2025 Reading Challenge discussion

This is where I will keep track of all my challenges for 2021. Last year was not a great year, but determined to make this year count.

Reading challenges that I've signed up for:

✔ Genre Bingo
Listatopia
Spell a better world
TBR
A Better world
A-Z challenge
Clear the shelves
✔ Lets Turn pages

TBR JAR CHALLENGE

Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021

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THE LISTOPIA CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021

Goal: Three lists, and 10 from each


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Historical Fiction 2021 0/10

1.The Vanished Days By Susanna Kearsley
2. Love, Theodosia: A Novel of Theodosia Burr and Philip Hamilton By Lori Anne Goldstein
3.The Last Garden in England By Julia Kelly
4.Her Heart for a Compass By Sarah Ferguson
5. Emily's House By Amy Belding Brown
6.The Girl Behind the Wall By Mandy Robotham
7.Daughters of War By Dinah Jefferies
8. When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky By Margaret Verble
9.The Sisters Sweet By Elizabeth Weiss
10. All the Little Hopes By Leah Weiss
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...




History Published in Year: 2021 2/10

✔ 1) The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt By Audrey Clare Farley 6/7 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔ 2) The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest by Mark Synnott 6/22 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
~3)The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Equality By Michael Burlingame
~ 4) The Orphans of Davenport: Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War over Children's Intelligence By Marilyn Brookwood
~5)In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire By Laurence Bergreen
6).The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World By Edward Shawcross
7) When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance By Michael S. Neiberg
8) The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson By Robert S. Levine
9)The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix By Howard Markel
10)In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters ByNancy Goldstone
11. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages By Dan Jones
12. Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution By Mike Duncan
13. Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West By Blaine Harden
14.Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders: Simnel, Warbeck, and Warwick By Nathen Amin
15.The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 By Joseph J. Ellis
16. George Washington: The Political Rise of America's Founding Father By David O. Stewart
17The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story By Nikole Hannah-Jones
18 The Soul of Genius: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the Meeting that Changed the Course of Science By Jeffrey Orens


https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...







Mystery & Thriller 2021 3/10

✔ 1. The Maidens By Alex Michaelides 7/13 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔ 2.Survive the Night By Riley Sager 7/7 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔ 3. The Night She Disappeared By Lisa Jewell 10/1 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. The Family Tree By Steph Mullin
5.Girl, 11 By Amy Suiter Clarke
6.These Silent Woods By Kimi Cunningham Grant
7. Darkness Falls By Robert Bryndza
8.In My Dreams I Hold a Knife By Ashley Winstead
9. All Her Little Secrets By Wanda M. Morris
10. I Am Not Who You Think I Am By Eric Rickstad
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

A BETTER WORLD
Duration: January 1 to December 31, 2021


Progress: 2/36



A Better You

Read a book with a character who shares a trait with you that you once (or still do) considered a flaw, or a book that discusses body positivity.
Read a book that makes you feel good or helps you relax.
Read a book with a main female character who does not enter into a romantic relationship.
Read a book featuring a protagonist who's compassionate.
Read a book about something you would like to learn more about or about a skill you want to improve.
Read a self-help book.
Read a book about a public figure or a fictional character that you admire.
Read a book on a topic that is new to you.
Read an old favorite just to make you smile.

A Better Home
Read a book about a family or found family.
Read a book with a house on its cover.
Read a book recommended by a family member or friend.
Read a book with a family tree
✔ Read a coming-of-age story.
The Unseen World By Liz Moore 1/17
Read a book about marriage.
Read a book about a unique parent-child relationship
Read a book which features siblings as its main characters.
Read a family saga spanning at least three generations.


A Better Community
✔ Read a book for a Buddy Read, TBR Twin, or Group Read activity.
Night Song By Beverly Jenkins 1/14
Read a book outside your comfort zone that a fellow group member has rated highly.
Read a book you checked out from the library.
Read a book recommended by anyone living in your town.
Read a book with a central theme of friendship.
Read a book in which teamwork leads to success.
Read a book in which a community works together to improve its quality of life.
Read a book recommended by someone in our group.
Read a book with “Community,” “Town,” or “City” in the title.


A Better World
Read an #OwnVoices book.
Read a book about a current global issue.
Read a book about sustainability or characters that strive to preserve nature.
Read a book about freedom in any sense of the word.
Read a book set in another country than your home country.
Read a book with “World” or “Earth” in the title.
Read a book featuring a culture or religion that differs from your own.
Read a book involving efforts toward peaceful reconciliation.
Read a book translated into the language you are reading

SPELL A BETTER WORLD
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021

I like to join, my words are Make Self- Care A Priority

Reading some of the historicals I 've been meaning to get to

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M: My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton By Stephanie Dray
A : A Dangerous Inheritance By Alison Weir
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S :The Second Life of Mirielle West by Amanda Skenandore
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E: The Empress By Laura Martínez-Belli

A : A Dangerous Inheritance ByAlison Weir

P: The Perfume Thief By Timothy Schaffert
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I: I, Eliza Hamilton By Susan Holloway Scott
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T: The Gold in These Hills By Joanne Bischof
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Clear the Shelves 2021
Duration: 01/01/2021-12/31/2021
Ebooks 0/10, Physical books 0/20

Progress: 0/30


Ebooks

1. Capturing the Earl By A.S. Fenichel
2. The Footman and I By Valerie Bowman
3. Notorious By Minerva Spencer
4. Duchess If You Dare By Anabelle Bryant
5. An Unexpected Temptation By Sophie Barnes
6. A Scandalous Bargain By Darcy Burke
7. Brazen in Blue By Rachael Miles
8. I'm Only Wicked with You By Julie Anne Long
9. Who's That Earl By Susanna Craig
10. The Most Eligible Viscount in London By Ella Quinn


Physical

1. Duchess by Design By Maya Rodale
2. The Truth About Dukes By Grace Burrowes
3. The Scandal of It All By Sophie Jordan
4. Ten Things I Hate About the Duke By Loretta Chase
5. How to Catch a Queen By Alyssa Cole
6. Only With Your Love By Lisa Kleypas
7. My Highland RogueBy Karen Ranney
8.All Scot and Bothered By Kerrigan Byrne
9. An Inconvenient Duke By Anna Harrington
10.The Duke's Stolen Bride By Sophie Jordan
11.Treasured Vows By Cathy Maxwell
12. A Duke to Die For By Amelia Grey
13.Only a Duchess Would Dare By Amelia Grey
15. Any Rogue Will Do By Bethany Bennett
16. The Duke Effect By Sophie Jordan
17.Tall, Duke, and Dangerousby Megan Frampton
18. How to Love a Duke in Ten Days By Kerrigan Byrne
19 The Duke Buys a Bride by Sophie Jordan
20.When the Marquess Was Mine byCaroline Linden

A-Z Challenge: Character Edition
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021

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✔ A Ada Sibelius from The Unseen World By Liz Moore 1/17 4 stars
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✔ C Cara Lee Henson from Night Song By Beverly Jenkins 1/14 5 stars
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✔ E Emma The Last Time I Lied ByRiley Sager 5 stars 7/25
✔F Felicity~ A Lesson in Vengeance By Victoria Lee 10/19 3.5 stars
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✔ L Lara The Ladies of the Secret Circus By Constance Sayers 8/9 4 stars
✔ M Mariana The Maidens By Alex Michaelides 7/13 5 stars
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✔ P Pippa A Good Girl's Guide to Murder By Holly Jackson 8/16 5 stars
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✔ R Rachel Marshall from An Alaskan Twin Surprise By Belle Calhoune 1/4 4 stars
✔ S Stella Murder at Sunrise Lake By Christine Feehan 8/27 4 stars
✔ T Tabitha Timmons from Along Came a Duke By Elizabeth Boyle 1/2 5 stars
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LET’S TURN PAGES
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021

I didn't make it to 20,000 but I like my progress that I did make. So I think it was a good challenge. Mission completed!!!

I'm in for 20,000

16,253/20,000



Note: I messed up on my calculations......figured that I can get to 20,000 by reading 2, 675 pages the next three months. If I don't , then I can always try again next year :) not sweating this challenge

January
Goal: 1,066
Pages Read: 1,806

Along Came a Duke By Elizabeth Boyle 384 pg. 1/2
An Alaskan Twin Surprise By Belle Calhoune 218 pg. 1/4
Night Song By Beverly Jenkins 384 pg. 1/14
The Unseen World By Liz Moore 451 pg. 1/17
The Governess By Christi Caldwell pg 369 1/25


February
Goal: 1,066
Pages Read: 621 pages

1) Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood By Trevor Noah 2/13 pg. 288
2) Reunion By Alyssa Clark 2/25 pg. 333


March
Goal: 1,066
Pages Read : 2,472

1) Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America By Ijeoma Oluo 336 pg. 3/1
2) What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life by Mark Doty 278 pg. 3/4
3)The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir By Wayétu Moore 251 pg. 3/7
4) Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy By Ben Macintyre 377 pg. 3/19
5)Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars By Francesca Wade 420 pg 3/22
6) Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family By Robert Kolker 400 pg. 3/27
7. Rebecca BY Daphne du Maurier 410 pg. 3/15

April

Goal: 1,066

Pages Read: 726

1) The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power By Deirdre Mask 336 pg. 4/15
2) Ask Again, Yes By Mary Beth Keane 390 pg. 4/20


May

Goal: 1,066
Pages Read: 603

1) Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning By Cathy Park Hong 203 pg. 5/13

2)The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move By Sonia Shah 400 pages 5/24

June
Goal: 1,482
Pages Read: 740

1) The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt By Audrey Clare Farley 292 pg. 6/7

2) The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest By Mark Synnott 448 pg. 6/22

July
Goal: 2,224
Pages Read: 1, 412

1) Survive the Night By Riley Sager 7/7 336 pages.
2) The Maidens By Alex Michaelides 7/13 337 pages
3)The Last Time I Lied By Riley Sager 7/25 384 pages
4) Hostage By Clare Mackintosh 7/30 355 pages


August
Goal : 2,294
Pages Read: 2,088

1) The Ladies of the Secret Circus By Constance Sayers 8/9 448 pages.
2) The Final Girl Support Group By Grady Hendrix 8/10 352 pages
3) A Good Girl's Guide to Murder By Holly Jackson 8/16 390 pages
4) The Silent Wife By Karin Slaughter 8/21 482 pages
5) Murder at Sunrise Lake By Christine Feehan 8/27 416 pages

September

Goal: 1, 272
Pages Read: 1, 509

1) The Third Victim By Lisa Gardner 9/3 369 pages
2) Always Watching By Chevy Stevens 9/10 338 pages
3) Plain Truth By Jodi Picoult 9/16 405 pages
4) Good Girl, Bad Blood 9/25 397 pages


October

Goal: 2,675
Pages Read: 2,075


1) The Night She Disappeared By Lisa Jewell 10/1 401 pages
2) Isn't It Bromantic? By Lyssa Kay Adams 10/8 342 pages
3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd By Agatha Christie 10/13 286 pages.
4) A Lesson in Vengeance By Victoria Lee 10/19 369 pages.
5)The Passengers By John Marrs 10/23 340 pages
6)One Night Gone By Tara Laskowski 10/31 337 pages

November

Goal: 2,675 (3,275)
Pages Read: 757

1) The Exiles By Christina Baker Kline 11/14 400 pg.
2) The Judge's List By John Grisham 11/18 357 pg.

December

Goal : 2,613
Pages Read: 1,444

1) Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince By Lisa Hilton 12/3 384 pages
2) The Death of Jane Lawrence By Caitlin Starling 12/14 362 pages
3) The Grimrose Girls By Laura Pohl 12/22 390 pages
4)A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind By Ann Wolbert Burgess 12/28 308 pages

GENRE BINGO CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021

Challenge completed!!!!!!!


Progress: 25/25
Bingo's: 5/5

My Card


✔ B 1. Historical Nonfiction: Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy By Ben Macintyre 3/19 ⭐ ⭐⭐⭐
✔ B 2. Coming of Age : The Unseen World By Liz Moore 1/17 ⭐⭐ ⭐⭐
✔ B 3. Crime: Plain Truth By Jodi Picoult 9/16 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔ B 4. Memoir Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood By Trevor Noah 2/13 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔ B 5. Magical Realism: A Lesson in Vengeance By Victoria Lee 10/19⭐⭐⭐.5

✔ I 1. ClassicsRebecca By Daphne du Maurier 3/15 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔ I 2. Travel The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest By Mark Synnott 6/22 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔ I 3. Family Saga Ask Again, Yes By Mary Beth Keane 4/20 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔ I 4. Romance The Governess By Christi Caldwell 1/25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔ I 5. Fantasy: The Ladies of the Secret Circus By Constance Sayers 8/9 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

✔ N 1. True Crime: A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind By Ann Wolbert Burgess 12/28 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔ N 2. General NonfictionHidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family By Robert Kolker 3/27 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔ N 3. Free Space Murder at Sunrise Lake By Christine Feehan 8/27 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔ N 4. Historical Fiction: The Exiles By Christina Baker Kline 11/14 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔ N 5. Biography : Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince By Lisa Hilton 12/3 ⭐⭐⭐.5 stars

✔ G 1. Horror ; The Final Girl Support Group By Grady Hendrix ⭐⭐⭐ 8/10
✔ G 2. Suspense The Maidens By Alex Michaelides ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 7/13
✔ G 3. Paranormal:The Death of Jane Lawrence By Caitlin Starling⭐⭐⭐⭐ 12/15
✔ G 4.Detective story : The Murder of Roger Ackroyd By Agatha Christie 10/13 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔ G 5. Young Adult: Good Girl, Bad Blood 9/25 ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5

✔ O 1. Contemporary: One Night Gone By Tara Laskowski 10/31 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔ O 2. Chick Lit: Isn't It Bromantic? By Lyssa Kay Adams 10/8 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔ O 3. Mystery or thriller Survive the Night By Riley Sager 7/7 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔ O 4. YA fantasy: The Grimrose Girls By Laura Pohl 12/22 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
✔ O 5. science fiction: The Passengers By John Marrs 10/23 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐