2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Attempting to read 52 books in 2024

Goals:
* Read 52 books
* Read 10 Australian novels
* Read 10 Translated novels
* Reduce physical TBR
* Finish prompts on the TBR jar challenge

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Read 52 Books: 46/52

Finished:


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Read 10 Australian novels 7/10

Potential TBR
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Late, a novel
Dropbear
In Moonland
Grace Beside Me
The Modern
New Animal
One Day We're All Going to Die
Sad Girl Novel: The funny and smart debut for fans of Monica Heisey and Coco Mellors
The Spill
That Deadman Dance
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Read 10 Translated novels 5/10

Potential TBR
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Childhood / Youth / Dependency
The Woman in the Purple Skirt
Who Among Us?
We Had to Remove This Post
The Wall
Violeta
The Three-Body Problem
Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night
Shoko's Smile: Stories
Secret Rendezvous
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Reduce physical TBR 14/29

Physical TBR
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1: The Professor by Charlotte Bronte
2: Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
3: More Letters of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
4: Howards End by E.M Forster
5: Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespheare ✅
6: Zami: A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lorde
7: Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
8: When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
9: The Vagrants by Yiyun Li ✅
10: A Room with a View by E.M Forster ✅
11: The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
13: Bruny by Heather Rose ✅
14: Jane Austen & Crime by Susannah Fullerton
15: Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
16: Lies by Enrique de Heriz
17: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson ✅
18: Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay ✅
19: Selected Poems from Williams Wordsworth
20: We'll Meet Again in San Francisco ✅
21: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell ✅
22: Just Kids
23: Down and Out in Paris and London ✅
24: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ✅
25: Idol, Burning by Rin Usami ✅
26: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney ✅
27: Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell
28: If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin ✅
29: Never Lie by Freida McFadden ✅
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Here's to a year of literary feats! May your reading adventures in 2024 be filled with joy, enlightenment, and countless moments of pure magic. Best of luck on your quest to conquer those bookshelves!

physical TBR books

physical: 11/23
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ebook: 2/14
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audiobook: 6/44

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A belated well-wishing for your reading challenge in 2024, Jami! You're doing great :)

Did you enjoy It Would Be Night in Caracas? Considering I was born in Venezuela, I've been meaning to pick it up ever since it was released, but then I keep "forgetting", so this might just be the push I needed ;D

Best of luck on your reading journey!