2025 Reading Challenge discussion

THE EVERY YEAR CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2016

Your goal is to read a book published every year since you were born, or you can choose a year something special happened (e.g, you graduated, you got married, etc.) and read from that year.

This challenge will help us check out the literary styles from different years.

Tips:
1. The number of books you read is 2016 minus the year you choose plus one.
2. Goodreads has a great feature you can use to find books from certain years. Use this link (https://www.goodreads.com/book/popula...) then change 2010 to whatever year you're looking for.

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Example

Let's say I pick 2003 because that was the year I graduated from high school.

2003 Tinker
2004 The Wisdom of Crowds
2005 Ender In Exile
2006 World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
2007 Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning
2008 The Hunger Games
2009 Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
2010 The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work
2011 Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance
2012 Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
2013 The Illusion of Separateness
2014 Station Eleven
2015 Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
2016 Morning Star

How to Participate
1. Post here telling the challenge leader that you'd like to join the challenge. You can choose your books for the challenge at the beginning, or add them as you go. You can join a challenge at any time, as long as the challenge is still active.

2. Whenever you finish a book for the challenge, post here and let the challenge leader know so they can update your progress.

Some members choose to update their original post with their progress to keep track of their challenge more easily, but make sure to also post a new message so the challenge leader knows to go look at your original post. You can look at how other members report their progress to find a strategy that works well for you.

For more information about how challenges work, check out this thread or ask your challenge leader.

Participants
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Alison G. | 4/30
Amanda | 7/24
Andrew | 19/36
Angelique | 31/49
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Anissa | 0/8
Ann | 28/28
Anna | 18/38
Anna | 0/34
Anna | 8/34
Anna | 8/44
Annika | 0/9
Artemisia | 0/18
Ashlee | 11/27
Ashleigh | 0/23
Beth (Ducky) | 0/16
Blagica | 29/29
Bobbi | 11/31
Bookwormwisewoman | 0/12
Candiss | 18/22
Caro | 7/9
Carol | 0/59
Caroline | 7/34
Carolyn | 13/23
Carri | 3/14
Carrie | 11/24
Cassandra | 10/24
Cassie | 0/47
Cathy | 3/11
Ceri | 0/30
Chalmation | 17/17
Charity | 14/20
Cheri | 18/18
ChrisP | 5/21
Christa | 29/29
Christina | 11/31
Christine | 0/14
Cindy III | 0/26
Claire | 19/34
Claire [proud-mum] | 6/32
Clare | 11/13
Claudia | 0/20
Crystal | 0/25
Cubi | 0/9
Cynthia | 14/53
Daniela | 9/21
Deb | 0/51
Deborah | 0/17
Debra | 0/29
Dominique (Dom) | 22/28
Dragon | 0/16
Ebony | 0/27
Eggp | 32/32
Elena | 26/26
Eleonora | 14/27
Elizabeth | 0/30
Emily | 14/27
Erika | 21/28
Erin | 1/32
Fadwa | 7/20
Gabriella | 23/23
Gail | 15/22
Gail [AbbyGG] | 16/16
Gretchen | 9/9
Gwen S | 19/31
Gwendolyn | 0/28
Hannah | 22/22
Heather | 0/33
InsolitaLolita | 20/31
Jacqueline | 0/13
Jade | 18/18
Janice | 0/18
Jannene | 20/23
Jeana | 9/15
Jen | 10/10
Jennifer | 0/27
Jessica | 3/29
Jessica [Bautista] | 23/34
Jessica [Michelle] | 0/28
JessicaAnn | 1/8
Jocelyn | 0/15
Jodi | 2/44
Joe | 0/16
Joni | 0/36
Julie | 0/29
Julie [Farmer] | 7/11
Justin | 2/11
Kadijah Michelle | 21/36
Kara | 5/14
Karishma | 0/26
Katariina | 8/24
Katharine | 40/40
Katie | 0/28
Kelly | 15/16
Kelsi | 28/28
Kim | 8/17
Kim | 50/50
Kimberly | 24/41
Kylie | 0/21
Lady Heather | 8/16
Laura | 30/30
Lauren | 6/27
Lauren (: | 12/16
Laurie | 28/32
Layla | 0/24
Lena | 0/17
Lillian | 23/16
Linda | 51/51
Lindsay IL | 0/12
Lindsey | 0/28
Lisa (likenbooks) | 11/13
Lisa B | 21/21
Lissette | 1/27
Lucy Jade | 6/22
Lulu | 0/23
Lyn (Readinghearts) | 0/12
Mackenzie | 4/22
Maddison | 2/22
Madison | 8/22
Maiko | 43/43
Maria [MariaH90602] | 25/25
Maria [smariastefani] | 19/19
Marie Claude | 0/26
Marika | 35/35
Marina H | 21/34
Maureen | 5/28
Mary-Ann | 0/27
Mary Pat | 19/16
Maxine | 17/34
Meg | 35/35
Megan | 12/26
Melissa | 18/29
Melissa | 18/19
Merja | 5/34
Miley | 0/46
Monica | 3/29
Monica [Boscolo] | 0/46
Monique | 6/6
Moriah | 15/25
Natalie | 2/29
Natalie O | 2/28
Natalie S | 29/29
Nik | 6/41
Nikinnia | 0/26
Ornina | 1/13
Pat | 0/69
Patricia | 0/10
Paul | 24/24
Psico-Taco | 0/16
Rachel | 5/37
Ragna | 0/45
Renáta | 0/22
Renee | 0/17
Riley | 2/21
Robyn | 2/32
Rowizyx | 15/27
Saisha | 4/14
Sally | 16/27
Sam F | 41/48
Sara | 7/28
Sarah | 0/21
Sarah [Black] | 0/26
ScarlettMi | 0/38
Serena | 10/27
Sharon | 0/17
Sherry | 10/10
Sowmya | 36/36
star | 3/61
Stefani - SpelingExpirt | 0/27
Stephanie | 14/31
Stephanie (Chinchillita) | 17/31
Stephanie (R-A) | 24/33
Susan C [sacorwin] | 19/19
Susan | 0/?
Tanya | 11/12
Teresa | 0/41
Tiffany | 6/9
Traci | 0/25
Traci [traciinaz] | 6/41
Vanessa | 0/16
Victoria | 13/13
Violet | 0/26
Wei | 0/31
Wendi Jane | 0/18
Winter | 13/31
Yeidi | 0/26
Yvonne | 14/27

I'm in-maybe start with decades as I was born in 1947.

The Every Year Challenge

Goal: Read one book from every year since I was born.

1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999 - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009 - The Maze Runner, James Dashner
2010
2011 - The Martian, Andy Weir
2012
2013
2014 - The Girl with All the Gifts, M.R. Carey
2015 - The Island, Michael Bray
2016

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Every Year Challenge

I was born in 1993, so why not go with that? =)

1989: Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood (11/8/16)
1990: High Wizardry by Diane Duane (31/7/16)
1991: Seeing Things by Seamus Heaney (16/8/16)
1992: The Secret History by Donna Tartt (31/3/16)

1993: The Giver by Lois Lowry (10/4/16)
1994: The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri (8/1/16)
1995: Blindness by José Saramago (7/4/16)
1996: Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (11/2/16)
1997: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (24/4/16)
1998: The Moon King by Siobhan Parkinson (13/2/16)
1999: The Banyan Tree by Christopher Nolan (21/3/16)
2000: The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot (31/1/16)
2001: American Gods by Neil Gaiman (29/5/16)
2002: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (11/9/16)
2003: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (15/4/16)
2004: The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall (15/5/16)
2005: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (4/5/16)
2006: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson (6/10/16)
2007: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (26/4/16)
2008: The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu (16/11/16)
2009: 1Q84 Books One and Two by Haruki Murakami (12/6/16)
2010: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin (2/6/16)
2011: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (16/3/16)
2012: The Girl Who Would Be King by Kelly Thompson (13/1/16)
2013: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (20/4/16)
2014: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (11/5/16)
2015: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (24/3/16)
2016: Games Wizards Play by Diane Duane (5/2/16)

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(There's no guarantee of course that I won't run into something else before these, but now that I have these listed here they're going to go way up in my priorities, and even if I do find something else it's just a simple matter of replacing them, so that won't be too much of a problem. :))

I'm in! I choose 1998, which was the year I got married.


✓ 1998 - Standing in the Rainbow read 5/9/2016
✓ 1999 - Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin read 1/6/2016
✓ 2000 Gathering Blue read 1/29/2016
✓ 2001 Summer Island read 6/1/2016
✓ 2002 Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal read 8/11/2016
✓ 2003 - An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude read 3/23/2016
✓ 2004 - Messenger read 3/28/2016
✓ 2005 - The Tender Bar read 10/14/2016
✓ 2006 - A Dirty Job read 1/1/2016
✓ 2007 - World Without End read 2/2/2016
✓ 2008 Not Like My Mother: Becoming a Sane Parent After Growing Up in a Crazy Family read 2/29/2016
✓ 2009 - Bird in Hand read 1/9/2016
✓ 2010 - 365 Thank Yous: The Year a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life read 2/5/2016
✓ 2011 No Biking in the House Without a Helmet read 7/3/2016
✓ 2012 - Little Night read 1/11/2016
✓ 2013 The Golem and the Jinni read 1/24/2016
✓ 2014 Everything I Never Told You read 1/7/2016
✓ 2015 Girl at War read 1/16/2016
✓ 2016 Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality read 9/30/2016

19/19
Challenge completed!

THE EVERY YEAR CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2016


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1988
The Midnight Club James Patterson
1989
A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving 04/06/16
1990
The South 07/08/16
1991
Outlander Diana Gabaldon 05/10/16
1992
Dragonfly in Amber Diana Gabaldon
1993
Voyager Diana Gabaldon
1994
The Appeal John Grisham
1995
Deal Breaker Harlan Coben 06/29/16
1996
Fade Away 09/03/16
1997
The Bat Jo Nesbø 02/10/16
1998
Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsJ.K. Rowling 01/19/16
1999
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanJ.K. Rowling 02/25/16
2000
The Redbreast 05/24/16
2001
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 07/05/16
2002
Dark Hollow – 01/13/16
2003
Harry Potter and the Order of the PhoenixJ.K. Rowling
2004
The BeastAnders Roslund 09/08/16
2005
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J.K. Rowling
2006
The Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield 03/17/16
2007
The Watchman 07/07/16
2008
The Reapers 06/17/16
2009
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia 01/05/16
2010
Broken 06/24/16
2011
Beautiful Chaos 05/31/16
2012
A Man Called Ove 06/13/16
2013
The Goldfinch Donna Tartt01/28/16

2014
The Martian Andy Weir 01/08/16
2015
The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz 01/03/15
2016
The Guest Room 01/17/16

Sam F: I'm in and I will try for 1969 when I was born, but like Dominique, I might only be able to go from when I graduated high school in 1988. I'll try!

41/47 completed

Linked books have been read:

1969 - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
1970 - Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
1971 - That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton
1972 - The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
1973 - The Princess Bride by William Goldman
1974 - Mister God, This is Anna by Fynn
1975 -
1976 -
1977 -
1978 - The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
1979 -
1980 - The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
1981 - Scarlet Song by Mariama Bâ
1982 - Schindler's List
1983 - Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
1984 - Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen
1985 - B is for Burglar by Sue Grafton
1986 - C is for Corpse by Sue Grafton
1987 - A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
1988 - Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
1989 - The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
1990 - The Leaving: Stories by Budge Wilson
1991 - Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
1992 - When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession by Irvin D. Yalom
1993 -
1994 -
1995 - Paula by Isabel Allende
1996 - Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now by Jan Wong
1997 - Moab is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
1998 - Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
1999 - Do They Hear You When You Cry by Fauziya Kassindja
2000 - My Home As I Remember by Lee Maracle
2001 - French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew by Peter Mayle
2002 - The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
2003 - Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
2004 - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
2005 - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
2006 - Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet
2007 - Ten Points by Bill Strickland
2008 - Nice to Come Home To by Rebecca Flowers
2009 - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
2010 - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
2011 - Bossypants by Tina Fey
2012 - Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale by Lynda Rutledge
2013 - And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
2014 - The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
2015 - Vinyl Cafe Turns the Page by Stuart McLean
2016 - And After Many Days by Jowhor Ile

Sam wrote: "Sam F: I'm in and I will try for 1969 when I was born, but like Dominique, I might only be able to go from when I graduated high school in 1988. I'll try!

I will update this later. Thanks"

I just found that starting from my birthday (1976) a bit too long for this challenge!

I'll join for 31 books! Starting with my birth year of 1986 :)

Ok. I'm in. I'm starting with the year my daughter was born- 1989.


1989-A Knight in Shining Armor
1990-The Face on the Milk Carton
1991-Outlander
1992-Practical Demonkeeping
1993-Whatever Happened to Janie?
1994-The Beekeeper's Apprentice
1995-Practical Magic
1996-The View From Saturday
1997-Memoirs of a Geisha
1998-Holes
1999-White Teeth
2000-The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
2001-American Gods
2002-Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
2003-The Tale of Despereaux
2004-The Truth About Forever
2005-The Book Thief
2006-The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
2007-The Alchemyst
2008-The Graveyard Book
2009-The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
2010-Sisters Red (4/19-ETA TBD because I started reading Sisters Red and no. Just no.)
2011-Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
2012-Defending Jacob
2013-The Golem and the Jinni
2014-The Miniaturist
2015-Quixote: The Novel and the World
2016-Food Wars!, Vol. 11: Shokugeki no Soma

I'm going with the year I was born - 1992 :)

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1992:
1993:
1994:
1995:
1996:
1997:
1998:
1999:
2000:
2001:
2002:
2003:
2004:
2005:
2006:
2007:
2008:
2009:
2010:
2011: Stray by Andrea K. Höst
2012:
2013:
2014: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
2015:
2016:

Since I'm going all in on some of the other yearly challenges, I think I'm going to start small on this one. I'm going to do a book for every year since 2008, the year my oldest daughter was born.
2008- The Blood of Caesar: A Second Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger
2009- The Help
2010- Requiem in Vienna
2011- The Mapping of Love and Death
2012- Tudors: Volume II: A History of England
2013- The Goldfinch
2014- The Empty Throne
2015- Murder at Whitehall
2016- Land of Shadows: A Medieval Mystery

Jump start over Christmas-ordered two from the forties-I Capture the Castle-Dodie Smith and The Heart of the Matter-Graham Green.

Welcome to the challenge, everyone!

Pat - how many books are you putting your goal at?

Paul - I'm doing those same years. 1993 is the year I was born too. :)

I would like to particpate as well! Born 1986


1986 - Redwall
1987
1988 - Mossflower
1989
1990 - Mattimeo
1991 - Mariel of Redwall
1992 - Salamandastron
1993 - Martin the Warrior
1994 - The Bellmaker
1995 - Outcast of Redwall
1996 - Pearls of Lutra
1997 - The Long Patrol
1998 - Marlfox
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009 - Soulless
2010
2011
2012 - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
2013 - Champion
2014 - All the Light We Cannot See
2015 - Prudence
2016 - The Siren

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One small question that I'm admittedly not too concerned about, but that I figure is still better if it's asked: how are we dealing with books in translation? Would they only count for the year they came out in English (or the language people read them in, it doesn't have to be English of course)?

I'm also interested to see if ideas flow between people who've picked the same years :)

I think that's up to you. Personally, what I do is see if Goodreads has a "first published year" for the book. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle was published in English in 1997, but in parentheses next to the publishing year it says "first published 1994" which in this case is the year the book was published in Japanese. I would go with the first published year, but you can choose a different method.

I'm in for the year I graduated high school 1996

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1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014 - Bird Box
2015
2016

I'm in. I'll go with 1992, the year I graduated.

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1992 - Along Came a Spider by James Patterson 2-13-16
1993 - Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen 8-8-16
1994- Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela 8-22-16
1995 - Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel 1-28-16
1996 - A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin 2-17-16
1997-Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer 2-25-16
1998 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 7-11-16
1999- Confessions of a Shopaholic 5-29
2000 - 1st to Die by James Patterson - 10-7-16
2001 Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson 1-1-16
2002- 2nd Chance by James Patterson 10-14-16
2003 - The Time Traveler's Wife 4-5-16
2004- Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney 2-16-16
2005- Still Alice by Lisa Genova 1-5-16
2006- My Life in France by Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme 4-16-16
2007- Cool It by Bjorn Lomborg 4-22-16
2008 - The Hunger Games 4-14-16
2009- The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han 1-31-16
2010- It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han 2-4-16
2011- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline -1-3-16
2012 - The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes 1-20-16
2013- Willing Captive by Belle Aurora 2-4-16
2014- Surving Alzeimer's by Paula Spencer Scott 4-9-16
2015- Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll 1-2-16, Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, Winter by Marissa Meyer
2016 - Never, Never : Part Three by Colleen Hoover & Tarryn Fisher 1-21-16

I'm in and starting from year I was born, 1983, making 34 books.

1983
1984
1985
1986
✔ 1987 Equal Rites
1988
1989
1990

1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000

2001
2002
2003
2004
✔ 2005 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010

✔ 2011 The Martian
2012
2013
✔ 2014 : Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
2015
✔ 2016 The Book of You

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Great challenge! I'll start from my birthyear
22/27 Completed


1990:
1991:
1992: Aliens: Earth Hive
1993:
1994:
1995: The Rings of Saturn
1996: The Sparrow
1997: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
1998: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
1999: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2000: The Wide Window
2001: Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile
2002:
2003: Odd Thomas
2004: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
2005: Cotton
2006: Sharp Objects
2007: In the Woods
2008: From Dead to Worse
2009: Fragment
2010: Horns
2011: Divergent
2012: My Friend Dahmer
2013: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
2014: The Room
2015: A Darker Shade of Magic
2016: A Gathering of Shadows

I'm in! My obsessive book planning is paying off. I only had to add a few books to find all that I needed to go from when I was born in 1984:

1984- The Only Problem by Muriel Spark
1985- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Finished 3/17/2016
1986- The Mirror of Her Dreams by Stephen R. Donaldson
1987- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
1988- The Alchemist by Paul Coelho Finished 7/24/2016
1989- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Finished 10/4/2016
1990- Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Finished 8/11/2016
1991- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis Finished 4/14/2016
1992- Omon-Ra by Victor Pelevin Finished 1/30/2016
1993- Death's High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman Finished 9/20/2016
1994- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story by John Berendt ✔ Finished 6/27/2016
1995- Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman Finished 9/16/2016
1996- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
1997- Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine ✔ Finished 3/7/2016
1998- A World Away by Stewart O'Nan✔ Finished 1/22/2016
1999- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky ✔ Finished 3/27/2016
2000- The Sleeping Giant of Goll by Terry Abbott
2001- Atonement by Ian McEwan Finished 10/18/2016
2002- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Finished 8/25/2016
2003- Bad Men by John Connolly
2004- R is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton Finished 8/4/2016
2005- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover
2006- Stardust by Neil Gaiman Finished 3/10/2016
2007- Fair Play by Tove Jansson
2008- Locke and Key Vol. I: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill Finished 9/11/2016
2009- Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin Finished 9/4/2016
2010- The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan Finished 3/1/2016
2011- A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness Finished 2/23/2016
2012- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Finished 7/24/2016
2013- I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai Finished 4/10/2016
2014- The Witch with No Name by Kim Harrison Finished 2/8/2016
2015- Winter by Marissa Meyer Finished 1/24/2016
2016- A Torch Against the Night by Sabaaa Tahir

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Every Year Challenge
Completed: 28/28

1989: The Pillars of the Earth (12/12/16)
1990: Real Murders (6/18/16)
1991: The Magic of Recluce (7/10/16)
1992: The Skystone (11/23/16)
1993: Girl, Interrupted (4/11/16)
1994: Wizard's First Rule (10/23/16)
1995: Sabriel (1/14/16)
1996: Angela's Ashes (8/29/16)
1997: The Bronze Horseman (11/12/16)
1998: Sailing to Sarantium (10/8/16)
1999: White Oleander (7/7/16)
2000: 1st to Die (9/24/16)
2001: Suddenly You (5/10/16)
2002: The Lovely Bones (6/30/16)
2003: The Kite Runner (12/6/16)
2004: Onyx (3/27/16)
2005: The Glass Castle (2/11/16)
2006: Mistborn: The Final Empire (4/26/16)
2007: The Alchemyst (5/12/16)
2008: The Winter Sea (8/22/16)
2009: The Help (5/5/16)
2010: Orange Is the New Black (3/18/16)
2011: How to Be a Woman (2/20/16)
2012: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (12/1/16)
2013: The Ghost Bride (10/26/16)
2014: The Good Girl (10/29/16)
2015: After You (9/6/16)
2016: A Court of Mist and Fury (5/29/16)

I would like to join this challenge also and will use the year I moved to Maryland in 1988.
I will post the books as I read them.

I'll join this one. I'd like to read from my birth year - 1970 - but that's simply too many books for me to commit to, especially with other challenges on deck and my intention to use only books I own (or library books for scheduled group reads) if I can help it. 1989 - my graduation year - is still too many for me.

I'll go with 1995 - the year I moved to the Pacific Northwest. I only have to add 4-5 books in addition to titles I'm already committed to reading. There are 4 books I do not own.


1995:
1996: Bellwether - Connie Willis
1997: As She Climbed across the Table - Jonathan Lethem
1998: The Antelope Wife - Louise Erdrich
1999:
2000: Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth - Xiaolu Guo
2001:
2002: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal - Christopher Moore
2003: Steps Through the Mist: A Mosaic Novel - Zoran Živković
2004: Diary - Chuck Palahniuk
2005: Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 1 - Fumi Yoshinaga
2006: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries - Neil deGrasse Tyson
2007: The Vegetarian - Han Kang
2008: Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft - Joe Hill
2009: Ransom - David Malouf
2010: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender
2011: China in Ten Words - Yu Hua
2012: Fatale, Vol. 1: Death Chases Me - Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips
2013: Wakulla Springs - Andy Duncan & Ellen Klages
2014: Here - Richard McGuire
2015: The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins
2016: This Census-Taker - China Miéville

Read: 18/22

I'll join and start at 1990--the year of my birth. A lot of the years fit books I'm already reading for other challenges.

17/27 Completed:

1995 The Liars' Club completed 5/25
1997 Personal History completed 1/22
1998 The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary completed 6/19
1999 On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft completed 3/25
2000 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay completed 2/4
2001 Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas completed 1/7
2002 Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s completed 2/8
2005 Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul: Stories of Feline Affection, Mystery and Charm completed 1/5
2006 Twelve Sharp
2008 Living Your Strengths: Discover Your God-given Talents and Inspire Your Community, Expanded and Updated completed 2/13
2009 Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search completed 3/10
2010 The Library of Unrequited Love completed 2/26
2011 The Martian completed 3/28
2012: Beautiful Ruins completed 2/12
2013 The Scottish Play Murder completed: 3/15
2014 The Invention of Wings completed 3/13
2015 John: The Gospel of Light and Life completed 3/16
2016 Christ Beside Me, Christ Within Me: Celtic Blessings completed 6/1

To Be Completed:

1990 Animal Dreams
1991 ??
1992 ??
1993 The Virgin Suicides
1994 The Book of American Diaries
1996 Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor
2003 A Guide to Prayer for All Who Seek God
2004 Gilead
2007 Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

1st posted update--14 prompts completed: message 719 Mar 29, 2016 on page 15

THE EVERY YEAR CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2016

For this yearly challenge, I have decided to start from the year I started high school which was 2001, reading my way up to 2016. I am going by the 'first published' dates on the Goodreads page for each book.

1. 2001 - Quidditch Through the Ages ✔
2. 2002 - Coraline ✔
3. 2003 - Persepolis I & II ✔
4. 2004 - The Realm of Possibility ✔
5. 2005 - Still Alice ✔
6. 2006 -
7. 2007 - In the Woods ✔
8. 2008 - The Tales of Beedle the Bard ✔
9. 2009 - The Maze Runner ✔
10. 2010 - Mockingbird ✔
11. 2011 - The Night Circus ✔
12. 2012 - I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban✔
13. 2013 - Scarlet ✔
14. 2014 - Yes Please ✔
15. 2015 - My Life on the Road ✔
16. 2016 - Glass Sword ✔

Completed: 15/16

Welcome to the challenge, everyone!

Just so you know, I did manage to change my profile name to Stephanie (R-A). Hopefully that makes things clearer for you. I know it does for me :)

Is is cheating if I decide to read children's books for my years? I was just thinking it would be neat since I'm starting with the year my child was born.

Thanks, Stephanie! It does make things much easier, and I'll change your name in the other challenge as well.

Sara - Anything that Goodreads counts as a book works for challenges- including children's books, comics, and cookbooks among other things - so it's not cheating at all.

I'll do from my birth year - 1975

1. 1975 -
2. 1976 -
3. 1977 -
4. 1978 -
5. 1979 - The Source of Magic
6. 1980 -
7. 1981 -
8. 1982 -
9. 1983 -
10. 1984 -
11. 1985 -
12. 1986 -
13. 1987 -
14. 1988 -
15. 1989 -
16. 1990 -
17. 1991 -
18. 1992 -
19. 1993 -
20. 1994 -
21. 1995 -
22. 1996 -
23. 1997 -
24. 1998 -
25. 1999 -
26. 2000 -
27. 2001 -
28. 2002 -
29. 2003 -
30. 2004 -
31. 2005 -
32. 2006 -
33. 2007 -
34. 2008 -
35. 2009 - The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
36. 2010 -
37. 2011 - The Martian by Andy Weir
38. 2012 - Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
39. 2013 -
40. 2014 - The Space Between by Diana Gabaldon
41. 2015 The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act by Kieron Gillen

Traci wrote: "I'll do from my birth year - 1975

1. 1975 -
2. 1976 -
3. 1977 -
4. 1978 -
5. 1979 -
6. 1980 -
7. 1981 -
8. 1982 -
9. 1983 -
10. 1984 -
11. 1985 -
12. 1986 -
13. 1987 -
14. 1988 -
15. 1989 -
16. 1..."

I'm impressed. I was born 1974 and didn't think I could do all that. I'm doing from the year I graduated high school on. Good luck!

I'm in, too. Since I turned 60 this year, I think I will try every 5 years.


1. 1955 - 1959
2. 1960 - 1964
3. 1965 - 1969
4. 1970 - 1974
5. 1975 - 1979
6. 1980 - 1984
7. 1985 - 1989
8. 1990 - 1994
9. 1995 - 1999
10. 2000 - 2004
11. 2005 - 2009
12. 2010 - 2016

Dominique (Dom) wrote: "THE EVERY YEAR CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2016
Goodreads has a great feature you can use to find books from certain years. Use this link (https://www.goodreads.com/book/popula...)..."

Hi Dom, What is the link you have psted as it sounds helpful. When I click on it, the page doesn't load. Any suggestions?

Sam F wrote: "Dominique (Dom) wrote: "THE EVERY YEAR CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2016
Goodreads has a great feature you can use to find books from certain years. Use this link (https://www.goodr..."

It's the link that Cassandra posted. I just tried and it doesn't work.

I am in but I am definitely NOT reading from the year I was born! 61 books would be more than my entire goal for the year! :)

I think I will go for the year I started my current job - 2001. That would put me at 16 books.

0/16

The link should work if you click on the one in the top post. I think because it doesn't display the whole link, if you copy and paste it won't work (it only copies the portion that is displaying).

Yup, the links in quoted posts are only fragments, so they won't work.

Here's the link again if you need it: books popular in 2010. Make sure to change the 2010 in the url if you want to see other years (or there's a year chooser on the right side of the page).

Great - thank you!

I would like to join this challenge. I am going with my birth year of 1981. I just want to see how far I can get.

1981- Serowe, Village of the Rain Wind
1982- A Sinless Season
1983- Curious Wine
1984- The Sinners
1985- The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
1986- M. Butterfly
1987- Stay Alive, My Son
1988-
1989-
1990-
1991- Folk Stories of the Hmong: Peoples of Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam
1992- African Tales: Folklore of the Central African Republic
1993-
1994- The Girl Who Married the Moon: Tales from Native North America
1995- Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact
1996
1997-Rapunzel

12/36

I'm in for 32, starting with my birth year of 1985.


The Every Year Challenge, January 1 - December 31
Goal: 32/32, 100.00%

1985: The Handmaid's Tale - 05 Jul 2016, 5/5
1986: Robot Dreams (Robot, #0.4) - 18 Jul 2016, 4/5
1987: The Cormorant - 25 Feb 2016, 4/5
1988: Sourcery (Discworld, #5) - 31 Aug 2016, 3/5
1989: Antique Dust: Ghost Stories - 11 Dec 2016, 4/5
1990: Get Shorty (Chili Palmer, #1) - 14 Feb 2016, 4/5
1991: Naomi's Room - 30 Sep 2016, 4/5
1992: The Positronic Man (Robot, #0.6) - 27 Jul 2016, 5/5
1993: A Night in the Lonesome October - 06 Aug 2016, 4/5
1994: The Bird Artist - 19 Jul 2016, 4/5
1995: City of Bones - 04 May 2016, 4/5
1996: The Night In Question: Stories - 01 Sep 2016, 4/5
1997: Timequake - 22 Jan 2016, 3/5
1998: Revenge: Stories - 30 Jun 2016, 4/5
1999: Selected Poems: Charlotte Mew - 28 Jul 2016, 1/5
2000: The Bottoms - 11 Aug 2016, 4/5
2001: Mystic River - 02 Apr 2016, 4/5
2002: Coraline - 13 Apr 2016, 4/5
2003: Dissolution - 27 Sep 2016, 3/5
2004: Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1) - 22 Aug 2016, 3/5
2005: The Dog of the Marriage: Stories - 27 Feb 2016, 2/5
2006: The Terror - 15 Mar 2016, 4/5
2007: The Last Colony (Old Man's War, #3) - 10 Dec 2016, 3/5
2008: Saturn's Children (Freyaverse, #1) - 18 Apr 2016, 3/5
2009: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - 24 Jan 2016, 3/5
2010: In the Mean Time - 22 Apr 2016, 4/5
2011: The Shelter - 08 Aug 2016, 3/5
2012: 14 - 21 Feb 2016, 4/5
2013: Brimstone and Marmalade - 16 Feb 2016, 4/5
2014: The Morning Dew - 09 Jul 2016, 4/5
2015: The Fifth Season - 03 Jan 2016, 4/5
2016: Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2016 - 07 May 2016, 3/5

Please put me in. I'm going to start with one for every decade of my life - gulp - starting with 1950's - so 7 books. But I know I will then expand!

B. EVERY YEAR CHALLENGE (modified)
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
16/16 completed 5/19/2016
* [X] 50's-The Ten Thousand Things
* [X] 60's- The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
* [X] 70's-84, Charing Cross Road
* [X] 80's- House of Cards
* [X] 90's-Murder on Astor Place
* [X] 2000-2006- Five Quarters of the Orange
* [X] 2007-The Keeper of Secrets
* [X] 2008- The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri: A Novel
* [X] 2009-Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon
* [X] 2010-The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott
* [X] 2011-The Buddha in the Attic
* [X] 2012-The Round House;
* [X] 2013-My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
* [X] 2014- The Sleeper and the Spindle
* [X] 2015-Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
* [X] 2016-Brooklyn on Fire by

Okay, I've got a couple of important years:
2000 Chris born - 17
1998 Daniel born - 19
1992 Graduation - 25
1968 birth year - 49

I'll start with Chris's birth year and time permitting work my way down

I'm doing so well, I've decided to go all the way

2016
2015 - Ride Steady
2014 - All the Light We Cannot See
2013 - Penmort Castle
2012 - The Fault in Our Stars
2011 - The Martian
2010 - The Ribbon Weaver
2009
2008 - The French Gardener
2007 - Thirteen Reasons Why
2006 - Angels Fall - Nora Roberts - 05-05-2016
2005 - The Book Thief
2004 - De eetclub
2003 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2002 - Eragon
2001 - Dead Until Dark
2000 - Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions
1999
1998 - Into the Wilderness
1997
1996
1995 - Notes from a Small Island
1994 - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
1993 - Captivated - Nora Roberts - 10-05-2016
1992 - Unfinished Business - Nora Roberts - 27-04-2016
1991
1990 - Taming Natasha
1989 - The Joy Luck Club
1988 - Irish Rose
1987 - Weaveworld
1986 - One Summer
1985
1984 - The Law Is a Lady
1983 - The Witches
1982 - The BFG - Roald Dahl - 01-05-2016
1981 - Irish Thoroughbred
1980 - Brave the Wild Wind
1979
1978
1977 - Dancer from the Dance
1976
1975
1974
1973
1972
1971
1970
1969 - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1968

32/49

Sam F wrote: "Sam F: I'm in and I will try for 1969 when I was born, but like Dominique, I might only be able to go from when I graduated high school in 1988. I'll try!
1969 -
1970 - "

Traci wrote: "I'll do from my birth year - 1975
1. 1975 -
2. 1976 -
3. 1977 -"

What a goal!! I'll be rooting for you :)

I'm in!
I think it'll be a challenge to read a book from every year since I was born (1983), but if some of you can do, I'll try the same :)

1983: Længsel
1984:
1985: B is for Burglar
1986: C is for Corpse
1987:
1988:
1989:
1990:
1991: Hide and Seek
1992:
1993:
1994:
1995:
1996:
1997:
1998: The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
1999:
2000: The Blue Fox
2001:
2002: Lucky Man
2003: What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal
2004: The Ruins of Gorlan
2005: Mænd der hader kvinder
2006: Water for Elephants
2007: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
2008: The Last Letter from Your Lover
2009: New York
2010: På fersk gerning
2011: Alex
2012: A Man Called Ove
2013: Americanah
2014: All the Light We Cannot See
2015: The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
2016: Belgravia

21/34

Sara - Anything that Goodreads counts as a book works for challenges- including childr..."

I think I'm going to end up mixing it up a little. I'm also trying to read books I already own. I am banning myself from buying any books in 2016.

I'm having fun planning!

I'll try for 29 books since I was born in 87. As always thank you for hosting Cassandra.

Sara wrote: "Sara - Anything that Goodreads counts as a book works for challenges- including childr..."

I think I'm going to end up mixing it up a little. I'm also trying to read books I already own. I am bann..."

No new books for the entire year! That's rough, lol. ;-)