LazyDayLit's JANUARY 2023 Reading Wrap Up & Challenge Progress

GOODBYE JANUARY! 

Hello readers!
Another month has hit the dust but I at least knocked a lot of books off my TBR pile/list. 
It's been pretty cold at least once a week in January this year so we spent a lot of time indoors but also went on a few great hikes and spent a lot of the warmer hours in the garden prepping for Spring. 

Back to the books:
I read 20 books this month!
Wow, that seems like a lot!
How'd I do it?
Audiobooks! Graphic novels! Poetry! 
Audiobooks have really changed how I read and focus on reading. I can get through way more reads without getting sidetracked or ending up in a slump. And I can listen while busy with other things so I have MORE time to read this way!
Woot! Win-win! 


What I read this month:

FICTION READS

The Book Eater by Sunyi Dean (Adult Fantasy Horror)
Anna and the Swallow Man (YA Historical Fiction)
Amari and the Great Game (#2) by B.B. Alston (MG Fantasy)

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland (YA Fantasy Horror)
Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders by Ransom Riggs (YA Paranormal Fantasy)
The Book of Gothel by Mary McMyne (Adult Hist Fic)

What We Saw by Mary Downing Hahn (MG Mystery Thriller)
Odder by Katherine Applegate (MG)


GRAPHIC NOVELS READ IN JAN

Almost American Girl by Robin Ha (NF memoir)
Anne: An Adaptation of Anne of Green Gables (Sort Of) by Kathleen Gros (Retelling)
Anne of West Philly by Ivy Noelle Weir (Retelling)

Beetle & the Hollowbones by Aliza Layne (Fantasy)
We Survived the Holocaust: The Bluma & Felix Goldberg Story (Nonfiction)

NONFICTION READS

The Princess Saves Herself In This One by Amanda Lovelace
The Witch Doesn't Burn In This One by Amanda Lovelace
The Mermaid's Voice Returns In This One by Amanda Lovelace

The Year of the Introvert
The Book of Boundaries by Melissa Urban
The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama

Break Your Glass Slippers by Amanda Lovelace
Shine Your Icy Crown by Amanda Lovelace
Unbreak Your Storybook Heart by Amanda Lovelace

Wild Witchcraft by Rebecca Beyer
(lots of great gardening tips in this!)
The Story You Need To Tell: Writing to Heal From Trauma, Illness, and Loss by Sandra Marinella





CHALLENGE PROGRESS

ABC CHALLENGE

(My ABC Challenge post)

JANUARY

Fiction:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
5 / 26

Graphic Novels:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
3 / 26
Nonfiction:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
7 / 26

BookRiot's READ HARDER Challenge
(my Read Harder blog post)

2/24

JAN: +2

Prompt 7: Listen to an audiobook performed by a person of color of a book written by an author of color:
~Amari and the Great Game by BB Alston (author of color), narration performed by Imani Parks (person of color)

Prompt 8: Read a graphic novel (if you haven't before) OR read a graphic novel in a genre you usually don't read:
~We Survived the Holocaust: The Bluma & Felix Goldberg Story
(I read graphic novels but not nonfiction/history-based like this one)

The52BookClub Reading Challenge
(my 52bookclub challenge blog post)

2 / 52

JAN: +2

Prompt 1: Book with a subtitle:
~The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

Prompt 20: A book about siblings
~House of Hollow



PopSugar Reading Challenge
(my PopSugar challenge blog post)

Jan: +4

Prompt 8: A celebrity memoir:
~The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama

Prompt 14: A modern retelling of a classic:
~Anne: An Adaptation by Kathleen Gros
~Anne of West Philly by Ivy Noelle Weir
(both modern retellings of Anne of Green Gables)

Prompt 31: A book about a family:
~The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

Prompt 34:  historical fiction novel
~Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savrit



Barnes&Noble ReadingChallenge

Jan: +1

An inspiring memoir:
~The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama


2023 NONFICTION READER CHALLENGE
(my Nonfiction challenge blog post)

History:
We Survived the Holocaust

Memoir/Biography:
The Light We Carry

Health:
The Story You Need To Tell

Relationships:
The Book of Boundaries

The Arts:
Wild Witchcraft


NEW TO ME AUTHORS

JANUARY:
Sunyi Dean
RF Kuang
Robin Ha
Gavriel Savit
Melissa Urban
Kathleen Gros
Mary McMyne
Aliza Layne
Rebecca Beyer
Frank W. Baker
Sandra Marinella


Happy reading! 

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland (Young Adult Fantasy Horror Book Review)

House of Hollow
by Krystal Sutherland
Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons
on April 6, 2021
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Horror
Length: 304 pages
Ages: 12 - 17 years

Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | BookDepository

Literary Awards:
Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Young Adult Novel (2021)
ITW Thriller Award Nominee for Young Adult Novel (2022)
Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2021)

Synopsis:
Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can't quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their throats. 

Iris has spent most of her teenage years trying to avoid the weirdness that sticks to her like tar. But when her eldest sister, Grey, goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Iris learns just how weird her life can get: horned men start shadowing her, a corpse falls out of her sister's ceiling, and ugly, impossible memories start to twist their way to the forefront of her mind. 

As Iris retraces Grey's last known footsteps and follows the increasingly bizarre trail of breadcrumbs she left behind, it becomes apparent that the only way to save her sister is to decipher the mystery of what happened to them as children. 

The closer Iris gets to the truth, the closer she comes to the understanding that the answer is dark and dangerous--and that Grey has been keeping a terrible secret from her for years. 



My Thoughts:

Dark fantasy for young adult readers!

Iris Hollow is the youngest of three sisters. Her oldest sister, Grey, left to become a famous fashion designer, and the middle sister, Vivi, has gone off to play in a band. Iris is just trying to get through high school but her mysterious past, in which she and her older sisters were abducted, keeps coming back to haunt her. When Grey turns up missing, Iris is determined to find out what happened, but she uncovers a dark and twisted plot that has changed her life forever. 

Fantasy. Mystery. Horror. 
This story is DARK!

I loved the mystery that haunts Iris and her sisters.
What happened to them? Where did they go and how did they end up with matching scars?

The horror bits were REALLY dark. 
Content warning dark.
(Drug use, death, abduction, SA, blood, gore, and body horror).
I've mulled it over but I'm still having a hard time deciding if this is dark fantasy or horror but it has fairytale qualities that will greatly appeal to fantasy readers and is such a dark read that it may only appeal to horror readers.

I will admit that I almost DNF'd this though. 
I didn't love the social media bits, though they were only a small portion of the story. Once I got past them, the story moved on to darker things that kept my attention but I was reminded that even though we live in an age of technology, it is not exactly my cup of tea. 

If I had to compare this to anything, it would be Seanan McGuire's 'Wayward Children' series! 

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Amari and the Great Game (Supernatural Investigations 2) by BB Alston (Middle Grade Fantasy Book Review)

 

Amari and the Great Game
(Supernatural Investigations #2)
by B.B. Alston
Published by Balzer + Bray
on August 30, 2022
Genre: Middle Grade, Fantasy, Mystery
Length: 400 pages
Ages: 10+ years
Grade level: 3 - 7th

Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | BookDepository

Literary Awards:
Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Middle Grade and Children's (2022)

Synopsis:
After finding her brother and saving the entire supernatural world, Amari Peters is convinced her first full summer as a Junior Agent will be a breeze. 

But between the fearsome new Head Minister's strict anti-magician agenda, fierce Junior Agent rivalries, and her brother Quinton's curse steadily worsening, Amari's plate is full. So when the secretive League of Magicians offers her a chance to stand up for magiciankind as its new leader, she declines. She's got enough to worry about! 

But her refusal allows someone else to step forward, a magician with dangerous plans for the League. This challenge sparks the start of the Great Game, a competition to decide who will become the Night Brothers' successor and determine the future of magiciankind.

The Great Game is both mysterious and deadly, but among the winner's magical rewards is Quinton's last hope--so how can Amari refuse? 


My Thoughts:

Amari Peters has joined the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs, a super secret organization where Amari must compete with peers and discover her own gifts as a naturally powerful magician. With new leadership and new challenges added to the old, Amari continues to navigate the supernatural world and middle-school life while also taking on a secret competition that will decide the fate of magiciankind forever. 

This is such a fantastic series so far! I'm absolutely loving it! 
There's plenty of magic, mythical creatures & beings, mystery, friends & enemy dynamics, duels and dastardly deeds committed in secret, and more! 

Amari deals with a lot of heavy choices and responsibilities in this sequel. Being a naturally powerful magician puts her in a precarious situation with her peers and others in the supernatural world. Likewise, her involvement in the secret but pivotal 'Great Game' puts a strain on her relationships, but despite all the hardships, Amari sticks to her strengths and truths and ends up on top. 

Check out my review of the first book in this series, 
Amari and the Night Brothers.

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The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean (Adult Fantasy Horror Novel Review)

The Book Eaters
by Sunyi Dean
Published by Tor Books
on August 2, 2022
Genre: Adult, Fantasy, Horror
Length: 298 pages

Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | BookDepository

Synopsis:
Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack, and romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries. 

Devon is a part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon--like all other book-eater women--is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairytales and cautionary stories. 

But real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger--not for books, but for human minds. 


My Thoughts:

Devon Fairweather lives a rare and secretive life as a book eater, able to consume literature and retain the knowledge within, like her ancestors before her. Being born a woman book eater in The Family is rare and Devon is raised to accept her place as a wife and mother, all of these decisions predetermined for her. Even rarer are the Mind Eaters--born of book eaters--who hunger for and consume human minds, and when Devon's own son exhibits this ravenous thirst, she must fight to protect him and herself from the world. 

This was my first finished read of 2023 and I really, really enjoyed it. 
There's a little bit of everything I love in here, from fantasy and fairytales to mystery, a little mayhem, and dark, mind-bending horror.

If I had to compare this to anything, it would be a mix-up of the Underworld films and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood with an extra bookish twist. 
The Underworld films because the book is a unique way of reimagining vampires, as divulged by the author in an interview (at the end of the audiobook, which I listened to as I read a physical copy of the book), and The Handmaid's Tale because the Family is a cult-like sect of book eaters that control the lives, marriages, and reproduction of their women-folk. 

The MC, Devon, is one of my new favorite female characters. There is a fierce strength and determination to her that only a mother who is attempting to protect her offspring could have but I also loved how introspective and reflective she was as a character, always tying her life to the fairytales and other stories she has devoured throughout life. I suppose, in this way, I felt I could relate to her. 

There is some lgbtqia+ rep in here, but mostly only mentioned in a conversation between the MC and a side character that is only mentioned once or twice. 

I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys bookish literature, magical realism, or anything on the darker side.

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2023 Nonfiction Reader Challenge

(The above image belongs to Book'dOut.)


Hello readers! 

I love participating in challenges and have really come to enjoy and appreciate the nonfiction books I make time for so I am finally joining in on a nonfiction reader challenge! 

I highly recommend checking out Book'dOut's challenge page for ALL the goals, genres, and participation information!




The goals:

Nonfiction Nipper: Read & review 3 books, from any 3 listed categories

Nonfiction Nibbler: Read & review 6 books, from any 6 listed categories

Nonfiction Nosher: Read & review 12 books, one for each category

Nonfiction Grazer: Read & review any nonfiction book. Set your own goal.


The Categories:

History
Memoir/Biography
Crime & Punishment
Science
Health
Travel
Food
Social Media
Sport
Relationships
The Arts
Published in 2023


Hashtag: #ReadNonFicChal



MY HOPEFULS:

History:


Memoir / Biography:

Spare
The Storyteller
Beyond the Wand


Crime & Punishment:

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote


Health:

The Body Keeps the Score


Travel:

The Appalachian Trail: A Biography


Food:

Taste: My Life Through Food
This Is Your Mind On Plants


Social Media:


Sport:


Relationships:

The Book of Boundaries: Set the Limits That Will Set You Free


The Arts:

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear


Published in 2023:

The Climate Book: The Facts and Solutions 



Are you participating in this challenge?
Have any similar nonfiction recommendations for me?
Leave them in the comments! 



You can keep up with what I'm reading at Goodreads, StoryGraph & Bookstagram!

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Barnes&Noble's 2023 Reading Challenge

 

Hello readers! 

Have you seen the new Barnes&Noble reading challenge yet?

I know, I know. Do we (I) need another reading challenge?
The answer is yes, of course! 
I love reading challenges!
They are fantastic opportunities to challenge yourself, read more, or read more books in genres or age groups that you perhaps haven't read enough of in the past. I love how much I have branched out over the years thanks to the reading challenges I've participated in. 
Of course, there's no pressure to read all of the books or finish the challenge but it's lots of fun to try! 

The Prompts:

1. Outside your comfort zone

Beartown by Fredrik Backman

2. An anthology

Her Body and Other Parties
The Gathering Dark

3. Author who you've never heard of

Legend & Latte by Travis Baldree
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese

4. Give a DNF book a second chance

House of Leaves

5. Includes a map

Ninth House
Babel

6. National Book Award winner

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malindo Lo
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir

7. Romance

Lore Olympus Vol 3 & 4 

8. Non-fiction you know nothing about

The Woman They Couldn't Silence

9. Set in the 1700s 

A Tale of Two Cities

10. About boxing


11. Scares the pants off of you

Tender Is the Flesh 
Stolen Tongues

12. With 'Adventure' in the title


13. That you can't wait to read

A House With Good Bones
The Angel-Maker

14. About a person you don't know


15. Set in India

The Henna Artist

16. One you've already read

From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury

The Scarlet Letter

17. From your #TBR


18. Friend favorites

The Witch's Boy

19. Inspiring memoir  👍

The Storyteller
Educated
The Light We Carry

20. Complete a series

Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders 

21. By a POC author  👍

Kindred by Octavia E Butler
The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
Amari and the Great Game

22. Favorites on social media

The Book Woman's Daughter
Verity
Daisy Jones and the Six

23. Second-person narrative

Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
For You and Only You

24. An unlikely detective

Stalking Jack the Ripper
Hidden Pictures
Hope Never Dies

25. Intimidates you

House of Leaves by Z. Danielewski

26. Gives you hope

The Book of Hope by Jane

27. Published before you were born

Salem's Lot

28. A B&N exclusive edition


29. A picture book  👍

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse

30. A B&N monthly pick 

The Lost Girls of Willowbrook

31. Makes you cry


32. About a tough choice

My Sister, the Serial Killer

33. Speculative fiction

Dark Matter
Annihilation
Babel
Kindred

34. Makes you laugh

Yearbook by Seth Rogan
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

35. Cozy mystery


36. Librarian favorites


37. About history

Lincoln in the Bardo

38. One everyone is talking about

Fairy Tale
Daisy Jones and the Six
How To Sell A Haunted House


39. Bookseller favorites

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson (poetry)

40.  Read a book with a rabbit on the cover

Hell Bent
Watership Down
War Bunny

41. Read a debut novel

She Is A Haunting
Ordinary Monsters

42. Read a book with a friend group

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
The Joy Luck Club

43. Read a book with a murder

Reader, I Murdered Him
A Flicker In the Dark

44. Read a graphic novel  👍

The Witch Boy
Almost American Girl
Anne of West Philly

45. Read a book with a shipwreck

The Night Ship by Jess Kidd

46. Read the first of a series

Ninth House
The Darkening


47. Read a book with "Tree" in the title


48. Read a book about pirates


49. Read a book by an indigenous author

There There

50. Read a book of self-discovery

The Year of the Introvert

Want to join in?

You can find out more about the challenge at Barnes&Noble.com!

You can keep up with what I'm reading at Goodreads, StoryGraph & Bookstagram!

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BookRiot's 2023 READ HARDER Challenge

 

(The above image belongs to BookRiot)

This is the NINTH annual Read Harder challenge but only my third year participating. I really love how this challenge pushes us to really read outside our comfort zones and genres! 

Are you joining in?

HASHTAG:

#READHARDER

THE PROMPTS:

(I may fill these in as I go!)

1. Read a novel about a trans character written by a trans author

Felix Ever After

2. Read one of your favorite author's favorite books

Small World by Laura Zigman (recommended by Alice Hoffman)

3. Read a book about activism

Save the People by Stacy McAnulty
The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg

4. Read a book challenged recently in your school district/library 


OR 


read one of the most banned/challenged books of the year by a Queer and/or BIPOC author

All Boys Aren't Blue
All American Boys

5. Read a completed webtoon

Cat Loaf Adventures

6. Finish a book you've DNF'd (did not finish)

House of Leaves
The Immortal Life of Addie Larue

7. Listen to an audiobook performed by a person of color or a book by an author of color  👍

Amari and the Great Game by BB Alston (poc) 
& narrated by Imani Parks (poc)

8. Read a graphic novel / comic / manga if you haven't before (I have)
OR
read one that is a different genre than you usually read  👍

Almost American Girl by Robin Ha

9. Read an independently published book by a BIPOC author



10. Read a book you know nothing about based solely on the cover

The Overstory

11. Read a cookbook cover to cover


12. Read a nonfiction book about BIPOC and/or Queer history. 

Beyond the Gender Binary

13. Read an author local to you 

(I've done this in the past and think I'll skip this time around. The choices are really old westerns and romance, modern erotica, and popular science-fiction novels written by a known sex offender. No thanks.)

14. Read a book with under 500 Goodreads ratings


15. Read a historical fiction novel set in an Eastern country

The Beekeeper of Aleppo

16. Read a romance with bisexual representation

A Merry Little Meet Cute

17. Read a YA book by an indigenous author

A Snake Falls To Earth
The Firekeeper's Daughter

18. Read a comic or graphic novel that features disability representation

Sensory: Life on the Spectrum

19. Read a nonfiction book about intersectional feminism

Hood Feminism

20. Read a book of poetry by a BIPOC or Queer author

Find Her, Keep Her (both POC & Queer!)

21. Read a book of short stories


22. Read any book from the Ignyte awards shortlist/longlist/winner list

Sorrowland by River Solomon

23. Read a social horror, mystery,, or thriller novel

Tell Me I'm Worthless

24. Pick a prompt from any previous year's challenges to repeat

Want to join in?

You can find out more about the challenge at BookRiot!

You can keep up with what I'm reading at Goodreads, StoryGraph & Bookstagram!

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2023 Reading Challenge Round Up

 Hello readers!

Welcome to my reading challenge round-up page! 
This is where I will keep track of each of the reading challenges I am participating in this year. 

If you'd like to participate in any of these challenges, be sure to click through to the challenge pages to find links to the original challenges, rules, and sign-up information! 


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GOODREADS CHALLENGE

I participate in the Goodreads challenge every year, but for the past few years I have taken the stress out of 'adding up' by keeping my goal total at 52 books. That's at least one book per week, which will work for me even if I'm in a slump. I surpassed that big time last year so I'm secretly hoping to make it to at least 100.

9 / 52

2023 Reading Challenge

Stacy Renee has read 6 books toward her goal of 52 books.

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6 of 52 (11%)

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ABC CHALLENGE

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Jan: A, B, H


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BookRiot's READ HARDER Challenge

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The 52 Book Club's 2023 Reading Challenge

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PopSugar's 2023 Reading Challenge

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Barnes&Noble's 2023 Book Challenge

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Book'd Out's 2023 Nonfiction Reader Challenge

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New to Me Authors


Jan: 
Sunyi Dean
Gavriel Savit
Krystal Sutherland
Melissa Urban




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I will be adding to this challenge round-up page throughout the year! 

Happy reading! 

2023 PopSugar Reading Challenge

 

The 2023 PopSugar Reading Challenge!

Hello, readers! 
Happy New Year! 

This is the NINTH year of this reading challenge's existence and the fifth year I've participated! 

This reading challenge provides 50 prompts in all to help readers read more books, whether that be from your shelves, more ebooks or audiobooks, or more books out of your comfort zones.

I don't put any pressure on myself to finish this challenge but participating and widening my reading horizons is always fun. 

Want to join in? 
Check out PopSugar's Reading Challenge HERE!


The Prompts


1. A book you meant to read in 2022

Before We Were Yours
Cemetery Boys
Gideon the Ninth
The Lost Village
The Maidens
Middlegame
One By One
The Pull of Stars
Salem's Lot
The Sanatorium
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Wild and Wicked Things

2. A book you bought from an independent bookstore

One For Sorrow
Heart's Blood

3. A book with a vacation

Sundial

4. A book by a first-time author

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Jackal by Erin E. Adams
Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott

5. A book with mythical creatures

Amari and the Great Game by BB Alston

6. A book about a forbidden romance

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

7. A book with "Girl" in the title

(this is the first year I didn't have a ton of these on my immediate TBR!)

8. A celebrity memoir

The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
Beyond the Wand by Tom Felton

9. A book with a color in the title

White Horse

10. A romance with a fat lead

Dumplin'
A Merry Little Meet Cute

11. A book about or set in Hollywood

Yearbook by Seth Rogan

12. A book published in Spring 2023

How To Sell A Haunted House
A House With Good Bones

13. A book published the year you were born

Howl's Moving Castle

14. A modern retelling of a classic

Hester (retelling of The Scarlet Letter)

15. A book with a song lyric as a title

Fairy Tale by Stephen King

16. A book where the main character's name is in the title

Anna and the Swallow Man
Hester
Daisy Darker

17. A book with a love triangle 

Gideon the Ninth

18. A book that's been banned or challenge in any state in 2022

Gender Queer
All American Boys
Not All Boys Are Blue

19. A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past challenge


20. A book becoming a tv series or movie in 2023

Kindred by Octavia E Butler
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

21. A book set in the decade you were born

A Confederacy of Dunces
The House on Mango Street
The Satanic Verses
Christine by Stephen King
Different Seasons by Stephen King

22. A book with a queer lead

The Priory of the Orange Tree

23. A book with a map

The Priory of the Orange Tree

24. A book with a rabbit on the cover

Watership Down 
War Bunny
Hell Bent
The Green Ember

25. A book with just text on the cover

We Spread

26. The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR

Brokeback Mountain


27. A #booktok recommendation

28. A book you bought secondhand

Before We Were Yours
The Snow Child
The Lost Village

29.A book that a friend recommended


30. A book that's on a celebrity book club list

The Secret History
Demon Copperhead
Such A Fun Age

31. A book about a family

The Book Eaters

32. A book that comes out in the second half of 2023

All These Sunken Souls
House of Roots and Ruin
Looking Glass Sound

33.  A book about an athlete or sport


34. A historical fiction book

Anna and the Swallow Man
The Pull of the Stars

35. A book about divorce

Everything I Never Told You

36. A book you think your best friend would like


37. A book you should have read in high school

Gone With the Wind 
(I read ALL the required reading but we were only required to read a few chapters of this book and I've never finished it.)

38. A book you read more than 10 years ago

The Scarlet Letter
Anne of Green Gables
From the Dust Returned

39. A book you wish you could read again for the first time

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

40. A book by an author with the same initials as you


41. A book written during NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)

Clockwork Boys by T Kingfisher
Legends & Lattes

42. A book based on a popular movie

Pan's Labyrinth

43. A book that takes place entirely in one day

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

44. A book that was self-published

Eyes Like Stars
Austenland

45. A book that started out as fanfiction


46. A book with a pet character

The Last House on Needless Street

47. A book about a holiday that is not Christmas

Dark Harvest
Cemetery Boys
Daisy Darker

48. A book that features two languages

Cemetery Boys
Babel
Almost American Girl
All My Rage

49. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR


50. A book with alliteration in the title

Daisy Darker
Spinning Silver



Are you participating in this yearly reading challenge? 
Feel free to link to your list posts if you are! 


Happy reading!