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I'm keeping track of my challenges on my blog (here, if anyone is interested) but I'll try to keep up with them here as well. Here are my aims:

• To read 84 books in 2015
• To read 30,000 pages in 2015
• To have at least 75% of my reading come from my unread DTB (so at least 63 books - I currently have 162 unread paper books!)
• To complete my Back to the Classics challenge
• To complete the TBR Pile challenge
• To spend less than £10 on ebooks per month, and only buy one paper book per month

Number of books read: 36

List:

Spoiler:

1. Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett - 3/1/15
2. Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake - 9/1/15
3. Emma - Jane Austen - 23/1/15
4. Emma - Jane Austen - 25/1/15
5. All the Bright Places - Jennifer Niven - 26/1/15
6.Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - 27/1/15
7. Anne of Avonlea - LM Montgomery - 28/1/15
8. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories - F. Scott Fitzgerald - 29/1/15
9. Anne of the Island - LM Montgomery - 30/1/15
10. The Sky is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson - 31/1/15
11. Meet me at the Cupcake Cafe - Jenny Colgan - 2/2/15
12. Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake - 5/2/15
13. The Spectacular Now - Tim Tharp - 20/2/15
14. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith - 25/2/15
15. The Girl who Saved the King of Sweden - Jonas Jonasson - 28/2/15
16. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut Jr - 3/3/15
17.The Universe versus Alex Woods - Gavin Extence - 7/3/15
18. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy - 10/3/15
19.About a Boy - Nick Hornby - 10/3/15
20. Dark Places - Gillian Flynn - 11/3/15
21. Bright Young Things - Scarlett Thomas - 15/3/15
22. Tampa - Alissa Nutting - 18/3/15
23. Since You've Been Gone - Morgan Matson - 22/3/15
24. Amy and Roger's Epic Detour - Morgan Matson - 23/3/15
25. Second Chance Summer - Morgan Matson - 24/3/15
26. Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny - 28/3/15
27. The Reformed Vampire Support Group - Catherine Jinks - 31/3/15
28. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday - 2/4/15
29. Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels - 7/4/15
30. North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell - 10/4/15
31. Disgrace - JM Coetzee - 11/4/15
32. East of Eden - John Steinbeck - 15/4/15
33. What Alice Forgot - Liane Moriarty - 18/4/15
34. A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki - 19/4/15
35. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad - 22/4/15
36. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster - 26/4/15

Number of pages read: 13391

Number of "New to Me" DTB read: 19 2/3

Back to the Classics Challenge:

Spoiler:

• A 19th Century Classic – Emma – Jane Austen (1815) (finished 25/1/15)
• A 20th Century Classic - East of Eden – John Steinbeck (1952) (finished 15/4/15)
• A Classic by a Woman Author – North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell (1855) (finished 10/4/15)
• A Classic in Translation – Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert (1856)
• A Very Long Classic Novel – Middlemarch - George Eliot
• A Classic Novella – A Room with a View – EM Forster (Goodreads has my Kindle edition at 226 pages, with the limit being 250 so I hope this is okay, despite there being longer versions) (1908).
• A Classic with a Person’s Name in the Title – Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens (1839)
• A Humorous or Satirical Classic – Candide – Voltaire (1759)
• A Forgotten Classic - The Silver Darlings – Neil M. Gunn (1941)
• A Nonfiction Classic – A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf (1929)
• A Classic Children’s Book – Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
• A Classic Play – The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams (1945)

The Official 2015 TBR Pile Challenge

Spoiler:

• January – Gormenghast trilogy – Mervyn Peake
• February – Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy - finished 10/3/15
• March - Lord of Light – Roger Zelazny - finished 28/3/15
• April – Disgrace- JM Coetzee - finished 11/4/15
• May- Dubliners - James Joyce
• June – Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
• July – Big Fish – Daniel Wallace
• August - Going Out – Scarlett Thomas
• September – Tam Lin - Pamela Dean
• October – The Shining – Stephen King
• November - The Cider House Rules – John Irving
• December – Dreams Underfoot - Charles de Lint
• Alternates: Cinder – Marissa Meyer; The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster

Amount spent on e-books: 16.98/30 pounds

Number of DTB bought:3/3