2024 Reading Challenge discussion

Diane's 100 in 2018 Reading Challenge

Goal: 75/100 books

Books:
1. ★★★☆☆ (2014) The Life We Bury, Allen Eskens
2. ★★★★☆ (2017) Celine, Peter Heller
3. ★★★☆☆ (2017) Turtles All the Way Down, John Green
4. ★★★☆☆ (2017) Warcross, Marie Lu
5. ★★★★☆ (2006) Life As We Knew It, Susan Beth Pfeffer (reread)
6. ★★★☆☆ (2008) The Dead and the Gone, Susan Beth Pfeffer
7. ★★☆☆☆ (2010) This World We Live In, Susan Beth Pfeffer
8. ★☆☆☆☆ (2013) The Shade of the Moon, Susan Beth Pfeffer
9. ★★★★★ (2018) The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin
10. ★★☆☆☆ (2017) Into the Water, Paula Hawkins
11. ★★★★☆ (2017) The Ninth Hour, Alice McDermott
12. ★★★☆☆ (2006) The Alienist, Caleb Carr
13. ★★★★★ (1967) From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg (reread)
14. ★★★☆☆ (2016) A Study in Charlotte, Brittany Cavallaro
15. ★★☆☆☆ (2017) Beneath a Scarlet Sky, by Mark T. Sullivan
16. ★★★★☆ (2003) Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
17. ★★★★☆ (1932) Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
18. ★★★☆☆ (2009) Twenties Girl, Sophie Kinsella
19. ★★★★★ (2017) The Idiot, Elif Batuman
20. ★★★★☆ (2006) The Last Templar, Raymond Khoury
21. ★★★☆☆ (1992) Fatherland, Robert Harris
22. ★★★★★ (2015) Everything, Everything, Nicola Yoon
23. ★★★☆☆ (2013) The Paris Architect, Charles Belfoure
24. ★★☆☆☆ (2018) As You Wish, Chelsea Sedoti
25. ★★★★★ (2017) The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
26. ★★★★★ (2000) Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Marjane Satrapi
27. ★★★☆☆ (2003) Summer Blonde, Adrian Tomine
28. ★★★☆☆ (2007) Shortcomings, Adrian Tomine
29. ★★★★☆ (2015) Killing and Dying: Stories, Adrian Tomine
30. ★★★☆☆ (1997) Sleepwalk and Other Stories, Adrian Tomine
31. ★★★★☆ (1995) The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
32. ★★★☆☆ (2016) The Dry, Jane Harper
33. ★★★☆☆ (2016) Good as Gone, Amy Gentry
34. ★★★☆☆ (2018) The Hazel Wood, Melissa Albert
35. ★★★☆☆ (2018) Before We Were Yours, Lisa Wingate
36. ★★★★★ (2017) Idaho, Emily Ruskovich
37. ★★★☆☆ (2014) Bird Box, Josh Malerman
38. ★★★★★ (2008) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer
39. ★★☆☆☆ (1997) The Winner, David Baldacci
40. ★★★★★ (2017) White Tears, Hari Kunzru
41. ★★★★★ (2012) The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
42. ★★★★☆ (2018) The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, Kim Fu
43. ★★☆☆☆ (2017) The Life She Was Given, Ellen Marie Wiseman
44. ★★★☆☆ (2017) Bluebird, Bluebird, Attica Locke
45. ★★★★☆ (2012) Wool Omnibus Edition, Hugh Howey
46. ★★★☆☆ (2018) Red Clocks, Leni Zumas
47. ★★★★★ (2017) Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward
48. ★★★★☆ (2016) Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld
49. ★★★★☆ (1997) Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
50. ★★★★☆ (1979) Kindred, Octavia E. Butler
51. ★★★☆☆ (2017) The Jane Austen Project, Kathleen A. Flynn
52. ★★★★☆ (1993) Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler
53. ★★★☆☆ (1998) Parable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler
54. ★★★★☆ (2017) Priestdaddy: A Memoir, Patricia Lockwood
55. ★★★★☆ (2017) Sourdough, Robin Sloan
56. ★★★★☆ (2015) Vengeance Road, Erin Bowman
57. ★★★☆☆ (2018) Providence, Caroline Kepnes
58. ★★★☆☆ (2017) The Alice Network, Kate Quinn
59. ★★☆☆☆ (2017) The Good Widow, Liz Fenton
60. ★★★☆☆ (2018) Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi
61. ★★★☆☆ (2018) Something in the Water, Catherine Steadman
62. ★★★★★ (2017) Exit West, Mohsin Hamid
63. ★★☆☆☆ (2018) The One Man, Andrew Gross
64. ★★★☆☆ (2018) The Wedding Date, Jasmine Guillory
65. ★★★★☆ (2018) A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, Jill Twiss
66. ★★★★★ (1976) Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor
67. ★★★★☆ (2011) The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
68. ★★★★★ (1935) Little House on the Prairie. Laura Ingalls Wilder
69. ★★★★★ (1933) Farmer Boy, Laura Ingalls Wilder
70. ★★★★★ (1937) On the Banks of Plum Creek, Laura Ingalls Wilder
71. ★★★★☆ (2018) Girls Burn Brighter, Shobha Rao
72. ★★★★☆ (1939) By the Shores of Silver Lake, Laura Ingalls Wilder
73. ★★★★★ (1940) The Long Winter, Laura Ingalls Wilder
74. ★★★★★ (1941) Little Town on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
75. ★★★☆☆ (2018) Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men, Harold Schechter

Wow, impressive progress Diane!!

I see some that I have on my TBR (high and low star rated books....).

Susy wrote: "Wow, impressive progress Diane!!

I see some that I have on my TBR (high and low star rated books....)."

Thanks Susy! I'm kind of all over the place. :)

You are doing great! Hoping March is a smashing success for you.

Blagica wrote: "You are doing great! Hoping March is a smashing success for you."

Thanks so much Blagcia! I hope your reading-year is going well!!

A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. I hope that April brings you many more five star reads. Do you have a stand out book so far this year?

I hope May is a fantastic month filled with books and sunshine!

Blagica wrote: "I hope May is a fantastic month filled with books and sunshine!"

Thank you! You are an excellent Cheerleader!! :D I hope your May is wonderful.

thank you for saying that.

Hoping July is full of page turning and falling in love with a new book!