The Reading Challenge Group

message 1: by megan (new)

Jan 03, 2024 01:25PM

Goal: 75

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message 2: by megan (last edited Jan 02, 2025 12:11PM) (new)

Jan 03, 2024 01:25PM

POPSUGAR 2024

[x] A book with the word "leap" in the title - Before You Leap
[x] A bildungsroman - Maurice
[x] A book about a 24-year-old - Into the Wild
[x] A book about a writer - How to Solve Your Own Murder
[] A book about K-pop
[x] A book about pirates - Pirate Latitudes
[x] A book about women's sports and/or by a woman athlete - Dust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory
[x] A book by a blind or visually impaired author - We Solve Murders
[x] A book by a deaf or hard-of-hearing author - Deaf Utopia: A Memoir—And a Love Letter to a Way of Life
[x] A book by a self-published author - Aileen Wuornos: The Damsel of Death
[x] A book from a genre you typically avoid - Love, Creekwood
[x] A book from an animal's POV - The Cat Who Saved Books
[x] A book originally published under a pen name - Career of Evil
[x] A book recommended by a bookseller - A Farwell to Arms
[x] A book recommended by a librarian - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
[x] A book set 24 years before you were born - Something Wicked This Way Comes
[x] A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list - One Hundred Years of Solitude
[x] A book set in space - The Apollo Murders
[x] A book set in the future - I Cheerfully Refuse
[x] A book set in the snow - The Frozen River
[x] A book that came out in a year that ends with "24 - End of Story
[x] A book that centers on video games - The Three-Body Problem
[x] A book that features dragons - Fourth Wing
[x] A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours - Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
[x] A book that was published 24 years ago - In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
[x] A book that was turned into a musical - Goodbye to Berlin
[x] A book where someone dies in the first chapter - Yellowface
[] A book with a main character who's 42 years old
[x] A book with a neurodivergent main character - The Mystery Guest
[x] A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary - Neuromancer
[x] A book with a title that is a complete sentence - The Last Devil to Die
[x] A book with an enemies-to-lovers plot - I Will Repay
[x] A book with an unreliable narrator - I'm Thinking of Ending Things
[x] A book with at least three POVs - Infinite Country
[x] A book with magical realism MFG - Weyward
[x] A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person - Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
[] A book written during NaNoWriMo
[x] A cozy fantasy book - The Kiss Curse
[] A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author
[x] A horror book by a BIPOC author - The Only Good Indians
[x] A memoir that explores queerness - Pageboy
[x] A nonfiction book about Indigenous people - Empire of the Summer Moon
[x] A second-chance romance - Second First Impressions
[x] An autobiography by a woman in rock 'n' roll - Just Kids
[] An LGBTQ+ romance novel

[x] A book in which a character sleeps for more than 24 hours - James
[x] A book with 24 letters in the title - The House in the Cerulean Sea
[x] A collection of at least 24 poems - Some Things I Still Can't Tell You: Poems
[x] The 24th book of an author -The Good Daughter
[] A book that starts with the letter "X"

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message 3: by megan (last edited Dec 30, 2024 07:08AM) (new)

Jan 03, 2024 01:25PM

Book Riot Reading Harder Challenge 2024

1. Read a cozy fantasy book. - The Kiss Curse
2. Read a YA book by a trans author.
3. Read a middle grade horror novel.
4. Read a history book by a BIPOC author. - How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
5. Read a sci-fi novella. - All Systems Red
6. Read a middle grade book with an LGBTQIA main character.
7. Read an indie published collection of poetry by a BIPOC or queer author.
8. Read a book in translation from a country you’ve never visited. - The Vegetarian
9. Read a book recommended by a librarian. - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
10. Read a historical fiction book by an Indigenous author. - Stealing
11. Read a picture book published in the last five years.
12. Read a genre book (SFF, horror, mystery, romance) by a disabled author. - We Solve Murders
13. Read a comic that has been banned.
14. Read a book by an author with an upcoming event (virtual or in person) and then attend the event.
15. Read a YA nonfiction book. - Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
16. Read a book based solely on the title. - Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey: An American Heritage
17. Read a book about media literacy. - Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It
18. Read a book about drag or queer artistry. - The House of Hidden Meanings
19. Read a romance with neurodivergent characters. - Intermezzo
20. Read a book about books (fiction or nonfiction). - When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
21. Read a book that went under the radar in 2023.
22. Read a manga or manhwa.
23. Read a “howdunit” or “whydunit” mystery. - All the Missing Girls
24. Pick a challenge from any of the previous years’ challenges to repeat!
2020: Read a historical fiction novel not set in WWII - The Women

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message 4: by megan (last edited Dec 30, 2024 07:05AM) (new)

Jan 03, 2024 01:25PM