2025 Reading Challenge discussion

My overall plan is to attempt to hit 200 books in 2020. Hopefully the extra day makes a difference to my tally.
Start: January 1 2020
End: December 31 2020
Goal: 200
Actual achievement: 184

Reading Women Challenge 2020

1) A Book by an Author from the Caribbean or India
2) A Book Translated from an Asian Language :
3) A Book about the Environment
4) Picture Book Written/Illustrated by a BIPOC Author
5) A Winner of the Stella Prize or the Women’s Prize for Fiction
6) A Nonfiction Title by a Woman Historian
7) A Book Featuring Afrofuturism or Africanfuturism
8) An Anthology by Multiple Authors
9) A Book Inspired by Folklore
10) A Book About a Woman Artist
11) Read and Watch a Book-to-Movie Adaptation
12) A Book About a Woman Who Inspires You
13) A Book by an Arab Woman
14) A Book Set in Japan or by a Japanese Author
15) A Biography
16) A Book Featuring a Woman with a Disability
17) A Book Over 500 Pages
18) A Book Under 100 Pages
19) A Book That’s Frequently Recommended to You
20) A Feel-Good or Happy Book
21) A Book about Food
22) A Book by Either a Favorite or a New-to-You Publisher - Orbit
23) A Book by an LGBTQ+ Author-
24) A Book from the 2019 Reading Women Award Shortlists and Honorable Mentions

BONUS
25) A Book by Toni Morrison
26) A Book by Isabel Allende

PopSugar Challenge 2020

1. A book that's published in 2020
2. A book by a trans or nonbinary author
3. A book with a great first line
4. A book about a book club
5. A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics
6. A bildungsroman
7. The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed
8. A book with an upside-down image on the cover
9. A book with a map
10. A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club
11. An anthology
12. A book that passes the Bechdel test
13. A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it
14. A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name
15. A book about or involving social media
16. A book that has a book on the cover
17. A medical thriller
18. A book with a made-up language
19. A book set in a country beginning with "C"
20. A book you picked because the title caught your attention
21. A book published the month of your birthday
22. A book about or by a woman in STEM
23. A book that won an award in 2019
24. A book on a subject you know nothing about
25. A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics
26. A book with a pun in the title
27. A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins
28. A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character
29. A book with a bird on the cover
30. A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader
31. A book with "gold," "silver," or "bronze" in the title
32. A book by a WOC
33. A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads
34. A book you meant to read in 2019
35. A book with a three-word title
36. A book with a pink cover
37. A Western
38. A book by or about a journalist
39. Read a banned book during Banned Books Week
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

Advanced

41. A book written by an author in their 20s
42. A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title
43. A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision)
44. A book set in the 1920s
45. A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics
46. A book by an author who has written more than 20 books
47. A book with more than 20 letters in its title
48. A book published in the 20th century
49. A book from a series with more than 20 books
50. A book with a main character in their 20s

January Reads
Theme for the Month
Goal: 20
Actual Read: 15

1. Moriarty
2. Ancillary Justice
3. Rekindled
4. Year One
5. Death on the Nile
6. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
7. We're Going to Need More Wine
8. Nice Dragons Finish Last
9. King Lear
10. Please Look After Mom
11. A Natural History of Dragons
12. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
13. The Humans
14. Neuromancer
15. A Perilous Proposal
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February Reads
Theme: Black History Month
Goal: 16
Actual Read: 17


1. The Story of a New Name
2. A Morbid Taste for Bones
3. Long Way Down
4. Grace
5. Jade City
6. Crick Crack, Monkey
7. The Street
8. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
9. A Lesson Before Dying
10. Foreign Soil
11. Travels With My Aunt
12. Uprooted
13. Next Year in Havana
14. What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
15. Lily and the Octopus
16. Ship of Magic
17. Broken Homes

March Reads
Theme: Woman Month and Lenten Reading
Goal: 20
Actual Read: 16

1. The Thirteenth Tale
2. This One Summer
3. Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer
4. A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe
5. Divided Allegiance
6. Mass Effect: Initiation
7. Hidden Figures
8. The Murmur of Bees
9. Dubliners
10. Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image
11. Oath of Gold
12. Liquid Cool: The Cyberpunk Detective Series
13. The Paris Wife
14. Heir Apparent
15. The Flight of the Darkstar Dragon
16. The Map Across Time
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April Reads
Theme: April
Goal: 16
Actual Read

1. Grey Sister
2. Poems by Emily Dickinson Second Series
3. They Mostly Come Out at Night
4. Shards of Honor
5. Slave Old Man
6. The White Tiger
7. The Knife of Never Letting Go
8. On the Shortness of Life
9. Diary of a Fat Girl
10. My Sister's Keeper
11. Hamlet
12. Pushing Ice
13. Clockwiser
14. The Alienist
15. The Cloud Roads
16. The Mermaid
17. Foxglove Summer

Mind if I select some of your challenges?

Hi Jennifer, feel free to copy.

Motley 2020
January 1-December 31 2020

Task completed: 3/26

1. A historical mystery.
2. A book by an author who lives in your state.
3. A book told by multiple narrators.
4. A second hand book.
5. A horror story.
6. A book you didn’t read in 2019.
7. A ghost story.
8. A book that has been on your tbr list the longest.
9. A book from prior Goodreads winners.
10. A non-fiction book.
11. A book by an author that died in the past two years.
12. A book with a blue cover.
13. A book with fewer than 150 pages.
14. A book set in California.
15. A book with a two word title.
16. A book published in 2020.
17. A historical fiction
18. First book in a series
19. A true crime
20. A psychological thriller
21. A book with more than 400 pages
22. A book that won a literary prize
23. A book by Stephen King
24. A classic
25. A book that is a sequel
26. First book you read in 2020

Alphabet List of Books : Titles by Female Authors
Can ignore A, An, etc for Title

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Best of luck with your reading challenge, June. I hope you have a fantastic year, both reading-wise and otherwise.

Alphabet List of Books: Author Edition

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May Reads
Theme: Asian Reads/Native American
Goal: 16
Actual:

1. The Rage of Dragons
2. Green Grass, Running Water
3. Empire of Sand
4. Crime and Punishment
5. Murder in Mesopotamia
6. Twelve Kings in Sharakhai
7. Thief of Corinth
8. Wishes and Wellingtons
9. Half a King
10. Room
11. Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream
12. The Namesake
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June Reads
Theme: The Letter J/ Read Caribbean
Goal: 16
Actual:

1. An Ember in the Ashes
2. Kane and Abel
3. Empire Falls
4. The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
5. We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
6. Lab Girl: A story of Trees, Science and Love
7. The Hanging Tree
8. Sugar Money
9. Bad Luck Charlie
10. The Expats
11. The Traitor Baru Cormorant
12. The Lesson
13. Jazz
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July Reads:
Theme: Summertime
Goal: 16
Actual:

1. X
2. Salvage the Bones
3. Monday's Not Coming
4. The One and Only Ivan
5. Ghana Must Go
6. The 3-Day Effect
7. The Gunslinger
8. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
9. Descender, Vol. 1: Tin Stars
10. Descender, Vol. 2: Machine Moon
11. Kintu
12. Descender, Vol. 3: Singularities
13. The Needle: An Alien Invasion Tale: The New Cold War Begins
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August Reads
Theme:
Goal: 16
Actual:

1. The God of Small Things
2. Hide and Seek
3. Shadow and Bone
4. The Left Hand of Darkness
5. Sugar
6. The Diary of a Young Girl
7. So You Want to Talk About Race
8. The Dragonbone Chair
9. The Gods Themselves
10. Binti
11. Spin the Dawn
12. Watership Down
13. Dark Fire
14. The Poet X
15. Force of Nature
16.Force Ripe
17. Moloka'i
18. To Say Nothing of the Dog
19. The Test
20. All Systems Red

September 2020
Theme: Second Chances
Goal: 16

1. Snow Crash
2. Home
3.The City of Brass
4.The Night Masquerade
5. Dread Nation
6. Behold, Here's Poison
7. Developing the Leader Within You
8 Macbeth
9 Six Four
10. The Memory Police
11. Heart of Darkness
12. The Drawing of the Three
13 The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
14. Americanah
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October 2020
Theme: Inter-related books
Goal: 16

1. An Image of Africa
2. Like Clockwork
3. Mere Christianity
4. What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky
5. Clocked
6. The Turn of the Key
7. A Dead Djinn in Cairo
8. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House
9. Purple Hibiscus
10. Iron Lake
11. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
12. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
13. Tell No One
14. Bloodchild
15. Mexican Gothic
16. The Five Hive Plateau
17. War Girls

November 2020
Theme: Series/ Non-fiction
Goal: 16

1. Duma Key
2. The Dispatcher
3. The Last Warner Woman
4. The Silent Patient
5. Devil in a Blue Dress
6. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
7. Red Rising
8. Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity
9. No God but One: Allah or Jesus?: A Former Muslim Investigates the Evidence for Islam and Christianity
10. Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
11. The Silkworm
12. The Poppy War
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Hi June, Would you like me to move your corner to the active threads for 2021? what is your book goal this year?

December 2020
Theme
Goal: 20

1. Ninth Step Station: The Complete Season 1
2. Who Is Jesus?
3. Lies Sleeping
4. Who Is The Holy Spirit?
5. In God's Eyes
6. On the Incarnation
7. I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
8. The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
9. Killing Floor
10. Heir to the Sundered Crown
11. Little Lord Fauntleroy
12. How Long 'til Black Future Month?
13. Friday Black
14. The Thing Around Your Neck
15. The Haunting of Tram Car 015
16. By Sea & Sky: An Esowon Story
17. The Girl Who Drank the Moon
18. Where the Waters Turn Black
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