2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

I am once again going for 60 books this year.

January - March



January

1. The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
2. 11/22/63 by Stephen King
3. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
4. The Hoard by Alan Ryker
5. Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: ... by Fiona, Countess of Carnarvon
6. The Manifestation Wheel: A Practical Process for Creating Miracles by Alan Seale
7. Drown by Junot Díaz
8. A Queer and Pleasant Danger ... by Kate Bornstein
9. It's Fine By Me by Per Petterson
10. News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories by Jennifer Haigh
11. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
12. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
13. Inferno by Dan Brown

February

14.Lady Catherine, the Earl, ... by Fiona, Countess of Carnarvon
15. Mrs. Lincoln's Rival by Jennifer Chiaverini
16. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
17. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
18. Faith by Jennifer Haigh
19. The Waterworks by E.L. Doctorow
21. The Magic of Groundhog Day: Transform Your Life Day by Day by Paul Hannam
22. Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
23. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
24. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
25. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

March

26. The Writer's Mentor: A Guide... by Cathleen Rountree
27. Communicating with Archangel Michael: ... by Richard Webster
28. Wonder by R.J. Palacio
29. E-Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments ... by Pam Grout
30. I Shall be Near to You by Erin Lindsay McCabe
31. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

April - June



April

32. I Can See Clearly Now by Wayne W. Dyer
33. Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
34. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
35. Quantum Creativity: Think Quantum, Be Creative by Amit Amit Goswami
36. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, ... by Laura Hillenbrand
37. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

May

38. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
39. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
40. Amaze Yourself: Take a Quantum Leap...
41. Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
42. The Vortex: Where the Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships
43. Walking on Water by Richard Paul Evans
44. Spring's Gentle Promise by Janette Oke
45. Dubliners by James Joyce

June

46. Red River by Lalita Tademy
47. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
48. Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
49. Writing Is My Drink: A Writer's Story of Finding Her Voice by Theo Pauline Nestor
50. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
51. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
52. Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King

July - Sept



July

53. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
54. All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin
55. Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek by Maya Van Wagenen
56, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
57. Ulysses by James Joyce
58. Angel Dreams: Healing and Guidance from Your Dreams by Doreen Virtue
59. The Asylum by John Harwood
60. The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

August

61. Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
62. Mambo in Chinatown by Jean Kwok
63. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
64. Writers and Their Notebooks by Diana M. Raab
65. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
66. The Care and Management of Lies by Jacqueline Winspear
67. Cavewomen Don't Get Fat: The Paleo Chic Diet for Rapid Results by Esther Blum
68. Brutal Youth by Anthony Breznican
69. Perfect Peace by Daniel Black

September

70. Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson
71. Hero by Rhonda Byrne
72. The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell
73. The Sacred Place by Daniel Black
74. Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: ... by Brian Tracy
75. The Christmas Pearl by Dorothea Benton Frank

Oct - Dec


October

76. Assertiveness for Earth Angels: How to Be Loving... by Doreen Virtue
77. The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionary System ... by Nick Ortner
78. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
79. Move Your DNA: ... by Katy Bowman
80. Bird Box by Josh Malerman
81. Horror Writing 101: How to Write a Horror Novel by Steve French
82.Insomnia by Stephen King
83. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
84. The Troop by Nick Cutter
85. Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge
86. The House Girl by Tara Conklin

November

87. Law of Attraction Instruction Manual: ... by Chris Tomasso
88. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
89. An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (And Other Stories) by Louisa May Alcott
90. Santa Claus in Oz by L. Frank Baum (AUDIO ONLY)
91. You Have to Fucking Eat by Adam Mansbach
92. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
93. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

December

94. The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
95. Land of Dreams: A Novel by Kate Kerrigan
96. The Autobiography of Santa Claus by Jeff Guinn
97. The Last Holiday Concert by Andrew Clements
98. Jacob T. Marley by R. William Bennett
99. How Mrs. Claus Saved Christmas by Jeff Guinn
100. 'Tis the Season by Ann M. Martin
101. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
102. Let It Snow by John Green
103. The Mistletoe Promise by Richard Paul Evans
104. Tenth of December by George Saunders
105. The Ghost of Christmas Present: A Novel by Scott Abbott
106. Christmas Poems by J.D. McClatchy (Editor)

Well, I hit my goal in July. Now I'll just see how far I get this year and next year I will up it. I thought school would slow me down, guess not.