2016 Reading Challenge

My 2016 Reading Challenge 

 

My challenge for this year…75 books. Since I exceeded my challenge for last year by 12 books, I decided to increase it. Below is my list of books I plan to read for the 2016 Reading Challenge.

I will amend my list in May to include the additional seven books for my book club once we meet and decide what we will be reading for the rest of the year.

How many books do you plan to read this year? Do you want to know how I make time to read? Please let me know in the comments below.

2016 Reading Challenge

2016 Reading Challenge
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My Reading List for 2016

                                                                                                                           

2015 Reading Challenge Recap

My 2015 Reading Challenge…Wow! I surpassed my expectations by reading 67 books this year. When I last wrote about my 2015 Reading Challenge, I challenged myself to read 52 books this year, one book each week. I set up my reading challenge in the 2015 Reading Challenge app on goodreads.com. I also used the prompts in Popsugar’s 2015 Reading Challenge.

I definitely went over my 52 books for the year, but not all of the books were from my Popsugar Reading Challenge list. At the beginning of this year, I joined a local book club. Several of the books I read this year were books selected for my book club, and all the remaining books are ones I just wanted to read or edited for my internships. Below is the completed reading list for my 2015 Reading Challenge.

Legend: ∗ Popsugar’s Reading Challenge List , † my book club’s list, ‡ for books I edited.

  1. Our Iceberg Is Melting by John P. Kotter – Completed January 1, 2015 ∗
  2. Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin – Completed January 2, 2015 ∗
  3. #Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso – Completed January 18, 2015 ∗
  4. The Fred Factor: How passion in you work and life can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary by Mark Sanborn – Completed January 24, 2015 ∗
  5. Killer Frost by Jennifer Estep – Completed February 12, 2015 ∗
  6. March by Geraldine Brooks – Completed March 14, 2015 ∗†
  7. Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell – Completed March 15, 2015 ∗†
  8. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell – Completed March 17, 2015 ∗
  9. By Royal Command by Mary Hooper – Completed March 21, 2015 ∗
  10. The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell – Completed March 24, 2015 ∗
  11. The Turncoat by Donna Thorland – Completed April 7, 2015
  12. My So-Called Freelance Life: How to Survive and Thrive as a Creative Professional for Hire by Michelle Goodman – Completed April 30, 2015
  13. How to Become a Freelance Editor: Start a New Career in Less Than a Year by Dustin Schwanger – Completed May 6, 2015
  14. Night by Elie Wiesel – Completed May 18, 2015 ∗
  15. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg – Completed May 19, 2015
  16. Inspector of the Dead by David Morrell – Completed May 31, 2015
  17. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey – Completed June 13, 2015 ∗
  18. The Last Bookaneer by Matthew Pearl – Completed June 13, 2015
  19. The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady by Elizabeth Stuckey-French – Completed June 22, 2015 †
  20. Dracula by Bram Stoker – Completed June 23, 2015 ∗
  21. The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau – Completed June 27, 2015
  22. Bossypants by Tina Fey – Completed July 6, 2015 ∗
  23. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen – Complete July 11, 2015 ∗
  24. How to Start a Home-based Editorial Services Business by Barbara Fuller – Completed July 11, 2015
  25. Side Hustle Blueprint: How to make an extra $1000 in 30 days without leaving your day job! By Lise Cartwright – Completed July 11, 2015
  26. More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell – Completed July 12, 2015
  27. Babayaga by Toby Barlow – Completed July 19, 2015 †
  28. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak – Completed July 25, 2015 ∗
  29. The Vision by Heather Graham – Completed July 27, 2015 ∗
  30. The Betrayed by Heather Graham – completed July 29, 2015 ∗
  31. The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss – Completed July 29, 2015
  32. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller – Completed July 31, 2015 †
  33. Death Callers by Raven Hudgins – Completed August 5, 2015 ‡
  34. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell – Completed August 23, 2015 ∗
  35. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – Completed August 26, 2015
  36. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy – Completed August 27, 2015 ∗
  37. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee – Completed August 28, 2015 ∗
  38. Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned by Lena Dunham – Completed August 29, 2015 ∗
  39. The Elements of Editing by Arthur Plotnik – Completed September 1, 2015 ∗
  40. Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James – Completed September 2, 2015 ∗
  41. Get Motivated!: Overcome Any Obstacle, Achieve Any Goal, and Accelerate  Your Success with Motivational DNA by Tamara Lowe – Completed September 12, 2015 ∗
  42. The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness by Dave Ramsey – Completed September 28, 2015
  43. Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind: How to Be Seen and Heard in the Overcrowded Marketplace by Al Ries – completed October 5, 2015 ∗
  44. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger – Completed October 6, 2015 ∗
  45. Blog, Inc.: Blogging for Passion, Profit, and to Create Community by Joy Deangdeelert Cho – Completed October 6, 2015
  46. Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Richard Rhodes – Completed October 7, 2015 ∗
  47. Thornfield Hall by Emma Tennant – Completed October 14, 2015 ∗
  48. The Evidence of Love by Nancy Adams – Completed October 15, 2015 †
  49. As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes – Completed October 28, 2015
  50. McGraw-Hill’s Proofreading Handbook by Laura Killen Anderson – Completed November 1, 2015 ∗
  51. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury – Completed November 5, 2015 ∗
  52. The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas – Completed November 6, 2015 ∗
  53. The Vactioners by Emma Straub – Completed November 8, 2015 ∗
  54. 1984 by George Orwell – November 9, 2015 ∗
  55. The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger – Completed November 11, 2015 ∗
  56. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell – Completed November 11, 2015 ∗
  57. Song of the Nibelungs by Anonymous – Completed November 12, 2015 ∗
  58. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare – Completed November 12, 2015 ∗
  59. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis – Completed November 12, 2015 ∗
  60. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White – Completed November 18, 2015 ∗
  61. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien – Completed November 18, 2015 ∗
  62. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien – Completed November 19, 2015 ∗
  63. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien – Completed November 22, 2015 ∗
  64. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore – Completed November 22, 2015 ∗
  65. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri – Completed November 24, 2015 ∗
  66. Eragon by Christopher Paolini – Completed December 30, 2015 ∗
  67. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Illustrated version) by J.K. Rowling – Completed December 31, 2015

What do you think of my reading list? I have all types of genres thrown in there for this year. Leave a comment below.

Please check back tomorrow for my 2016 Reading Challenge and list of books.