2025 Reading Challenge discussion

This is going to be the place where I plan what I want to read in 2022. The initial aim is 100 books. I have multiple targets for my reading this year like increasing the number of non-fictions, covering writers from across the world, reading more books written in Indian languages etc. So here goes the initial plan:

Books released in 2022 (10)
* Pulitzer winner
* Booker shortlist (6)
* TBD
* TBD
* TBD

Classics (5)
*War and Peace✅
*Great Expectations
*The Scarlet Letter
*Fahrenheit 451✅
*The Master and Margarita
*Lord of the Flies✅

Bengali and Indian Translated (10)
*Cobalt Blue✅
*Tamas
*ঢোঁড়াই চরিত মানস
*কোজাগর
*Raag Darbari
*চোখের বালি
*চরিত্রহীন
* TBD
* TBD
* TBD

World Literature Translated (10)
* Flights✅
* The Discomfort of Evening
* The Vegetarian✅
* The House of the Spirits
* The General of the Dead Army
* Snow
* International Booker Winner 2022
* TBD
* TBD
* TBD


Non-fictions and Biographies (10)
* I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
* Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
* In Cold Blood
* Twelve Years a Slave
* A Brief History of Time
* The Feminine Mystique ✅
* The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History ✅
* TBD
* TBD
* TBD

Previous Booker/Pulitzer/NBA Winners/ Nominees (10)
*Milkman
*The God of Small Things
*Hamnet ✅
*The Dutch House ✅
*Atonement
*Giovanni's Room
*The Sympathizer
*In a Free State ✅
*Gilead ✅
* TBD

Other Literary Fictions (10)
*Circe
*The Silence of the Girls ✅
*Homegoing
*Memoirs of a Geisha
*10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World✅
*Girl with the Pearl Earring
*A Little Life
* TBD
* TBD
* TBD

Genre Dabble (Suspense/Horror/ Fantasy/ YA/ Romance) (10)
*The Doomsday Conspiracy
*Scythe ✅
*The Prodigal Daughter
*Radio Silence ✅
*The Stand
*Wyrd Sisters
*The Palace of Illusions
*The Hunting Party ✅
*The Last Thing He Told Me
* TBD

ARCs (5)
* The Seawomen ✅
* Young Mungo
* TBD
* TBD
* TBD

Yearly Challenge: Let's Turn Pages - 2022

Message #26 Thread link

Progress: 6173/30000 Pages

January: Pages 1524
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February: Pages 1453
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March: Pages 1796
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April: Pages 1400
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Yearly Challenge: A-Z CHALLENGE: AUTHORS

Message #40 Thread Link

Progress: 15/26

✅ A: Ann Patchett - The Dutch House
✅ B: Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay - অশনি-সংকেত
✅ C: Chloe Timms - The Seawomen
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✅ E: Elif Shafak - 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
✅ F: Lucy Foley - The Hunting Party
✅ G: George Orwell - Animal Farm
✅ H: Han Kang - The Vegetarian
✅ I: Isaac Asimov - Foundation
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✅ K: Sachin Kundalkar - Cobalt Blue
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✅ M: Martha Wells - All Systems Red
✅N: Neal Shusterman - Scythe
✅ O: Alice Oseman - Radio Silence
✅ P: Pat Barker - The Silence of the Girls
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✅ R: Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
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✅ T: Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
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✅ W: William Golding - Lord of the Flies
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Yearly Challenge: Diversity in Reading
To qualify for this challenge, the book must be written by an author(s) who is different from you. The difference could be in race, gender, sexual orientation, geography, nationality, religion, family background, language, ability, etc.

Message: #28 Thread Link

Progress: 11/20

*Race (Non-Indian subcontinent)
✅The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (USA)
✅ 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak (Turkey)
✅Animal Farm by Geroge Orwell (UK)


*Gender (Not cis-female)
✅Lord of the Flies by William Golding
✅Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
✅Scythe by Neal Shusterman


*LGBT+
✅Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar
✅Radio Silence by Alice Oseman


*Language (Originally written in anything other than English or Bengali)
✅ The Vegetarian by Han Kang (Korean)
✅ Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (Polish)
✅ War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Russian)

Yearly Challenge: BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES

Message: #74 Thread Link

Progress: 7/35

A Book Genre (Suspense/Thriller): 1/4
1. The Hunting Party
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Book Length (500+ pages): 2/4
1. The Feminine Mystique
2. War and Peace
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Diversity (World literature translated): 2/10
1. The Vegetarian
2. Flights
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Heritage & Culture (Bengali Literature): 1/5
1. অশনি-সংকেত
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A Literary Award (Booker Prize): 1/8
1. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (Booker Shortlist 2019)
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Memoirs, Auto-Biographies, and Biographies: 0/4
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