2024 & 2025 Reading Challenge discussion

My original goal was 50 books, but I've already surpassed that goal and have decided to up my challenge to 70 books. Here's my original list:

50/50

January

1. Unseen 4/5
2. Eat, Pray, Love 5/5
3. Yes Please 2/5
4. London Red 1/5
5. Lord John And The Hand Of Devils 4/5
6. #GIRLBOSS 4/5
7. Zen and Sex 3/5
8. Slim for Life: My Insider Secrets to Simple, Fast, and Lasting Weight Loss 4/5
9. The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories 3/5

February

10. Glitches 3/5
11. House Rules 5/5
12. Lord John and the Succubus 4/5
13. The Martian 5/5
14. Station Eleven 5/5
15. Landline 4/5
16. Glass Slipper 3/5
17. Revival 5/5

March

18. Revolution 5/5
19. Howl's Moving Castle 4/5
20. Wool 4/5
21. The Silver Linings Playbook 5/5
22. Proper Gauge 4/5

April

23. In the Tall Grass 3/5
24. A Kiss at Midnight 3/5
25. A Thousand Splendid Suns 5/5
26. Casting Off 4/5
27. American Born Chinese 4/5
28. Manhood: How to Be a Better Man-or Just Live with One 3/5

May

29. Gone Girl 2/5
30. Me Before You 5/5

June

31. Apocalypse Now Now 3/5
32. Finding Pride 2/5
33. Trapped in an 80s Teen Movie 3/5

July

34. Sharp Objects 4/5
35. Funny Girl 3/5
36. Twittering from the Circus of the Dead 3/5
37. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 5/5
38. The Girl on the Train 4/5
39. When Beauty Tamed the Beast 4/5
40. Hot Summer Reads: An Anthology of Erotic Stories 4/5
41. Origins 4/5
42. The Funny Thing Is... 1/5
43. Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny 4/5
44. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 5/5

August

45. Rising Son 4/5
46. UR 4/5
47. I Am Legend 3/5
48. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared 3/5
49. At the Water's Edge 5/5
50. Uprooted 5/5

September

51. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell 2/5

52. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 5/5

53. Rage by Richard Bachman 3/5

54. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 5/5

55. A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 1 by Daniel Abraham 4/5

56. Xingu by Edith Wharton 3/5

57. Coffee at Little Angels by Nadine Rose Larter 4/5

58. Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft 4/5

October

59. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex 4/5

60. The Road 3/5

61. Honeymoon in Paris 3/5

62. A Head Full of Ghosts 3/5

63. The Girl with All the Gifts 5/5

64. Coraline 4/5

65. Bird Box 5/5

66. The Haunting of Hill House 3/5

67. The Museum of Extraordinary Things 3/5

November

68. The Library at Mount Char 5/5

69. Fangirl 4/5

70. Carry On 4/5

71. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams 4/5

72. The Royal We 4/5

73. Red Queen 3/5

74. The Grownup 4/5

I just finished Fangirl! I really enjoyed it, but I feel like it just sorta... ended. I look forward to reading Carry On and understanding the Simon Snow obsession. Will you be reading Carry On as well?

Jackie B. wrote: "I just finished Fangirl! I really enjoyed it, but I feel like it just sorta... ended. I look forward to reading Carry On and understanding the Simon Snow obsession. Will you be read..."

Lol, I felt exactly the same at the end! So abrubt! I did read Carry On immediately after and it was pretty good... but I won't give you any spoilers!

Wow, great job with your challenge, Vernice!

Oooo I read The Perks of being a Wallflower this year too. It was my first time to read it. I watched the movie the same day I finished it as well and I enjoyed both.

Even though I'm out of college, I felt like I had been missing out before I read it because it's so well-known.

Looks like I'm bumping up my challenge again to 80...

December

75. I Could Chew on This: And Other Poems by Dogs 4/5

76. The Nightingale 5/5

77. The Diary of a Young Girl 4/5

Congratulations on reaching your challenge goal not once but twice! It looks like you've enjoyed most of the books you read too, which is always exciting. What were some of your favorites?

Wow... I've read so many good books this year! Some of my absolute favorites were The Nightingale, Me Before You, The Silver Linings Playbook, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Girl with All the Gifts, Bird Box, The Library at Mount Char... gosh, I could go on, but pretty much all my 5 stars were favorites! I guess I'm easy to please, but that's a good thing as far as I'm concerned!

That's awesome! I've read most of those (several of them this year) but I've bumped Bird Box and The Library at Mount Char up my mental priority list.