I’ve been toying with the idea of embarking on some kind of reading challenge for a while, so today I was surfing the net and came across this pretty cool challenge from PopSugar. The goal is to read 52 books, but as I am not crazy (not that the goal is crazy, I’m just very aware that I wouldn’t pull it off), I’ll probably skip some numbers and fuse others…
So, I’m setting myself up to read 36 books during this year, I’m aiming a bit higher then when I first set my number on Goodreads… let’s see how it goes! I’ll be marking my progress as I go along.
- A book with more than 500 pages – City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments #6), Cassandra Clare
- A classic romance – Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- A book that became a movie – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Jesse Andrews
- A book published this year – An Ember in the Ashes, Sabaa Tahir
- A book with numbers in the title – The One Thing, Marci Lyn Curtis
- A book written by someone under 30 – A Court of Thorns and Roses, by Sarah J. Maas
- A book with non-human characters – The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Patrick Rothfuss
- A funny book – Attachments, Rainbow Rowell
- A book by a female author – You had me at hello, Mhairi McFarlane
- A mystery or thriller – The Unfortunate Decisions of Dahlia Moss, Max Wirestone
- A book with a one-word title – Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell
- A book of short stories – The Bane Chronicles, Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan and Maureen Johnson
- A book set in a different country – The Year of Taking Chances, Lucy Diamond
- A non-fiction book – Bossypants, Tina Fey and Modern Romance, Aziz Ansari & Eric Klinenberg
- A popular author’s first book – Eleanor and Park, Rainbow Rowell
- A book from an author you love but haven’t read yet – Landline, Rainbow Rowell
- A book a friend recommended – More Happy Than Not, Adam Silvera
- A Pulitzer-Prize winning book – To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- A book based on a true story – Love at First Type: A Chronicle of Addiction to Online Dating, Robert D. Spake
- A book at the bottom of your to-read list – Finding Cinderella, Colleen Hoover
- A book that your mum loves
- A book that scares you – Throne of Glass, Sarah J. Maas and Crown of Midnight, Sarah J. Maas
- A book that’s more than 100-years-old – Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
- A book based entirely on the cover – The Best Thing That Never Happened To Me, Laura Tait & Jimmy Rice
- A book you were supposed to read at school but didn’t finish – Os Maias, Eça de Queirós (I was really not able to finish it back then, not sure if I have the balls to pick it up again…)
- A memoir – Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek, Maya Van Wagenen
- A book you can finish in a day – Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination, J.K. Rowling
- A book with antonyms in the title – Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen (cheat!)
- A book set in a country you want to visit – The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion
- A book that came out the year you were born
- A book with bad reviews – Nirvana, J.R. Stewart
- A trilogy – Shatter Me, Unravel Me, Ignite Me, Tahereh Mafi
- A book
fromthat reminds you of your childhood – A Whole New World: A Twisted Tale, Liz Braswell - A book with a love triangle – To all the boys I’ve loved before, Jenny Han & P.S. I Still Love You, Jenny Han
- A book set in the future – Armada, Ernest Cline
- A book set in high school – Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda, Becky Albertalli
- A book with a color in the title – Red Queen, Victoria Aveyard
- A book that made you cry – My Heart and Other Black Holes, Jasmine Warga
- A book with magic – Love in the Time of Global Warming, Francesca Lia Block
- A graphic novel – Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal, by G. Willow Wilson & Adrian Alphona
- A book by an author you’ve never read before – The Perfect Match, Katie Fforde
- A book you own but you’ve never read – Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- A book that takes place in your hometown – Os Maias, Eça de Queirós (It’s the closest I can get… I guess it’s sort of takes place in Lisbon sometimes, though it’s a Lisbon from long ago)
- A book that was originally written in a different language – Les Miserábles, Victor Hugo
- A book set during Christmas – Girl Online, Zoe Sugg
- A book written by an author with your same initials
- A play
- A banned book – To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (cheat!)
- A book based on or turned into a television show – The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet, Bernie Su and Kate Rorick
- A book you started but never finished – The Iliad, Homer
Quite excited about this :D! (in bold are the ones I already finished)
Now this is super cool. My goal on Goodreads is 40 book sthis year. So its not a huge stretch plus some books I’ve already read cover a few categories so maybe i’ll forego a few of these. Plus, some of these categories, I had already planned to explore 🙂
Awesome stuff! I’ll be giving this a go too!
Good luck with the challenge! 🙂
Awesome! Good luck for you too!
Very ambitious. Good luck!
thank you 🙂
Super cool! I already managed a few of those myself (feeling really proud!), but I might do the challenge too. So far I accomplished:
A book that became a movie – The DUFF by Kody Keplinger
A book published this year – A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab (not quite finished but almost)
A book with numbers in the title – A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray
A book you can finish in a day – Kingsmen: the Secret Service because it’s a graphic novel hahaha
A book with a color in the title – Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard (same as you! yay)
and a couple others hahaha
You’re doing way better than me :D!!! But you already had a high number challenge, right?
Yeah, I had my goal set at 50 from the beginning, because I read way more than that last year. Goodreads tells me that I am 1 book behind schedule though. Then again, I never read regularly, it always depends on my mood.
and there’s probably some times of the year when you just have less time, right? school and stuff…
Exactly! Although, weirdly enough I tend to read more when I am supposed to do other things.
Procrastination… I get it