2015 Challenge Wrap-Up

Every year, I check my blog to see if I met my reading challenge goals.  I was a little late in doing so this year, but I did want to see how I did.  Some years I am better at keeping track throughout the year, but this was not one of those years. I’ll list the books for each challenge and link to the reviews below. 2015 Poetry Reading Challenge (Goal is to read 1 book or 20 individual poems):

1. Joy Street by Laura Foley (review)
2. Silent Flowers: A New Collection of Japanese Haiku Poems edited by Dorothy Price (review)
3. WET by Toni Stern (review)
4. Crow-Work by Eric Pankey (review)
5. Doll God by Luanne Castle (review)
6. Paradise Drive by Rebecca Foust (review)
7. The Robot Scientist’s Daughter by Jeannine Hall Gailey (review)
8. Pictograph: Poems by Melissa Kwasny (review)
9. Vessel: Poems by Parneshia Jones (review)
10. Medic Against Bomb: A Doctor’s Poetry of War by Frederick Foote (review)
11. Banned for Life by Arlene Ang (review)
12. Free Air: Poems by Joe Wenke (review)
13. Remember the Sun: Poems of Nature and Inspiration by Melanie Simms (review)
14. The Antigone Poems by Marie Slaight (review)
15. Looking for Potholes by Joe Wenke (review)
16. Double Jinx by Nancy Reddy (review)
17. Pride & Prejudice: Retold in Limericks by Seamus O’Leprechaun (review)
18. Lost and by Jeff Griffin (review)
19. The Book of Goodbyes by Jillian Weise (review)
20. Ohio Violence by Alison Stine (review)
21. Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems selected by Paul B. Janeczko (review)
22. Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine (review)
23. Changes: A Child’s First Poetry Collection by Charlotte Zolotow (review)
24. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (review)
25. Red Sox Rhymes: Verses and Curses by Dick Flavin (review)
26. Goodnight Songs: A Celebration of the Seasons by Margaret Wise Brown (review)
27. Wet Silence by Sweta Srivastava Vikram (review)
28. Dark Sparkler by Amber Tamblyn (review)
29. The Same-Different: Poems by Hannah Sanghee Park (review)
30. The Uncertainty Principle: Poems by Roxanna Bennett (review)
31. Strange Theater by John Amen (review)
32. Teacher’s Pets by Crystal Hurdle (review)
33. All the Words Are Yours: Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (review)
34. Underdays: Poems by Martin Ott (review)
35. National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry: More than 200 Poems With Photographs That Float, Zoom, and Bloom! by J. Patrick Lewis (review)

2015 War Through the Generations – Read Any War (read any # of books about any war):

1. After the War Is Over by Jennifer Robson (review) WWI
2. War’s Trophies by Henry Morant (review) Vietnam War
3. The Secret of Magic by Deborah Johnson (review) WWII
4. The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher (review) WWI
5. Medic Against Bomb: A Doctor’s Poetry of War by Frederick Foote (review) Iraq Wars
6. The Mapmaker’s Children by Sarah McCoy (review) U.S. Civil War
7. The House of Hawthorne by Erika Robuck (review) U.S. Civil War
8. The Cherry Harvest by Lucy Sanna (review) WWII
9. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (review) War in general
10. The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War illustrated by Jim Kay (review) WWI
11. Mireille by Molly Cochran (review) WWII
12. Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans (review) WWII
13. The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach by Pam Jenoff (review) WWII
14. The Race for Paris by Meg Waite Clayton (review) WWII
15. The Small Backs of Children by Lidia Yuknavitch (review) Bosnia War
16. Longbourn’s Songbird by Beau North (review) WWII

2015 New Authors Challenge (read 50 New-to-Me Authors):

1. Jewel Kats
2. Henry Morant
3. Deborah Johnson
4. Mallory Ortberg
5. Andy Miller
6. Tony Stern
7. Lorna Schultz Nicholson
8. Dora Levy Mossanen
9. Tim Butcher
10. Rebecca Skloot
11. Luanne Castle
12. Mallory Kasdan
13. Danielle Paige
14. Jan Hahn
15. Rebecca Foust
16. Melissa Kwasny
17. Parneshia Jones
18. Frederick Foote
19. Joe Wenke
20. Melanie Simms
21. Natural History Museum
22. Marie Slaight
23. Greil Marcus
24. Nancy Reddy
25. Jeff Griffin
26. Seamus O’Leprechaun
27. Erika Robuck
28. Abigail Samoun
29. Jillian Weise
30. Jo Nesbo
31. William Todd Rose
32. Alison Stine
33. Lisa Pliscou
34. Paul B. Janeczko
35. Claudia Rankine
36. Charlotte Zolotow
37. Jacqueline Woodson
38. Richard Torrey
39. Jo Baker
40. Richard Fairgray
41. Jonathan Lethem
42. Margaret Peot
43. Jim Kay, various
44. Mi-ae Lee
45. Ae-hae Yoon
46. Judith Fertig
47. Robert C. O’Brien
48. Cassie Premo Steele
49. Maria Grace
50. Hee Jung Chang
51. Molly Cochran
52. Bryan Ballinger
53. Lissa Evans
54. Matthew Jervis
55. Kim Norman
56. Dick Flavin
57. Gillian Flynn
58. Geert de Kockere
59. Susan Andra Lion
60. Rachel Simon
61. Meg Waite Clayton
62. Lidia Yuknavitch
63. L. Shapley Bassen
64. Amber Tamblyn
65. Hannah Sanghee Park
66. Roxanna Bennett
67. Bella Forrest
68. Nuala O’Connor
69. Anna Llenas
70. Lauren Redniss
71. Lisa Maggiore
72. Martin Ott
73. Joe Hill
74. Anne Margaret Lewis
75. Catherine Bailey
76. Maggie Stiefvater
77. Jean P. Moore
78. Linda Ashman
79. Beau North
80. Terry Border
81. Kate Louise
82. Clement C. Moore
83. Kimberly Knutsen
84. Ree Drummond
85. Alexander McCall Smith
86. Jussi Adler Olsen

That’s it for me in 2015; now I have to really start thinking about 2016 challenges. There will be a poetry reading challenge announcement soon!