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Challenge: Read classic novels from certain categories

Results: Ongoing

- A 19th century classic
- A 20th century classic
- Reread a classic of your choice
- A classic play
- A classic mystery / horror / crime
- A classic romance
- A classic that has been translated from its original language to your language
- A classic award winner
- A classic set in a country you will not visit during your lifetime.

Challenge: “Lover” – Listen to at least 25 audio books this year

Results: Ongoing

- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (review)
- Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson (review)
- The Gunslinger by Stephen King (review)
- The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (review to come)

Challenge: Read books with certain words in the title

Results: Ongoing

- A book with a topographical feature in the title:
- A book with something you’d see in the sky in the title:
–> The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (review)
- A book with a creepy crawly in the title:
- A book with a type of house in the title:
- A book with something you’d carry in your pocket, purse, or backpack in the title:
- A book with something you’d find on a calendar in the title:

Challenge: “Love at First Sight” – Read 31-40 books of my TBR shelf at home (I’m aiming for 40).

Results: Ongoing

- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (review)
- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (review)
- Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson (review)
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (review)
- The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson (review to come)

Challenge: Read as many books as possible in a 24-hour period!

Results: 2.75 books read!

- Perelandra by CS Lewis (review)
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Rigs (review)
- A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engel (review)

Challenge:Peril The Second: Read two books from the following categories: mystery, suspense, thriller, dark fantasy, gothic, horror, and supernatural.

Results: Complete!

- Storm Front by Jim Butcher (review)
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (review)

Challenge: Read as many books off my personal TBR shelf as possible. No review or library books.

Results: Of the ten books I read, nine of them were off my personal TBR shelf!

- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling (review)
- Out of the Silent Planet by CS Lewis (review)
- March by Geraldine Brooks (review)
- Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller (review)
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Isiguro (review)
- Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams (review)
- A Game of Thrones by George RR Marting (review)
- The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner (review)
- Empire by Orson Scott Card (review)