2026 Reading Challenge discussion

Yearly Challenges:
- Personal Challenge Total: 15/58
- Goodreads 100: 1/12
- Every Year...1990: 3/24
- F2F Bookclub: 7/12
- Let's Turn Pages: 1,555/15,000
- Listopia Challenge: 1/10

Quarterly Challenges:

January - March: 0/0
April - June:
July - September:
October - December:


MONTHLY CHALLENGES:
January:

New Beginnings Challenge: 2/2 - completed 1/12/2013

February:

March:

April:

May:

June:

July:

August:

September:

October:

November:

December:

GOODREADS 100 CHALLENGE:

At the start of 2013: 50
Goal: 62
COMPLETED: 1/12

Here are the books I'm going to go for:

Brave New World finished 1/13/2013 - 4 stars
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Secret Garden
Gone With the Wind
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Frankenstein
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Golden Compass
The Little Prince
Anne of Green Gables
The Picture of Dorian Gray
One Hundred Years of Solitude

EVERY YEAR CHALLENGE:

Goal: 24
COMPLETED: 0/24

1990 - Possession finished 2/3/2013 -3 stars
1991 - Outlander
1992 - The Secret History finshed 7/17/2013 - 2 stars
1993 - The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven finished 8/4/2013 - 3 stars
1994 - Captain Corelli's Mandolin
1995 - High Fidelity
1996 - A Game of Thrones
1997 - The Red Tent
1998 - The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
1999 - Single & Single
2000 - In a Sunburned Country
2001 - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
2002 - The Lovely Bones
2003 - Eragon
2004 - 2666
2005 - 1776
2006 - The Thirteenth Tale finished 4/19/2013 - 4 stars
2007 - A Long Way Gone
2008 - The Last Lecture
2009 - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
2010 - A Visit from the Goon Squad
2011 - The Weird Sisters
2012 - Gone Girl
2013 - The Ocean at the End of the Lane

FACE TO FACE BOOK CLUB:

Goal: 12
Completed 7/12

January - Sister finished 1/4/2013 - 4 stars
February - The History of Love - finished 7/13/2013 - 3 stars
March - Wolf Hall - finshed 3/24/2013 - 3 stars
April - continuation of Wolf Hall
May - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - finished 4/30/2013 - 3 stars
June - Cloud Atlas - finsihed 5/27/2013 - 3.5 stars
July - The Thirteenth Tale finished 4/19/2013 - 4 stars
August - The Paris Wife finsished 7/4/2013 - 5 stars
September - Seating Arrangements
October - River of Darkness
November - Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
December - Movie and Treats!!!

LET'S TURN PAGES CHALLENGE:

Goal: 15,000
Completed: 1,555

Sister = 341

Open = 400 (read the kindle edition but the other ebook version was 400 pages so using that page count)

Brave New World = 259

Possession = 555

LISTOPIA CHALLENGE


Goal: 10
Completed: 1/10

Best American History Books

1. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
2. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
3. John Adams
4. Truman finsihed 6/29/2013 - 5 stars
5. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt


Favorite Magical Realist Novels

1. Garden Spells
2. The Master and Margarita
3. The Alchemist
4. Like Water for Chocolate
5. Love in the Time of Cholera

JANUARY'S NEW BEGINNINGS CHALLENGE

Goal: 2
Completed: 2/2

1. Read a book by an author new to you

Sister by Rosamund Lupton finished 1/4/2013 - 4 stars

2. Read a book by an author who's first or last name begins with A

Open by Andre Agassi finished 1/12/2013 - 4 stars

JANUARY READS:

Sister by Rosamund Lupton
Open by Andre Agassi
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

FEBRUARY READS


Possession by A.S. Byatt

JULY READS

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
They All Fall Down by J.A. Blake
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
The Bat by Jo Nesbø
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

APRIL READS

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

JUNE READS

Truman by David McCullough

MARCH READS

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

MAY READS

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

AUGUST READS


In the Darkness by Karin Fossum
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy *audiobook