#2025 Goodreads Challenge “Cheers”
- NO long reviews for these books…
- .…I’m just going to enjoy the challenge and see how far I come!
- These challenges are personal.
- Create your own separate challenge thread to list the challenge/s
- …you wish to participate in.
- Goodreads Group: Catching Up on Classics
- The whole month of December is dedicated to planning your challenge.
- You can add your books and make edit adjustments till December 31st.
- I’m starting some reading in last week of December for 2025 challenges!
- No changes should be made to your list once challenge starts
2025 Challenges taken: Completed: 0/10
Challenge #2 – Members Choice
Challenge #3 – New Authors
Challenge #4 – Short Story
Challenge #5 – Decade/Century/Millennium
Challenge #6 – Group Reads, Buddy Reads,
Challenge #7 – Series Books – Start, Continue, Complete
Challenge #11 – Future Classics
Challenge #12 – Fiction/Non-Fiction
Challenge #15 – Award Winners
Challenge. #1 Old & New Challenge
Pre-1914:
1 Julius Caesar – Shakespeare
2 Cyrano de Bergerac – E. Rostand
3 Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare
Post 1914:
1 The Caine Mutiny – Herman Wouk
2 Revolutionary Road – R. Yates
3 Le jardin des Finzi-Contini – Giorgio Bassani
On My Shelf Waiting:
1 The Iliad – Emily Watson transation – Homer
2 Bouvard et Pécuchet – G. Flaubert
3 Shōgun – James Clavell
4 Avec les alcooliques anonymous – J. Kessel (NF)
5 The Cloister and the Hearth – C. Reade
6 The Princesse de Clèves by Madame de Lafayette
Alternates:
1 La Vie devant soi – Romain Gary
2 L’Amant – Marguerite Duras
3 Romola – G. Eliot
2. 20th Century – Wolf Among Wolves – Hans Fallada (1937)
3. 21st Century – The Lack of Light- Nino Haratischwili (2022)
4. Nonfiction – Woodrow Wilson – C. Cox (2024)
5. New to me author: Solenoid – M. Cartarescu (2015)
6. Diversity: Miles: The Autobiography – M. Davis (1989)
7. Genre: Essays – Kafka: Making of an Icon – R. Robertson (2024)
8. Genre: Hist Fic Darkroom of Damocles – W. F.Hermans (1958)
9. Genre: Memoir (WW II): Mémoires – S. Klarsfeld (2009)
10. Genre: SciFi Silver Ships – S.H. Jucha (2015)
1. Edward D. Hoch – Dr. Sam Hawthorne Series
2. Robert Barnard – The Habit of Widowhood
3. Susan Breen – Maggie Dove: A Mystery
4. S.J. Rozan – China Trade
5. Lore Segal – Ladies’ Lunch and other stories
6. Henning Mankell – Faceless Killers
I want to expand my horizons by reading more crime fiction in 2025.
- Some Buried Caesar – Rex Stout (1939)
- She Shall Have Murder – Delano Ames (1948)
- From Russia with Love – Ian Fleming (1957)
- The Labyrinth Makers – Anthony Price (1970)
- A Perfect Spy – John le Carré (1986)
- Pashazade – John Courtenay Grimwood (2001)
- Sleeping Dogs – Ed Gorman (2008)
- An American Spy – Olen Steinhauer (2012)
- A Deadly Thaw – Sarah Ward (2016)
- See Also Deception – Larry D. Sweazy (2016)
- Shot in Detroit – Patricia Abbott (2016)
1. January: Oblong – Edward D. Hoch (Collection “Leopold’s Way”)
2. January: The House by the Ferris – Edward D. Hoch (Collection “Leopold’s Way”)
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Challenge #5 – Century. dd. 21.12.2024 Read 10 books…1 book per decade.
1861: Silas Marner – George Eliot
1873: La Corde au cou – Émile Gaboriau
1887: A Study in Scarlet – Arthur Conan Doyle
1895: Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
1905: The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
1916: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
1927: Death Comes for the Archbishop – W. Cather
1932: Tobacco Road – Erskine Caldwell
1945: A Bell for Adano – John Hersey
Challenge 6 – Group Reads. 0/12
1 Augustus – John Williams
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Challenge #7- Series Books – Start, Continue, Complete
START: Dr. Sam Hawthorne Series – Edward D. Hoch
- There are 15 books in this series…my target is first 3 books.
- Diagnosis: Impossible: The Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne
- More Things Impossible: The Second Casebook of Dr. Sam Hawthorne
- Nothing is Impossible: Further Problems of Dr Sam Hawthorne
- Maggie Dove: A Mystery –
- Maggie Dove Detective Agency –
START: The Accursed Kings – Maurice Druon (historical fiction)
- There are 7 books in this series…my target is first 3 books.
- The Iron King
- The Strangled Queen
- The Poisoned Crown
Challenge #12– Fiction/Non-Fiction
- Shakespeare
Nonfiction: Shakespeare, The Man Who Pays the Rent – Judi Dench
Fiction: Much Ado About Nothing - French Resistance
Nonfiction: Resistance: Memoirs of Occupied France – A. Humbert (WW II)
Fiction: The Alice Network – Kate Quinn (WW I) - WW II Finland
Nonfiction: Finland’s War of Choice – H. Lunde
Fiction: Les Guerriers de l’Hiver – O. Norek
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Challenge #15 – Award Winners – Nobel Prize: 0/2
- Herman Hesse – Steppenwolf (1927)
- Halldór Laxness – Independent People: An Epic (1934)
- Heinrich Böll – The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1974)
- Olga Tokarczuk – The Books of Jacob (2014)
- Nadine Gordimer – My Son’s Story (1990)
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I love seeing what challenges people are doing and what books they’ve selected for them! Merry Christmas, Nancy, and happy 2025 reading!!!
Jinjjer, the planning is the first step and it is so much fun! There are so many classics I still have not read! I saw that your “Bugsy” is almost ready..so let’s hope you get your favorite Xmas present! What is Marilyn getting form Santa Paws this year! Enjoy the holidays and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!