The Reading Challenge Group discussion

We all have them, those books that are just niggling away at you that you know you want to read next year.

Out of all of them books you want to read, what are the 5 books you want to get through most? Will you go for difficult chunksters? Long awaited releases? Those books that have sat on your bookshelf gathering dust for years?

5 books. 1 list. 1 year.

Like Faye, I'm going Dickens in 2015.
1) Little Dorrit
2) Tale of Two Cities (reread)
3) Great Expectations (reread)
4) Our Mutual Friend
5) Edwin Drood (unfinished)

1. War and Peace (unfinished)
2. The Count of Monte Cristo
3. Of Human Bondage
4. Germinal
5. Crime and Punishment

A daunting list, at least for me.

1. Middlemarch
2. Atlas Shrugged (unfinished)
3. The Stand (unfinished)
4. Winter's Tale (unfinished)
5. The Last Lion 1: Visions of Glory 1874-1932 (unfinished)

1. War and Peace
2. A Feast for Crows
3. Cress
4. Leaving Time
5. Allegiant

1-Swan Song
2-Gone with the Wind
3-The rest of the 'Anne of...' series
4-Revival
5-NOS4A2

I'm looking forward to finally reading these:

1. Crime and Punishment
2. The Alchemist
3. Don Quixote
4. 1984
5. The Three Musketeers

1. War and Peace
2. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell<
3. Gone with the Wind
4. Under the Dome
5. A Brief History of Time

*whispers*
"War and Peace Buddy Read, pass it on."

Renee wrote: "*whispers*
"War and Peace Buddy Read, pass it on.""

I'll be doing good to finish Don Quixote. Don't think I'm ready to tackle War and Peace!

Your a brat, Renee! I'll want to join in and trying to finish my other chunksters. Yes, I'm whining!

I'll be reading

1. Treasure Island
2. Northanger Abbey
3. The Wise Man's Fear
4. Storm Front
5. Illusion

and my other reads on my TBR list.

I hope to read:

1. Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
2. The Return of the King
3. The Snow Child
4. The Ersatz Elevator
5. Bird

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy (i read War and Peace in 2014!)
The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I am thinking of starting The Mysterious Island first!

Definitely get up to date on all the game of thrones books.

Ed, I attempted that this year but failed miserably! They're so tempting, but also so big, and once I got horrendously behind on my reading challenge, I realized I could afford to spend time on such long books!

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Hobbit
Pride and Prejudice

The Lord of the Rings the trilogy actually
Man and Animals
Pride and Prejudice
A Brief History of Time
The Call of the Wild Re-reading this one

The Martians
Lord of the Flies
Fahrenheit 451
The science of Intersteller
Station Eleven

Fahrenheit 451
Bossy Pants
GoT #3
This Charming Man
The Girl With All The Gifts

Holly wrote: "Ed, I attempted that this year but failed miserably! They're so tempting, but also so big, and once I got horrendously behind on my reading challenge, I realized I could afford to spend time on suc..."

I decided one GoT book a year is fine. It's not like the sixth book will be out any time soon.

In the Light of the Moon
One Plus One
Rose Madder
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Inkheart (and the other two of the trilogy!)

1. The Lacuna
2. The Luck Uglies
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
4. Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordian
5. To Kill A Mockingbird

Quite a daunting list I think....

I want to read

The House of the Spirits
Half of a Yellow Sun
Murder in Mesopotamia
A Caribbean Mystery
The Mephisto Club

My resolution to read more classics won't begin until half way through 2015, ho hum!!

Aside from Dickens...

Swann's Way
Ilium
The Last Days of Pompeii
The Recognitions
Chance

My goal is to read . . .

1. Middlemarch – George Eliot – 904 pages
2. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra – 982 pages
3. Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell – 1037 pages
4. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy – 1,392 pages
5. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson – 1,534 pages