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)
19. The Heir of Novron - Michael Sullivan (reread)
20. Cold Iron - Miles Cameron
21. The More the Terrier - David Rosenfelt
22. Grant - Ron Chernow
23. Dark Forge - Miles Cameron
24. Three Inch Teeth - C. J. Box
25. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
26. Bright Steel - Miles Cameron
27. Rutherford B. Hayes - Hans L. Trefousse
28. Priest of Bones - Peter McLean
29. Fifty-Fifty - Steve Cavanagh
30. Priest of Lies - Peter McLean
31. Nightshade - Michael Connelly
32. Blood Ties - Jo Nesbo
33. Priest of Gallows - Peter McLean
34. Priest of Crowns - Peter McLean
35. Storm of Steel - Matthew Harffy
36. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President - Candice Millard
37. Red Dog Farm - Nathaniel Ian Miller
38. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
39. Blood Song - Anthony Ryan

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
9) Midnight Black by Mark Greaney 506p
10) Bad Lands by Preston and Childs 352p
11) Flint by Louis L'Amour 230p
12) Ride the Dark Trail by Louis L'Amour 168p
13) Lonely On The Mountain by Louis L'Amour 194p
14) Eyes of Eagles by William W Johnstone 487p
15) Dreams of Eagles by William W Johnstone 412p
16) Talons of Eagles by William W Johnstone 368p
17) Scream of Eagles by William W Johnstone 319p
18) Rage of Eagles by William W Johnstone 288p

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 Eater Series Book 2 - Christoper Ruocchio 4/14
10. Demon in White - The Sun Eater Series Book 3 - Christopher Ruocchio 5/2
11. Dungeon Crawler Carl - Dungeon Crawler Series - Matt Dinnamin 5/6
12. Carls Doomsday Scenario - Dungeon Crawler Series - Matt dinnamin 5/9
13. The Dungeon Anarchist Cookbook - Dungeon Crawler Series- Matt Dinnamin 5/16
14. The Gate of the Feral Gods - Dungeon Crawler Series - Matt Dinnamin 5/20
15. The Butchers Masquerade- Dungeon Crawler Series - Matt Dinnamin 5/31
16. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride - Dungeon Crawler Series - Matt Dinnamin 6/7
17. The Inevitable Ruin - Dungeon Crawler Series - Matt Dinnamin 6/18
18. The Devils - Joe Abercrombie - 7-6
19. Kingdoms of Death - Suneater Series book 4 - Christopher Ruocchio 7/20
20. Isles of the Emberdark - Cosmere Novel - Brandon Sanderson 7/25
21. Dark Age - Red Rising Series - Pierce Brown 8/22
22. Lightbringer - Red Rising Series - Pierce Brown 8/31
23. Ashes of Men - Suneater Series book 5 - Christopher Ruocchio 9/11
24. Disquiet Gods - Suneater Series book 6 - Christopher Ruocchio 9/26
25. Kings of the Wyld - Nicholas Eames 10/9
26. Bloody Rose - Nicholas Eames 10/28

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: 56
Total Pages Read: 21,488

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 Rising
Red Spectre
Rogue Heroes
All the Light We Cannot See
1984
The Odessa File
Golden Son
Piranese
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
The Will of the Many
The Tainted Cup
Clear and Present Danger
The End: Hitler's Germany, 1944–45
Long Bright River
Metropolis
Morning Star
Gods and Generals
Without Remorse
Masters of the Air
Good inside
Slaughterhouse Five
Blood Red Snow
The Spies of Zurich
Vienna at Nightfall
The Life We Bury
The Guise of Another
Munich
The Fall of Berlin 1945
Helmet for my Pillow
Rivers of London
A Drop of Corruption
Moons Over Soho
The Last Hill
Until the Eyes Shut
Surprise, Kill, Vanish
Things We Cannot Say
The Shortest History of Germany
Cry Havoc
Red Rabbit
Munich Wolf
Targeted: Beirut
American Assassin
Terminal List (reread)
Fatherland

In Progress:

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
13. Just For The Summer - Abby Jimenez
14. Queen of Ash and Iron - Melanie Karsak
15. The Sun and Her Flowers - Rupi Kaur
16. The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman
17. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
18.The Friend Zone - Abby Jimenez
19. Under the Strawberry Moon - Melanie Karsak
20. Heart of the Valkyrie - Melanie Karsak
21. The Sword of the Valkyrie - Melanie Karsak
22. The Happily Ever After Playlist - Abby Jimenez
23. Life’s Too Short - Abby Jimenez
24. The Situationship (Short Story) - Abby Jimenez
25. To Sir Phillip, With Love (Bridgerton - Book 5) - Julia Quinn
26. Carrie Soto is Back - Taylor Jenkins Reid
27. Say You’ll Remember Me - Abby Jimenez
28. The Heiress - Rachel Hawkins
29. Worst Wingman Ever - Abby Jimenez
30. The Second Mrs. Astor - Shana Abe
31. Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid
32. The Book of Life (All Souls Trilogy, Book 3) - Deborah Harkness
33. Wylding Hall - Elizabeth Hand
34. Time’s Convert - Deborah Harkness
35. The Book of Magic - Alice Hoffman
36. The Serviceberry - Robin Wall Kimmerer

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
25. Tender Is the Flesh - Agustina Bazterrica
26. The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
27. Room to Swing - Ed Lacy
28. A Dead Draw - Robert Dugoni
29. The Women - Kristin Hannah
30. King of Ashes - S.A. Cosby
31. The Archer - Paul Coelho
32. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to Ai - Yuval Noah Harari
33. Never Flinch - Stephen King
34. Badlands - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
35. My Friends - Fredrik Backman
36. Drug of Choice - Michael Crichton
37. Everything is Tuberculosis - John Green
38. There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen's “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland - Steven Hyden
39. Atmosphere - Taylor Jenkins Reid
40. Big Dumb Eyes - Nick Bargatze
41. Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
42. Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run
Book - Peter Ames Carlin
43. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J. K. Rowling
44. Petty: The Biography - Warren Zanes
45. Dracula - Bram Stoker
46. The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
47. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling
48. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling
49. Twice - Mitch Albom
50. Hidden Pictures - Jason Rekulak
51. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

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