2016 Reading Challenge

A new year, a new reading challenge! This year, I'm challenging myself to read at least 75 books again! In 2015, I read 76 books - largely in part because I read so much during our marathon snowy winter and days off from school last year. I do know that it may take some extra work, but I think that I can achieve this challenge.

To make things a little bit more interesting, I am giving myself a bit of an extra challenge - to only read books that as of January 1, 2016 are on my Goodreads To Read list or sitting in the large pile next to my bed or already purchased on Audible (with exceptions for book club picks!). This list is comprised of over 226 books and so I will have lots to choose from! I am hoping to start with the basket and the (not so neat and organized) piles of books next to my bed, before moving on from those.

This is the list of the books pictured above...
All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Family Pictures by Jane Green Dead Wake by Erik Larson The Last Letter from Your Lover by Jojo Moyes People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly Her by Harriet Lane The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey Peace Like a River by Leif Enger The History of Venezuela by H. Michael Tarver and Julia C. Frederick The Country Under My Skin by Gioconda Belli Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution by Hugo Chavez and Marta Harnecker Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela Native Son by Richard Wright Walking Dead Compendium 2 by Robert Kirkland Walking Dead Compendium 3 by Robert Kirkland The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz The New New Deal by Michael Grunwald We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas Z by Therese Anne Fowler Is There Tomorrow? by Caroline Leavitt The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Son by Lois Lowry The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kieran The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan The Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
And, finally, my already purchased books on Audible...
  I am currently already reading All Fall Down, The People of the Book and The Notorious RBG and as soon as I'm done with them, I am excited to start reading A Little Life! I've heard incredible things about A Little Life and I am so excited to dive into it! I am also excited to finish listening to Paddle Your Own Canoe - which I will hopefully finish this week! 
Have you read any of these books? What were your favorites? Are you taking on any reading challenges for 2016?