2025 Reading Challenge discussion

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Introduction & ToC
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2018 Goal: The year of the guilt-shelf. Saying goodbye to all those books I've been 'meaning to read' forever.

Personal Challenge Thread:
2018 Reading Goal (61/25)
2017 Reading Goal (65/30)
2016 Reading Goal (42/50)

Yearly Challenges:
2017 Dewey Decimal Nonfiction Challenge (7/5 books, 4/5 categories)
2017 Popsugar Reading Challenge (17/10)

Quarterly Challenges:
None yet!

Monthly Challenges:
None Yet!

Buddy Reads and TBR Twins:
✓January 2018: The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum (with Kat)
✓January 2018: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (with Ronnie)
✓April 2018: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (with Kat)
✓May - July 2018: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (with Kat)
✓August - September 2018: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien (with Kat)
October - December 2018: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (with Kat)

Personal Goals & Challenges:
#ReadWomen2018 (18/10)
#ReadWomen2017 (23/10)
#OneShortMonth (July '17 Short Story Read-Along on Tumblr)

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Yearly: Dewey Decimal Nonfiction Challenge
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Goal: 5 books from 5 categories

Categories:
✓200-299: Religion
○ 271 (Religious congregations and orders in church history)The Scent Of Holiness: Lessons From a Women's Monastery by Constantina R. Palmer

✓300-399: Social Sciences
○ 304.809 (Movement of people, historical and geographic treatment) The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
○ 364.2 (Causes of crime and delinquency) Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment by Michael Javen Fortner
○ 364.9 (Historical treatment of crime and its alleviation) The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

✓500-599: Natural Sciences and Mathematics
○ 510.92 (Biographies of Mathematicians) Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

✓900-999: History and Geography
○ 951.93 (History of North Korea) The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story by Hyeonseo Lee
○ 973.09 (U.S. History & Criticism) First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies by Kate Anderson Brower

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Yearly: Popsugar Reading Challenge
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Goal: 10 Books

✓2. A book that's been on your TBR list for way too long: Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
✓5. A book by a person of color: Mind of My Mind by Octavia E. Butler
✓13. A book by or about a person who has a disability: You're Welcome, Universe by Whitney Gardner
✓14. A book involving travel: Redwood and Wildfire by Andrea Hairston
✓15. A book with a subtitle: Nearly Orthodox: On being a modern woman in an ancient tradition by Angela Doll Carlson
✓16. A book that's published in 2017: Raven Stratagem by Yoon Ha Lee
✓21. A book from a nonhuman perspective: Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler
✓22. A steampunk novel: Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening by Marjorie M. Liu
✓26. A book by an author from a country you've never visited: Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
✓27. A book with a title that's a character's name: The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch
✓28. A novel set during wartime: The Judgment of Richard Richter by Igor Stics
✓29. A book with an unreliable narrator: Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney
✓31. A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you: Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
✓32. A book about an interesting woman: First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies by Kate Anderson Brower
✓39. The first book in a series you haven't read before: Foundation by Isaac Asimov
✓45. A book about an immigrant or refugee: The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story by Hyeonseo Lee
✓51. A book about a difficult topic: Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment by Michael Javen Fortner

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Personal: #ReadWomen2017
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Goal: Ten (10) New-To-Me Female Authors

01. Kate Andersen Brower, First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies
02. Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring
03. Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
04. Angela Doll Carlson, Nearly Orthodox: On Being a Modern Woman in an Ancient Tradition
05. Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening
06. Constantina R. Palmer, The Scent of Holiness: Lessons from a Women's Monastery
07. Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
08. Lidia Yuknavitch, The Book of Joan
09. Whitney Gardner, You're Welcome, Universe
10. Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl With Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
*11. Anne Corlett, The Space Between the Stars
*12. N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season
*13. Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures
*14. Helen Oyeyemi, The Opposite House
*15. Martha Wells, All Systems Red
*16.Catherynne M. Valente, The Refrigerator Monologues
*17. Mary Crow Dog, Lakota Woman
*18. Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni
*19. C.B. Lee, Not Your Sidekick
*20. Patricia Briggs, Moon Called
*21. Naomi Novik, Uprooted
*22. Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
*23. Mur Lafferty, Six Wakes

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Personal: #OneShortMonth
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Credit for this July Challenge/short story read-along goes to @ArmorMadeOfBooks on tumblr. 22 Short stories in July 2017.

✓01: Dragonflies by Seanan McGuire (Science Fiction)
✓02: Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers by Alyssa Wong (Horror)
✓03: Two Men Arrive In A Village by Zadie Smith (Contemporary)
✓04: Symbols and Signs by Vladimir Nabokov (Classic)
✓05: Combustion Hour by Yoon Ha Lee (Fantasy)
✓06: Milla by Lorenzo Crescentini and Emanuela Valentini translated by Rich Larson (Science Fiction)
✓07: Dark Warm Heart by Rich Larson (Horror)
✓08: Two Words by Isabel Allende (Contemporary Magical Realism)
✓09: A Little Love Story by Ödön von Horváth (Classic)
✓10: Kaiju maximus®: “So Various, So Beautiful, So New” by Kai Ashante Wilson (Fantasy)
✓11: Rusties by Nnedi Okorafor (Science Fiction)
12: Fabulous Beasts by Priya Sharma (Horror)
13: I Can Speak! by George Saunders (Contemporary, Satire)
14: Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf (Classic)
15:Uncle Chaim And Aunt Rifke And The Angel by Peter S. Beagle (Fantasy)
16:Read Before Use by Chinelo Onwualu (Science Fiction)
17: Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (Horror, Classic)
18:The Hunter’s Wife by Anthony Doerr (Contemporary)
19: Ghost Ship by Ogawa Mimei (Classic)
20: The Mussel Eaters by Octavia Cade (Fantasy)
21: “…for a single yesterday” by George R.R. Martin (Science Fiction)
22: A Diet of Worms by Valerie Valdes (Horror)

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Personal: #ReadWomen2018
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Goal: Ten (10) New-To-Me Female Authors

01. Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
02. Mishell Baker, Borderline
03. Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts†
04. Nicky Drayden, The Prey of Gods
05. Carrie Vaughn, Bannerless
06. Emerald Dodge, Ignite
07. Imbolo Mbue, Behold the Dreamers
08. Aliette de Bodard, On a Red Station, Drifting
09. Annejet van der Zijl, An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew
10. Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls
*11. Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners
*12. Annie Lowrey, Give People Money...
*13. Sandra Jackson-Opoku, The River Where Blood is Born
*14. Sue Burke, Semiosis
*15. Mary Robinette Kowal, The Calculating Stars
*16. Liv Morris, Bossy Nights
*17. Nella Larsen, Passing
*18. Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
*19. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

†they/them