The Reading Challenge Group discussion

My 2018 Reading Challenge Goal is 180 books in total.

This year's main focus will be to tackle the big books waiting for me on my shelves. They have been saying "Read me!" for far too long.
I will be focussing on challenges that help me reduce my TBR list of both print and ebooks.
I want to read 100 books from my own shelves, both electronic or print, acquired before January 1, 2018.

Of course, my main goal will be to have fun reading.

TBR Challenge - January

1. Andorra
2. The Wisdom of Father Brown
3. Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen
4. The Aeneid
5. Rab and His Friends and Other Papers and Essays
6. The Waverly Novels: The Betrothed
7. The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
8. Agnes Grey
9. Pan's Garden
10. The Secret Agent
11. Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying
12. Doctor Zhivago
13. Pedro Páramo
14. La Petite Bijou
15. Crackpot
16. Black Like Me

Travel the World - Leg 1 North America

1. Jane of Lantern Hill
2. The Year of Miss Agnes
3. Pedro Páramo

Doorstopper

1. Eclipse of the Sun 856 pages
2. Die Blendung 844 pages
3. Little Dorrit 858 pages
4. Poems 1962-2012 634 pages
5. Outcasts of Order 654 pages
6. The Luminaries 832 pages
7. The Eustace Diamonds 687 pages
8. Phineas Redux 874 pages

Let's Have Pie

1. The Secret Agent
2. Doctor Zhivago
3. The Unbearable Bassington
4. Die Blendung
5. El Reino de Este Mundo
6. Dune
7. As I Lay Dying

Bookworm Marilyn Monroe

1. The Secret Agent
2. The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
3. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
4. A Streetcar Named Desire
5. La Dame aux Camélias(Camille: The Lady of the Camellias)

Haunted

1. Uncle Silas
2. The Bride of Lammermoor
3. Titus Groan
4. The Beetle
5. The Haunting of Hill House
6. Gormenghast

New to You - January to June

1. Brian Friel
2. Ryszard Kapuściński
3. Algernon Blackwood
4. Saul Bellow
5. John Brown
6. Kirkpatrick Hill
7. Lloyd Alexander
8. Juan Rulfo
9. Patrick Modiano
10. John Howard Griffin

Monthly Genre Challenge

January - Henderson the Rain King
February - Listening Valley
March - The Lake District Murder, The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories, The Return of Sherlock Holmes
April - The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog, The Firebird
May - Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, The Importance of Being Earnest
June - King Solomon's Mines
July - A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story, Stella by Starlight, The Railway Children
August - Brave New World
September - The Eagle of the Ninth
October - The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shadow Out of Time, The Haunting of Hill House
November - A Legend of Montrose, Arms and the Man, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Eustace Diamonds
December - The Birds' Christmas Carol

Anti-Alphabet Challenge

1. Travels with Herodotus
2. Rab and His Friends and Other Papers and Essays
3. Our Town
4. The Door in the Wall and Other Stories
5. The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
6. Pan's Garden
7. The Xanadu Adventure
8. Crackpot
9. Black Like Me
10. In the Village of Viger
11. The Borrowers
12. Mrs Griffin sends her love
13. Mr. Popper's Penguins
14. Gritlis Kinder
15. The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
16. Home Again: Stories Of Migration And Return
17. The 13 Clocks
18. Pollyanna
19. The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
20. The Graduate
21. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
22. Palestine
23. Quicksand
24. The Art of War
25. Le cosmicomiche
26. Selected Poems

Decade Challenge

1. Ethan Frome
2.Agnes Grey
3. La Petite Bijou
4. When Hoopoes Go to Heaven
5. Dictionary of the Khazars
6. The Confessions of Nat Turner
7. Adam's Breed
8. Le mystère de la chambre jaune
9. Old Herbaceous: A Novel of the Garden
10. Murder in Mesopotamia
11. The Moon Is Down
12. Patrimony
13. Noli Me Tángere
14. A Good Place to Come from
15.The Bride of Lammermoor
16. Castle Rackrent
17. Captains Courageous
18. The Golden Key
19. The Golden Lion of Granpere
20. The Talisman
21. Twelve Years a Slave
22. The Inspector General

The Play's the Thing

1. Andorra
2. Dancing at Lughnasa
3. Our Town
4. En attendant Godot
5. The Winter's Tale
6. Twelfth Night
7. Twelve Angry Men
8. The Rover
9. The Widdow Ranter Or The History Of Bacon In Virginia
10. R.U.R.
11. Much Ado About Nothing
12. A Streetcar Named Desire

Seasonal Challenge - Winter (January, February, March)

1. The Glamour of the Snow
2. Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen
3. Winter: A Spiritual Biography of the Season
4. The Winter's Tale
5. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
6. The Long Winter

Winter Bingo

1. The Aeneid
2. Jane of Lantern Hill
3. Eclipse of the Sun
4. The Year of Miss Agnes
5. Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying
6. Doctor Zhivago
7. Pedro Páramo
8. The Machine Stops
9. En attendant Godot
10. River of the Sun
11. The Incredible Journey
12. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
13. Casino Royale
14. Esperanza Rising
15. Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944
16. The Long Winter
17. The Westminster Alice

Literary Anniversaries

1. The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
2. Recollections And Essays by Leo Tolstoy
3. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
4. The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
5. Jabberwocky and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll

Reach for the Stars - January to June

1. The Machine Stops
2. The Martian Chronicles
3. R.U.R.
4. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
5. Le cosmicomiche
6. Dune
7. A Voyage to Arcturus
8. Foundation and Empire

Chunkster Challenge

1.The Mongrel Mage
2. Doctor Zhivago
3. River of the Sun
4.The Confessions of Nat Turner
5. The Atonement Of Ashley Morden
6. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
7. Manchild in the Promised Land
8. Farewell Thrush Green
9. Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
10. The Talisman

Clue: The Character Challenge

Reverend Green - The Wisdom of Father Brown
Mr. Brown - Casino Royale
Sergeant Gray - The Lake District Murder
Professor Plum - Swiss Sonata
Miss Scarlet - Le mystère de la chambre jaune
Mrs. Peacock - Little Dorrit
M Body - As I Lay Dying
Colonel Mustard - The Return of the Soldier
Nurse White - The Andromeda Strain

The Game is Afoot - July to December

1. The Orange-Yellow Diamond
2. Letter From Home
3. The Glass Key
4. The Greek Coffin Mystery
5. The Mystery of the Blue Train
6. The Red House Mystery
7. The Valley of Fear
8. The Mysterious Mr. Quinn
9. Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries
10. The Light of Day

Seize the Day - July to December

1. The Bobbsey Twins: Or, Merry Days Indoors and Out
2. Naissance de l'Odyssée
3. The Boxcar Children
4. Dschapei
5. When William Came
6. Hot Water
7. The People That Time Forgot
8. The Bobbsey Twins in the Country
9. Centerburg Tales: More Adventures of Homer Price
10. The Bird in the Tree

Fantasy Faire - July to December

1. The Magic Faraway Tree
2. Outcasts of Order
3. Lost Horizon
4. Recluce Tales: Stories from the World of Recluce
5. The Golden Key
6. Prince Caspian

Down with History - January to June

1. The Waverly Novels: The Betrothed
2. The Year of Miss Agnes
3. The Confessions of Nat Turner
4. The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
5. Friedrich
6. The Talisman
7. Brothers-in-Arms
8. Chronicle in Stone
9. O Pioneers!

January Readathon:

1. Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen
2. The Aeneid
3.Travels with Herodotus
4. Henderson the Rain King
5. Rab and His Friends and Other Papers and Essays
6. Winter: A Spiritual Biography of the Season
7.Jane of Lantern Hill
8. The Waverly Novels: The Betrothed

January update

Finished Levels 1, 2, 3 of TBR challenge (15 books)

Finished Leg 1 of Travel the World - North America

Completed Round 1 of New to You - 10 authors

February TBR challenge

1. Lenz
2. At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
3. Eclipse of the Sun
4. Gritlis Kinder: Wo Gritlis Kinder hingekommen sind / Gritlis Kinder kommen weiter
5. River of the Sun
6. In the Village of Viger
7. Five Little Peppers Midway
8. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
9. The Unbearable Bassington
10. Sechs Novellen
11. Dictionary of the Khazars
12. Die Blendung

Travel the World Leg 2- South America

1.Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada
2. River of the Sun
3. El túnel
4. El Reino de Este Mundo
5. La casa de papel

New to You - Round 2
January to June

11. Michael D. O'Brien
12. Samuel Beckett
13. James Ramsey Ullman
14. Duncan Campbell Scott
15. Ernesto Sabato
16. Jens Peter Jacobsen
17. Pam Muñoz Ryan
18. Milorad Pavić
19. William Styron
20. Reginald Rose

Finished Round 1 of the TBR challenge - 20 books

Valentine's Day flash readathon

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

I finally got my first Bingo-- the 4's.

My progress on the Big Books:

So far I have read 2 doorstoppers, both 800+ pages
And 3 Chunksters.

I am halfway through a shelfbender and another chunkster.

I finished the shelfbender in mid-March.

Black History Challenge

1. Up from Slavery
2. Manchild in the Promised Land

March TBR challenge books read

1. The Confessions of Nat Turner
2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
3. Up from Slavery
4. City of God
5. Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works
6. The Atonement Of Ashley Morden
7. The Soul of Man Under Socialism, and Selected Critical Prose
8.The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
9. Manchild in the Promised Land
10. The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories
11. The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
12. The Return of Sherlock Holmes

March Mini-challenges

Luck of the Irish - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Women's History Month - The Rover
The Ides of March - The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories by Algernon Blackwood

Finished the seasonal challenge for Winter.

Finished round 2 of New to You.

I finished my first SHELF-BENDER!

City of God by Augustine of Hippo at 1097 pages

New to You- Round 3

21. Alejo Carpentier
22. Gary Krist
23. Charles Webb
24. Carlos María Domínguez
25. Karel Čapek
26. Owen Wister
27. Thomas Browne
28. William Kennedy
29. Hans Peter Richter
30.Edwin A. Abbott

I got my second bingo --the N's.

Readathon: Spring into reading

1. The Soul of Man Under Socialism, and Selected Critical Prose
2. The Grass Harp by Truman Capote
3. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
4. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
5. Manchild in the Promised Land
6. La casa de papel
7. R.U.R.
8. The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

Big book update- January, February, March

Shelfbenders - 1
Doorstoppers - 2
Chunksters - 7

Spring Bingo

Travels with Charley: In Search of America
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
Religio Medici
Ironweed
Friedrich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
The Female Quixote
The Firebird
The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories
The Wind from the Plain
De Profundis
La dame aux camélias
Patrimony
When We Were Very Young
The Book of Disquiet
Der Besondere
The Dunwich Horror

I finished Round 2 of Buyer's Remorse (40 books)

TBR challenge - April

1.Religio Medici
2. Ironweed
3. The Blue Mountains of China
4. Kidnapped
5. A Small Boy in the Sixties
6. Adam's Breed
7. The Female Quixote
8. The Art of War
9. The Firebird
10. Die Harzreise

April mini-challenges

Cruelest Month - A Streetcar Named Desire
April Fool - Much Ado About Nothing
Wacky Weather - Evil Under the Sun

Rainbow Challenge

The Blue Mountains of China
The Black Mountain
Farewell Thrush Green
Le mystère de la chambre jaune
The Orange-Yellow Diamond
Greyfriars Bobby
The Colour Out of Space and others
The Red House Mystery
Yellow & Pink
Brown Girl, Brownstones
Riders of the Purple Sage
The Ways of White Folks

Challenge completed.

I finished Round One of The Play's the Thing.

I finished Round Three of New to You, and will not be starting a fourth round.
Thanks to goodreads I have discovered lots of new authors.

Travel the World Leg 3 - Europe

Germany- Friedrich
Scotland - Kidnapped
England - A Small Boy in the Sixties
France - The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
Montenegro - The Black Mountain
Belarus- Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Portugal - Livro do Desassossego
Switzerland - Swiss Sonata

You are amazing! So many challenges completed already this year. Congratulations, Rosemarie.