Challenges from Exploding Steamboats discussion

Most of these prompts reflect uncompleted prompts from various challenges I foolishly took on. Like last year, I am separating it into four sections.

The first section contains prompts I've failed at in both 2019 and 2020. In past years, I forced myself to complete them first, but we've just come through 2020, and ain't nobody got the energy for that kind of BS. I will, however, make an effort to prioritize them as I prepare my monthly TBRs.

- A book longer than 700 pages
- A book set on every continent
- A true crime book
- A book of nonviolent true crime
- The oldest ARC you own
- Longest-standing TBR book on Goodreads
- A book written as a journal
- A book published on your birthday (any year)
- An #ownvoices book set in Mexico or Central America
- A book by a South East Asian
- A LitRPG book
- Finish a series you started at least a year ago
- A family member's favorite book


The second section contains prompts I failed from Linz the Bookworm's challenge. It was set up in levels and I was not allowing myself to count the "free" read until I had completed that level. Treat that however you like.

Level 2
- The original "Beauty & the Beast" fairy tale
- Free Space! Pick any book.
Level 3
- A book published in 2000
- A book that is over 600 pages
- Free Space! Pick any book.
Level 4
- Read the second book of a trilogy you started in 2020
- Read the third book of that same trilogy
- Free Space! Pick any book.
Level 5
- Read a book by John Creasey
- Free Space! Pick any book.


The third section contains my normal prompt fails. Some were from seasonal challenges, but I'm not restricting myself to a season for this challenge.

- Creature with a beak on the cover
- A book with a purple cover or title
- A book with "night" in the title
- A book that has a map
- A re-telling
- Choose a book with a summer cover, a sun on the cover, or "summer" or "sun" in the title
- A book of poetry
- A book with an animal on the cover that makes you think of summer
- A graphic novel
- A book longer than 700 pages
- A haunted house book
- A host recommendation for the #Summerween readathon on BookTube
- Read a romance
- Read one of the biggest books you have on your TBR
- Read a book set in winter
- Read a manga
- Read an epic fantasy
- Book recommended by someone older than you
- A book written by an author of a different race from yourself
- Read a contemporary
- Book over 450 pages
- A book that was published in 1995
- A book with an orange cover
- A book by an Indigenous author
- A food book about a cuisine you've never tried before
- A book about climate change
- A book by or about a refugee
- An edition of a literary magazine
- Goodreads winner in 2019
- Published in the 1920s
- New York Times #1 Bestseller
- From the 50 States reading list
- Borrowed from a friend
- A book set on the opposite side of the planet
- A book by a trans/intersex/nonbinary author
- A book with a fish in the title
- A book that could be described as silkpunk or by a silkpunk author
- A winner of the Stella Prize or the Women's Prize for Fiction
- A woman-authored book about food
- A book from the 2019 Reading Women Award shortlists and honorable mentions
- A book by Isabel Allende
- A book with the word "river" in the title
- Read a Victorian diary or collection of letters

And the final section contains prompts inspired by books I read that didn't fit any of my challenge prompts.

- A book shorter than 100 pages
- A book in which a character uses an alias
- Something originally published in the 19th century


As usual, approach this however you like. I'm not the challenge police, there are no points or prizes, this is just a fun way to tackle and/or build your TBR.

I will be posting discussion threads for all of the prompts, so check those out to suggest books, find recommendations, and discuss your reads with our reading community. There will also be a place to post your reading list, and if you'd like to track your challenge progress here, you are welcome to use the stina-challenge-2021 shelf tag.