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No problem! Congrats on making it so far. :)

Updated message 85

20/23

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updated 73

19/21

updated message 430: 18/19

I finished my challenge!

A book for every year since I was born.

1982 The Color Purple
1983 The Woman in Black
1984 Flaubert's Parrot
1985 Ender's Game
1986 The Lady in the Tower
1987 Obernewtyn
1988 The Bean Trees
1989 Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather
1990 The Farseekers
1991 Saint Maybe
1992 Mostly Harmless
1993 Tomorrow, When the War Began
1994 East, West
1995 Behind the Scenes at the Museum
1996 Reality and Dreams
1997 The Secrets of a Fire King
1998 Veronika Decides to Die
1999 Hardboiled and Hard Luck
2000 The Dressmaker
2001 Elizabeth Costello
2002 Spies
2003 Princess in Pink
2004 The Last Love Story
2005 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
2006 Odd One Out
2007 The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
2008 The Dead and the Gone
2009 Twenties Girl
2010 Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
2011 The Song of Achilles
2012 A Man Called Ove
2013 The Aviator's Wife
2014 Fourth of July Creek
2015 The Other Side of the World
2016 Mr. Splitfoot

Congratulations, Meg! What was your favorite book?

Update to Msg 173 -

This challenge has been harder for me than I expected! Books from the 80s,... where are you in my life? I added 3 more books read to my post (#173) and my total read is now 27 of 41! I am not going to achieve 100% of my goal!

Cassandra wrote: "Wow! Lots of congratulations to go around, to Kim, Cheri, Maria, Sowmya, Paul, Gabriella, and Victoria. Fantastic job, everyone."

Thanks, Cassandra! I'm not updated on the list, though, but glad to see my posting made it. :)

Oops! Sometimes I miss things when I flip back and forth between the updates and the first post. You're all up to date now. :)

Challenge complete, good luck everyone!

Goal: 32/32, 100.00%

1985: The Handmaid's Tale - 05 Jul 2016, 5/5
1986: Robot Dreams (Robot, #0.4) - 18 Jul 2016, 4/5
1987: The Cormorant - 25 Feb 2016, 4/5
1988: Sourcery (Discworld, #5) - 31 Aug 2016, 3/5
1989: Antique Dust: Ghost Stories - 11 Dec 2016, 4/5
1990: Get Shorty (Chili Palmer, #1) - 14 Feb 2016, 4/5
1991: Naomi's Room - 30 Sep 2016, 4/5
1992: The Positronic Man (Robot, #0.6) - 27 Jul 2016, 5/5
1993: A Night in the Lonesome October - 06 Aug 2016, 4/5
1994: The Bird Artist - 19 Jul 2016, 4/5
1995: City of Bones - 04 May 2016, 4/5
1996: The Night In Question: Stories - 01 Sep 2016, 4/5
1997: Timequake - 22 Jan 2016, 3/5
1998: Revenge: Stories - 30 Jun 2016, 4/5
1999: Selected Poems: Charlotte Mew - 28 Jul 2016, 1/5
2000: The Bottoms - 11 Aug 2016, 4/5
2001: Mystic River - 02 Apr 2016, 4/5
2002: Coraline - 13 Apr 2016, 4/5
2003: Dissolution - 27 Sep 2016, 3/5
2004: Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1) - 22 Aug 2016, 3/5
2005: The Dog of the Marriage: Stories - 27 Feb 2016, 2/5
2006: The Terror - 15 Mar 2016, 4/5
2007: The Last Colony (Old Man's War, #3) - 10 Dec 2016, 3/5
2008: Saturn's Children (Freyaverse, #1) - 18 Apr 2016, 3/5
2009: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - 24 Jan 2016, 3/5
2010: In the Mean Time - 22 Apr 2016, 4/5
2011: The Shelter - 08 Aug 2016, 3/5
2012: 14 - 21 Feb 2016, 4/5
2013: Brimstone and Marmalade - 16 Feb 2016, 4/5
2014: The Morning Dew - 09 Jul 2016, 4/5
2015: The Fifth Season - 03 Jan 2016, 4/5
2016: Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2016 - 07 May 2016, 3/5

1988The Fifth Child
1989-Black Cherry Blues
1990-Devil in a Blue Dress
1991-A Red Death
1992-White Butterfly
1993-The Client
1994-Nothing Lasts Forever
1995-Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia
1996-Jack & Jill
1997-Spiced to Death
1998-Biggie and the Fricasseed Fat Man
1999-The Testament
2000-The Quiet Game
2001-Married Men
2002-The Bookseller of Kabul
2003-Maisie Dobbs
2004-The Perfect Husband
2005-The Surgeon
2006-Darkfever
2007-Hard Luck and Trouble: A Landlord's Tale
2008-Heart and Soul
2009-The 8th Confession
2010-The Tenth Song
2011-Private London
2012-Dead Heads
2013-Sibling Rivalry
2014-A Traitor's Tears
2015-The Black Sheep
2016-NYPD Red 4
29/29 completed!

message 278 - challenge completed!

Congratulations Eggp, Natalie, and Elena!

Wow, challenge completed in message #102. :) Thanks for the nice challenge idea!

Congratulations Marika! What was your favorite book of the challenge?

Cassandra wrote: "Congratulations Marika! What was your favorite book of the challenge?"
My TOP 3 books: Isabel Allende - The House of the Spirits (year 1982), Zadie Smith: On Beauty (year 2005) and Philip Pullmann: The Golden Compass (year 1995). <3

Awesome! I need to read some Zadie Smith.

message 70 updated/completed

Updated message 138
now at 11/13
started my book for 2010
just need to find one for 2004

Not this one, Kristin. We try to do a mix of old and new challenges each year. Feel free to borrow the idea and do a personal challenge if you like, though!

Congratulations, Katharine!

Updated 73

21/21

Finished challenge. Yay!

Well this challenge unfortunately fell by the roadside. It was a bit more work than I imagined. I managed to complete the following years 2016- 1996, so I am revamping my challenge parameters to incorporate those years mentioned above. 19/21 (22)done:

2016- Spider Game & Runaway Vampire
2015- Modern Romance
2014- Not Quite Forever
2013- Orphan Train
2012- Silken Sands
2011- Bring Me Home For Christmas
2010- Bachelor Unleashed
2009- While My Sister Sleeps
2008-
2007-
2006- American Born Chinese
2005- Holly & Mistletoe
2004- Some Kind of Wonderful
2003- Four Blind Mice
2002- Iron Butterfly
2001- Wild Seed
2000- The Dream
1999- There's A Hair In My Dirt! A Worm's Story
1998- The Real Thing
1997- The Dream Comes True
1996- The Dream Unfolds

1992- Unfinished Business ( my wild card)

19 done, 2 more to locate and read before 2016 comes to a close.
Ttfn!

THE EVERY YEAR CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2016

29/29

��1987Rock Star

��1988 Small Sacrifices: A True Story of Passion and Murder

��1989A Time to Kill

��1990Postmortem

1991Body of Evidence

��1992The Children of Men

1993Cruel & Unusual

��1994Insomnia

��1995Rose Madder

��1996Jack & Jill

��1997 The Bone Collector

��1998 A Clash of Kings

��1999 Ashes to Ashes

��2000 A Storm of Swords

��2001 Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

��2002 Hush

��2003The Wedding

��2004Scar Tissue

��2005Still Alice

��2006 Slave to Sensation

��2007 Unwind

��2008- The Silver Linings Playbook

��2009 Run for Your Life

��2010 Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love

��2011 The Martian

��2012 Hopeless

��2013Wicked Beat

��2014End of Eternity

��2015- The Secret by the Lake

��2016 The Girl In The Ice


ALL Done

what I learned from this challenge I really enjoy Patricia Cornwell books i could have finished this entire challenge reading her books and been a happy camper

Finished this one.

Every Year Challenge
Completed: 28/28

1989: The Pillars of the Earth (12/12/16)
1990: Real Murders (6/18/16)
1991: The Magic of Recluce (7/10/16)
1992: The Skystone (11/23/16)
1993: Girl, Interrupted (4/11/16)
1994: Wizard's First Rule (10/23/16)
1995: Sabriel (1/14/16)
1996: Angela's Ashes (8/29/16)
1997: The Bronze Horseman (11/12/16)
1998: Sailing to Sarantium (10/8/16)
1999: White Oleander (7/7/16)
2000: 1st to Die (9/24/16)
2001: Suddenly You (5/10/16)
2002: The Lovely Bones (6/30/16)
2003: The Kite Runner (12/6/16)
2004: Onyx (3/27/16)
2005: The Glass Castle (2/11/16)
2006: Mistborn: The Final Empire (4/26/16)
2007: The Alchemyst (5/12/16)
2008: The Winter Sea (8/22/16)
2009: The Help (5/5/16)
2010: Orange Is the New Black (3/18/16)
2011: How to Be a Woman (2/20/16)
2012: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (12/1/16)
2013: The Ghost Bride (10/26/16)
2014: The Good Girl (10/29/16)
2015: After You (9/6/16)
2016: A Court of Mist and Fury (5/29/16)

#152

27/28

updated message 430: 18/19 complete. Stopping here as I have abandoned so many for the last year I had to complete.

Message #295 updated.

30/30 Completed!!

#152

Finished!

updated message 72
22/22

Update:

Message 8

41/47 completed

I updated message #26.

Read: 18/22


I might be able to get in one more by the end of the year.

Updated message #154. I think that I was too ambitious this one, and only finished 23/34 that I had planned. Apparently, I don't read many books published in the 80s :(

Updated #28.

15/16 completed.

I'm looking forward to getting around to Half of a Yellow Sun in the New Year!

Congratulations to Lisa, Blagica, Kelsi, Ann, Laura, and Hannah for finishing their challenges!

This was a bit tricky for me too and I didn't get anywhere my goal. Still fun though!

Ended at 17/29

1988: The Lioness Rampant
1997: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
1998: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
1999: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2000: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2001: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
2003: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2005: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
2007: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
2008: Once Upon a Time in the North
2009: Black Bird vol 1
2011: The Night Circus
2012: Cinder
2013: Scarlet
2014: Cress
2015: The Girl on the Train
2016: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Update message #104

1/8

Message 138 updated
Finished on 12/13 - thought i'd found a book for 2010 but misread the date published!
Will carry on this challenge as a long term personal one working back to the year I was born.