RAD Reading Challenge for 2023

 I didn't do this last year (didn't like some of the prompts), but will be back next year.

1. Book by an Activist: The Other Side--Juan Pablo Villalobos
2. Title Has a Number in It: Three Sisters, Three Queens--Philippa Gregory
3. Animal on the Cover: Checked Out For Murder--Allison Brook
4. Retelling of a Classic: Oh My Gods!--Stephanie Cooke
5. Disability Rep (Author or Character): The Pretty One--Keah Brown
6. Book About Your Fave Holiday: Calypso, Corpses and Cooking--Raquel V. Reyes
7. Any Book You Can Read in One Day: Almost American Girl--Robin Ha
8. Book That Will Teach You Something New: The Jew in the Lotus--Rodger Kamenetz
9. Book You Thrifted: The Gallery of Vanished Husbands--Natasha Solomons

Challenge completed on August 6

Gingerbread Fun

 

Buzzword Reading Challenge 2023

 A new one to me. Below is the announcement on YouTube, and the prompts list.

January: This is Where We Live--Janelle Brown

February: Kiss & Tell--Adib Khorram

March: Secrets of the Tulip Sisters--Susan Mallery

April: Zen Ties--Jon J. Muth

May: Death of a Blueberry Tart--Lee Hollis

June: The Other Side--Juan Pablo Villalobos

July: Climate Justice--Mary Robinson

August: Eyes of Wynter--Emmy R. Bennett

September: How to Play Chess--D.K. Publishing

October: Magic Candies--Heena Baek

November: Good Morning Zoom--Lindsay Rechler

December: A Song for a New Day--Sarah Pinsker

Challenge completed on December 14

Christmas Humor

Here are some to begin with:

Book Riot's 2023 Read Harder Challenge

 Another I look forward to seeing each year.

READ HARDER 2023

1. Read a novel about a trans character written by a trans author: Meet Cute Dairy--Emery Lee
2. Read one of your favorite author’s favorite books: The Christmas Box--Richard Paul Evans
3. Read a book about activism: The Other Side--Juan Pablo Villalobos
4. Read a book that’s been challenged recently in your school district/library OR read one of the most-challenged/banned books of the year by a queer and/or BIPOC author: All Boys Aren't Blue--George M. Johnson
5. Read a completed webcomic: Orange Volume 2--Ichigo Takano
6. Finish a book series you’ve DNFed (did not finish): Aurora's End--Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
7. Listen to an audiobook performed by a person of color of a book written by an author of color: Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems--Warsan Shire
8. Read a graphic novel/comic/manga if you haven’t before; or read one that is a different genre than you normally read: Almost American Girl--Robin Ha
9. Read an independently published book by a BIPOC author: Her Body and Other Parties--Carmen Maria Machado
10. Read a book you know nothing about based solely on the cover: The Best Man--Richard Peck
11. Read a cookbook cover to cover: No Bake Cookies, Bars & Pies
12. Read a nonfiction book about BIPOC and/or queer history: A Queer History of the United States for Young People--Michael Bronski
13. Read an author local to you: Golden Honey--Erica Varela
14. Read a book with under 500 Goodreads ratings: Romantic Visionary--W.B. Yeats
15. Read a historical fiction book set in an Eastern country: Tatiana--Martin Cruz Smith
16. Read a romance with bisexual representation: They Both Die at the End--Adam Silvera
17. Read a YA book by an Indigenous author: Elatsoe--Darcy Little Badger
18. Read a comic or graphic novel that features disability representation: Josee, the Tiger and the Fish--Seiko Tanabe
19. Read a nonfiction book about intersectional feminism: White Women--Regina Jackson
20. Read a book of poetry by a BIPOC or queer author: Black Girl, Call Home --Jasmine Mans
21. Read a book of short stories: Matchup--Lee Child (ed.)
22. Read any book from the Ignyte awards shortlist/longlist/winner list: The City We Became--N.K. Jeminsin
23. Read a social horror, mystery, or thriller novel: The Lies I Tell--Julie Clark
24. Pick a challenge from any of the previous years’ challenges to repeat! (Fat-Positive Romance): Big Summer--Jennifer Weiner

 

Challenge completed on December 3

Space Time Reading Challenge 2023

 Doing this one again, getting as many books as I can during the year.

• 5 books: Planet hopper
• 10 books: Interstellar explorer
• 20 books: Galactic navigator
• 40 books: To Infinity and Beyond

My Books:

1. Parable of the Talents--Octavia E. Butler
2. The Green Ember--S.D. Smith
3. Her Body and Other Parties--Carmen Maria Machado
4. Checked Out For Murder--Allison Brook
5. Blood Like Magic--Liselle Sambury
6. Stuntboy, In the Meantime--Jason Reynolds
7. Race Forever--R.A. Montgomery
8. Drums of Autumn--Diana Gabaldon
9. Tomb of Sand--Geetanjali Shree 
10. Changeling--Molly Harper
11. The Astonishing Color of After--Emily X.R. Pan
12. The Deep--Rivers Solomon
13. Orange, Volume 1--Ichigo Takano
14. The Magic in Changing Your Stars--Leah Henderson
15. Aurora Burning--Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
16. Eyes of Wynter--Emmy R. Bennett
17. Lumberjanes Vol 3: A Terrible Plan--Noelle Stevenson
18. Here I Go Again--Jen Lancaster
19. The Silmarillion--J.R.R. Tolkien
20. Orange Volume 2--Ichigo Takano
21. Dune--Frank Herbert
22. Son of the Dawn--Cassandra Clare
23. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow--Washington Irving
24. Lolly Willowes--Sylvia Townsend Warner 
25. The City We Became--N.K. Jeminsin
26. An Unkindness of Ghosts--Rivers Solomon
27. The London Seance Society--Sarah Penner
28. Aurora's End--Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
29. T. Rex Time Machine--Jared Chapman
30. A Song for a New Day--Sarah Pinsker

Calling challenge complete on December 14

Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 2023

 Another I have been doing for years now. I always get as many books as I can.

20th Century Reader - 2 books
Victorian Reader - 5 books
Renaissance Reader - 10 books
Medieval - 15 books
Ancient History - 25 books

Prehistoric - 50+ books

My Books:

1. Tending Roses--Lisa Wingate
2. Three Sisters, Three Queens--Philippa Gregory
3. Jackie & Me--Louis Bayard
4. Lost Autumn--Mary-Rose MacColl 
5. My Name is Asher Lev--Chaim Potok
6. Seven Years to Sin--Sylvia Day
7. The Gallery of Vanished Husbands--Natasha Solomons
8. Night Fire--Catherine Coulter
9. The Gift of Asher Lev--Chaim Potok
10. Warriors in Winter--Mary Pope Osborne
11. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman--Ernest J. Gaines
12. Six Crimson Cranes--Elizabeth Lim
13. Lilac Girls--Martha Hall Kelly
14. Ellen Foster--Kaye Gibbons
15. Drums of Autumn--Diana Gabaldon
16. Homegoing--Yaa Gyasi
17. Tomb of Sand--Geetanjali Shree 
18. The House of Broken Angels--Luis Alberto Urrea
19. Lost Roses--Martha Hall Kelly
20. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day--Pearl Cleage
21. The Undertaker's Assistant--Amanda Skenandore
22. Sunflower Sisters--Martha Hall Kelly
23. The Black Kids--Christina Hammonds Reed
24. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk--Kathleen Rooney
25. Summer on the Bluffs--Sunny Hostin
26. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry--Mildred D. Taylor
27. The Personal Librarian--Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
28. The Magic in Changing Your Stars--Leah Henderson
29. Dombey and Son--Charles Dickens
30. Little Town on the Prairie--Laura Ingalls Wilder (re-read)
31. Blues For Mister Charlie--James Baldwin
32. Tales From the Arabian Nights--Anonymous
33. Irish Gold--Andrew M. Greeley
34. Kidnapped--Robert Louis Stevenson
35. The Villa--Rachel Hawkins
36. Burn Baby Burn--Meg Medina
37. The Adventures of Augie March--Saul Bellow
38. The Da Vinci Code--Dan Brown
39. The Hotel Nantucket--Elin Hilderbrand
40. Maame--Jessica George
41. In Deeper Waters--F.T. Lukens
42. With the Might of Angels--Andrea Davis Pinkney
43. The Silmarillion--J.R.R. Tolkien
44. The Late Bourgeois World--Nadine Gordimer
45. Macbeth--Jo Nesbo
46. Elatsoe--Darcy Little Badger
47. Dead Dead Girls-Nekesa Afia
48. The Witch's Daughter--Paula Brackston
49. Lolly Willowes--Sylvia Townsend Warner 
50. The London Seance Society--Sarah Penner
51. A Woman is No Man--Etaf Rum
52. Olga Dies Dreaming--Xochitl Gonzalez
53. Annie John--Jamaica Kincaid
54. Carrie Soto is Back--Taylor Jenkins Reid
55. Pineapple Street--Jenny Jackson
56. Stories--Katherine Mansfield
57. The Odd Women--George Gissing
58. The Lions of Little Rock--Kristin Levine
59. Sister Stardust--Jane Green
60. Gingerbread--Helen Oyeyemi
61. The Masterpiece--Emile Zola
62. The Pajama Girls of Lambert Square--Rosina Lippi
63. Cherry Ames, Student Nurse--Helen Wells

Challenge completed on December 31