2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

I'm excited to see how my new reading year will be since I became a mom in October and I won't have as much time to read as I used to. Or maybe I will have even more time. Who knows. But I don't want to put too much pressure on myself, so I am going with 50 and hope I will make it.

1. Thunderhead - Neal Shusterman ****
2. The Bear and the Nightingale - Katherine Arden ***
3. Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo ***
4. The Testaments - Margaret Atwood ****
5. Beneath the Sugar Sky - Seanan McGuire ***
6. Miracle Creek - Angie Kim ***
7. The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern ***
8. Evil Under the Sun - Agatha Christie ***
9. The Toll - Neal Shusterman ****
10. Starsight - Brandon Sanderson ****
11. The Girl in The Tower - Katherine Arden *****
12. No Judgments - Meg Cabot **
13. The Immortalists - Chloe Benjamin **
14. Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations - Craig Ferguson *****
15. My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite ***
16. The Last Wish - Andrzej Sapkowski ***
17. Platform Seven - Louise Doughty ***
18. The Dutch House - Ann Patchett *****
19. Recursion - Blake Crouch ***
20. Bringing Down the Duke - Evie Dunmore ****
21. Well Met - Jen DeLuca ****
22. The Winter of the Witch - Katherine Arden ****
23. Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare ***
24. Bossypants - Tina Fey *****
25. The Duchess Deal - Tessa Dare ****
26. Die ewigen Toten - Simon Beckett ****
27. The Switch - Beth O'Leary *****
28. You Are Not Alone - Greer Hendricks **
29. The Governess Game - Tessa Dare ****
30. City of Dragons - Robin Hobb ****
31. Blood of Dragons - Robin Hobb ****
32. The Two Lives of Lydia Bird - Josie Silver ***.5
33. Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals - Ken Follett
34. Storm Front - Jim Butcher ***
35. The Other People - C.J. Tudor ****
36. A Caribbean Mystery - Agatha Christie ***
37. Ich will bei euch schlafen - Sibylle Lüpold *****
38. Elantris - Brandon Sanderson ****
39. The Family Upstairs - Lisa Jewell ****
40. You Deserve Each Other - Sarah Hogle *****
41. Permanent Record - Edward Snowden *****
42. The Girl of Fire and Thorns - Rae Carson ***
43. The Guest List - Lucy Foley ****
44. Tyll - Daniel Kehlmann *****
45. House of Earth and Blood - Sarah J. Maas ****
46. Beach Read - Emily Henry ****
47. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong ****
48. A Winter's Promise - Christelle Dabos ***
49. Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid ***
50. The City We Became - N.K. Jemisin ****
51. The Noise of Time - Julian Barnes ****
52. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz - Erik Larson *****
53. If I Never Met You - Mhairi McFarlane ***
54. Dear Edward - Ann Napolitano ****
55. Home Before Dark - Riley Sager ****
56. Get a Life, Chloe Brown - Talia Hibbert ****
57. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Robin DiAngelo *****
58. The Glass Hotel - Emily St. John Mandel *****
59. The Worst Best Man - Mia Sosa **
60. Lethal White - Robert Galbraith *****
61. How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi *****
62. A Song of Wraiths and Ruin - Roseanne A. Brown ****
63. The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett *****
64. Coming Undone - Terri White ****
65. A Burning - Megha Majumdar ***
66. Marriage of Inconvenience - Penny Reid ***
67. The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson *****
68. The Good Daughter - Karin Slaughter *****
69. Troubled Blood - Robert Galbraith *****
70. Troubled Blood - Robert Galbraith *****
71. The Silkworm - Robert Galbraith ****
72. Career of Evil - Robert Galbraith *****
73. Der Pfau - Isabel Bogdan ***
74. Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country - John Kampfner *****
75. Lord Edgware Dies - Agatha Christie ****
76. The Duke and I - Julia Quinn ***
77. Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia **
78. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars - Christopher Paolini
79. Well Played - Jen DeLuca **
80. Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson ****
81. Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson *****
82. The Bone Shard Daughter - Andrea Stewart ****
83. Rhythm of War - Brandon Sanderson *****
84. The Bromance Book Club - Lyssa Kay Adams ***
85. The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones ***

DNF
1. The Right Swipe - Alisha Rai
2. Fragments of the Lost - Megan Miranda

DNF

Congratulations on becoming a mom and good luck with your reading challenge!

Rachael wrote: "Congratulations on becoming a mom and good luck with your reading challenge!"

Thank you so much! Good luck to you too!

Congratulations new Momma! Be sure to count all of those books that you read to the baby :)

Congratulations Claudia! Great that you're not putting pressure on yourself :) I became a mom in May 2018 and deliberately lowered my goal because I didn't know how much I would be able to read. Needless to say, I haven't been reading that much from then until now, but that's okay ! :)

Best of luck in 2020!

Tara wrote: "Congratulations new Momma! Be sure to count all of those books that you read to the baby :)"

Thank you! And good point :)

Lisa wrote: "Congratulations Claudia! Great that you're not putting pressure on yourself :) I became a mom in May 2018 and deliberately lowered my goal because I didn't know how much I would be able to read. Ne..."

Thank you! And congratulations to you too! I'm already feeling that I won't read that much since she was born. Audiobooks will be my saviour I feel.

This is my favorite quote of all time! I hope it brings you luck with your reading in 2020!

Claudia wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Congratulations Claudia! Great that you're not putting pressure on yourself :) I became a mom in May 2018 and deliberately lowered my goal because I didn't know how much I would be abl..."

Thank you :)
Audio books is definitely a good way if you enjoy them :) I cherished my Kindle Paperwhite during nighttime whenever I wasn't trying to catch up on sleep.
Congratulations on already finishing your first book of the year though :) Keep it up!

Blagica wrote: "This is my favorite quote of all time! I hope it brings you luck with your reading in 2020!
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I love it too! I hope it does the same for you :)

Lisa wrote: "Claudia wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Congratulations Claudia! Great that you're not putting pressure on yourself :) I became a mom in May 2018 and deliberately lowered my goal because I didn't know how muc..."

My paperwhite isn't far away either. ;)