Reading Challenge Update [July-August 2016]

Moving right along! I'm almost at my goal for my GoodReads challenge, but I've got some catching up to do on the others. ^_^

These Months: 26 books
Total: 73/80

The Books:

July
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1) by Douglas Adams

The Final Detail (Myron Bolitar #6) by Harlan Coben
Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy #1) by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan
The Lost Herondale (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy #2) by Cassandra Clare and Robin Wasserman
The Whitechapel Fiend (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy #3) by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson
14 (Taylor Jackson #2) by J.T. Ellison
Nothing but Shadows (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy #4) by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan
The Room by Jonas Karlsson
How to be Popular by Meg Cabot
The Darkest Corners by Kara Thomas
Happily Ever After (The Selection #0.4 ,#0.5, #2.5, #2.6) by Kiera Cass
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
The Fall of the Hotel Dumort (The Bane Chronicles #7) by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson
What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything (The Bane Chronicles #8) by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan
The Last Stand of the New York Institute (The Bane Chronicles #9) by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, and Maureen Johnson
The Course of True Love (The Bane Chronicles #10) by Cassandra Clare
The Voicemail of Magnus Bane (The Bane Chronicles #11) by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, and Maureen Johnson
The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, and Maureen Johnson
August
See How They Run (Embassy Row #2) by Ally Carter
Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty by Christine Heppermann
Judas Kiss (Taylor Jackson #3) by J.T. Ellison
Antigoddess (Goddess War #1) by Kendare Blake
Seraphina (Seraphina #1) by Rachel Hartman
Before the Fall: Arrival (Embassy Row #0.5) by Ally Carter
Bitter Sweet Love (The Dark Elements #0.5) by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings

These Months: 2 books

Total: 14/40

The Categories/Books:

July

a book recommended by someone you just met: Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

August

a book from the library: Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty by Christine Heppermann

These Months: 11 TBR books

 Total: 21/30

The Books:

July

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1) by Douglas Adams 

14 (Taylor Jackson #2) by J.T. Ellison

The Fall of the Hotel Dumort (The Bane Chronicles #7) by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson
What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything (The Bane Chronicles #8) by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan
The Last Stand of the New York Institute (The Bane Chronicles #9) by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, and Maureen Johnson
The Course of True Love (The Bane Chronicles #10) by Cassandra Clare
The Voicemail of Magnus Bane (The Bane Chronicles #11) by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, and Maureen Johnson
The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, and Maureen Johnson
August
Seraphina (Seraphina #1) by Rachel Hartman
Before the Fall: Arrival (Embassy Row #0.5) by Ally Carter
Bitter Sweet Love (The Dark Elements #0.5) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

 These Months: 1 book

Total: 2/12

The Categories/Books:

July
a book you've already read at least once:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1) by Douglas Adams

Reading Challenge Update [February - June 2016]

I got a little preoccupied with life and forgot to post my reading updates. I feel like I haven't read all that much, but somehow, I'm still on track with my overall goal for the year. The other challenges . . . not so much.

GoodReads Reading Challenge

These Months: 38 books
Total: 47/80

The Books:
February

Lair of Dreams (The Diviners #2) by Libba Bray

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story by John Berendt

You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day

The One-of-a-Kind Cat Book by Ciye Cho

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
March

The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co #1) by Jonathan Stroud

What's the Opposite? (The Hueys) by Oliver Jeffers

The Whispering Skull (Lockwood & Co #2) by Jonathan Stroud
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike #1) by Robert Galbraith
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike #2) by Robert Galbraith
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2) by Stieg Larsson
April
When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware #1) by Jonathan Kellerman
Stars Above (The Lunar Chronicles #4.5) by Marissa Meyer
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium #3) by Stieg Larsson
Blood Test (Alex Delaware #2) by Jonathan Kellerman
Over the Edge (Alex Delaware #3) by Jonathan Kellerman
Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike #3) by Robert Galbraith
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner
Silent Partner (Alex Delaware #4) by Jonathan Kellerman
Time Bomb (Alex Delaware #5) by Jonathan Kellerman
Private Eyes (Alex Delaware #6) by Jonathan Kellerman
May
Lady Midnight (The Dark Artifices #1) by Cassandra Clare
Devil's Waltz (Alex Delaware #7) by Jonathan Kellerman
 Sandry's Book (Circle of Magic #1) by Tamora Pierce
All the Pretty Girls (Taylor Jackson #1) by J.T. Ellison
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson
Tris's Book (Circle of Magic #2) by Tamora Pierce
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini
June
Andromeda (The God-Haunted Saga #1) by Meg Trotter
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
That's Not My Penguin... by Fiona Watt
That's Not My Dinosaur by Fiona Watt 
The Future Collection: Science Fiction Short Stories by Beth Revis
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Daja's Book (Circle of Magic #3) by Tamora Pierce
Where's My Nose? by Susan Ring
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh

These Months: 6
Total: 12/40

The Categories/Books:
February
a book written by a celebrity: You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day
a book written by a comedian: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
March
a book translated into English: The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2) by Stieg Larsson
a New York Times bestseller: The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike #1) by Robert Galbraith
April
a book set in your home state (Tennessee): The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner
June
a book that is under 150 pages: The Future Collection: Science Fiction Short Stories by Beth Revis

These Months: 7 TBR Books
Total: 10/30

The Books:
February
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story by John Berendt
March

The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co #1) by Jonathan Stroud

The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike #1) by Robert Galbraith
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike #2) by Robert Galbraith
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2) by Stieg Larsson
April
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium #3) by Stieg Larsson
June
The Future Collection: Science Fiction Short Stories by Beth Revis

These Months: 0
Total: 1/12

Reading Challenge Update [January 2016]

Another year, another set of reading challenges! I'm doing four this year: Goodreads Reading Challenge, my own TBR Take-Down, the Popsugar Reading Challenge, and Modern Mrs. Darcy's Reading Challenge. Thankfully Popsugar's challenge is forty books instead of fifty this year, so that's helpful, and I'll be trying to read books that can apply to multiple lists. Here's to another year of books!

This Month: 9 books

The Books:

The Guild (The Guild #1) by Felicia Day, Jim Rugg and Dan Jackson

A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren

Go the F--k to Sleep by Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert

To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before #1) by Jenny Han

The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn #1) by Renee Ahdieh

T-Rex Trying by Hugh Murphy

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider

This Month: 6 books

Total: 6/40

The Categories/Books:

a YA bestseller: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

a self-improvement book: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert

a book you can finish in a day: T-Rex Trying by Hugh Murphy

a political memoir: A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren

a graphic novel: The Guild (The Guild #1) by Felicia Day, Jim Rugg and Dan Jackson

a book about a culture you're unfamiliar with: The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn #1) by Renee Ahdieh

This Month: 3 TBR books

 Total: 3/30

The Books:

 To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before #1) by Jenny Han

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider

 This Month: 1 book

Total: 1/12

The Categories/Books:

a book you can finish in a day: T-Rex Trying by Hugh Murphy


 

2015 Reading Challenge Summary: Goodreads Reading Challenge

 Challenge: Read 75 Books

Total: 90

Status: Completed

The Books:

Shalena's bookshelf: read-2015

The Prince of Mist

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

tagged:
read-2015, ya, historical, from-library, magic, pub-before-2010, pa...

Blue Lily, Lily Blue

by Maggie Stiefvater

tagged:
ya, ghosts, creatures, from-library, historical-elements, immortals...

Emerald Green

by Kerstin Gier

tagged:
read-2015, from-library, ya, fun, ghosts, historical-elements, magi...

My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

by Stephanie Perkins

tagged:
from-library, ya, fun, read-2015, pub-2014, new-adult, and short-st...

The Midnight Palace

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

tagged:
read-2015, ya, from-library, creatures, ghosts, historical, gothic,...

Paper Valentine

by Brenna Yovanoff

tagged:
read-2015, from-library, ghosts, ya, mystery, own, pub-2013, parano...

The Watcher in the Shadows

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

tagged:
read-2015, from-library, creatures, ya, gothic, historical, magic, ...

Anatomy of a Misfit

by Andrea Portes

tagged:
contemporary, read-2015, from-library, ya, pub-2014, tough-subjects...

Sinner

by Maggie Stiefvater

tagged:
read-2015, paranormal, from-library, ya, pub-2014, series, shifters...

Allegiant

by Veronica Roth

tagged:
read-2015, dystopian, from-library, ya, futuristic, own, pub-2013, ...

Rebel Belle

by Rachel Hawkins

tagged:
read-2015, fun, from-library, ya, historical-elements, magic, pub-2...

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

tagged:
read-2015, adult, adult-ya-crossover, boarding-school, classic, fav...

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

by J.K. Rowling

tagged:
read-2015, creatures, fantasy, ya, fun, historical-elements, magic,...

Quidditch Through the Ages

by Kennilworthy Whisp

tagged:
read-2015, fantasy, ya, historical-elements, mg, magic, own, pub-be...

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

tagged:
read-2015, classic, mythology, magic, own, supernatural, witches, p...

Certain Girls

by Jennifer Weiner

tagged:
read-2015, adult, adult-ya-crossover, ya, contemporary, pub-before-...

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

by Erik Larson

tagged:
historical, read-2015, non-fiction, from-library, own, and pub-2011

Warm Bodies

by Isaac Marion

tagged:
read-2015, adult-ya-crossover, from-library, fun, futuristic, ya, n...

The School for Good and Evil

by Soman Chainani

tagged:
read-2015, creatures, boarding-school, ya, fairy-tale, fantasy, fey...

The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

tagged:
read-2015, adult-ya-crossover, ya, adult, classic, favorites, from-...

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

by Neil Gaiman

tagged:
read-2015, adult-ya-crossover, fairy-tale, creatures, fantasy, horr...

Brown Girl Dreaming

by Jacqueline Woodson

tagged:
read-2015, ya, from-library, mg, non-fiction, travel, historical-el...

Through the Woods

by Emily Carroll

tagged:
read-2015, adult-ya-crossover, adult, ya, creatures, fantasy, fairy...

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

tagged:
read-2015, contemporary, ya, adult-ya-crossover, favorites, from-li...

Glory O'Brien's History of the Future

by A.S. King

tagged:
read-2015, from-library, contemporary-with-a-twist, ya, historical-...

Gabi, a Girl in Pieces

by Isabel Quintero

tagged:
read-2015, from-library, contemporary, ya, pub-2014, tough-subjects...

Columbine

by Dave Cullen

tagged:
read-2015, from-library, non-fiction, favorites, tough-subjects, pu...

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

by Tom Franklin

tagged:
read-2015, adult-ya-crossover, adult, contemporary, mystery, pub-be...

Wanderlove

by Kirsten Hubbard

tagged:
read-2015, ya, diverse-characters, contemporary, from-library, fun,...

Belzhar

by Meg Wolitzer

tagged:
read-2015, contemporary, ya, boarding-school, from-library, contemp...

Impulse

by Ellen Hopkins

tagged:
read-2015, boarding-school, ya, from-library, own, pub-before-2010,...

A World Without Princes

by Soman Chainani

tagged:
read-2015, ya, boarding-school, fairy-tale, fantasy, from-library, ...

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

by Becky Albertalli

tagged:
read-2015, diverse-characters, ya, contemporary, favorites, from-li...

Faking Normal

by Courtney C. Stevens

tagged:
read-2015, from-library, contemporary, own, religion-spirituality, ...

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

tagged:
contemporary, ya, diverse-characters, lgbtq, read-2015, from-librar...

Bellweather Rhapsody

by Kate Racculia

tagged:
read-2015, ya, adult, adult-ya-crossover, contemporary, diverse-cha...

Dancing Barefoot

by Wil Wheaton

tagged:
read-2015, short-stories, non-fiction, memoir, pub-before-2010, wri...

The Girl on the Train

by Paula Hawkins

tagged:
read-2015, mystery, contemporary, adult, scribd, thriller, and pub-...

Haunted

by Meg Cabot

tagged:
read-2015, fun, ghosts, ya, mystery, paranormal, pub-before-2010, s...

How to Write Fiction Without the Fuss

by Lucy McCarraher

tagged:
read-2015, pub-2013, reference, scribd, and writing

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

by Susanna Clarke

tagged:
adult, read-2015, alternate-universe, fey-faeries-fairies, from-lib...

Halloween Rain

by Christopher Golden

tagged:
read-2015, ya, angels-demons, creatures, fun, magic, own, paranorma...

The Goldfinch

by Donna Tartt

tagged:
read-2015, contemporary, adult-ya-crossover, adult, from-library, h...

Mosquitoland

by David Arnold

tagged:
read-2015, ya, contemporary, diverse-characters, from-library, toug...

Speak

by Laurie Halse Anderson

tagged:
read-2015, from-library, own, pub-before-2010, ya, contemporary, an...

Twilight

by Meg Cabot

tagged:
read-2015, fun, ya, favorites, ghosts, historical-elements, mystery...

Foundation

by Isaac Asimov

tagged:
read-2015, from-library, futuristic, classic, own, pub-before-2010,...

A Long Fatal Love Chase

by Louisa May Alcott

tagged:
classic, read-2015, historical, own, pub-before-2010, religion-spir...

4 to 16 Characters

by Kelly Hourihan

tagged:
ya, read-2015, contemporary, netgalley, pub-2013, tough-subjects, a...

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

tagged:
read-2015, adult-ya-crossover, ghosts, classic, gothic, own, pub-be...

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

by Avi

tagged:
mg, own, historical, read-before-2010, pub-before-2010, read-2015, ...

Attachments

by Rainbow Rowell

tagged:
read-2015, contemporary, from-library, adult, fun, and pub-2011

Boundless

by Cynthia Hand

tagged:
read-2015, college, ya, angels-demons, paranormal, religion-spiritu...

Jekel Loves Hyde

by Beth Fantaskey

tagged:
read-2015, ya, mystery, own, creatures, shifters, paranormal, super...

The Emperor's Edge

by Lindsay Buroker

tagged:
read-2015, creatures, fantasy, adult, fun, high-fantasy, magic, mys...

A Million Suns

by Beth Revis

tagged:
read-2015, ya, futuristic, mystery, own, pub-2012, series, and scie...

Racing Savannah

by Miranda Kenneally

tagged:
read-2015, ya, from-library, contemporary, fun, pub-2013, and series

Wither

by Lauren DeStefano

tagged:
dystopian, from-library, ya, read-2015, own, pub-2011, futuristic, ...

All Fall Down

by Ally Carter

tagged:
read-2015, ya, alternate-universe, contemporary, from-library, high...

Fever

by Lauren DeStefano

tagged:
read-2015, from-library, ya, dystopian, futuristic, own, pub-2012, ...

Afterworlds

by Scott Westerfeld

tagged:
read-2015, contemporary, ya, contemporary-with-a-twist, diverse-cha...

Sever

by Lauren DeStefano

tagged:
read-2015, dystopian, futuristic, pub-2013, own, travel, and ya

Once We Were

by Kat Zhang

tagged:
read-2015, from-library, alternate-universe, ya, pub-2013, own, ser...

Monster

by Walter Dean Myers

tagged:
read-2015, diverse-characters, ya, contemporary, own, poc-author, p...

Dracula

by Bram Stoker

tagged:
read-2015, from-library, own, classic, paranormal, religion-spiritu...

John Ball's In the Heat of the Night

by Matt Pelfrey

tagged:
read-2015, historical, classic, adult, mystery, own, play, tough-su...

Bone Gap

by Laura Ruby

tagged:
read-2015, ya, magical-realism, from-library, pub-2015, travel, and...

Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

tagged:
read-2015, classic, from-library, historical, and pub-before-2010

Saint Anything

by Sarah Dessen

tagged:
read-2015, ya, contemporary, from-library, and pub-2015

A Really Awesome Mess

by Trish Cook

tagged:
read-2015, contemporary, ya, boarding-school, from-library, pub-201...

Walk Two Moons

by Sharon Creech

tagged:
read-2015, contemporary, ya, from-library, travel, and pub-before-2010

Fairest

by Marissa Meyer

tagged:
fairy-tale, aliens, ya, read-2015, futuristic, from-library, pub-20...

Beauty Queens

by Libba Bray

tagged:
from-library, ya, high-concept, satire, pub-2011, read-2015, contem...

Cat on the Edge

by Shirley Rousseau Murphy

tagged:
read-2015, contemporary-with-a-twist, adult, from-library, fun, mag...

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

by Rachel Cohn

tagged:
read-2015, contemporary, diverse-characters, ya, from-library, fun,...

Book of Shadows

by Cate Tiernan

tagged:
magic, ya, series, pub-before-2010, read-2010, from-library, religi...

The Coven

by Cate Tiernan

tagged:
read-2015, from-library, ya, historical-elements, magic, mythology,...

Marly's Ghost

by David Levithan

tagged:
read-2015, ghosts, ya, lgbtq-author, own, paranormal, supernatural,...

Marcelo in the Real World

by Francisco X. Stork

tagged:
read-2015, contemporary, diverse-characters, ya, from-library, pub-...

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

tagged:
read-2015, from-library, classic, adult, ghosts, own, horror, paran...

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

by Mary E. Pearson

tagged:
read-2015, ya, from-library, futuristic, own, pub-before-2010, scie...

Shooter

by Walter Dean Myers

tagged:
read-2015, diverse-characters, contemporary, ya, own, poc-author, p...

Winter

by Marissa Meyer

tagged:
read-2015, ya, aliens, fairy-tale, diverse-characters, from-library...

Splintered

by A.G. Howard

tagged:
read-2015, creatures, ya, fantasy, fey-faeries-fairies, from-librar...

Being Sloane Jacobs

by Lauren Morrill

tagged:
read-2015, contemporary, ya, from-library, fun, high-concept, own, ...

The Naturals

by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

tagged:
read-2015, ya, from-library, contemporary, mystery, high-concept, o...

The Dear One

by Jacqueline Woodson

tagged:
read-2015, contemporary, ya, diverse-characters, own, lgbtq, poc-au...

Hush

by Jacqueline Woodson

tagged:
read-2015, diverse-characters, ya, contemporary, own, pub-before-20...

Mind Games

by Kiersten White

tagged:
read-2015, from-library, ya, diverse-characters, own, paranormal, p...

Unbreakable

by Kami Garcia

tagged:
read-2015, ya, angels-demons, horror, from-library, ghosts, mytholo...