2025 Reading Challenge discussion

2017 is the year of NO GOALS--I'm just going to read what I want when I want. I will not have a personal challenge, only this corner to keep track of things. I'm severely limiting the number of challenges I partake in this year as well.

Progress: 94/90
Total page count: 27,360 pages

January - 3,345 pages
1. Tender Is the Night completed 1/4
2. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald completed 1/8
3. The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe completed 1/11
4. Kristy's Great Idea (Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #1) completed 1/12
5. The Truth About Stacey (Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #2) completed 1/13
6. I Could Pee on This And Other Poems by Cats completed 1/13
7. Mary Anne Saves the Day (Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #3) completed 1/14
8. Claudia and Mean Janine (Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #4) completed 1/14
9. The Splendid Outcast: Beryl Markham's African Stories completed 1/16
10. A Wrinkle in Time completed 1/16
11. When You Reach Me completed 1/18
12. The Silver Chair completed 1/21
13. Moriarty completed 1/22
14. The Underground Railroad completed 1/27

February - 2,686 pages
15. Romantic Outlaws: The Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley completed 2/1
16. Almost to Eden completed 2/5
17. The Horse and His Boy completed 2/7
18. The Nazi Officer's Wife: How 1 Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust completed 2/10
19. Windows on the White House: The Story of Presidential Libraries completed 2/15
20. Shadows on the Rock completed 2/16
21. The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story completed 2/22
22. An Assembly Such as This completed 2/28

March - 2,181 pages
23. A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations completed 3/5
24. Murder on Capitol Hill completed 3/7
25. The Handmaid's Tale completed 3/11
26. The Magician's Nephew completed 3/19
27. The Prayers of Jane Austen completed 3/23
28. Middlemarch completed 3/30
29. Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact & Fiction completed 3/31

April - 1,715 pages
30. Maine completed 4/6
31. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood completed 4/11
32. The Last Battle completed 4/13
33. Us completed 4/19
34. Understanding Archives & Manuscripts completed 4/20
35. Razing Hell: Rethinking Everything You've Been Taught about God's Wrath and Judgment completed 4/29

May - 2,405 pages
36. Garden Spells completed 5/1
37. Gilead completed 5/6
38. Maisie Dobbs completed 5/9
39. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America completed 5/15
40. As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto: Food, Friendship, and the Making of a Masterpiece completed 5/22
41. Homegoing completed 5/26
42. When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II completed 5/28

June - 1,212 pages
43. Assassination Vacation completed 6/1
44. The Little French Bistro completed 6/6
45. Boy: Tales of Childhood completed 6/12
46. Gift from the Sea completed 6/20
47. The Uncommon Reader completed 6/25
48. For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards completed 6/29

July - 2,919 pages
49. Salt to the Sea completed 7/6
50. Saints for All Occasions completed 7/10
51. One Summer: America, 1927 completed 7/16
52. Days of Awe completed 7/19
53. The Virgin Suicides completed 7/22
54. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian completed 7/24
55. Heidi completed 7/25
56. A Fine Imitation completed 7/26
57. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking completed 7/31

August - 2,618 pages
58. We Should All Be Feminists completed 8/4
59. Yours Ever: People and Their Letters completed 8/5
60. Burial Rites completed 8/9
61. When Dimple Met Rishi completed 8/12
62. A Man Called Ove completed 8/18
63. Jackaby completed 8/21
64. A Piece of the World completed 8/23
65. Americanah completed 8/29

September - 1,448 pages
66. Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived completed 9/3
67. Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions completed 9/4
68. The Bertie Project completed 9/7
69. Letter to My Daughter completed 9/15
70. A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver completed 9/23
71. She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse completed 9/24
72. Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between completed 9/28

October - 1,703 pages
73. Subverting Open Government: White House Materials and Executive Branch Politics completed 10/7
74. Norse Mythology completed 10/9
75. Everyone Brave is Forgiven completed 10/16
76. X Marks the Scot completed 10/21
77. In the Woods completed 10/25

November - 2,098 pages
78. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society completed 11/1 (reread)
79. Victoria: The Heart and Mind of a Young Queen completed 11/3
80. Faithful: Christmas Through the Eyes of Joseph completed 11/6
81. Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen completed 11/10
82. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI completed 11/15
83. The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars completed 11/24
84. Systems Analysis for Librarians and Information Professionals: Second Edition completed 11/25
85. Why Not Me? completed 11/26

December - 3,030 pages
86. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet completed 12/3
87. A Closed and Common Orbit completed 12/10
88. The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit completed 12/15
89. A Christmas Carol completed 12/16 (reread)
90. The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge completed 12/18
91. Christmas Stories completed 12/24
92. El Paso completed 12/26
93. Eligible completed 12/28
94. The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II completed 12/31

Covers of the Books I Read:

2017 Reading Stats:

Genre
Biography/memoir: 9
Classics: 4
Fantasy: 7
General fiction: 16
Graphic novel: 4
Historical fiction: 14
Horror:
Mystery/thriller: 5
Other nonfiction: 29
Play:
Poetry: 1
Science/speculative fiction: 3
Short stories: 2

Length
Short (250 pages and under): 33
Medium (251-500 pages): 57
Long (501-750 pages): 3
Very long (over 750 pages): 1

Author gender
Female: 60
Male: 31
Team: 3

New to Me or Repeat Author?
New to Me: 61
Repeat: 32
Both: 1

Standalone or series?
Standalone: 72
Series: 22

Owned or borrowed?
Library book: 50
Library ebook: 2
Owned book: 38
Owned ebook: 1
Borrowed book: 2
Library audiobook: 1
SYNC audiobook: 0

2017 Reading Challenge Yearly Challenges:

Dewey Decimal Nonfiction Challenge
10/10 books completed = 100%

2017 Reading Challenge Monthly/Quarterly Challenges:

Marathon Challenge - January
3039/2000 pages completed = 152%

Clear the Shelves Challenge - April to June
5/5 books completed = 100%

Advent Calendar Challenge
24/24 stories completed = 100%


Challenges from other groups:

Around the Year in 52 Books challenge
52/52 Completed = 100%

Mount TBR Challenge
21/12 Completed = 100%

A YEAR OF FUN IN THE SUN 05/01/16 - 04/30/17
20/12 Completed = 100%

Litsy A to Z Challenge
26/26 completed = 100% (Letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z)

Let's Turn Pages Challenge:

All of my other challenges I only update when I hit a milestone, but this one I update every time I finish a book, so it gets its own post.

Let's Turn Pages challenge 2017

My yearly goal is 18,250 pages (50 pages a day).

Yearly pages read: 27,360 pages

Pages read in January: 344 + 384 + 300 + 186 + 141 + 112 + 154 + 162 + 139 + 260 + 199 + 217 + 441 + 306 = 3,345
Pages read in February: 649 + 358 + 217 + 305 + 256 + 278 + 368 + 255 = 2,686
Pages read in March: 326 + 255 + 311 + 186 + 80 + 785 + 238 = 2,181
Pages read in April: 388 + 288 + 184 + 396 + 237 + 222 = 1,715
Pages read in May: 290 + 386 + 294 + 447 + 416 + 305 + 267 = 2,405
Pages read in June: 258 + 304 + 176 + 130 + 120 + 224 = 1,212
Pages read in July: 393 + 352 + 509 + 256 + 243 + 230 + 295 + 304 + 337 = 2,919
Pages read in August: 52 + 338 + 314 + 380 + 337 + 299 + 309 + 589 = 2,618
Pages read in September: 202 + 63 + 291 + 166 + 201 + 316 + 209 = 1,448
Pages read in October: 227 + 297 + 424 + 326 + 429 = 1,703
Pages read in November: 277 + 304 + 142 + 228 + 338 + 320 + 261 + 228 = 2,098
Pages read in December: 443 + 365 + 307 + 68 + 107 + 398 + 477 + 492 + 373 = 3,030

TBR Tracking Updates -- 1st Quarter

February TBR Tracking Update (February 1, 2017):

Books on TBR on December 31, 2016: 134
Books added to TBR in 2017: 13
Books read off TBR that were added between 2012-2016: 9
Books read off TBR that were added in 2017: 5
Current TBR #: 132
Currently Reading: 0 (0 added pre-2017, 0 added in 2017)

March TBR Tracking Update (March 1, 2017):

Books on TBR on December 31, 2016: 134
Books added to TBR in 2017: 38
Books read off TBR that were added between 2012-2016: 14
Books read off TBR that were added in 2017: 8
Current TBR #: 148
Currently Reading: 2 (1 added pre-2017, 1 added in 2017)

TBR Tracking Updates -- 2nd Quarter

April TBR Tracking Update (April 1, 2017):

Books on TBR on December 31, 2016: 134
Books added to TBR in 2017: 44
Books read off TBR that were added between 2012-2016: 19
Books read off TBR that were added in 2017: 10
Current TBR #: 148
Currently Reading: 1 (0 added pre-2017, 1 added in 2017)

May TBR Tracking Update (May 1, 2017):

Books on TBR on December 31, 2016: 134
Books added to TBR in 2017: 47
Books read off TBR that were added between 2012-2016: 24
Books read off TBR that were added in 2017: 12
Current TBR #: 146
Currently Reading: 0 (0 added pre-2017, 0 added in 2017)

June TBR Tracking Update (June 1, 2017):

Books on TBR on December 31, 2016: 134
Books added to TBR in 2017: 53
Books read off TBR that were added between 2012-2016: 30
Books read off TBR that were added in 2017: 13
Current TBR #: 144
Currently Reading: 0 (0 added pre-2017, 0 added in 2017)

TBR Tracking Updates -- 3rd Quarter

July TBR Tracking Update (July 1, 2017):

Books on TBR on December 31, 2016: 134
Books added to TBR in 2017: 55
Books read off TBR that were added between 2012-2016: 31
Books read off TBR that were added in 2017: 17
Current TBR #: 140
Currently Reading: 1 (0 added pre-2017, 1 added in 2017)

August TBR Tracking Update (August 1, 2017):

Books on TBR on December 31, 2016: 134
Books added to TBR in 2017: 63
Books read off TBR that were added between 2012-2016: 37
Books read off TBR that were added in 2017: 20
Current TBR #: 139
Currently Reading: 1 (1 added pre-2017, 0 added in 2017)

September TBR Tracking Update (September 1, 2017):

Books on TBR on December 31, 2016: 134
Books added to TBR in 2017: 71
Books read off TBR that were added between 2012-2016: 40
Books read off TBR that were added in 2017: 25
Current TBR #: 138
Currently Reading: 2 (2 added pre-2017, 0 added in 2017)

TBR Tracking Updates -- 4th Quarter

October TBR Tracking Update (October 1, 2017):

Books on TBR on December 31, 2016: 134
Books added to TBR in 2017: 76
Books read off TBR that were added between 2012-2016: 44
Books read off TBR that were added in 2017: 28
Current TBR #: 134
Currently Reading: 4 (0 added pre-2017, 4 added in 2017)

November TBR Tracking Update (November 1, 2017):

Books on TBR on December 31, 2016: 134
Books added to TBR in 2017: 83
Books read off TBR that were added between 2012-2016: 45
Books read off TBR that were added in 2017: 33
Current TBR #: 136
Currently Reading: 4 (0 added pre-2017, 4 added in 2017)

December TBR Tracking Update (December 1, 2017):

Books on TBR on December 31, 2016: 134
Books added to TBR in 2017: 106
Books read off TBR that were added between 2012-2016: 45
Books read off TBR that were added in 2017: 40
Current TBR #: 153
Currently Reading: 3 (1 added pre-2017, 2 added in 2017)

Books by Year:

1843
A Christmas Carol

1871
Middlemarch

1880
Heidi

1931
Shadows on the Rock

1934
Tender Is the Night

1953
The Silver Chair

1954
The Horse and His Boy

1955
The Magician's Nephew
Gift from the Sea

1956
The Last Battle

1962
A Wrinkle in Time

1973
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver

1981
Murder on Capitol Hill

1984
Boy: Tales of Childhood

1986
The Handmaid's Tale

1987
The Splendid Outcast: Beryl Markham's African Stories

1992
She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse

1993
The Virgin Suicides

1997
Windows on the White House: The Story of Presidential Libraries

1999
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

2000
Systems Analysis for Librarians and Information Professionals: Second Edition
The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit

2003
An Assembly Such as This
Maisie Dobbs
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

2004
Gilead

2005
Assassination Vacation
Subverting Open Government: White House Materials and Executive Branch Politics

2006
Kristy's Great Idea (Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #1)
The Truth About Stacey (Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #2)
Understanding Archives & Manuscripts

2007
Mary Anne Saves the Day (Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #3)
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Garden Spells
The Uncommon Reader
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
In the Woods
Christmas Stories

2008
Claudia and Mean Janine (Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #4)
Letter to My Daughter
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

2009
When You Reach Me
Yours Ever: People and Their Letters

2010
Almost to Eden
Razing Hell: Rethinking Everything You've Been Taught about God's Wrath and Judgment
As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto: Food, Friendship, and the Making of a Masterpiece

2011
Maine
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

2012
I Could Pee on This And Other Poems by Cats
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
A Man Called Ove

2013
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
One Summer: America, 1927
Burial Rites
Americanah
X Marks the Scot
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

2014
Moriarty
Us
When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
We Should All Be Feminists
Jackaby
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

2015
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
The Prayers of Jane Austen
For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards
Days of Awe
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
Why Not Me?
The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge

2016
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe
The Underground Railroad
A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations
Pistols and Petticoats
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Homegoing
Salt to the Sea
A Fine Imitation
The Bertie Project
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between
Everyone Brave is Forgiven
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
A Closed and Common Orbit
El Paso
Eligible

2017
The Little French Bistro
Saints for All Occasions
When Dimple Met Rishi
A Piece of the World
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Norse Mythology
Victoria: The Heart and Mind of a Young Queen
Faithful: Christmas Through the Eyes of Joseph
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

Nonfiction Books by Dewey Decimal Number:

I'm participating in the Dewey Decimal Nonfiction Challenge and in tandem with that challenge I'm going to record every nonfiction book I read with its Dewey number here.

Nonfiction Books Listed by Date Read:

The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe 818.409 completed 1/11
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley 828.609 completed 2/1
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust 940.53 completed 2/10
Windows on the White House: The Story of Presidential Libraries 026.97 completed 2/15
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story 940.531 completed 2/22
A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations 306.874 completed 3/5
The Prayers of Jane Austen 242.8 completed 3/23
Pistols and Petticoats 363.25 completed 3/31
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 791.45 completed 4/11
Understanding Archives & Manuscripts 027 completed 4/20
Razing Hell: Rethinking Everything You've Been Taught about God's Wrath and Judgment 236.25 completed 4/29
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America 364.15 completed 5/15
As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto: Food, Friendship, and the Making of a Masterpiece 641.5092 completed 5/22
When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II 028.909 completed 5/28
Assassination Vacation 973.099 completed 6/1
Boy: Tales of Childhood 823.914 completed 6/12
Gift from the Sea 170.202 completed 6/20
For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards 248.843 completed 6/29
One Summer: America, 1927 973.91 completed 7/16
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking 155.232 completed 7/31
We Should All Be Feminists 305.42 completed 8/4
Yours Ever: People and Their Letters 808.86 completed 8/5
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived 234.23 completed 9/3
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions 305.42 completed 9/4
Letter to My Daughter 818.5409 completed 9/15
She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse 231.4 completed 9/24
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between 791.4502 completed 9/28
Subverting Open Government: White House Materials and Executive Branch Politics 342.73 completed 10/7
Norse Mythology 293.13 completed 10/9
Victoria: The Heart and Mind of a Young Queen 941.081 completed 11/3
Faithful: Christmas Through the Eyes of Joseph 232.9 completed 11/6
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen 428.2 completed 11/10
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI 976.6004 completed 11/15
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars 522.197 completed 11/24
Systems Analysis for Librarians and Information Professionals: Second Edition 025.002 completed 11/25
Why Not Me? 791.46 completed 11/26
The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit 791.43 completed 12/15
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II 976.873 completed 12/31

Nonfiction Books Listed by Number:

000s

Systems Analysis for Librarians and Information Professionals: Second Edition 025.002 completed 11/25
Windows on the White House: The Story of Presidential Libraries 026.97 completed 2/15
Understanding Archives & Manuscripts 027 completed 4/20
When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II 028.909 completed 5/28

100s
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking 155.232 completed 7/31
Gift from the Sea 170.202 completed 6/20

200s

She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse 231.4 completed 9/24
Faithful: Christmas Through the Eyes of Joseph 232.9 completed 11/6
Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived 234.23 completed 9/3
Razing Hell: Rethinking Everything You've Been Taught about God's Wrath and Judgment 236.25 completed 4/29
The Prayers of Jane Austen 242.8 completed 3/23
For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards 248.843 completed 6/29
Norse Mythology 293.13 completed 10/9

300s

We Should All Be Feminists 305.42 completed 8/4
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions 305.42 completed 9/4
A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations 306.874 completed 3/5
Subverting Open Government: White House Materials and Executive Branch Politics 342.73 completed 10/7
Pistols and Petticoats 363.25 completed 3/31
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America 364.15 completed 5/15

400s

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen 428.2 completed 11/10

500s

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars 522.197 completed 11/24

600s

As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto: Food, Friendship, and the Making of a Masterpiece 641.5092 completed 5/22

700s

The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit 791.43 completed 12/15
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 791.45 completed 4/11
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between 791.4502 completed 9/28
Why Not Me? 791.46 completed 11/26

800s

Yours Ever: People and Their Letters 808.86 completed 8/5
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe 818.409 completed 1/11
Letter to My Daughter 818.5409 completed 9/15
Boy: Tales of Childhood 823.914 completed 6/12
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley 828.609 completed 2/1

900s

The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust 940.53 completed 2/10
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story 940.531 completed 2/22
Victoria: The Heart and Mind of a Young Queen 941.081 completed 11/3
Assassination Vacation 973.099 completed 6/1
One Summer: America, 1927 973.91 completed 7/16
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI 976.6004 completed 11/15
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II 976.873 completed 12/31

Finished Tender Is the Night for my first read of 2017. Unfortunately, it was only 2 stars. I just did not care about the characters or the plot. I skimmed a lot of it. But it's been on my TBR since 2012, so I'm glad to get it off of there!

My January book count is 14! 4 graphic novels, 1 small book of poetry, 1 small collection of short stories, 3 middle-grade fantasy books, 1 nonfiction, and 4 adult fiction.

I know it's only January 27, but the only book I'm reading now is a 600-page chunker that I would be really surprised if I finished before February 1st.

I read a lot the few weeks of January because I was off school, but now I'm back in session so my school reading has taken up a lot of reading time the past 2 weeks. Also, reading graphic novels and short books tends to push the number up.

I really want to read more nonfiction (only 1 for the month appalls me!) and I would like to read more of the books that have been on my TBR for 2+ years instead of going for newer additions or picking up books that aren't on my TBR at all.

My February book count is 8 books! 3 nonfiction, 1 memoir, 1 YA book, and 3 historical fiction books.

School picked up a bit, so I had less time to read. I also did not read any graphic novels this month.

I have 7 books on my March TBR, and I'm looking forward to all of them!

My March book count is 7 books! 3 nonfiction, 1 YA book, 1 classic, 1 mystery, and 1 dystopian.

I read 7 books, but 2 of them were not on my original March TBR.

I read 6 books in April and finished 1 on the first day of May.

The 6 books of April were: 2 nonfiction, 2 contemporary adult fiction, 1 YA book, and 1 memoir.

I completed 7 books in May and 1 on the first day of June.

My 7 books of May were 2 historical fiction, 1 contemporary fiction, 1 epistolary fiction, and 3 nonfiction.

I completed 6 books in June--the one I finished on June 1st that I mentioned in my May post and then 5 others.

Total I read 3 nonfiction, 1 memoir, and 2 adult fiction.

I finished 9 books in July, mostly due to participating in Booktubeathon. There was 1 classic, 2 YA, 3 contemporary, 1 historical fiction, and 2 nonfiction. I upped my yearly goal to 78 books and I'm on track to meet it.

I read 8 books in August. 2 YA, 3 literary fiction, 2 nonfiction, 1 general fiction. I also met my yearly page count this month woohoo! Of course, now I'm in school so my reading will probably slack off.

I read 7 books in September, but most of them were shorter so only 1,448 pages read. I read 2 religious nonfiction, 2 memoirs, 1 feminist nonfiction, 1 juvenile historical fiction, and 1 adult contemporary fiction.

I upped my reading goal to 90 books. I have 19 books left to read to meet all my reading challenges. If I read all 19, I'll have read 91 for the year.

I read 5 books in October and finished another on November 1st. I read 1 mystery, 1 historical fiction, 2 nonfiction, and 1 historical romance.

I need to read 12 more books to meet my TBR goal.

I read 7 books in November: 2 memoirs, 5 nonfictions.

I need to read 5 more to meet my goal and I have 6 on my December TBR, so I'm definitely on track to met my goals and challenges!

Emily wrote: "I read 7 books in November: 2 memoirs, 5 nonfictions.

I need to read 5 more to meet my goal and I have 6 on my December TBR, so I'm definitely on track to met my goals and challenges!"

Sounds good Emily!

All right, I have finished updating my 2017 page. My stats are:

94 books read
27,360 pages read
My most-read genre was nonfiction with 29 books + 9 biography/memoirs.
I completed all the challenges I signed up for.
I started the year with 134 books on my TBR and ended with 149 books, so I didn't do very well on the goal of reducing my TBR.

I'll be at my 2018 corner--Emily's Wicked Cool Corner