2025 Reading Challenge discussion

So. I thought I did not like challenges. All that time pressure and stress. And here I am, some time later, joining several challenges at the same time. That is love for books and reading for you.

Here are my 2018 challenges:
2018 Reading challenge shelf: read 55 100 books in 2018
Summer reading challenge thread: expert level, my shelf here
Popsugar 2018 Reading Challenge - list here - I will post my list here and update it as I go.
AZ Reading Challenge, my shelf here

Popsugar 2018 Reading Challenge

√ 1. A book made into a movie you’ve already seen – Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
√ 2. True crime – one of the recent books by Dominik Dán
√ 3. The next book in a series you started - The Hanging Tree
4. A book involving a heist
5. Nordic noir - maybe Smilla's Sense of Snow
√ 6. A novel based on a real person - The Prince George Diaries
√ 7. A book set in a country that fascinates you - Dragonfly in Amber
√ 8. A book with a time of day in the title - Cesta za mesačného svitu
√ 9. A book about a villain or antihero - Rivers of London
√ 10. A book about death or grief – Two She-Bears
√ 11. A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym - Lethal White
√ 12. A book with an LGBTQ+ protagonist - Orlando
13. A book that is also a stage play or musical – options: Little Women, Phantom of opera or Dodger – Oliver Twist (Pratchett), Christie, Grapes of Wrath
√ 14. A book by an author of a different ethnicity than you – Americanah
√ 15. A book about feminism - The Handmaid's Tale
√ 16. A book about mental health - Temná dcéra
√ 17. A book you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift - Autismus & chardonnay
√ 18. A book by two authors – Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
√ 19. A book about or involving a sport - Three Men in a Boat
√ 20. A book by a local author - Stalo sa prvého septembra
√ 21. A book with your favorite color in the title - The Red Tent
√ 22. A book with alliteration in the title - Fahrenheit 451
√ 23. A book about time travel – Outlander
√ 24. A book with a weather element in the title -A Breath of Snow and Ashes
√ 25. A book set at sea – Voyager
√ 26. A book with an animal in the title - Krvilačné tety a iné zvery (book of short stories by Saki published in Slovak under the title Bloodlust aunties and other beasts
√ 27. A book set on a different planet – The Martian
√ 28. A book with song lyrics in the titles - Foreign Fruit
√ 29. A book about or set in Halloween - A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows
√ 30. A book with characters who are twins – The House of the Spirits
√ 31. A book mentioned in another book - Great Expectations
√ 32. A book from a celebrity book club – The Pillars of the Earth
√ 33. A childhood classic you’ve never read - Charlotte's Web
√ 34. A book that’s published in 2018 – Still Me
√ 35. A past Goodreads Choice Awards winner - Little Fires Everywhere
√ 36. A book set in the decade you were born - Everything I Never Told You
√ 37. A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn’t get to - Doppler
√ 38. A book with an ugly cover – Jozef Mak
√ 39. A book that involves a bookstore or a library - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
√ 40. Your favorite prompt from the 2015, 2016, 2017 PopSugar Reading Challenges - a book from non-human perspective caught my attention - The Dalai Lama's Cat

Finished reading Doppler and Jozef Mak
23/40

Finished Salmon Fishing in the Yemen for No 1
24/40

In the meantime, I finished Red Tent (21), Martian (27) and Little Fires Everywhere (35)
Loved Red Tent and Little Fires, not so much Martian
27/40

Also, I have surpassed the goal of 55 books for the 2018 Reading Challenge and since it is just a half a year, I moved the target to 100. Will see how it goes. So far I have finished 60 books, but I do not think I will keep the current pace when my Summer Reading Challenge is finished.

During the summer I have finished The Hanging Tree (3), Cesta za mesacneho svitu (Journey by moonlight (8)), The Handmaid's Tale (15), Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (39)
31/40

Finished Korene zla (Roots of evil (2)), Good Omens (18), Foreign Fruit (28), The Dalai Lama's Cat (40).
35/40

read Lethal White by Galbraith/Rowling (11) and Charlotte's Web (33)
37/40

I do not think I will finish all, especially nording noir is really not something I want to read, but the rest was fun.

2019

My challenges in 2019:

Clear the Shelves Challenge

Guster challenge

Q2 Globetrotter challenge

also considering the Goodreads Summer Reading Challenge