2015 Reading Challenge Results

See? I was keeping track!

Well, I couldn't mark all of the boxes on POPSUGAR's reading challenge for last year, but I did the best I could. Without further ado, here are the results!

Total Books Read: 24

Total Pages Read: 7,922

Total Books Read For Challenge: 18

Boxes Checked 29 / 50 (58%)

Challenge Books

The Agony and the Ecstasy – Irving Stone (good)

• A book with more than 500 pages (776 pages)
• A book set in a different country (Italy)
• A book based on a true story (Michelangelo’s Life)
• A book with antonyms in the title
• A book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit (Italy)

Dave Barry Turns 50 – Dave Barry (very good)

• A book with a number in the title
• A funny book
• A book from an author you love that you haven't read yet

Seventh Son – Orson Scott Card (good)

• A book that came out the year you were born (1987)
• A book with magic

Captive Paradise – James L. Haley (okay)

• A nonfiction book
• A book by an author you've never read before

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov (good)

• A banned book
• A book you started but never finished

Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton (very good)

• A classic romance
• A book by a female author

The Martian – Andy Weir (very good)

• A book that became a movie
• A mystery or thriller

Live Right and Find Happiness (Although Beer is Much Faster) – Dave Barry (very good)

• A book published this year

Pepper – Marjorie Shaffer (okay)

• A book with a one-word title

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories – Franz Kafka (okay)

• A book of short stories

Spam Nation – Brian Krebs (good)

• A popular author's first book

The Billion Dollar Spy – David E. Hoffman (very good)

• A book a friend recommended

The Emperor of All Maladies – Siddhartha Mukherjee (bad)

• A Pulitzer Prize-winning book (2011, general non-fiction)

So, Anyway... - John Cleese (good)

• A memoir

Behold the Man – Michael Moorcock (very good)

• A book you can finish in a day

Anya's Ghost – Vera Brosgol (okay)

• A graphic novel

4000 Years of Uppity Women – Vicki León (bad)

• A book you own but have never read

Ada's Algorithm – James Essinger (very bad)

• A book written by an author with your same initials (JE)

Non-Challenge Books

These are books I just read for fun, and have nothing to do with the reading challenge.

I, Claudius – Robert Graves (good)

The Orchardist – Amanda Coplin (very good)

Undeniable – Bill Nye (good)

Muhammad – Karen Armstrong (good)

God's Problem – Bart D. Ehrman (bad)

Physics for the Rest of Us – Roger S. Jones (okay)