2015 Reading Challenge [Closed] discussion

Anyone doing any other reading challenges? If so, what are they.

This was the first challenge I've ever started, but I've recently started another one on top of it.

I'm doing an A-Z series challenge where you read one book (or complete the series) for each letter of the alphabet from a series beginning with that letter, title, or author's first/last name.

I'm aiming for the complete the series so I have 143 books chosen. Some of the books are overlapping with this challenge, but other aren't. I'm just hoping I can fit it all in.

Oh, I am doing WAY too many Challenges. Haha. I'm kind of addicted to them.

I'm in the group Novel Books & Reading Challenges, plus a few others. Here is a link to all of the Challenges I'm doing. It makes my head hurt thinking about it sometimes, but I really do have fun doing them. :)

I'm considering also doing a Book Genre Challenge, where every month the group picks a book for a certain genre: mystery, romance, non-fiction, etc.

I'm doing an A-Z authors challenge in addition to this one. I just joined the Novel Books & Reading Challenges group earlier today and am checking out some of those challenges.

Kate wrote: "Oh, I am doing WAY too many Challenges. Haha. I'm kind of addicted to them.

I'm in the group Novel Books & Reading Challenges, plus a few others. Here is a link to all of the Challenges I'm doing..."


Kate! I'm a fellow addict! I've got waaaaay too many going right now but I LOVE it.

I'm involved in challenges in several groups. Here are the groups I'm in:

The Challenge Factory

Crazy Challenge Connection

Crazy for YA Books

2015 Reading Challenges

Jacki wrote: "Kate! I'm a fellow addict! I've got waaaaay too many going right now but I LOVE it.

I'm involved in challenges in several groups. Here are the groups I'm in:"

Sigh. And now you've got me checking out "Crazy Challenge Connection". All your fault. ;)

Aside from this one I'm doing the regulay yearly Goodreads challenge, She Geeks - Strong Female Protagonists Challenge and if I have time the Book Riot read harder challenge and bits and pieces from the Rory Gilmoure reading challenge... I'm trying to hold back from doing too many!

You guys amaze me!

And, impress me!

Wow! I am intrigued by some of these challenges, but I find myself so focused on this one, that I can't do another one until I finish. I am going to try for the Rory Gilmore one though, but that will be more of a lifetime one for me. I want to do between 5 - 10 books a year.

All of these other challenges look so interesting. I can definitely see the appeal of doing more than one at a time, especially if you have books that cross challenges.

I just added one more challenge to my year. Read Your Age - where you read one book published for each year since you were born.

I think three might be my limit for this year.

Ella wrote: "Wow! I am intrigued by some of these challenges, but I find myself so focused on this one, that I can't do another one until I finish. I am going to try for the Rory Gilmore one though, but that ..."

The same here. I've looked at a couple of other challenges and it seems fun, but I'm also too focused on this one, so I haven't found the time to participate in others.
I also find it easier to enter a challenge that has just started. If it has been going on for months or years, I kind of feel like I'm interfering or intruding. I know it sounds foolish :-)

I'm attempting to do a 50 States challenge, one book from each state. That one slightly overlaps the PopSugar challenge.

I'm also looking at the "Best Books of the 20th Century" on listopia and working my way though the top 100.

The other challenge is to finally read the books in my personal library, which at last count was over 200 books...

I'm currently working on ~ 25 different challenges. A few are monthly, good chunk are just for 2015, and several are start at any point and just keep working till you are done. This probably makes it sound a lot harder than it actually is - one book can satisfy the requirements in MANY challenges. I absolutely love having the direction the challenges provide. My To Reads shelf is huge and the challenges give me guidance for picking which books to read next. I've also found that since I started to do challenges I'm not only reading more (already read 41 books this year; I usually average 100 books in prior years w/o challenges) but I'm reading a greater variety. Plus being active in challenges gets me involved in discussions, reviews, etc. Love, love, love it!

I'm a bit addicted to lists, so as well as this challenge, my main reading challenge is to read all of the books on this list here:

http://www.listchallenges.com/kaunism...

Then once I've finished that list (I'm only at 30 so far), I'll pick another Top 100 list and finish that off. Then another, and another, and another ... :)

Jody wrote: "I'm a bit addicted to lists, so as well as this challenge, my main reading challenge is to read all of the books on this list here:

http://www.listchallenges.com/kaunism...

..."

I love this idea! How do you keep track of your progress? Anything on Goodreads?

I keep track of it on the list page, plus on Goodreads I added a BBC-100 shelf, and when I've finished a book on that list I add it to the shelf. :)

I am doing a total of 4 challenges, with an overall goal of reading 300 books by July 2016. I keep track of everything in a Google Doc. 300 Book Challenge

I'm waiting to do the A-Z Reading Challenge when Sue Grafton finishes her Alphabet series ("A is for Alibi", etc.). :) ;)

I have several reading challenges. Here are a few:

1. GoodReads Reading Challenge for 2015
2. PopSugar's 2015 Reading Challenge
3. Banned Books List
4. BBC Big Reads (different from #5)
5. BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books
6. The Complete Dr. Seuss Bibliography
7. Scholastic's 100 Greatest Children's Books

Rebekah, What is the GoodReads Reading Challenge for 2015?

Ella wrote: "Rebekah, What is the GoodReads Reading Challenge for 2015?"

I could be wrong, but I think Rebekah is referring the one on your home page where to put in the number of books you are going to read this year.

OMG, I really need to stop reading challenge boards. I'm up to 4 full year challenges and some monthly ones on top of that.

It is going to be such a fun reading year :)

I was searching an "indie reading challenge" (or self published books RC) but I didn't succeed to find an active one. Maybe I'll do my own challenge with myself :p

Hi! Yes, Ella is correct. It's the GoodReads Reading Challenge in which one enters the number of books one is going to read for the year and try to reach that goal. :)

The good thing about the different reading challenges that I do is that they overlap. LOL. "What? 'The Lorax' is your book-to-movie category book for the PopSugar challenge while you're trying to read all of the Dr. Seuss books? Excellent!"

Ok, then I'm doing the Goodreads one too. I'm trying to do 100 books this year.

LOL -- If I hit "100", THEN I'll change my Challenge number from 52 to 100. ;) I don't want to put too much pressure on myself. LOL

I just decided to do the Read Your Age challenge as well! I just went through and chose books by the publication year so some years I'm reading 3-4 and some I'm just doing 1. So I adjusted my Goodreads goal to 100 books. I've noticed that my amount of reading has increased a TON since starting the challenge. I think as a grad student it was easy to say I was too busy but I'm watching way less TV in my free time and have managed to finish books in 2-2 days (compared to about one book/month before). So it's pretty exciting :)

I'm also not allowing overlap other than the one week of the Popsugar challenge where you read a book from your birth year (that was sort of inevitable)

I might do that Read Your Age Challenge after I finish this one, or do it for next year.

Gah! I was just looking around and found this challenge:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I might do it after this challenge, since I like the Base camp milestones.

Oh! Did I forget to post the link to the website that has tons of lists? I'm sorry. It includes different topics (BOOKS, movies, food, travel, and other). If find it very useful and frustrating in the fact that there are TONS of book lists to attempt. LOL Enjoy!

http://www.listchallenges.com/

r/Fantasy group on reddit just launched its Reading Bingo, so I'm totally in as I've lots of fantasy books as side-reads and some categories do well with our challenge too. It will be fun to do a bingo :)
http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comme...

I do the Goodreads challenge, and have that at 45 books for the year.

I am also doing the Book Riot Read Harder challenge, which I think is a really great way to diversify my reading. It's opened my eyes to some brilliant writers I may not have picked up before. http://bookriot.com/2014/12/15/book-r...

I'm doing a few challenges in the Bookworm Belles group, including the 10-15 series challenge and the Build-A-Body challenge.

One of the many book challenges I am doing is the Rory Gilmore book challenge. There is a list of all the book titles Rory reads through out the entire show.

I'm doing the Rory Gilmore one too, although, that's a lifetime challenge for me. I plan on doing 5-10 a year on that list.

I'm doing the a-z challenge, the listopia challenge, the readwomen challenge, the debut novel challenge, and the read harder challenge in the 2015 reading challenges group. I'm also slowly working on the BBC 200 challenge, the Rory Gilmore challenge, and 1001 books to read before you die. This will probably take years but I'm attempting to read a few each year.

Is the A-Z challenge on goodreads or with another group??

Joann, I think it's the A-Z from this group: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
I check some of their challenges, there are interesting ideas :)

I really need to slow down. I'm up to 8 full year challenges, a couple seasonal ones and about 4 different monthly ones. The only saving grace is that I can generally choose books that cross challenges.

.•*¨`*•✿ ✿•*¨`*•. Christine .•*¨`*•✿ ✿•*¨`*• wrote: "I really need to slow down. I'm up to 8 full year challenges, a couple seasonal ones and about 4 different monthly ones. The only saving grace is that I can generally choose books that cross chal..."

Wow! I don't know where you find them all. My goal is 100 books so I'm doing this one, A-Z titles and A-Z authors (just on my own) and skipping the "hard" letters. I'd be interested in you sharing with us which ones you'll be doing in 2016 as I will likely be looking for something new then.

You can find tons of book lists at www.listchallenges.com

I am doing too many challenges after vowing not to do so many, but I keep seeing ones and I just have to do them. I'm a challenge addict, maybe we should start a help group for us addicts :)

Ella wrote: "Gah! I was just looking around and found this challenge:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I might do it after this challenge, since I like the Base c..."

Oh this is a good one! I have loads of books on my TBR list so this challenge will help! Might do this one in 2016

I've decided to do an A-Z challenge with my side reads, and then hopefully finish it off once I'm done with the Popsugar challenge. I've only got four left, so it should give me about three months to finish off the A-Z challenge too. Although, one of my remaining Popsugar books is War and Peace ... so who knows when I'll finish that bad boy.