2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

A-Z: Women Authors - 2025

Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2025

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TBR Jar - 2025

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CLEAR THE SHELVES CHALLENGE

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A-Z: Women Authors - 2025

Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2025

17 / 25

A: Annalee Newitz - The Terraformers
B: Sue Burke - Semiosis
C: Grace Curtis - Floating Hotel
D: Donna Tartt - The Secret History
E: Emma Newman - The Vengeance
F:
G: Amanda Grange - Mr. Darcy's Diary
H:Alix E. Harrow - A Spindle Splintered
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J:
K: K. O'Neill - The Moth Keeper
L:
M: Melinda Taub - The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch
N: Nghi Vo - The City in Glass
O: Olivia Waite - Murder by Memory
P: H.G. Parry - The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door
Q:
R: Robin LaFevers - Grave Mercy
S: Sarah Tolmie - All the Horses of Iceland
T: Mia Tsai - Bitter Medicine
U:
V: Valerie Valdes - Fault Tolerance: A Novel
W: Tillie Walden - On a Sunbeam
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TBR:

📚 - Want to read yet.

A: Annalee Newitz - The Terraformers
B: Sue Burke - Semiosis
C: Grace Curtis - Floating Hotel
D: Donna Tartt - The Secret History
E: Emma Newman - The Vengeance
📚F: Jennifer Fallon - Medalon
G: Amanda Grange - Mr. Darcy's Diary
H:Alix E. Harrow - A Spindle Splintered
📚I: Elizabeth Inchbald - Lovers' Vows
📚J: N.K. Jemisin - The Fifth Season
K: K. O'Neill - The Moth Keeper
📚L: Eeleen Lee, Liquid Crystal Nightingale
M: Melinda Taub - The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch
N: Nghi Vo - The City in Glass
📚O: Nnedi Okorafor - The Night Masquerade
P: H.G. Parry - The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door
📚Q:Kate Karyus Quinn - Another Little Piece
R: Robin LaFevers - Grave Mercy
S: Sarah Tolmie - All the Horses of Iceland
T: Mia Tsai - Bitter Medicine
📚U: Ursula Whitcher , North Continent Ribbon
V: Valerie Valdes - Fault Tolerance: A Novel
W: Tillie Walden - On a Sunbeam
X: ----
📚Y: Yangsze Choo , The Fox Wife
📚Z: Xiran Jay Zhao , Iron Widow OR Sarah Zettel - The Quiet Invasion

TBR Jar - 2025
I'm using the following shelf for thi challenge:
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9/12

✔️1. Read the book that has been on your TBR list the longest.
Borne

✔️2. Read a book you added to your TBR within the last year
The Air War

✔️3. Read the book with the most pages on your TBR or one that is over 500 pages.
Grave Mercy

4. Read the book with the least number of pages on your TBR or one that is under 100 pages.
The Lover

5. Read the earliest published book on your TBR
Rappaccini's Daughter

✔️6. Read the most recently published book that’s available on your TBR
Shroud

7. Read a book with the highest average rating on your TBR, or over 3.8

✔️8. Read a book with the lowest average rating on your TBR, or under 3.0
The Last Resort: A Mystery

9. Read the book with the most number of ratings (i.e., not the actual average rating, but the number of people who have rated it).
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

10. Read the book with the least number of ratings.
8 Novels of Utopia: Boxed Set

✔️11. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the first page
Alien Clay

✔️12. Sort your TBR by title. Read a book from the last page
War Master's Gate

13. Sort your TBR by cover. Read the first or last book.
Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave

✔️14. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the first page.
Floating Hotel

✔️15. Sort your TBR by author. Read a book from the last page.
The Briar Book of the Dead

16. Randomize your TBR and read the first book.

CLEAR THE SHELVES CHALLENGE

39+23+9+4 = 75 /100

January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

CLEAR THE SHELVES CHALLENGE

Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

Audiobooks: 39 /40
Ebooks: 23 /30
Physical Books: 9 /20
ARCs: 4 /10

L - Libby, MOS - My own shelf
X - XigXag

Audiobooks:

1. A History of What Comes Next - L
2. Until the Last of Me -L
3. For the First Time, Again - L
4. The Mistletoe Mystery - L
5. The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch - L
6. The Disasters - L
7. Grave Mercy - L
8. The City in Glass - L - DNF
9. The Rage of Dragons -L -DNF
10. The Monstrumologist - L
11. The Secret History - L
12. An Education in Malice - L
13. The Familiar - L
14. A Tempest of Tea - L - DNF
15. Alien Clay - L
16. A Spindle Splintered - L
17. Vengeful - L - DNF
18.The Air War - MOS
19. Mal Goes to War - L
20. Borne - L
21. Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend - L
23. The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy - DNF
24. Weyward - L
25. Spiderlight - MOS
26. Dreamsnake - L
27. A Study in Drowning - L
28. Bear Head - MOS
29. The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door - L
30. The Briar Book of the Dead - X
31. Saturation Point - X
32. Bride - L
33. Shroud - X
34. The Weaver and the Witch Queen - L
35. Bee Speaker - X
36. The Once and Future Witches - L
37. Murder by Memory - L
38. The Incandescent - L - DNF
39. War Master's Gate - MOS
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Ebooks:

1. The Moth Keeper - L
2. The Terraformers - MOS
3. The Adventure Zone Vol.1: Here There Be Gerblins - L
4. The Bone Doll's Twin - L- DNF
5. All the Horses of Iceland - L - 4 stars
6. A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay
7. Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation - L
8. The Last Resort: A Mystery - MOS
9. Le sorelle Brontë - L
10. Spy x Family, Vol. 12 - L
11. Spy x Family, Vol. 13 - L
12. On a Sunbeam - L
13. Semiosis - MOS
14. Dark Triumph - L
15. Fault Tolerance - L
16. The Black Company - MOS - DNF
17. Ymir - MOS
18. The Bridal Strain: Emily and Colin’s Wedding - MOS
19. The Adventuress - MOS
20. Project 333: The Minimalist Fashion Challenge That Proves Less Really Is So Much More - L
21.The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up - L
22. Walkaway - L - DNF
23. Garden Spells - L
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Physical Books:
All MOS
9 read

1. The Ring of Solomon
2. Jamaica Inn
3. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
4. Obsidio
5. Frances and Bernard - DNF
6. Mr. Darcy's Diary
7. Possession - DNF
8. Freedom's Landing
9. La cuisine dans Ghibli
10.

ARCs:
4 read

1. A Dark and Drowning Tide
2. The Vengeance
3. Bitter Medicine
4. Floating Hotel
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Hope you're reading great books this year to progress toward your 2025 goal!

Hi Leticia! Hope all is okay, that you're making progress on your goal and enjoying your 2025 reads. Happy reading!

I am, thanks! I will update my challenges today!

SERIAL READER
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025

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Goal: 20 books

SERIAL READER
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Read 17/20

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I will start 4 series this year. (# books)
1. Semiosis - series start
2. Freedom's Landing - series start
3. Grave Mercy - series start
4. Garden Spells - series start

I will read 1 series from start to finish this year. (3 books)
1.A History of What Comes Next
2.Until the Last of Me
3.For the First Time, Again

I will finish 4 series I have started before this year. (# books)

The Ring of Solomon - series finish (read prequel last)
Obsidio - series finish
Fault Tolerance - series finish
Bee Speaker - series finish


Books that are part of a series:

I will read 10 books that are part of a series. (# books)
6/10

Dark Triumph - series continuation
The Air War - series continuation
Bear Head - series continuation
The Bridal Strain: Emily and Colin’s Wedding - series continuation
The Adventuress - series continuation
War Master's Gate - series continuation

Love the update! Looks like you're making great progress! Hope you are enjoying lots of terrific books along the way!

Letitia, you're almost there! Awesome! Hope you are enjoying your 2025 reads!