2025 Reading Challenge discussion

My 2023 Reading Challenge: 101 books

Progress: 208/101

What I'm Reading This Month
More details about my reading are in my Reading Corner

READING CHALLENGE GROUP CHALLENGES
Bookworms Take Shelfies #39: - Complete
Clear The Shelves #36 - Complete
Magical Mystery Tour #38 - Complete
To Boldly Go #44 - Complete

Q1 - For All Humankind - #13
Q2 - Out of This World - #23
Q3 - Terra Incognita - #29

JANUARY READING
New around the world locations: Bahrain, Grenada, Guinea, Iraq, Morocco, Paraguay, São Tomé and Príncipe

Read:
1. 1925 South Africa: Chaka translated from Sesotho
2. 1945 Greece: Apartment in Athens
3. 1954 Guinea: The Dark Child translated from French
4. 1956 Paraguay: Zama translated from Spanish
5. 1973 Kyrgyzstan: The Ascent of Mount Fuji: A Play translated from Russian
6. 1977 Egypt: Woman at Point Zero translated from Arabic #WIT
7. 1989 Turkey, Israel, Palestine: A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
8. 2009 US+: The Tourist (Milo Weaver #1)
9. 2012 Iraq/US: I'm in Seattle, Where Are You?: A Memoir translated from Arabic
10. 2012 São Tomé and Príncipe: Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa
11. 2013 Bahrain: Who Shot Ahmed? A Mystery Unravels in Bahrain's Botched Arab Spring
12. 2013 Morocco: A Significant Year translated from French
13. 2013 US: The Golem and the Jinni
14. 2014 Wales: The Silent Quarry (DI Winter Meadows #1)
15. 2015 England: In the Market for Murder (Lady Hardcastle #2)
16. 2016 Nigeria: And After Many Days
17. 2017 England: In Farleigh Field
18. 2018 Grenada: Tell No-One About This
19. 2019 Rwanda: All Your Children, Scattered translated from French #WIT
20. 2019 El Salvador: What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
21. 2020 US: Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
22. 2021 Fantasy: The Witness for the Dead (The Cemeteries of Amalo #1)
23. 2021 India: A Mumbai Murder Mystery (A Temple Hills Mystery #1)
24. 2022 England: A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons (Saffron Everleigh #1)
25. 2022 Multiple: The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance #3)
26. 2022 US: Sleep No More (Lost Night Files #1)

FEBRUARY READING
New around the world locations: NA

Read:
27. 1863 Russia: The Cossacks translated from Russian
28. 1901 Germany: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family translated from German
29. 1926 Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria: The Seven Pillars of Wisdom: a triumph
30. 1950 Greece: Ill Met by Moonlight
31. 1956 France: Giovanni's Room
32. 2016 Spain: Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
33. 2016 US: A Doubter's Almanac
34. 2016 US: Bury Me When I'm Dead (Charlie Mack Motown Mystery #1)
35. 2016 Zimbabwe: Rotten Row
36. 2021 Ethiopia, Kenya: Unbury Our Dead With Song
37. 2021 US-PA: The Undertakers (Murder and Magic #2)
38. 2022 England: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
39. 2022 South Africa: The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning
40. 2022 Space: Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit #2)
41. 2022 Space: Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders #1)

Cool setup and selection of books,, Margie! Looking forward to seeing what you'll be reading in March :)

Lisa wrote: "Cool setup and selection of books,, Margie! Looking forward to seeing what you'll be reading in March :)"

Thanks, Lisa! I've tried different setups and this is what works best for me. Thanks for stopping by!

MARCH READING
New locations: Gibraltar, Isle of Man, Réunion

Read:
42. 1899 Hungary: Eclipse of the Crescent Moon translated from Hungarian
43. 1998 China: Crossing the Desert of Death
44. 2008 Gibraltar: Uneasy Relations
45. 2009 Australia: Truth
46. 2010 DRC: Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
47. 2010 Russia: The Crimean War: A History
48. 2012 Isle of Man: Safe House
49. 2017 Réunion: Madeleine's Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France's Indian Ocean Colonies
50. 2017 US: They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
51. 2018 Africa: A Stranger's Pose
52. 2018 Spain: Berta Isla translated from Spanish
53. 2021 Egypt: Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
54. 2022 Fantasy: Sweetwater & the Witch
55. 2022 US: The Cloisters
56. 2022 US: The Light Pirate
57. 2023 Canada/US: VenCo

APRIL READING
New locations: Croatia, Saint Barthélemy

Read:
58. 1962 England: Cover Her Face (Adam Dagliesh #1)
59. 1981 US: Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
60. 1993 Balkans: Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
61. 2000 Greenland+: The Sea Road
62. 2003 Saint Barthélemy: Murder In St. Barts
63. 2005 Space: Old Man's War
64. 2010 Germany+: The Nearest Exit (Milo Weaver #2)
65. 2011 Middle East: Empire of Sand: How Britain Made the Middle East
66. 2012 Greece: The Green Shore
67. 2015 India: The Kolkata Conundrum: An Orko Deb Mystery
68. 2016 Croatia: We Trade Our Night for Someone Else's Day txl from Croatian #WIT
69. 2018 US: Ohio
70. 2022 England: The Librarian of Crooked Lane
71. 2022 Fantasy: Legends & Lattes
72. 2022 US-TX: Sweep of the Heart
73. 2023 US-DE: Magic Tides

MAY READING
New locations: Benin, Nepal

Read:
74. 1924 US: There Is Confusion
75. 1928 Germany, France: All Quiet on the Western Front translated from German
76. 1939 US: The Grapes of Wrath
77. 1952 Italy: The Forbidden Notebook translated from Italian #WIT
78. 1980 Canada: Basic Black with Pearls
79. 2002 Benin: Show Me the Magic: Travels Round Benin by Taxi
80. 2003 England: The Oxford Murders translated from Spanish
81. 2007 Nepal: Tilled Earth : Stories
82. 2013 US: Braiding Sweetgrass
83. 2013 Fantasy: The Mist-Torn Witches
84. 2014 Japan: All the Lovers in the Night translated from Japanese #WIT
85. 2014 US: Night Broken
86. 2015 Kuwait: Mama Hissa's Mice translated from Arabic
87. 2015 Philippines: In the Country
88. 2018 Japan: The Pachinko Parlor translated from Japanese #WIT
89. 2022 Canada: A World of Curiosities
90. 2022 France: When Blood Lies
91. 2022 US: Our Missing Hearts
92. 2023 England: The Last Remains
93. 2023 England: The Secrets of Hartwood Hall

June Reading
New locations: Hong Kong

Read:
94. 1978 England, Scotland: Eye of the Needle
95. 2002 North Africa: An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
96. 2004 Multiple: The 8:55 to Baghdad
97. 2010 Greece: Spies of the Balkans (Night Soldiers #11)
98. 2011 England: Prophecy
99. 2011 Ocean, Egypt: A Burial at Sea (Charles Lenox #5)
100. 2012 Multiple: A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Love Stories
101. 2012 South Africa: Blessed Are the Dead (Emmanual Cooper #3)
102. 2013 Greece: The Book of Katerina translated from Greek
103. 2014 Hong Kong: The Borrowed translated from Chinese
104. 2017 Europe: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
105. 2018 England: The Night Raven (Crow Investigations #1)
106. 2018 Fantasy: Lake Silence (The Others #6)
107. 2018 Spain: Red Queen translated from Spanish (Universo Reina Roja #3)
108. 2019 Fantasy: Wild Country (The Others #7)
109. 2021 Greece: The Wrong End of the Telescope
110. 2022 England: The Twyford Code
111. 2022 Malaysia: The Age of Goodbyes translated from Chinese #WIT
112. 2022 US: Sinister Graves (Cash Blackbear #3)
113. 2022 US: Trust

July Reading
New locations: Fiji, Macau, Timor-Leste

Read
114. 1766 England: The Vicar of Wakefield
115. 1790 England: Love and Friendship and Other Early Works
116. 1811 England: Sense and Sensibility
117. 1984 China: Empire of the Sun
118. 1985 US: Lonesome Dove
119. 1987 Timor-Leste: Funu: The Unfinished Saga of East Timor
120. 2012 Macau: The Red Pole of Macau
121. 2015 Spain: City of Good Death (Elisenda Domènech Investigations #1)
122. 2016 US: Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
123. 2018 Egypt: Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East
124. 2018 England: London Rules (Slough House #5)
125. 2019 Colombia: The Night Will Be Long translated from Spanish
126. 2020 US-CO: Suddenly Psychic
127. 2021 Colombia: Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena
128. 2021 England: The Secret Life of Miss Mary Bennet (The Secret Life of MissMaryBennet #1)
129. 2022 England: The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789–1830
130. 2023 Bahrain: The Peacock and the Sparrow
131. 2023 Egypt: Covert in Cairo (Fiona Figg & Kitty Lane #2)
132. 2023 Fiji: A Disappearance in Fiji
133. 2023 Singapore: The Great Reclamation
134. 2023 US-TX: Night Will Find You

August Reading
New locations: British Indian Ocean Territory, New Caledonia, Togo

Read:
135. 1946 Greece: Three Summers translated from Greek #WIT
136. 2005 New Caledonia: The Kanak Apple Season: Selected Short Fiction of Dewe Gorode translated from French #WIT
137. 2012 Central Asia: Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia
138. 2012 US/China: An American Spy (Milo Weaver #3)
139. 2013 Togo: Descent into Night translated from French
140. 2016 Argentina: Things We Lost in the Fire translated from Spanish #WIT
141. 2019 France: The Paris Diversion
142. 2019 Kazakhstan: A Shadow Intelligence
143. 2020 British Indian Ocean Territory: An Impossible Return txl from French #WIT
144. 2021 US: Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity
145. 2022 Sri Lanka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
146. 2022 US: Alive At The End Of The World
147. 2023 Antarctica, England, US: Ink Blood Sister Scribe
148. 2023 England: A Most Agreeable Murder
149. 2023 Sri Lanka: Brotherless Night
150. 2023 US: All the Sinners Bleed
151. 2023 US: Mobility
152. 2023 US: Ordinary Notes
153. 2023 US: The Night Flowers

September Reading
New locations: Qatar, Yemen

Read:
154. 1977 Hong Kong: The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley #6)
155. 1987 England: Gallows View (Inspector Banks #1)
156. 2002 Israel: A Tale of Love and Darkness translated from Hebrew
157. 2008 South Africa: Random Violence (Jade de Jong #1)
158. 2010 Sudan: Who Fears Death
159. 2013 US: Blood Dazzler
160. 2014 Yemen: Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen
161. 2016 England: Exposure
162. 2017 Central Asia: Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia
163. 2017 England: Slouch Witch
164. 2019 Australia: Darkness for Light (Caleb Zelig #3)
165. 2019 Qatar: Love From A to Z
166. 2021 US: Gated Prey (Eve Ronin #3)
167. 2023 England: Divine Rivals
168. 2023 Space: Translation State

October Reading
New locations: None

Read
169. 2011 US - SD: Nearly Departed in Deadwood
170. 2016 US - WA: Fire Touched (Mercy Thompson #9)
171. 2017 Multiple: Silence Fallen (Mercy Thompson #10)
172. 2020 Ireland: The Searcher
173. 2022 England: The Raven Song (A Conspiracy of Magic #2)

November Reading
New locations: Madagascar, Solomon Islands

Read
174. 1839 Multiple: Selected works of Edgar Allan Poe: THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, THE BLACK CAT
175. 1945 England: Brideshead Revisited
176. 2011 England, US: A Discovery of Witches
177. 2011 Russia: Eastbound translated from French #WIT
178. 1996 Italy, Puerto Rico, Space: The Sparrow
179. 2008 US: How Fiction Works
180. 2011 Solomon Islands: Devil-Devil
181. 2019 New Zealand: A Madness of Sunshine
182. 2020 Egypt: The Lost Americans
183. 2020 Indonesia+: The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
184. 2020 Palestine: Passage to the Plaza translated from Arabic #WIT
185. 2021 Madagascar: The Gardens of Mars: Madagascar, an Island Story
186. 2023 Jupiter: The Mimicking of Known Successes
187. 2023 Multiple: The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
188. 2023 US-CO: Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

DECEMBER READING
New locations: None

Read
189. 1923 Ukraine: The White Guard translated from Russian
190. 1948 England: The Heat of the Day
191. 1971 Germany: Reunion
192. 1987 Greece: The Jaguar translated from Greek
193. 1992 Greece: Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture translated from Greek
194. 1992 Spain: A Heart So White translated from Spanish
195. 1999 England: Aunt Dimity's Christmas
196. 2000 Turkey: Out of Istanbul: A Journey of Discovery along the Silk Road txl from French
197. 2007 Turkey: The Snake Stone
198. 2012 US: The Year of Reading Dangerously
199. 2015 Greece: Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know
200. 2016 US: All the Single Ladies
201. 2017 Algeria, France: The Art of Losing translated from French #WIT
202. 2017 US: The Mother of All Questions
203. 2020 Japan: What You Are Looking For Is in the Library txl from Japanese #WIT
204. 2020 Mexico: Witches translated from Spanish #WIT
205. 2022 US: Calling for a Blanket Dance
206. 2023 Spain: Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War
207. 2023 Turkey: Stone and Shadow: A Novel translated from Turkish
208. 2023 US-PA: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store