2025 Reading Challenge discussion

I'm going for 150 again because my reading has slowed down some. REVISED 2/6/13 ... I am going to go for 200 this year!!

1. Blessings / Anna Quindlen 3/5 Stars 01/02/13
2. The Dovekeepers / Alice Hoffman 5/5 Stars 01/06/13
3. The Replacement Wife / Eileen Goudge 3/5 Stars 01/07/13
4. The Light Between Oceans / M.L. Stedman 4/5 Stars 01/09/13
5. Carry the One / Carol Anshaw 3/5 Stars 01/10/13
6. Streetsmart / Nicholas Coleridge 2/5 Stars 01/12/13
7. One For The Money / Janet Evanovich 4/5 Stars 01/14/13
8. The Perfect Marriage / Kimberla Lawson Roby 4/5 Stars 01/15/13
9. The Inn at Rose Harbor / Debbie Macomber 3/5 Stars 01/16/13
10. Hostage / Elie Wiesel 3/5 Stars 01/18/13
11. The Count of Monte Cristo / Alexandre Dumas 4/5 Stars 01/18/13
12. Always the Designer, Never the Bride / Sandra D. Bricker 2/5 Stars 01/23/13
13. The Winter Rose / Jennifer Donnelly 5/5 Stars 01/24/13
14. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore / Robin Sloan 3/5 Stars 01/15/13
15.Daddy Love / Joyce Carol Oates 3/5 Stars 01/27/13
16. Tiger Lily / Jodi Lynn Anderson 4/5 Stars 01/30/13
17. The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun / Gretchen Rubin 3/5 Stars 01/30/13
18. The Casual Vacancy / J.K. Rowling 2/5 Stars 02/03/13
19. Shopaholic Ties the Knot / Sophie Kinsella 3/5 Stars 02/04/13
20. Thirteen Reasons Why / Jay Asher 4/5 Stars 02/05/13
21. Something Borrowed / Emily Giffin 3/5 Stars 02/06/13
22. Beloved / Toni Morrison3/5 Stars 02/11/13
23. Minding Frankie / Maeve Binchy 4/5 Stars 02/13/13
24. The White Tiger 4/5 Stars 02/15/13
25. Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killers Revealed 2/5 Stars 02/17/13
26. Mother Earth Father Sky 4/5 Stars 02/19/13
27.unSweetined 3/5 Stars 02/19/13
28.The Covenant 4/5 Stars 02/23/13
29.The End of Your Life Book Club 5/5 Stars 02/23/13
30.In the Woods 4/5 Stars 02/26/13
31.Me Before You 5/5 Stars 02/27/13
32.Smack 3/5 Stars 02/28/13
33.Little Bee 4/5 Stars 03/01/13
34.Insurgent 4/5 Stars 03/04/13
35.The Scarlet Letter 3/5 Stars 03/04/13
36.Angel Falls 3/5 Stars 03/05/13
37.Douglass' Women 4/5 Stars 03/06/13
38.The Stone Diaries 3/5 Stars 03/08/13
39.Adele: The Biography 3/5 Stars 03/09/13
40.The Fault in Our Stars 4/5 Stars 03/10/13
41.Fair Warning (Hideaway, #5) 3/5 Stars 03/11/13
42.The View From Here / Brian Keith Jackson 4/5 Stars 03/13/13
43.The Last Girls / Lee Smith 2/5 Stars 03/14/13
44.Light A Penny Candle / Maeve Binchy 4/5 Stars 03/15/13
45.Notes from a Coma / Mike McCormack 3/5 Stars 03/16/13
46.Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality / Elizabeth Eulberg 4/5 Stars 03/16/13
47.Raised by Hand, Lifted by the Tides / Willett Thomas 4/5 Stars 03/18/13
48.Anne of Green Gables / L.M. Montgomery 5/5 Stars 03/19/13
49.The Whole Package / Cynthia Ellingsen 4/5 Stars 03/21/13
50.The Lullaby of Polish Girls / Dagmara Dominczyk 3/5 Stars 03/22/13
51.The Keeper of Dawn / J.B. Hickman 4/5 Stars 03/23/13
52.The Orchardist / Amanda Coplin 4/5 Stars 03/25/13
53.Thursdays at Eight / Debbie Macomber 4/5 Stars 03/27/13
54.Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend / Matthew Dicks 5/5 Stars 03/28/13
55.The Lipstick Laws / Amy Holder 3/5 Stars 03/29/13
56. My Sister the Moon / Sue Harrison 4/5 Stars 03/30/13
57. Lonely: A Memoir / Emily White 2/5 Stars 03/31/13
58. Sweet Salt Air Barbara Delinsky 4/5 Stars 04/02/13
59. Outlander / Diana Gabaldon 3/5 Stars 04/03/13
60. Starlet's Web / Carla J. Hanna 4/5 Stars 04/03/13
61. Two for the Dough / Janet Evanovich 3/5 Stars 04/04/13
62. Matched / Ally Condie 5/5 Stars 04/06/13
63. The Midwife of Hope River / Patricia Harman 3/5 Stars 04/07/13
64. The Lovely Bones / Alice Sebold 3/5 Stars 04/08/13
65. Gone Girl / Gillian Flynn 5/5 Stars 04/11/13
66. Distant Shores / Kristin Hannah 2/5 Stars 04/12/13
67. Shopaholic and Sister / Sophie Kinsella 4/5 Stars 04/14/13
68. The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys / Dean King 4/5 Stars 04/14/13
69. Starlet's Run / Carla J. Hanna 4/5 Stars 04/16/13
70. The Jane Austen Book Club / Karen Joy Fowler 1/5 Stars 04/18/13
71. The Dry Grass of August / Anna Jean Mayhew 5/5 Stars 04/19/13
72. The Poisonwood Bible / Barbara Kingsolver 4/5 Stars 04/21/13
73. The Icecutter's Daughter / Tracie Peterson 3/5 Stars 04/23/13
74. American Gods / Neil Gaiman 4/5 Stars 04/25/13
75. Baby Proof / Emily Giffin 3/5 Stars 04/28/13
76. Little Women / Louisa May Alcott 5/5 Stars 04/29/13
77. The Highway / C.J. Box 4/5 Stars 05/02/13
78. The Likeness / Tana French 3/5 Stars 05/04/13
79. Roses / Leila Meacham 5/5 Stars 05/08/13
80. Before I Go To Sleep / S.J. Watson 4/5 Stars 05/10/13
81. Fragile / Lisa Unger 2/5 Stars 05/11/13
82. Day After Night / Anita Diamant 5/5 Stars 05/13/13
83. Losing Mom / Frances Wollman Baumgarten 4/5 Stars 05/14/13
84. Winter Garden / Kristin Hannah 4/5 Stars 05/15/13
85. Dewey's Nine Lives: The Legacy of the Small-Town Library Cat Who Inspired Millions / Vicki Myron 4/5 Stars 05/16/13
86. Flowers in the Attic / V.C. Andrews 4/5 Stars 05/17/13
87. The Wild Rose / Jennifer Donnelly 5/5 Stars 05/21/13
88. Coming Home / Rosamunde Pilcher 2/5 Stars 05/22/13
89. Almost Amish / Kathryn Cushman 4/5 Stars 05/23/13
90. Room to Grow: An Appetite for Life / Tracey Gold 2/5 Stars 05/24/13
91. Second Chance / Jane Green 3/5 Stars 05/25/13
92. Fever / Mary Beth Keane 5/5 Stars 05/26/13
93. The Kiss / Danielle Steel 4/5 Stars 05/28/13
94. Three to Get Deadly / Janet Evanovich 4/5 Stars 05/30/13
95. Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church / Lauren Drain 4/5 Stars 06/01/13
96. Looking for Alaska / John Green 3/5 Stars 06/01/13
97. The Thornbirds / Colleen McCullough 4/5 Stars 06/07/13
98. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness / Susannah Cahalan 3/5 Stars 06/07/13
99. Sharp Objects / Gillian Flynn 3/5 Stars 06/09/13
100. The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II / Denise Kiernan 4/5 Stars 06/14/13
101.The Next Time You See Me / Holly Goddard Jones 4/5 Stars 06/18/13
102. Memoirs of a Geisha / Arthur Golden 5/5 Stars 06/25/13
103. Bonnie / Iris Johansen 2/5 Stars 06/26/13
104. Big Brother / Lionel Shriver 4/5 Stars 06/29/13
105. Have a Little Faith: The Story of a Last Request / Mitch Albom 5/5 Stars 07/01/13
106. The Hangman's Daughter / Oliver Pötzsch 2/5 Stars 07/08/13
107. Fly Away / Kristin Hannah 4/5 Stars 07/15/13
108. Island Girls / Nancy Thayer 4/5 Stars 07/19/13
109. The Birth House / Ami McKay 3/5 Stars 07/26/13
110. When it Happens to You / Molly Ringwald 3/5 Stars 07/29/13
111. Hollywood Wives - The New Generation / Jackie Collins 3/5 Stars 08/02/13
112. The Sugar Queen / Sarah Addison Allen 5/5 Stars 08/04/13
113. The Perks of Being a Wallflower / Stephen Chbosky 3/5 Stars 08/10/13
114. The Storyteller / Jodi Picoult 4/5 Stars 08/17/13
115. Spare Change / Bette Lee Crosby 5/5 Stars 08/21/13
116. The Silent Wife / A.S.A. Harrison 4/5 Stars 08/24/13
117. Rosemary's Baby / Ira Levin 3/5 Stars 08/28/13
118. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain 3/5 Stars 08/29/13
119. Redeeming Love / Francine Rivers 5/5 Stars 09/02/13
120. The Kitchen House / Kathleen Grissom 5/5 Stars 09/05/13
121. Anne of Avonlea / L.M. Montgomery 4/5 Stars 09/10/13
122. Jewel / Bret Lott 5/5 Stars 09/14/13
123. Everyone Worth Knowing / Lauren Weisberger 3/5 Stars 09/16/13
124. The Weird Sisters / Eleanor Brown 4/5 Stars 09/19/13
125. She's Come Undone / Wally Lamb 5/5 Stars 09/26/13
126. Secret Daughter / Shilpi Somaya Gowda 09/30/13 4/5 Stars
127. Blue Asylum / Kathy Hepinstall 10/03/13 4/5 Stars
128. Why We Love the Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion / Ted A. Kluck 10/07/13 3/5 Stars
129. Whitethorn Woods / Maeve Binchy 10/7/13 3/5 Stars
130. Gated / Amy Christine Parker 10/10/13 3/5 Stars
131. Necessary Lies / Diane Chamberlain 10/17/13 4/5 Stars
132. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress / Rhoda Janzen 101/20/13 4/5 Stars
133. Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape / Jenna Miscavige Hill 10/28/13 4/5 Stars
134. The Chili Queen / Sandra Dallas 11/1/13 5/5 Stars
135. A Week in Winter / Maeve Binchy 11/4/13 4/5 Stars

136. A Young Wife / Pam Lewis 11/8/13 3/5 Stars
137. Something Blue / Emily Giffin 11/12/13 3/5 Stars
138.LEFT Neglected / Lisa Genova 11/20/13 4/5 Stars
139. Vinegar Hill / A. Manette Ansay 11/24/13 2/5 Stars
140. Chasing Harry Winston / Lauren Weisberger 11/28/13 2/5 Stars
141. The Girl You Left Behind / Jojo Moyes 12/2/13 5/5 Stars
142. The History of Love / Nicole Krauss 12/5/13 3/5 Stars
143. This Year It Will Be Different / Maeve Binchy 12/8/13 4/5 Stars
144. Heart of the Matter / Emily Giffin 12/13/13 3/5 Stars
145. The Lavender Garden / Lucinda Riley 12/20/13 5/5 Stars
146. Mr. Darcy Broke My Heart / Beth Pattillo 12/22/13 1/5 Stars
147. Doctor Sleep / Stephen King 12/27/13 5/5 Stars

Wow! I hadn't seen your updates until now. Great job Melissa!

Adriana wrote: "Wow! I hadn't seen your updates until now. Great job Melissa!"

Thanks .. but I don't believe I'm going to make my goal this year :( :(

Aw! Well you do have the holidays to catch up a bit. 200 is a big goal so don't stress (: