I am doing few challenges but my personal challenge of clearing TBR that is from Sept 09-sept 10

I have so far done 39/82 in clearing my TBR

Also at same time started A-Z title challenge

and 19/26 in the A-Z Title Challenge

In December 2009 and finishes 2010 started 7 classic challenge and have read 1

Also doing the countdown challenge. This challenge lasts from 9/9/09 through 10/10/10.

Have done 27/55

3nine6 wrote: "My challenge was to read 25 for 2009, ending on 12/31/2009. I have read 23, with 2 more to go in the next month."

That should be doable as you are just under 1.5 a month so with a lttle push you should be able to do it

Go 3nine6!!

My challenge was to read 25 for 2009, ending on 12/31/2009. I have read 23, with 2 more to go in the next month.

I have read like 3 more books. so I need about 25 more read...

Finished 94 of my 100 books so far. My challenge ends December 18. I'll probably be going over 100 since I just picked up several YA books and graphic novels from the library. Here's what I should be finishing in the next few weeks:

95. The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman
96. Jack of Fables, Volume 1: The (Nearly) Great Escape - Bill Willingham
97. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2 - Alan Moore
98. The Eternal Smile: Three Stories - Gene Luen Yang
99. The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling
100. Thirsty - M.T. Anderson
101. Proust - Samuel Beckett
102. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
103. Paper Towns - John Green
104. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter - Richard P. Feynman
105. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
106. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
107. A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat - Arthur Rimbaud

Will be shooting for 120 books next year.

My challenge is from Jan 1, 2009 to Dec. 31, 2009. This was my first annual challenge, so it was only 25. I have 22 done now, with #23 to be completed in the next couple of days. For 2010, I am thinking of trying 50.

My challenge runs from sept 09-sept 10

29/81 in my clearing TBR challenge
17/26 in my a-z title challenge

2/30! Woo! xD. (Began late Ocotberish.)

My goal for the year is 65. I have 46 done don't know if I'll make the last 19 books on time.

I just reached my goal of completing 50 books for 2009!

Reading 2 books. Goal since only few months left in year...30. (This may be hard since I have school, so kinda a challenge.)

So far-started my challenges 2nd september 2009 and will do till 1st september 2010

My individual challenge to clear TBR I have done 15/81
A-Z title Challenge 11/26

updte 25/10/2009

25/81 in clearing TBR
15/26 in the A-Z title challenge

Paula wrote: "That's another good idea, Afsana. I'm hoping that my membership on a few groups will help as well. So far, of the 6-7 books that I'm slated to read for Oct/Nov, I own all but one.

Perhaps it co..."


no probles good luck

That's another good idea, Afsana. I'm hoping that my membership on a few groups will help as well. So far, of the 6-7 books that I'm slated to read for Oct/Nov, I own all but one.

Perhaps it could be a side, personal goal to reduce the TBR pile by a certain number or percent each year? I like how other people have goals that of the overall # of books to read, a certain amount have to come from their TBR pile. Perhaps when I do my goal for age 32, I'll re-asses then.

Thanks for all the suggestions! :)

Paula wrote: "Hi Afsana - I'll go take a look. Unfortunately, I have about 300+ on my TBR shelf, so I don't want to set a goal so I don't want to commit to reading all of those this year. I see to have a book-bu..."

You could give yourself more time this is a personal challenge.

I have also sey up another challenge to reread all my old books over 350 by author and in order so this is something I haven't put a date on for the whole thing but for each author I will see how many books I have and my schedule and put a realistic time to aim to finish those

so maybe thats another idea-choose a chunk of books and then read those in a set period?

Hi Afsana - I'll go take a look. Unfortunately, I have about 300+ on my TBR shelf, so I don't want to set a goal so I don't want to commit to reading all of those this year. I see to have a book-buying addiction!

I like your idea about tracking the ones you buy each year though!

Paula wrote: "Wow, there are some great goal ideas here!

My goal this year was pretty normal - 75 for my birth day (31 Mar 09 - 30 Mar 10) but am at 60 already. I had no idea how much I was reading before I s..."

You should look at my challenge

i have listed my TBR on my actual shelf and target is to read that and have also on another post started listing new purchases from september and this will continue till march and at that point will target myself to read those from march 2010 to march 2011. That way can try and keep up Have about 100 tbr

Wow, there are some great goal ideas here!

My goal this year was pretty normal - 75 for my birth day (31 Mar 09 - 30 Mar 10) but am at 60 already. I had no idea how much I was reading before I started tracking it!

I'm also going to 'steal' some of your ideas here. For example, I'm increasing my goal to 125 books, and for each book I miss on the goal, I'm going to donate $5 to charity (coming out of my book-buying budget).

I also think I should add a goal around TBR books - maybe for every two books I already own that I read, I can only get 1 new book. I need something to limit the amount of books I buy!!

Mine is 150 for the year. Here is what I have read so far:

1. Married Lovers - Jackie Collins
2. The Family Bones - Kimberley Raiser
3. Skin & Bone - Kathryn Fox
4. The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K.Rowling
5. A Dog called Christmas - Greg Kincaid
6. Four Degrees More - Malcolm Rose
7. Animal Lab - Malcolm Rose
8. Falling Awake - Viv French
9. Walking with Rainbows - Isla Dewar
10. Harpies - David Belbin
11. The Cold Heart of Summer - Alan Gibbons
12. Christmas, Present - Jacquelyn Mitchard
13. I Am The Messenger - Markus Zusak
14. The Mentalist - Rod Duncan
15. Sleepover Club Makeover - Jana Hunter
16. Sleepover Girls Go Green - Angie Bates
17. Skin Privilege - Karin Slaughter
18. The Anatomy of Deception - Lawerence Goldstone
19. Martin Misunderstood - Karin Slaughter
20. The Bonanza Trail - John Dyson
21. Poems from The Lord Of The Rings - J.R.R.Tolkien
22. Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esqivel
23. Tim - Colleen McCullough (Audio)
24. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (Audio)
25. King Edward VIII: The Official Biography - Philip Ziegler
26. Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman (Audio)
27. Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier (Audio)
28. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (Audio)
29. The Rainmaker - John Grisham
30. The Lipstick Killers - Lee Martin
31. A Dish Taken Cold - Anne Perry
32. Step on a Crack - James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge
33. Judge & Jury - James Patterson & Andrew Gross
34. The Almost Moon - Alice Sebold
35. The Beacon - Susan Hill
36. An Eye for an Eye - Malorie Blackman
37. Cold Granite - Stuart MacBride
38. Endal: How One Extraordinary Dog Brought a Family Back from the Brink - Allen & Sandra Parton
39. The Attack - Yasmina Khadra
40. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (Audio)
41. 8th Confession - James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
42. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (Audio)
43. Torn Apart: The Heartbreaking Story of a Childhood Lost - James Patterson & Hal Friedman (audio)
44. The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
45. The Boy in the Dress - David Walliams
46. The Calling - Inger Ash Wolfe
47. Spilling The Beans - Clarissa Dickson Wright (Audio)
48. The Swallow and the Dark - Andrew Matthews
49. Respect - Michaela Morgan
50. The Night Bus - Anthony Horowitz
51. Scared - Anthony Horowitz
52. Dying Light - Stuart MacBride
53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (Audio)
54. Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India - Madhur Jaffrey
55. Broken Skin - Stuart MacBride
56. Flesh House - Stuart MacBride (Audio)
57. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World - Vicki Myron
58. Blood Test - Jonathan Kellerman
59. Billy the Kid - Michael Morpurgo
60. Cool! - Michael Morpurgo
61.The Cave - Kate Mosse
62. The Okinawa Dragon - Nicola Monaghan
63. Falling Into The Limelight - Peter Sallis
64. Knife Edge - Robert Swindells
65. Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
66. The Woman In Black - Susan Hill
67. The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips - Michael Morpurgo
68. Puberty Blues - Kathy Lette & Gabrielle Carey
69. Whistleblower - Tess Gerritsen
70. Jamica Inn - Daphne Du Maurier
71. Blind Eye - Stuart MacBride (Audio)
72. Jessi and the Dance School Phantom - Ann M. Martin
73. Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
74. Cross Country - James Patterson
75. For One More Day - Mitch Albom
76. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
77. Sleepyhead - Mark Billingham
78. The Beekeeper - Maxence Fermine
79. Sawbones - Stuart MacBride
80. Succubus Blues - Richelle Mead
81. Wedding Babylon - Imogen Edwards-Jones & Anonymous
82. Succubus Nights - Richelle Mead
83. Meredith's Treasure - Philip Harbottle
84. Black Maria, M.A. - John Russell Fearn
85. Over The Edge - Jonathan Kellerman
86. No One You Know - Michelle Richmond
87. Succubus Dreams - Richelle Mead
88. Succubus Heat - Richelle Mead
89. Hollywood Wives - Jackie Collins
90. The Taxi Queue - Janet Davey
92. The Merchant's House - Kate Ellis
91. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
92. The Merchant's House - Kate Ellis
93. Women & Ghosts - Alison Lurie
94. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
95. The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde
96. The Fourth Bear - Jasper Fforde
97. Secret Diary of a Demented Housewife - Niamh Greene

Tara wrote

Wow. That's a great idea. I never thought of doing something like that. My goal was 55 books and I am on book 75. I can't believe how many books I read this year. Next year I will have to make the challenge a little higher.

Hi Tara!

75! Way cool, now you'll have to definitely make a goal of 100 or more for your next year's challenge, you really did well so far.

Afsana wrote: "Thats good idea but prob is I would end up buying books anyway rather then waiting till I saved up.
wwhere do you get your books?
I am on my 11th book


Great to hear you're on your way with your reading! Keep it going.

I have been getting my books lately at the library since it's free and won't clog up my home with more books. I also get review copies from authors/publishers sent to me so I'm fairly set with all the books to read.

Afsana wrote: "VegasGal wrote: "My goal was to put aside $1 for every book I read starting on the 1st of this year. I'm happily up to $63 that can now go to more books instead of wasting away on other not as impo..."


Wow. That's a great idea. I never thought of doing something like that. My goal was 55 books and I am on book 75. I can't believe how many books I read this year. Next year I will have to make the challenge a little higher.

VegasGal wrote: "My goal was to put aside $1 for every book I read starting on the 1st of this year. I'm happily up to $63 that can now go to more books instead of wasting away on other not as important things! "

VegasGal wrote: "My goal was to put aside $1 for every book I read starting on the 1st of this year. I'm happily up to $63 that can now go to more books instead of wasting away on other not as important things! "

Thats good idea but prob is I would end up buying books anyway rather then waiting till I saved up.

wwhere do you get your books?

I am on my 11th book

My goal was to put aside $1 for every book I read starting on the 1st of this year. I'm happily up to $63 that can now go to more books instead of wasting away on other not as important things!

I have challenged myself to read 83 books in the next 6 months

Started on the 2nd sept 2009 and ending march 2nd 2010

I have read one and am on my second

I am going to try to read at least 100 books between August 1, 2009 and July 30, 2010. So far I have read 8 books and am now reading A Necessary Evil by Alex Kava. It is over 400 pages so it may take a bit.

My goal for the year was 52 books - I'm up to 65 so far (3 are in progress), not including the +100 books I've read to my son. I am also attempting to finish the A-Z author challenge, and I am lacking only U & Z to finish. Here is my reading list to date:

A: Agee, John - Smart Feller Fart Smeller and other Spoonerisms (3 stars)
Allred, Wayne - The Disgusted Driver's Handbook-Instructions on Surviving on Roads Infested with Idiots (3 stars)
Averill, Esther - Jenny's Adopted Brothers (4 stars)

B: Berg, Elizabeth - True to Form (3 stars)
Berg, Elizabeth - We Are All Welcome Here (4 stars)
Bluper, Liz - Mothers-in-Law Do Everything Wrong: M.I.L.D.E.W. (4 stars)
Buchanan, Sue - Duh-Votions (3 stars)

C: Chattanoga Bakery - 100 Years of Nostalgic Southern Folklore: A Book of MoonPie Memories (4 stars)
Curtis, Jamie Lee - Tell Me Again About the Night I was Born (5 stars)

D: DeBartolo, Tiffanie - God Shaped Hole (just started)
Delinsky, Barbara - The Secret Between Us (2 stars)
Delinsky, Barbara - Facets (3 stars)
Doucette, Jenn - The Velveteen Mommy (4 stars)
Ducornet, Rikki - Gazelle (4 stars)

E: Edgerton, clyde - Raney (4 stars)
Eldridge, Sherrie - Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew (2 stars)

F: Fieker, Sharon - I Choose This Day: Mournings and Miracles in Adoption (3 stars)
Flory, Kitty Burns - Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences (3 stars)
Fowler, Karen Joy - The Jane Austen Book Club (3 stars)
Friedrich, Molly - You're Not My Real Mother (4 stars)

G: Gerrold, David - The Martian Child: A Novel About a Single Father Adopting a Son (4 stars)
Girard, Linda Walvoord - Adoption is for Always (4 stars)
Grenville, Kate - Dreamhouse (3 stars)

H: Hudler, Ad - Househusband (3 stars)
Hyde, Catherine Ryan - Chasing Windmills (3 stars)

I: Inclan, Jessica Barksdale - Her Daughter's Eyes (4 stars)

J: John, Paul Brett - On Top of Spaghetti (5 stars)
Jones, Merry Bloch - Birthmothers: Women Who Have Relinquished Babies for Adoption Tell Their Stories (2 stars)

K: Katz, Karen - Over the Moon: An Adoption Tale (5 stars)
Kingsbury, Karen - A Treasury of Adoption Miracles: True Stories of God's Presence Today (4 stars)

L: Levin, Mark - Rescuing Sprite (2 stars)
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild (4 stars)

M: McCarthy, Cormac - No Country for Old Men (4 stars)
Miller, Rebecca - The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (3 stars)
Monroe, Mary Alice - The Book Club (3 stars)
Munsch, Robert N. - Love You Forever (5 stars)

N: Nash, Jennie - Raising a Reader: A Mother's Tale of Desperation and Delight (4 stars)

O: Oates, Joyce Carol - First Love (2 stars)
Oates, Joyce Carol - Gravedigger's Daughter (3 stars)
O'Farrell, Maggie - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (4 stars)
O'Nan, Stuart - The Good Wife (3 stars)

P: Pearl, Nancy - Book Lust (4 stars)
Piper, John - Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ (currently reading)

Q: Quindlen, Anna - Rise & Shine (3 stars)

R: Roche, Nancy Maguire - Adoption is Another Word for Love (4 stars)
Rosenberg, Maxine - Being Adopted (4 stars)
Rosenberg, Maxine - Growing Up Adopted (3 stars)

S: Seuss, Dr. - The Cat in the Hat (5 Stars)
Sachs, Marilyn - What My Sister Remembered (3 stars)
Silber, Kathleen - Dear Birthmother (4 stars)
Sparks, Nicholas - Three Weeks with My Brother (4 stars)
Stolz, Karen - World of Pies (4 stars)

T: Trollope, Joanna - The Book Boy (3 stars)
Truss, Lynne - Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference! (4 stars)

U:

V: Vida, Vendela - And Now You Can Go (3 stars)
Viorst, Judith - Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (5 stars)
Viorst, Judith - Alexander and the Wonderful, Marvelous, Excellent, Terrific Ninety Days: An Almost Completely Honest Account of What Happened to Our Family When Our Youngest ... Came to Live with Us for Three Months (3 stars)
Volk, Patricia - To My Dearest Friends (4 stars)

W: Waber, Bernard - The House on East 88th Street (5 stars)
Wadia-Ellis, Susan (editor) - The Adoption Reader (3 stars)
Wolfe, Tom - I am Charlotte Simmons (currently reading)
Wolff, Jana - Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother (4 stars)
Wright, Jason F. - The Wednesday Letters (4 stars)

X: Xenakis, Francoise - The Fig Tree (3 stars)

Y: Yoshimoto, Banana - Kitchen (4 stars)

Z:

Total YTD: 65

I set my goal for 100 books from January 1st to December 31st. I've read 49 so far and working on two right now. I've been also using as a guide the A-Z titles and A-Z authors for part of my reading. Some of the books I've read are repetitions of authors so they don't count on the author list, but they count on my overall goal for reading.

My goal this year is 75, I am currently at 44 finished. January 1 - December 31

My time frame is the year 2009.

My personal goal at the beginning of the year was 36. My new goal is 50 books. So far: 39/50. I have five months to finish 11 books. Shouldn't be too hard. :)

A-Z Author Challenge: 15/26
A-Z Title Challenge: 24/26

My goal is 50 books for 2009 and the A-Z title challenge.

39/50
18/26 A-Z Title

Hi, I'm new and my goals for this year are to read at least 50 books and complete A-Z author and title challenges. I started my challenges on January 1st.

Current status:

47/50 for the year
20/26 for the A-Z author challenge
17/26 for the A-Z title challenge

I started my challenge on April 16, 2009 and will go until April 16, 2010.

I have a few goals.

I am 8/26 for the year

I am 7/26 for the A-Z title challenge

I am 2/6 for the classics challenge

I am 2/5 for the BBC challenge

I read 50 books before my 25th birthday....and I was four months ahead:) Yea! I feel so accomplished!!!!!!

Camila wrote: "I was short 9 books of my goal of 50 last year so I'm going to try again...

so far...

3/50 (and I'm currently reading 2)

Another goal of mine is to not mess around on this site so much!!! The pr..."

Camilla- I was just thinking the same thing yesterday, that I spend so much time "surfing" GoodReads, it has cut into my reading time! LOL

Hi I'm new but I thought I'd post.

I started my challenge on May 29, 2009 and will go until December 31, 2009.

I have a few goals.

I am 7/100 for the year (or at least the rest of the year)

I am 7/26 for the A-Z title challenge

I am 5/26 for the A-Z author challenge

It's great to see how far everyone has come and how far they still have to go.

:)

Right now I am at 26/100 for the year, but I have two weeks of vacation coming up which should add another 10 or so to that. I'm a little bit behind my goal but it will be fun trying =)

This year I'm going to read 50 books. (Hopefully!) And I've read 15 so far... So I think it's going well... Stuff should move faster when school lets out! ; D

15/50!!! um.. that's 35 more. Yay?

So far my A-Z Titles include a C, F, and L. I am almost finished with a B and halfway through an E. The next two on my list are a T and a G.

I'm on book 6 since 4/16 which is much quicker than I usually read thanks to GoodReads. My goals are to read 26 books (one for each letter)by next 4/16, at least 5 of them being classics (1 down, 4 to go). So far so good.

But I just realized that I'm reading 2 books in a row that start with a "G". Argh! :(

My goal for 2009 is 50 books. I started in March and so far I have read 14 books. Yay for me :)

I'm on track with both my A-Z title challenge and my 2 per month or 24 for the year challenge. Although I have to start making sure that my selections match the letters I nend for the A-Z title challenge.

i've read 25/50 books so far
and 8945/1,000,000 pages.

so i'm halfway through my book goal, but i'm not sure if i'll hit my pages goal before my book goal, so i'm most likely going to have to stive to accomplish more than 50 books this year.

My goal is to read as many books as I can and save a dollar for every book I read
$27 so far and counting!

22/50 books
8507/1,000,000 pages.

getting closer!!

I read 23 books in 2008.

Goal for 2009 50. So far, I'm about half way though my 15th book YAY!

29 out of 75 for the year. Started 1/1/09.

For my personal reading goals, i've read

20/50 books
7527/1,000,000 pages

My Challenge for this year is to try to read 100 books. I'm planning on reading
- 40 books from my bookshelf
- 40 books that I've borrowed from the library or from friends
- 15 classics
- 5 non-fiction books..

My current status (April) is:
- 10/40 books from my bookshelf
- 18/40 books from the library
- 1/15 classics
- 1/5 non-fiction

And I have read a total of 28 books so far.

I've read 35 books so far, so I'm definately going for at least 75 now this year. :)