2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

Goodreads reading challenge

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

Clear My Shelves

23/40 physical books

1. Thunderhead - Neal Shusterman
2. Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo
3. The Testaments - Margaret Atwood
4. The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern
5. Evil Under the Sun - Agatha Christie
6. The Toll - Neal Shusterman
7. The Girl in The Tower - Katherine Arden
8. Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations - Craig Ferguson
9. Recursion - Blake Crouch
10. The Winter of the Witch - Katherine Arden
11. Bossypants - Tina Fey
12. Die ewigen Toten - Simon Beckett
13. City of Dragons - Robin Hobb
14. The Other People - C.J. Tudor
15. The Family Upstairs - Lisa Jewell
16. Permanent Record - Edward Snowden
17. The Guest List - Lucy Foley
18. House of Earth and Blood - Sarah J. Maas
19. A Winter's Promise - Christelle Dabos
20. The Noise of Time - Julian Barnes
21. Der Pfau - Isabel Bogdan
22. Lord Edgware Dies - Agatha Christie
23. Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson

4/15 e-books

1. The Immortalists - Chloe Benjamin
2. Storm Front - Jim Butcher
3. The Girl of Fire and Thorns - Rae Carson
4. The Bromance Book Club - Lyssa Kay Adams

3/10 audiobooks

1. Starsight - Brandon Sanderson
2. The Last Wish - Andrzej Sapkowski
3. Elantris - Brandon Sanderson

Serial Reader Challenge

I will finish 7 series I have started before this year. (7 books)
1. The Testaments - Margaret Atwood
2. The Toll - Neal Shusterman
3. The Winter of the Witch - Katherine Arden
4. Blood of Dragons - Robin Hobb
5. Troubled Blood - Robert Galbraith
6. Rhythm of War - Brandon Sanderson
7.

I will start 5 series this year. (5 books)

1. The Last Wish - Andrzej Sapkowski
2. Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare
3. The Girl of Fire and Thorns - Rae Carson
4. House of Earth and Blood - Sarah J. Maas
5. A Winter's Promise - Christelle Dabos

I will read 8 books that are part of a series. (8 books)

1. Thunderhead - Neal Shusterman
2. Beneath the Sugar Sky - Seanan McGuire
3. Starsight - Brandon Sanderson
4. The Girl in The Tower - Katherine Arden
5. Die ewigen Toten - Simon Beckett
6. City of Dragons - Robin Hobb
7.
8.

My personal Stephen King Challenge - 6 books

Progress: 0/6

My Personal Agatha Christie Challenge - 6 books

Progress: 3/6

1. Evil Under the Sun - Agatha Christie
2. A Caribbean Mystery - Agatha Christie
3. Lord Edgware Dies - Agatha Christie