Indie Challenge discussion

As I don’t post about my reading online, I thought I would share my reading challenge here:

A debut - Grace's Table (completed), The Bone Season (completed)
An anthology - Rogues
Kids or YA - The Bone Season (completed)
An author from another country - Grace's Table (completed), Scoundrel (completed), Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
Underrated book - The Wolves of Leninsky Prospekt (completed), Grace's Table (completed), The Red Beach Hut (completed), Menopause: All you need to know in one concise manual: Signs and symptoms - Time to rethink HRT - Holistic treatments - Coping at work - Advice for all the family (completed)
An award winner - The Heart Goes Last/The Luminaries
Book that defies genre - How to Stop Time (completed)
A women’s press - The Red Beach Hut (completed)
Brilliant backlist - The Red Beach Hut (completed), How to Stop Time (completed), Scoundrel (completed), The Bone Season (completed), Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
A poetry collection -
Non-fiction - Menopause: All you need to know in one concise manual: Signs and symptoms - Time to rethink HRT - Holistic treatments - Coping at work - Advice for all the family (completed), Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
Favourite - The Bone Season (completed)
Genre fiction - How to Stop Time (completed), Scoundrel (completed), The Bone Season (completed)
Recommended by a friend -
Book from a series - Scoundrel (completed), The Bone Season (completed)
A crowdfunded book - Notes From the Sofa
A new to you press - The Wolves of Leninsky Prospekt (completed), Grace's Table (completed), The Red Beach Hut (completed), Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
A book from your TBR - The Red Beach Hut (completed), How to Stop Time (completed), The Bone Season (completed, Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
Biography - Reasons to Stay Alive
Translated book - Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
Marginalised people - The Red Beach Hut (completed), More Than This
A press over 20 years old - Menopause: All you need to know in one concise manual: Signs and symptoms - Time to rethink HRT - Holistic treatments - Coping at work - Advice for all the family (completed), How to Stop Time (completed), Scoundrel (completed), The Bone Season (completed), Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
A Ninja book - The Wolves of Leninsky Prospekt (completed), Grace's Table (completed)
LGBTQIA - The Red Beach Hut (completed)
Free -

For most of the challenges I have a few books to choose from. The challenges I am struggling with are ‘A poetry collection’ and ‘A crowdfunded book’ and I’d really appreciate some recommendations.

I might join you keeping track here. I've got a twitter thread but I tend to forget to update...

Crowdfunded books I have that are great are The Sewing Machine by Natalie Fergie (Unbound), anything from 3 of Cups Press (which also work for anthologies), the original print run of Heartstopper by Alice Oseman was crowdfunded, although it's now been picked up by a major publisher (it's so good though!). Also for poetry collection, I've not read it yet but The princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace has been recommended to me lots.

Ninja wrote: "I might join you keeping track here. I've got a twitter thread but I tend to forget to update...

Crowdfunded books I have that are great are The Sewing Machine by Natalie Fergie (Unbound), anythi..."

Thanks for the suggestions. I went and had a look at the Unbound website and came across Notes From the Sofa by Raymond Briggs. It looks like a fun read.

I’ve already read The Princess Saves Herself in this One. Unfortunately I was very disappointed in it, but I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t really know a lot about poetry.

Oh that's a shame! I don't know a lot about poetry anymore either to be quite honest, that's sort of why I put a square on there. I'd like to read more of it but I do struggle with finding inspiring poets. Maybe I'll put a plea in the next newsletters for some poetry lovers to join the group and suggest us some great books!

Posting my Indie Challenge update for this month here as well as in our newsletter!

A debut - Leonard and Hungry Paul
An anthology - The Good Immigrant
Kids or YA - Lumberjanes Volume 5
An author from another country -
Underrated book -
An award winner -
Book that defies genre -
A women’s press -
Brilliant backlist -
A poetry collection -
Non-fiction -
Favourite -
Genre fiction - (Lumberjanes Volume 5)
Recommended by a friend -
Book from a series - (Lumberjanes Volume 5)
A crowdfunded book -
A new to you press -
A book from your TBR - (Leonard and Hungry Paul)
Biography -
Translated book -
Marginalised people -
A press over 20 years old -
A Ninja book - (Leonard and Hungry Paul)
LGBTQIA - Under the Udala Trees
Free -

The ones I've put in brackets are because I've decided that although the challenge allows you to use one book for more than one square, I'd like to read one per square, but for now I've filled in those with the books I've read already!