2025 Reading Challenge discussion

LET’S ROLL THE CREDITS
Duration: October 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019

It’s the last quarter and we’re wrapping things up and revisiting favorite challenges from earlier in the year. This is your opportunity to complete your active challenges, repeat an earlier favorite challenge, or try a challenge that you missed.

Make a list of all the unfinished tasks you would like to complete as well as the challenge they are from. Let us know the total number of books AND the total number of challenges you are looking to complete.
--You may include challenges from our group and any outside or personal challenges you are completing. This may include challenges you started previously as well as new challenges you’ll finish this quarter.
--You may use the same book to complete tasks from different challenges but may not use the same book within a challenge unless that challenge explicitly allows this.
--If your challenge does not include specific tasks (e.g., Let's Turn Pages, Serial Reader) you may simply list the name of the challenge and the number of pages or books, etc. that you need to complete for that challenge.

When updating, include the following information:
0/X Books Read | 0/X Challenges Completed
--Replace "X" with your goal number.
--Optional: Include other criteria you’re tracking (e.g., number of pages, countries visited, etc.). The challenge leader will put an asterisk (*) next to your name if you are tracking additional information so members can look at your posts to follow along; however, the leader will not track this information in the participant list.

Finished all of your challenges? Take this time to read the books you wanted to read this year but missed or didn't have an excuse to read. Or, read books that match your favorite prompts from the year.

Blagica will be leading this challenge.

Updated as of 12/31/19
Name Books Goal | Challenges Goal
Lindsay 0 of 8 | 0 of 10
Rachael 12 of 12 | 2of 2
 Lynn 0 of X | 0 of 5
Kelly 8 of 15 | 1 of 8
Megan 16 of 16 | 5 of 5
Debra 31 of 34 | 2 of 4
oshizu 25 of 25 | 9 of 9
Jennifer 1 of 15 | 0 of X
Crystal 10 of 13 | 3 of 6
Catka 41 of 40 | 6 of 6
Jennifer 0 of X | 2 of 7
Janine 16 of 16 | 5 of 5
TerryJane 22 of 22 | 1 of 1
Carmen 81 of 81 | 15 of 15
SarahKat 20 of 20 | 4 of 4
Kristin 0 of X | 0 of 9
Suzanne 0 of 12 | 0 of 2
Lucian 1 of 10 | 0 of 5
Sunny 22 of 22 | 4 of 4
Diane 1 of 9 | 0 of 5
Jennifer 0 of 6 | 0 of 3
Megan BG  7 of 21 | 1 of 5
Aubrey 1 of 9 | 0 of 6
 Anissa 0 of 5 | 0 of 1
Willemijn 0 of 7 | 0 of 3
 Jennifer 3 of 15 | 0 of X
Sarah 62 of 62 | 14 of 14
Suzanne 0 of X | 0 of 1



Please let me know if I missed anything welcome to all new participants!

I have 8 books to read to finish my challenge.

I have 31 prompts to complete.

TBR Jar
✅1 Cabin Fever: The Sizzling Secrets of a Virgin Air Hostess
✅2 A Stolen Life
✅3 Alice
4 The Killing

A-Z Stage Edition
E Emma
K The Killing
M Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Q Queen Sugar
✅S A Stolen Life
U ?
V ?

Serial Reader
1 United as One
2 Children of the Mind
3 The Hanging Tree
4 Lies Sleeping
✅5 Kiss Me There
6 Time Stands Still

💯#ownvoices
✅1 A Stolen Life

💯Read & Go
✅1 A Darker Domain

💯Colour Challenge
✅1 The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder

Pop Sugar
✅1 Easy Connections
2 Queen Sugar
✅3 Alice
✅4 What? Dead Again?
✅5 Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet
6 Emma
7 The Wonder

💯Genre Bingo
✅1 True Crime A Stolen Life
✅2 Retellings Alice

An Author's Works
1 The Hanging Tree

Listopia
1 Emma

I will need to read 21 books to complete all my outstanding prompts.

I have 267 pages to read to achieve my target.

I have 12 books left to read to meet my overall goal so that is going to be my aim for this quarterly challenge.
7 of my books are going to be physical books to help me finish my Clear the Shelves challenge.
I might also see if I can do some of the Color Challenge too which is a challenge I have enjoyed previously but didn't sign up for in 2019. [For reference: read books with white, pink, red orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue, purple, brown, black, or metallic in their covers]

12/12 books read | 2/2 challenges completed
1. The Colour of Magic (Color Challenge: yellow) finished 3 October, ⭐⭐⭐ with review
2. The Secret Commonwealth (Color Challenge: red) finished 8 October, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
3. A Secret History of Witches (Color Challenge: black, Clear the Shelves) finished 18 October, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. Fevre Dream (Color Challenge: dark blue, Clear the Shelves) finished 23 October, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
5. Tombland (Color Challenge: light blue) finished 29 October, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
6. The Fourteenth Letter (Color Challenge: white, Clear the Shelves) finished 6 November, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
7. Dream a Little Dream (Color Challenge: orange, Clear the Shelves)
finished 9 November, ⭐⭐⭐ with review
8. The Institute (Color Challenge: purple, Clear the Shelves) finished 14 November, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
9. The Stranger Diaries (Color Challenge: green, Clear the Shelves) finished 16 November, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
10. Eve of Man (Color Challenge: metallic, Clear the Shelves) finished 21 November, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
11. The Stars Never Rise (Color Challenge: pink, Clear the Shelves) finished 23 November, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
12. The Lost Library (Color Challenge: brown, Clear the Shelves) finished 28 November, ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Ugh! Accountability... ;)

Update January 7, 2020: I failed at completing these challenges, but am reading the books in 2020 and counting them for those challenges, while also documenting them on my own records so I'll know when I've completed the challenges, though late--that's better than NEVER!

LET’S ROLL THE CREDITS
Duration: October 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019

Popsugar
39/50 as of December 31
There are 11 prompts to be completed:

✔️(1) #5 A book with at least one million ratings:
The Handmaid's Tale
Finished 9-27--5/5 stars

(2) #7 Reread of a favorite book:
The Art of Racing in the Rain
I missed seeing the movie in theaters so now I will have to watch it online!

✔️(3) #10 A book with POP, SUGAR, or CHALLENGE in the title:
Hop On Pop
December 31--5/5 stars

(4) #13 A book published posthumously:
Suite Française
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

(5) #14 A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie:
To Kill a Mockingbird

(6) #15 A retelling of a classic:
Unmarriageable-Pride and Prejudice
Lavinia-Aeneid
The Mere Wife-Beowolf

(7) #16 A book with a question in the title:
Who Asked You?
"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity
What is a Refugee?

(8) #17 A book set on a college or university campus:
When Dimple Met Rishi
The Secret History

(9) #22 A book with SALTY, SWEET, BITTER, or SPICY in the title:
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

✔️(10) #42 A choose-your-own-adventure book:
Treasures of the Forgotten City

(11) #45 A litRPG book:
Otherworld

(12 & 13) #47 and #48 Two books that share the same title:
The Beach House
The Beach House

(14) #50 A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent:
Holy Fools
In the Bleak Midwinter

ATY
51/52 as of December 30
There is 1 prompt to be completed:

✔️(1) #5 A book by Shakespeare or inspired by Shakespeare:
Wise Children

✔️(2) #21 A book from one of the ATY polarizing or close call votes: Lesser Known Books:
Excellent Women
December 30--5/5 stars

(3) #37 A book set in a school or university:
When Dimple Met Rishi
The Secret History

RHC
20/24 as of December 20
There are 4 prompts to be completed:

✔️(1) #6 A book by an AOC set in or about space:
Binti
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

(2) #7 An #ownvoices book set in Mexico or Central America:
The Murmur of Bees
The House of Broken Angels

(3) #9 A book published prior to January 1, 2019, with fewer than 100 reviews on 카지노싸이트:
Falsipedies and Fibsiennes

(4) #16 A historical romance by an AOC:
A Study in Scarlet Women

(5) #17 A business book:
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

✔️(6) #19 A book of nonviolent true crime:
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
January 4--5/5 stars

✔️(7) A comic by an LGBTQIA creator:
Black Panther: World of Wakanda

Reading Women
18/26 completed as of September 24
There are 9 prompts to be completed:

(1) #1 A mystery or thriller written by a woman of color:
*A Study in Scarlet Women
The Monogram Murders
Pleasantville

✔️(2) #3 A book by an author from Nigeria or New Zealand:
The Whale Rider
Purple Hibiscus
Americanah

(3) #10 A book about a woman athlete:
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina

✔️(4) #12 A Lambda Literary Award winner:
George
Lambda Literary Award Winner LGBT Children's/Young Adult 2016

(5) #14 A translated book published before 1945:
Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels
After Midnight
Claudine at School

(6) #15 A book written by a South Asian author (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhatan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka)
The Lowland
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

(7) #17 A book from the 2018 Reading Women Award shortlist:
Educated
Fruit of the Drunken Tree

(8) #24 A Young Adult book written by a female of color:
Children of Virtue and Vengeance

(9) #25 A book by Jesmyn Ward:
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about
Race

(10) #26 A book by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Lowland

2019 Back to the Classics
4/12 categories satisfied
8 more categories to be completed
(Ack! As you can see, the classics are difficult for me to actually rotate into my reading schedule!)

(1) #1 19th Century classic: published between 1800 and 1899
The Moonstone
Good Wives
Wives and Daughters

(2) #4 Classic in Translation
Love in the Time of Cholera

(3) #5 Classic Comic Novel
Excellent Women
Cold Comfort Farm
Three Men in a Boat

(4) #7 Very Long Classic
Middlemarch

(5) #9 Classic from the Americas (including the Caribbean)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Chronicle of a Death Foretold

(6) #10 Classic from Africa, Asia, or Oceania (includes Australia)
Things Fall Apart
Burger's Daughter
Occasion for Loving
The Lying Days
World of Strangers

(7) #11 Classic From a Place You've Lived
Freckles

This is a great year end quarterly challenge!

1. I have 9 books left to meet my revised goal of 80.
Now 7:


2. I have 3 books left to complete my yearly genre bingo card for my local book club.
-Historical fiction set pre-1000AD
-A book about travel
-A short Story Collection

3."An Author's Works" yearly challenge- I still have 2 more titles needed to complete my goal

4. I did not complete the April Shakespeare challenge- I need to finish Romeo and Juliet

5. I will read at least 2 books for monthly challenges and/or group reads or buddy reads for each of October, November, and December
October: Trick or Treat challenge:

6. I will read at least 1 book that needs to be returned to a friend who lent it to me

7. I need 1 more title to complete the "Serial Reader" yearly challenge

8. At least 1 Epic novel- 700+ pages

Oh, I really like the idea for this challenge.

I have 2 yearly challenges I have to finish, Popsugar (currently at 20/25 read) and Clear the Shelves (currently at 20/30 read).

I would like to finish 2 previous quarterly challenges I missed.

Q1 -- I need to read 3/6 Giller Prize nominee books
Q2 -- I need to read 5/6 Globetrotting prompts

I have 1 monthly challenge to finish.

April -- I need to read 2/3 Feeling Fraternal books.

So the totals are 5 challenges and 25 books... except I am completely and utterly going to make some of my books do double-duty and the real total should only be half of that.

Books read as of Dec 31:



Q1 - Giller Prize
1. 419 by Will Ferguson
2. The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji
3. Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje

Q2 - Globetrotters
1. Less by Andrew Sean Greer (For prompt #1: Wanderlust)
2. The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji (for prompt #17: Minority Voices)
3. Passing Strange by Ellen Klages (for prompt #8: Fictionalized History)
4. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (for prompt #16: Home away from home)
5. China Dream by Ma Jian (for prompt #14: World Traveller)

April - Feeling Fraternal
1. The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji (for prompt #5: Blood is Thicker)
2. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (For prompt #7: Twinning is winning)


Popsugar
1. Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq (For prompt 3: Written by a musician)
2. All My Friends Are Superheroes7372] by Andrew Kaufman (For prompt 18: Character with superpower)
3. Ayesha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin (For prompt 34: Includes a wedding)
4. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (For prompt 36: A ghost story)
5. Bitter Poison by Margaret Mayhew (For prompt 22: "Bitter" in title)

Clear The Shelves
1. 419 by Will Ferguson
2. Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw
3. The Suicide Murders: A Benny Cooperman Mystery by Howard Engel
4. All My Friends Are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman
5. The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji
6. The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios bt Yann Martel
7. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
8. Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
9. Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance by Matthew Kneale
10. The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett

I want to finish yearly challenges of

An Authors works - 8 books
Janet Evanovich
1.One for the Money 3/17/19 4 stars
2.Two for the Dough 5/31/19 4 stars
3.Three to Get Deadly6/6/19 4 stars
4.Four to Score 8/30/19 4 stars
5.High Five11/24/19 4 stars
Sue Grafton
1. F is for Fugitive2/24/19 4 stars
2.G is for Gumshoe3/26/19 3 stars
3.H is for Homicide4/22/19 4 stars
4.
5.
Dean Koontz
1.Intensity1/25/19 5 stars
2.Odd Thomas2/11/19 4 stars
3.Lightning5/27/19 5 stars
4.Watchers9/20/19 4 stars
5.False Memory 10/20/19 4 stars

color challenge - completed
1. White- Vox 4/24/19
2. Pink -Smothered 3/28/19
3.Red - Christine 10/24/19
4.Orange - There There2/4/19
5. Yellow - The Spies That Bind 5/10/19
6.Green - G is for Gumshoe 3/26/19
7.Light Blue - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 5/28/19
8. Dark Blue -The Promise 6/8/19
9. Purple - Odd Thomas2/11/19
10. Brown - Hallowe'en Party 6/8/19
11. Black- Beautiful Creatures 4/7/19
12. Metallic color -Rose in a Storm 11/15/19

13. 5 colors -Three to Get Deadly 6/6/19

14. geometric pattern - Kiss Me, Kill Me and Other True Cases 10/17/1
15. ugly cover. - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 11/17

16. two or more color words in the title - The Rose Red Reaper 3/3/19
17. Color” in the title. -The Color of Magic 2/22/19
18. Read a book with a word describing color in the title -Cold Jade 5/31/19

clear the shelves - completed

Sign me up for 20 physical and 50 ebooks

Physical
1.There There
2.Vox
3.Smothered
4.Watchers
5.Sleeping Beauties
6.Blood Sisters
7.Darkness
8.The Hate U Give
9.The Fix
10.Imperfect Justice
11.The Outsider
12.But I Trusted You and Other True Cases
13.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
14.One of Us Is Lying
15.Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal
16.Christine
17.The Chemist
18.False Memory
19.Kiss Me, Kill Me and Other True Cases
20.Lightning

Kindle
1.Murder In The Library
2.Milkshake, Rattle & Roll
3.The Bonfires of Beltane
4.The Night Circus
5.Maybe Someday
6.Safe Haven
7.'Salem's Lot
8.Beauty and the Beast
9.Visions
1.Consequences
11.The Last Order
12.You Saw Too Much
13.Remember Me
14.Second Segment
15.The Event
16.Psycho
17.Losing Hope
18.Mom of the Year
19.Murder At The Fourth: A Forest Pines Mystery
20.All Together Dead
21.G is for Gumshoe
22.H is for Homicide
23.Wolf Signs
24.Glory in Death
25.November 9
26.It Ends with Us
27.The Golden Lily
28.If You See Kay Run
29.Beautiful Creatures
30.The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker
31.Give Me
32.Curiosity Killed The Cat
33.Murder Under a Mystic Moon
34.House Rules
35.Deadly Little Secret
36.The Simple Soul of Susan
37.The Lucky One
38.A Man Walks Into A Hardware Store
39.Bonk: The Curious Coupling of 카지노싸이트 and Sex
40.The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
41.Scarlet
42.One for the Money
43.First Promise
44.Wicked Ties
45.Torment
46.Maybe Now
47.Maybe Not
48.I'd Know You Anywhere
49.Fated: Cinderella's Story
50.The Playing Card Killer

Bingo- 7 books
B1- Déjà Dead
B2- One for the Money
B3- Pretties
B4- NOS4A2
B5-A Hunger Like No Other
I1- What Alice Forgot
I2- Definitely Dead
I3-East of Eden
I4-The Night Circus
I5-We Were Liars
N1-Odd Thomas
N2-The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
N3-Free Space
N4- Where She Went
N5-In a Glass Darkly
G1- Final Girls
G2- The Ocean at the End of the Lane
G3- American Assassin
G4- Cat's Cradle
G5- The Lucky One
O1- The Breakdown
O2-The Demon-Born Trilogy
O3- It Ends with Us
O4- Carry On
O5-Ember

Total books to read 34 books

Thank you for leading, Blagica!
Please sign me up for 25 unique books and 9 challenges.

Note: The 25 linked books are unique reads. Non-linked books are "multi-duty reads."
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PROGRESS: 25/25 books (9/9 challenges)

📗2019 Personal Challenge: 6/6 (136/140)
✔️135. Certain Dark Things
✔️136. The Bands of Mourning
✔️137. Brownies and Broomsticks
✔️138. The Leavers
✔️139. Death at La Fenice
✔️140. Why Mermaids Sing
✔️148. Recursion

📗Serial Reader: 4/4 (56/60)
✔️57. The Bands of Mourning
✔️58. Brownies and Broomsticks
✔️59. Death at La Fenice
✔️60. Why Mermaids Sing

📗An Author's Work: 6/6 (34/40)
✔️35. Certain Dark Things
✔️36. Bands of Mourning
✔️37. Why Mermaids Sing
✔️38. Secret History
✔️39. Gods of Jade and Shadow
✔️40. Where Serpents Sleep

📗Reading Food: 2/3 (9/12)
✔️10. Oct: Brownies and Broomsticks
✔️11. Nov: Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
✔️12. Dec: Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise

📗Calendar of Crime: 8/8 (28/36)
✔️29. Brownies and Broomsticks
✔️30. Death at La Fenice
✔️31. Why Mermaids Sing
✔️32. Penance
✔️33 In the Woods
✔️34. Arsenic and Old Paint
✔️35. Bewitched, Bothered, and Biscotti
✔️36. Where Serpents Sleep

📗October: Monster Mash: 7/4
✔️1. Vampire: Certain Dark Things
✔️2. Kandra: The Bands of Mourning
✔️3. Witch: Brownies and Broomsticks
✔️4. Victor's creature: Frankenstein
✔️5. Cyborg: Frankissstein: A Love Story
✔️6. Necromancer: Gideon the Ninth
✔️7. Druid: Bewitched, Bothered, and Biscotti

📗October: Trick or Treat: 7/4
✔️1. Certain Dark Things
✔️2. Brownies and Broomsticks
✔️3. Death at La Fenice
✔️4. Why Mermaids Sing
✔️5. Penance
✔️6. Frankenstein
✔️7. Frankissstein

📗November: Veteran Authors: 10/6
✔️6. Charms and Chocolate Chips
✔️7. The Lost Man
📌 As I Lay Dying

📗5 Nov to 10 Dec: Rock the Vote: 6/6
✔️1. Fantasy: A Brightness Long Ago
✔️2. Fantasy: Gods of Jade and Shadow
✔️3. Food & Cooking: Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
✔️4. Mystery: The Lost Man
✔️5. Fiction: Red at the Bone
✔️6. Memoir & Bio: In the Dream House: A Memoir
7.
*
*Nonfiction: The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
*History & Bio: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
*Best Debut: Boy Swallows Universe
*Fiction: The Water Dancer
Fiction: Lost Children Archive
*카지노싸이트 fiction: A Memory Called Empire

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I'm just reading to complete the yearly challenge. I've got 15 books left so let's go with 15

Please sign me up.
10/13 Books Read | 3/6 Challenges Completed

Books Read:
1: American Pop
2: Dead Letters
3: Game of Scones
4: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
5: The Travelling Cat Chronicles
6: Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
7: Molly: The True Story of the Amazing Dog Who Rescues Cats
8: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
9: The Drowned World
10: My Sister, the Serial Killer


3/6 Challenges Completed
1. A-Z: Film Edition: 0/1
2. TBR: 2/5
3. Popsugar: 9/9- Complete
4. ATY: 9/9 - Complete
5. Read & Go: 1/1- Complete
6. Color Challenge: 0/1

OK, this is really useful.
EDIT 2: increasing the number of challenges to 6
EDIT: increasing the number of books to 40 and the number of challenges to 5
41/40 Books Read | 6/6 Challenges Completed

Here is my unfinished business:

Challenges:
✔️ 1. Clear the Shelves Challenge
10 finished

✔️ 2. Guster challenge (left to do)
25 finished

✔️ 3. 2019 Reading Challenge
32 finished

✔️ 4. Rock the Vote challenge
5 finished

✔️ 5. Advent Calendar challenge
4 finished in 24/24 days

6. books on TBR which I would really like to read this year:
✔️ Olga by Bernhard Schlink
✔️ The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
✔️ Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
✔️ London by Edward Rutherfurd (audio)
✔️ I Never Knew That About London by Christopher Winn (audio)
✔️ Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert’s Year of Living Dangerously by Jessica Pan
Christmas reading
✔️ The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
✔️ Rock the Vote challenge

Books:
✔️ 1. The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín (Guster challenge, 2019 Reading Challenge)
✔️ 2. Joséphine Baker by José-Louis Bocquet (Guster challenge, 2019 Reading Challenge)
✔️ 3. London by Edward Rutherfurd (audio)
✔️ 4. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg (Guster challenge, 2019 Reading Challenge, Clear the Shelves)
✔️ 5. I Never Knew That About London by Christopher Winn (audio)
✔️ 6. The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone (Clear the Shelves, 2019 Reading Challenge)
✔️ 7. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Guster challenge, 2019 Reading Challenge, Clear the Shelves)
✔️ 8. Summer by Edith Wharton (Guster challenge, 2019 Reading Challenge)
✔️ 9. Olga by Bernhard Schlink (reading for my bookclub, also 2019 Reading Challenge, Clear the Shelves)
✔️10. The Glass Room by Simon Mawer (Guster challenge, 2019 Reading Challenge)
✔️ 11. Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson (Guster challenge)
✔️ 12. Crooked House by Agatha Christie (2019 Reading Challenge)
✔️ 13. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Guster challenge)
✔️ 14. White Truffles in Winter by N.M. Kelby (Guster challenge, 2019 Reading Challenge)
✔️ 15. The Bride Test by Helen Hoang (Rock the Vote, 2019 Reading Challenge)
✔️ 16. Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and You Too! by Chelsea Handler (Guster challenge, Rock the Vote, Guster)
✔️ 17. Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations by Craig Ferguson (Rock the Vote)
✔️ 18. Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams (Rock the Vote, 2019 Reading Challenge)
✔️ 19. Night Over Water by Ken Follett (Guster challenge, 2019 Reading Challenge)
✔️ 20. The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms (Rock the Vote, 2019 Reading Challenge)
✔️ 21. a book of poetry - Čistá duša (Pure Soul) (Guster challenge, 2019 Reading Challenge)
✔️ 22. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (Guster challenge, 2019 Reading Challenge)
✔️ 23. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss (2019 Reading Challenge, Christmas reading)
✔️ 24. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes (2019 Reading Challenge, Rock the Vote)
✔️ 25. Coraline by Neil Gaiman (2019 Reading Challenge)
✔️ 26. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (Guster challenge, 2019 Reading Challenge)
✔️ 27. Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien (Advent Calendar, 2019 Reading Challenge)
✔️ 28. A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
✔️ 29. Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham (Guster challenge, 2019 Reading Challenge)
✔️ 30. Howards End by E.M. Forster (Guster challenge)
✔️ 31. Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert’s Year of Living Dangerously by Jessica Pan
✔️ 32. A White Bird Flying by Bess Streeter Aldrich (Guster challenge, 2019 Reading Challenge)
✔️ 33. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris (Advent Calendar, 2019 Reading Challenge)
✔️ 34. Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life by Tom Robbins (Guster challenge, 2019 Reading Challenge, Clear the Shelves, Advent Calendar)
✔️ 35. Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock (2019 Reading Challenge, Advent Calendar)
✔️ 36. The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore (2019 Reading Challenge)
✔️ 37. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling (2019 Reading Challenge)
✔️ 38. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Guster challenge, 2019 Reading Challenge, Clear the Shelves)
✔️ 39. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (Guster challenge, 2019 Reading Challenge, Clear the Shelves)
✔️ 40. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (2019 Reading Challenge)
✔️ 41. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie (2019 Reading Challenge)

Well i'll give it a go to try to finish up my challenges. Wish me luck!

A-Z stage edition: 1/17

Clear the shelves: 1/1

Color: 4/9

Genre Bingo: 0/9

Kind of a Big Deal: 1/1

Never hit the stage: 1/8

TBR Jar: 0/19

Sign me up for 16 books, 5 challenges.

Clear the Shelves: 0/2
Serial Reader: 0/2
An Author's Works: 0/4
40 More Books: 0/2
Queer Education: 0/6

LET’S ROLL THE CREDITS - Quarterly Challenge
Duration: October 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019
Q4 Progress: 22/22 Books Read | 1/1 Challenges Completed -- COMPLETE

SERIAL READER - need 22 to complete

Charlie Bucket
✅ Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Yellow Crocus
✅ Yellow Crocus
✅ Mustard Seed

Tradd Street
✅ The Girl On Legare Street
✅ The Strangers on Montagu Street

Harry Potter
✅ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
✅ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
✅ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
✅ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
✅ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
✅ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
✅ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Series
✅ Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

The Witch's Daughter
✅ The Witch's Daughter

Dragon Rider
✅ Dragon Rider

The Wicked Years
✅ Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

The Trilogy
✅ Molloy
✅ Malone Dies
✅ The Unnamable

A Series of Unfortunate Events
✅ The Reptile Room

Spellbound
✅ Spellbound

Little Women
✅ Little Women

Pfff! I have a lot of challenges to complete and books to read still.
I don't know if I'll be able to read them all, but I'll do my best!

TOTAL BOOKS: 81/82 - 85 81
CHALLENGES COMPLETED: 15/15

❎PopSugar: 11/11
✔English:
22. A book with SALTY, SWEET, BITTER, or SPICY in the title: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
45. A LitRPG book: Snow Crash
48. Two books that share the same title: Uncharted
50. A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent: A morbid taste for bones
✔Spanish:
13. A book published posthumously: El proceso
16. A book with a question in the title: Dime quién soy
18. A book about someone with a superpower: El reino de este mundo
27. A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature: Olvidado Rey Gudú
33. A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in title: Libra
41. A "cli-fi" (climate fiction) book: La Carretera
48. Two books that share the same title: Casa de muñecas

❎An Author's Work: 12/12
✔Agatha Christie: 2/2
A Pocket Full of Rye
4:50 from Paddington
Georgette Heyer: 3/4
False Colours
Regency Buck
An Infamous Army
Charity Girl
✔Arthur Conan Doyle: 1/1
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
✔Janet Evanovich: 2/2
The pursuit
Seven up
✔L.J. Ross: 1/1
Borderlands
✔Henning Mankell: 1/2
El Hijo del Viento
La leona blanca

❎Color Challenge: 5/5
(Colors on the cover)
"two or more color words in the title": Rojo y Negro
(Color in the title)
Pink: A pink line
Indigo: The indigo spell
Black: The black dahlia
Golden: The Golden Lily

❎Read & Go: 4/4
8. A novel set on a bus: The Lilac Bus
17. A novel set in a hotel: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet* (Also in PopSugar)
20. A novel set underground or underwater: Las Indias negras
22. A novel depicting a sci-fi technology that now exists: 20.000 leguas de viaje submarino

❎Kind of a big deal: 7/7

✔XL books (Over 1,000 pages): 2/2
Dime quién soy* (Also in PopSugar)
War and Peace

✔L books (between 500 and 1000 pages): 3/4
Kafka en la orilla
Olvidado Rey Gudú* (Also in PopSugar)
Rojo y negro* (Also in Color)
The Godfather

❎Listopia: 27/27
✔Best books of the 21st century: 5/5
La carretera* (Also in PopSugar)
Kafka en la orilla* (Also in Kind of a big deal)
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet* (Also in PopSugar)
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
✔1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die: 10/10
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes*(Also in An Author's Work)
War and Peace* (Also in Kind of a big deal)
Rojo y Negro
Treasure Island
The Godfather* (Also in Kind of a big deal)
El proceso* (Also in PopSugar)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Libra* (Also in PopSugar)
El reino de este mundo* (Also in PopSugar)
✔Best 카지노싸이트 Fiction & Fantasy Books: 4/4
Snow Crash* (Also in PopSugar)
20.000 leguas de viaje submarino* (Also in Read & Go)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Galápagos
✔Books Made into Movies: 7/7
Fight Club
In Cold Blood
The Witches of Eastwick
The Black Dahlia* (Also in Color)
Captain Blood: His Odyssey
The Body
Warm bodies

❎Never hit the stage: 13/13
✔English:
V- The ventriloquist's tale
X- I am Madame X
Spanish:
G- Olvidado Rey Gudú* (Also in PopSugar)
I- Inés del alma mía
J-El juego del ángel
K- Kafka en la orilla*(Also in Listopia)
L- Libra* (Also in PopSugar)
N- Sin noticias de Gurb*
Q- Dime quién soy* (Also in PopSugar)
R- El reino de este mundo* (Also in PopSugar)
U- En busca del unicornio
X- Huérfano X
Z- Zigzag

❎Nonfiction Growth: 4/4
✔2. Read a book that teaches you how to think critically. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking* (Also in Listopia)
✔7. Read a book about how to learn.
How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
✔11. Read a book about an ideology that is not your own.
The Origins of Totalitarianism
✔19. Read a book about a religion or philosophy
The Demon-Haunted World: 카지노싸이트 as a Candle in the Dark

❎Own Voices: 3/3
By the sea
Three Filipino women
El reino de este mundo* (Also in PopSugar))

❎Trick or Treat: 10/10
The scapegoat
Dime quién soy* (Also in PopSugar)
Huérfano X* (Also in Never hit the stage)
The Demon-Haunted World: 카지노싸이트 as a Candle in the Dark* (Also in Nonfiction Growth)
ZigZag* (Also in Never hit the stage)
In cold blood* (Also in Listopia)
The black Dahlia* (Also in Color)
Brownies and Broomsticks
Halloween Hijinks
Three cups of tea* (Also in Listopia)

❎MONSTER MASH: 10/10
The Golden Lily* (Also in Colors)
The Indigo Spell* (Also in Colors)
The Witches of Eastwick* (Also in Listopia)
Brownies and Broomsticks* (Also en Treat or Trick)
The Ventriloquist's Tale* (Also in Never hit the stage)
Beauty in Autumn
El reino de este mundo* (Also in PopSugar)
Olvidado rey Gudú* (Also in PopSugar)
Warm Bodies* (Also in Listopia)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency* (Also in Listopia)

❎Calendar of Crime: 11/11
The scapegoat*
The black dahlia*
A morbid taste for bones
Too many cooks
4:50 from Paddington*
Master's mates
Halloween hijinks*
La leona blanca*
Christmas bliss
Mistletoe murder
The Sittaford Mystery

❎Branching out: 10/10
A Corpse in the Koryo
Kafka en la orilla*
Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet*
The clay marble
Three Filipino women*
El hijo del viento*
The shadows of Ghadames
Walking still
The book of chameleons
Who slashed Celenire's throat?

❎Countdown to 2020: 9/9
Tenth of December
Tram 83
One pink line*
You can count on me
Fear index
Mistletoe murder*
An infamous army*
Seven up*
The blue sky

❎Advent Calendar: 4/4
Tenth of December*
Sugar and Spice
Christmas bliss*
The Christmas Island story
Next year, I think I'm goig to be a little more selective with the challenges I join in, because this year, so far, I joined in every one of them (yearly, quaterly and monthly and some more) and although I enjoyed the experience very much, I'm a bit exhausted, LOL.

4/4 Challenges; 20/20 Books: COMPLETE

Popsugar- COMPLETE!
1. Watership Down by Richard Adams (book you see someone reading on TV)
2. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (book published in 2019)
3. Ink and Bone by Lisa Unger (book #2 that shares the same title as another)

ATY Challenge - Graphic Novels
1. Welcome to Hoxford by Ben Templesmith
2. DC Universe: Rebirth Deluxe Edition (DC Universe: Rebirth by Geoff Johns
3. Batman & Robin: Eternal, Volume 2 by James Tynion IV
4. Descender, Vol. 3: Singularities by Jeff Lemire
5. Batman, Volume 9: Bloom by Scott Snyder
6. Batman/Superman, Volume 4: Siege by Greg Pak
7. Batman: Detective Comics, Volume 8: Blood of Heroes by Peter J. Tomasi
8. Batman: Detective Comics, Volume 9: Gordon at War by Peter J. Tomasi
9. Batman, Volume 10: Epilogue by Scott Snyder
10. The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman
11. Batman, Volume 4: The War of Jokes and Riddles by Tom King
12. Batman: Damned by Brian Azzarello

TBR Jar - COMPLETE!
1. All-Star Batman, Volume 3: The First Ally
2. I Am Watching You by Teresa Driscoll
3. Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction

Read and Go
1. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
2. Still Lives by Maria Hummel

2019 Reading Challenge
Q4 - Let's Roll the Credits
Duration: October 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019

Progress: 0 out of 12+

It’s the last quarter and we’re wrapping things up and revisiting favorite challenges from earlier in the year. This is your opportunity to complete your active challenges, repeat an earlier favorite challenge, or try a challenge that you missed.

Make a list of all the unfinished tasks you would like to complete as well as the challenge they are from. Let us know the total number of books AND the total number of challenges you are looking to complete.
--You may include challenges from our group and any outside or personal challenges you are completing. This may include challenges you started previously as well as new challenges you’ll finish this quarter.
--You may use the same book to complete tasks from different challenges but may not use the same book within a challenge unless that challenge explicitly allows this.
--If your challenge does not include specific tasks (e.g., Let's Turn Pages, Serial Reader) you may simply list the name of the challenge and the number of pages or books, etc. that you need to complete for that challenge.

When updating, include the following information:
0/12 Books Read | 0/2 Challenges Completed

I'd like to finish the September - Harvesting Knowledge challenge
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

I'd like to finish the Q3 - Books on the Little Screen challenge
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

--Optional: Include other criteria you’re tracking (e.g., number of pages, countries visited, etc.). The challenge leader will put an asterisk (*) next to your name if you are tracking additional information so members can look at your posts to follow along; however, the leader will not track this information in the participant list.

Message #16 updated

TOTAL BOOKS: 1/82
CHALLENGES COMPLETED: 0/11

Color (in the title) & Monster Mash Challenges:

Message #16 updated

TOTAL BOOKS: 2/82
CHALLENGES COMPLETED: 0/11

Color (in the title) & Monster Mash Challenges:

UPDATE 7th of October: 1/10 books read!
Sign me up for 10 books split between the following books and challenges:


2019 Monthly Challenges > September - Harvesting Knowledge
6. Foreign exchange student - Read a memoir by an author whose way of life differs from yours (gender/social/economic/race/ethnicity) - To read: Becoming by Michelle Obama


2019 Monthly Challenges > June - In the Name of Fashion
To read
For letter U - Unsouled or Uprooted
COMPLETED! For letter L - The Alloy of Law - 3.80 ⭐️


2019 Monthly Challenges > May - Your TBR Blockbusters
To read
Me Before You
Shadow and Bone
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind


2019 Yearly Challenges > An Author's Works - 2019
To read
COMPLETED! The Alloy of Law - 3.80 ⭐️
Elantris
Oathbringer


2019 Yearly Challenges > Clear the Shelves - 2019
To read
Dark Matter
Vicious
Before We Were Yours
All the Light We Cannot See
Water for Elephants
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Message #16 updated

TOTAL BOOKS: 3/82
CHALLENGES COMPLETED: 0/11

Popsugar (Spanish) & Listopia (Best books of the 21st century):

by Cormac McCarthy

1/15

Updated message 4: 1/12

I'm 22 books over my goal of 100 books for the year, but I still have a few things I need to finish.

An Author's Works
One
Two
Three
Four

Serial Reader
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight

A to Z Challenge Stage Edition
A read it
F read it
H read it
Mread it
Nread it
Rread it
T read it
Y read it
Zread it

August Serial Monogamist
One

Challenges: 4/4
Books: 22/22

Completed Nov 27th

I love second chances... 3 more months to get it right. :)

Goals:
Challenges: 2/5
Books: 3/9

Challenge Q2 Globetrotter Challenge (2 books of 5 to finish)
4. Life After Life
5. The Cruelest Month

Challenge June Challenge: In the Name of Fashion (1 book of 5 to finish)
5. E Escape from Aleppo

I would like to finish:

- September monthly challenge (2 books left)
- 2019 reading goal (5 books left)

And I would also like to add a past monthly challenge that I didn't get to do:

- February monthly challenge: Shades of Blue (4 books)

Challenges: 0/3
Books: 0/6
*Books read for challenges will finish 2019 reading goal

update to message 6
I have read 2/9 books that are remaining on my yearly reading challenge, so 7 left

I have 0/7 remaining challenges completed

Bonus personal challenge: to read 1 more big epic book (700 pages minimum)

update to message 6
I have read 2/9 books that are remaining on my yearly reading challenge, so 7 left

I have 0/7 remaining challenges completed

Bonus personal challenge: to read 1 more big epic book (700 pages minimum)

Message #16 updated

TOTAL BOOKS: 4/82
CHALLENGES COMPLETED: 0/11

Trick or Treat and Calendar of Crime:
#1. by Daphne du Maurier

Message #16 updated

TOTAL BOOKS: 5/82
CHALLENGES COMPLETED: 0/11

PopSugar Spanish (#16), Kind of a Big Deal (XL), Never hit the Stage Spanish (Q), Trick or Treat (#2):
by Julia Navarro

Books:
7/21
Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes
White Fang
The Old Man and the Sea
The Boyfriend Thief
Love You Desperately
Matchmaking for Beginners
Heads or Tails
Wuthering Heights
My Sister's Secret
Spelled
Rescue Your Finances: Make Your Money Work for You
Treasure Island
Anna Karenina
The Lies We Told
The Turn of the Screw
White Gold
The Color Purple
Broken Bottles & Whiskey Stained Hearts
V for Vendetta
The Clan of the Cave Bear
The Martian

Challenges (yearly):
1/5

A TO Z CHALLENGE: STAGE EDITION
3/3
T: The Turn of the Screw
C: Carrie
V: V for Vendetta

CLEAR YOUR BOOKSHELVES CHALLENGE
2/14
Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes
White Fang
The Old Man and the Sea
The Boyfriend Thief
Love You Desperately
Matchmaking for Beginners
Heads or Tails
Wuthering Heights
My Sister's Secret
Spelled
Rescue Your Finances: Make Your Money Work for You
Treasure Island
Anna Karenina

COLOR CHALLENGE
2/3
Purple: The Lies We Told
"Color": The Color Purple

GENRE BINGO
3/5
O1. Paranormal: The Turn of the Screw
G4. Poetry: Broken Bottles & Whiskey Stained Hearts
N2. Graphic Novel: V for Vendetta

TBR JAR
0/10
White Fang
The Martian
The Clan of the Cave Bear
The Boyfriend Thief
Love You Desperately
Matchmaking for Beginners
Heads or Tails
Wuthering Heights
Anna Karenina

Message #16 updated

TOTAL BOOKS: 6/82
CHALLENGES COMPLETED: 0/11

Listopia (Best 카지노싸이트 Fiction & Fantasy Books) and Monster Mash:
by Douglas Adams

Message #16 updated

TOTAL BOOKS: 7/82
CHALLENGES COMPLETED: 0/11

Listopia (1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die)
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Message #16 updated

TOTAL BOOKS: 8/82
CHALLENGES COMPLETED: 0/11

Listopia (Books made into movies)
by Stephen King

Updated msg #9:

Progress: 4/25 books (0/9 challenges)

Message #16 updated

TOTAL BOOKS: 9/82
CHALLENGES COMPLETED: 0/11

Monster Mash
by Ruby Dixon

Updated msg 17

1/4 Challenges; 4/20 Books

Popsugar- COMPLETE!
1. Watership Down by Richard Adams (book you see someone reading on TV)
2. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (book published in 2019)
3. Ink and Bone by Lisa Unger (book #2 that shares the same title as another)

ATY Challenge - Graphic Novels
1. Welcome to Hoxford by Ben Templesmith

Carmen wrote: "Pfff! I have a lot of challenges to complete and books to read still.
I don't know if I'll be able to read them all, but I'll do my best!

TOTAL BOOKS: 9/82
CHALLENGES COMPLETED: 0/11

@Carmen
I can't believe that you're doing the PopSugar challenge in both English and Spanish.
Sorry I can't be of more help, but I checked what books you read for the Nonfiction Growth challenge I lead and...
The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur is on the "Best Books of the 21st Century" listopia.

Updated original post: 2/12 books completed

Updated Message #26

Challenges: 1/4
Books: 3/22

oshizu wrote: "Sorry I can't be of more help, but I checked what books you read for the Nonfiction Growth challenge I lead and...
The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur is on the "Best Books of the 21st Century" listopia..."

Thaks oshizu.
I read a lot of books for the Globetrotter challenge, that I had not planned when I made my lists, so it's very possible that I read books I didn't realize that fitted into challenges I was already in.

Message #16 updated

TOTAL BOOKS: 10/82
CHALLENGES COMPLETED: 0/11

Color (colors in the title); Listopia (Books made into movies); Trick or Treat; Calendar of Crime

by James Ellroy

Message #16 updated

TOTAL BOOKS: 11/82
CHALLENGES COMPLETED: 0/11

Read & Go (#8)
by Maeve Binchy

Jennifer wrote: "Well i'll give it a go to try to finish up my challenges. Wish me luck!

A-Z stage edition: 0/17

Clear the shelves: 0/1

Color: 0/9

Genre Bingo: 0/9

Kind of a Big Deal: 0/1

Never hit the stage:..."

@Janine
I'd like to double-check your challenge goals: 64 book and 7 challenges?

Kelly wrote: "This is a great year end quarterly challenge!

1. I have 9 books left to meet my revised goal of 80.
Now 7:


2. I have 3 books l..."
@Kelly
What is the total number of books in your challenge goal?

Updated msg 9

PROGRESS: 6/25 books (2/9 challenges)

2/20 Books

The Turn of the Screw

Chipped away at the challenges, but none completed.

Message #16 updated

TOTAL BOOKS: 12/85
CHALLENGES COMPLETED: 0/11
I forgot to include the books in the "Own Voices" challenge, so I had to raise my goal to 85 books.

Own voices (African: Tanzanian):

by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Challenge is updated. If you are tracking pages, please let me know and I will add that to the update. Thanks!