Reading Challenges 2015

1. Goodreads Reading Challenge 2015

Goal: 45 books
Achieved: 41 books

Last year I managed to read 50 books and this time I upped the ante and am trying to read 65 books. I think that will be a tough one especially since I am currently still in a little bit of a reading slump, but it’s the beginning of the year. Things will eventually pick up again.

1. Thomas Herrmanns – Das Tomatensaft-Mysterium: Fliegen in der Comedy Class
2. Sarah J. Maas – The Assassin and the Pirate Lord
3. Patrick Carman – Strengstens Verboten: Wilkommen im Hotel Whippet
4. Beth Revis – Across the Universe
5. Shawn T. Odyssey – Oona Crate und das dunkle Geheimnis des Orakels
6. Terry Deary -Abgefahrene Ägypter
7. Renée Holler – Das Geheimnis des goldenen Salamanders
8. Charlaine Harris – A Bone To Pick
9. Andreas H. Schmachtl – Hieronymus Frosch: Das hat die Welt noch nicht gesehen
10. John Farman – The Very Bloody History of Britain
11. Derek Landy – Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire
12. Bette A. Stevens – Amazing Matilda: A Monarch’s Tale
13. Rae Carson – The Crown of Embers
14. Katharina M. Mylius – Bloody Rosemary
15. Jennifer Estep – Touch of Frost
16. Octavia E. Butler – Parable of the Talents
17. Rae Carson – The Bitter Kingdom
18. Grace Draven – Radiance
19. Maria V. Snyder – Storm Glass
20. Grace Draven – Master of Crows
21. Sarah J. Maas – The Assassin and the Desert
22. Nina Blazon – Laqua: Der Fluch der schwarzen Gondel
23. Sarah J. Maas – The Assassin and the Underworld
24. Richard Stark – The Handle
25. Jessica Fletscher and Donald Bain – Coffee, Tea or Murder?
26. Emma Grey – Schuld war nur der Tee
27. Kai Meyer – Seide und Schwert
28. Frank M. Reifenberg und Gina Mayer – Die Schattenbande legt los
29. Josephine Angelini – Goddess
30. M.J. Haag – Depravity
31. Agatha Christie – Sad Cypress
32. Paula Hawkins – Girl on the Train
33. Rick Riordan – Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods
34. Claudia Gray – A Thousand Pieces of You
35. Ursula Neeb – Die Hurenkönigin
36. Rob Reef – Stableford: Ein Golf-Krimi aus Cornwall
37. Peter Gaymann und Andreas Hauffe – Der Weihnachtsmann kann einpacken
38. Kirsten John – Gefährliche Kaninchen feiern Weihnachten
39. Lauren Alleyne – Difficult Fruit
40. Andreas H. Schmachtl – Tilda Apfelkern: Alle warten auf Weihnachten
41. Andreas H. Schmachtl – Tilda Apfelkern:Oh du schöne Weihnachtszeit
    

2. Attack on the TBR pile 2015 (personal challenge)

Goal: 10 books
Achieved: 6 books

My TBR pile slowly increases and though I read a bit, there are more incoming books than outgoing. So I will try to read some that have been on my TBR pile for a while. The books that add themselves to my TBR pile this year [2014] (and they really do it on their own – they really want to come you know. Really, I have almost nothing to do with it 🙂 ), don’t count here. Is quite ambitious, but well, here goes nothing.

 

1. Renée Holler – Das Geheimnis des goldenen Salamanders
2. Charlaine Harris – A Bone To Pick
3. Andreas H. Schmachtl – Hieronymus Frosch: Das hat die Welt noch nicht gesehen
4. John Farman – The Very Bloody History of Britain
5. Rae Carson – The Crown of Embers
6. Rae Carson – The Bitter Kingdom

 

3. Finish Series Challenge 2015 (personal challenge)

Goal: finish 5 series
Achieved: 3 series (7 if audiobooks are included)

There is a wonderful Finish-Book-Series Challenges out there but their goals are just way to high for me. If I manage to finish 5 series (trilogies, multiple book series etc.) that would be quite an achievement.

1. Octavia E. Butler – Parable Duology
   – Parable of the Sower
   – Parable of Talents
2. Rae Carson – Girl of Fire and Thorns Trilogy
   – The Girl of Fire and Thorns
   – The Crown of Embers
   – The Bitter Kingdom
3. Josephine Angelini – Starcrossed Trilogy
   – Starcrossed
   – Dreamless
   – Goddess
4. Iny Lorentz – Auswanderer Saga (Audiobook)
   – Das goldene Ufer
   – Der weiße Stern
   – Das wilde Land
5. Sabine Marin – Henkerin Reihe (Audiobook)
   – Die Henkerin
   – Die Tränen der Henkerin
6. Rita Falk – Franz Eberhofer Reihe (Stand 2015) (Audiobook)
   – Winterkartoffelknödel
   – Dampfnudelblues
   – Grießnockerlaffäre
   – Sauerkrautkoma
   – Zwetschgendatschikompott
7. Oliver Pötzsch – Henkerstochter Reihe (Stand 2015) (Audiobook)
   – Die Henkerstochter
   – Die Henkerstochter und der Schwarze Mönch
   – Die Henkerstochter und der König der Bettler
   – Der Hexer und die Henkerstochter
   – Die Henkerstochter und der Teufel von Bamberg