2025 Reading Challenge discussion

All my stats and challenges! My goal is 30 books this year.

Books Read: 35
– New Reads: 32
– Re-reads: 3

Pages Read: 10,375

Genres:
– (Auto)biography/Memoir: 1
– Classic: 5
– Comic/Graphic Novel: 5
– Dystopian: 1
– Fantasy: 8
– Fiction: 2
– Mystery: 5
– Non-fiction: 3
– Play/Drama: 2
– Poetry/Verse: 2
– Romance: 1
– Science Fiction: 1

Authors:
– Female: 9
– Male: 16
– Nonbinary: 2

Ratings:
– ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: 7
– ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: 15
– ⭐️⭐️⭐️: 13
– ⭐️⭐️:
– ⭐️:

Formats:
– Book: 14
– E-book: 10
– Audiobook: 11

2023 Let's Turn Pages Challenge – Found here
✅ 10,375/10,000 (Motorist 🚗)

February: 668 pages
– Six of Crows - 465 pages
– Demon in the Wood - 203 pages

March: 667 pages
– Crooked Kingdom - 546 pages
– The Lives of Saints - 121 pages

April: 559 pages
– The Secret History - 559 pages

May: 1,176 pages
– Under the Whispering Door - 384 pages
– The Complete Phantom of the Opera - 167 pages
– The Tea Dragon Society - 73 pages
– Hawkeye by Fraction & Aja: The Saga of Barton and Bishop - 552 pages

June: 497 pages
– The Metamorphosis - 51 pages
– The Tea Dragon Festival - 135 pages
– The Tea Dragon Tapestry - 135 pages
– Life of the Party - 176 pages

July: 752 pages
– Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - 384 pages
– The Phantom of the Opera - 368 pages

August: 1,623 pages
– A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - 390 pages
– Good Girl, Bad Blood - 401 pages
– As Good As Dead - 552 pages
– Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave - 280 pages

September: 772 pages
– Kill Joy - 119 pages
– Brokeback Mountain - 36 pages
– The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - 100 pages
– The Way of the World - 92 pages
– Red, White & Royal Blue - 425 pages

October: 617 pages
– The Professor's House - 258 pages
– The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper - 359 pages

November: 1,361
–The Tale of Genji - 352 pages
– The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - 541 pages
– Marvel's Avengers Infinity War: The Official Movie Special Book - 96 pages
– The Nine Cloud Dream - 288 pages
– She Stoops to Conquer - 84 pages

December: 1,679
– Blankets - 592 pages
– Long Way Down- 332 pages
– Opposite of Always - 451 pages
– The Midnight Library - 304 pages

2023 Bookworms Take Shelfies Challenge – Found here
✅ 9/9

A Book Genre (Classics):
✅ The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka / 6.2.23
✅ The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux / 7.29.23
✅ The Professor's House by Willa Cather / 10.18.23

Diversity (Black Authors):
✅ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass / 8.31.23
✅ Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds / 12.16.23
✅ Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds / 12.28.23

Film & Theater (Have Adaptations):
✅ Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo / 2.12.23
✅ Hawkeye by Fraction & Aja: The Saga of Barton and Bishop by Matt Fraction / 5.31.23
✅ Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman / 7.15.23

2023 Adventure in Aeldia
– Found here: https://youtu.be/hAGr_byzqw8
– 120/200 points earned for books completed on time

January:
✅ Turn Left (start a series): Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo / 2.12.23

February:
✅ Go To The Forest (trees on the cover): Demon in the Wood by Leigh Bardugo / 2.28.23

March:
✅ Fight A Giant (over 500 pages): The Secret History by Donna Tartt / 4.30.23

April:
✅ Spring Equinox

May:
✅ Travel To Kerador (ends on odd page number): – The Tea Dragon Festival by Kay O'Neill 6.10.23

June:
✅ Stop By The Crossroad Tavern (has author's note): Life of the Party by Olivia Gatwood / 6.30.23

July:
✅ Pocket A Scroll Of Light Summons (read when it's light): The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux / 7.29.23

August:
✅ Autumn Equinox

September:
✅ Go On A Date (romance): Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston / 9.29.23

October:
✅ Adventure Together (has map): The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold / 10.31.23

November:
✅ A Rescue Quest (at risk of an unhaul): Marvel's Avengers Infinity War: The Official Movie Special Book by Titan Comics / 11.21.23

December:
✅ You Find An Owlcat Cub (cat or owl on cover): The Midnight Library by Matt Haig / 12.31.23

April 2023: Magical Readathon: Spring Equinox
– Found here: https://youtu.be/ROcPDsqmurs
✅ 0/50 points earned for completing books on time

Calling: Beast Master
✅ Alchemy (metal in the name): Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune / 5.14.23
✅ Animal Studies (flip a coin for fiction/non-fiction): The Complete Phantom of the Opera by George C. Perry / 5.21.23
✅ Elemental Studies (flowers on cover): The Tea Dragon Society by Kay O'Neill / 5.30.23
✅ Lore (contains map): Hawkeye by Fraction & Aja: The Saga of Barton and Bishop by Matt Fraction / 5.31.23
✅ Restoration (choose at random): The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka / 6.2.23

August 2023: Magical Readathon: Autumn Equinox
– Found here: https://youtu.be/Hxe_ZP6kflk
✅ 50/50 points earned for completing books on time (with 3 day extension moved from the 3 days before August to the 3 days after)

Calling: Beast Master

Alchemy:
✅ Stone to Copper (first in a series): A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson / 8.10.23

Animal Studies:
✅ Introduction to Domestic Creatures (pet pick): Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx / 9.3.23
✅ Drago Chicken Hatching (debut book): Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass / 8.31.23
✅ Bicorn Wolf Care (read within two days): Kill Joy by Holly Jackson / 9.3.23

Elemental Studies:
✅ Element of Earth (word "Earth" in title): REPLACED with Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson / 8.17.23

Restoration:
✅ Induce Sleep (start before bed): As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson / 8.31.23
✅ Relocating Pain (read in different spots each time you pick it up): The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson / 9.3.23

2023: Quests (Magical Readathon)
✅ 10/10 points earned

✅ Library Cats (letters S and P in title): The Professor's House by Willa Cather / 10.18.23