The Jenn Walsh Challenge: 45 in 2016

[Jenn]

It looks like I'm going to hit 42 books in 2015, so I'll take it up a notch and aim for 45 in 2016. This is definitely ambitious for me. I'll post updates as I go.

[Winter, Group Reads]

Good luck Jenn! I have stretched my goal a bit too I think, but we can do it ;)

[Linda]

Good luck Jenn! I'm shooting for 48 this year.

[Megan]

How's the challenge going so far? Good luck!

[Jenn]

I'm on track! I have one book down (In the Unlikely Event) and a couple more in progress. Thanks for checking in!

[Megan]

Congrats on finishing your first book in 2016!

[Jenn]

Thanks!

[Jenn]

Well, I forgot to post updates this year. I'm still on track with my challenge. I have read 29 books so far!

[Thi Nguyên]

Oh I really want to know what you read ^^

[Jenn]

Haha, I was too lazy to add 29 books at once, but here's some of what I've been reading lately. I'll try to keep adding to it:

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
When Breath Becomes Air
The Interestings
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
Civilization: The West and the Rest
The Rosie Effect
Brown Girl Dreaming
An Unnecessary Woman
Fraud: Essays
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Ready Player One
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

It's a little bit of everything.

[Jenn]

Well, I completed my challenge of 45 books! I'm going to try for 48 next year. I was bad about updating what I read, but here's a little more of what made up the 45 books:

Throne of Glass
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Did You Ever Have a Family
The Almond Tree
The Empathy Exams: Essays
The Meaning of Human Existence
The Shock of the Fall
Americanah
The Driven Organization, And What We Need to Be Happy and Productive at Work
Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking
The Couple Next Door
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
UnDivided
The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (my favorite this year!)
The Hangman's Daughter
We Are Called to Rise
Think Like a Freak
Cinder
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
Sweet Tooth

[Linda]

Congratulations Jenn!!! I know you are happy! I thought I wasn't gonna make my goal of 48 this year. Not because it was hard, but I picked up a new hobby this year that was taking up my reading time (learning to play the mountain dulcimer). I crammed my reading during my December two week vacation, and made it.

The Rosie Effect is the only book that I have read of yours. Any fantastic books in your bunch that you recommend??

[Jenn]

You might like Cinder and Sisters in Law was a good nonfiction