What are you reading on Mondays? - May 11

I've had another good reading week -- I finished 3 books and 1 challenge. I also joined more challenges that I've been thinking about. In addition to keeping up with individual books, I'm also going to start using this feature to more closely track my challenge progress.

Recent completions:

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer -- review here

On Being Catholic by Thomas Howard -- review here

The Uncommon Reader: A Novella by Alan Bennett -- review

Reading this week:

Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1750-1832 by Stella Tillyard

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild

When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

Up next:

The Catholic Woman: Difficult Choices in a Modern World by Jeanne Pieper

Josephine: A Life of the Empress by Carolly Erickson

Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

Challenge progress:

1% Well-Read: 5/10
18th and 19th Century Women Writers: 1/5
A to Z Challenge: 16/26
Baker Street Challenge: 0/4
Book Awards II: COMPLETE
Chunkster: 0/3
Classics Challenge: 2/6
Decades '09: 6/9
Dewey's Books: COMPLETE
Dewey Decimal: 6/10
Guardian's 1000 Best Novels: 1/10
It's Good to Be Queen: 2/3
Nonfiction 5: 0/5
Orbis Terrarum: 6/10
Spring Reading Thing: 8/9
Summer Vacation Reading: 0/6 ***begins May 22
TBR Lite: 4/6
What's in a Name 2: 3/6
World Citizen Challenge: 3/7

999 Challenge (overall): 30/81

999 Subcategories:

• 1001 Books: 4/9
• Booker/National Awards: 2/9
• Through the Decades: 6/9
• Dewey's Books: 4/9
• C.S. Lewis: 1/9
• Biographies: 1/9
• Travel: 3/9
• Catholicism: 3/9
• Dewey Decimal: 6/9
  

It's Monday! What are you reading this week? is a weekly event hosted by J Kaye's Book Blog.