2026 Reading Challenge discussion

Tracking my reading challenges in 2015.

My goal for 2015 is to read at least 50 books. This will include fiction, non-fiction, and audio. I'm going to try and do as many challenges as I can, so some books will be included in more than one challenge, otherwise I'll never finish...

THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015



Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
Best Stand-Alone Books

10/10

1. Eat, Pray, Love
2. House Rules
3. Howl's Moving Castle
4. The Silver Linings Playbook
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns
6. Gone Girl
7. Me Before You
8. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
9. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
10. I Am Legend

Monthly Challenges - January Challenge: Goodreads Choice Awards 2014 Winners

Going to try and read 3 of the following that caught my eye...



3/3

Yes Please
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
Landline
#GIRLBOSS

Okay so I just realized that the books I've got listed on here far exceed my goal of 50 books, but OMG there are so many fun challenges! So I've decided that I'm going to keep signing up for challenges and just read whatever I can, and just kind of merge challenges if I can read one book for more than one. This is my challenge so I'm not going to be overly strict...

Hi Vernice,

You can count one book across different challenges. In fact it is interesting to see where one book can fit in for the different challenges.

FEBRUARY CHALLENGE: THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN
Duration: February 1 - February 28, 2015



5/5

1. Read a book about music, or someone who is falsely accused of something.
- House Rules

2. Read a book where the main characters give into their vices or evil or read a book where nature or animals is an important part of the story.
- Revival

5. Read a story where the main character struggles with and overcomes his or her own faults, whether they be physical, emotional, personality or other faults.
- Landline

7. Read a book where people live a simple life and do not have a luxurious lifestyle or read a book about royalty.
- Station Eleven

10. Read a book about some kind of suffering or read a book that contains a miracle.
- The Martian

CHOCOLATE CHALLENGE
Duration: April 1, 2015 - April 30, 2015



5/5

2. Chocolate Liquor: This is the basis for all chocolate and it does not contain any alcohol. Read a book that explores a misconception. This could include a character fighting a stereotype or a bad reputation or even a non fiction book setting the record straight on some topic.
- Manhood: How to Be a Better Man-or Just Live with One

4. Unsweetened Chocolate: Bakers often prefer this type of chocolate because they can control the flavor. Read a book with a controlling character.
- A Thousand Splendid Suns

7. Cocoa: Cocoa is made by removing fat from chocolate liquor and is often used in low-fat recipes. Read a short story or book with less than 100 pages.
- In the Tall Grass

9. Couverture: Couverture is dark chocolate with extra cocoa butter. It's great for chocolate fountains. Read a book with a celebration or party.
- A Kiss at Midnight

12. Chocolate Oil: There is no such thing as chocolate oil. Read a book with a ghost or mythological creature.
- American Born Chinese

THIRD QUARTER CHALLENGE: CLEAR THE SHELVES

Duration: July 1 - September 30, 2015



20/20

1. Sharp Objects
2. Funny Girl
3. Twittering from the Circus of the Dead
4. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
5. The Girl on the Train
6. When Beauty Tamed the Beast
7. Hot Summer Reads: An Anthology of Erotic Stories
8. Origins
9. Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny
10. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
11. The Funny Thing Is...
12. Rising Son
13. UR
14. I Am Legend
15. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
16. At the Water's Edge
17. Uprooted
18. Attachments
19. Flowers for Algernon
20. Rage
21. Xingu
22. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
23. Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft

THE DEBUT NOVEL CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1st, 2015 - December 31st, 2015



15/15

1. Yes Please ✔
2. London Red ✔
3. #GIRLBOSS ✔
4. The Martian ✔
5. Wool ✔
6. The Silver Linings Playbook ✔
7. Apocalypse Now Now ✔
8. Finding Pride ✔
9. Trapped in an 80s Teen Movie ✔
10. Sharp Objects ✔
11. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ✔
12. The Girl on the Train ✔
13. I Am Legend ✔
14. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared ✔
15. The Perks of Being a Wallflower ✔

Tidying house! Going to re-list all the challenges that I still need to finish so that I don't have to search through all of it!

#READWOMEN
Duration: January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015



25/25

1. Elizabeth Gilbert ✔
2. Amy Poehler ✔
3. Sophia Amoruso ✔
4. Jillian Michaels ✔
5. Marina Keegan ✔
6. Marissa Meyer ✔
7. Emily St. John Mandel ✔
8. Rainbow Rowell ✔
9. Abigail Barnette ✔
10. Diana Wynne Jones ✔
11. Eloisa James ✔
12. Jojo Moyes ✔
13. Jill Sanders ✔
14. Michelle Duffy ✔
15. Mary Ann Shaffer ✔
16. Annie Barrows ✔
17. Paula Hawkins ✔
18. Holly Madison ✔
19. Ellen DeGeneres ✔
20. Sara Gruen ✔
21. Naomi Novik ✔
22. Edith Wharton ✔
23. Mary Roach ✔
24. Shirley Jackson ✔
25. Alice Hoffman ✔

RANDOM CHALLENGE FOUND ONLINE

37/50

✔ A book with more than 500 pages - House Rules
✔ A book that became a movie - The Silver Linings Playbook
✔ A book published this year - The Girl on the Train
✔ A book with a number in the title - Station Eleven
✔ A book with nonhuman characters - Howl's Moving Castle
✔ A funny book - The Funny Thing Is...
✔ A book by a female author - Landline
✔ A mystery or thriller - Gone Girl
✔ A book with a one-word title - Unseen
✔ A book of short stories - Hot Summer Reads: An Anthology of Erotic Stories
✔ A book set in a different country - Eat, Pray, Love
✔ A non-fiction book - Slim for Life: My Insider Secrets to Simple, Fast, and Lasting Weight Loss
✔ A book set somewhere you always wanted to visit - Revolution
✔ A popular author's first book - Sharp Objects
✔ A book from an author that you haven't read yet - A Thousand Splendid Suns
✔ A book a friend recommended - A Thousand Splendid Suns
✔ A book that scares you - Revival
✔ A memoir - #GIRLBOSS
✔ A book you can finish in a day - In the Tall Grass
✔ A book with bad reviews - Zen and Sex
✔ A book set in the future - The Martian
✔ A book set in high school - Trapped in an 80s Teen Movie
✔ A book with a color in the title - London Red
✔ A book that made you cry - Me Before You
✔ A book with magic - Howl's Moving Castle
✔ A graphic novel - American Born Chinese
✔ A book by an author you've never read before - Manhood: How to Be a Better Man-or Just Live with One
✔ A book that takes place in your hometown - Apocalypse Now Now
✔ A book that was originally written in a different language - The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
✔ A book based on or turned into a tv show - Origins
✔ A book you started but never finished - Dracula
✔ A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't - Flowers for Algernon
✔ A book by someone under 30 - Rage
✔ A banned book - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
✔ A Pulitzer Prize winning book - The Road
✔ A book based entirely on its cover - Fangirl
✔ A book with a love triangle - Red Queen
[] A trilogy -
[] A book more than 100 years old -
[] A classic Romance -
[] A book with antonyms in the title -
[] A book that came out the year you were born - A Brief History of Time/Silver Angel/The Fifth Child/
[] A book from your childhood -
[] A book set during Christmas -
[] A book written by an author with your same initials -
[] A book you own but have never read -
[] A play -
[] A book based on a true story -
[] A book at the bottom of your to read list -
[] A book your mom loves -

THE COMPLETE WORKS CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015

Rainbow Rowell

4/5

✔ 1. Landline
✔ 2. Fangirl
3. Eleanor & Park
✔ 4. Attachments
✔ 5. Carry On

Gillian Flynn

2/2

✔ 1. Gone Girl
✔ 2. Sharp Objects

THE TBR RANDOMISER CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1st - December 31st 2015

8/10

1 - Revolution✔
2 - Howl's Moving Castle✔
3 - The Girl with All the Gifts✔
4 - Red Queen✔
5 - I Am Legend✔
6 - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
7 - UR✔
8 - Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft✔
9 - Attachments✔
10 - The Three-Body Problem

BOOK RIOT'S READ HARDER CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1st - December 31st 2015

23/24

✔ 1. A book written by someone when they were under the age of 25 - Rage

✔ 2. A book written by someone when they were over the age of 65 - Revival

✔ 3. A collection of short stories - Hot Summer Reads: An Anthology of Erotic Stories

✔ 4. A book published by an indie press - London Red

✔ 5. A book by or about someone that identifies as LGBTQ - Carry On

✔ 6. A book by a person whose gender is different from your own - Unseen

✔ 7. A book that takes place in Asia - Eat, Pray, Love

✔ 8. A book by an author from Africa - Apocalypse Now Now

✔ 9. A book that is by or about someone from an indigenous culture - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

✔ 10. A microhistory - Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

✔ 11. A YA novel - Revolution

✔ 12. A sci-fi novel - The Martian

✔ 13. A romance novel - Me Before You

✔ 14. A National Book Award, Man Booker Prize or Pulitzer Prize winner from the last decade - The Road

✔ 15. A book that is a retelling of a classic story - A Kiss at Midnight

✔ 16. An audiobook - Funny Girl

✔ 17. A collection of poetry - I Could Chew on This: And Other Poems by Dogs

✔ 18. A book that someone else has recommended to you - Coraline

✔ 19. A book that was originally published in another language - The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

✔ 20. A graphic novel, a graphic memoir or a collection of comics of any kind - American Born Chinese

✔ 21. A book that you would consider a guilty pleasure (Read, and then realize that good entertainment is nothing to feel guilty over) - When Beauty Tamed the Beast

22. A book published before 1850 - Oliver Twist

✔ 23. A book published this year - The Girl on the Train

✔ 24. A self-improvement book - Slim for Life: My Insider Secrets to Simple, Fast, and Lasting Weight Loss

A-Z CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015

25/26

✔ A - A Thousand Splendid Suns
✔ B - Me Before You
✔ C - Howl's Moving Castle
✔ D - Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny
✔ E - Station Eleven
✔ F - Funny Girl
✔ G - Glass Slipper
✔ H - House Rules
✔ I - I Am Legend
✔ J - Lord John And The Hand Of Devils
✔ K - A Kiss at Midnight
✔ L - Landline
✔ M - The Martian
✔ N - Apocalypse Now Now
✔ O - The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
✔ P - Eat, Pray, Love
✔ Q - Red Queen
✔ R - London Red
✔ S - The Silver Linings Playbook
✔ T - In the Tall Grass
✔ U - Unseen
V - Vanishing Girls
✔ W - Wool
✔ X - Xingu
✔ Y - Yes Please
✔ Z - Zen and Sex

I SPY CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015

24/25

✔ 1. Color - London Red
✔ 2. Number - Station Eleven
✔ 3. Things That Grow - In the Tall Grass
✔ 4. Seasons - Hot Summer Reads: An Anthology of Erotic Stories
✔ 5. First Name - Flowers for Algernon
✔ 6. Places - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
✔ 7. Body Part - Lord John And The Hand Of Devils
✔ 8. Weapon - Sharp Objects
9. Body of Water - The Light Between Oceans
✔ 10. Form of Water - At the Water's Edge
✔ 11. Product of Fire - The Library at Mount Char
✔ 12. Celestial Body - A Thousand Splendid Suns
✔ 13. Architecture - House Rules
✔ 14. Senses - Unseen
✔ 15. Royal Title - Red Queen
✔ 16. Family Member - Rising Son
✔ 17. Elements - At the Water's Edge
✔ 18. Time of Day - A Kiss at Midnight
✔ 19. Metal - The Silver Linings Playbook
✔ 20. Emotion/Feeling - Eat, Pray, Love
✔ 21. Animal/Insect - Down the Rabbit Hole
✔ 22. Something to Read - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
✔ 23. Gender Identifier - Funny Girl
✔ 24. Paranormal Being - Lord John and the Succubus
✔ 25. Occupation - #GIRLBOSS

THIRD AND FOURTH QUARTER CHALLENGE: GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS
Duration: July 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015

13/15

1. London Red ✔
2. Funny Girl ✔
3. The Girl on the Train ✔
4. Hot Summer Reads: An Anthology of Erotic Stories ✔
5. Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny ✔
6. At the Water's Edge ✔
7. Uprooted ✔
8. A Head Full of Ghosts ✔
9. Carry On ✔
10. The Library at Mount Char ✔
11. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams ✔
12. The Royal We ✔
13. Red Queen ✔

FROM THE PAGE TO THE SCREEN
Duration: October 1 - December 31, 2015

4/5

1. The Road ✔
2. The Girl with All the Gifts ✔
3. Coraline ✔
4. The Haunting of Hill House ✔
5.