2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Aiming to read 60 books this year.

good luck Amanda!

Thank you!

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling 5 stars 4/1/22
2. Onmacht by Charles den Tex 3 stars 8/1/22
3. Christmas Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella 3 stars 9/1/22
4. The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket 3 stars 20/1/22
5. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier 3 stars 20/1/22
6. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi 4 stars 23/1/22
7. The Midnight Folk by John Masefield 3 stars 26/1/22
8. Swimming Pool Sunday by Madeleine Wickham 3 stars 1/2/22
9. Normal People by Sally Rooney 4 stars 4/2/22
10. The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine by Alexander McCall Smith 4 stars 8/2/22
11. The Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann 5 stars 10/2/22
12. Wrapped Town and Other Stories by Jules Horne 4 stars 20/2/22
13. Life Support by Tess Gerritsen 4 stars 3/3/22
14. The Boy Between Worlds by Annejet van der Zijl 4 stars 12/3/22
15. The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman 4 stars 22/3/22
16. Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourselves, One Rainy Day at a Time by Rob Temple 4 stars 25/3/22
17. Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters 3 stars 29/3/22
18. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata 3 stars 1/4/22
19. Rebecca's World by Terry Nation 4 stars 12/4/22
20. Angels by Marian Keyes 3 stars 17/4/22
21. The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well by Meik Wiking 4 stars 18/4/22
22. Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes 3 stars 29/4/22
23. The Shooting Star by Herge 3 stars 29/4/22
24. The Big Four by Agatha Christie 4 stars 3/5/22
25. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht 4 stars 7/5/22
26. Neither here Nor there: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson 4 stars 3/5/22
27. Distant Shores by Kristin Hannah 3 stars 1/6/22
28. Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman 4 stars 6/6/22
29. The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis 3 stars 12/6/22
30. The Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller 4 stars 26/6/22
31. Komijnsplitsers by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld 4 stars 27/6/22
32. The To-Do List by Mike Gayle 3 stars 19/7/22
33. Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff 4 stars 6/8/22
34. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 5 stars 12/8/22
35. King Ottokar's Sceptre by Hergé 3 stars 14/8/22
36. Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan 3 stars 24/8/22
37. Girls' Night In 2 stars 30/8/22
38. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger 3 stars 24/9/22
39. The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket 3 stars 1/10/22
40. For One More Day by Mitch Albom 4 stars 8/10/22
41. Espedair Street by Iain Banks 3 stars 13/10/22
42. Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers 2 stars 24/11/22
43. Poems of the Great War 1914-1918 4 stars 30/11/22
44. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss 4 stars 14/12/22
45. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 5 stars 18/12/22
46. The Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann 5 stars 27/12/22
47. A Dangerous Game by Friedrich Durrenmatt 4 stars 31/12/22

1.


Book Read: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
Rating: 5 stars
Read: 4th January 2022
Language: English
Pages: 607
Type: Hardback
Bought: 2007
Date added to Goodreads: 23rd August 2015
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Keeping
Reason for Reading: Finish my re-read of Harry Potter

2.


Book Read: Onmacht by Charles den Tex
Rating: 3 stars
Read: 8th January 2022
Language: Dutch
Pages: 92
Type: Paperback
Date added to Goodreads: 19th January 2016
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Donating
Reason for Reading: Short book in Dutch

3.


Book Read: Christmas Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Rating: 3 stars
Read: 9th January 2022
Language: English
Pages: 427
Type: Paperback
Bought: December 2020
Date added to Goodreads: 6th December 2020
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Donating
Reason for Reading: Christmas vibes.

4.


Book Read: The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket
Rating: 3 stars
Read: 20th January 2022
Language: English
Pages: 256
Type: Paperback
Bought or Borrowed: Borrowed
Date added to Goodreads: 6th March 2018
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Reason for Reading: To continue the series.

5.


Book Read: Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Rating: 3 stars
Read: 20th January 2022
Language: Dutch Meisje met de parel
Pages: 233
Type: Ebook
Date added to Goodreads: 22nd June 2018
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Reason for Reading: Read it on phone on way to work. Not so long. Saw the film a while ago.

6.


Book Read: Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Rating: 4 stars
Read: 23rd January 2022
Language: English
Pages: 213
Type: Paperback
Bought: December 2021
Date added to Goodreads: 27th December 2021
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Keeping
Reason for Reading: Was intrigued about the story. Want to read more Japanese authors.

7.


Book Read: The Midnight Folk by John Masefield
Rating: 3 stars
Read: 26th January 2022
Language: English
Pages: 299
Type: Paperback
Bought: 2015
Date added to Goodreads: 27th August 2015
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: 2020: Books Desperate to Read
Keeping or Donating: Donating
Reason for Reading: Wanted to read the companion book to The Box of Delights, a BBC series I loved as a child.

8.


Book Read: Swimming Pool Sunday by Madeleine Wickham
Rating: 3 stars
Read: 1st February 2022
Language: Dutch Het zwemfeestje
Pages: 287
Type: Paperback
Bought: 2013 - 2015
Date added to Goodreads: 22nd August 2015
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: 2019: Last A to Z, 2021: TBR Randomiser
Keeping or Donating: Donating
Reason for Reading: Another Sophie Kinsella book. This book was written under her real name before the Shopaholic series.

9.


Book Read: Normal People by Sally Rooney
Rating: 4 stars
Read: 4th February 2022
Language: English
Pages: 266
Type: Paperback
Bought or Borrowed: Borrowed
Date added to Goodreads: 7th June 2021
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Reason for Reading: Wanted to read something by Sally Rooney.

10.


Book Read: The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine by Alexander McCall Smith
Rating: 4 stars
Read: 8th February 2022
Language: English
Pages: 246
Type: Paperback
Bought: 12th July 2021, Second-hand bookshop Amsterdam
Date added to Goodreads: 13th July 2021
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Keeping
Reason for Reading: Was in the mood for some Alexander McCall Smith.

11.


Book Read: The Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann
Rating: 5 stars
Read: 10th February 2022
Language: English
Pages: 96
Type: Hardback
Bought: November 2021, Blackwell's Edinburgh
Date added to Goodreads: 13th December 2021
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Keeping
Reason for Reading: This book is so beautiful with lovely illustrations by Sanna Annukka. Read it for the winter prompt for the Winter Olympicsathon.

12.


Book Read: Wrapped Town and Other Stories by Jules Horne
Rating: 4 stars
Read: 20th February 2022
Language: English
Pages: 255
Type: Paperback
Date added to Goodreads: 19th February 2017
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Keeping
Reason for Reading: 5 colours on the cover prompt for the Winter Olympicsathon.

13.


Book Read: Life Support by Tess Gerritsen
Rating: 4 stars
Read: 3rd March 2022
Language: Dutch Diagnose besmet
Pages: 301
Type: Paperback
Bought: Between 2012 and 2015
Date added to Goodreads: 14th October 2015
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Donating
Reason for Reading: The writing is small so I wanted to read it sooner rather than later.

14.


Book Read: The Boy Between Worlds by Annejet van der Zijl
Rating: 4 stars
Read: 12th March 2022
Language: Dutch Sonny Boy
Pages: 212
Type: Paperback
Bought: King's Day April 2016
Date added to Goodreads: 26th April 2016
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: 2019: A to Z authors
Keeping or Donating: Donating
Reason for Reading: Dutch book for Globetrotterathon. Interested in the story. Already seen the film.

15.


Book Read: The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
Rating: 4 stars
Read: 22nd March 2022
Language: English
Pages: 461
Type: Paperback
Bought: December 2017
Date added to Goodreads: 1st March 2016
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Donating
Reason for Reading: Globetrotterathon: water word, Roll of Reads Readathon: Australian author

16.


Book Read: Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourselves, One Rainy Day at a Time by Rob Temple
Rating: 4 stars
Read: 25th March 2022
Language: English
Pages: 221
Type: Paperback
Bought: December 2017
Date added to Goodreads: 29th December 2017
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Donating
Reason for Reading: Buzzwordathon: pronoun

17.


Book Read: Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
Rating: 3 stars
Read: 29th March 2022
Language: English
Pages: 296
Type: Paperback
Bought: December 2020
Date added to Goodreads: 29th December 2020
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Keeping
Reason for Reading: Globetrotterathon: Egypt

18.


Book Read: Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Rating: 3 stars
Read: 1st April 2022
Language: English
Pages: 163
Type: Paperback
Bought: Waterstones Edinburgh, November 2021
Date added to Goodreads: 13th December 2021
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Donating
Reason for Reading: Globetrotterathon: Japan and Translated Work.

19.


Book Read: Rebecca's World by Terry Nation
Rating: 4 stars
Read: 12th April 2022
Language: English
Pages: 127
Type: Paperback
Bought: primary school
Date added to Goodreads: 4th January 2019
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Keeping
Reason for Reading: Re-read was overdue.

20.


Book Read: Angels by Marian Keyes
Rating: 3 stars
Read: 17th April 2022
Language: English
Pages: 482
Type: Paperback
Bought: Between 2004 - 2007
Date added to Goodreads: 1st September 2015
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Donating
Reason for Reading: Marian Keyes is one of the authors I want to read more books of this year.

21.


Book Read: The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well by Meik Wiking
Rating: 4 stars
Read: 18th April 2022
Language: English
Pages: 285
Type: Hardback
Bought: December 2016
Date added to Goodreads: 26th January 2017
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Keeping
Reason for Reading: Eurovisionathon: Denmark, Booktube Spin, Buzzwordathon: big or small

22.


Book Read: Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes
Rating: 3 stars
Read: 29th April 2022
Language: English
Pages: 456
Type: Paperback
Bought: Between 2008 and 2015, Book fair
Date added to Goodreads: 1st September 2015
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Donating
Reason for Reading: Reading more Marian Keyes. Eurovisionathon: Ireland

23.


Book Read: The Shooting Star by Herge
Rating: 3 stars
Read: 29th April 2022
Language: Dutch De geheimzinnige ster
Pages: 62
Type: Comic
Bought or Borrowed: Borrowed
Date added to Goodreads: 21st March 2018
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: 2018: Particular: French
Reason for Reading: Eurovisionathon: Belgium

24.


Book Read: The Big Four by Agatha Christie
Rating: 4 stars
Read: 3rd May 2022
Language: English
Pages: 159
Type: Paperback
Bought: 12th July 2021, second-hand bookshop Amsterdam
Date added to Goodreads: 13th July 2021
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Donating
Reason for Reading: Eurovisionathon: U.K.

25.


Book Read: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
Rating: 4 stars
Read: 7th May 2022
Language: Dutch De weerstaanbare opkomst van Arturo Ui
Pages: 169
Type: Paperback
Bought or Borrowed: Borrowed from little free library
Date added to Goodreads: 14th June 2017
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: 2018: Particular: German
Keeping or Donating: Donating
Reason for Reading: Eurovisionathon: Germany

26.


Book Read: Neither here Nor there: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
Rating: 4 stars
Read: 14th May 2022
Language: English
Pages: 304
Type: Paperback
Bought: 2004
Date added to Goodreads: 23rd August 2015
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Donating
Reason for Reading: Eurovisionathon: The Netherlands

27.


Book Read: Distant Shores by Kristin Hannah
Rating: 3 stars
Read: 1st June 2022
Language: Dutch In het daglicht
Pages: 319
Type: Paperback
Bought: December 2016
Date added to Goodreads: 15th December 2016
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Donating
Reason for Reading: A book from my these books will self-destruct in a year.

28.


Book Read: Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Osman
Rating: 4 stars
Read: 6th June 2022
Language: English
Pages: 278
Type: Graphic Novel ebook
Bought: 5th June 2022
Date added to Goodreads: 5th June 2022
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Reason for Reading: Whateverathon: Host Fave

29.


Book Read: The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
Rating: 3 stars
Read: 12th June 2022
Language: English
Pages: 237
Type: Paperback
Bought: 2002
Date added to Goodreads: 1st December 2015
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Keeping
Reason for Reading: Continuing the Chronicles of Narnia series.

30.


Book Read: The Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller
Rating: 4 stars
Read: 26th June 2022
Language: English
Pages: 352
Type: Paperback
Bought: December 2017
Date added to Goodreads: 24th May 2016
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Donating
Reason for Reading: Whateverathon: Pride

31.


Book Read: Komijnsplitsers by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
Rating: 4 stars
Read: 27th June 2022
Language: Dutch
Pages: 103
Type: Poetry Paperback
Bought: 25th February 2022, Broese Utrecht
Date added to Goodreads: 25th February 2022
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Keeping
Reason for Reading: Whateverathon: Pride

32.


Book Read: The To-Do List by Mike Gayle
Rating: 3 stars
Read: 19th July 2022
Language: English
Pages: 343
Type: Paperback
Bought: Between 2008 + 2015
Date added to Goodreads: 20th October 2015
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Donating
Reason for Reading: Like lists. Like Mike Gayle.

33.


Book Read: Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Rating: 4 stars
Read: 6th August 2022
Language: English
Pages: 599
Type: Paperback
Bought: 9th May, 2021, Broese Utrecht
Date added to Goodreads: 9th May 2021
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Keeping
Reason for Reading: Interested to read mixed media. Heard a lot of positive things about this book.

34.


Book Read: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Rating: 5 stars
Read: 12th August 2022
Language: English
Pages: 172
Type: Paperback
Bought: December 2016
Date added to Goodreads: 31st December 2016
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Keeping
Reason for Reading: Re-reading a favourite.

35.


Book Read: King Ottokar's Sceptre by Hergé
Rating: 3 stars
Read: 14th August 2022
Language: English
Pages: 62
Type: Comic
Bought or Borrowed: Borrowed
Date added to Goodreads: 21st March 2018
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Reason for Reading: Wanted to read another Tintin adventure.

36.


Book Read: Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Rating: 3 stars
Read: 24th August 2022
Language: English
Pages: 288
Type: Paperback
Bought: January 2016
Date added to Goodreads: 15th January 2016
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: 2020: Books Desperate to Read
Keeping or Donating: Donating
Reason for Reading: Wanted to read a book about a bookshop.

37.


Book Read: Girls' Night In
Rating: 2 stars
Read: 30th August 2022
Language: English
Pages: 586
Type: Paperback
Bought: 2006
Date added to Goodreads: 21st October 2015
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: 2016: Oldest Books
Keeping or Donating: Donating
Reason for Reading: On my shelf for a long time.

38.


Book Read: Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Rating: 3 stars
Read: 24th September 2022
Language: English
Pages: 386
Type: Paperback
Bought: 2015
Date added to Goodreads: 19th January 2016
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Donating
Reason for Reading: Loved the Time Traveler's Wife so wanted to read something else by Audrey Niffenegger.

39.


Book Read: The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket
Rating: 3 stars
Read: 1st October 2022
Language: English
Pages: 255
Type: Hardback
Bought or Borrowed: Borrowed
Date added to Goodreads: 6th March 2018
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Reason for Reading: Continue the series.

40.


Book Read: For One More Day by Mitch Albom
Rating: 4 stars
Read: 8th October 2022
Language: English
Pages: 197
Type: Hardback
Bought: 2012
Date added to Goodreads: 23rd June 2018
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Donating
Reason for Reading: Was in the mood to read it.

41.


Book Read: Espedair Street by Iain Banks
Rating: 3 stars
Read: 13th October 2022
Language: English
Pages: 249
Type: Paperback
Bought: 2000
Date added to Goodreads: 25th August 2015
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Donating
Reason for Reading: Wanted to read Iain Banks.

42.


Book Read: Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers
Rating: 2 stars
Read: 24th November 2022
Language: English
Pages: 363
Type: Paperback
Bought: December 2019 second-hand bookshop Amsterdam
Date added to Goodreads: 16th December 2019
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Donating
Reason for Reading: Never read Dorothy L. Sayers.

43.


Book Read: Poems of the Great War 1914-1918
Rating: 4 stars
Read: 30th November 2022
Language: English
Pages: 144
Type: Paperback
Bought: 2019
Date added to Goodreads: 24th October 2022
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Keeping
Reason for Reading: Interested in World War One.

44.


Book Read: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss
Rating: 4 stars
Read: 14th December 2022
Language: English
Pages: 56
Type: Picture Book
Bought or Borrowed: Borrowed
Date added to Goodreads: 13th December 2020
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Reason for Reading: Christmas vibes.

45.


Book Read: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Rating: 5 stars
Read: 18th December 2022
Language: English
Pages: 85
Type: Paperback
Bought: December 2020
Date added to Goodreads: 27th March 2016
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Keeping
Reason for Reading: Christmas vibes

46.


Book Read: The Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann
Rating: 5 stars
Read: 27th December 2022
Language: English
Pages: 96
Type: Hardback
Bought: November 2021
Date added to Goodreads: 13th December 2021
Last 6 Years' Leftovers: No
Keeping or Donating: Keeping
Reason for Reading: Christmas vibes