2025 Reading Challenge

1. Esrahaddon- Michael Sullivan
2. The Army That Never Was - George S. Patton and the Deception of Operation Fortitude. - Taylor Downing
3. The Waiting - Michael Connelly
4. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine - Anne Applebaum
5. The Crown Tower - Michael Sullivan (reread)
6. The Rose and the Thorn - Michael Sullivan (reread)
7. The Death of Dulgath - Michael Sullivan (reread)
8. The Disappearance of Winter's Daughter - Micheal Sullivan (reread)
9. The Winners - Fredrik Backman
10. Deeds of Darkness - Mel Starr
11. Drumindor - Michael Sullivan
12. Presumed Guilty - Scott Turow
13. Dog Day Afternoon - David Rosenfelt
14. Eruption - Patterson/Crichton
15. Theft of Swords - Michael Sullivan (reread)
16. We Begin at the End - Chris Whitaker
17. Andrew Johnson - Annette Gordon Reed
18. Rise of Empire - Michael Sullivan (reread)

Going to increase my goal to 28 for 2025.

Completed
1) Mojave Crossing by Louis L'Amour 148p
2) The Sackett Brand by Louis L'Amour 151p
3) The Sky-Liners by Louis L'Amour 188p
4) The Lonely Men by Louis L'Amour 134p
5) Mustang Man by Louis L'Amour 189p
6) Shadow of Doubt by Brad Thor 356p...the Harvath series has gotten stale to me. I don't know if I'll read another one.
7) Galloway by Louis L'Amour 156p
8) Treasure Mountain by Louis L'Amour 187p

Set my goal of 20 last year missing 24 year before that. Hit 25 last year. Don’t have much planned. Got a buddy into Red Rising and found myself starting a reread of that. On Cradle series as well besides that it’s an open slate for 2025, good luck yall!

1. Red Rising - Red Rising Series - Pierce Brown 1/3
2. Golden Sun - Red Rising Series - Pierce Brown 1/9
3. Morning Star - Red Rising Series - Pierce Brown 1/17
4. Iron Gold - Red Rising Series - Pierce Brown 2/3
5. Nitro: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner’s WCW - Guy Evans 2/12
6. Soulsmith - Cradle Series Book 2 - Will Wight 2/18
7. The Death of WCW - RD Reynolds and Bryan Alvarez 2/24
8. Empire of Silence - The Sun Eater Series - Christopher Ruocchio 3/9
9. Howling Dark - The Sun Series Book 2 - Christoper Ruocchio 4/14

I hit 60 books in 2024

Not really by design, but thanks to an unexpected unemployment period that has dragged on to the new year

So aside from going back to school for my mba, I decided to churn and burn through a bunch of books

Hope 2025 goes better than 2024.

Happy reading.

does audio book count

Going for 50 this year

Complete: 22

Cardinal of the Kremlin
Against the Ice
A Spy and a Traitor
The Last of the Seven
The Templars
Shogun
The Day of the Jackal
Call for the Dead
Killing Floor
To Hell and Back
The Looking Glass War
Project Hail Mary
Red Spectre
1984
The Odessa File
Rogue Heroes
All the Light We Cannot See
Red Rising
Golden Son
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Piranesi
The Will of the Many

In Progress:
The Name of the Wind
The Tainted Cup

Goal this year is 15, step down from 24 in '24

And there will be a few re-reads in this year

In no particular order (aside from series order):
1. The Sequel - Jean Hanff Korelitz
2. Running Blind - Lee Child
3. Echo Burning - Lee Child
4. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien (re-read)
5. The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien (re-read)
6. The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien (re-read)
7. The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien (re-read)
8. A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson (re-read)
9. Get In - Mark Goldbridge Done - meh, soccer and United fan but too much useless shots at player that have performed well since it was written. 2/5
10. Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) - Jesse Q. Sutanto
11. Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend - M J Wassmer Current read
12. The Man Who Died Twice - Richard Osman - Done, I am enjoying the series and this was a very good follow up to the first one. I also really enjoy the shorter chapters because I hate stopping in the middle of chapters 4/5
13. The Bullet that Missed - Richard Osman
14. The Last Devil to Die - Richard Osman
15. We Solve Murders - Richard Osman

Does Manga count? Started reading Delicious in Dungeon by Ryoko Kui as my first and likely only manga series. The show on Netflix was really good so picked it up to finish before the next season
Volume 1 Done 4.5/5
Volume 2 Done 4/5
Volume 3 Current Read

If I finish all those, next up is
Mistborn Era One by Brandon Sanderson
The fifth Thursday Murders Club book due Sept 2025

Going to fall just short (33) of my goal of 35 books this year.

So going for 35 again for 2025:

1. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories - Norman Maclean
2. Queen of Stone: A Novel of Boudica - Melanie Karsak
3. Where the Library Hides - Isabel Ibanez
4. A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas
5. A Court of Mist and Fury - Sarah J. Maas
6. The Fall Risk - Abby Jimenez
7. A Court of Wings and Ruin - Sarah J. Maas
8. A Court of Frost and Starlight - Sarah J. Maas
9. You’re the One You’ve Been Waiting For (IFS) - Richard Schwartz
10. A Court of Silver Flames - Sarah J. Maas
11. Part of Your World - Abby Jimenez
12. Yours Truly - Abby Jimenez

Setting mine at 52 again. A book a week is a pace I don't want to fall under.

1. The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green
2. The Ministry of Time - Kaliane Bradley
3. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry - Fredrick Backman
4. What I Ate in One Year - Stanley Tucci
5. A Life Impossible: Living with ALS - Steve Gleason
6. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harari
7. The Troop - Nick Cutter
8. All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
9. Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari
10. The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy
11. Food for Thought - Alton Brown
12. The Cobra Event - Richard Preston
13. Cities of the Plain - Cormac McCarthy
14. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
15. The Butcher and the Wren - Alaina Urquhart
16. The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires - Grady Hendrix
17. The Ride of a Lifetime - Robert Iger
18. The Stand - Stephen King
19. Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine - Thomas Hager
20. Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy
21. Relic - Preston & Child
22. Memorials - Richard Chizmar
23. Behind Closed Doors - B.A. Paris
24. We Used to Live Here - Marcus Kliewer

One or my goals this year is to reread 3 books. Haven't decided which ones yet