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:
01. History – 100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet by Pamela Paul
02. Memoir/Biography – A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney
03. Crime and Punishment – The Polygamist’s Daughter by Anna LeBaron
04. Science – Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
05. Health – A Question of Age by Jacinta Parsons
06. Travel – A Therapeutic Atlas by The School of Life
07. Food – Heartbake by Charlotte Ree
08. Social Media – Glossy by Marisa Meltzer
09. Sport – The Draft by Emma Quayle
10. Relationships – Dear Dolly by Dolly Alderton
11. The Arts – No Bull by Vika and Linda Bull
12. Published in 2023 – Milk by Alice Kinsella
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. A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney
02. Tacky by Rax King
03. A Question of Age by Jacinta Parsons
04. No Bull by Vika and Linda Bull
05. Big Beautiful Female Theory by Eloise Grills
Challenge complete March 18 but I’ll keep going…
06. Milk by Alice Kinsella
07. Daffodils by Louise Beech
08. Friendaholic by Elizabeth Day
09. Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here by Heather Rose
10. The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt
11. The Polygamist’s Daughter by Anna LeBaron
12. Undoctored by Adam Kay
13. Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
14. A Kind of Magic by Anna Spargo-Ryan
15. Graft by Maggie MacKellar
16. Rental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto
17. Heartbake by Charlotte Ree
18. Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
19. Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
20. I’m Glad My Mon Died by Jeanette McCurdy
21. Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
22. Red Love by Maxim Leo
What’s In a Name
Hosted by Carolina Book Nook. Read a book from each of the following categories:
Punctuation – The Polygamist’s Daughter by Anna LeBaron
Seven Deadly Sins – My Nemesis by Charmaine Craig
You or Me – What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma
Chess Piece – I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Celebration – Upstairs at the Party by Linda Grant
Q, X, Z – A Question of Age by Jacinta Parsons
Challenge complete June 27.
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 ; seven countries in 2021 and three countries in 2022 (Albania, America, Argentina, 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, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam, Wales and Zimbabwe). That’s a total of 61. I will continue the journey this year and hope to visit five more countries –
01. No Bull by Vika and Linda Bull (Tonga)
02. Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena (Latvia)
03. The Polygamist’s Daughter by Anna LeBaron (Mexico)
04. Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov (Bulgaria)
05. Love Novel by Ivana Sajko (Croatia)
Roll to Read
Hosted by the Literary Dispatcher, the challenge depends on the roll of the dice. I’ll be using the challenge to read from my TBR stack each month.
January – ‘a book with a road on the cover’: Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
February – ‘a book set in the 1960s or 1970s’: Upstairs at the Party by Linda Grant
March – ‘book about art or music’: The Guts by Roddy Doyle
April – ‘a novella’: Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena
May – ‘flowers on the cover’: Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here by Heather Rose
June – ‘read from your shelf’: The Polygamist’s Daughter by Anna LeBaron
July – ‘nonfiction book’: Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
August – ‘a book about books’: Paperback Crush by Gabrielle Moss
September – ‘judge a book by its cover’: Heartbake by Charlotte Ree
October – ‘a book about an Olympic Games, sport or athlete’: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown
November – ‘a book over 60 years old’: Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
December – ‘a book left on your TBR you wish you read already’: Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
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. Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
02. Sunbathing by Isobel Beech
03. We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
04. Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
05. A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney
06. Marshmallow by Victoria Hannah
07. Tacky by Rax King
08. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
09. Upstairs at the Party by Linda Grant
10. The Guts by Roddy Doyle
11. Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
12. The Margot Affair by Sanaë Lemoine
13. Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena
14. Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here by Heather Rose
15. The Polygamist’s Daughter by Anna LeBaron
16. My Nemesis by Charmaine Craig
17. A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
18. The Draft by Emma Quayle
19. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
20. The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell
21. Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
22. To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
23. Paperback Crush by Gabrielle Moss
24. Tender by Belinda McKeon
25. The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown
26. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
27. Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
28. Red Love by Maxim Leo
29. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
30. Love in Five Acts by Daniela Krien
31. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
32. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
33. Ghost Lover by Lisa Taddeo
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