2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Margie's 2025 Reading Challenge: 101 Books

Progress: 146/101

More details about my reading are in My Reading Corner

READING CHALLENGE GROUP CHALLENGES
Bookworms Take Shelfies #32
Clear the Shelves #46
Serial Reader #37
Shelf Awareness #27

January - Let's Get Cozy #21 - Completed
Q3 - Recreational Anger #30 - Completed

JANUARY READING

1. 1938 Svalbard: A Woman in the Polar Night translated from German #WIT
2. 1948 China: Half a Lifelong Romance translated from Chinese #WIT
3. 1999 South Africa: Disgrace
4. 2008 Botswana: A Carrion Death (Detective Kubu #1)
5. 2009 US: Black Water Rising (Jay Porter #1)
6. 2014 England/Space: The Book of Strange New Things
7. 2015 Mauritania: The Desert and the Drum translated from French
8. 2016 US: Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
9. 2019 Australia: The White Girl
10. 2021 England: A Fiancée's Guide to First Wives and Murder (Countess of Harleigh Mystery #4)
11. 2021 France, Senegal: The Most Secret Memory of Men translated from French
12. 2022 Fantasy: Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea #1)
13. 2024 England: Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie #6)
14. 2024 England: The Ministry of Time
15. 2024 Italy: The Bishop’s Villa translated from Italian
16. 2024 US: The Rich People Have Gone Away
17. 2025 US: Shattering Dawn (The Lost Night Files #3)

FEBRUARY READING

18. 1967 Kenya: A Grain of Wheat
19. 1991 St. Helena: The Emperor's Last Island: A Journey to St. Helena
20. 2001 US: The Corrections
21. 2002 Turkey, France: Last Train to Istanbul translated from Turkish #WIT.
22. 2018 Liberia: She Would Be King
23. 2021 England: A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding #1)
24. 2022 China: A Map for the Missing
25. 2022 US: We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth
26. 2022 US: When in Rome (When In Rome #1)
27. 2023 Fantasy: Blood Over Bright Haven
28. 2023 US: Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance
29. 2024 Europe: The Wolf's Eye (The Order of the Seven Stars #2)
30. 2024 Namibia: Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space: A Literary Mixtape
31. 2024 US: Sanctuary (Roman's Chronicles #1)
32. 2024 US/Senegal/Palestine: The Message
33. 2024 Zambia: The Lions' Den

MARCH READING

34. 1871 US: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
35. 1976 Fantasy: Dragonsong
36. 1994 US: Walk Two Moons
37. 2003 US: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
38. 2008 Federated States of Micronesia: My Urohs
39. 2016 Australia: The Dry (Aaron Falk #1)
40. 2017 Ghana: Death by His Grace (Darko Dawson #5)
41. 2018 Ireland: The Witch Elm
42. 2020 Multiple: Once Upon an Eid
43. 2021 Australia: Born Into This
44. 2023 US+: Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
45. 2024 England: Karla's Choice
46. 2024 England: The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
47. 2024 US: The Rivals (Claudia Lin #2)
48. 2024 US: The Wedding People

APRIL READING

49. 1993 Australia: The Women in Black
50. 2016 India: The Ramayana: A New Retelling of Valmiki's Ancient Epic
51. 2017 Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone: In the Company of Men txl from French #WIT
52. 2019 US: Magical Negro
53. 2020 Syria: How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Destruction of the Syrian Arab Kingdom in 1920 and the Rise of Anti-Liberal Islamism
54. 2022 Australia: The Sun Walks Down
55. 2022 US: Smoke Bitten (Mercy Thompson #13)
56. 2023 Antarctica: The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth
57. 2023 England: A Spy Alone
58. 2023 England: Red London (Red Widow #2)
59. 2023 Nauru, Australia: On Fragile Waves
60. 2023 Space: These Burning Stars (The Kingdom Trilogy #1)
61. 2024 No Location ID: The Book Censor's Library translated from Arabic #WIT
62. 2024 US: Someone Like Us
63. 2025 Faerie: Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde #3)
64. 2025 Palestine: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
65. 2025 US: All the Water in the World
66. 2025 US: Audition

I hope you are enjoying your 2025 books selections, Margie. You're making fabulous progress toward this year's goal -- already over halfway! 👍

TerryJane wrote: "I hope you are enjoying your 2025 books selections, Margie. You're making fabulous progress toward this year's goal -- already over halfway! 👍"

Thanks, TerryJane. So far it's been a great reading year!

MAY READING

67. 2001 Marshall Islands: For the Good of Mankind: A History of the People of Bikini and their Islands
68. 2012 Canada: The Walker on the Cape (Sgt. Windflower Mystery, #1)
69. 2015 Nigeria: Born on a Tuesday
70. 2018 England: The Comforts of Home (Simon Serrailler #9)
71. 2020 Indonesia: Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World txl Dutch
72. 2021 South Korea: We Do Not Part translated from Korean #WIT
73. 2022 Philippines: How to stand Up to a Dictator
74. 2023 Russia: Moscow X (Damascus Station #2)
75. 2024 Canada: The Grey Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #19)
76. 2024 India: Black River
77. 2024 US: The Hebrew Teacher translated from Hebrew #WIT
78. 2024 India: The Magnificent Ruins
79. 2024 US: No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir
80. 2025 US+: Immemorial

It looks like you are travelling the world with your reading this year. I quite like the idea of incluidng where the book is set in your lists (least I'm assuming what the countries are).

AmbWitch wrote: "It looks like you are travelling the world with your reading this year. I quite like the idea of incluidng where the book is set in your lists (least I'm assuming what the countries are)."
Yes, I've been globetrotting with my reading for a few years and like to track setting and year of original publication. I track for my own enjoyment but if it helps others with book discovery, even better!

Margie wrote: "Yes, I've been globetrotting with my reading for a few years and like to track setting and year of original publication. I track for my own..."

It's a good idea, and I imagine a good way of expanding your reading horizons.

JUNE READING

81. 900 Japan: The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
82. 1958 Italy: The Leopard translated from Italian
83. 1965 Armenia: An Armenian Sketchbook translated from Russian
84. 1989 Italy: Separate Rooms translated from Italian
85. 2005 US: Fledgling
86. 2016 Libya: The Return
87. 2017 Marshall Islands: Iep Jāltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter
88. 2017 New Zealand: Matariki: the star of the year
89. 2002 Canada: Monkey Beach
90. 2020 Cayman Islands: Neptune's Wall
91. 2020 China (Taiwan): Taiwan Travelogue translated from Mandarin Chinese #WIT
92. 2022 Scotland: Hummingbird (A Charade of Magic #1)
93. 2022 US: Soul Taken (Mercy Thompson #13)
94. 2022 US: Survivor’s Guilt (Erin McCabe Mysteries #2)
95. 2023 Democratic Republic of Congo: Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
96. 2024 England: Our Evenings
97. 2024 US: The Most
98. 2025 China Rabbit Moon
99. 2025 Oceania : Wild Dark Shore

Wow, Margie! You've smashed your goal. Amazing! And we're only a little more than halfway through the year.

I like how you're tracking the setting and publication dates of your books. I've been keeping a book map the last few years and I'm looking at your list to see if there are places I haven't been to. 😁

Hope that there have been a lot of fabulous books in your reading journey so far this year! Happy reading!

JULY READING

100. 1782 France: Dangerous Liaisons translated from French
101. 1815 England: Emma
102. 1913 US: O Pioneers!
103. 1971 Albania: Chronicle in Stone translated from Albanian
104. 1983 US: Heartburn
105. 2010 Spain: An Englishman in Madrid translated from Spanish
106. 2022 Australia: Those Who Perish (Caleb Zelic #4)
107. 2022 Bosnia: Black Butterflies
108. 2022 Croatia: My Family and Other Enemies: Life and Travels in Croatia’s Hinterland
109. 2024 India: A Matrimonial Murder (Temple Hill Mystery #2)
110. 2024 US: Liars
111. 2024 US: Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
112. 2024 US: Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson #14)
113. 2025 Fantasy: A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan #2)
114. 2025 Fantasy: It Takes a Psychic (Ghost Hunters #17)
115. 2025 Scotland: Waifs and Strays (The Cat Lady Chronicles #1)
116. 2025 US: Heartwood

AUGUST READING

117. 1921 Italy: Sea and Sardinia
118. 1929 England: A Room of One’s Own
119. 1962 Romania: The Spoilt City (The Balkan Trilogy #2)
120. 1988 Fantasy: The Oathbound (Vows and Honor #1)
121. 1994 Bosnia: Sarajevo Marlboro translated from Croatian
122. 2002 Spain: The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
123. 2012 Norway: Norwegian by Night (Sigrid Ødegård #1)
124. 2015 US: The Turner House
125. 2016 Poland: In the Land of Armadillos: Stories
126. 2017 US: A Million Junes
127. 2018 Australia: Too Much Lip
128. 2020 Brunei Darussalam: The Fisherman King
129. 2022 Kazakhstan: Amanat: Women’s Writing from Kazakhstan txl from Kazakh and Russian #WIT
130. 2022 Syria: As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
131, 2023 US: The Milkweed Lands: An Epic Story of One Plant: Its Nature and Ecology
132. 2025 England: A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
133. 2025 England: Famous Last Words
134. 2025 Scotland/Mars: Terrestrial History

SEPTEMBER READING

135. 2007 Suriname+: Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian And the Secrets of Metamorphosis
136. 2008 Malaysia: Evening Is the Whole Day
137. 2010 US, Ethiopia: How to Read the Air
138. 2016 US: Witch Way To Amethyst
139. 2018 US: I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
140. 2019 Venezuela: Two Spies in Caracas translated from Spanish
141. 2024 Palestine: Late Ottoman Gaza: An Eastern Mediterranean Hub in Transformation
142. 2024 US: On the Move: How Climate Disasters Are Changing Where We Live
143. 2025 England: Clown Town (Slough House #9)
144. 2025 Fiji: A Shipwreck in Fiji (Akal Singh #2)
145. 2025 US+: The Blonde Who Came in From the Cold (Blonde Identity #2)
146. 2025 US: The Seventh Floor

October TBR

Margie, congratulations on hitting your goal and then some! Incredible! Hope you are discovering many new favorite authors and books!