2023 Reading Challenges

Here are the challenges I’ll be participating in. To sign up, I’ve linked to each of the host sites. You can also join me in tracking your progress on The StoryGraph (I’m curlygeek04).

TBR Pile Challenge: read 12 of these 14 books that have been on my TBR list since 2021 (#TBRYear10).

1. The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Edith Eger (2017) (Hungary/Poland)
2. The Last Girl by Nadia Murad (2017) (Iraq)
3. The Outrun by Amy Liptrot (2015) (Scotland)
4. Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi (2020) (Nigeria)
5. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1878) (Russia)
6. The Arsonist’s City by Hala Alyan (2021) (Lebanon)
7. Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2015) (Mexico)
8. The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper (2021) (Italy)
9. Hum If You Don’t Know the Words by Bianca Marais (2017) (South Africa)
10. All Clear by Connie Willis (2010) (England)
11. Human Acts by Kang Han (2014) (South Korea)
12. The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys (2019) (Spain)
13. The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (2010) (Sierra Leone)
14. Guest House for Young Widows by Azadeh Moavani (2019) (Syria)

For the Backlist Reader Challenge, read and review books that were published in 2021 or earlier and were on my TBR list in 2021 or earlier (includes all books in the TBR Pile Challenge). Goal: 15 books (#BacklistReader).

1. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
2. The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper

Gaia/Nature Reading Challenge, hosted by Gum Trees and Galaxies: reading books with nature or environment themes, fiction or nonfiction. I’m pledging to read 10 books in 2023. 

1. The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
2. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

A new challenge for me, the 52 Book Club has these 52 book prompts (#the52bookclub):

1. A book with a subtitle
2. Featuring an inheritance: The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
3. Title starting with the letter “G”
4. Title starting with the letter “H”: Heartstoppers Volume 2
5. Title starting with the letter “I”: The Island of Missing Trees
6. Under 200 pages
7. A city or country name in the title
8. Dystopian Fiction: Our Missing Hearts
9. A book with a dedication: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
10. Takes place during the roaring twenties
11. A book about secrets
12. High Fantasy
13. Published posthumously
14. A survival story
15. Set in Australia
16. Featuring one of the “seven deadly sins”: The Wolf Den
17. By a Caribbean author
18. Set during a war other than WWI or WWII
19. Typographic cover
20. A book about siblings
21. A second-hand book
22. A body-positive message
23. An alliterative title
24. Nordic Noir
25. A fashionable character
26. Has an epilogue: Well Played
27. Newbery Medal Winner
28. Includes a funeral: This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke
29. Sends you down a rabbit hole
30. An author with a same name as you
31. Set in a workplace
32. Published by Macmillan: The Exiles by Jane Harper
33. A banned book
34. Featuring mythology
35. A book you meant to read last year
36. Chapters have cliffhangers
37. Written in present tense: The Marriage Portrait
38. An enemies-to-lovers plot
39. The final book in a series: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
40. Written by a comedian
41. A character who is a refugee
42. Time in the title
43. A book “everyone” has read
44. A contemporary setting
45. First word in the book is “The”
46. Script font on the spine
47. Set in the city of Dublin
48. A book by Octavia E. Butler
49. Books on the cover
50. Related to the word “Murder”
51. A book that doesn’t fit any of the other 51 prompts
52. Published in 2023

You can find my reading around the world challenges here.

You can find my nonfiction reading challenges here.