2025 Big Book Challenge discussion

I'm going for a conservative goal of one a month! I have definite commitment issues so I avoid big books in favour of lots of smaller ones, but have a growing number of large books on my shelf that I need to just get on and read!

Progress 17/12

Read in 2017
May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes, 481 pages
Moving by Jenny Eclair, 400 pages
King's Cage by Victoria Aveyard, 528 pages
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, 615 pages
All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class, 688 pages
The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett, 417 pages
Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo, 536 pages
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, 502 pages
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, 438 pages
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, 528 pages
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith, 550 pages
Caraval by Stephanie Garber, 402 pages
Scarlet by Marissa Meyer, 464 pages
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith, 580 pages
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 448 pages
Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith, 574 pages
All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism by Autism Women's Network, 477 pages

Currently Reading


Potentials on my shelf
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, 864 pages
Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, 721 pages
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse, 702 pages
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt, 617 pages
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, 616 pages
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters, 599 pages
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson, 552 pages
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman, 548 pages
The Pankhursts: The History of One Radical Family by Martin Pugh, 538 pages
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, 534 pages
Eragon by Christopher Paolini, 528 pages
Sophia's Secret by Susanna Kearsley, 527 pages
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson, 527 pages
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty, 520 pages
Emma by Jane Austen, 514 pages
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, 512 pages
Sons And Lovers by D.H. Lawrence, 512 pages
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, 504 pages
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling, 503 pages
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, 502 pages
The People V. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin, 496 pages
Brick Lane by Monica Ali, 492 pages
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, 483 pages
The House at the Edge of Night by Catherine Banner, 482 pages
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown, 481 pages
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, 480 pages
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, 479 pages
Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty, 470 pages
The Pearl that Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi, 469 pages
You Had Me At Hello by Mhairi McFarlane, 465 pages
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, 464 pages
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, 463 pages
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 463 pages
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, 459 pages
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 453 pages
Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty, 448 pages
Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman, 443 pages
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey, 440 pages
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey, 438 pages
Lyrebird by Cecelia Ahern, 436 pages
What's a Girl Gotta Do? by Holly Bourne, 432 pages
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry, 432 pages
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson, 429 pages
The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg, 419 pages
The Muse by Jessie Burton, 416 pages
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver, 416 pages
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge, 417 pages
Diary of an Ordinary Woman by Margaret Forster, 416 pages
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas, 448 pages
American Gods by Neil Gaiman, 640 pages
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada, 588 pages
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, 519 pages
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas, 448 pages
Swing Time by Zadie Smith, 464 pages
Fat Is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach, 402 pages
Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga, 592 pages
The Bricks that Built the Houses by Kate Tempest, 400 pages
The Secret History by Donna Tartt, 629 pages

12/12 achieved! Definitely want to try and get a couple more in before the end of the year

Happy New Year everyone! Happily closing off this challenge having hit 142% of my goal :D Onwards to 2018!