2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge

message 1: by Clare (new)

Jan 19, 2022 06:58AM

8th year and sticking with 70
30 books in 2015
50 books in 2016
65 for 2017
65 for 2018
65 for 2019
65 for 2020
70 for 2021
70 for 2022

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message 2: by Clare (new)

Jan 19, 2022 06:59AM

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message 3: by Clare (last edited Jan 29, 2022 11:58PM) (new)

Jan 19, 2022 07:01AM

Clare's 70 for 2022
70 for 2022
1 The Woman in Black
2 Treachery at Hursley Park House
3 Thunderstorm Dancing
4 The Snow Day Murders
5 The Mystery of the Blue Train

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message 4: by Clare (last edited Jan 19, 2022 07:22AM) (new)

Jan 19, 2022 07:02AM

Challenges

Long term Challenges

Reading Britain
Around the World
Childrens Books
BBC Big Read 1
BBC Big Read 2
Every Year

2022 Challenges
Reading Christie 2022

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message 5: by Clare (new)

Jan 19, 2022 07:03AM

Long term Challenge 1:

Reading Britain
England:

Avon
Bedfordshire
Berkshire
Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire
Cheshire: Sing Me To Sleep 2016
Cleveland
Cornwall: Ross Poldark
Cumbria
Derbyshire
Devon: The Dragonfly Pool
Dorset: What Doesn't Kill You
Durham
East Sussex
Essex
Gloucestershire
Hampshire: Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir Chris Packham
Hereford and Worcester
Hertfordshire
Humberside: Val Wood
Isle of Wight
Kent: The Silent Touch of Shadows
Lancashire: The Daylight Gate
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Norfolk: ideas PD James Unnatural Causes / Nicci French
North Yorkshire: The Offing Benjamin Myers
Northamptonshire
Northumberland: The Heiress of Linn Hagh Karen Charlton
Nottinghamshire: DH Lawrence Sons and Lovers / similar
Oxfordshire: White Gold Rachel Amphlett
Shropshire: A Morbid Taste for Bones Ellis Peters
Somerset: Local Girl Missing Claire Douglas The Crossing Matt Brolly
Staffordshire
Suffolk
Surrey
Warwickshire
West Sussex
Wiltshire

Northern Ireland:

Scotland:
Edinburgh: Saints of the Shadow Bible 2016

Wales:
Cardiff: Blue Sky July Nia Wyn 2016
Vale of Glamorgan: A Shadow On The Lens 2021

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message 6: by Clare (new)

Jan 19, 2022 07:07AM

Long Term Challenge 2:

Reading around the World - book set in country
2016
Australia: Hush, Little Bird Nicole Trope
Finland: The Summer Book Tove Jansson
India: The White Tiger Aravind Adiga
New Zealand: In the Land of the Long White Cloud Sarah Lark
USA: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Robin Sloan
Wales: Blue Sky July Nia Wyn
Russia: Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
Pakistan: I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban Malala Yousafzai
Canada / Japan: A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki
Norway: Sophie's World Jostein Gaarder
2017
France: Scarlet Marissa Meyer
England: What Doesn't Kill You Laura E. James
Sweden: The Lost Boy Camilla Läckberg
China: The Secret Piano: From Mao's Labor Camps to Bach's Goldberg Variations Zhu Xiao-Mei
2018
Egypt: Ink and Bone Rachel Caine
Belgium: A Dog of Flanders
Scotland: Sealskin Su Bristow
2019
Malawi: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
North Korea: A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea Masaji Ishikawa
Nigeria: Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Germany: The Whaler Ines Thorn
Mexico: Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel
Ireland: In the Woods Tana French
Poland The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45 Władysław Szpilman
Jordan Appointment with Death Agatha Christie
2020
Spain: The Island Ana María Matute
South Korea: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 Cho Nam-Joo

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message 7: by Clare (new)

Jan 19, 2022 07:07AM

Long Term Challenge 3:

Book Trust's 100 Best books for Children

https://www.booktrust.org.uk/booklist...

The Jolly Postman, or Other People's Letters Janet Ahlberg Dec 2015
Dear Zoo: A Lift-the-Flap Book 2nd Jan 2016
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle 2007
I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato Lauren Child 2008
Room on the Broom Julia Donaldson 2007
The Tiger Who Came to Tea Judith Kerr 2008
We're Going on a Bear Hunt Michael Rosen
The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss Dec 2019

Five on a Treasure Island 2016
Winnie-the-Pooh A.A. Milne Jan 2017
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs Jon Scieszka 2009
Little House in the Big Woods 2016

Millions 2019
Matilda 2018
The Witches 2015
The Story of Tracey Beaker 2017
Artemis Fowl 2019
A Monster Calls 2017

Northern Lights 2018
Noughts & Crosses 2020
The Knife of Never Letting Go 2017
The Owl Service 2016
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging 2017
Forever . . . 2018

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message 8: by Clare (new)

Jan 19, 2022 07:08AM

Long Term Challenge 4:
BBC The Big Read 0-100

The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
✓His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman Nov 2019
✓The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Dec 2017
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
✓Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne read Jan 2017
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
✓The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger March 2021
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
✓Little Women by Louisa May Alcott April 2019
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Middlemarch by George Eliot
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
✓The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson 2017
✓One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez June 2017
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
✓Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl 2018
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Dune by Frank Herbert
Emma by Jane Austen
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Watership Down by Richard Adams
✓ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - read Dec 2015
✓The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Mar 2018
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
✓Animal Farm by George Orwell - Aug 2018
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
✓The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Mar 2019
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Stand by Stephen King
✓Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - read Dec2016
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
The BFG by Roald Dahl
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
✓ Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer 2019
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
✓ Noughts & Crosses Malorie Blackman 2020
✓ Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
✓The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough
Mort by Terry Pratchett
The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
The Magus by John Fowles
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Perfume by Patrick Süskind
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
✓ Matilda by Roald Dahl 2018
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Ulysses by James Joyce
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson
✓The Twits by Roald Dahl 2018
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Holes by Louis Sachar
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Magician by Raymond E. Feist
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
✓ The Colour of Magic Terry Pratchett 2019
✓ The Alchemist Paulo Coelho 2020
Katherine by Anya Seton
Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Girls in Love by Jacqueline Wilson
✓The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot March 2016
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

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message 9: by Clare (new)

Jan 19, 2022 07:09AM

Long term Challenge 4 continued:
BBC The Big Read 101 - 200

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
The Beach by Alex Garland
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
The Dare Game by Jacqueline Wilson
✓ Bad Girls Jacqueline Wilson2021
✓ The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Jan 2018
Shōgun by James Clavell
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Lola Rose by Jacqueline Wilson
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
✓Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging Louise Rennison
✓The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle 2019
Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
✓ The Color Purple Alice Walker - Oct 2015
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Girls in Tears by Jacqueline Wilson
Sleepovers by Jacqueline Wilson
✓ All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
It by Stephen King
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Green Mile by Stephen King
Papillon by Henri Charrière
Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz
Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Secrets by Jacqueline Wilson
The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
✓ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
River God by Wilbur Smith
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
Girls Out Late by Jacqueline Wilson
The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye
✓ The Witches Roald DahlOct 2015
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
They Used to Play on Grass by Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
✓ The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway 2018
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
✓ Sophie's World Jostein Gaarder Dec 2016
Dustbin Baby by Jacqueline Wilson
Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
Silas Marner by George Eliot
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Goosebumps by R. L. Stine
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Man and Boy by Tony Parsons
The Truth by Terry Pratchett
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews

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message 10: by Clare (new)

Jan 19, 2022 07:10AM