2026 Reading Challenge discussion

A place to keep all my challenges in order :)

Personal Challenge for the Year: Popsugar Reading Challenge

1.A book with more than 500 Pages Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 1/12/15
2. A classic romance Anna Karenina
3. A book that became a movie If I Stay 2/1/2015
4. A book published this year (2015) The Heir 5/27/15
5. A book with a number in the title Station Eleven 3/19/2015
6. A book written by someone under 30 Red Rising 1/24/15
7. A book with nonhuman characters Cress 1/26/15
8. A funny book Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened 1/18/15
9. A book by a female author Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 1/15/15
10. A mystery or thriller Heart-Shaped Box 4/5/15
11. A book with a one word title Scarlet 1/21/15
12. A book of short stories Dorothy Must Die: Stories 4/4/15
13. A book set in a different country The Book Thief 1/28/15
14. A nonfiction book My Drunk Kitchen: A Guide to Eating, Drinking, and Going with Your Gut 4/7/15
15. A popular author's first book Sharp Objects 3/28/15
16. A book from an author you love that you haven't read yet Plugged 3/27/15
17. A book a friend recommended An Abundance of Katherines 7/29/15
18. A Pulitzer Prize winning book The Goldfinch 6/19/15
19. A book based on a true story
20. A book at the bottom of your to-read list Shadow and Bone 2/19/15
21. A book your mom loves One Plus One my mom doesn't read much, so I looked for a title with a strong matriarch. Jess is one of the best mom characters I've read. Strong, single woman raising two children. She faces down each life hardship with a smile and hope.
22. A book that scares you
23. A book more than 100 years old The Time Machine 9/23/15
24. A book based entirely on its cover The Night Circus 2/11/15
25. A book that you were supposed to read in school, but didn't The Glass Menagerie 9/5/15
26. A memoir Yes Please 6/9/15
27. A book that you can finish in a day Fairest 2/3/15
28. A book with antonyms in the title Big Little Lies 3/10/15
29. a book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West 2/5/15 Not necessarily this version of Oz, but I have always wanted to go there
30. A book that came out the year you were born Howl's Moving Castle 6/9/15
31. A book with bad reviews Golden Son 2/10/15
32. A trilogy - Daughter of Smoke & Bone 2/12/15 - Days of Blood & Starlight 2/21/15 Dreams of Gods & Monsters 3/3/15
33. A book from your childhood The Princess Bride 4/3/15
34. A book with a love triangle - Matched 2/17/15
35. A book set in the future The Martian 2/7/15
36. A book set in high school Wake 2/12/15
37. A book with a color in the title The Silver Linings Playbook 3/3/15
38. A book that made you cry Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 1/17/15
39. A book with magic Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire1/6/15
40. A graphic novel Watchmen 4/25/15
41. A book by an author you've never read before Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West 2/2/15
42. A book you own, but have never read The Time Traveler's Wife 3/23/15
43. A book that takes place in your hometown
44. A book that was originally written in a different language The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 4/10/15
45. A book set during Christmas Landline 3/5/15
46. A book written by an author with your same initials Sarah Dessen - Lock and Key 4/9/15
47. A play The Crucible
48. A banned book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2/3/15
49. A book based on or turned into a TV show Heat Wave 6/6/15
50. A book you started, but never finished The Stand 2/21/15 finally...

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Personal Challenge for the Year: Reading What I Own from 108 to 75

1. Plugged
2. And Another Thing
3. Click
4. Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel
5. The Arctic Incident: The Graphic Novel
6. Perfect Ruin
7. The Color of Magic
8. The Red Tent
9. Dark Places
10. Sharp Objects
11. The Red Pyramid
12. The Throne of Fire
13. The Serpent's Shadow
14. The Young Elite
15. The Innkeeper's Story
16. The Last Unicorn: Two Hearts
17. Faerytales and Nightmares
18. City of Fallen Angels
19. Clockwork Prince
20. Clockwork Princess
21. The Golem's Eye
22. Ptolemy's Gate
23. Going Bovine
24. Another Faust
25. Another Pan
26. Another Jekyll, Another Hyde
27. Inkdeath
28. Igraine the Brave
29. Reckless
30. The Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel
31. Doomwyte
32. The Rouge Crew
33. The Sable Queen
34. The Voyage of Slaves
35. Angel's Command
36. The Castaway of the Flying Dutchman
37. Tenth Grade Bleed
38. Eleventh Grade Burns
39. Twelfth Grade Kills
40. Syren
41. Darke
42. American Sniper
43. Doomsday Project
44. Bright Young Things
45. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
46. The Girl Who Played with Fire
47. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
48. Dark Fire
49. Fireworld
50. Beautiful Creatures
51. Beautiful Darkness
52. Beautiful Chaos
53. Beautiful Redemption **couldn't finish Beautiful creatures, abandoning series.
54. White Cat
55. Red Glove
56. Deja Dead
57. Redeeming Love
58. World War Z
59. One Hundred Names
60. All That Glows
61. The Girl with all the Gifts
62. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
63. A Wrinkle in Time
64. Water for Elephants
65. Under the Dome
66. Cloud Atlas
67. Bellman and Black
68. The Child Thief
69. Zombies vs. Unicorns
70. Clariel
71. Frozen Fire
72. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer
73. Leviathan
74. The Replacements
75. The Space Between
76. Alice I Have Been
77. The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
78. Miss Peregrine's Home for Extraordinary Children
79. The Sisters Red
80. Stardust
81. Almost Moon
82. Frostbite
83. Vampire Academy
84. Shadow's Kiss
85. Succubus Blues
86. Succubus On Top
87. Succubus Dreams
88. Succubus Heat
89. Succubus Shadows
90. Succubus Redeemed
91. Ophelia
92. Nightwatch
93. The Pillars of the Earth
94. Night Road
95. A Thousand Splendid Suns
96. The Book of Fate
97. Mirror, Mirror
98. Lost
99. This Much I Know is True
100. Atonement
101. The Highwayman
102. The Girl Next Door
103. The Time Traveler's Wife
104. Some Girls
105. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
106. Son of a Witch
107. Powder of Life
108. The Night Circus
109. The Stand

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First Quarter Challenge: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
1. One, two,
Buckle my shoe;
finish a series
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Finished the Harry Potter Series

2. Three, four,
Open the door;
read a new genre or author (or both for those who are game)
The Book Thief - New Author
The Martian - New Author, New Genre I don't pick up science fiction. I usually stick in the realm of fantasy and paranormal. I loved this book

3.Five, six,
Pick up sticks;
finish a previously unfinished book
Matched - I started this book right after the second book was released and never finished. Not because I didn't like, but because I got distracted. This was around the time I started reading Stephen King.

4. Seven, eight,
Lay them straight;
read a trilogy or small series (at least 4 books) in order
Wake, Fade, Gone - Interesting trilogy. Didn't care much for the second book

5. Nine, ten,
A big, fat hen;
read the thickest book on your TBR
The Stand Not sure it's the absolute longest, but it is stupid long

6. Eleven, twelve,
Dig and delve;
read an old favourite
Goodnight Tweetheart - Love this book, it makes me laugh. After struggling to get through the Stand, it definitely provided the relief of an easy, entertaining read.


7. Thirteen, fourteen,
Maids a-courting;
read a romance novel
The Time Traveler's Wife

8. Fifteen, sixteen,
Maids in the kitchen;
read a book that takes place in a prairie or has food on its cover
Big Little Lies

9. Seventeen, eighteen,
Maids a-waiting;
read a book you've been waiting to read
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - I love everything about the Wizard of Oz and I had been putting off reading this book for a long time. I'm glad I stopped waiting and can't wait to get on to the next books.

10. Nineteen, twenty,
My plate's empty.
read the last book on your tbr list
Shadow and Bone - Picked up this book because the author is going to be at a book festival that I'm going to in early March.

Came late to the quarterly challenge, page 5

5/5

Challenge Complete Now that I have made it through my initial goal of 5, I'm going to try to make it through the entire challenge.

10/10
Completed 3/23/15

February Challenge

Station Eleven
Finally got a hold of this book and read it :)

Hopefully I can get either the book or audio before the end of the month. There are 4 copies at my library but I'm still 4th in line for requests. Getting the book itself will be the challenge.

Edit
I honestly don't think I'm going to be able to get a hold of this book in time, so my ammended monthly challenge to myself is to finish a book that I started last June.
The Stand

Update
I got through a 100 pages yesterday and am going to try to get through 100 pages a day so that I can finish this book. I really don't want to mark it DNF. 2/16/15

Update 2
I finally made it into the four digits on The Stand. I can taste the end. I just hope I make it there soon. 2/21/15

Update 3
Finished...Never want to read that book again...

Yearly Challenge: Listopia

Best Young Adult Books

1. Looking for Alaska 2/24/15
2. A Wrinkle in Time 2/25/15
3. Speak 4/7/15
4. The Maze Runner 3/9/15
5. The Catcher in the Rye
6. The Princess Bride 4/3/15
7. Howl's Moving Castle 6/9/15
8. Matched 2/17/15
9. Paper Towns 3/14/15
10. Delirium 5/5/15
11. The Graveyard Book 4/1/15

Everyone's Read It But Me

1. The Time Traveler's Wife 3/23/15
2. The Kite Runner 9/15/15
3. Water for Elephants 7/3/15
4. Life of Pi 6/12/15
5. Interview with the Vampire *
6. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 4/10/15
7. The Memory Keeper's Daughter 8/2/15
8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
9. The Catcher in the Rye
10. Atonement *
11. A Thousand Splendid Suns *
12. The Alchemist 9/16/15
13. Middlesex 7/21/15
14. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister *
15. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 7/16/15
16. My Sister's Keeper
17. It
18. Son of a Witch *
19. Catch-22
20. The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity 9/1/15
21. The Graveyard Book 4/1/15
22. I Know This Much Is True *
23. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Books that Everyone Should Read At Least Once

1. The Catcher in the Rye
2. Fahrenheit 451
3. The Kite Runner 9/15/15
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
5. The Alchemist 9/16/15
6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
7. A Thousand Splendid Suns *
8. Life of Pi 6/12/15
9. Catch-22
10. Anna Karenina
11. Slaughterhouse-Five
12. The Time Traveler's Wife 3/23/15
13. A Clockwork Orange
14. Atlas Shrugged
15. The Stand 2/21/15
16. The Poisonwood Bible

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I love the Pop Sugar Challenge. I haven't signed up for it but I really like that it makes you read such a variety of styles and genres of books. I may look into that one for next year. I also think it is great you are trying to make a dent in the books you own. I need to make an effort to stop buying books and to actually read the ones I own. It is just hard to stop buying. Good luck with your challenges.

Additional Reading Goals:
I started reading Stephen King in October of 2013. I had been traumatized at a young age by movies like Chuckie and Poltergeist when my parent's didn't realize that I was hiding in the hall while they watched horrors after I had been put to bed. When I was in grade school I went to a slumber party and my friends decided to watch It. I had nightmares for months afterward. Well I have finally gotten over the traumas of horror and have started reading my way through Stephen King's novels. I'm trying to read them in publication order, we will see how well that works out for me. This particular reading goal doesn't have a timeline. It's just a goal to get through. Novels that I have already read have been left off the list

Stephen King Novels
1. The Stand
2. The Dead Zone
3. Firestarter
4. Cujo
5. Christine
6. Pet Sematary
7. Cycle of the Werewolf
8. The Talisman
9. It
10. The Eyes of the Dragon
11. Misery
12. The Tommyknockers
13. The Dark Half
14. Needful Things
15. Gerald's Game
16. Dolores Claiborne
17. Insomnia
18. Rose Madder
19. The Green Mile
20. Desperation
21. Bag of Bones
22. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
23. Dreamcatcher
24. Black House
25. From a Buick 8
26. The Colorado Kid
27. Cell
28. Lisey's Story
29. Duma Key
30. Under the Dome
31. 11/22/63
32. Joyland
33. Doctor Sleep
34. Mr. Mercedes
35. Revival

The Dark Tower Series

1. The Gunslinger
2. The Drawing of the Three
3. The Waste Lands
4. Wizard and Glass
5. Wolves of the Calla
6. Song of Susannah
7. The Dark Tower
8. The Wind Through the Keyhole


Richard Bachman

1. Rage
2. The Long Walk
3. Roadwork
4. The Running Man
5. Thinner
6. The Regulators
7. Blaze

Novellas

1. Riding the Bullet
2. UR
3. Blockade Billy
4. Mile 81
5. A Face in the Crowd
6. In the Tall Grass
7. Throttle

Collections

1. Night Shift
2. Different Seasons
3. Skeleton Crew
4. The Bachman Books
5. Four Past Midnight
6. Nightmares And Dreamscapes
7. Hearts in Atlantis
8. Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
9. Just After Sunset
10. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

6K Challenge!

1.Parties are often thrown to celebrate milestones, and this one is to celebrate our incredible 6,000 member milestone. Read a book where the main character goes through a major life milestone or read a book that was written in a major milestone year in your life.
Fade Two main characters graduate from High School

2. Friends and conversation are the life of any party, so we invited our closest friends - that’s all of you! Read a book that was recommended to you by a friend or read a book that includes written communication (letters, invitations, emails, text messages, etc.)
Goodnight Tweetheart A book in Tweets

3. Themed decorations, favors, and even costumes help put everyone in a festive mood, so we encouraged everyone to come dressed as their favorite literary character. Read a book where the characters wear different clothing than you usually do or read (or re-read) a book with a favorite character of yours. Daughter of Smoke & Bone I really enjoyed the Masquerade scene in this book

4. Our party wouldn’t be complete without good food, so we spent a day baking all sorts of cakes. It’s hard to know exactly when bread became cake, but the Roman poet Ovid references birthday cake in his book The Tristia of Ovid. The English were also some of the first to bake cakes. Read a book that takes place in Europe or read a book has to do with cooking.
Matched - There was cake that was served at the Match Banquet and at the Final Banquet for the main character's grandfather. They described it as only a person who only savors chocolate cake a few times in their life, euphoric.
Days of Blood & Starlight - Briefly takes place in Prague to cover the European end of the challenge

Completed! 2/21/15
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http://www.northtexasteenbookfestival...
Just in case anyone lives in the DFW area. This book event is happening at the Irving Convention center March 7, 2015. I am going to this event. If anyone else would like to meet up, I'd love to meet some people from this group!

With the North Texas Teen Book Festival fast approaching, I'm trying to get as many books read as possible. A lot of the these authors have been on my to read list for years and now I have an opportunity to meet many of them. Unfortunately I a lot of the books for these authors I collected during the time I worked for a book company that participated in the book stripping program. I deem these my bathtub reads or it's ok if they get ruined reads so they aren't really appropriate for author's signatures. But I do have my Vladmir Tod books ready!

North Texas Teen Book Festival : Irving, TX

1. Leigh Bardugo - Shadow and Bone
2. Heather Brewer - Eighth Grade Bites Ninth Grade Slays Tenth Grade Bleeds Eleventh Grade Burns Twelfth Grade Kills
3. Rachel Caine
4. Patrick Carmen
5. Allie Condie - Matched Crossed Reached
6. A.G. Howard - Splintered
7. Julie Kagawa
8. David Levithan - Will Grayson, Will Grayson
9. Lisa McMann - Wake Fade Gone
10. Lauren Myracle
11. Obert Skye
12. John Corey Whaley Noggin
13. Brian Yansky
2 more authors added!!
14. Kathy Reichs/Brendan Reichs

In my Popsugar Challenge, I put Golden Son in the "book with terrible reviews category" because I did not like Red Rising very much. Although a lot of the elements of Red Rising that bothered me were still present in Golden Son, I was very surprised with the book. Enough to consider reading the last book when it eventually comes out.

Since I didn't really start properly using this site till about September of last year, I feel like my reading challenge of 55 books seems off when looking at the books marked as read in 2014. I went through my Read books list to see which books I actually read in 2014 and found that number to be 29 as opposed to 10. I was a retail manager back then so I'm actually impressed I got that much reading done.
1. The Lightening Thief *
2. The Sea of Monsters *
3. The Titan's Curse *
4. The Battle of the Labyrinth *
5. The Last Olympian *
6. The Lost Hero *
7. The Son of Neptune
8. The Mark of Athena
9. The House of Hades
10. The Blood of Olympus
11. Dorothy Must Die
12. Silver Shoes
13. Cinder
14. Etiquette and Espionage *
15. Curtsies and Conspiracies *
16. Waistcoats and Weaponry
17. Flowers for Algernon
18. American Gods
19. The Fault in Our Stars
20. Salem's Lot
21. The Shinning
22. The Pigeon Needs a Bath
23. Carnival of Secrets
24. Ready Player One
25. Gone Girl
26. The One and Only
27. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
28. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
29. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

* indicates books that were re-read

Yearly Challenge: Read 55 Books in 2015
1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (734) 1/6/15
2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (870) 1/12/15
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (652) 1/15/15
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (759) 1/17/15
5. Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened (369) 1/18/15
6. Scarlet(452) 1/21/15
7. Red Rising (382) 1/24/15
8. Cress (550) 1/26/15
9. The Book Thief (552) 1/28/15
10. If I Stay (201) 2/1/15
11. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (406) 2/2/15
12. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (230) 2/3/15
13. Fairest (222) 2/3/15
14. The Martian (384) 2/7/15
15. Golden Son (464) 2/10/15
16. The Night Circus (387) 2/11/15
17. Wake (210) 2/12/15
18. Daughter of Smoke & Bone (418) 2/12/15
19. Fade (248) 2/13/15
20. Gone (214) 2/13/15
21. Fangirl (445) 2/15/15
22. Noggin (352) 2/15/15
23. Matched (369) 2/17/15
24. Shadow and Bone (358) 2/19/15
25. Days of Blood & Starlight (513) 2/21/15
26. Goodnight Tweetheart * (222) 2/21/15
27. The Stand (1440) 2/21/15
28. The Program (405) 2/22/15
29. Crossed (367) 2/23/15
30. Eleanor & Park (328) 2/23/15
31. Looking for Alaska (221) 2/24/15
32. A Wrinkle in Time (256) 2/25/15
33. The Color of Magic (210) 2/28/15
34. Eighth Grade Bites* (182) 2/28/15
35. Ninth Grade Slays* (278) 2/28/15
36. Tenth Grade Bleeds (292) 3/1/15
37. Eleventh Grade Burns (309) 3/1/15
38. Twelfth Grade Kills (325) 3/1/15
39. Dreams of Gods & Monsters (624) 3/3/15
40. The Silver Linings Playbook (289) 3/4/15
41. Will Grayson, Will Grayson (310) 3/4/15
42. Landline (308) 3/5/15
43. The Treatment (344) 3/9/15
44. The Maze Runner (374) 3/9/15
45. Big Little Lies (460) 3/10/15
46. Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography (304) 3/12/15
47. Where She Went (264) 3/14/15
48. Paper Towns (305) 3/14/15
49. Splintered (371) 3/17/15
50. Station Eleven (333) 3/19/15
51. The Dead Zone (372) 3/23/15
52. The Time Traveler's Wife (529) 3/23/15
53. We Were Liars (227) 3/25/15
54. The Good Girl (352) 3/26/15
55. Plugged (254) 3/27/15
56. Sharp Objects (254) 3/28/15
57. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (260) 3/29/15
58. Reached (512) 3/29/15
59. All the Bright Places (388) 3/31/15
60. The Graveyard Book (312) 4/1/15
61. No Place Like Oz (125) 4/1/15
62. The Princess Bride (398) 4/3/15
63. The Witch Must Burn (100) 4/4/15
64. The Wizard Returns (100) 4/4/15
65. Dorothy Must Die: Stories (352) 4/4/15
66. Heart-Shaped Box (376) 4/5/15
67. My Drunk Kitchen: A Guide to Eating, Drinking, and Going with Your Gut (240)4/7/15
68. Speak (208) 4/7/15
69. Lock and Key (422) 4/9/15
70. The Husband's Secret (394) 4/9/15
71. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (465) 4/10/15
72. Siege and Storm (435) 4/11/15
73. Ruin and Rising (422) 4/12/15
74. The Selection (336) 4/13/15
75. The Girl Who Played with Fire (503) 4/21/15
76. Dark Places (349) 4/22/15
77. The Book of Strange New Things (512) 4/23/15
78. The Arrivals (274) 4/23/15
79. The Only Thing to Fear (280) 4/25/15
80. Watchmen (436)4/25/15
81. Made for You (356) 4/26/15
82. Anna and the French Kiss (372) 4/28/15
83. Unhinged (387) 4/30/15
84. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (563) 5/1/15
85. Ensnared (416) 5/1/15
86. The Elite (336) 5/2/15
87. Attachments (323) 5/3/15
88. The One (323) 5/3/15
89. The Truth About Alice (199) 5/3/15
90. Delirium (441) 5/5/15
91. The Remedy (416) 5/7/15
92. Since You've Been Gone (464) 5/8/15
93. The Moth in the Mirror (40) 5/8/15
94. The Guard (64) 5/8/15
95. The Prince (64) 5/11/15
96. Lola and the Boy Next Door (384) 5/11/15
97. Elizabeth Is Missing (320) 5/12/15
98. I'll Give You the Sun (371) 5/13/15
99. Proxy (384) 5/14/15
100. Isla and the Happily Ever After (339) 5/15/15
101. Soul Eater, Vol. 01 (208) 5/17/15
102. Soul Eater, Vol. 02 (192) 5/17/15
103. Before I Fall (470) 5/19/15
104. Inkheart (534) 5/19/15 *
105. Cruel Beauty (342) 5/21/15
106. The Recovery (50) 5/21/15
107. The Heir (342) 5/27/15
108. One Plus One (368) 6/2/15
109. The Queen (72) 6/4/15
110. The Red Pyramid (528) 6/4/15
111. Inkspell (635) 6/4/15
112. Heat Wave (198) 6/6/15
113. A Brewing Storm (83) 6/8/15
114. Yes Please (329) 6/9/15
115. Me Before You (369) 6/10/15
116. Life of Pi (356) 6/12/15
117. The Goldfinch (771) 6/19/15
118. Water for Elephants (335) 7/3/15
119. Howl's Moving Castle (336) 7/9/15
120. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (326) 7/16/15
121. Screwed (304) 7/20/15
122. Soul Eater, Vol. 03 (208) 7/20/15
123. Soul Eater, Vol. 04 (192)7/20/15
124. Middlesex (544) 7/21/15
125. Legend (305) 7/22/15
126. Ready Player One (374) 7/27/15
127. A Raging Storm (78) 7/27/15
128. An Abundance of Katherines (229) 7/29/15
129. Zombicorns (72) 7/30/15
130. The War for Banks Island (48) 7/30/15
131. The Hanged Man (336) 7/31/15
132. The Memory Keeper's Daughter (401) 8/2/15
133. Naked Heat (290) 8/5/15
134. Prodigy (371) 8/5/15
135. The Girl on the Train (323) 8/8/15
136. The Diviners (592) 8/10/15
137. Red Queen (383) 8/13/15
138. I Was Here (270) 8/14/15
139. Saint Anything (417) 8/17/15
140. I Am Princess X * (240) 8/18/15
141. Everything I Never Told You (297) 8/19/15
142. The Blonde (390) 8/19/15
143. Ink and Bone (351) 8/21/15
144. Moon Called (324) 8/21/15
145. Soulless: The Manga, Vol. 1 (228) 8/21/15
146. Rebel Mechanics (310) 8/22/15
147. Armada (355) 8/22/15
148. Eeny Meeny (420) 8/23/15
149. Inkdeath (675) 8/26/15
150. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (303) 8/27/15
151. The Name of the Wind (662) 8/31/15
152. Go Set a Watchman (278) 9/1/15
153. Spelled (352) 9/1/15
154. The Shack (252) 9/1/15
155. Beautiful Creatures (563) 9/1/15
156. The Red House (264) 9/2/15
157. The Cemetery Boys (288) 9/2/15
158. Just a Geek: Unflinchingly honest tales of the search for life, love, and fulfillment beyond the Starship Enterprise 9/4/15
159. The Glass Menagerie (104) 9/5/15
160. Soulless: The Manga, Vol. 2 (242) 9/6/15
161. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (253) 9/7/15
162. Angelology (464) 9/9/15
163. The Nightingale (448) 9/9/15
164. The Knife of Never Letting Go 9/10/15
165. Side Effects May Vary (336) 9/14/15
166. The Kite Runner (324) 9/15/15
167. Soulless: The Manga, Vol. 3 9/15/15
168. The Alchemist (197) 9/16/15
169. Pretty Baby (380) 9/17/15
170. The Girl in the Spider's Web (400) 9/20/15
171. We All Looked Up (384) 9/22/15
172. What Alice Forgot (423) 9/22/15
173. The Time Machine 9/23/15
174. Lair of Dreams 9/24/15
175. Crimson Bound 9/25/15
176. Going Bovine 9/29/15
177. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 9/29/15
178. The Child Thief 9/29/15
179. The Crucible 10/04/15
180. Playlist for the Dead 10/05/15
181. Blood Bound 10/10/15
182. Beauty Queens 10/10/15
183. Guardian 10/11/15
184. Nimona 10/11/15
185. Lock & Mori 10/12/15
186. Every Fifteen Minutes 10/14/15
187. Bright Young Things 10/16/15
188. Beauty's Punishment 10/16/15
189. Eleven Doctors, Eleven Stories 10/17/15
190. Beautiful Days 10/20/15
191. I Am Legend 10/25/15
192. The Sword of Summer 10/29/15
193. The Day the Crayons Quit 10/30/15
194. Imaginary Fred 10/30/15
195. Etiquette & Espionage 11/7/15
196. After You 11/11/15
197. Curtsies & Conspiracies 11/12/15
198. iZombie, Vol. 1: Dead to the World 11/12/15
199. Waistcoats & Weaponry 11/14/15
200. Manners & Mutiny 11/28/15
201. The Lucky Ones 12/3/15
202. And Tango Makes Three 12/3/15
203. Carry On 12/10/15
204. Beauty's Release 21/10/15
205. Anna Karenina 12/11/15
206. Krampus: The Yule Lord 12/21/15
207. uVampire 12/22/15
208. Six Feet Under and Rising 12/23/15

Well, I'm definetly getting to the point in the Popsugar Challenge that is harder. Looks like it's time to start reading specific books. Good thing my yearly goal of total books read is a bit more than the Popsugar Challenge

March Challenge

Group Challenge :
The Silver Linings Playbook

Super excited because I was able to snag this from the library already. Can't wait to participate in my first group read with everyone!
24 books

Personal Challenge :

The next Stephen King on my list
The Dead Zone

The next two books in queue
The Color of Magic
The Red Tent

Two from Listopia Challenge
A Wrinkle in Time
The Time Traveler's Wife

Small series from my Personal Shelf
The Red Pyramid
The Throne of Fire
The Serpent's Shadow

Books Ordered from B&N:
Dorothy Must Die: Stories 3/3/15
Prudence 3/17/15

Books to be Published:
Burning Kingdoms - 3/10/15

Hopefully this will help me move forward with the challenges I have set for my year and still leave plenty of room for my library requests. It's going to be a good month :)
26 Books in Feb

I found this challenge on your place here and decided to do it!
need to change some things though like hometown and initials. and how do you interpret "a book that made.you cry"? is it to re-read a book that made me cry or to wait until a bool makes me cry and use that?

Well, I got really lucky with "a book that made you cry.' I read the Harry Potter series for the first time, so those aren't actually re-reads and the last book made me a crying, sniffling mess. This challenge is for the year, so you still have lots of time to find a book that gets those emotions going. None of the books on my list are re-reads and not all the books that I do read will fit in a category. Having no re-reads on that list is part of my personal challenge. I'll make my GoodReads yearly challenge before this one with things that I will read again this year. Here's some stuff to help you with "Hometown."
https://www.goodreads.com/places

I found two books that apparently take place in the small north Texas town I grew up in (or at they have the same name at least)

As for initals, mine are SD so I will read either Sarah Dessen, Sarah Dunant, or Sylvia Day. What are yours? Maybe I can help.

There is also a discussion group here for this. One of the mods noticed a lot of members in this group doing the Popsugar Challenge.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

And for a book the year you were born,
https://www.goodreads.com/genres
all you need to do is add the year you were born in the search bar.

I think this is one of the best reading challenges I have ever participated in because it's forcing me out of my normal book comfort zone! Hope you have as much fun as I am!!

And the one with bad reviews? Did you like the one you read?

I chose my bad review book because of 6. An author under 30. I read Red Rising for that category and didn't like. I was really surprised that it won 2014 GoodReads Debut Author award. Normally, I'm more in sync with the choices. The second book came out just before I read Red Rising and since I didn't like the first, I put Golden Son as my bad reviews. It's probably the most loosely interpreted category that I will have in the entire challenge. But, in all fairness, no matter if you pick up a classic or the current number one on the New York Bestsellers, there will always be a bad review by someone.

yeah that's what I thought too. I don't want to read something that is just plain bad I think. But for example Wuthering Heights? I have never read it, always thought I should and I have heard much negative.

I cleaned for her, so it's fun to read an author you know so well and have followed since beginning. Her crime book is just hardback so has been too expensive for me, but will buy it for Easter. Is it just in Norway we read crime for Easter or is it a international thing? :)

April Challenge
Group Challenge:
Chocolat

Personal Challenge:
Read 5 Books that I Own:
1. Dorothy Must Die: Stories 4/4/15
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 4/10/15
3. The Girl Who Played with Fire 4/21/15
4. Dark Places 4/22/15
5.

Read 10 Library Books:
1. The Graveyard Book 4/1/15
2. Heart-Shaped Box 4/5/15
3. Speak 4/7/15
4. Lock and Key 4/9/15
5. The Husband's Secret 4/9/15
6. Siege and Storm 4/11/15
7. Ruin and Rising 4/12/15
8. The Selection 4/13/15
9. The Book of Strange New Things 4/23/15
10. The Arrivals 4/23/15
11. Watchmen 4/26/15
12. Made for You 4/27/15
13. Anna and the French Kiss 4/28/15

Finish 2 Series that I started Reading:

Finish One List on Listopia Challenge:

Re-Read the Parasol Protectorate Series:
1.
2.
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4.
5.

Books order from B&N
The Wicked Will Rise 3/31/15

Next 20 From 3/27/15
The Red Tent
Howl's Moving Castle
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
The Child Thief
No Place Like Oz
The Witch Must Burn
Plugged
Screwed
11 Doctors, 11 Stories
Dark Places
The Arrivals
Made for You
Faery Tales and Nightmares
Guns for the Dead
The Girl with All the Gifts
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl who Played with Fire
The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
The Paper Magician
The Glass Magician

May Challenge
Group Read:
The Bell Jar

Personal Challenge:
3 Books I own:
1.
2.Elizabeth Is Missing
3.

15 Libary Books:
1. The Remedy
2. Since You've Been Gone
3. Lola and the Boy Next Door
4. Elizabeth Is Missing
5. I'll Give You the Sun
6. Proxy
7. Isla and the Happily Ever After
8. Soul Eater, Vol. 01
9. Soul Eater, Vol. 02
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15.

Listopia:
Howl's Moving Castle
The Catcher in the Rye

June Challenge

I am taking a much needed break from YA novels. I'm focusing on regular fiction and catching up on my listopia books, personally owned books, and getting through Soul Eater. Where there maybe a spattering of YA in the mix, most of this month will be focused on reading through the 2014 GoodReads nominees.

Novels:
1. One Plus One 6/2/15
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4.
5.

Personal:
1. The Red Pyramid 6/4/15
2.
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4.
5.

Listopia:
Howl's Moving Castle
The Catcher in the Rye

July Challenge


Books to be Published:
Armada - 7/14/15
The Forever Man 7/23/15

August Challenge

I have gotten really lax about what I do in my monthly challenges. Add that with the few weeks I had to take off due to work and my reading habits just got knocked off track. So with August, I plan on getting back to the basics. The goals of this month are:
1. Finish the books in my various book clubs
2015 Reading Club
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

Vaginal Fantasy Book Club
Uprooted
Moon Called

r/Dallas Reads all the Books!
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

My Borrowed Books That I Must Give Back to My Friend Before He Thinks I Stole Them Because I've Had Them For 2 Months...
The Lies of Locke Lamora
The Name of the Wind Officially giving up on this book. I read 300+ pages and it never got better

2. Get caught up with my library books
The Hanged Man
The Girl on the Train
Armada
I Was Here
I Am Princess X
Interview with the Vampire

Although my focus will not be on advancing my Yearly and 3rd Quarter "Clearing the Shelves" goals, but I feel like it will help focus my reading again and get me back on the ball while still meeting some of the requirements of other goals.

September Challenge

Complete Randomiser Challenge:
1. The Child Thief (Personal Shelf)
2. Krampus: The Yule Lord (Special Request)
3. The Red House made it to page 50 before marking DNF. Terrible
4. Just a Geek: Unflinchingly honest tales of the search for life, love, and fulfillment beyond the Starship Enterprise (Special Request)
5. The Knife of Never Letting Go (Overdrive ebook)
6. Angelology (Audio Overdrive)
7. The Lies of Locke Lamora
5/7
Other Requirements Filled

Books to be Published
A Curious Tale of the In-Between - 9/1/2015

October Challenge

Complete Works:
Eoin Colfer
1. The Reluctant Assassin
2. The Hangman's Revolution
3. The Forever Man
4. And Another Thing...
5. Artemis Fpwl: Graphic Novel 1
6. Artemis Fowl: Graphic Novel 2
7. Artemis Fowl: Graphic Novel 3
8. Artemis Fowl: Graphic Novel 4

Anna Godbersen
9. Bright Young Things
10. Beautiful Days
11. The Lucky Ones

Brian Jacques
12. Castaways of the Flying Dutchman
13. The Angel's Command
14. Voyage of Slaves

Rick Riordan
15. The Throne of Fire
16. The Serpent's Shadow
17. The Son of Sobek
18. The Staff of Serapis
19. The Crown of Ptolemy

Libba Bray
20. Going Bovine
21. Beauty Queens
22. Lair of Dreams

Books to be Published:
Carry On - 10/6/15
The Sword of Summer - 10/6/15

November Challenge

Complete Listopia:
1. The Catcher in the Rye
2. The Kite Runner
3. Interview with the Vampire
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
5. Atonement
6. A Thousand Splendid Suns
7. The Alchemist
8. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
9. My Sister's Keeper
10. Son of a Witch
11. The Shack
12. Catch-22
13. I Know This Much Is True
14. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
15. Fahrenheit 451
16. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
17. Anna Karenina
18. Slaughterhouse-Five
19. It
20. A Clockwork Orange
21. Atlas Shrugged
22. The Poisonwood Bible


Books to be Published:
Winter 11/10/15
Manners & Mutiny - November 2015

December Challenge

PopSugar Challenge
1. Anna Karenina
2. Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
3. It
4. The Time Machine
5. The Glass Menagerie
6. The Wicked Will Rise
7. A Book that Takes place in your hometown Going Bovine possible
8. The Crucible
3/8

Second Quarter Challenge


1. Read a book about time travel.

2. Read a book where a character makes an impetuous decision. The Princess Bride 4/3/15

3. Read a book that takes place in the Spring. The Husband's Secret 4/9/15

4. Read a book with water on the cover or that takes place on the water.

5. Read a steampunk book.

6. Read a book that has been on your TBR list the longest.

7. Read a book that takes place at a college or during spring break.

8. Read a book where weather plays an important part to the plot. The Red Pyramid Maybe bending the rules just a bit here, but the main characters can manipulate elements.

9. Read an old favorite or a book you have been putting off reading. Inkheart This is one of my favorite books. Imagine being able to read characters in and out of books!

10. Read a book of poetry or a book about a poet.

11. Read a book that was released in 2015 or the newest book on your TBR list. The Heir

12. Spring in his step If you walk with or have a spring in your step, you walk energetically in a way that shows you are feeling happy and confident. Read a book that has a character who exhibits these characteristics or an action genre book. One Plus One Jess tries her hardest to make things better for her and her two kids. She is positive in bad situations. She smiles even if she is crying inside. This is easily the best book I've read this quarter.

6/12

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Third Quarter Challenge: Clearing the Shelves
Sept 30 deadline

Popsugar Challenge - Discussions
1. The Glass Menagerie 9/5/15
2. The Time Machine 9/23/15
3. The Crucible
4.
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6.
7.
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2/8

Listopia Challenge - Yearly
1. Middlesex 7/21/15
2. The Memory Keeper's Daughter 8/2/15
3. The Shack 9/1/15
4. The Kite Runner 9/15/15
5. The Alchemist 9/16/15
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5/25

Randomizer Challenge - Yearly
1. The Red House 9/2/15 DNF
2. Just a Geek: Unflinchingly honest tales of the search for life, love, and fulfillment beyond the Starship Enterprise 9/4/15
3. Angelology 9/9/15
4. The Knife of Never Letting Go 9/10/15 DNF
5. The Child Thief 9/29/15
6.
7.
5/7

Complete Works - Yearly
1. Screwed 7/20/15
2. An Abundance of Katherines 7/29/15
3. Zombicorns 7/30/15
4. The War for Banks Island 7/30/15
*Note: John Green Complete!!*
5. The Diviners 8/10/15
6. The Blonde 8/19/15
7. Lair of Dreams 9/24/15
8. Going Bovine 9/29/15
9. Beauty Queens
10. Bright Young Things
11. Beautiful Days
12. The Sword of Summer
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8/25 <-yeesh...gotta work on that!

Clearing Physical Shelves! - Personal
1. Water for Elephants 7/3/15
2. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 7/16/15
3. Inkdeath 8/26/15Bright Young Things
4. Beautiful Creatures 9/1/15 DNF
5. Beautiful Darkness Will not Read
6. Beautiful Chaos Will not Read
7. Beautiful Redemption Will not Read
8. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 9/29/15
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9/17

Stephen King Works - Personal
7 Remaining Requirements


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Third and Fourth Quarter Goodreads Award Challenge

Fiction
The Girl in the Spider's Web - David Lagercrantz 9/20/15
Mystery & Thriller
The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins 8/8/15
Pretty Baby - Mary Kubica 9/17/15
Every Fifteen Minutes - Lisa Scottoline 10/14/15
Historical Fiction
Go Set a Watchman - Harper Lee 9/1/15
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah 9/9/15
Fantasy
The Hanged Man - P.N. Elrod 7/30/15
Romance
Science Fiction
Armada - Ernest Cline 8/22/15
Horror
Humor
Nonfiction
Memoir & Autobiography
History & Biography
Business Books
Food & Cookbooks
Graphic Novels & Comics
Nimona 10/11/15
Poetry
Debut Goodreads Author
The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins8/8/15
Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard 8/13/15
We All Looked Up - Tommy Wallach 9/22/15
Young Adult Fiction
I Was Here - Gayle Forman 8/14/15
Saint Anything - Sarah Dessen 8/17/15
I Am Princess X - Cherie Priest 8/18/15
Lock & Mori - Heather W. Petty
Young Adult Fantasy
Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard 8/13/15
Ink and Bone - Rachel Caine 8/21/15
Rebel Mechanics - Shanna Swendson 8/22/15
Spelled - Betsy Schow 9/1/15
The Cemetery Boys - Heather Brewer 9/2/15
We All Looked Up - Tommy Wallach 9/22/15
Lair of Dreams - Libba Bray 9/24/15
Crimson Bound - Rosamund Hodge 9/25/15
Middle Grade & Children's
The Sword of Summer 10/29/15
Picture Books
18/15

2015 Books Already Read:

Young Adult Fiction
All the Bright Places 3/31/15
Young Adult Fantasy
Fairest 2/3/15
Golden Son 2/10/15
The Wizard Returns 4/4/15
Dorothy Must Die: Stories 4/4/15
The Recovery 3/21/15
The Heir 5/27/15

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Fourth Quarter Challenge
October 1 - December 31

Page to Screen
1. The Crucible 10/4/15
1996 Movie staring Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder
2. I Am Legend 10/25/15
2007 Movie staring Will Smith
3. iZombie, Vol. 1: Dead to the World 11/12/15 TV Show in it's second season
4.
5.

Banned Books
1. The Crucible 10/4/15
2. And Tango Makes Three 12/3/15
3.
4.
5.

Completed
Yearly Challenge: The Debut Novel Challenge


1. Leigh Bardugo - Shadow and Bone
2. Rainbow Rowell - Attachments
3. Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire
4. John Green - Looking for Alaska
5. Brom - The Child Thief
6. Matthew Quick - The Silver Linings Playbook
7. Terry Pratchett - The Color of Magic
8. A.G. Howard - Splintered
9. Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife
10. Mary Kubica -The Good GirlThe Truth About Alice
11. Gillian Flynn - Sharp Objects
12. Joe Hill - Heart-Shaped Box
13. Jennifer Mathieu - The Truth About Alice
14. Emma Healey - Elizabeth Is Missing
15. Stephanie Perkins - Anna and the French Kiss
16.
14/5
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Yearly Challenge: The Randomiser Challenge
To Read 355 - Generated 2/18/15

1. The Child Thief (5)
2. Plugged (8)
3. The Red Pyramid (26)
4. Krampus: The Yule Lord (42)
5. Redeeming Love (57)
6. A Brewing Storm (134)
7. The Red House (151)
8. Just a Geek: Unflinchingly honest tales of the search for life, love, and fulfillment beyond the Starship Enterprise (175)
9. Looking for Alaska (220)
10. Will Grayson, Will Grayson (223)
11. The Knife of Never Letting Go (236)
12. Angelology (239)
13. Delirium (276)
14. The Truth About Alice (287)
15. Days of Blood & Starlight (324) 2/21/15

13/15
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Yearly Challenge: The Complete Works Challenge
Eoin Colfer
1. The Hangman's Revolution
2. Plugged **
3. Screwed
4. And Another Thing...

Anna Godbersen
1. Bright Young Things
2. Beautiful Days
3. The Lucky Ones
4. The Blonde

Brian Jacques
1. Doomwyte
2. The Sable Quean
3. The Rogue Crew
4. Castaways of the Flying Dutchman
5. The Angel's Command
6. Voyage of Slaves

Rick Riordan
1. The Red Pyramid
2. The Throne of Fire
3. The Serpent's Shadow
4. The Son of Sobek
5. The Staff of Serapis
6. The Crown of Ptolemy
7. The Sword of Summer

Libba Bray
1. Beauty Queens
2. Going Bovine
3. The Diviners
4. Lair of Dreams

John Green
1. An Abundance of Katherines
2. Paper Towns
3. Will Grayson, Will Grayson
4. Zombicorns
5. The War for Banks Island


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******Other Completed Works******

Ernest Cline
Ready Player One
Armada
A.G. Howard
Splintered
Unhinged
Ensnared
Rainbow Rowell
Fangirl
Eleanor & Park
Landline
Attachments
Carry On
Stephanie Perkins
Anna and the French Kiss
Isla and the Happily Ever After
Lola and the Boy Next Door
Marissa Meyer
Scarlet
Cress
Fairest
Winter
Gillian Flynn
Dark Places
Sharp Objects
Stieg Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone
Siege and Storm
Ruin and Rising
Six Crows
Melissa Marr
Made for You
The Arrivals
Pierce Brown
Red Rising
Golden Son
M.J. Arlidge
Eeny Meeny
Debut Authors:
Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train
Victoria Aveyard - Red Queen
Andy Weir - The Martian
Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus
Hannah Hart - My Drunk Kitchen: A Guide to Eating, Drinking, and Going with Your Gut
Harper Lee - Go Set a Watchman
Amy Poehler - Yes Please
Emma Healey - Elizabeth Is Missing
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Close to Completion
Gail Carriger
Prudence
Marine Biology
Sister's Song
Crudrat
Marie Lu
Legend
Prodigy
Champion
The Elite Young
Rosamund Hodge
Cruel Beauty
Gilded Ashes
Crimson Bound
Alex London
Proxy
Guardian
Kiera Cass
The Selection
The Elite
The One
The Heir
The Siren
Danielle Paige
Dorothy Must Die: Stories
The Wicked Will Rise
Mary Kubica
The Good Girl
Pretty Baby

Completed - Yearly Challenge: Let's Turn Pages: 50,000


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Completed
Yearly Challenge: #ReadWomen - 2015 - 30/30 Complete! 5/13/15
New to me Female Authors

1. J.K. Rowling
2. Allie Brosh
3. Gayle Forman
4. Erin Morgenstern
5. Lisa McMann
6. Laini Taylor
7. Rainbow Rowell
8. Ally Condie
9. Leigh Bardugo
10. Suzanne Young
11. Madeleine L'Engle
12. Liane Moriarty
13. A.G. Howard
14. Emily St. John Mandel
15. Audrey Niffenegger
16. E. Lockhart
17. Mary Kubica
18. Gabrielle Zevin
19. Jennifer NivenCaroline Tung Richmond
20. Hannah Hart
21. Laurie Halse Anderson
22. Sarah Dessen
23. Kiera Cass
24. Caroline Tung Richmond
25. Stephanie Perkins
26. Jennifer Mathieu
27. Lauren Oliver
28. Morgan Matson
29. Emma Healey
30. Jandy Nelson
31. Jojo Moyes
32. Amy Poehler
33. Donna Tartt
34. Sara Gruen
35. Diana Wynne Jones
36. Marie Lu
37. P.N. Elrod
38. Kim EdwardsShanna Swendson
39. Paula Hawkins
40. Cherie Priest
41. Celeste Ng
42. Patricia Briggs
43. Shanna Swendson
44. Betsy Schow
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Completed!
Yearly Personal Challenge: GoodReads Winners/Nominees
10 Winners 20 Nominees from any year

Winner
1. Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened - Humor 2013
2. Red Rising - Debut Author 2014
3. The Martian - Science Fiction 2014
4. Eleanor & Park - Young Adult Fiction 2013
5. Landline - Fiction 2014
6. We Were Liars - Young Adult Fiction 2014
7. Yes Please - Humor 2014
8. Where She Went - Best Young Adult Fiction 2011
9. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Mystery/Thriller 2010
10. Before I Fall - Young Adult Fiction 2010

Nominees
1. Cress - Young Adult Fantasy 2014
2. Daughter of Smoke & Bone - Favorite Book 2011/ Best Young Adult Fantasty 2011
3. Fangirl - Young Adult Fiction 2013
4. Big Little Lies- Best Novel 2014
5. Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography - Humor 2014
6. Splintered - Debut Author 2013
7. Station Eleven -Best Novel 2014
8. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry - Best Novel 2014
9. My Drunk Kitchen: A Guide to Eating, Drinking, and Going with Your Gut - Humor 2014
10. The Husband's Secret - Fiction 2013
11. Siege and Storm - Young Adult Fantasy 2013
12. Ruin and Rising - Young Adult Fantasy 2014
13. The Truth About Alice - Debut Novels 2014
14. The Good Girl - Debut Novels 2014
15. The One - Young Adult Fantasy 2014
16. The Elite - Young Adult Fantasy 2013
17. Isla and the Happily Ever After - Young Adult Fiction 2014
18. One Plus One - Fiction 2014
19. Cruel Beauty - Best Debut Author 2014
20. Elizabeth Is Missing - Best Debut Author 2014
21. I'll Give You the Sun - Best Young Adult 2014
22. Since You've Been Gone - Best Young Adult 2014
23. Dreams of Gods & Monsters - Best Young Adult Fantasy 2014
24. Me Before You - Best Fiction 2013
25. The Goldfinch - Best Fiction 2013
26. Legend - Best Young Adult 2012
27. Delirium - Favorite Book 2011
28. The Night Circus - Favorite Book 2011
29. Daughter of Smoke & Bone - Favorite Book 2011
30. Ready Player One - Favorite Book 2011 *
31. Lola and the Boy Next Door - Best Young Adult 2011
32. The Red Pyramid - Favorite Book 2010

I have discovered that with the popularity of electronic reading devices, authors have been publishing more and more short stories that are only available in eBook format. As a person who loves the feel of a physical book, this is difficult for me to get over, but I do want to read small additions to the stories that I enjoy. This list is just for me to keep note of what I want to get.
Ebook
Night of Cake & Puppets
The Remedy
The Recovery
The Seeds of Wither
Free Read Online
Glitches
The Queen's ArmyThe Little Android

Finished my first challenge! Pretty excited about that!!

The Stand ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Oh dear. This is my first one star rating and I feel slightly terrible in my opinion of this book. Firstly, I do enjoy Stephen King's book. The Stand, however, took me over nine months to trudge through. I feel like the story itself had a lot of promise and if I had gotten a hold of an early edition of this book, I don't think I would have had as much trouble getting through it. It still would have been a challenge, but I doubt it would have taken me the better part of a year to get through. The edition I bought the June 2011 Complete and Uncut edition from Anchor Publishing. I was so excited when I picked up the book just a few days before a two week long trip for work that was going to leave me with ample time on my hands.

The back of the book reads, "When a man escapes from a biological testing facility, he sets in motion a deadly domino effect, spreading a mutated strain of the flu that will wipe out 99 percent of humanity within a few weeks. The survivor who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge - Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108 year old woman who urges them to build a community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious "Dark Man," who delights in chaos and violence." Sounds great! It even started out great, everything that I expected from a King novel. Pair that with the fact that I got a small cold while reading this book and I had a great time getting the bejeezus scared out of me. But as the novel progressed, it became painfully clear this book was going to extend way beyond that general description.

(view spoiler)[ So the Superflu gets released on the world, everyone dies *check* Mother Abagail begins 'calling' people to her *check* The Dark Man starts scaring people in their dreams *check* But there is no epic battle of good vs evil. Everyone of the main characters, that you have invested over 700 pages with will pretty much die. Mother Abagail drags her 108 year old ass out into the wilderness like some Jesus during his 40 days and 40 nights. The only problem is she's just abandoned these people that she brought together. She (in my opinion) just gave up and to what end! No shocker that it killed her. Then the Dark Man is a ground zero for an atomic bomb blast in Sin City? It's just too much. I feel that Mother Abagail coped out of facing Randal Flagg and sent the unlucky Stu, Glen, Larry, and Ralph to their doom.

I really enjoyed the ending and it's probably the first thing I had enjoyed since the first group of travelers turned up on Mother Abagail's porch. To see how the community of Boulder rose up and began trying to rebuild and women started having babies again.

Then the resurrection of the Dark Man just ruined it again. I almost threw the book across the room in anger. The only thing that stopped me was worried that I might break something due to the sheer heft of the book. (hide spoiler)]

I think I would have enjoyed this book a lot more if I had gotten a hold of an older publication. The book is already extremely long to begin with, but the uncut version made it unbearable. I can't even count how many times a read a section and thought to myself "what was the point of that?!" I can say that I am glad to have finished it. I was worried that this book was going to be marked as DNF. But if there are any first time readers out there that are excited about their first read of The Stand, I urge you to get an abridged edition (I cannot, cannot believe I just said that) or an older publication that isn't marked "complete and uncut."

That's good to know! Feels wrong to get a shorter version, but will think on it. Though I already have the uncut in DTB though. But never gotten to it. Startet more than once. I would like to read all of Stephen King though I believe and if I take that as a challenge I will nead to read the Stand too:P
He is a great author!

Winter wrote: "That's good to know! Feels wrong to get a shorter version, but will think on it. Though I already have the uncut in DTB though. But never gotten to it. Startet more than once. I would like to read ..."

Reading through Stephen King is one of my personal goals too. He's great. Like I said in the review, I don't think it's 'cheating' (I use that word for lack of a better one) if you get an older publication. It won't be considered abridged since that was the original publication. I found out after I had gotten past the 1000th page that my library has the audio book to the specific edition I have. I think it would have been easier for me to listen to, especially when I got to sections that were really slow for me. Let me know when you get around to starting it! Good luck!

Hehe thanks. ^^ Will probably need it. I will probably read the ones I have on kindle first though. I bought some for vacation last year, but I didn't read them all :)

Could you look at my corner and see if I have forgotten some? I don't know if you have already read some novellas or collcetions and I just couldn't find a good list anywhere.

Thanks :)

I think maybe some novellas is in his collections, if so, would you read them double or just skip them?

I have read quite a few of his books already, but I want to read them all. Most is a long time ago.

The Long Walk is my favorite maybe, read at least twice. Scary in a hunger game kind of way (what is mankind capable of in terms of entertainment). Remember I almost threw it many times when reading it.