Nonfiction Reader Challenge
Hosted by Book’d Out. I’m going to stretch myself and go for the Nonfiction Know-It-All category (12 books from different non-fiction categories) even though I’m already at a loss for a couple of categories:
1. Social History – You’re Doing it Wrong by Kaz Cooke; Why We Can’t Sleep by Ada Calhoun
2. Popular Science – Think Again by Adam M. Grant
3. Language – Cultish by Amanda Montell
4. Medical Memoir – Life in Trauma by Dr. Chris Luke
5. Climate/Weather – Wintering by Katherine May
6. Celebrity – Really Saying Something by Sara Dallin & Karen Woodward; Rememberings by Sinéad O’Connor
7. Reference – Songlines by Margo Neale and Lynne Kelly
8. Geography – Yarra by Kristin Otto
9. Linked to a podcast – Theroux the Keyhole by Louis Theroux
10. Wild Animals – Bear, Lion or Wolf by Olivia Arezzolo
11. Economics – Why You Should Give a Fuck About Farming by Gabrielle Chan
12. Published in 2022 – The Book of Malcolm by Fraser Sutherland
Memoir Reading Challenge
I read lots of memoirs so figure I can manage a memoir challenge. This one is hosted by Whatever I Think Of and the task is to read five memoirs from a list of 30 categories (such as humour, best-sellers, political, illness).
01. Really Saying Something by Sara Dallin & Karen Woodward
02. The Book of Malcolm by Fraser Sutherland
03. Blue Nights by Joan Didion
04. Rememberings by Sinéad O’Connor
05. Theroux the Keyhole by Louis Theroux
Challenge complete March 13, but I’ll keep going.
06. Life in Trauma by Dr. Chris Luke
07. Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
08. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
09. This Is Not a Book about Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan
10. Free by Lea Ypi
11. The Jane Austen Remedy by Ruth Wilson
12. Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick
13. Admissions by Kendra James
14. Wintering by Katherine May
15. Found, Wanting by Natasha Sholl
16. Heating & Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly
17. Rebel by Rahaf Mohammed
18. Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
19. Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper
20. Living with ‘The Gloria Films’ by Pamela J Burry
21. Blueberries by Ellena Savage
What’s In a Name?
Hosted by Carolina Book Nook. Read a book from each of the following categories:
Compound word – Theroux the Keyhole by Louis Theroux; Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen; Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood; Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper; Blueberries by Ellena Savage
Speed – Still Life by Sarah Winman
Person and their description – This Is Not a Book about Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan; Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
Mythical being – The Harpy by Megan Hunter
Season – Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King; Wintering by Katherine May
Color – Blue Nights by Joan Didion
Challenge complete August 26.
Around the World in 80 Books
Around the World in 80 Books is an ongoing reading challenge hosted by Hard Book Habit. I read books representing 19 countries in 2017; 18 countries in 2018, nine countries in 2019; five countries in 2020 ; and seven countries in 2021 (America, Armenia, Antarctica, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Haiti, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Lesser Antilles, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, New Guinea, New Zealand, Nigeria, North Korea, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam, Wales and Zimbabwe). I will continue the journey this year and hope to visit five more countries –
01. The Story of the Night by Colm Tóibín (Argentina)
02. Free by Lea Ypi (Albania)
03. Rebel by Rahaf Mohammed (Saudi Arabia)
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Mount TBR Challenge
Mount TBR Challenge is hosted by My Reader’s Block and is all about reading from what you already own. I’m aiming for the Mt. Ararat level: Read 48 books from your TBR pile/s.
01. The Performance by Claire Thomas
02. Love Stories by Trent Dalton
03. Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King
04. Devotion by Hannah Kent
05. Really Saying Something by Sara Dallin & Karen Woodward
06. Blue Nights by Joan Didion
07. Higher Ground by Anke Stelling
08. Nothing to See by Pip Adam
09. 7½ by Christos Tsiolkas
10. Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
11. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
12. Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
13. Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau
14. Wintering by Katherine May
15. Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick
16. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
17. The Group by Mary McCarthy
18. Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
19. The Echo Chamber by John Boyne
20. Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
21. Cultish by Amanda Montell
22. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
23. Daughters by Lucy Fricke
24. Living with ‘The Gloria Films’ by Pamela J Burry
25. Why We Can’t Sleep by Ada Calhoun
26. The Recent East by Thomas Grattan
27. Blueberries by Ellena Savage
28. All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg
29. Yarra by Kristin Otto
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