2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

Wow! Setting the challenge for 2018 already!!!

GOODREADS 2018 YEARLY READING CHALLENGE: 108/100

1. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling 09.01.2018 ★★★★★
2. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 13.01.2018 ★★★★★
3. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen 22.01.2018 ★★★★★
4. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris 25.01.2018 ★★★★☆
5. Dubrovsky by Alexander Pushkin 28.01.2018 ★★★★☆
6. January by Audrey Carlan 28.01.2018 ★★★☆☆
7. February by Audrey Carlan 01.02.2018 ★★☆☆☆
8. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 08.02.2018 ★★★★☆
9. Южнорусское Овчарово by Lora Beloivan 13.02.2018 ★★★★☆
10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami 19.02.2018 ★★★★☆
11. The Tempest by William Shakespeare 20.02.2018 ★★★☆☆
12. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 21.02.2018 ★☆☆☆☆
13. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher 22.02.2018 ★★★★☆
14. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 22.02.2018 ★★★★★
15. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 06.03.2018 ★★★☆☆
16. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 08.03.2018 ★★★☆☆
17. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 18.03.2018 ★☆☆☆☆
18. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 23.03.2018 ★★★★★
19. The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 24.03.2018 ★★★★☆
20. Hamlet by William Shakespeare 27.03.2018 ★★★★☆
21. The Iliad by Homer 07.04.2018 ★★☆☆☆
22. La casa sull'altura by Nino De Vita 07.04.2018 ★★★★☆
23. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 10.04.2018 ★★☆☆☆
24. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 12.04.2018 ★☆☆☆☆
25. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 14.04.2018 ★★★☆☆
26. The Living Dead: Switched Off, Zoned Out - The Shocking Truth about Office Life by David Bolchover 17.04.2018 ★★★★☆
27. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville 20.04.2018 ★★☆☆☆
28. On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev 22.04.2018 ★★★★★
29. Shirley by Charlotte Brontë 29.04.2018 ★★★★★
30. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin 29.04.2018 ★★★★☆
31. Жизнь коротка by Sergei Dovlatov 29.04.2018 ★★★★☆
32. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 29.04.2018 ★★★☆☆
33. Love's Labor's Lost by William Shakespeare 30.04.2018 ★★★☆☆
34. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer 04.05.2018 ★★★★★
35. Le Rouge et le Noir by Stendhal 06.05.2018 ★★★★☆
36. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 09.05.2018 ★★★★☆
37. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn 13.05.2018 ★★★☆☆
38. Alice: The Girl From Earth by Kir Bulychev 13.05.2018 ★★★★☆
39. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield 18.05.2018 ★★★★★
40. Longbourn by Jo Baker 20.05.2018 ★☆☆☆☆
41. Fifty Shades Freed by E.L. James 25.05.2018 ★★★☆☆
42. Macbeth by William Shakespeare 26.05.2018 ★★★★★
43. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 29.05.2018 ★★★★☆
44. Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut 02.06.2018 ★★★★★
45. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 04.06.2018 ★★★☆☆
46. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan 10.06.2018 ★★☆☆☆
47. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë 12.06.2018 ★★★★☆
48. Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 19.06.2018 ★★★☆☆
49. The Trial by Franz Kafka 21.06.2018 ★★★★☆
50. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse 28.06.2018 ★★★★★
51. The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn 04.07.2018 ★★☆☆☆
52. 11/22/63 by Stephen King 06.07.2018 ★★★★☆
53. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 14.07.2018 ★★★★★
54. New Facercise by Carole Maggio 15.07.2018 ★★☆☆☆
55. Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon 15.07.2018 ★★★★☆
56. Perfume by Patrick Süskind 20.07.2018 ★★★☆☆
57. The Ninth Life of Louis Drax by Liz Jensen 22.07.2018 ★★☆☆☆
58. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis 27.07.2018 ★★☆☆☆
59. Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 29.07.2018 ★★★★★
60. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare 29.07.2018 ★★★★☆
61. The Ruined Map by Kōbō Abe 31.07.2018 ★☆☆☆☆
62. Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson 24.09.2018 ★★☆☆☆
63. Вьюга by Mikhail Bulgakov 20.10.2018 ★★★☆☆
64. ЭмоБой by Антон Соя 20.10.2018 ★★☆☆☆
65. Полотенце с петухом by Mikhail Bulgakov 20.10.2018 ★★★★☆
66. Тьма египетская by Mikhail Bulgakov 21.10.2018 ★★★★★
67. Morphine by Mikhail Bulgakov 22.10.2018 ★★★★★
68. Я убил by Mikhail Bulgakov 25.10.2018 ★★★☆☆
69. The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry 26.10.2018 ★★☆☆☆
70. The Last Leaf by O. Henry 27.10.2018 ★★★☆☆
71. A Madison Square Arabian Night by O. Henry 27.10.2018 ★★☆☆☆
72. A Retrieved Reformation by O. Henry 30.10.2018 ★★★★☆
73. Transients in Arcadia by O. Henry 30.10.2018 ★★☆☆☆
74. The Third Ingredient by O. Henry 31.10.2018 ★★★☆☆
75. Jeff Peters As A Personal Magnet by O. Henry 02.11.2018 ★★☆☆☆
76. Witches' Loaves by O. Henry 02.11.2018 ★★★☆☆
77. Громила и Томми by O. Henry 02.11.2018 ★★★★☆
78. Roads of Destiny by O. Henry 02.11.2018 ★★★☆☆
79. Quality by John Galsworthy 03.11.2018 ★★☆☆☆
80. A Man of Devon by John Galsworthy 03.11.2018 ★★★☆☆
81. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 10.11.2018 ★★★★☆
82. The First and the Last by John Galsworthy 12.11.2018 ★★★★★
83. The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepúlveda 17.11.2018 ★★★★☆
84. A Stoic by John Galsworthy 18.11.2018 ★★★★☆
85. Путь к Замку, или курс лекций о Франце Кафке by Максим Жук 24.11.2018 ★★★★★
86. The Juryman by John Galsworthy 24.11.2018 ★★☆☆☆
87. Nevsky Prospect by Nikolai Gogol 27.11.2018 ★★★☆☆
88. The Carriage by Nikolai Gogol 27.11.2018 ★☆☆☆☆
89. The Nose by Nikolai Gogol 27.11.2018 ★★★☆☆
90. The Mysterious Portrait by Nikolai Gogol 27.11.2018 ★★★★☆
91. The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol 01.12.2018 ★★★★☆
92. Тибетское Евангелие by Елена Крюкова 01.12.2018 ★☆☆☆☆
93. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol 01.12.2018 ★★★☆☆
94. Переход на летнее время by Михаил Айзенберг 01.12.2018 ★☆☆☆☆
95. Spindleberries by John Galsworthy 02.12.2018 ★★☆☆☆
96. A Hedonist by John Galsworthy 03.12.2018 ★☆☆☆☆
97. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 05.12.2018 ★★★☆☆
98. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov 06.12.2018 ★★☆☆☆
99. Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff 08.12.2018 ★★★★☆
100. The Stranger by Albert Camus 09.12.2018 ★★☆☆☆
101. Grey by E.L. James 11.12.2018 ★★★☆☆
102. Darker by E.L. James 11.12.2018 ★★☆☆☆
103. Richard III by William Shakespeare 11.12.2018 ★☆☆☆☆
104. Pericles by William Shakespeare 12.12.2018 ★★☆☆☆
105. Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare 14.12.2018 ★★☆☆☆
106. Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski 15.12.2018 ★☆☆☆☆
107. Measure for Measure byWilliam Shakespeare 15.12.2018 ★★★★☆
108. As You Like It by William Shakespeare 19.12.2018 ★☆☆☆☆

Reading Statistics:

Books Read by Month:
January: 6
February: 8
March: 6
April: 13
May: 10
June: 7
July: 11
August: 0
September: 1
October: 12
November: 16
December: 18

Length:
Short (<250 pages): 49
Medium (250-500 pages): 36
Long (501-700 pages): 13
Very Long (>700 pages): 11

Book Format:
Physical book: 66
E-book: 4
Audiobook: 38

Rating:
★★★★★: 18
★★★★: 31
★★★: 24
★★: 23
★: 12

Author Gender:
Female: 24
Male: 45

New to Me or Repeat Author?
New to Me: 38
Repeat: 30

Genre:
Literary Fiction: 9
Non-Fiction: 5
Classic Literature: 63
SciFi/Fantasy: 6
Mystery/Horror/Crime: 8
Romance/Erotica: 6
Memoir/Biography: 4
Children's/Young Adult: 6
Poetry: 1

Date Published:
2010s: 18
2000s: 9
1990s: 5
1980s: 4
1970s: 0
1960s: 4
1950s: 2
1940s: 1
1930s: 2
1920s: 9
1910s: 5
1900s: 13
1800s: 24
1700s: 0
1600s: 6
1500s: 5
Before 1500s: 1

DNF:
Longbourn by Jo Baker 20.05.2018 ★☆☆☆☆
Тибетское Евангелие by Елена Крюкова 01.12.2018 ★☆☆☆☆
Переход на летнее время by Михаил Айзенберг 01.12.2018 ★☆☆☆☆

Kristin wrote: "I love the way you track your reading and stats, Anna! I'm hoping you have a great year of reading in 2018. Any books you are particularly excited to read?"

Actually, I didn't come up with this way of tracking my reading... I saw it on someone's page in this group and really liked it. So I decided to give it a try in 2018.

And, concerning the books I'm going to read, I don't really know. I think, I'm going to be more of a mood reader I guess... But I'm really looking forward to rereading some books. Escpecially, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, Little Women and Doctor Zhivago.

Good luck reaching your goal in 2018, Anna! Happy reading :)

Anna I wish you the best in books for 2018! Happy Reading and revisiting favorites.

Anna wrote: "Wow! Setting the challenge for 2018 already!!!"

A book a week, sounds like a great goal Anna! Will you be joining any of the other challenges or maybe some of the group/buddy reads as well?

Wishing you the best of luck reaching your goal & happy reading along the way!

Susy wrote: "Anna wrote: "Wow! Setting the challenge for 2018 already!!!"

A book a week, sounds like a great goal Anna! Will you be joining any of the other challenges or maybe some of the group/buddy reads as..."

Thank you very much! And yes, actually I am going to join some yearly challenges. You can see them in my book corner.

Two months down ten to go! I hope March is a success for you.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. I hope that April brings you many more five star reads. Do you have a stand out book so far this year?

You are doing great! I hope May is a fantastic month filled with books and sunshine!