2025 Reading Challenge discussion

I love challenges!

I'm planning to read at least 150 books in 2013. I chose 11 different categories. I'm a moody reader so I'll pick the books as they come. Each book only counts once even if it fits under several categories.

A. Read 20 books published in the 21st century:
1. Er ist wieder da (read 06/01/13)
2. The Sense of an Ending (read 06/01/13)
3. Der Hundertjährige, der aus dem Fenster stieg und verschwand (read 19/01/13)
4. The Ultimate Teen Book Guide (read 22/01/13)
5. The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Ultimate Reading List (read 22/01/13)
6. Le potentiel érotique de ma femme (read 27/01/13)
7. Meine russische Schwiegermutter und andere Katastrophen (read 27/01/13)
8. The Ultimate Book Guide: Over 600 Great Books For 8 12s (read 28/01/13)
9. DuMont Reisehandbuch Mexiko (read 11/03/13)
10. The Golem's Eye (read 15/03/13)
11. The Rose of Fire (read 18/03/13)
12. Das Washington-Dekret (read 18/03/13)
13. Looking for Alaska (read 25/03/13)
14. A Visit from the Goon Squad (read 10/04/13)
15. The Fault in Our Stars (read 10/04/13)
16. Will Grayson, Will Grayson (read 05/05/13)
17. The Silver Linings Playbook (read 09/05/13)
18. Der perfekte Hochzeitsplaner (read 12/05/13)
19. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World (read 21/05/13)
20. Tschick (read 28/05/13)

B. Read 20 books published in the 20th century:
1. The 13 Clocks (read 01/01/13)
2. Mein Urgroßvater und ich (read 13/01/13)
3. A Necklace of Raindrops and Other Stories (read 22/01/13)
4. Come Hither: A Family Treasury of Best-Loved Rhymes and Poems for Children (read 23/01/13)
5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (read 02/04/13)
6. So was macht die Liebe (read 03/04/13)
7. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (read 18/04/13)
8. Las luces de septiembre (read 28/04/13)
9. The New Kid on the Block (read 29/05/13)
10. Utterly Me, Clarice Bean (read 29/05/13)
11. Kleiner König Kalle Wirsch (read 30/05/13)
12. Wringer (read 02/06/13)
13. Little Old Mrs Pepperpot (read 07/06/13)
14. Das Wildpferd unterm Kachelofen (read 30/06/13)
15. Die Zeit-Bibliothek Der 100 Bücher (read 30/06/13)
16. Danny the Champion of the World (read 03/07/13)
17. Matilda (read 03/07/13)
18. Words of Stone (read 05/07/13)
19. Cangura para todo (read 08/07/13)
20. Chess Story (read 23/07/13)

C. Read 10 books published pre-1900:
1. The Blue Fairy Book (read 23/01/13)
2. Fifty Fables for Children (read 23/01/13)
3. The Scarlet Letter (read 09/04/13)
4.The Sorrows of Young Werther (read 23/07/13)
5. A Modest Proposal (read 01/08/13)
6. The Happy Prince (read 05/09/13)
7. The Selfish Giant (read 05/09/13)
8. The Yellow Wallpaper (read 09/09/13)
9. Magic fishbone (read 10/09/13)
10. The Castle of Otranto (read 25/09/13)

D. Read 20 books from countries I haven't travelled to yet (physically, not literary):
1. Veronika Decides to Die (Slovenia) (read 04/01/13)
2. The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Pakistan) (read 11/01/13)
3. Tears of the Giraffe (Botswana) (read 12/01/13)
4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (United States) (read 16/01/13)
5. Embers (Hungary) (read 26/01/13)
6. Journey to the River Sea (Brazil) (read 10/02/13)
7. Single Girl's To Do List (Canada) (read 19/04/13)
8. Inferno (Turkey) (read 13/06/13)
9. When the Emperor Was Divine (USA) (read 21/06/13)
10. Summer in Baden-Baden (Russia) (read 08/07/13)
11. The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia (Poland/Lithuania/Russia) (read 11/07/13)
12. Hattie Big Sky (United States) (read 18/07/13)
13. Betsy-Tacy (United States) (read 02/08/13)
14. Sharp Objects (United States) (read 06/08/13)
15. The Zigzag Kid (Israel) (read 10/08/13)
16. A Hand Full of Stars (Syria) (read 11/08/13)
17. Silk (Japan) (read 12/08/13)
18. Norwegian by Night (Norway) (read 16/08/13)
19. Between Shades of Gray (Lithuania/Russia) (read 17/08/13)
20. Ape House (United States) (read 24/08/13)

E. Read 10 books that won the Newbery Medal and/or the Carnegie Medal:
1. The View from Saturday (read 01/01/13)
2. The Return of the Twelves (read 08/01/13)
3. The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (read 10/01/13)
4. The Graveyard Book (read 25/01/13)
5. The Summer of the Swans (read 02/06/13)
6. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (read 30/06/13)
7. Criss Cross (read 25/08/13)
8. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (read 02/12/13)
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F. Read 3 books from each category of the Guardian 1000 books:
Comedy:
1. Just William (read 11/09/13)
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Crime:
1. Fingersmith (read 09/09/13)
2. The Daughter of Time (read 10/10/13)
3.
Family and Self:
1. The Old Man and the Sea (read 19/01/13)
2. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (read 22/03/13)
3. The Color Purple (read 26/06/13)
Love:
1. Wide Sargasso Sea (read 01/25/13)
2. The Virgin Suicides (read 28/07/13)
3. Death in Venice (read 02/08/13)
Science Fiction and Fantasy:
1. Cloud Atlas (read 03/02/13)
2. 1984 (read 16/04/13)
3. The Sword in the Stone (read 03/09/13)
State of the Nation:
1. Disgrace (read 14/07/13)
2. Effi Briest (read 01/08/13)
3. Things Fall Apart (read 21/08/13)
War and Travel:
1. Candide (read 09/10/13)
2. Everything Is Illuminated (read 19/10/13)
3. Black Beauty (read 24/10/13)

G. Read 9 books set in 9 different regions of the world:
1. Africa: Auf Dem Strom (read 21/04/13)
2. Anarctica:
3. Asia: Mit Staunen und Zittern (read 21/05/13)
4. Australia/Oceania: Storm Boy by Colin Thiele (read 05/09/13)
5. Caribbean/Middle America: Remote Man (read 26/09/13)
6. Europe: Aldabra, The Tortoise Who Loved Shakespeare (read 10/01/13)
7. Latin America: Las Noches de Flores (read 05/09/13)
8. Middle East: Caim (read 13/05/13)
9. North America: An Abundance of Katherines (read 03/04/13)

H. Read 10 books of which I previously watched the movie:
1. Ballet Shoes (read 18/01/13)
2. Dracula (read 22/01/13)
3. White Fang (read 24/05/13)
4. Twilight (read 02/06/13)
5. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (read 12/07/13)
6. The Club Dumas (read 27/08/13)
7. The Iron Man (read 23/10/13)
8. The Bad Beginning (read 29/10/13)
9. New Moon (read 03/11/13)
10. Eclipse (read 05/11/13)

I. Read 10 books with one-word titles:
1. Siddhartha (read 03/01/13)
2. Eiseskälte (read 05/01/13)
3. Delirium (read 30/03/13)
4. Hana (read 30/03/13)
5. Rubinrot (read 06/04/13)
6. Pollyanna (read 12/04/13)
7. Pandemonium (read 21/04/13)
8. Saphirblau (read 01/05/13)
9. Winterkartoffelknödel (read 03/05/13)
10. Smaragdgrün (read 25/05/13)

J. Read 10 books with two-word titles:
1. Schwüle Tage (read 02/01/13)
2. Schloß Gripsholm (read 05/01/13)
3. Petruschkas Lackschuhe (read 10/01/13)
4. Awful End (read 20/03/13)
5. Die Bestimmung (read 10/05/13)
6. Sweet Tooth (read 12/05/13)
7. Femme Fatale: Der fünfte Fall für Bruno, Chef de Police (read 21/05/13)
8. The Scream (read 24/05/13)
9. Wedding Night (read 01/06/13)
10. Old Tom (read 11/06/13)

K. Read 10 books with three-word titles:
1. Number the Stars (read 03/01/13)
2. Before I Fall (read 05/02/13)
3. Ramona the Pest (read 27/03/13)
4. The Summer Book (read 03/04/13)
5. City of Bones (read 30/04/13)
6. Plötzlich Fee - Sommernacht (read 02/05/13)
7. The Golden Egg (read 01/06/13)
8. Me Before You (read 18/06/13)
9. Sworn to Silence (read 19/06/13)
10. Wovon wir träumten (read 28/06/13)

I just finished another book set in a country I haven't travelled to yet, Brazil. I read Journey to the River Sea which I enjoyed very much.

OMG! I know you don't know this but do you realize how that book's in my top two favorite books of all time!!!?

I finished another 3 books for part A, books published in the 21st century. Definitely making some progress there, I have now finished more than 50% of the books in that category.

I finished another book for the pre-1900 section: The Scarlet Letter, a great book!

I finished another book for the one-word-title section, Saphirblau. It's the second book in the Ruby Red Trilogy.

Finished another book for section G: Caim by José Saramago. It's set in several places in the Middle East.

And I finished another book for section G: Mit Staunen und Zittern by Amélie Nothomb set in Japan.

My next book was White Fang by Jack London. I read it for section H. I both enjoyed the book and the movie even though they are quite different.

Is White Fang very similar to Call of the Wild?

Adriana wrote: "Is White Fang very similar to Call of the Wild?"

Yes it is kind of similar. But I think I enjoyed White Fang a tiny bit more.

I've also finished another book for section J, The Scream by Joan Aiken. This one really isn't a book I'd recommend.

Ellinor wrote: "Adriana wrote: "Is White Fang very similar to Call of the Wild?"

Yes it is kind of similar. But I think I enjoyed White Fang a tiny bit more.

I've also finished another book for section J, The Sc..."

Really? Interesting... Thanks (:

Smaragdgrün helped me finish my first section for this challenge: section I, the one-word-title books is completed.
I'm also almost done with section A, I'm only missing one book here.

Section A is also done: My last book for this section was Tschick. Craziest thing I've read in a while.

Section is almost complete as well. I just finished Wedding Night by Sophie Kinsella.

I just finished The Summer of the Swans for Section E. I'm now 50% done with that section too.

I finished reading Old Tom which was also the final book for section J.

Finished Inferno, set in Turkey a country I haven't travelled to yet.

Finished with Me Before You for section K. A great book!

Making fast progress with section K now: I just finished Sworn to Silence for it. Now I've only one book left and then this category is also finished.

I've now finished section K. The last book I read vor it was Wovon wir träumten.

I finished another Newbery medal winner, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. A great book, just the kind of adventure story I loved a a child.

I finished Summer in Baden-Baden for section D. It's set in Russia. I'm now also 50% done with this section.

I read another book for section D, The Endless Steppe. It's set in Poland (today: Lithuania) and Russia, all places I haven't been to yet.

I'm now 50% done with section H too. I read Buddenbrooks which is a 1000 times better than the (quite recent) movie version.

Another section is finished: Chess Story was my final book for the 20th century section.

The "love" category of The Guardian is finished: My final book was The Virgin Suicides.

Another category of The Guardian is finished, State of the Nation. I read Things Fall Apart.

I finished section D. Ape House was my final book here.

I read another Newbery-winning book, Criss Cross. It made me wonder if there really weren't published any better books that year...

Well it depends on the year. I know a friend who was doing that for children's books. I think that award has it dated back to the 1920s or something.

I finished another book from the "Movie-First" section, The Club Dumas. Book and movie (The Ninth Gate) are quite different: The "Club Dumas" doesn't exist in the movie.

The Science Fiction & Fantasy section of the Guardian is done. The Sword in the Stone was my final book here.

I finished my final book for section C, The Castle of Otranto.

Black Beauty was my final book for the Guardian's War and Travel section. A very beautiful story.