2016 Reading Challenge Complete

I committed to the Goodreads 2016 Reading Challenge with a goal of 50 books. In the past few days, I devoured The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants series (the books were so good), reaching my goal before I leave for college. This way, any books I read during first semester will be bonus books to my 2016 goal.

2016 Reading Challenge

Gillian has completed her goal of reading 50 books in 2016!

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A guide to my rating system:
★★★★★ - Reserved for my favorite books ever
★★★★    - A must-read
★★★       - Enjoyable, I recommend it
★★          -  Not recommended but ok
★             - Bad, not interesting at all
✔             - Click the checkmark to read my review

Here are the 50 books I read and my rating for each:

1. The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison ★★ ✔
2. The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant ★★★★ ✔
3. Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone ★★ ✔
4. I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai ★★★★ ✔
5. The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman ★★★★ ✔
6. The Infinite Moment of Us by Lauren Myracle ★★ ✔
7. Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer ★★★
8. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne ★
9. Loveology by John Mark Comer ★★★ ✔
10. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ★★
11. This I Believe by Jay Allison ★★★★ ✔
12. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah ★★★★ ✔
13. Bloody Jack #2 by L.A. Meyer ★★★ 
14. The Edge by Roland Smith ★★★
15. Men, Women, and the Mystery of Love by Edward Sri ★★
16. Dad Is Fat by Jim Gaffigan ★★★★
17. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner ★
18. The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline ★★★★
19. Daisy Miller by Henry James ★★★
20. The Truth About Guys by Chad Eastham ★★
21. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson  ★★★
22. Bloody Jack #3 by L.A. Meyer ★★★
23. Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple ★★★★
24. Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys ★★★★ ✔
25. The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis ★★★★
26. The DaVinci Code by Josh McDowell ★★★★
27. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr ★★★★ 
28. The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper ★★★
29. Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman by Alice Steinbach ★★
30. By the Time You Read This by Lola Jaye ★★★
31. The Kindness Diaries by Leon Logothetis ★★★
32. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan ★★★★★ ✔
33. Greetings from the Flipside by Rene Gutteridge ★★
34. For You, for You I am Trilling These Songs by Kathleen Rooney ★★★
35. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin ★★
36. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki ★★★★ ✔
37. And One More Thing Before You Go... by Maria Shriver ★★★
38. The Light Behind the Window by Lucinda Riley ★★★
39. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel ★★★
40. Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society by Amy Hill Hearth ★★★
41. The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt  ★★★★ ✔
42. The Secrets of Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson ★★★
43. Love and Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson ★★★
44. Dancing with Butterflies by Reyna Grande ★★
45. The Walnut Tree by Charles Todd ★★★
46. The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong ★★
47. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants by Ann Brashares ★★★★
48. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares ★★★★
49. Girls in Pants by Ann Brashares ★★★★
50. Forever in Blue by Ann Brashares ★★★★