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Stina's Challenge 2022
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Stina's Personal Reading Challenge for 2022
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The first section contains prompts I've failed at in 2019, 2020, AND 2021. Making an effort to prioritize them in my monthly TBRs has obviously not been working all that great for me. So. I'm doing that again. Because sure, that makes perfect sense. ::shrug::
- A book longer than 700 pages
- The oldest ARC you own
- A book published on your birthday (any year)
- A LitRPG book
- A family member's favorite book
The second section contains prompts I've failed at only two years in a row. Go me! They will be prioritized right after the first section prompts. That'll show 'em who's boss.
- A book that was published in 1995
- A food book about a cuisine you've never tried before
- An edition of a literary magazine
- Borrowed from a friend
- A book set on the opposite side of the planet
- A winner of the Stella Prize or the Women's Prize for Fiction
- A book from the 2019 Reading Women Award shortlists and honorable mentions
- A book by Isabel Allende
- Read a Victorian (1837-1901) diary or collection of letters
The third 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. I am giving priority to Level 2 because that is actually from the 2020 challenge, while Levels 3 & 5 are from the 2021 challenge.
Level 2
- The original "Beauty & the Beast" fairy tale
- Free Space! Pick any book.
Level 3
- Read a book by an author with the same first name as one of your grandparents.
- Free Space! Pick any book.
Level 5
- Read a book by John Irving.
- Free Space! Pick any book.
The fourth section contains my normal prompt fails. Some were from seasonal challenges, but I'm not restricting myself to a season for this challenge.
- An indigenous literature award nominee, such as the AIYLA, Burt, Indigenous Voices Awards, Nga Kupu Ora, etc.
- A book from the Sir Julius Vogel Award long-list from any year
- A book written in an endangered (or now extinct) language
- A book by a prisoner or about prison systems
- A book involving recovery from a natural disaster
- A book about or by a Little Person
- Book becoming a movie in 2021
- Bestselling memoir
- A sequel
- Oprah Winfrey Book Club pick
- A book everyone is talking about
- Set before the 17th century
- Book with a deckled edge
- An alternate history novel
- An epistolary
- Winner of the National Book Award (any year)
- Read a non-European novel in translation
- Read a genre novel by an Indigenous, First Nations, or Native American author
- A book that has won the Women's Prize for Fiction
- A bestseller from the 1990s
- A locked-room mystery
- Read a book from Dad's library
- Read an SFF anthology edited by a person of color
- Read a food memoir by an author of color
- Read a work of investigative fiction by an author of color
- Read a NetGalley book
- Read a book from the neighborhood library box
- A fantasy book released in 2021
- A military sci fi
- A book by a Slovak author
- A book set in winter
- An SFF book with a trope you love
- A nonfiction book someone you love loves
- A historical fiction book in a series you love
- A book with a spine you love
- A book from your birth decade
- A book set in the present day
- The first book in a series
- A Bookoplathon Chance card book
- A book in an atypical genre for you
- A book already on your e-reader
- A book with a purple cover
- An audiobook that is a tear-jerker
- An audiobook that made you gasp or laugh out loud
- A wildly popular audiobook you've never read before
- A book with a word in the title that is related to an Element (earth, air, water, or fire)
- A Victorian book set in either the countryside or the city
- A Victorian sensation novel
- A book with a group of teens as the main characters
- A book with a camp setting
- A middle grade book
- A book by a Mediterranean author
- Debut novel of a famous author
- A fanfic
- The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover
- A Victorian mystery or one set in the Victorian era
- A mystery with a bilingual detective or one set in a village
- A mystery that features a great team
- A Golden Age mystery or one set between 1920 and 1945
- A translated mystery or one set in a country not your own
- A mystery with a private detective
And the final section consists of specific titles that were "assigned" in some fashion, such as for a readathon group read. Some I may permit myself to DNF, and others I am determined to finish.
- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
- Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
- The Brave by James Bird
- Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Blood Countess by Elizabeth Bathory
- The Sundial by Shirley Jackson
- Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
- Footsteps in the Dark by Georgette Heyer
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-2022 shelf tag.