Reading Challenge 2019
I've never been able to complete a reading challenge before. It's obviously not because I don't read enough books, but because I get distracted and go on a reading spree of a particular genre and never quite make it through every genre every year (i.e business books...). But this year I found a list that not only inspired me but I knew I could do it! Some of these topics took some series Google work, finding just the right book that I wanted to read to fulfil the requirements. Some I have to say I stretched the definition a little bit (Stasiland by Anna Funder for True Crime is not wrong... but possibly not right either). Others made me laugh with glee when I realised which book would be perfect (The Rook by David O'Malley lost me some serious sleep).
So here it is - my first ever completed reading challenge. If you feel like you have problems sticking to a challenge, don't worry - check out Georgia's 'How to Read More (The Definitive Guide)' which will be coming out later this month.
Caveat: I didn't listen to an audio book because my life unfortunately does not lend itself to that style of listening but I hope to get to one over the summer break!
Thank you to pinglesisters.com for finally coming up with a list I liked!
1. A Book With More Than 500 Pages - American Gods by Neil Gaiman
2. Book You Haven’t Read by Author You Love - Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell
3. Goodreads winner in 2018 - Circe by Madeline Miller
4. You Can Read in a Day - Singing my Sister down by Margo Lanagan
5. Book About a Difficult Topic - The Talking Cure by Gillian Straker
6. Recommended by a Friend - The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
7. Book That Will Make You Cry - Out of my Mind by Sharon Draper
8. Book Published in 2009 - Soulless by Gail Carriger
9. Book Becoming TV Series in 2019 - Caliban’s War by James A. S. Corey
10. A Genre You Don’t Usually Read - Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
11. Children’s Classic - A Dream of Sadler’s Wells by Lorna Hill
12. Cover With Your Favourite Colour - Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
13. Bought at a Thrift Store - most of them!
14. Young Adult Fiction - Catching Teller Crow by Ambelin Kwaymullina
15. First Book in a Trilogy - Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
16. Second Book in a Trilogy - The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson
17. Third Book in a Trilogy - The Ruin and the Rising by Leigh Bardugo
18. Dystopian Novel - Toll by Neal Shusterman
19. Award-Winning Book - The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein
20. A Book from the Rory Gilmore Challenge - Sonnets by William Shakespeare
21. Published the Decade Before You Were Born - The Gods Themselves by Issac Asimov
22. Historical Fiction From A Favourite Time Period - Imprudence by Gail Carriger
23. Classic You’ve Never Read - The Monkey’s Mask by Dorothy Porter
24. A Book That Will Keep You Up All Night - The Rook by Daniel O’Malley
25. 2018 bestseller - Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
26. Nonfiction Book about Science - Illustrated Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
27. Listen to an Audiobook - Tried to but failed…
28. Set in Your Home State - Man Shy by Frank Dalby Davidson
29. You Once Started But Never Finished - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
30. With a One Word Title - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
31. A Fairy Tale Retelling - To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo
32. Celebrity Book Club Pick - The Library Book by Susan Orlean
33. A Book You Read in High School - Call of the Wild by Jack London
34. Business or Personal Finance Book - Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
35. Autobiography or Memoir - Girls at the Piano by Virginia Lloyd
36. Book Set in Another Country - Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
37. Reread a Favorite Book - Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
38. Book by a Local Author - The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke
39. Banned Book - I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou
40. Narrative Nonfiction - Girt by David Hunt
41. On Your To-Read List the Longest - On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
42. A Book About Travel - Finding Gobi by Craig Borlase
43. Popular Book You’ve Never Read - Woman in the Window by AJ Finn
44. True Crime - Stasiland by Anna Funder
45. Nonfiction Bestseller - Any Ordinary Day by Leigh Sales
46. Science Fiction - Tomorrow’s Kin by Nancy Dress
47. A Book You Own But Haven’t Read - The Word for World is Forest by Ursula le Guin
48. Recommended by a Local Librarian - The Library Book by Rebecca Gray
49. 2019 New Release - There was still love by Favel Parrett
50. The First Book in a Series - The Leviathan by James A. S. Corey
51. Prettiest cover - The Little Book of Lykke by Meik Wiking
52. An Inspirational Story - Peak by Ericsson Anders
