What’s In a Name
Hosted by Carolina Book Nook. Read a book from each of the following categories:
Double letters – The Joy of Wild Swimming by Lonely Planet
An NFL team – Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (the San Fransisco Demons)
A natural disaster – Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
A virtue – Purity by Jonathan Franzen
A shape – Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue
Footwear – Shoemaker by Joe Foster
Challenge complete October 21.
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. The Long Goodbye by Meghan O’Rourke
02. Good Girls by Hadley Freeman
03. The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves by Siri Hustvedt
04. Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper
05. I Had a Father in Karratha by Annette Trevitt
Challenge complete April 25 but I’ll keep going…
06. The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel
07. Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
08. Infidelity and Other Affairs by Kate Legge
09. Love, Death and Other Scenes by Nova Weetman
10. Olive, Mabel and Me by Andrew Cotter
11. A Body Made of Glass by Caroline Crampton
12. Gone by Min Kym
13. Time of My Life by Myf Warhurst
14. Soundings by Doreen Cunningham
15. The Bipolar Addict by Conor Bezane
16. Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
17. Shoemaker by Joe Foster
18. Beginners by Tom Vanderbilt
19. The Exotic Rissole by Tanveer Ahmed
20. The Battle for Home by Marwa al-Sabouni
21. Into a Star by Puk Qvortrup
22. My Brother Jaz by Gideon Haigh
23. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
Nonfiction Reader Challenge
Hosted by Book’d Out. I’m going 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 – Barbie and Ruth by Robin Gerber
02. Biography/Memoir – Good Girls by Hadley Freeman
03. Science – Soundings by Doreen Cunningham
04. Food – Air and Love by Or Rosenboim
05. Health – The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves by Siri Hustvedt
06. True Crime – The Library Book by Susan Orlean
07. Culture – The Luminous Solution by Charlotte Wood
08. Transportation – Seafaring by Victor Briggs
09. The Future – Faking It by Toby Walsh
10. Pets – Olive, Mabel and Me by Andrew Cotter
11. Architecture – The Battle for Home by Marwa al-Sabouni
12. Published in 2024 – Love, Death and Other Scenes by Nova Weetman
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; three countries in 2022 and five countries in 2023 (Albania, America, Argentina, Armenia, Antarctica, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Haiti, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesser Antilles, Malaysia, Mexico, 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, Tonga, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam, Wales and Zimbabwe). That’s a total of 66. I will continue the journey this year and hope to visit five more countries –
01. Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (Palestine)
02. Day by Michael Cunningham (Iceland)
03. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding by Holly Ringland (Faroe Islands)
04. Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy (Greenland)
05. The Exotic Rissole by Tanveer Ahmed (Bangladesh)
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 Joy of Wild Swimming by Lonely Planet
02. Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny
03. Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
04. Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
05. The Long Goodbye by Meghan O’Rourke
06. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
07. Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton
08. The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt
09. The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves by Siri Hustvedt
10. The Anniversary by Stephanie Bishop
11. Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper
12. The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
13. Purity by Jonathan Franzen
14. Unquiet by Linn Ullmann
15. The Library Book by Susan Orlean
16. Bright Lights Dark Shadows by Carl Magnus Palm
17. The Luminous Solution by Charlotte Wood
18. Olive, Mabel and Me by Andrew Cotter
19. Ma’am Darling by Craig Brown
20. Soundings by Doreen Cunningham
21. 11/22/63 by Stephen King
22. The Bipolar Addict by Conor Bezane
23. Beginners by Tom Vanderbilt
24. An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky
25. The Bureau of Past Management by Iris Hanika
26. A Field Guide to the North American Family by Garth Risk Hallberg
27. The Battle for Home by Marwa al-Sabouni
28. Thirst for Salt by Madelaine Lucas
29. Breakwater by Marijke Schermer
30. Unsettled Ground by by Claire Fuller
31. Girls They Write Songs About by Carlene Bauer
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