So how did I do on all my 2025 reading challenges?
Here is my end of the year report:
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| As in the past, most of my 2025 reading goals and challenges are of my own making. Most of the challenges center around award books and that means there is a limited number of books I expect myself to read for each and sometimes there is crossover between them also. I also joined seasonal reading challenges. It was an exceptional reading year for me. |
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| Read: One book Completed 4/1/2025: The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky ⭐ |
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| Read at least four books in this category |
I read the winner, James by Percival Everett, last year.
1. The Optimist's Daughter by Welty (completed 1/22/2025)
2. The Magnificent Ambersons by Tarkington (Completed 5/18/2025)
3. Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Completed August 1, 2025)
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| Read minimum of two books. Winners announced in November. |
1. I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken (Poetry longlist)
2. The Teacher of Nomad Land: a WWII Story by Daniel Nayeri (Young People's Literature)
3. One Day, Everyone Will Have always Been Against This by El Akkad
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| Read two books from 2025 list. |
1. Tell Me Everything by Strout
2. The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
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| Read one book. Winner announced Nov. 10, 2025 |
Audition by Katie Kitamura (finalist)
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| Read three books |
1. Brownstone by Teer
2. The Road Home by Rex Ogle
3. The Deep Dark by Molly Know Ostertag
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| Read 108+ books Participate in Two Seasonal Reading Challenges |
1st quarter update: 33 books read; all five 2024 leftovers completed.
2nd quarter update: 37 books read. Total for year so far: 70.
3rd quarter update: 48 books read. Total so far: 118
4th quarter update: 44 books read. Total for the year: 162
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| September-December Seasonal Challenges -- All complete. |
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| Write reviews for all the book club choices. 23 in all. |
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| Read five classics, minimum. |
1. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
2. The Optimist's Daughter by Welty
3. David Copperfield by Dickens
4. The Magnificent Ambersons by Tarkington
5. Sense and Sensibility by Austen
6. Go Tell It On the Mountain by Baldwin
7. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
8. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
9. Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
10. Grimms' Fairy Tales
11. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
12. Hamlet by Shakespeare
13. A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
14. White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky
15. Persuasion by Jane Austen
16. Passing by Nella Larsen
17. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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| Only five states/territories left to complete this challenge. |
1. 2. 3. US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands: The Not-Quite States of America by Mack
4. Puerto Rico: When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir by Santiago
5. South Dakota: Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
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A. 2025 Big Book Summer -- Goal to read four:
1. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 453 pages
2. Watchmen by Alan Moore, 416 pages
3. The Antidote by Karen Russell, 432 pages
4. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, 468 pages
5. The Briar Club by Kate Quinn, 432 pages
6. Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe, 540 pages
7. The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong, 402 pages
8. The Deep Dark by Molly Know Osterman, 480 pages
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B. 20 Books of Summer 2025 Reading Challenge
I read: 48 books
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C. Novellas in November- Goal to read twenty novellas throughout the year:
1. The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty, 180 pages
2. The Most by Jessica Anthony, 144 pages
3. Passing by Nella Larsen, 141 pages
4. Three Days in June by Anne Tyler, 165 pages
5. A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean, 161 pages
6. The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan, 162 pages
7. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico, 157 pages
8. The Vegetarian by Han Kang, 188 pages
9. Candide by Voltaire, 144 pages
10. So Long, and Thanks for the Fish by Douglas Adams, 167 pages
11. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, 152 pages
12. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Cruz, 195 pages
13. A Study in Scarlet by Conan Doyle, 123 pages
14. What Does It Feel Like by Sophie Kinsella, 133 pages
15. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, 165 pages
16. Theory and Practice by Michelle de Kretser, 192 pages
17. Audition by Katie Kitamura, 197 pages
18. Convenience Store Woman by Sataka Murata, 163 pages
19. The Teacher of Nomad Land: a WWII Story by Daniel Nayeri, 192 pages
20. White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 64 pages
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54 Genres Challenge
I also did a personal challenge to read a book which represented all 54 of the genres listed on Storygraph. I did it, but it was tough. Some of the genres are just not that interesting to me, like economics or computers. I will never do this one again, Here is the graphic! Get out your magnifying glass.
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It was a good reading year and I met all my challenges!
-Anne
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