2025 Reading Challenge discussion

PERSONAL CHALLENGE
✔ Books:33/30
✔ Pages: 10343/10,000 (tally)

YEARLY CHALLENGES
Book Riot: 18/24 (tally)
Nonfiction Bingo: 1/24
x I-Spy: 16/25 (tally)
x A-Z: 24/26 (tally)
✔ #readwomen2015: 10/10 (tally)
✔ Favorite Genre: 14/14 (tally)
2015 Ultimate Reading Challenge: 28/52
x 3rd Quarter Challenge (7/1 - 9/30): 7/10

Non-Fiction Bingo Challenge
Message #?
Completed: 2/24
Bingos: 0/16


1. Art and Photography
- Sketch! by France Belleville-Van Stone (author debut?)
- The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
2. Autobiography and Biography - My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
3. Business and Finance
4. Cultural and Social Issues
5. Current Affairs and Politics
- The Oath The Obama White House and the Supreme Court by Jeffery Toobin
6. Health and Medical (or Food & Lifestyle)
✔7. Biography-Memoir: Unbroken A World War II Story of Survival Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (4/8) ****
addtional
- Astoria John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire by Peter Stark
8. How To
9. Humor (or Diary & Memoir)
10. Journalism - Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
11. Military (check out Mike's List).
- In Harm's Way The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors by Doug Stanton
- Flyboys A True Story of Courage by James D. Brady
- The Manhattan Project by Cynthia C. Kelly
- The Arsenal of Democracy by A.J. Baime
12. Music and Entertainment - Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman
13. Nature and Ecology
14. Outdoor Adventuring
15. Philosophy - The Sacred and the Profane The Nature of Religion by Mircea Eliade
16. Pop Culture and Celebrity
- Damn You Scarlett Ohara by Darwin Porter and Roy Moseley
- Kate Remembered by A. Scott Berg
17. Psychology - Nudge by Richard H. Thaler
18. Relationships - Good to Great by John Collins
19. Religion and Spirituality - Siddartha by Hermann Hesse
20. Science and Technology
✔21. Self-Help - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo (10/6) ****
22. True Adventure (or Travel)
23. True Crime (replace with Sports)
- The Summer Game by Roger Angell
- The Soul of Baseball A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America by Joe Posnanski
24. Women’s Issues
- Founding Mothers The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
- Sisters The Lives of Americas' Suffragists by Jean H. Baker
- Half the Sky Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof

Additional Categories:
Diary and Memoirs
Food and Lifestyle
Gift Book or Coffee Table Book
Home Decorating and Design
Sports
Travel
History

#readwomen Challenge (message #36)
1/10

List to choose from (first priority to books I own):

1. Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan (own)
2. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis (own)
3. House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (own)
4. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (own)
5. The House of the Spirits by Isabell Allende (own)
6. Living History by Hillary Clinton (own)
7. The Help by Kathryn Stockett (own)
8. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (own)
9. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (own)
10. My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor (own)
11. Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (own)
12. Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (own)
13. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (own)
14. The Crime at the Black Dudley by Margery Allingham
15. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
16. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
17. Edith Wharton
18. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
19. Anthem by Ayn Rand (debut challenge?)
20. Bossypants by Tina Fey
21. Agatha Christie (debut challenge?)
22. Ruth Rendell (debut challenge?)

Debut Challenge
Message #?
Completed: 0/10

Potential List:

1. Margaret Atwood: The Edible Woman
2. Margery Allingham: Blackkerchief Dick
3. Raymond Chandler:
4. Ayn Rand: Anthem
5. Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
6. Kazuo Ishiguro: A Pale View of Hills
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Listopia Challenge
Message #?
Completed: 0/18

1. 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime:

- The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- A Wrinkle in time by Madeleine L'Engle
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Where the Sidewalk Ends The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- The Stand by Stephen King
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- Siddartha by Herman Hesse
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

2. Must Read Classics:

- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

3. The Goodreads Top 100 Literary Novels:

- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
- Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
- Adam Bede by George Eliot
- Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
- The Tenth Man by Graham Greene

4. Award Winning Fiction Since 1990:

Pulitzer (2)
* The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
* American Pastoral by Philip Roth
* The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

National Book Award (2)
* Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1997)
* All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Man Booker (2)
* The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1992)
* Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (2009)

Edgar (2)
* The Long Good-Bye by Raymond Chandler
* Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman

Hugo (2)
* The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
* Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
* The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
* The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
* Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
* Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
* The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

PEN/Faulkner Award (2)
* Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

Other (?)
* A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
* Atonement by Ian McEwan