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I was aiming at 75 -- but I read 114!

* 59 in English
* 12 Catalan
* 6 Danish
* 5 German
* 18 Greek
* 4 Spanish
* 3 French
* 7 Italian

I read books in Spanish, Greek, Catalan, Italian, German, Danish and French as well as English. In the first three I managed to graduate to adult books at some point during the year--I already have don that with the last three. Italian stayed with learner's Easy Readers.
That way I improved my foreign language skills and kept up with English, Danish, French and German literature. I expected that the English would be about 40%, the Danish 20%, and the remaining 40% divided among the others, but it ended up way fewer Danish books, and loads of Greek, including the last one, a 350 page crime novel. I read the first four Harry Potter books in Catalan and Spanish! It's interesting for me that Danish, Greek and Catalan are spoken by relatively few people. I love learning languages (and recently started Japanese, although I doubt I will ever be adding a Japanese book to my GoodReads reading lists!

Last year I tried for 100, and ended up putting in some YA and even Middle School books I was reading for my Little Free Library. That left a bunch of really hefty books on the table and in my kindle.
As you can see, I like to read books in foreign languages, some of which (Greeek, Catalan, Italian, in particular) are still a challenge for me with lots of word look-ups, and some with exercises. I hope to get to "real" books in some of those languages sometime during the year, like I did with Spanish last year. But that's slow going.
As a retiree I have lots more time than when I was teaching, but I think this year I won't go crazy trying to make it. Last year I was finishing book 100 last night (New Year's Eve!)

Books read so far, 2019 by language
4 on January 12
9 on January 23
15 on February 3
20 on February 9
34 on March 13
58 on May 8
73 on June 27 (The Reading Challenge page had it at 76 until I found some repeats.)
103 on October 24
107 on November 21
112 on December 17
114 on December 31


English
(Other languages in a comment below)
* 1 Long Division by Kiese Laymon
* 2 The Reckoning by John Grisham
* 3 The Princess Bride by William Goldman
* 4 Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts (which led to:) (non-fiction)
* 5 Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rowson
* 6 The Wife by Meg Wolitzer
* 7 Too Many Cooks by Marcia Talley
* 8 Miss Havisham Regrets by Marcia Talley
* 9 Two Sisters by Marcia Talley
* 10 Mile High Murder by Marcia Talley
* 11 Heart: A History by Sandeep Jauhar (non-fiction)
* 12 The Madonna of the Mountains by Elise Valmorbida (Italy/Australia)
* 13 The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (England)
* 14 Our Lady of the Prairie by Thisbe Nissen (non-fiction)
* 15 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs (non-fiction)
* 16 The Distant Marvels by Chantel Acevedo (Cuba)
* 17 Rock Needs River: A Memoir About a Very Open Adoption by Vanessa McGrady (non-fiction)
* 18 Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston (non-fiction)
* 19 The Ice Beneath Her by Camilla Grebe (Sweden)
* 20 They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
* 21 The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook
* 22 The Power by Naomi Alderman
* 23 After She's Gone by Camilla Grebe (Sweden)
* 24 Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu
* 25 I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan
* 26 Becoming by Michelle Obama (non-fiction)
* 27 This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell (Ireland, etc.)
* 28 Matilde Waltzing by Elise Valmorbida (Italy, Australia)
* 29 An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew by Annejet van der Zijl (Netherlands) (non-fiction)
* 30 Plastic & Health: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet by David Azoulay (CIEL) (non-fiction)
* 31 Sciatica Pain Relief in 15 Minutes: Fast and Easy Sciatica Exercises for SI Joint Pain and Sciatica Relief by MORGAN SUTHERLAND (non-fiction)
* 32 Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang (non-fiction)
* 33 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition by William Kamkwamba (non-fiction) (Malawi)
* 34 What Matters Most: The Get Your Shit Together Guide to Wills, Money, Insurance, and Life’s “What-ifs�� by Chanel Reynolds (non-fiction)
* 35 Wake by Lisa McMann
* 36 An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn (non-fiction)
* 37 Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions by Rachel Held Evans (non-fiction)
* 38 Start Now!: You Can Make a Difference by Chelsea Clinton (non-fiction)
* 39 The Tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kessler
* 40 Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary Norris (non-fiction)
* 41 The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
* 42 Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew by Josephine Preston Peabody
* 43 An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie (originally in French)
* 44 Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
* 45 The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
* 46 Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly
* 47 Theras and His Town by Caroline Dale Snedeker
* 48 Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
* 49 The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
*50 Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall
* 51 Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall
* 52 The History of Bees by Maja Lunde (Norwegian)
* 53 The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
* 54 Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (Japan, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
* 55 The Bishop’s Wife by Mette Ivie Harrison
* 56 The Overstory by Richard Powers
* 57 Circe by Madeline Miller
* 58 The Story of a Goat by Perumal Murugan (India)
* 59 Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot (First nations)

Read in other languages
The list here got too long, so these have been added below as a Reply Message.

Kristin wrote: "...I'm impressed that you read foreign language books in the original language. I only read translations, which I love."
I started learning the new languages using , which I mostly use on my phone. I've also used other programs like RosettaStone. But after getting through DuoLingo, I found that I needed to read, and that there are a lot of Easy Readers if you know where to look for them. Many also have audio available, which is great! And now I've discovered , where you can find native speakers as either paid teachers (I pay my Greek teacher) or conversation partners with half an hour one language and half and hour another. With one we share her Catalan with my Danish.

Awesome job so far keep it up!

The original list was so long, so I've moved these to a separate comment.

Read in other languages

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Learning Catalan was just for curiosity while visiting Barcelona. I knew it was sort of like Spanish, but not at all, so I wanted to see how it worked. I did Catalan through Spanish on DuoLingo and found some italki tutors. I also bought a few VEUS Easy Readers and a Dictionary in Barcelona, and have now completed the entire set, as well as 3 Harry Potter books and a couple of "real" novels, which are quite old, with old-fashioned language. I have to find something new for the new year!
* 1 Veus Lectures (Graded Readers for Learners of Catalan): Em Dic Nicostrat (A1) by Òscar Vendrell Corrons
* 2 Veus Lectures: Les Taules De L'Olivia (A1) by Marta Mas Prats
* 3 El gat que va perdre els bigotis (A2) by Xavier Gual
* 4 Veus Lectures : La Caixa De Les Joies (A2) by Jordi Dausà Mascort
* 5 Entre línies by Marcel Bartumeus Bacardit
* 6 Harry Potter i la pedra filosofal by J.K. Rowling (translated from English by Laura Escorihuela Martínez
* 7 La llar dels cabells by Òscar Vendrell Corrons
* 8 Els Fak Eh by "Jordi Dausà Mascort
* 9 El club de la petanca (Veus Lectures B1)  by Òscar Vendrell Corrons
* 10 Harry Potter i la cambra secreta by J.K. Rowling (translated from English by Laura Escorihuela Martínez)
* 11 Laura a la ciutat dels sants by Miquel Llor
* 12 Harry Potter i el pres de Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (translated from English by Laura Escorihuela Martínez)

Dansk
I lived in Denmark for nearly 30 years, so this comes easily to me.
* 1 Homo sapienne by Niviaq Korneliussen (originally in Greenlandic Eskimo)
* 2 Som pesten by Hanne-Vibeke Holst
* 3 Den, der lever stille by Leonora Christina Skov
* 4 Nancy by Dennis Gade Kofod
* 5 Granitgraven by Pernille Boelskov
* 6 ��������ø����� by Lene Kaaberbøl

Deutsch
I majored in German, and taught it in Danish high schools for 15 years, so it's quite easy for me (although I'm learning the new vocabulary of the past 20 years!)
* 1 Das Mohnblütenjahr by Corina Bomann
* 2 Andorra by Max Frisch
* 3 Jauche und Levkojen by Christine Brückner
* 4 Der Stoff des Lebens by Sylvia Benesch
* 5 Tiefe See: Ein dänisches Krimi aus Bornholm by Pernille Boelskov translated by Patrick Zöller.

Ελληνικά
We spent 2 weeks in Greece this summer with my Danish daughter and granddaughter, which may explain so many books about Greece in English and in (or translated from) Greek.
Most are intended for learners or children.
* 1 Διακοπές στη Σαντορίνη (3a) by Neni Kolethra )
* 2 Περιπέτεια στη Μάνη by Neni Kolethra
* 3 Κανάλι 35 by Λίλυ Εξαρχοπούλου
* 4 Ή��Ӭες by Μαρία Αρώνη
* 5 Μια δόση τρέλας by Δήμητρα Δήμητρα
* 5 Το μυστικό του κόκκινου σπιτιού by Αργυρώ Μαργαρίτη
* 6 Γεωγραφία της Ελλάδας A Geography of Greece by Theodore C. Papaloizos (non-fiction)
* 7 The Odyssey by Homer, translator Robert Fitzgerald
* 8 A History of Ancient Greece by Theodore C. Papaloizos (non-fiction)
* 9 Greek Tragedies, Vol. 1: Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus translated by David Grene
* 10 Οι δώδεκα θεοί του Ολύμπου by Κλεάνθης Αρβανιτάκης
* 11 Vyzantinae Historia =: Byzantine History by Theodore C. Papaloizos
* 12 Ιστορία της νεότερης Ελλάδας A History of Modern Greece by Theodore C. Papaloizos
My Greek tutor suggested reading this children's book, and I picked up a few more:
* 13 Γιαγιά στο ψυγείο by Voula Mastori
* 14 Η κακιά μάγισσα παραιτείται I kakia magissa paraiteitai by Alexandra Tsolka
* 15 Το μυστικό της ριγέ βαλίτσας by Έλενα Στανιού
* 16 Εβδομηντάχρονη Ετών 10 by Antri Antoniou
* 17 Θάνατος παλικαριούβυ Kostis Palamas
* 18 Η Εποχή της Υποκρισίας by Πέτρος Μάρκαρης my first grown-up 350-page novel!

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I've been struggling to learn Spanish for years, and still can't carry on much of a conversation. (Have to live somewhere Spanish speaking for a while.) But I've gotten to where I can read a novel relatively easily.
* 1 101 Conversations in Simple Spanish: Short Natural Dialogues to Boost Your Confidence & Improve Your Spoken Spanish by Olly Richards
* 2 Dulce enemiga mía by Marcela Serrano
* 3 Harry Potter y El Caliz de Fuego by J.K. Rowling translator: Nieves Martín Azofra
* 4 El brillo de las luciérnagas by Paul Pen

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French was my first foreign language, but I haven't been working on it recently. But I decided that this year I would download some French novels to my kindle to see how it goes. It was amazingly easy, compared to Spanish, for some reason.
* 1 La fille qui lisait dans le métro by Christine Féret-Fleury
* 2 Un mensonge de trop de Aurélien Gilbert
* 3 Le bonheur n'a pas de rides by Anne-Gaëlle Huon

Italiano
All of these are Easy Readers. I had an opportunity to sign up for an online class based on reading a story through , so I jumped into Italian. But I haven't progressed beyond Easy Readers.

* 1 Mafia, amore & polizia (A2) by Alessandro De Giuli & Ciro Massimo Naddeo
* 2 Il Ladro di Scarpe (A2) by Enrico Lovato
* 3 Opera! by Ciro Massimo Naddeo
* 4 Short Stories in Italian for Beginners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Italian the fun way! by Olly Richards
* 5 Italian Short Stories For Beginners Volume 2: 8 More Unconventional Short Stories to Grow Your Vocabulary and Learn Italian the fun Way! by Olly Richards
* 6 Italian: Short Stories for Beginners + Italian Audio: by Talk in Italian
* 7 Italian Short Stories For Intermediate Learners: 8 Unconventional Short Stories to Grow Your Vocabulary and Learn Italian the Fun Way! by Olly Richards