2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

I decided to change my goal from 60 to 80 since I was so far ahead of my goal that I would have been done too soon for my liking

Here's a list of the books I have read this year.

1. Comfort Object ByAnnabel Joseph Owned: Kindle ✔ 1/18
2. Kiss the Dead ByLaurell K. Hamilton Owned: Kindle ✔ 1/28
3. Dancing By Laurell K. Hamilton Borrowed: Kindle Library ✔ 1/28
4. Billionaire Bound By Emily Cantore Borrowed: Kindle Library ✔ 1/28
5. The Submissive By Tara Sue Me Borrowed: Kindle Library ✔ 1/30
6. The Dominant By Tara Sue Me Borrowed: Kindle Library ✔ 2/2
7. Fire and Ice By Mary Connealy Borrowed: Kindle Library ✔ 2/3
8. The Training By Tara Sue Me Borrowed: Kindle Library ✔ 2/5
9. The Chalet By Tara Sue Me Borrowed: Kindle Library ✔ 2/5
10. The Enticement By Tara Sue Me Borrowed: Kindle Library ✔ 2/6
11.The Collar By Tara Sue Me Borrowed: kindle Library ✔ 2/7
12.The Exhibitionist By Tara Sue Me Borrowed: Kindle Library ✔ 2/10
13. City of/ Heavenly Fire By Cassandra Clare Owned: kindle ✔ 2/10
14. Grey ByE.L. James Borrowed: Kindle Library ✔ 2/13
15.The Martian By Andy Weir Borrowed: Kindle Library ✔ 2/18
16.Affliction By Laurell K. Hamilton Owned: Kindle ✔ 2/23
17.Jason By Laurell K. Hamilton Borrowed: Kindle Library ✔ 2/24
18.The Master By Tara Sue Me Borrowed: Kindle Library ✔ 2/26
19.Incarnate By Jodi Meadows Borrowed: Kindle Library ✔ 2/27
20.Dead Ice By Laurell K. Hamilton Borrowed: Kindle Library ✔ 3/7
21.Asunder By Jodi Meadows Borrowed: Kindle Library ✔ 3/8
22.The Stars My Destination By Alfred Bester Owned: Kindle ✔ 3/17
23.Fire Touched By Patricia Briggs Owned: kindle ✔ 3/30
24.The Girl of Fire and Thorns By Rae Carson Borrowed: Kindle Library ✔ 4/13
25.Firefly Hollow By T.L. Haddix Owned: Kindle ✔ 5/3
26.The Last Christian By David Gregory Borrowed: Paperback Library ✔ 5/14
27.Cloche and Dagger By Jenn McKinlay Borrowed: Library Paperback ✔ 5/17
28.The Night Circus By Erin Morgenstern Borrowed: Library Hardcover ✔ 5/23
29.Death of a Mad Hatter By Jenn McKinlay Borrowed: Library Paperback ✔ 5/25
30.All These Things I've Done By Gabrielle Zevin Borrowed: Library Hardcover ✔ 5/29
31.At the Drop of a Hat By Jenn McKinlay Borrowed: Library Paperback ✔ 6/1
32.Raziel By KristinaDouglas Borrowed: Library Hardcover ✔ 6/5
33. Demon By Kristina Douglas Borrowed: Library Paperback ✔ 6/9
34. Because It Is My Blood By Gabrielle Zevin Borrowed: Library Hardcover ✔ 6/12
35. Bite Me, Your Grace By Brooklyn Ann Borrowed: Library Paperback ✔ 6/15
36.One Bite Per Night By Brooklyn Ann Borrowed: Library Paperback ✔ 6/18
37.Copy Cap Murder By Jenn McKinlay Borrowed: Library Paperback ✔ 6/20
38.In the Age of Love and Chocolate By Gabrielle ZevinBorrowed:Library Hardcover ✔ 6/21
39.Warrior By Kristina Douglas Borrowed: Library Paperback ✔ 6/27
40.Amber-Eyed Man By Johanna Phillips Borrowed: Library Hardcover ✔ 6/28
41.The Eyes of the Dragon By Stephen King Borrowed: Library Paperback ✔ 7/15
42.Immortal City By Scott Speer Borrowed: Library Hardcover ✔ 8/10
43.Natural Born Angel By Scott Speer Borrowed: Library Hardcover ✔ 8/21
44.Small-Town Dad By Jean C. Gordon Borrowed: Library Paperback ✔ 8/22
45. Midnight Crossroad By Charlaine Harris Borrowed: Library Hardcover ✔ 8/27
46.Day Shift By Charlaine Harris Borrowed: Library Hardcover✔ 8/29
47.Bite at First Sight By Brooklyn Ann Borrowed: Library Kindle ✔ 9/2
48.The Millionaire's Proposal By Janelle Denison Owned: Kindle ✔ 9/3
49.Good Girl By Christina Frank Owned: Kindle ✔ 9/4
50.Promises, Promises: A Robin Bricker Prequel By Laurel Osterkamp Owned: Kindle ✔ 9/4
51.Making Her His By Lucy Leroux Owned: Kindle ✔ 9/5
52.Once Upon a One Night Stand By D.N. Hoxa Owned: Kindle ✔ 9/7
53.The Claiming By Tara Sue Me Borrowed: Kindle Library ✔ 11/8
54.Night Shift By Charlaine Harris Borrowed: Kindle Library ✔ 11/29
55.Indecent By Skylar Cross Kindle: Owned ✔ 12/25
56.Home By Sarah Prineas Borrowed: Library Audiobook ✔ 12/27
57.Leather and Lace By Jessie Evans Owned: Kindle ✔ 12/29
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I decided to change it up since I keep changing my mind and I have a problem with getting books that are not on the list from the library and then reading them so I will just post them as I finish reading them.

2/10

I had trouble reading this one but I finally managed to finish it, it was a very good ending but slow to start.

Owned: Kindle

Great adaptation of the first Fifty Shades book, I loved reading things from the Male prospective for the series.

Borrowed: Kindle Library

I cried a lot harder than I thought I would in City of Heavenly Fire!

Hannah wrote: "I cried a lot harder than I thought I would in City of Heavenly Fire!"

I had a hard time finishing that book, when I finally did I didn't exactly regret it but it was hard to do.

I will agree, it was a lot longer than I thought it would be, but overall I thought it was a good read!

Hannah wrote: "I will agree, it was a lot longer than I thought it would be, but overall I thought it was a good read!"

I was happy to finish it when I did, though I am always happy to get on to new reads no matter how good or bad I find the ones before them, I love reading though when I was younger I used to hate it.

I WAS THE SAME WAY! I hated reading when I was younger! My school forced us to do these things called AR points, where we had to take a reading test on every book we read. Also they assigned each student certain levels, so you couldn't read above or below your level. So i never particularly liked reading when I was younger, then when I got to middle school (AR points no longer necessary) and could read whatever I wanted, I fell in love with it.

Hannah wrote: "I WAS THE SAME WAY! I hated reading when I was younger! My school forced us to do these things called AR points, where we had to take a reading test on every book we read. Also they assigned each s..."

my parents got me into a reading program when I was in the 1st or 2nd grade, I learned to read well and just fell in love with it, my school had reading levels when I was in Elementary school too, and then there was the one book I read that was outside my comfort zone, Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz, I'm not into horror books so I didn't like it when I had to read it for a book report.

Once I hit middle school I finally realized what i was missing out on and I haven't stopped reading since! What are some of your favorite books?

the Mercy Thompson Series by Patricia Briggs. there are so many more that I wouldn't know where to begin but these books are one of my favorite reads from the last couple of years.

Hmm I will for sure have to check them out! I am always looking for something new to read!

it's an awesome series, the author is a local to where my husband and I live, and she writes about the area we live in, it's really eerie when I'm reading her books and I can say I know where that is about a location she is describing.

That is so cool! I always love reading a book that is set in my home town! I am located in a small town in Alabama, so when I find a book that mentions where I am from its like finding a rare gem!

yeah, my dad used to live in Alabama, I moved to a little town in Washington State when I met my husband 5 years ago. I don't know the area well but I can vaguely guess where places are when I read about them in her books.

switching it up a little, reading The Martian By Andy Weir because I got it from my library so I`m going to read that real quick so I can return it and then I'm going to go back to Affliction By Laurell K. Hamilton.

That's so cool! I love living in Alabama its been truly amazing, and I hope you are enjoying living in Washington State! Also I haven't read the Martian but I have heard nothing but great reviews from the book!

I watched the new movie that came out a while back and that is actually what inspired me to read the book, I was going to wait till I finished Affliction but The Martian became available sooner than expected.

Yeah I definitely want to read it and see the movie! I have heard they both are great!

I am 12% of the way through according to my kindle the book has some funny tidbits in it that are not in the movie. usually I read the book before I watch the movie if I know there is a book but this time it was the other way around and I don't regret it.

Well I will definitely have to check it out soon! For some reason I have just been in the romance mood and have just been reading a ton of those books lately ha ha!

me too, half the books on my tbr list are some sort of romance. but I would totally recommend The Martian, I'm 34% through it now and I'm enjoying it.

was a lot better than the movie, I enjoyed the extra information that the book provided over the movie, it was a great read and I'm not disappointed *****

Borrowed: Kindle Library

was a good book, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

Owned: Kindle

was a good book, though it was rather different from what I am used to when it comes to Anita Blake books but I can't complain, the change was welcomed for a little bit. I can't wait till I finish the next book.

Borrowed: Kindle Library

I have decided that audiobooks in my car is a bad idea so I won't be doing that anymore. I will be finishing Incarnate in Kindle form.

I tried audiobooks in my car as well a couple of years ago and found that my mind is so distracted when I'm driving that I was missing most of the book and constantly rewinding lol. So it didn't take me long to figure out that audiobooks was not for me. I guess I just need a book or my Kindle and a quiet room to enjoy a story...

I can enjoy it, the problem for me is that because I spend a lot of time driving my mother-in-law around she gets in my car when I'm listening to an audiobook and then wants to just sit in the car and listen to it forever and I can't handle that, it gets frustrating.

Another Masterfully written book by Tara Sue Me, I love her books and can't wait to read more, this one is about being hurt and healing when you aren't sure it's even possible.

Borrowed: Kindle Library

Congratulations on being almost one quarter of the way through your goal!

thanks Cassandra, I didn't think i would be this far already.

What do you think has motivated you read more than you thought you would?

a lot of them so far have been 200-300 pages so that is part of it and then there is the fact that every book on my list is part of one series or another that I have been reading since I lived with my mother, which means that I have been working on most of the series' for 6 years or more.

Incarnate was not what I expected it to be, it really surprised me, it wasn't a bad book, just the opposite, I loved first listening to it and then reading it after I couldn't stand having to deal with some stuff that was happening because of the audiobook. anyhow I really liked this book and can't wait to get a chance to read the next book in the series.

I have so many series that I want to try to get through! Incarnate sounds super interesting, so I added it to my to-read list.

is worth the read, There are 3 other books in that series as well.

I'm actually really close to making it so I can read another series without remembering that I have so many books to read that I started years ago that it isn't funny, the ones on my list for this year are not all of them but I have to reread some of them to figure out where I am in each series. that is only 3 series' though so that's not too bad.

Borrowed: Kindle Library

stopping halfway through Dead Ice to read Asunder to make my Mother-in-law happy because she wants me to be able to talk to her about it.

Finished reading , great book, just like all of Laurell K. Hamilton's books but it was longer than I had expected, though I am glad I got to read it I actually look forward to reading the next one in a few months now.

Borrowed: Kindle Library

Heartbreaking near the end but really good, actually the whole darn thing is heartbreaking in areas. I do not regret reading the book though, it is a good book.

Borrowed: Kindle Library

all I can say for this book is Wow, it took me longer than I expected to read but it isn't because it was a bad book, just really different.

Owned: Kindle

Very good book, great writing from Patricia Briggs once again.

Owned: Kindle

I added weather I own or borrowed or will borrow each book I plan to read this year.

Slow to start, however it ended very well, I don't regret reading it though I thought I might, I look forward to reading the next one.

Borrowed: Kindle Library

Since was taking so long to get through ( and I forgot my Kindle at home Sunday morning and needed something to read) I took a small break from it and read I don't regret doing so one bit and as soon as I can find the other books I will be reading them as well.

Owned: Kindle (for both)

Finished I actually contemplated throwing it in the DNF pile several times because it was odd and a little frustrating but I'm glad I didn't, it was a really good book and I would totally recommend it to anyone who likes futuristic books based on what ifs.

Borrowed: Paperback Library

so I have a book problem... I went to my local library to return ONE and came home with FIVE more.

So I finished my first of 5 impulse grabs from the Library for an impulse grab just because I liked the way the cover looked I was not disappointed, this was a very good book.

Borrowed: Library Paperback

Borrowed this book from the library at the suggestion of one of the people that work there, I was dubious at first when I read what the premise was but as I kept reading it kept my attention and ended up being not at all like I thought it was going to be and ended really well.

Borrowed: Library hardcover