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Simone's 2022 yearly challenges

A-Z Challenge 2022

Start date:n 1/1/22
End date: 12/31/22

Books completed: 24/26

A - Acceptance: A Memoir
B - The Book Thief
C - A Christmas Carol
D - Darkness Was My Candle
E - The Emperor of All Maladies
F - Finding Me
G - The Glass Castle
H - How Bad Do You Want It
I - I'm Glad My Mom Died
J - Journey to the West
K - Kepler
L - Let Your Mind Run
M - Marathon Woman
N - Next Level
O - Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
P - Pastoral Song
Q - Quiet
R - Running the Dream
S - Solito
T - The Color of Water
U - Unwell Women
V - Visual Thinking
W - When They Tell You to Be Good
X -
Y -Year of the Tiger
Z -

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Completed: 41/50
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Standard: 35/40
Advanced: 6/10
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A book published in 2022
Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport That Wasn't Built for Us

A book set on a plane, train, or cruise ship
The Underground RailroadLilac Girls

A book about or set in a nonpatriarchal society
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

A book with a tiger on the cover or "tiger" in the title
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

A sapphic book
Yerba Buena

A book by a Latinx author
Solito

A book with an onomatopoeia in its title
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

A book with a protagonist who uses a mobility aid
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

A book about a "found family"
Anne of Green Gables

An Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

A #BookTok recommendation
Book Lovers

A book about the afterlife
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

A book set in the 1980s
A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

A book with cutlery on the cover or in the title
Racing Weight Cookbook: Lean, Light Recipes for Athletes

A book by a Pacific Islander author
Japanese Eyes . . . American Heart: Personal Reflections of Hawaii's World War II Nisei Soldiers

A book about witches
Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2022
Where the Crawdads Sing

A romance novel by a BIPOC author
Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

A book that takes place during your favorite season
Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire

A book whose title begins with the last letter of your previous read
Sports Psychology Coaching for Your Performing Edge: Mental Training for Performance in Sports, Business, and Life

A book about a band or musical group
The Secret Piano: From Mao's Labor Camps to Bach's Goldberg Variations

A book with a character on the ace spectrum
The Kiss Quotient

A book with a recipe in it
Racing Weight Cookbook: Lean, Light Recipes for Athletes

A book you can read in one sitting
A Christmas Carol

A book about a secret
Secrets at The Big House: Overcoming The Damage Of A Narcissistic Mother And An Emotionally Absent Father

A book with a misleading title
Hysterical: A Memoir

A Hugo Award winner


A book set during a holiday
The 13th Gift: A True Story of a Christmas Miracle

A different book by an author you read in 2021


A book with the name of a board game in the title


A book featuring a man-made disaster
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

A book with a quote from your favorite author on the cover or Amazon page


A social-horror book
Tell Me I’m Worthless

A book set in Victorian times
Anne of Green Gables

A book with a constellation on the cover or in the title
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention- and How to Think Deeply Again

A book you know nothing about
The Hidden Life of Trees: The Illustrated Edition

A book about gender identity
Once a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a Transgender Journey

A book featuring a party
The First Days of Berlin: The Sound of Change

An #OwnVoices SFF (science fiction and fantasy) book
Kindred

A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge



Advanced
A book with a reflected image on the cover or "mirror" in the title
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

A book that features two languages
The Book Thief

A book with a palindromic title


A duology (1)
Shanghai Girls

A duology (2)
Dreams of Joy

A book about someone leading a double life
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

A book featuring a parallel reality


A book with two POVs
Lilac Girls

Two books set in twin towns, aka "sister cities" (1)


Two books set in twin towns, aka "sister cities" (2)

New Release Challenge 2022
Duration: January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022
Completed: 39/39

Running While Black
A Billion Years
The Lobotomist's Wife
California Soul
When They Tell You to be Good
Year of the Tiger
Hysterical
Beautiful Country
Darkness Was My Candle
Visual Thinking
Burn Rate
The Daughter of Auschwitz
Acceptance: A Memoir
Holding the Line
Trust and Inspire
Finding Me
Hollywood Ending
Breath
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Next Level
Solito
Refuse To Be Done
Black Cake
California Burning
I am a Girl from Africa
How She Did It
Book Lovers
CEO Excellence
Corrections in Ink
Stolen Focus
Lessons in Chemistry
Where the Crawdads Sing
In a New York Minute
What My Bones Know
The Boardwalk Bookshop
The Bright Side Running Club
We Were Dreamers
Yerba Buena
I Didn't Do The Thing Today

Colorful Covers 2022
Duration: January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022
Level:
Completed: 12/12


Blue Cover
Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance


Green Cover
The Perks of Being a Wallflower


Red Cover
The Maid


Black Cover
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus


White Cover
Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar


Yellow Cover
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism


Pink Cover
Pretty Good for a Girl: The Autobiography of a Snowboarding Pioneer


Purple Cover
Loveless


Orange Cover
Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire


Gray Cover
Acceptance: A Memoir


Brown Cover
Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance


Colorful Cover
Black Cake