2025 Reading Challenge discussion

MY 2025 READING CHALLENGE

my goals:

1: Read 52 books

2: Reduce owned TBR to under 10

3: Finish 25 in 25

1: Read 52 books

27/52

2: Reduce owned TBR down to 10

PROGRESS: 5/22

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owned books as of December 2024:
1: Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
2: When We Were Orphans
3: The Professor
4: A Passage to India
5: Mrs. Dalloway
6: More Letters of Oscar Wilde
7: The Love of the Last Tycoon
8: Jane Austen And Crime
9: Howards End
10: Eva Luna
11: A Clockwork Orange
12: Just Kids
13: The Life of Charlotte Brontë
14: Time Is a Mother
15: Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth2:
16: On James Baldwin


Completed:
1: Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes ✅
2: A Room of One’s Own ✅
3: Goodbye to Berlin ✅
4: Birnam Wood ✅
5: Jules et Jim ✅
6: A Dance with Dragons ✅

2025 TBR additions:
Sunrise on the Reaping - ✅
The Emperor of Gladness - ✅
The Fran Lebowitz Reader -
The Intimate City: Walking New York -
Three Novels of Old New York: The House of Mirth; The Custom of the Country; The Age of Innocence
Conversations on Love - ✅

25 IN 25

1-5 - Australian novels

1: Ruins - aug 12
2: The Peak ✅
3: The Season ✅
4: Beauty by Bri Lee ✅
5: Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport ✅

6-10 - Translated novels

6: The Savage Detectives
7: Eva Luna
8: Jules et Jim ✅
9:
10:

11-15 - owned novels

11: Just Kids ✅
12: Birnam Wood ✅
13: A Dance with Dragons ✅
14; Goodbye to Berlin ✅
15: Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes ✅

16-20 - new releases

16: Not Quite Dead Yet - ✅
17: Katabasis
18: The Favourites ✅
19: Sunrise on the Reaping ✅
20: The Golden Raven ✅

21-25 - most want to read backlist

21: Evenings and Weekends ✅
22: Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women ✅
23: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly ✅
24: The Savage Detectives
25: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland ✅

I'm in for 16

0/6 - Random picks

Jan-Feb: Jane Austen And Crime
Mar-Apr: A Burning
May-Jun:
Jul-Aug:
Sep-Oct:
Nov-Dec:

4/10 - prompts

1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest: A Room of One’s Own ✅

2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year: Evenings and Weekends ✅

3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages: A Dance with Dragons ✅

4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages: Describing the Past

5. Read the earliest published book on your TBR: Goodbye to Berlin ✅

6. Read the most recently published book that’s available on your TBR: She's Always Hungry: Stories

7. Read a book with the highest average rating on your TBR, or over 3.8 - The Season (4.25) ✅

8. Read a book with the lowest average rating on your TBR, or under 3.0 - TBD

9. Read the book with the most number of ratings (i.e., not the actual average rating, but the number of people who have rated it). - Farenheit 451

10. Read the book with the least number of ratings. - More Letters of Oscar Wilde

Great goals, jami! I love your setup and plans. I'm excited to comeback later in the year and see what books you've been reading 😊.

Have a great 2025! I hope it's filled you some fantastic bookish discoveries.
Have fun, and happy reading!

Hi Jamieson! You are making good progress on your goal! I hope you are enjoying lots of terrific books! Happy reading!

Hope you're getting closer to your goal and enjoying your 2025 reads, Jamieson!