Caitlin's Reading Challenge(s)

[Caitlin]

I've been doing my Goodreads 2020 Reading Challenge so far, and a 100 Books Bucket List challenge. I bought a poster for this and I've been slowly but surely checking books off that list. I'll keep track of both in here!

[Caitlin]

Goodreads 2020 Reading Challenge
Goal: 15 books
Progress:23/15 books (Progress says 8 books ahead of schedule!)
1. Christmas Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
2. What I Like About You - Marisa Kanter
3. Waiting for Tom Hanks - Kerry Winfrey
4. The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
5. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
6. The Perfect Wife - J.P. Delaney
7. Stealing Home (The Sweet Magnolias #1) - Sherryl Woods
8. A Slice of Heaven (The Sweet Magnolias #2) - Sherryl Woods
9. Open Book - Jessica Simpson
10. Shout - Laurie Halse Anderson
11. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson
12. Five Feet Apart - Rachael Lippincott
13. Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams
14. Someone We Know - Shari Lapena
15. Rumble - Ellen Hopkins
FINISHED MY GOAL AT THIS POINT!
16. The Late Bus - Rick Jasper
17. The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
18. Someone Knows - Lisa Scottoline
19. Peach Cobbler Murder - Joanne Fluke
20. One of Us Is Lying - Karen M. McManus
21. The Other Mrs. - Mary Kubica
22. The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang
23. You Are Not Alone - Greer Hendricks
Currently Reading: The Chaos of Stars - Kiersten White,

[Caitlin]

100 Books Bucket List
13/100

100 Books Bucket List - Uncommon Goods
13/100

1. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
2. Lord of the Flies - Willian Golding
3. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
4. Sophie’s World - Jostein Gaarden
5. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
6. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
8. Matilda - Roald Dahl
9. The Complete Art of War - Sun Tzu
10. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phillip K. Dick
11. Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
12. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
13. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat - Oliver Sacks
14. Noughts & Crosses - Malorie Blackman
15. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
16. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
17. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
18. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
19. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
20. 1984 - George Orwell
21. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
22. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
23. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
24. The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas
25. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
26. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
27. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
28. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
29. Harry Potter (series) - J.K. Rowling
30. His Dark Materials (trilogy) - Philip Pullman
31. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
32. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
33. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
34. Ulysses - James Joyce
35. Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
36. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
37. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
38. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
39. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
40. Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
41. Wild Swans - Jung Chang
42. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
43. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carre
44. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
45. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
46. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
47. Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
48. The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
49. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
50. Freakonomics - S. Dubner, S. Levitt
51. A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
52. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
53. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
54. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
55. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
56. Notes From a Small Island - Bill Bryson
57. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
58. The Lord of the Rings (trilogy) - J.R.R. Tolkien
59. A History of Venice - John Julius Norwich
60. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
61. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
62. A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
63. Shindler’s Ark - Thomas Keneally
64. London Fields - Martin Amis
65. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
66. My Man Jeeves - P.G. Wodehose
67. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
68. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
69. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
70. The Commitments - Roddy Doyle
71. The Little Woman - Gladys Aylward
72. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
73. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
74. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - John Boyne
75. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
76. Goodnight Mister Tom - Michelle Magorian
77. Dissolution - C.J. Sansom
78. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
79. Winnie the Pooh (Complete Collection) - A.A Milne
80. Animal Farm - George Orwell
81. The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
82. The Enchanted Wood - Enid Blyton
83. Dracula - Bram Stoker
84. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
85. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
86. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
87. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
88. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
89. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
90. Misery - Stephen King
91. The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
92. Watership Down - Richard Adams
93. The Odyssey - Homer
94. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
95. Bird Song - Sebastian Faulks
96. Tell No One - Harlan Coben
97. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
98. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
99. Middlemarch - George Eliot
100. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

[Elena]

What a great list you have! Good luck on your challenges!

[Brittany]

You've got a pretty good list going there! Best of luck!

[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

Oooh what a fun challenge! Lots of classics! Hope you enjoy them! 😊

[Caitlin]

Last night I found a bunch of papers and I decided to go through them....Turns out it was a "Genre Challenge" I had written out a long time ago! I decided to re-vamp it with more current books! I might change them now and then but, for now with stick with what I have on there. It's been so long I don't even know where I got this anymore.. But if anyone else wants to make their own, go right ahead!

[Caitlin]

Book Genres Challenge!
If anyone's wondering how it works, you pick 5 (or so) books from these genres, (technically I guess you could pick whatever genres you want..I'm just doing the ones that were on the list where I found the challenge). You can either read all the books on your list or pick your favorite of the books you chose!
I think, depending on how much I like the genre, I might read all the books I chose. I'm not trying to finish this by the end of 2020. (I'd never be able to!) Just whenever I finish it!

Start Date: 9/27/2020
End Date:

Coming of Age
1. The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas (Just finished yesterday so I'm counting it!)
2. Turtles All the Way Down – John Green
3. Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng
4. In an Instant – Suzanne Redfearn
4. The Comeback – Ella Berman

Classic
1. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
2. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
3. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
4. Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
5. The Road – Cormac McCarthy

Dystopian
1. The Giver – Lois Lowry
2. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
3. Shatter Me – Tahereh Mafi
4. The Trial – Franz Kafka
5. Red Rising – Pierce Brown

Epic Fantasy
1. City of Bones – Cassandra Clare
2. The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman
3. Stardust – Neil Gaiman
4. American Gods – Neil Gaiman
5. The Night Circus – Erin Morganstern

Fairy Tale
1. Wildwood Dancing – Juliet Marillier
2. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister – Gregory Maguire
3. Sisters Red – Jackson Pearce
4. Impossible – Nancy Werlin
5. Red Riding Hood – Sarah Blakley Cartwright

Historical Fiction
1. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
2. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
3. Sarah’s Key – Tatiana de Rosnay
4. All The Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
5. The Nightingale – Kristin Hannah

Horror
1. There’s Someone Inside Your House – Stephanie Perkins
2. Home Before Dark – Riley Sager
3. The Last to Die – Kelly Garrett
4. One Night Gone – Tara Laskowski
5. The Invited – Jennifer McMahon

Magical Realism
1. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
2. The Sugar Queen – Sarah Addison Allen
3. The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
4. The Book of Tomorrow – Cecilia Ahern
5. The Age of Miracles – Karen Thompson Walker

Mystery/Thriller
1. One of Us is Lying – Karen M. McManus
2. Sadie – Courtney Summers
3. All the Rage – Courtney Summers
4. Good Girl, Bad Blood – Holly Jackson
5. Before I Let Go – Marieke Nijkamp

Nonfiction/Memoir
1. Becoming – Michelle Obama
2. The Last Black Unicorn – Tiffany Haddish
3. The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch
4. Educated – Tara Westover
5. Half Broke Horses – Jeannette Walls

Paranormal
1. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer – Michelle Hodkin
2. Hush, Hush – Becca Fitzpatrick
3. Shadow of Night – Deborah Harkness
4. Shatter Me – Tahereh Mafi
5. Bloodlines – Richelle Mead

Realistic Fiction
1. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight – Jennifer E. Smith
2. You Against Me – Jenny Downham
3. We Were Liars – E. Lockhart
4. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda – Becky Albertalli
5. Second Chance Summer – Morgan Matson

Romance
1. Water for Elephants – Sarah Gruen
2. Two by Two – Nicholas Sparks
3. Every Breath – Nicholas Sparks
4. The Return – Nicholas Sparks
5. Love Your Life – Sophie Kinsella (Oct 27, 2020)

Science Fiction
1. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
2. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
3. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
4. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
5. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

Short Stories/Novellas
1. The Lottery and Other Stories – Shirley Jackson
2. Full Dark No Stars – Stephen King
3. The Thirteen Problems – Agatha Christie
4. Summer Days and Summer Nights: 12 Love Stories – Stephanie Perkins (and others)
5. My True Love Gave to Me: 12 Holiday Stories – Stephanie Perkins (and others)

Urban Fantasy
1. Trouble the Saints – Alaya Dawn Johnson
2. Middlegame – Seanan McGuire
3. A Wicked Magic – Sasha Laurens
4. The Library of the Unwritten – A.J. Hackwith
5. Every Heart a Doorway – Seanan McGuire

[Brittany]

Good luck!

[Caitlin]

I definitely have to catch up with these challenges, because I keep finding more to do! LOL.... also, I realized I never posted any for 2022, so here is my current Goodreads reading challenge. I have a goal of 25 books this year and have read 14 so far.

1. They Wish They Were Us - Jessica Goodman
2. New Yorker Cartoons - Marriott International, Inc.
3. Spoiler Alert (#1) - Olivia Dade
4. A Stranger in the House - Shari Lapena
5. An Unwanted Guest - Shari Lapena
6. Carry On (Simon Snow (#1) - Rainbow Rowell
7. Wayward Son (Simon Snow #2) - Rainbow Rowell
8. The Guest List - Lucy Foley
9. When No One Is Watching - Alyssa Cole
10. The Midwife Murders - James Patterson
11. One By One - Ruth Ware
12. The Hunting Party - Lucy Foley
13. Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder #2) - Holly Jackson
14. Slay - Brittney Morris
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[Liliana, YA Paranormal Lover]

You're doing pretty well Caitlin! You're more than halfway there!