This is my fourth year participating in the Goodreads Reading Challenge. The aim is to read a chosen number of books over 12 consecutive months. Last year I copied my goal from the year before: read one book per week, for a total of 52 books.
I more than DOUBLED my goal and read over 130 books! I got kind of close to tripling my goal. I only needed about 20 more books…
With that being said, I pushed myself last year even when I didn’t want to. I felt like I read more in 2014, so it kind of made me feel less successful, but I actually read more books in 2015. Many of them were children’s books for my features in March and April.
I am setting my goal the same as it has been. My goal is 52 books, and I want to see if I can triple it. I want to know if I have it in me.
Goodreads 2016 Reading Challenge
- The Sound of the Stones by Beth Hammond
- The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline by Nancy Springer
- Broken Things to Mend by Karey White
- Feast of Fates by Christian A. Brown
- Not Always Happenstance by Rachael Anderson
- Dog Goner by Cynthia Port
- Zach Delacruz: Me and My Big Mouth by Jeff Anderson
- Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson
- Brain Camp by Susan Kim, et al.
- Night of the Purple Moon by Scott Cramer
- If We Were a Movie by Kelly Oram
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
- Colony East by Scott Cramer
- Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
- A Buss from Lafayette by Dorthea Jensen
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Liberty Frye and the Sails of Fate by J.L. Mccready
- The Siren by Elicia Hyder
- Doing It Over by Catherine Bybee
- The Untamed Earl by Valerie Bowman
- Noble Secrets by Cecilia Dominic
- Aether Spirit by Cecilia Dominic
- 27 Days to Midnight by Krista Kruppa
- Dragons Are Real by Valarie Budayr
- Love is Come by Heather B. Moore
- Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon
- Four Chambers by Julie Wright
- The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
- It’s In His Smile by Shelly Alexander
- Caught Bread Handed by Ellie Alexander
- The Neverland Wars by Audrey Greathouse
- Wonder by R.J. Palacio
- Heart Like Mine by Maggie McGinnis
- Study Hall of Justice by Derek Fridolfs and Dustin Nguyen
- Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova
- The Money Tree by Helen Yeomans
- The Earl’s New Bride by Frances Fowlkes
- The SockKids Say NO to Bullying by Michael John Sullivan
- A Love That Never Tires by Allyson Jeleyne
- Not Quite Perfect by Catherine Bybee
- Regarding Anna by Florence Osmund
- Dodger by Terry Pratchett
- Gertrude and Toby’s Friday Adventure by Shari Tharp
- O’er the River Liffey by Heidi Ashworth
- Between Heaven and Earth by Michele Paige Holmes
- Trouble River by Betsy Byars
- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
- Rosco the Rascal Visits the Pumpkin Patch by Shana Gorian
- Parallel Roads by Mel Teshco
- Wish Upon a Bear by Harmony Raines
- Oklahoma Christmas Blues by Maggie Shayne
- Adventurous Proposal by Laura Barnard
- Mistletow at Moonglow by Deborah Garner
- Faith in Every Footstep by Wesley Banks
