Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

2025 Series Challenge

Series to complete: #
Series completed: #

Series title
1. Shannara Series
2. Murderbot Series
3. Hunger Games

New Release Challenge 2025
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Completed: 74/#

√1. The Stolen Queen 2/7
√2. Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman 2/11
√3. Good Dirt 2/14
√4. Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales 3/3
√5. Homeseeking 2/24
√6. In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some 3/22
√7. Burn to Shine 3/27
√8. Water Moon 3/30
√9. Lucky Loser: Adventures in Tennis and Comedy 4/16
√10. A Drop of Corruption 4/12
√11. Galaphile 4/16
√12. Kills Well with Others 4/24
√13. Three Wild Dogs 4/19
√14. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This 4/25
√15. The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy 5/3
√16. Memorial Days 5/4
√17. Change the Recipe: Because You Can't Build a Better World Without Breaking Some Eggs 5/10
√18. Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live 5/21
√19. Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service 5/24
√20. Anima Rising 5/30
√21. Death by Chocolate Pumpkin Muffin 6/1
√22. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism 5/31
√23. Abundance 6/4
√24. When the Moon Hits Your Eye 6/5
√25. Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass—How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up 6/7
√26. My Friends 6/22
√27. No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson 6/18
√28. Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson 6/22
√29. Strangers in Time 6/27
√30. Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection 6/28
√31. Knave of Diamonds 7/1
√32. My Next Breath: A Memoir 6/30
√33. Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People 7/2
√34. Source Code: My Beginnings 7/15
√35. Boat Baby: A Memoir 7/20
√36. The Red Queen 7/12
√37. Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope 7/27
√38. Atmosphere 7/27
√39. This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir 7/28
√40. Raising Hare: A Memoir 7/31
√41. The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource 8/6
√42. Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats 8/7
√43. Junie 8/16
√44. Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend 8/16
√45. Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company 8/22
√46. Broken Country 8/20
√47. Things in Nature Merely Grow 8/23
√48. The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club 8/25
√49. The Amalfi Curse 8/30
√50. The Names 9/1
√51. Wild Dark Shore 9/7
√52. This Dog Will Change Your Life 9/9
√53. Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen 9/13
√54. Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes 9/19
√55. A Resistance of Witches 9/15
√56. Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins 9/26
√57. Isola 9/24
√58. For Duck's Sake 9/19
√59. Mark Twain 11/17
√60. Heartwood 10/2
√61. Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness 10/7
√62. Crying in the Bathroom 10/14
√63. The Impossible Fortune 10/12
√64. Among the Burning Flowers 10/17
√65. Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum 10/20
√66. Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything: A Memoir 10/29
√67. Dream Count 11/5
√68. Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream 11/2
√69. Finding My Way: A Memoir 11/8
√70. The Society of Unknowable Objects 11/7
√71. Five Golden Wings 11/11
√72. We Did Ok, Kid: A Memoir 11/22
√73. The Secret of Secrets 11/20
√74. Buckeye 11/24
75. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution

New-to-me Author Exploration Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Completed: 95/#

√1. Lynda Cohen Loigman 1/2
√2. Al Pacino 1/4
√3. Elizabeth DeLozier 1/4
√4. Josh Brolin 1/5
√5. Richard Powers 1/11
√6. William L. Shirer 1/29
√7. Clare Chambers 1/15
√8. Coco Mellors 1/17
√9. Griffin Dunne 1/9
√10. Sharon McMahon 3/5
√11. Sangu Mandanna 1/19
√12. Joanna Quinn 2/1
√13. Sun Tzu 2/1
√14. Thomas Fuller 2/7
√15. Fiona Davis 2/7
√16. Brooke Shields 2/11
√17. Beatriz Williams 2/9
√18. Emily Henry 2/11
√19. David Greenberg 2/21
√20. Jared Diamond 2/26
√21. Lisa Marie Presley 2/27
√22. Karissa Chen 2/24
√23. Ariel Lawhon 3/8
√24. Alexei Navalny 3/12
√25. Leif Enger 3/15
√26. Josh Gad 3/22
√27. Sami Sage 3/17
√28. Henry James 3/22
√29. Mary Oliver 3/28
√30. Kaveh Akbar 4/3
√31. Cormac McCarthy 4/5
√32. Michael Kosta 4/16
√33. Samantha Sotto Yambao 3/30
√34. Chloe Benjamin 4/9
√35. Delphine Minoui 4/19
√36. Kiley Reid 4/20
√37. Omar El Akkad 4/25
√38. Julia Spencer-Fleming 4/30
√39. Andrea Dunlop 5/3
√40. Haruki Murakami 5/6
√41. Jeanine Cummins 5/13
√42. José Andrés 5/10
√43. Kate Chopin 5/16
√44. Susan Morrison 5/21
√45. Ocean Vuong 5/20
√46. Michael Lewis 5/24
√47. Sarah Wynn-Williams 5/31
√48. Ezra Klein 6/4
√49. Rebecca K. Reilly 6/8
√50. Joan Didion 6/11
√51. Gardiner Harris 6/18
√52. Tourmaline 6/22
√53. David Baldacci 6/27
√54. John Green 6/28
√55. Jeremy Renner 6/30
√56. Ben Shattuck 7/6
√57. Imani Perry 7/2
√58. Mary Ann Shaffer 7/9
√59. Vicky Nguyen 7/20
√60. Amanda Nguyen
√61. Claire Keegan 7/10
√62. Lisa Jewell 7/19
√63. Zarna Garg 7/28
√64. Chloe Dalton 7/31
√65. Amanda Peters 8/3
√66. Christopher L. Hayes 8/6
√67. Courtney Gustafson 8/7
√68. Jandy Nelson 8/12
√69. Erin Crosby Eckstine 8/16
√70. Rebecca Romney 8/16
√71. Patrick McGee 8/22
√72. Clare Leslie Hall 8/20
√73. Yiyun Li 8/23
√74. Martha Hall Kelly 8/25
√75. Sarah Penner 8/30
√76. Florence Knapp 9/1
√77. Charlotte McConaghy 9/6
√78. Elias Weiss Friedman 9/9
√79. Hallie Rubenhold 9/13
√80. Tracy Chevalier 9/10
√81. Leah Litman 9/19
√82. Morgan Ryan 9/15
√83. Barbara Demick 9/26
√84. Allegra Goodman 9/24
√85. Kate Elizabeth Russell 9/28
√86. Amity Gaige 10/2
√87. Erika L. Sánchez 10/14
√88. Washington Irving 10/9
√89. Jeremy Egner 10/13
√90. Sarah Winman 10/27
√91. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 11/5
√92. Alyson Stoner 10/29
√93. Megan Greenwell 11/2
94. Shirley Jackson
95. Maggie O'Farrell
√96. Anthony Hopkins 11/22
√97. Patrick Ryan 11/24
98. Jill Lepore