My 2015 Reading Challenge…Wow! I surpassed my expectations by reading 67 books this year. When I last wrote about my 2015 Reading Challenge, I challenged myself to read 52 books this year, one book each week. I set up my reading challenge in the 2015 Reading Challenge app on goodreads.com. I also used the prompts in Popsugar’s 2015 Reading Challenge.
I definitely went over my 52 books for the year, but not all of the books were from my Popsugar Reading Challenge list. At the beginning of this year, I joined a local book club. Several of the books I read this year were books selected for my book club, and all the remaining books are ones I just wanted to read or edited for my internships. Below is the completed reading list for my 2015 Reading Challenge.
Legend: ∗ Popsugar’s Reading Challenge List , † my book club’s list, ‡ for books I edited.
- Our Iceberg Is Melting by John P. Kotter – Completed January 1, 2015 ∗
- Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin – Completed January 2, 2015 ∗
- #Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso – Completed January 18, 2015 ∗
- The Fred Factor: How passion in you work and life can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary by Mark Sanborn – Completed January 24, 2015 ∗
- Killer Frost by Jennifer Estep – Completed February 12, 2015 ∗
- March by Geraldine Brooks – Completed March 14, 2015 ∗†
- Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell – Completed March 15, 2015 ∗†
- Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell – Completed March 17, 2015 ∗
- By Royal Command by Mary Hooper – Completed March 21, 2015 ∗
- The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell – Completed March 24, 2015 ∗
- The Turncoat by Donna Thorland – Completed April 7, 2015
- My So-Called Freelance Life: How to Survive and Thrive as a Creative Professional for Hire by Michelle Goodman – Completed April 30, 2015
- How to Become a Freelance Editor: Start a New Career in Less Than a Year by Dustin Schwanger – Completed May 6, 2015
- Night by Elie Wiesel – Completed May 18, 2015 ∗
- Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg – Completed May 19, 2015
- Inspector of the Dead by David Morrell – Completed May 31, 2015
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey – Completed June 13, 2015 ∗
- The Last Bookaneer by Matthew Pearl – Completed June 13, 2015
- The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady by Elizabeth Stuckey-French – Completed June 22, 2015 †
- Dracula by Bram Stoker – Completed June 23, 2015 ∗
- The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau – Completed June 27, 2015
- Bossypants by Tina Fey – Completed July 6, 2015 ∗
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen – Complete July 11, 2015 ∗
- How to Start a Home-based Editorial Services Business by Barbara Fuller – Completed July 11, 2015
- Side Hustle Blueprint: How to make an extra $1000 in 30 days without leaving your day job! By Lise Cartwright – Completed July 11, 2015
- More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell – Completed July 12, 2015
- Babayaga by Toby Barlow – Completed July 19, 2015 †
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak – Completed July 25, 2015 ∗
- The Vision by Heather Graham – Completed July 27, 2015 ∗
- The Betrayed by Heather Graham – completed July 29, 2015 ∗
- The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss – Completed July 29, 2015
- Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller – Completed July 31, 2015 †
- Death Callers by Raven Hudgins – Completed August 5, 2015 ‡
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell – Completed August 23, 2015 ∗
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – Completed August 26, 2015
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy – Completed August 27, 2015 ∗
- Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee – Completed August 28, 2015 ∗
- Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned by Lena Dunham – Completed August 29, 2015 ∗
- The Elements of Editing by Arthur Plotnik – Completed September 1, 2015 ∗
- Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James – Completed September 2, 2015 ∗
- Get Motivated!: Overcome Any Obstacle, Achieve Any Goal, and Accelerate Your Success with Motivational DNA by Tamara Lowe – Completed September 12, 2015 ∗
- The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness by Dave Ramsey – Completed September 28, 2015
- Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind: How to Be Seen and Heard in the Overcrowded Marketplace by Al Ries – completed October 5, 2015 ∗
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger – Completed October 6, 2015 ∗
- Blog, Inc.: Blogging for Passion, Profit, and to Create Community by Joy Deangdeelert Cho – Completed October 6, 2015
- Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Richard Rhodes – Completed October 7, 2015 ∗
- Thornfield Hall by Emma Tennant – Completed October 14, 2015 ∗
- The Evidence of Love by Nancy Adams – Completed October 15, 2015 †
- As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes – Completed October 28, 2015
- McGraw-Hill’s Proofreading Handbook by Laura Killen Anderson – Completed November 1, 2015 ∗
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury – Completed November 5, 2015 ∗
- The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas – Completed November 6, 2015 ∗
- The Vactioners by Emma Straub – Completed November 8, 2015 ∗
- 1984 by George Orwell – November 9, 2015 ∗
- The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger – Completed November 11, 2015 ∗
- Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell – Completed November 11, 2015 ∗
- Song of the Nibelungs by Anonymous – Completed November 12, 2015 ∗
- Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare – Completed November 12, 2015 ∗
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis – Completed November 12, 2015 ∗
- Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White – Completed November 18, 2015 ∗
- The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien – Completed November 18, 2015 ∗
- The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien – Completed November 19, 2015 ∗
- The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien – Completed November 22, 2015 ∗
- V for Vendetta by Alan Moore – Completed November 22, 2015 ∗
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri – Completed November 24, 2015 ∗
- Eragon by Christopher Paolini – Completed December 30, 2015 ∗
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Illustrated version) by J.K. Rowling – Completed December 31, 2015
What do you think of my reading list? I have all types of genres thrown in there for this year. Leave a comment below.
Please check back tomorrow for my 2016 Reading Challenge and list of books.