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[Vaginal Fantasy]

This is your mod, Sean, with a reading challenge for all of you. I want you to read 1000 books in 2018. Well, not each of you, obviously. That would be about three books a day, and who has the time for that.

What I'm proposing is that we collectively read one thousand different titles during the next twelve months. You can read as few or as many as you want. Here's the rules:

1. When you read any book in 2018, just post the title in the forum below, and I'll add it to the list. (Note: It helps if you use the add book/author link at the top of the comment box.)
2. Novels, novellas, or non-fiction longer than 50 pages only. Any genre, but sorry, no short stories or graphic novels. Anthologies count as one book.
3. Each unique title counts as one book read. (e.g. If one person reads three books, that's three read; if three people read the same book, that counts as one.)
4. All Vaginal Fantasy MAIN and ALT picks will automatically be added, as I assume at least one of you out there is reading along with the group.

That's it. I've created a separate account to make the challenge easier to track. Hopefully by the end of the year we'll have a list of recommendations 1000 books long, so you'll never run out of things to read. We have over 18,000 members, so it's not impossible. If 6% of you read one different book each, we'd be done. Also, this is the perfect opportunity for all the forum lurkers who never post to share what you're reading with the group.

You can check the group's progress and access the bookshelf on this account's profile page: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/7... (Please don't message or send friend requests there.) BTW I'm not using a group challenge because it will count the same book multiple times.

Happy reading! And begin…

[Edit 1/24/18] Since you gobbled up over 350 books in just three weeks, I have bumped up the goal to 5,000 books.

[Jenny]

I finished A Time Of Dread by John Gwynne a couple of days ago!

[Tracy]

I'm a lurker *waves*

I just finished Born in Fire yesterday.

[Lauren]

I finished reading Ice Kingdom a few days ago. Its the last book in a trilogy and really recommend checking it out!

[Brooke]

My first book of the year was Paladin of Souls!

[Rebecca]

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

[Trina]

I finished reading Rivers of London on Tuesday, and I finished If We Were Villains at around one o'clock this morning.

[Sadie]

I finished An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors, Unicorn and Dragon and Danny's Grace.

[Kaylene]

The Fifth SeasonHighly recommended. 👍

[Amanda]

I read the last 4 books of Ann Aguirre Sirantha Jax series (loved it) and also The Colorado Kid by Stephen King.

[HeatherMarie]

I've been under the weather lately... (have had some time to listen to audio books like a mother lover 😉)
The Paid Companion 1/1
Before the Devil Breaks You 1/1
Never Seduce a Scot 1/2
Simply Unforgettable 1/2
Entwined 1/2
The Gravity of Us 1/3
Married in Haste 1/3
The Hazards of Hunting a Duke 1/3
The House on Tradd Street 1/3
The Perils of Pursuing a Prince 1/4
Insight 1/4
Highlander Most Wanted 1/4

[Rebekah]

This is slightly cheating, because while I did finish The Servants Of The Storm in 2018, it is book 5 in the Pillars of Reality series by Jack Campbell and I started the series last year. But they are a really delightful steampunk/fantasy series.

[Melissa]

Season for Desire by Theresa Romain.

[CluckingBell]

Just finished the lovely Gilead by Marilynne Robinson.

[Duckie84]

The Lighthouse Keeper
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

[Duckie84]

Roar (Stormheart, #1) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

finished moments ago

[Beth]

I finished The Sea King a couple days ago.

[Jessica]

My first book of 2018 was THIS SAVAGE SONG by Victoria Schwab (I can come back and link it sometime when I'm at a computer instead of my phone)

[Molly]

I finished Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado a couple of days ago.

[Malaraa]

The Unquiet Grave, which was excellent. Like most of her books, it's fictionalized, but centered around both an old ghost story and the history behind it.

[Lisa]

I finished Bound Together on Jan 3rd and Sing, Unburied, Sing on Jan 4th. Both were excellent!

[Bookworm]

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie.

[Kittie]

Just finished The Maze Runner by James Dashner two days ago.

[kels]

Oh hey, that's me - I'm a lurker!

Currently reading:

An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors
Traitor
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

So far, I highly recommend An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors; I've only just started the other two so no impressions one way or another.

[Vaginal Fantasy]

Jessica wrote: "My first book of 2018 was THIS SAVAGE SONG by Victoria Schwab (I can come back and link it sometime when I'm at a computer instead of my phone)"

No need. I've already added it. It just saves me a couple of clicks when I'm adding to the bookshelf is all.

[Morwen]

Ok I'm down with doing my bit this year so far I've read Left of the Left: My Memories of Sam Dolgoff, Two Serpents Rise, Off Base, and I just finished Lights, Camera, Cupid: A Bluewater Bay Valentine's Collection. I liked all of them but that last one, kind of hated that one.

[Joyce]

Just finished two books so far in January
Year One 1/2/2018 - 5 stars
A Gathering of Shadows 1/5/2018 - 4 stars

[Brooke]

Finished The Hallowed Hunt today.

[Morwen]

Just finished Moonglow

[AB]

My first book of 2018:
Escape the Sea
it wasn't as good as I expected :(

[Tijana]

Finished reading Orange Is the New Black two days ago :)

[Minsta]

Artemis by Andy Weir

[Morwen]

finished Five Dares

[Jen]

I have finished both of these so far this year.
Now That You Mention It

Promise Not to Tell

[Vaginal Fantasy]

Already at 6% — 61 of 1000, 46 books ahead of schedule

[Danielle]

I've read The Lifecycle of Software Objects and The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate .

[Beth]

Just finished Heart on Fire.

[Brooke]

Finished The Collapsing Empire today.

[Malaraa]

Mass Effect: Initiation

Not normally a fan of tie-in novels, but this one was a cut above what I've come to expect out of them. Tough project, well executed. :)

[Melissa]

Foolish Hearts just finished. Cute YA contemporary fiction.

[Tijana]

Just finished Stalking Jack the Ripper

[Tracy]

Finished Nocte last night and now have the biggest book hangover of my life.

[[deleted user]]

Just finished The Boy who Wept Blood. The second book from the Erebus Sequence trilogy by Den Patrick. A fantasy story in a world inspired by Italian Renaissance.

[Jo]

Blood Lure by Navada Barr, part of the Anna Pigeon series. Mystery series with the main protagonist a Forest Ranger for US national parks.

[Crankyfacedknitter]

I finished Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work and The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook so far. And when was the last time you read a cookbook from cover to cover? (I almost never do!)

[Kristi]

I just finished Macrieve by Kresley Cole on Wednesday. Sorry I cannot figure out how to link the title as I’m on my iPhone and my only access to WiFi is the library, fast food restaurant let, and Walmart.

[Danni]

I finished No Rest for the Wicked on the 3rd!

[Louise]

Beauty Awakened
The Darkest Craving
I never seem to give Gena Showalter's books more than three stars, but I keep on reading them...

I also finished The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke, but I started that one on December 26 (or 27), does it still count?

[Jason]

So far this year, I've read American Gods and The Handmaid's Tale!

[CluckingBell]

Ice Planet Barbarians!