Nonfiction Reader Challenge

Hosted by Book’d Out. I’m going for the Nonfiction Nosher category (12 books from different non-fiction categories) even though I’m already at a loss for a couple of categories:

History –
Memoir/Biography – Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li
True Crime – The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
Science – Love Machines by James Muldoon
Health – The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke
Food –
Humour – Bossypants by Tina Fey
South East Asia – Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista
Lost or found – Lost & Found: A Memoir by Kathryn Schulz
Television – Cue the Sun! by Emily Nussbaum
Subculture – Winter Swimming by Susanna Søberg
Published in 2026 – Strangers by Belle Burden

What’s in a Name?

Hosted by Carolina Book Nook. Read a book from each of the following categories:

Six/6 –
Cold weather – Winter Swimming by Susanna Søberg
Peace –
Pathways –
Terrain – The Place of Tides by James Rebanks
Flower – Orchid & the Wasp by Caoilinn Hughes

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 Truce That is Not Peace by Miriam Toews
02. Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li
03. Ankami by Debra Dank
04. Strangers by Belle Burden
05. The Place of Tides by James Rebanks
06. Lost & Found: A Memoir by Kathryn Schulz
07. In Defence of Leisure by Akshi Singh
08. Bossypants by Tina Fey

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, five countries in 2023; five countries in 2024; and three countries in 2025 (Albania, America, Argentina, Armenia, Antarctica, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Greenland, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesser Antilles, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Guinea, New Zealand, Nigeria, North Korea, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tonga, Trinidad, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam, Wales and Zimbabwe). That’s a total of 74. I plan to finish the challenge this year –

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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 Wax Child by Olga Ravn
02. Isola by Allegra Goodman
03. Cue the Sun! by Emily Nussbaum
04. Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista
05. The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
06. Orchid & the Wasp by Caoilinn Hughes
07. The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke
08. We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad
09. A Truce That is Not Peace by Miriam Toews
10. Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li
11. The Place of Tides by James Rebanks
12. Lost & Found: A Memoir by Kathryn Schulz
13. In Defence of Leisure by Akshi Singh
14. Winter Swimming by Susanna Søberg
15. Bossypants by Tina Fey
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