2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Again I will attempt this one

M wrote: "Again I will attempt this one"

365 books?? How in the world....? That's a very impressive goal M! Wishing you the best of luck and above all of course, happy reading!

Best of luck in the coming year!

JANUARY

1. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson 1/1
2. Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck 1/1
3. The Preacher by Ted Thackrey Jr. 1/2
4. The Rook by Daniel O'Malley 1/3
5. The Stars Were Right by K.M. Alexander 1/3
6. Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons & Dragons by Michael Witwer 1/4
7. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah 1/5
8. The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld 1/5
9. Eagles at War by Ben Kane 1/6
10. & Sons by David Gilbert 1/7
12. Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir 1/9
13. Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard 1/9
14. Endgame by Jeffrey Round 1/9
15. Lady of Ashes by Christine Trent 1/10
16. Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch 1/11
17. New World: Rising by Jennifer Wilson 1/12
18. Carrie by Stephen King 1/12
19. The Quick by Lauren Owen 1/14
20. The Cold Between by Elizabeth Bonesteel 1/15
21. Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka 1/17
22. CV by Damon Knight 1/17
23. The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell 1/17
24. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy 1/19
25. The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1/19
26. Zein: The Prophecy by Graham J. Wood 1/19
27. The Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley 1/19
28. The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard 1/19
29. Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz 1/20
30. The Corpse Reader by Antonio Garrido 1/20
31. Fools and Mortals by Bernard Cornwell 1/21
32. Voices From the Street by Philip K. Dick 1/21
33. Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington by Mary Higgins Clark 1/22
34. Storm Front by Jim Butcher 1/22
35. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs 1/22
36. Clockwork Angels by Kevin J. Anderson 1/22
37. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 1/22
38. The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin 1/22
39. 1356 by Bernard Cornwell 1/23
40. Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon 1/24
41. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke 1/25
42. Whirlwind by Charles L. Grant 1/27
43. Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman 1/27
44. The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers 1/28
45. Bitten by Kelley Armstrong 1/28
46. The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin 1/29
47. The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn 1/29
48. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard 1/29
49. Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski 1/30
50. Neuromancer by William Gibson 1/31
51. Vengeance by Michael G. Thomas 1/31

BOOK TOTAL: 51

You are doing great keep it up!

Two months down ten to go. I hope you are enjoying your book adventures so far this year you are doing great!

April Showers bring May flowers I hope May brings lots of great reads and sunshine!

FEBRUARY

1. The Goliath Stone by Larry Niven 2/1
2. The Orlando File by Ian C.P. Irvine 2/1
3. Moonraker by Ian Fleming 2/2
4. Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor 2/3
5. Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas by Laura Sook Duncombe 2/3
6. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 2/3
7. Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King 2/4
8. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein 2/4
9. The Green Bicycle by Haifaa al Mansour 2/5
10. The Builder's Sword by J.A. Cipriano 2/6
11. The Shield of Three Lions by Pamela Kaufman 2/6
12. Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen 2/7
13. Lost Girl by Chanda Hahn 2/8
14. Promising Azra by Helen Thurloe 2/9
15. In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson 2/9
16. Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey 2/11
17. Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires by Esther Hicks 2/12
18. She Wolf and Cub by Lilith Saintcrow 2/12
19. Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese 2/13
20. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin 2/13
21. A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii by Stephanie Dray 2/14
22. The Harafish by Naguib Mahfouz 2/15
23. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 2/15
24. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 2/15
25. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 2/16
26. Song of Sorcery by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough 2/16
27. Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics by Marc J. Hetherington 2/17
28. Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore 2/18
29. The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin 2/18
30. After Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie 2/19
31. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 2/19
32. In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant 2/20
33. Hondo by Louis L'Amour 2/20
34. The Black Swan by Mercedes Lackey 2/21
35. Must Be Magic by Sydney Somers 2/22
37. The King's Coat by Dewey Lambdin 2/23
38. Boneshaker by Cherie Priest 2/23
39. The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs 2/23
40. Mausoleum by Mark Chevalier 2/24
41. The Mystical Qabalah by Dion Fortune 2/24
42. Lila by Marilynne Robinson 2/24
43. An Unnatural Vice by K.J. Charles 2/25
44. Soulless by Gail Carriger 2/25
45. Balm by Dolen Perkins-Valdez 2/28
46. Black River by Peter Fugazzotto 2/28

BOOK TOTAL: 97

MARCH

1. The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline 3/8
2. Don't Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life by Peggy Orenstein 3/9
3. Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan 3/10
4. American War by Omar El Akkad 3/11
5. The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks 3/15
6. Little Beast by Matthew McGevna and Julie Demers
7. A Hiss-tory of Magic by Harper Lin 3/19
8. The Very Marrow of Our Bones by Christine Higdon 3/22
9. How to Stop Time by Matt Haig 3/24
10. theMystery.doc by Matthew McIntosh 3/26
11. The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore Kim Fu 3/30
12. The Passage by Justin Cronin 3/31

BOOK TOTAL: 109

APRIL

1. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli 4/1
2. Educated by Tara Westover 4/4
3. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones 4/7
4. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer 4/7
5. Rebel Queen by Michelle Moran 4/8
6. Authority by Jeff VanderMeer 4/10
7. The Wife by Alafair Burke 4/10
8. Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer 4/13
9. Borne by Jeff VanderMeer 4/17
10. Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond by Bill Campbell 4/17
11. Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb 4/19
12. Neuromancer by William Gibson 4/20
13. Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey 4/22
14. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 4/22
15. The Housewife Assassin's Handbook by Josie Brown 4/27

BOOK TOTAL: 124

MAY

1. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 5/2
2. Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum 5/3
3. Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny 5/6
4. The Memory of Earth by Orson Scott Card 5/6
5. Brimstone Douglas Preston by 5/8
6. Stone Mad by Elizabeth Bear 5/10
7. Veil of Lies: A Medieval Noir by Jeri Westerson 5/12
8. Variable Star by Robert A. Heinlein 5/13
9. Unclean Spirits by Chuck Wendig 5/14
10. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling 5/15
11. An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim 5/16
12. Blood of Requiem by Daniel Arenson 5/16
13. House of Dreams: The Life of L.M. Montgomery by Liz Rosenberg 5/18
14. Xenocide by Orson Scott Card 5/18
15. Anathem by Neal Stephenson 5/19
16. The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld by Christine Wiltz 5/20
17. Lear's Shadow by Claire Holden Rothman 5/21
18. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts 5/23
19. Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds 5/23
20. Black and Orange by Benjamin Kane Ethridge 5/27
21. Alchemy and Academe : A Collection of Original Stories Concerning Themselves with Transmutations, Mental and Elemental, Alchemical and Academic by Anne McCaffrey 5/27
22. The Sun Sword by Michelle West 5/27
23. The Ultimate Werewolf by Byron Preiss 5/28
24. Streams of Silver by R.A. Salvatore 5/30
25. Sidhe's Call by Christy G. Thomas 5/30

BOOK TOTAL: 149

JUNE

1. Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton 6/1
2. The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton 6/2
3. A Moment in the Sun by John Sayles 6/4
4. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 6/5
5. Falling by J. Bennett 6/6
6. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard 6/7
7. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 6/8
8. Black Sun Rising by C.S. Friedman 6/9
9. Cold Iron by Stina Leicht 6/10
10. The Crimson Campaign by Brian McClellan 6/10
11. The Falconer by Elizabeth May 6/12
12. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 6/14
13. An Herbalist's Guide to Formulary: The Art & Science of Creating Effective Herbal Remedies by Holly Bellebuono 6/16
14. In the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf Soueif 6/20
15. A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin 6/24
16. Explorations: Through the Wormhole by Ralph Kern 6/24
17. Alice by Christina Henry 6/25
18. Heart's Blood by Jane Yolen 6/27
19. Eclipse of the Sun by Michael D. O'Brien 6/28
20. Mistress of Justice by Jeffery Deaver 6/30
21. Lovecraft Unbound by Ellen Datlow 6/30

BOOK TOTAL: 170

JULY

1. Lovecraft Unbound by Ellen Datlow 7/1
2. Zima Blue and Other Stories by Alastair Reynolds 7/2
3. Pawsitively Dead by Harper Lin 7/2
4. Hoplite by Isaac Hooke 7/3
5. Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds by Alastair Reynolds 7/3
6. Urban Allies: Ten Brand-New Collaborative Stories by Joseph Nassise 7/4
7. Cat-astrophic Spells by Harper Lin 7/5
8. Zeus by Isaac Hooke 7/5
9. Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree Thomas 7/6
10. Titan by Isaac Hooke 7/7
11. They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera 7/8
12. Catseye by Andre Norton 7/9
13. The Covenant of the Forge by Dan Parkinson 7/9
14. Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt 7/12
15. Age of Heroes by James Lovegrove 7/12
16. The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz 7/12
17. Fiefdom: A Kingdom Novel by Dan Abnett 7/13
18. Redlaw by James Lovegrove 7/15
19. Redlaw: Red Eye by James Lovegrove 7/18
20. The Elvenbane by Andre Norton 7/18
21. The Alienist by Caleb Carr 7/18
22. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman 7/22
23. Damia by Anne McCaffrey 7/22
24. Lost Library by Kate Baray 7/22
25. The Accidental Demon Slayer by Angie Fox 7/22
26. The Dark Ability by D.K. Holmberg 7/23
27. Dorsai! by Gordon R. Dickson 7/24
28. We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology by Fábio Fernandes 7/28
29. Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds 7/30
30. The Petticoat Men by Barbara Ewing 7/30
31. Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft 7/31


BOOK TOTAL: 201

AUGUST

1. Bitterwood by James Maxey 8/1
2. Dragon Prince by Melanie Rawn 8/5
3. Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly 8/5
4. The Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb 8/5
5. A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets by James Bowen 8/6
6. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 8/6
7. The Man in the Maze by Robert Silverberg 8/6
8. Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey 8/6
9. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 8/7
10. Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey 8/12
11. Treasure of Khan by Clive Cussler 8/12
12. Sabriel by Garth Nix 8/12
13. Time of the Twins by Margaret Weis 8/14
14. The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley 8/14
15. Orope: The White Snake by Guenevere Lee 8/15
16. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris 8/19
18. Owlflight by Mercedes Lackey 8/19
19. The Spice Merchant's Wife by Charlotte Betts 8/19
20. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien 8/19
21. Streams of Silver by R.A. Salvatore 8/19
22. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling 8/23
23. Ahsoka by E.K. Johnston 8/23
24. The Bone Curse by Carrie Rubin 8/23
25. In the Realm of the Wolf by David Gemmell 8/23
26. Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce 8/23
27. The Long List Anthology Volume 3: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List by David Steffen 8/26
28. Kings of Ruin by Daniel Arenson 8/26
29. The Phoenix Unchained by Mercedes Lackey 8/27
30. The Oathbound by Mercedes Lackey 8/27
31. Xanadu by Jane Yolen 8/28
32. Un-fur-tunate Murders by Harper Lin 8/28
33. Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy by Ellen Datlow 8/28
34. Animal Farm by George Orwell 8/28
35. Veil of the Deserters by Jeff Salyards 8/29
36. Jinx by Meg Cabot 8/29
37. Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce 8/30

BOOK TOTAL: 238

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