Brittany's 2020 Reading Challenge

[Brittany]

As I far exceeded my goal of 70 books in 2019 I'm going to start with a goal of 80 for 2020.

My biggest goal this year is series catch up as I have over 100 series that I've started and not finished. Beyond that I would like to try and read at least 3 physical books for everyone I buy to get down the impossible piles!

This is where I'll have the links to my challenges as well as keep up with what I'm reading and hopefully talk to you all about books!

[Brittany]

Books Read: 124/80

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

[Brittany]

Yearly:
Let's Turn Pages 34801/30000
Serial Reader 60/40
Clear the Shelves 12/30
A-Z Challenge: Myths, Legends, & Fairy Tales 22/26
Popsugar - 2020 25/25
Genre Bingo 23/24
Color Challenge-2020 15/16
Listopia 15/16
Kind of a Big Deal 11/10 long 16/10 short
2020 Mystery Challenge: Just the Facts, Ma'am 7/12
Find Your Flight 7/12
A-Z Challenge hard 23/26 easy 25/26
YA Genre Bingo 16/16
BOOK RIOT’S 2020 READ HARDER CHALLENGE 6/20
2020 Book Cover Word Search Hard 14/100 Easy 90/100
2020 Book Bingo Pt 1 23/24
GG&G Blackout Bingo Round 1 13/16
Mega Reading Challenge 2020 69/70
Manga/Graphic Novel Book Bingo 2020 7/16
READING ROMANCE CHALLENGE April-September 16/10
2020 Book Bingo Pt 2 20/24
Blackout Book Bingo 2020 - Round 2 11/16
2020 Bingo July-December21/25


Quarterly:
Q1 - Meet Us at the Bookshop 10/10
Q1 - Myths from Around the World 5/6
Jan-Mar 2020 Quarterly Challenge 25/18
Q2 - Pinspiration 9/6
April- June Quarterly Challenge 32/18
Q3 - Women of the World 11/10
Q3 - Once Upon a Time 9/6
July-September Quarterly Challenge 39/20
Places You Go - 4 month BINGO Aug-Nov 15/25
Masquerade Oct 1-Nov 30 8/24
Oct-Dec Quarterly Challenge 27/24

Monthly:
January - Marathon Challenge 8/6
February - NONE
March - Earth Laughs in Flowers 6/4
April Shades of Green 1/3
May TBR Series Challenge 6/4
June Singing in the Rain 2/2
October Serial Slayers 2/5
November Zodiac around the world 4/3




School Supply Shopping (2020)
Oh, The Books You Can Pack Oct-Feb 11/50
Ghost Walks Tour Cities completed 0/13

Upcoming buddy reads

VWF series read in October

[Brittany]

My never-ending series catch up list
Incomplete Series List
Series to complete total at start of 2020 :111

List of series finished in 2020: 6
Graceling Realm, One of Us is lying, Caraval, Arc of a Scythe, The Daevabad Trilogy, The Folk of Air


Number of series started in 2020: 12
The Folk of the Air, A Court of Thorns and Roses, Neverland Transmissions, Naughts and Crosses, Wicked Fox, Villains, Wayward Children, Dark Elements, Curse Breakers, The Heroes of Olympus, The Blood of Stars, Lady Darby Mystery


Net series: +6

Top 15 series I hope to be caught up on/finished by the end of the year:
A Court of Thorns and Roses - 2/4
Arc of a Scythe - 3/3
Caraval - 3/3
Empress Theodora - 1/2
Fever - 7/10
InCryptid - 3/9
Kate Daniels - 6/10
Mercy Thompson - 9/12
Montague Siblings - 1/3
Mortal Instruments - 4/6
Night Huntress - 4/7
October Daye - 10/14
The Folk of the Air - 1/3
The Guild Codex Universe 4/12
The Storymakers - 2/3

[Brittany]

Statistics:

Genre
Fantasy: 14
Mystery: 1
Romance:
Sci-Fi:
Historical: 3
YA Fantasy: 13
YA Other: 11
Graphic Novels/Manga: 26
Other: 2

Author
Male: 24
Female: 45
unknown/other:
*Including new to me authors : 26


Type
Hardcopy: 38
Ebook: 19
Audio: 13

Owned: 13
Bought: 5
Borrowed: 51
Rereads: 1

Length
<200 pages: 28
201-500 pages: 36
501-999 pages: 6
1000+ pages:

Star rating
5 - 5
4 - 32
3 - 26
2 - 7
1 -

[Brittany]

Goal, read at least 3 books for every book I buy to try and get that impossible book case unloaded!

Number of hard copy books read: 14

Number of hard copy books bought: 5

Net books: -9

[Brittany]

Some of the books I own that I hope to get read this year:

The Mists of Avalon
Child of the Phoenix
Luck in the Shadows
Never Sleep With Strangers
Lady Oracle
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed
The Spellsong War
The King's White Rose
Cleopatra's Daughter
Cleopatra's Daughter Finished April 10, 2020
Outlander
Be Buried in the Rain
Play to the End
The Last Mermaid
Gods Behaving Badly
Midnight's Daughter
Wolfsbane
Out of Mind
Out of Sight
Pompeii
On the Edge
Light My Fire
Razor's Edge
Child of the Prophecy
Chill Factor Finished May 17, 2020

If I could get even half of these read in 2020 I would be happy!
Read 2/25

[Brittany]

For the Kind of a Big Deal Challenge I made a list of 500+ page books I would like to read in the next year and realized what a terrifying number of big books I actually own. Hoping to read at least 10 of the following books but would love to get them all read in the next year or two

Started January 1st, 2020 - Finished ????
Read: 2/31

- 1086 pages, -1007 pages, - 884 pages,
- 850 pages, - 813 pages, - 738 pages,
- 712 pages, - 708 pages, - 702 pages,
- 679 pages, - 672 pages, - 662 pages,
- 640 pages, - 637 pages, - 619 pages,
- 608 pages, - 600 pages, - 599 pages,
- 596 pages, - 592 pages, - 591 pages,
- 581 pages, - 576 pages, - 560 pages,
- 528 pages, - 528 pages, - 528 pages,
- 522 pages, - 521 pages, - 513 pages, - 510 pages

[Brittany]

My TBR mountain. I am really bad at adding more books to my TBR than I could possibly read. Goal is to end the year with less books on my want to read list than I started with meaning reading more than adding new ones! This total includes both owned and wanted books.

Start of 2020- Want to read list at 919

Total at the end of each month:

January 838 I changed my shelves around and added a freebies unread shelf that I am slowly adding all my free kindle books to so this lowered my regular tbr. 390 Freebies added

February 839 and 467 freebies

March 842 and 715 freebies

April 849 and 803 freebies

May 835 and 912 freebies

June 826 and 994 freebies

July 830 1050 freebies

August

September

October

November 828 1398 freebies

December

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Oooh, very ambitious! Good luck on all your challenges! 😊

[Brittany]

Thanks Lili!! Its a little crazy, but finding books for challenges can be fun. Or just trying to stick a random book in a place lol.

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

It is fun! I love challenges and I almost wish I would've picked more for 2020. But I just didn't find any I really wanted to participate in and commit to, so I just stuck with two I really need to work on.

[Brittany]

That's fair! Going to post some here yet too. Plus the Quarterly ones from you! So there will be plenty of challenges going around

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

I will definitely check those out! And the quarterly one just went up! 😊

[Brittany]

Liliana wrote: "I will definitely check those out! And the quarterly one just went up! 😊"

Perfect! Thanks Lili!

[Brittany]

I didn't manage to finish things before the end of the year so I am carrying a bunch of books over.

Currently reading in hard copy, on ebook and on audio.

[Kayleigh {K-Books}, YA Fantasy Fan]

Ooh I’m going to steal your statistics as I think that’s such a fun idea to see. Also, I’m doing something similar where I’m not buying a book until I’ve read at least 5. This is not counting the fact that I do get 2 book subscription boxes a month. Due to that I’m gonna try and only buy a book if I’ve read more than 5 but we will see how it goes. No doubt i will fail at that when I’m at the book con in the summer.

[Brittany]

Fair! I figure if I can keep it to buy one for every 3 then at least the piles go down a little.... but I will probably fail at it too lol.

And yes do that statistics! Its so fun. I stopped halfway through 2019 when life got too crazy and then was too lazy to go back and update it but Ive got it this year!

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

I love stats! I've been keeping track for a couple years now, and I agree, it's a lot of fun! I keep track of mine on a spreadsheet though, it's just too many numbers 😅 lol

[Brittany]

Finished my first book of the year with starting

[HeatherH]

I'm totally going to steal the stats idea as well!! Hoping tomorrow to work on getting all my challenges linked to my thread!

[Brittany]

Awesome look forward to seeing your stats too Heather

[Kayleigh {K-Books}, YA Fantasy Fan]

It's such a fun way to see your progress. I've modified the stats categories slightly on mine as I sort my TBR out with certain genre labels so I've gone for those :)

[Brittany]

Makes sense Kay! I'm going to go check out which ones you are using.


Finished it was alright

[Laura ☾]

I'm also going to steal the stats idea! Hehe

[Brittany]

Finished it was adorable. Sometimes just have to read some cute fluffy manga :)

[Brittany]

Finished so cute, good addition to the series. Going to keep trying to read manga and comics in between the regular reading :)

[Anna]

I love all your challenges, Britt! You got this. I’m hoping to finish some series too.

[Sonnie]

Britt, I'm always in awe of your organization abilities lol. Did you love Cruel Prince?! It's one of my favorites! Book 2 is even better.

[Brittany]

Haha thanks, I do most of the organizing when I'm on nights at work on my down time!

I did not love Cruel Prince. I thought it was okay, interesting enough to continue but not amazing. Too slow to start. I think book two should be better with the world already set up.

[Laura ☾]

@Brittany I felt meh about the Cruel Prince, I liked the second book a lot more and loved the third book! So there’s hope haha

[Sonnie]

Aw, sadness! Holly Black is kind of always a hit and miss for me, but I felt like Cruel Prince was her best series yet. Plus the narrator was just amazing. But it is one of those series that just gets better with each book if you decide to continue on.

[Brittany]

I read it instead of listened to it so maybe that was part of the difference Sonnie. It was my first Holly Black book too.

Thanks Laura! I figured book 2 would be better so I will get to it... eventually lol

[Brittany]

I finally finished reading . It was good just feels like I've been reading it forever.

[Brittany]

Finished listening to thought it was a bit of a disappointing sequel. The same magic just wasn't there. I'll still read book 3 though.

[Sonnie]

Britt, I felt that way about Legendary too. Scarlet's story was just so much more compelling for me. I enjoyed the third book, but to me the first was definitely the best.

[Anna]

I will agree! I thought Caraval was the best of the 3 books. I just loved the mystery and uniqueness of it.

[Brittany]

So disappointing! But I'm glad I'm not the only one. That world had so much potential to grow

[Brittany]

I've been starting lots of things but not finishing them lately. Waiting on more books to come back from the library (Scarlet, Bitterblue).
I got bored listening to so I gave up on it, maybe I will try reading it someday but the audio just didnt work.
So I am currently listening to , reading on ebook and in hardcopy

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

I hate when that happens 😩 I hope something works out for you!

[Brittany]

Thanks! I haven't been reading as much which is part of the problem so I keep running out of time on library holds! I actually own all 3 of what I am reading now so that should help

[Kayleigh {K-Books}, YA Fantasy Fan]

Britt I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on ACOTAR. I adore that series so much!!

[Brittany]

Liking it so far! Im 2hr15min into the audio (view spoiler)[ Feyre is in Prythian and adament about not eating. Just heard the Lord's name Tamlin. (hide spoiler)]

[Kayleigh {K-Books}, YA Fantasy Fan]

You know I loved Throne of Glass... I prefer this series to that one so that shows how much I adore it.

[Brittany]

Fair enough! I enjoy her books on audio. They just take a loooong time to listen to.

[Kayleigh {K-Books}, YA Fantasy Fan]

Yeah her books are huge. I have her new Adult one on pre-order and I know it'll probably take me forever to read.

[Brittany]

I'll probably wait a bit before I get to that one. Its going to be a series right?

[Laura ☾]

Yes! But they’re so good 😂 (I may also have it pre-ordered )

[Brittany]

I would just rather not be stuck waiting on the next one lol!

[Kayleigh {K-Books}, YA Fantasy Fan]

Yes it's going to be a series. It's my most anticipated book of the year. She's one of my fave authors.