2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Lots of fun challenges to choose from :)

Mind: I allow myself to add one book to multiple challenges....

Good luck Mylene! What challenges are you looking forward to? :)

The second challenge I signed up for was the "2021 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge"

REGULAR
✓ 1. A book that published in 2021 - The Milestone Protocol
2. An Afrofuturist book - Kindred
3. A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover - The Thirteen Problems (Great, a chance to re-read one of my favorite short-story collections :))
4. A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign - To Kill a Mockingbird (on my TBR way too long anyway :))
5. A dark academia book - Ninth House (I could always re-read De verborgen geschiedenis)
✓ 6. A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title - Over Sea, Under Stone (any chance to re-read the "The dark is rising" series...)
7. A book where the main character works at your current or dream job - Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II (on my TBR way too long)
8. A book that has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction - Hamnet
9. A book with a family tree - Homegoing
10. A bestseller from the 1990s - The Poisonwood Bible
11. A book about forgetting - De gekwelde man (I think it's about forgetting, if not, it's a great book, and I will find another one for this item)
12. A book you have seen on someone’s bookshelf (in real life, on a Zoom call, in a TV show, etc.)
13. A locked-room mystery - Poirot speelt bridge
14. A book set in a restaurant -Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
✓15. A book with a black-and-white cover - One Life
16. A book by an indigenous author - There There
17. A book that has the same title as a song - The Water Dancer
18. A book about a subject you are passionate about
19. A book that discusses body positivity - One to Watch
20. A book on a Black Lives Matter reading list - A Promised Land
21. A genre hybrid - Slaughterhouse-Five
22. A book set mostly or entirely outdoors - Station Eleven
23. A book with something broken on the cover - The Library of the Unwritten
24. A book by a Muslim American author - Leave the World Behind
25. A book that was published anonymously - The Lying Life of Adults
26. A book with an oxymoron in the title - Black Sun
27. A book about do-overs or fresh starts - Siddhartha
28. A magical realism book - The Midnight Library
29. A book set in multiple countries - Conversations with Friends
30. A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021 - Cliënt E. Busken
31. A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality - Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
32. A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z” - Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
33. A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child) - The Vanishing Half
✓ 34. A book about a social justice issue - The City We Became
35. A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels)
✓ 36. A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads - Revolusi. Indonesië en het ontstaan van de moderne wereld
37. A book you think your best friend would like - Cliënt E. Busken
38. A book about art or an artist - A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir
✓39. A book everyone seems to have read but you - The Handmaid's Tale
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

ADVANCED
41. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list - The Neapolitan Novels
42. The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list - Imaginary Friends
✓43. The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover - The Lost Words
44. The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover - Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
45. The book that’s been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time - Oryx and Crake
46. A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn’t - The Sisters Grimm
✓ 47. A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing - Ready Player Two
48. A book from your TBR list chosen at random - A Children's Bible
✓ 49. A DNF book from your TBR list - The Murmur of Bees
✓ 50. A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library) - The Lost Spells

The third challenge I signed up for is the Book Riot's 2021 Read Harder Challenge

Read a book you’ve been intimidated to read - Ducks, Newburyport
Read a nonfiction book about anti-racism - How to Be an Antiracist
Read a non-European novel in translation - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Read an LGBTQ+ history book - Queer: A Graphic History
Read a genre novel by an Indigenous, First Nations, or Native American author - Black Sun
Read a fanfic
Read a fat-positive romance - One to Watch
Read a romance by a trans or nonbinary author - Felix Ever After
Read a middle grade mystery - The Secret of the Old Clock
Read an SFF anthology edited by a person of color - A Phoenix First Must Burn
Read a food memoir by an author of color
Read a work of investigative nonfiction by an author of color
Read a book with a cover you don’t like
Read a realistic YA book not set in the U.S., UK, or Canada
Read a memoir by a Latinx author - The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
Read an own voices book about disability
Read an own voices YA book with a Black main character that isn’t about Black pain - With the Fire on High
Read a book by/about a non-Western world leader
Read a historical fiction with a POC or LGBTQ+ protagonist - Mexican Gothic
Read a book of nature poems
Read a children’s book that centers a disabled character but not their disability
Read a book set in the Midwest - The Grapes of Wrath
Read a book that demystifies a common mental illness - Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Read a book featuring a beloved pet where the pet doesn’t die - Brief van een dode

Sixth challenge (my very own): read as many fun books as I can. New, old, re-read, favorite authors, cosies, series, tbr's, whatever :)