Reading Challenges 2024

5 Jan 2024 00:21
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Reading Challenges 2024

It's 2024, so new year new reading challenges! Like last year, this year I am doing five challenges (outside my book count and page goal). Three of them come from The StoryGraph and two of them are personal challenges I've set out to get through some of my TBR.

Goals
This year my goal is to read at least 120 books, and at least 50000 pages.

Challenges

The StoryGraph's Onboarding Reading Challenge 2024
A low-pressure challenge of 6 prompts designed to encourage exploration of the app and it's features.

1. Read a book from the five-star section of one of your similar users

2. Read a StoryGraph recommendation from "Out of your comfort zone..."

3. Reading Challenge Random Number game

4. Read a book from your To-Read Pile starting with the first letter of your name

5. Read a book you discovered via the Buddy Reads or Readlongs page

6. Read a book from your Up-Next Suggestions

The StoryGraph's Genre Challenge 2024
A ten prompt challenge designed to help explore genres you may otherwise not read.

1. A nonfiction book about food and/or drink

2. A historical fiction novel set before 1900

3. A biography or memoir about/by a musician

4. Manga

5. A thriller or crime novel in translation

6. A nonfiction book about psychology

7. A science fiction or dystopian book by a woman or nonbinary author

8. A middle grade book with queer representation

9. A short story collection by a Black author

10. A debut literary or contemporary fiction novel

The StoryGraph Reads the World 2024
A 10 prompt challenge designed to broaden your reading horizons by touring you through the books of ten different countries. Books should be written by an author from that country that is set in that country.

1. Chile

2. Germany

3. Ghana

4. Indonesia

5. Jamaica

6. Lebanon

7. Poland

8. Sri Lanka

9. Sudan

10. Venezuela

Series Completionist 2024
A personal challenge to finish all the series that I started 2023 or earlier. (I have to finish/catch up on 12 series, for a total of 14 books (much less than last year!!))

1. The Lady Astronaut (2 book unread) 2. Frankie Elkin (1 book unread) 3. Children of Time (2 books unread) 4. Vox Machina Origins (1 book unread) 5. The Murderbot Disaries (1 book unread) 6. Edinburgh Nights (1 book unread) 7. Heartstopper (1 book unread) 8. The Apollo Murders (1 book unread) 9. Forbidden Iceland (1 book unread) 10. Detective Elin Warner (1 book unread) 11. Jurassic Park (1 book unread)
12. Saga (1 book unread)

Owned/Borrowed Books 2024
This is a challenge to get through all the books I own or have borrowed. Well, one of last year's challenges was to read all the books I owned (acquired in 2022 or earlier) and borrowed, and I barely made a dent in that 50 book list. Now this year the challenge is to read everything I acquired 2023 and earlier, which basically doubles my list. This year I have 100 books to read for this challenge because of last year's failings. Gulp!

1. Owned Books (99 books unread)

2. Borrowed Books (1 books borrowed)

Well, wish me luck, because I'm certainly going to need it. But hey, at least I don't have to read most of the Wheel of Time this year!

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Reading Challenges 2023 (Results!)

1 Jan 2024 11:35
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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!

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Reading Challenges 2023

1 Jan 2023 20:43
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Reading Challenges 2023

It's that time of year, the time of picking out wholly unsustainable challenges! This year I am doing five challenges (outside my book count and page goal). Three of them come from The StoryGraph and two of them are personal challenges I've set out to get through some of my TBR.

Goals
This year my goal is to read at least 120 books, and at least 50000 pages.

Challenges

The StoryGraph's Onboarding Reading Challenge 2023
A low-pressure challenge of 6 prompts designed to encourage exploration of the app and it's features.

1. Read a book with more pages than the longest book you read in 2022

2. Read a book you discovered via the Community page

3. Read a book from your StoryGraph Recommendations

4. Read one of the first 10 books you added to your To-Read Pile

5. Read a book in your least read format

6. Read a book published in the last three years that fits your reader profile

The StoryGraph's Genre Challenge 2023
A ten prompt challenge designed to help explore genres you may otherwise not read.

1. A contemporary or literary fiction novel with disability rep

2. A nonfiction book about start-ups

3. A sapphic romance novel

4. A biography about someone you don't know much about

5. A children's book you never read as a kid

6. A popular science book

7. A fantasy novel written by an author of colour

8. A nonfiction history book about an LGBTQIA+ issue or person

9. A horror or mystery novel written by a woman or nonbinary author

10. A travel memoir

The StoryGraph Reads the World 2023
A 10 prompt challenge designed to broaden your reading horizons by touring you through the books of ten different countries. Books should be written by an author from that country that is set in that country.

1. Argentina

2. Columbia

3. Cuba

4. Italy

5. Nigeria

6. Norway

7. Pakistan

8. South Africa

9. Syria

10. Trinidad & Tobago

Series Completionist
A personal challenge to finish all the series that I started in 2021 and 2022. There is a lot. I have to finish 18 series (a total of 51 books)

1. The Wheel of Time (10 books unread)

2. Six of Crows (1 book unread)

3. Ingrid Barrøy (3 books unread)

4. The Poppy War (2 books unread)

5. Wayfarers (3 books unread)

6. Millenium (6 books unread)

7. Maya Angelou's Autobiography (6 books unread)

8. Children's House (5 books unread)

9. Light the Abyss (1 book unread)

10. Hannibal Lecter (2 books unread)

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

12. Detective PT Marsh (1 book unread)

13. A Brief History (1 book unread)

14. Forbidden Iceland (2 books unread)

15. Frankie Elkin (1 book unread)

16. Howl's Moving Castle (2 books unread)

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

18. Bird Family Trilogy (2 books unread)

Owned/Borrowed Books
This is a challenge to get through all the books I own or have borrowed. As an avid library user I find it hard to get around to reading books that I own because there's no deadlines. And I think I've been hoarding books borrowed from my dad for like three years. To make this remotely possible, I'm only counting books acquired in in 2022 or earlier so I'm not constantly adding to this challenge every time I walk into the used bookstore. This challenge has a total of 50 books for me to read.

1. Owned Books (47 books unread)

2. Borrowed Books (3 books borrowed)

So yeah, those are my challenges. My two personal challenges have me reading over 100 particular books, but the StoryGraph prompts give me a bit of leeway to pick and choose. I'll make another post at the end of the year to tell you what I read and how I did! Wish me luck!

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Readings Challenges 2022 (Results!)

31 Dec 2022 21:28
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Reading Challenges 2022 - Wrap Up

This year I did a book/page goal and also some challenges set out by The StoryGraph. I reached all my goals this year! whoo!

Goals
166/150 books
50025/50000 pages (cutting it close!)

Challenges

The StoryGraph's Onboarding Reading Challenge 2022
6/6 Prompts filled!

1. Read a book which fits all of the criteria from your reading profile
Blackfish City by Sam J Miller

2. Read a book from the Five-Star section of someone from Similar Users
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

3. Read a random pick
The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson

4. Read a book from your 7th most-read genre in your All Time stats
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

5. Read a book on your TBR by one of your most-featured authors
Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King

6. Read a book from the Popular This Week page
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

The StoryGraph's Genre Challenge 2022
10/10 Prompts Filled!

1. A romance novel by a Black author
When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

2. An essay collection by a new-to-you author
World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathilo

3. A classic by an author of colour
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

4. A memoir or autobiography by a trans/non-binary author
A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby and Mary Louisa Plummer

5. A play published after 1980
Kim's Convenience by Ins Choi

6. A non-fiction book about nature
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben (yes I doubled up)

7. A cosy mystery novel
Black Rock Bay by Brianna Labuskes

8. A true crime book by a woman
My Mother, a Serial Killer by Hazel Baron and Janet Fife-Yeomans

9. A contemporary or literary fiction novel by an Indigenous author
Starlight by Richard Wagamese

10. A non-fiction book about politics outside your home country
The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar's Genocide by Azeen Ibrahim

The StoryGraph Reads the World 2022
10/10 prompts filled!

1. Brazil
Nowhere People by Paulo Scott

2. Haiti
Love, Anger, Madness: a Haitian Triptych by Marie Vieux-Chauvet

3. India
The Devourers by Indra Das

4. New Zealand
Island of the Lost by Joan Druett

5. Palestine
Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa

6. Russia (Swapped for Ukraine in light of current events)
Daughters of the Resistance by Lana Kortchik

7. South Korea
The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong

8. Turkey
Snow by Orhan Pamuk

9. Vietnam
Dragonfish by Vu Tran

10. Zimbabwe
Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah

And that's it! I hit all my goals and finished all my challenges! :D

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Reading Challenges 2022

1 Jan 2022 21:13
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Reading Challenges 2022

This year instead of just setting out a book/page count goal, I'm also going to be doing some challenges provided by the StoryGraph.

Goals
This year I want to read 150 books, and 50000 pages.

Challenges

The StoryGraph's Onboarding Reading Challenge 2022
A low-pressure challenge of 6 prompts designed to encourage exploration of the app and it's features.

1. Read a book which fits all of the criteria from your reading profile

2. Read a book from the Five-Star section of someone from Similar Users

3. Read a random pick

4. Read a book from your 7th most-read genre in your All Time stats

5. Read a book on your TBR by one of your most-featured authors

6. Read a book from the Popular This Week page

The StoryGraph's Genre Challenge 2022
A ten prompt challenge designed to help explore genres you may otherwise not read.

1. A romance novel by a Black author

2. An essay collection by a new-to-you author

3. A classic by an author of colour

4. A memoir or autobiography by a trans/non-binary author

5. A play published after 1980

6. A non-fiction book about nature

7. A cosy mystery novel

8. A true crime book by a woman

9. A contemporary or literary fiction novel by an Indigenous author

10. A non-fiction book about politics outside your home country

The StoryGraph Reads the World 2022
A 10 prompt challenge designed to broaden your reading horizons by touring you through the books of ten different countries. Books should be written by an author from that country that is set in that country.

1. Brazil

2. Haiti

3. India

4. New Zealand

5. Palestine

6. Russia

7. South Korea

8. Turkey

9. Vietnam

10. Zimbabwe

So that's what I'll be reading this year. See you at the end of the year where I'll tell you how I did and what books I read for these challenges!

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