hope i'm not treading on anyones toes, if so let this one die.....

personally, 50 will always be a push for me, especially when i'm at work, so thought we could have two separate challenges in one thread so i dont feel hopelessly inadequate.......

anyway, rules pasted and adapted from last year's thread...sign up for the challenge you want and read away.....

25/50 Book Challenge 2015

Rules of the challenge for those not familiar with the challenge:

1. 25 or 50 books.
2. A book must be at least 50 pages long.
3. Books you started in 2015 and finish in 2016 count on the 2016 list.
4. Re-reads count
5. If a book has two books in it it counts as two (Ex. An Orwell book with the animal farm and 1984, counts as two.)
6. No rules on what to read, besides what's listed.
7. This is for fun so enjoy yourself.

going for 25 books

1. 4/5

2. 4/5

Well I'm a glutton for punishment, so I'm going for 50 this time again, despite failing last year.

1. Asylum - Madeleine Roux.
2. Sanctum - Madeleine Roux.

I'm going for whatever number I'm currently on.

Today I started re-reading
1. The Ancestor's Tale - Richard Dawkins.

This is likely to take a while.

Does a play count as a book?

Does the Bible count as one book or many?

Evolving wrote:Does a play count as a book?

id say so.....

Animavore wrote:Does the Bible count as one book or many?

going off those rules, which are at least two years old, if the book of the bible is over 50 pages then it counts.....


many years since i read it and its not one id be going back to for a reread.....

Could we have a 100 book level? I got through 162 books in 2015. So far this year, I've finished two and started a third. Lots of time to read when you're injured and can hardly leave the house.

go for it!

I'm considering the 25 challenge this year. Last year I read about four or five, because I didn't set a goal.

Well I'm a glutton for punishment, so I'm going for 50 this time again, despite failing last year.

1. Asylum - Madeleine Roux.
2. Sanctum - Madeleine Roux.
3. Think - Simon Blackburn.

If I win the prize money on the 25 book challenge can I go on to win the luxury holiday in the 50 book challenge?

Evolving wrote:I'm going for whatever number I'm currently on.

Today I started re-reading
1. The Ancestor's Tale - Richard Dawkins.

This is likely to take a while.

Read it last year realising that it was a poor strategic choice for 50 book challenges. Still, I may have to reread it. It was so full of awesome stuff. My favourite branch was the one between organisms which are topologically spheres and ones which are donuts. I did a google search for the cool idea of meat donut to replace meat bag but wished I hadn't.

It is full of awesome stuff, and is a candidate for my favourite book on biology. I've read it twice already: once about ten years ago, I think, and again about three years later. It's been on my ipad for a while as an e-book, but I was very disappointed that the colour plates are not included. (I read it as a library book before.)

Great idea! I'm going for 50 again.

1. An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser

I'm aiming for 25.

1. A Hero of our Time - Mikhail Lermontov

1. Asylum - Madeleine Roux.
2. Sanctum - Madeleine Roux.
3. Think - Simon Blackburn.
4. Half A King - Joe Abercrombie.

1. An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
2. The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale - Joseph Conrad

I stand a fighting chance of at least the 25 this year, I hope, so...

1. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
2. Little Black Lies by Sharon Bolton