ✅Borderline (Space Sirens, from the 19th), ✅finish Anna Karenina, ✅finish The Talisman, ✅The Starless Sea (BnB buddyread), ✅Macbeth?
Spooky Spring: 📖Lightning (reread), ✅Barst, ✅The Surgeon
Help Me Decide
✅TBR Jar

📚Reality:
The Talisman (reread)
Macbeth
Fahrenheit 451
Wyrd Sisters (reread)
Anna Karenina
Barst
The Starless Sea
Borderline
Stringers (dnf)
Caraval
De chirurg

April
📚Plans: ✅finish Lightning, ✅Good Omens (reread, buddyread with Cassandy, after 11/4), ✅The Good Daughter (Chloe’s bookclub, from the 4th), 📖Neverwhere (reread, Last to read bookclub, after 11/4), ✅Ninth House (BnB buddyread)
Spooky Spring: ✅Stillhouse Lake (audio), ✅The Survival of Molly Southbourne (after 11/4), ✅Frankenstein, ❌I Am Pilgrim, ✅Echo (11/4), 📖Desperation? (TBR jar)
✅Magical Hopathon
✅Help Me Decide
❌TBR Jar

📚Reality:
Finished Lightning (reread)
De witte kamer
The Survival of Molly Southbourne
Ninth House
The Good Daughter
Frankenstein
Good Omens (reread)
Echo
Stillhouse Lake

May
📚Plans: ❌finish Neverwhere (reread), ✅Far From the Light of Heaven (Space Sirens), ❌Pyramids (reread), ✅Jade City (BnB buddyread), 📖The Path of Thorns (arc, pub half June), ✅finish Desperation (tbr jar), ✅The Bone Shard Emperor (insta vote, buddy with Nikki), ❌I Am Pilgrim, 📖The Lighthouse Witches (tbr jar), ❌The To Do List (library)
✅Help Me Decide
✅TBR jar

📚Reality:
Desperation
The Bone Shard Emperor
Coraline
Jade City
Far From the Light of Heaven
Crown of Midnight

June
📚Plans: ✅The Nothing Man (Chloe’s bookclub, 13th-17th), ✅Black Sun (BnB buddy read), 📖The Duke and I (BnB readalong), ✅Stardust (buddy with Jayne and mollie), ✅Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore (buddy with Jayne), ❌The Drawing of the Three, ✅Killman Creek, ✅The Legacy of Molly Southbourne, ❌Borne (picked by owwrpod), ✅finish The Path of Thorns, ❌finish The Lighthouse Witches, ❌finish Neverwhere, ✅Phantom Pains
✅Team Readathon Goodreads
✅BnB team readathon
✅Help Me Decide
TBR Jar

📚Reality:
The Legacy of Molly Southbourne
The Path of Thorns (ARC)
Phantom Pains
Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Killman Creek
The Nothing Man
Stardust
Black Sun

July
📚Plans: 📖A Clash of Kings (buddyread), 📖I Am Pilgrim, ✅The Liar of Red Valley (arc, pub 19/7?), ✅Amari and the Night Brothers (Space Sirens, start 21st), ❌Book of Night (BnB buddyread), ✅De Repairclub, 📖The Book of M (Insta poll)
Help Me Decide
TBR jar

📚Reality:
Onbreekbaar
The Duke and I (dnf)
The Liar of Red Valley (arc)
De Repair Club
Om nooit te vergeten
Amari and the Night Brothers

August
📚Plans: ✅Finish Book of M, 📖finish Clash of Kings, 📖finish I Am Pilgrim, ✅Feed (Chloe’s bookclub), 📖Jade War (buddy with Ayunda), ❌Light from Uncommon Stars (Space Sirens), ✅Terra Nullius (last to read bookclub), ✅The Fifth Season reread? (BnB buddy read), ✅Piranesi (buddy with Jayne), 📖Zero (library, Reading Roulette), ✅Good Girl Bad Blood (library), ✅The Princess Bride (Insta dg buddyread), ❌The Psychology of Time Travel (Reading Roulette), 📖finish The Lighthouse Witches
Help Me Decide
Reading Roulette
TBR jar

📚Reality:
The Book of M
The Princess Bride (dnf)
Piranesi
Terra Nullius
Feed (dnf)
The Fifth Season (reread)
Stories of Your Life and Others
De helaasheid der dingen
Good Girl Bad Blood

September
📚Plans: ✅finish Jade War, ✅The Enigma of Room 622 (arc, pub 15/9), ❌The Immortality Thief (arc, pub 11/10), ❌Witches of Ash and Ruin (Space Sirens), ❌Project Hail Mary (BnB buddy read)
Bookoplathon: ❌Boek, ❌Anxious People
Reading Roulette: 📖Zero, 📖The Psychology of Time Travel

📚Reality:
Jade War
Ajax Penumbra: 1969
The Enigma of Room 622 (DNF)

October
📚Plans: ❌Sweetpea (Chloe’s bookclub), ❌We Have Always Lived in the Castle (buddyread), 📖Into the Drowning Deep (BnB buddy), ❌Plain Bad Heroines (Space Sirens), ✅The Immortality Thief
Haunted House Readathon optionals: ❌A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, ❌Black House, ❌Fantasticland, ❌Borne, ❌Dry

📚Reality:
The Psychology of Time Travel
The Immortality Thief
The Lighthouse Witches

November
📚Plans: ✅Legends and Lattes (Space Sirens), ❌The Bear and the Nightingale (BnB buddy read), ❌Royal Assassin (TBR Jar), ❌Black House, ✅finish De Magdalenacodex, ✅finish Into the Drowning Deep, ✅finish Zero, ✅finish Pyramids, ❌The Butterfly Garden (Chloe’s book club, audio on Scribd), ❌The Rosewater Insurrection, ✅A Symphony of Echoes, 📖Beyond the Shadows, ✅The Drawing of the Three, 📖November

📚Reality:
Into the Drowning Deep
Zero
A Symphony of Echoes
Pyramids
De Magdalenacodex
Legends & Lattes (dnf)
The Drawing of the Three

December
📚Plans: ❌The Lost Apothecary (buddyread with Amber Kayla Justine), ✅The Christmas Killer, ❌Amari and the Great Game?, Royal Assassin (TBR jar), ❌Black House, ✅finish Beyond the Shadows, 📖finish November
✅LDRathon
Christmas readathon Ceri

📚Reality:
Beyond the Shadows
The Spanish Love Deception
The Soulmate Equation
The Christmas Killer (dnf)
The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred the Vampire Accountant
Vagevuur

Q1 stats

Q2 stats

Q3 stats

Q4 stats

Shelf of bookcovers

Physical books hauled in 2022 (and did I read them)
January:
💰✅The Final Girl Support Group
🎁Royal Assassin
🎁Winter's Orbit
🎁✅The City of Brass
March:
🎁A Clash of Kings
🎁✅Het oneindige verhaal (read before haul)
May:
🎁Omringd door idioten
🎁De echoman
🎁✅De Repair Club
💰Dromen androïden van electrische schapen?
💰SF Verhalen 6
June:
💰✅Hex (read before haul)
💰Juliette of het geluk van boeken
💰Code 39
💰✅De helaasheid der dingen
💰✅Piranesi
💰Verity
💰The Man Who Died Twice
💰The Night Circus
💰The Shining
🎁De 19 dingen die je nooit met collega's moet doen
🎁Zeven talen in zeven dagen
August:
💰The Priory of the Orange Tree
September:
💰Fairy Tale
💰Later
💰The Well of Ascension
💰The Appeal
October:
💰If You Could See Me Now
💰✅Ogen van tijgers (read before haul)
💰✅Neverwhere
💰✅The Starless Sea
💰Nation
November:
💰Blake's 7
💰November
December:
💰✅The Secret History(read before haul)
💰My Best Friend's Exorcism
🎁The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Approved ARCs by pubdate
March: ✅The Scorpion’s Head, Pushkin Press, pub 8-3, arch 3-2
April: ✅Stringers, Angry Robot, pub 12-4, arch 1-4
June: ✅The Path of Thorns, Titan Books, pub 14-6, arch 14-6
July: ✅The Liar of Red Valley, Rebellion Publishing/Solaris, pub 19-7, arch 12-7
September: ✅The Enigma of Room 622, Quercus Books, pub: 15-9, arch 19-9
October: ✅The Immortality Thief, Rebellion Publishing/Solaris, pub: 11-10, arch 4-10
February 2023: A Blackness Absolute, Ghost Orchid Press, pub: 21-02-2023 (not via Netgalley)
March 2023: A Good House for Children, Serpent’s Tail, pub: 1-3-2023, arch : 1-3-2023
The Ten Percent Thief, Rebellion Publishing/Solaris, pub: 28-3-2023, arch: 21-3-2023
Camp Zero, John Murray Press, pub: 30-3-2023, arch: 30-3-2023

2022 Summer Readathon planning:
June 3 - June 12
Team thread

Mostly certain June reads:
Black Sun
Stardust
The Duke and I
Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore (book about books, new author, team book!)
The Drawing of the Three
Killman Creek (set by freshwater)

Possibilities:
Jade War (gemstone in title)
Mr Mercedes (Edgar Award winner)
Phantom Pains (physical disability)
The Man in the Queue (published 1929)

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Hi! Good luck with your goals.

AurorainBookland wrote: "Hi! Good luck with your goals."

Thanks!

2023 reading plans:
January:
February:
March: The Only Good Indians (Chloe’s book club)
April: Spooky Spring round 2?

2023 goals brainstorm:
▪️Series: pick a few specific series to focus on continuing/finishing
▪️Challenges: officially abandon some long running ones I’m not going to finish? Don’t start a lot of new ones!
▪️Physical tbr: keep track of my hauled books again, and get that number down
▪️Work through rereading the little pile of books I’m not sure I want to keep.
▪️Prioritize my own picks and work books over random book clubs and buddy reads.