I might be 4 months behind with my reviews but I’m at least half way through my reading year. Here’s the list below on how I was doing for the challenges at that point.
POPSUGAR
- A book made into a movie you’ve already seen
- True Crime
- The next book in a series you’ve started – Shadowblack
- A book involving a heist
- Nordic Noir
- A book based on a real person – My Name is Victoria
- Set in a country that fascinates you
- Time of day in the title
- About a villian/antihero – Phasma
- About death/grief – One of us is lying
- Female author using a male pseudonym
- LGBTQ+ protagonist – Emerald to Emeralds, Dust to Dust
- Book that is also a play/musical – George’s Marvellous Medicine
- Author with a different ethnicity to you – Born a Crime
- About feminism – Things a Bright Girl Can Do
- About mental health – State of Grace
- A book you borrowed/given as a gift – Etta, Otto, Russel and James
- A book by two authors – Freshers
- About or involving a sport – Wing Jones
- Local author – The Ancient Track
- Favourite colour in the title
- Alliteration in the title – The Exact Opposite of Okay
- About time travel – Found
- Weather in the title
- Set at sea
- Animal in the title – Paper Butterflies
- Set on a different planet – Loneliest Girl in the Universe
- Song lyrics in the title – I was born for this.
- Set on or about Halloween
- Characters who are twins – Out of the Blue
- Mentioned in another book
- Celebrity book club – Turtles all the way down
- Childhood Classic you’ve never read – Wrinkle in time
- Published in 2018 – Goodbye Perfect
- Goodreads choice awards winner
- Set in the decade you were born – Attachments
- Meant to read in 2017 but didn’t get round to – The Good People
- Book with an ugly cover – Ready Player One
- Book that involves a bookshop or a library – Skylarks
- Favourite prompt from previous challenges – Dream of Lights
- Bestseller from the year you finished high school
- Cyberpunk
- Book that was read by a stranger in a public place
- Tied to your ancestry
- Fruit or veg in the title
- An allegory – Children of Blood and Bone
- Author with the same first name or last name as you – 928 Miles from Home
- Microhistory
- Problem facing society today – Final 7
- Recommended by someone else doing the challenge
READ HARDER
- Published posthumously
- True Crime
- Classic Genre fiction – Princess Bride
- Comic written and illustrated by the same person
- Set in a BRICS country (Brazil, Russia, India, China, S.A) – The truth and lies of Ella Black
- About nature – Skylarks
- A western
- Comic written or illustrated by a person of colour
- Children’s classic pre 1980
- Colonial or postcolonial literature
- Romance by or about a person of colour
- Celebrity memoir – Born a Crime
- Oprah book club
- Social Science
- One-sitting: Goodbye, Perfect
- First book in a YA series – Found
- Sci-fi femal protagonist & female author – Loneliest Girl in the Universe
- Comic that isn’t DC, Marvel or Image – Eternity
- Translated genre fiction
- Cover you hate – Ready Player One
- Mystery by a person of colour or a LGBTQ+ authour
- Essay anthology
- Female protagonist over 60 – Etta, Otto, Russel and James
- Assigned book you hated
At point of writing I’ve got 15 challenges left to do and books planned for all of them. I’m hoping by the end of November and NaNoWrimo I’ll have reached the dizzying heights of only being 2-3 months behind.
Rea
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