Every year I participate in the Reading Challenge on Goodreads. I increase my goal by 5 books every two years. Click here to see what titles are in progress.
2018 (14/30)
- The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis
- The Magician’s Nephew, C.S. Lewis
- The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
- Dragonfly in Amber, Diana Gabaldon
- The Bondwoman’s Narrative, Hannah Crafts
- The Lamplighter, Maria Susanna Cummins
- The Dressage Chronicles, Karen McGoldrick
- Still Me, Jojo Moyes
- The Wide, Wide World, Susan Warner
- Origin, Dan Brown
- Hope Leslie, Catharine Maria Sedgwick
- The Coquette, Hannah W. Foster
- Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff, Chip Gaines
- Young Once, Patrick Modiano
2017 (38/30)
- Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Lisa Randall
- Morning Star, Pierce Brown
- Lucky Charming, Kate Chastain
- The Horse Dancer, Jojo Moyes
- Remainder, Tom McCarthy
- The Martian, Andy Weir
- The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
- So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell
- The Art of Time in Fiction, Joan Silber
- Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
- Emma, Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, George R.R. Martin
- Perfect Little World, Kevin Wilson
- Dante: A Life, R.W.B. Lewis
- Paradiso, Dante
- Purgatorio, Dante
- Inferno, Dante
- Vita Nuova, Dante
- The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
- Hag-seed, Margaret Atwood
- A Tempest, Aime Cesaire
- The Sea Voyage, John Fletcher
- The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island, William Davenant
- New Pompeii, Daniel Godfrey
- Miranda and Caliban, Jacqueline Carey
- Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
- Louder than Words: The Art of Living as a Catholic, Matthew Leonard
- A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness
- After You, Jojo Moyes
- The Grownup, Gillian Flynn
- The Tempest, William Shakespeare
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler
- Conclave, Robert Harris
- Reached, Ally Condie
- You Will Know Me, Megan Abbott
- The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
2016 (35/25)
- Good as Gone, Amy Gentry
- And Again, Jessica Chiarella
- Me Before You, Jojo Moyes
- Playing with Fire, Tess Gerritsen
- The Woman in Cabin 10, Ruth Ware
- The Lost Empire of Atlantis, Gavin Menzies
- A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin
- Left to Tell, Immaculee Ilibagiza
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Jack Thorne
- Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature, Roberta Seelinger Trites
- Ten, Gretchen McNeil
- Coraline, Neil Gaiman
- Sleeping Giants, Sylvain Neuvel
- The Secret of the Old Clock, Carolyn Keene
- The Girl Sleuth, Bobbie Ann Mason
- A Sicilian Romance, Ann Radcliffe
- The Art and Adventure of Leadership: Understanding Failure, Resilience, and Success, Warren G. Bennis
- Golden Son, Pierce Brown
- The Veins of the Ocean, Patricia Engel
- Red Rising, Pierce Brown
- You are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living and Awesome Life, Jen Sincero
- Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory, Ben Macintyre
- A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
- A Passage to Shambhala, Jon Baird
- The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
- A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin
- Four, Veronica Roth
- Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
- Micro, Michael Crichton
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
- Imperium, Robert Harris
- Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
- Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert
- Hollow City, Ransom Riggs
2015 (26/25)
- A Storm of Swords, George R.R. Martin
- The Pearl, John Steinbeck
- The Lost Books of the Odyssey, Zachary Mason
- Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee
- The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Austenland, Shannon Hale
- Crossed, Ally Condie
- The Alchemist, Paul0 Coelho
- The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
- American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang
- The Power of the Powerless: A Brother’s Legacy of Love, Christopher de Vinck
- The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, Wes Moore
- The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother, James McBride
- Matched, Ally Condie
- Kissing the Witch, Emma Donoghue
- A Clash of Kings, George R.R. Martin
- Fifty Shades Darker, E.L. James
- The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole
- Tabula Rasa, Kristen Lippert-Martin
- Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
- Allegiant, Veronica Roth
- Killer Instinct, Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- Insurgent, Veronica Roth
- Caucasia, Danzy Senna
- Flight, Sherman Alexie
- White Noise, Don DeLillo
