2025 Reading Challenge discussion

2015 goal: 30,000 pages

To date: 21 029 pages


1. 01/03/15
2.Bossypants
3. Dreams of Gods & Monsters- Laini Taylor : 01/08/15
4. Forever Odd - Dean Koontz: 01/09/15 364 pages
5. - Geoff Johns: 01/10/15 144 pages
6. - City of Bones - Cassandra Clare: 01/13/15 485 pages
7. A Discovery of WitchesDeborah Harkness: 01/14/15 579 pages

8. - Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen: 01/16/15 335 pages
9. - Coraline - Neil Gaiman:01/18/15 162 pages
10. - Landline- Rainbow Rowell: 01/19/15: 310 pages
11. - Shadow of Night - Deborah Harkness: 01/20/15 584 pages
12. - Attachments - Rainbow Rowell: 01/21/15 323 pages
13. - Linwood Barclay: 01/22/15 320 pages
14. - The Surgeon - Tess Gerritsen: 01/25/15 359 pages
15. The Nightingale Circus- Ioana Visan: 203 pages
16. - Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel: 01/28/15 333 pages
17. A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing - Eimear McBride: 01/30/15 205 pages
18. - Nine Minutes - Beth Flynn: 02/04/15 317 pages
19. - Roadside Crosses- Jeffery Deaver: 02/05/15 397 pages
20. - Call Me GrimElizabeth Holloway - 02/06/15 262 pages
21. The Silver Linings Playbook- Matthew Quick: 02/11/15 304 pages
22. The Look of Love- Sarah Jio:02/12/15 286 pp
23. The Book Thief- Markus Zusak: 02/18/15 550p.
24. XO- Jeffery Deaver: 02/26/15 385 p.
25. The Cinderella Murder- Mary Higgins Clark: 02/26/15 320p
26. Mr. Mercedes- Stephen King: 02/27/15 436p
27. Brother Odd- Dean Koontz: 03/09/15 364p
28. Still Life With Crows- Douglas Preston: 03/10/15 575p
29. The Girl on the Train- Paula Hawkins: 03/11/15 336p
30. Brimstone- Douglas Preston: 03/22/15 775 p.
31. Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman Vol. 1- Gail Simone: 03/23/15 168 pages
32. Batman '66/Green Hornet- Kevin Smith: 03/23/15 144 pages
33. Dance of Death - Douglas Preston: 03/27/15 580 pages
34. It’s Not Me, It’s YouMhairi McFarlane -03/30/15 544 pages
35. THE BELIEF IN AngelsJ. Dylan Yates -04/05/15 314 pages
36. The Book of the DeadDouglas Preston -04/11/15 597 pages
37. I've Got You Under My SkinMary Higgins Clark -04/21/15 303 pages
38. The Wheel of DarknessDouglas Preston: 04/21/15 388 pages
39. Cemetery DanceDouglas Preston: 05/05/15 435 pages
40. Beautiful RuinsJess Walter -05/10/15 337 pages
41. Fever DreamDouglas Preston -05/17/15 416 pages
42. The Monkey's RaincoatRobert Crais -05/27/15 357 pages
43. Cold VengeanceDouglas Preston -05/29/15 545 pages
44. The Angel's GameCarlos Ruiz Zafón -06/04/15 504 pages
45. Two GravesDouglas Preston -06/12/15 484 pages
46. White FireDouglas Preston -07/14/15 368 pages
47. Blue LabyrinthDouglas Preston - 07/25/15 416 pages
48. The Demon King Cinda Williams Chima -07/29/15 506 pages
49. Out of Time (Nine Minutes) Beth Flynn: 457 pages
50. The Exiled Queen Cinda Williams Chima: 586 pages
51. Method 15/33Shannon Kirk 226 pages
52. The Paying GuestsSarah Waters 08/18/15 564 pages
53. Deadly Messengers Susan May: 08/22/15 450 pages

I SPY CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015
Completed: 9/25

Read a book that contains a word in the title that fits each of the 25 categories below. If you're having trouble with a particular category, ask other members what they are reading for it. You may also use the name of the series for up to three categories.

Here are the 25 categories with examples. The examples are just to get you started - any word that fits the category is fair game.

1. Color - Red Rising
2. Number - Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel: 01/28/15
3. Things That Grow - Purple Hibiscus
4. Seasons - A Thousand Splendid Suns
5. First Name - Coraline - Neil Gaiman:01/18/15
6. Places - The Black Country
7. Body Part - Warm Bodies
8. Weapon - The Knife of Never Letting Go
9. Body of Water - Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen: 01/16/15
10. Form of Water - Stone Rain
11. Product of Fire - City of Ashes
12. Celestial Body - The Silver Star
13. Architecture - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
14. Senses - Blindness
15. Royal Title - The White Queen
16. Family Member - The Son
17. Elements - When the Wind Blows
18. Time of Day - Shadow of Night - Deborah Harkness: 01/20/15
19. Metal - The Silver Linings Playbook: 02/11/15
20. Emotion/Feeling - Love Life
21. Animal/Insect - Cockroaches
22. Something to Read - The Book Thief: 02/18/15
23. Gender Identifier - A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing - Eimear McBride: 01/30/15
24. Paranormal Being - A Discovery of Witches: 01/14/15
25. Occupation - The Surgeon - Tess Gerritsen: 01/25/15

THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1st 2015 - December 31st 2015

Completed: 1/9
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1. All the Light We Cannot See
2. The Bone Clocks
3. The Paying Guests
4. Fourth of July Creek
5. A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing - Eimear McBride: 01/30/15

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1. Allegiant
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns
3. We Were Liars
4. Champion

A-Z Challenge 2015


A - Attachments - Rainbow Rowell: 01/21/15
B - - Batman: Earth One
C - The Cabinet of Curiosities - Douglas Preston 01/03/15
D- Dreams of Gods & Monsters - Laini Taylor
E Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel: 01/28/15
F- Tina Fey- Bossypants
G - Coraline - Neil Gaiman:01/18/15
H Call Me GrimElizabeth Holloway - 02/06/15
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K - Dean Koontz- Forever Odd
L - Landline- Rainbow Rowell: 01/19/15
M - A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing - Eimear <b>McBride<b>: 01/30/15
N - Nine Minutes - Beth Flynn: 02/04/15
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R - Roadside Crosses- Jeffery Deaver: 02/05/15
S - Shadow of Night - Deborah Harkness: 01/20/15
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W - Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen: 01/16/15
X - XO- Jeffery Deaver: 02/26/15
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THE COMPLETE WORKS CHALLENGE - 2015
January 1 - December 31, 2015

Tess Gerritsen
The Rizzoli and Isle series (13 books)

The Surgeon - Tess Gerritsen: 01/25/15
The Apprentice
The Sinner
Body Double
Vanish
The Mephisto Club
The Keepsake
Ice Cold
Freaks
The Silent Girl
John Doe
Last to Die
Die Again

Harry Hole series (10 books)

The bat
Cockroaches
The Redbreast
Nemesis
The Devil's Star
The Redeemer
The Snowman
The Leopard
Phantom
Police: A Harry Hole Novel