Megan's Challenges and Clubs

[Megan]

2016 Challenges and Clubs

I'm allowing myself to cross books between different challenges, but not for different items in the same challenge.

Yearly Challenges

1. Popsugar Reading Challenge (2015 challenge, I like it better than this year's and haven't done it)
2. Every Year Challenge
3. Going for a total of 60 books (not counting on finishing all items for all challenges)

Quarterly Challenges
Q1 - past group reads completed
Q2 - clear the shelves
Q3 -
Q4 -

Monthly Challenges/Club Reads
1. January Marathon Challenge
2. Gilmore Girls Reading Challenge Group Reads
3. Vaginal Fantasy Group Reads

[Megan]

Popsugar Reading Challenge

1. A book with more than 500 pages - The Fiery Cross ✔
2. A classic romance - Far from the Madding Crowd
3. A book that became a movie - The Time Traveler's Wife ✔
4. A book published this year - The Widow ✔
5. A book with a number in the title - Slaughterhouse-Five ✔
6. A book written by someone under 30 - A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
7. A book with nonhuman characters - Watership Down
8. A funny book - Lost for Words ✔
9. A book by a female author - The Bell Jar ✔
10. A mystery or thriller - The Girl on the Train ✔
11. A book with a one-word title - It ✔
12. A book of short stories - The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories ✔
13. A book set in a different country - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress ✔
14. A non-fiction book - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West ✔
15. A popular author's first book - The Edible Woman
16. A book from an author you love that you haven't read yet - The Blind Assassin
17. A book a friend recommended -
18. A Pulitzer Prize-winning book - Beloved ✔
19. A book based on a true story - In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex ✔
20. A book at the bottom of your to-read list - Love in the Time of Cholera
21. A book your mom loves - A Thousand Splendid Suns ✔
22. A book that scares you - Rosemary's Baby ✔
23. A book more than 100 years old - The Awakening ✔
24. A book based entirely on its cover -
25. A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't - No Longer at Ease
26. A memoir - Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science
27. A book you can finish in a day - The Stranger ✔
28. A book with antonyms in the title -
29. A book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit - Gunnar's Daughter
30. A book that came out the year you were born -
31. A book with bad reviews - The Elegance of the Hedgehog ✔
32. A trilogy - Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (read in 2015), Hollow City, and Library of Souls
33. A book from your childhood - A Wrinkle in Time
34. A book with a love triangle -
35. A book set in the future -
36. A book set in high school -
37. A book with a color in the title - The Red Tent ✔
38. A book that made you cry - Flowers for Algernon ✔
39. A book with magic -
40. A graphic novel - Adventure Time Vol. 1
41. A book by an author you've never read before -
42. A book you own but have never read - 1984 ✔
43. A book that takes place in your hometown - The Sun Gods?
44. A book that was originally written in a different language - The Dark Monk ✔
45. A book set during Christmas -
46. A book written by an author with your same initials -
47. A play - The Crucible ✔
48. A banned book - The Things They Carried ✔
49. A book based on or turned into a TV show
50. A book you started but never finished - Great Expectations

Completed: 24/50

[Megan]

The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

Monthly Reads
January: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress ✔
February:
March:
April:
May:
June:
July:
August:
September:
October:
November:
December:

Personal Reading
The Bell Jar ✔
The Awakening ✔
The Red Tent ✔
Slaughterhouse-Five ✔
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories ✔
Flowers for Algernon ✔

Total Goal: Read 15 books from the list this year to put my total at 75/339

Completed 67/339

[Megan]

Vaginal Fantasy Book Club

Monthly Reads
January: Radiance
February: Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic
March:
April:
May:
June:
July:
August:
September:
October:
November:
December:

[Megan]

Every Year Challenge


1991: The Liar
1992:
1993: Pigs in Heaven
1994:
1995:
1996:
1997: The Red Tent ✔
1998: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency ✔
1999: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex ✔
2000: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress ✔
2001: The Fiery Cross ✔
2002:
2003: The Time Traveler's Wife ✔
2004:
2005: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
2006: The Elegance of the Hedgehog ✔
2007: A Thousand Splendid Suns ✔
2008: The Hangman's Daughter ✔
2009:
2010: The Unnamed
2011:
2012: The Light Between Oceans ✔
2013:
2014: Hollow City ✔
2015: Did You Ever Have a Family ✔
2016: The Widow ✔

Completed: 13/26

[Kadijah Michelle]

When I finish the Penguin Classics and the Modern Library's List, I want to do the Rory Gilmore list. Gilmore Girls was one of my favorite shows.

[Ariel]

I think I might follow suit and do the previous Popsugar. Admittedly I haven't fully checked out 2016's though. But I need the Rory Gilmore Challenge in my life lol, I miss that show. Apparently they're coming out with something new on Netflix but that might just be based on fan's hopes. I'll keep fingers crossed. Good luck on your challenges!

[Megan]

Ariel (mot_avant) wrote: "I think I might follow suit and do the previous Popsugar. Admittedly I haven't fully checked out 2016's though. But I need the Rory Gilmore Challenge in my life lol, I miss that show. Apparently th..."

Kadijah Michelle wrote: "When I finish the Penguin Classics and the Modern Library's List, I want to do the Rory Gilmore list. Gilmore Girls was one of my favorite shows."

There's a reading group here on Goodreads for the Rory Gilmore Challenge! You should both join :)

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

[Ariel]

Awesome! Thanks, Megan - just joined.

[Megan]

Ariel (mot_avant) wrote: "Awesome! Thanks, Megan - just joined."

Yay! We definitely need more members.

[Megan]

Q1 Challenge - Past Group Reads

1. The Time Traveler's Wife ✔
2. The Bell Jar ✔
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns ✔
4. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency ✔

Completed 4/4

[Megan]

Q2 Challenge - Clear The Shelves

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