Reading Challenges

2015 Reading Challenges

Goodreads Challenge - 50 books

1. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
2. Under the Skin by Michel Faber
3. The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
4. What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
5. Transcendence by Shay Savage
6. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
7. The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
8. Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
9. Homecoming by Claire Legrand
10. Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
11. Eric by Terry Pratchett
12. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

Read 5 Classic Novels

1. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
2. Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
3. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

Read the entire Discworld Series (or at least the novels)

1. The Color of Magic
2. The Light Fantastic
3. Sourcery
4. Eric
5. Interesting Times
6. The Last Continent
7. The Last Hero
8. Unseen Academicals
9. Equal Rites
10. Wyrd Sisters
11. Witches Abroad
12. Lords and Ladies
13. Maskerade
14. Carpe Jugulum
15. The Wee Free Men
16. A Hat Full of Sky
17. Wintersmith
18. I Shall Wear Midnight
19. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
20. Pyramids
21. Small Gods
22. Mort
23. Reaper Man
24. Soul Music
25. Hogfather
26. Thief of Time
27. Moving Pictures
28. The Truth
29. Monstrous Regiment
30. Going Postal
31. Making Money
32. Raising Steam
33. Guards! Guards!
34. Men at Arms
35. Feet of Clay
36. Jingo
37. The Fifth Elephant
38. Night Watch
39. Thud!
40. Snuff
41. The Shepherd's Crown (if published by then...)

2014 Reading Challenges

Goodreads Challenge - 40 books

1. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
2. Double Falsehood by Lewis Theobald
3. Cinna ou la Clemence d'Auguste by Pierre Corneille
4. Tartuffe by Moliere
5. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
6. Eros and Psyche by Robert Bridges
7. Alcestis by Euripides
8. The Turn of the Screw Henry James
9. Beauty and the Beast by K. M. Shea
10. Histoire de la Marquise-Marquis de Banneville edited by Joan DeJean
11. Oediups Tyrannos by Sophocles
12. Red Rope of Fate by K. M. Shea
13. The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket
14. The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket
15. Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography by Lemony Snicket
16. The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket
17. The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket
18. The End by Lemony Snicket
19. The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket
20. Who Could That Be At This Hour? by Lemony Snicket
21. When Did You See Her Last? by Lemony Snicket
22. Cinderella and the Colonel by K. M. Shea
23. File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents by Lemony Snicket
24. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
25. The Wild Swans by K. M. Shea
26. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
27. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
28. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
29. The Courage Consort by Michel Faber
30. Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
31. Summerfall by Claire Legrand
32. Winterspell by Claire Legrand
33. The Queen of Atlantis by Sarah Rees Brennan
34. Shouldn't You Be in School? by Lemony Snicket
35. The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
36. Politically Correct Holiday Stories by James Finn Garner
37. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
38. Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield
39. The Zoom Trilogy by Tim Wynne-Jones
40. Persuasion by Jane Austen

Foreign Language - 3 books Complete and surpassed!

1. Cinna ou la Clemence d'Auguste by Pierre Corneille [French]
2. Tartuffe by Moliere [French]
3. Alcestis by Euripides [Ancient Greek]
4. Histoire de la Marquise-Marquis de Banneville edited by Joan DeJean [French]

Classic Novels - 5 books Complete and surpassed!

1. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
2. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
3. Eros and Psyche by Robert Bridges
4. The Turn of the Screw Henry James
5. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
6. Villette by Charlotte Bronte