Reading Challenges 2023 (Results!)

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Reading Challenges 2023 - Wrap Up

This year I did a book number goal, a pages goal, the three challenges that the StoryGraph puts out every year, and two personal goals. I hit all of them except for one of the personal goals which is pretty good actually, I was over ambitious!

Goals
158/120 books
50102/50000 pages

Challenges

The StoryGraph's Onboarding Reading Challenge 2023

6/6 Prompts Filled!

1. Read a book with more pages than the longest book you read in 2022
Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan

2. Read a book you discovered via the Community page
Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

3. Read a book from your StoryGraph Recommendations
The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters

4. Read one of the first 10 books you added to your To-Read Pile
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

5. Read a book in your least read format
River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey (eBook)

6. Read a book published in the last three years that fits your reader profile
Comeuppance Served Cold by Marion Deeds

The StoryGraph's Genre Challenge 2023

10/10 Prompts Filled!

1. A contemporary or literary fiction novel with disability rep
Not if I See You First by Eric Lindstrom

2. A nonfiction book about start-ups
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

3. A sapphic romance novel
One Last Stop by Casey McQuinston

4. A biography about someone you don't know much about
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea by Melissa Fleming

5. A children's book you never read as a kid
Castle in the Air by Diane Wynne Jones

6. A popular science book
The Sirens of Mars by Sarah Stewart Johnson

7. A fantasy novel written by an author of colour
The Dragon Republic by RF Kuang

8. A nonfiction history book about an LGBTQIA+ issue or person
How to Survive a Plague by David France

9. A horror or mystery novel written by a woman or nonbinary author
The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters

10. A travel memoir
The Pacific Alone by Dave Shively

The StoryGraph Reads the World 2023

10/10 Prompts Filled!

1. Argentina
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez

2. Columbia
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

3. Cuba
Absolute Solitude by Dulce María Loynaz

4. Italy
The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio De Maria

5. Nigeria
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

6. Norway
White Shadow by Roy Jacobsen

7. Pakistan
The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad

8. South Africa
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

9. Syria
Death is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa

10. Trinidad & Tobago
Is Just a Movie by Earl Lovelace

Series Completionist

51/51 Books Complete!

1. The Wheel of Time (10 books)

5 - The Fires of Heaven

6 - Lord of Chaos

7 - A Crown of Swords

8 - The Path of Daggers

9 - Winter's Heart

10 - Crossroads of Twilight

11 - Knife of Dreams

12 - The Gathering Storm

13 - Towers of Midnight

14 - A Memory of Light

2. Six of Crows (1 book)

2 - Crooked Kingdom

3. Ingrid Barrøy (3 books)

2 - White Shadow

3 - Eyes of the Rigel

4 - Just a Mother

4. The Poppy War (2 books)

2 - The Dragon Republic

3 - The Burning God

5. Wayfarers (3 books)

2 - A Closed and Common Orbit

3 - Record of a Spaceborn Few

4 - The Galaxy and the Ground Within

6. Millenium (6 books)

2 - The Girl Who Played With Fire

3 - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

4 - The Girl in the Spider's Web

5 - The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

6 - The Girl Who Lived Twice

7 - The Girl in the Eagle's Talons

7. Maya Angelou's Autobiography (6 books)

2 - Gather Together in My Name

3 - Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

4 - The Heart of a Woman

5 - All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes

6 - A Song Flung Up to Heaven

7 - Mom & Me & Mom

8. Children's House (5 books)

1 - The Legacy

2 - The Reckoning

3 - The Absolution

4 - Gallows Rock

6 - The Fallout

9. Light the Abyss (1 book)

2 - Journey to the Heart of the Abyss

10. Hannibal Lecter (2 books)

3 - Hannibal

4 - Hannibal Rising

11. The Girl With All the Gifts (1 book)

2 - The Boy on the Bridge

12. Detective PT Marsh (1 book)

2 - The Evil Men Do

13. A Brief History (1 book)

2 - Homo Deus

14. Forbidden Iceland (2 books)

2 - Girls Who Lie

3 - Night Shadows

15. Frankie Elkin (1 book)

2 - One Step Too Far

16. Howl's Moving Castle (2 books)

2 - Castle in the Air

3 - The House of Many Ways

17. Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection (1 book)

3 - Moonshot Volume 3

18. Bird Family Trilogy (2 books)

2 - Through Black Spruce

3 - The Orenda

19. Edinburgh Nights (1 book)

2 - Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments

Owned/Borrowed Books

6/50 Books Complete

1. Owned Books (4/47 books)

The Humans by Matt Haig

Behind Enemy Lines by John Vornholt

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Jurassic Park b7 Michael Crichton

2. Borrowed Books (2/3 books)

Voyager by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager

Papa X-Ray by Jim Lang

I'm pretty happy with catching up on all my series this year, that was a lot of the books and a big chunk of them were Wheel of Time. I neglected by owned books so those are bleeding into my 2024 challenge... All in all, I think I did pretty good!