The52BookClub's 2023 Reading Challenge (My TBR List & Goals)

Hello book lovers!

Are you looking for a fun reading challenge for the new year?

One of my newest yearly favorites has been the52bookclub's annual reading challenge, which includes 52 unique prompts and sometimes includes bonus prompts and giveaways!

(image belongs to and links to the52bookclub.com)

This is the 6th annual challenge and has garnered quite a following over at Facebook, Goodreads, and Instagram. They also share this reading challenge on Storygraph which has a fantastic way to keep track of what you may and do read for the challenge, as well as see what other participants are reading for each challenge in case you are having trouble with a prompt or two.

Without further ado, here are the prompts and a couple of hopefuls I have planned for each of them!

1. A book with a subtitle:  👍

Babel: An Arcane History 
Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders: An Indispensable Guide to the Dangers and Delights of the Peculiar World for the Instruction of New Arrivals by Ransom Riggs

The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times

2. A book with an inheritance:

Thistlefoot
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

3. Title starts with the letter G:

Gallows Hill
Ghost Eaters
Ghost 19

4. Title starts with letter H:

Hidden Pictures

Hester

House of Hunger

5. Title starts with letter I:

I Must Betray You

6. Under 200 pages:

Ring Shout

7. A city or country name in the title:  👍

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

A Gentleman in Moscow

Anne of Avonlea
An American Marriage 

8. Dystopian fiction

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

9. A book with a dedication:

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

10. Takes place in the 'Roaring 20's':

Wild & Wicked Things

11. A book about secrets

Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

The Secret History

12. High fantasy:

Legends & Lattes

13. Published posthumously:

14. A survival story:

The Woman They Could Not Silence

15. Set in Australia:

The Dry

16. Featuring one of the Seven Deadly Sins:

Reader, I Murdered Him

The Grapes of Wrath

Ordinary Monsters

17. By a Caribbean author:

With the Fire On High

Jackal

Felix Ever After

18. Set during a war other than WWI or WWII:

Cold Mountain

Home Front

I Must Betray You
Dread Nation

19. Typographic Cover:

The House on Mango Street

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

We Spread

20. A book about siblings:  👍

My Sister the Serial Killer

The Sisters of the Winter Wood

The Wilderwomen
House of Hollow

21. A secondhand book:

Before We Were Yours
The Snow Child

22. A body-positive message:

The Vanishing Half

23. An alliterative title:

Spinning Silver

Daisy Darker

24. Nordic Noir:

The Tenant

The Lost Village

25. A fashionable character:

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

26. Has an epilogue:
The Secret History


27. A Newbery Medal Winner:
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon


28. Includes a funeral:
Demon Copperhead
The House Across the Lake
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn


29. Sends you down a rabbit hole:
Alice in Wonderland
House of Leaves


30. An author with the same name as you:
I read Stacy Schiff last year, but they write nonfiction so I need recs for this one! 


31. Set in a workplace: 
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Legends & Lattes
The Woman in the Library
Sign Here


32. Published by Macmillan:
Hell Bent
The Wilderwomen
Legends & Lattes
Middlegame
Seasonal Fears
The Atlas Six
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour 


33. A banned book:  👍
Brave New World
Kindred
Cemetery Boys
All American Boys
All Boys Aren't Blue
How To Be Ace
Gender Queer
Melissa
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

34. Featuring mythology:
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
The Sisters of the Winter Wood
The Witch's Heart
Legendborn

35. A book you meant to read last year:
An American Marriage
Ghost Story
The Last House on Needless Street
The Haunting of Leigh Harker
Out of the Easy
Middlegame
The Wolf and the Woodsman

36. Chapters have cliffhangers:
The Dry
The House Across the Lake
Killers Of A Certain Age
Daisy Darker

37. Written in the present tense:
The City We Became
Orphan Train
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Fairy Tale

38. An enemies-to-lovers plot:


39. The final book in a series:
For You and Only You by Caroline Kepnes

40. Written by a comedian:
Yearbook by Seth Rogan

41.  A character who is a refugee  👍
My Sister's Bones
All My Rage

42. Time in the Title
The Night Shift
Confessions on the 7:45
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

43. A book "everyone" has read
The Secret History
Kindred
Vicious
A Little Life
Daisy Jones and the Six

44. A contemporary setting


45. First word in the book is "the"
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
The House Across the Lake
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Fervor

46. Script font on the spine


47. Set in the city of Dublin


48. A book by Octavia E. Butler  👍
Kindred


49. Books on the cover
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The Woman in the Library
Hell of A Book
The Bookwoman's Daughter


50. Related to the word murder
Reader, I Murdered Him
Killers of A Certain Age
My Sister, the Serial Killer


51. Doesn't fit any of the other 51 prompts


52. Published in 2023
Lost in the Moment and Found
How to Sell A Haunted House
A House With Good Bones


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You can find out more about this challenge over at the52bookclub's website! 


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2023 ABC Reading Challenge

 

Hello readers! 

Happy 2023! 

I've been participating in some form of this ABC challenge for years and always enjoy crossing out titles and adding to my reading journal & Bookstagram stories. I almost never finish every letter but it's become a habit to do this challenge! 
 

PREVIOUS YEARS

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023 ABC READING CHALLENGE

*title = currently reading

title = finished reading

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

MY TBR LIST

(scroll down past this list for list of books I ended up reading)

A
All American Boys | All My Rage | Amari and the Great Game | The Angel-Maker | The Atlas Six | Anna and the Swallow Man

B

Babel | The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes | The Bone Orchard | Bone Weaver | The Book Eaters | The Book of Gothel | The Book of Magic

The Book of Boundaries

C

Cemetery Boys | Certain Dark Things | Cloud Cuckoo Land | The Crane Husband 

Cultish

D

Daisy Darker | Daphne | The Darkening | Demon Copperhead | Devil House | The Dictionary of Lost Words | A Dowry of Blood | The Drowned Woods | The Dry

E

The Embroidered Book 

F

Fairy Tale | The Fervor | For You and Only You

G

Gallows Hill | The Gathering Dark | Ghost 19 | Ghost Eaters

H

A Head Full of Ghosts | Hell Bent | Hester | Hidden Pictures | Hide | The Hollow Kind | The Hollow Places | The House Across the Lake | House of Hollow | House of Hunger | A House With Good Bones | How To Sell A Haunted House

I

I Must Betray You

J

Jackal | Juniper & Thorn | Just Like Home

K

Killers of a Certain Age | Kindred

L

Lapvona | Last Night at the Telegraph Club | Leech | Legends & Lattes | Little Eve | Lore Olympus (Vol 3+) | Lost in the Moment and Found | Lute

The Light We Carry

M

Man, Fuck This House | Middlegame | Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders | Motherthing | My Sister, the Serial Killer

The Mermaid's Voice Returns In This One

N
The Night Shift | Ninth House | Not Good For Maidens

O

The Ogress and the Orphans | Ordinary Monsters | The Overstory | One By One | Our Last Echoes

P

The Pallbearer's Club | Project Hail Mary

The Princess Saves Herself In This One

Q

R

Reader, I Murdered Him | The Reading List | Ring Shout | Rules For Vanishing 

S

Seasonal Fears | The Secret History | The Secrets of Hartwood Hall | Sign Here | The Silence That Binds Us | Small Angels | Sorrowland | The Spear Cuts Through Water | Such Sharp Teeth | Sundial

T

These Fleeting Shadows | Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke | Thistlefoot | Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow | The Twisted Ones

U

V

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

W

We Deserve Monuments | We Spread | Weyward | White Horse | The Wilderwomen | The Witch in the Well | The Witches of Moonshine Manor | The Woman in the Library 

What My Bones Know | The Witch Doesn't Burn In This One | The Woman They Could Not Silence 

X

Y

*The Year of the Introvert

Z

BOOKS I ACTUALLY READ IN 2023

*title = currently reading

_____________________

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

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

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

A

Almost American Girl by Robin Ha (GN) (NF)
Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savrit
Amari and the Great Game by B.B. Alston
Anne: An Anne of Green Gables Adaptation (Sort of) (GN)
Anne of West Philly by Ivy Noelle Weir (GN)
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Keily
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson (NF)
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
And Yet by Kate Baer (NF)
The Angel-Maker
At Blackwater Pond (NF)
American Born Chinese (GN)

B

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
The Book of Boundaries by Melissa Urban
Break Your Glass Slippers by Amanda Lovelace (NF)
The Book of Gothel by Mary McMyne
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy (GN)
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
The Book of Magic
Bitter 
Bright Dead Things (NF)
Beyond the Gender Binary (NF)
Big Tree

C
Castaways by Laura ______ (GN)
Chef's Kiss by Jarrett Melandez (GN)
Colorblind (NF)
Crushing (GN)
Catherine House
Cemetery Boys
The Carrying
The Crane Husband

Crank
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Call Me Francis Tucket
Camp Quiltbag

D
Daybreak (GN)
The Drowned Woods
Daring Greatly (*NF)
Dear Mothman
Ducks: Two Years in the Tar Sands (NF GN)
Demon Copperhead

E
Everyone is Tulip (GN)
Even Though I Knew the End
Empty Bottles Full of Stories (NF)
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Episode Thirteen

F
Flower Crowns & Fearsome Things (NF)
Frizzy (GN)
Felix Ever After
Fairy Tale
Felicity
Freewater
The Fellowship of the Ring
Fallout
The Fervor
Flowerheart

G
Good Talk (NF GN)
A Gift For A Ghost
Ghost 19
Ghost Eaters
Glass
Gender-swapped Greek Myths

H
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
Hands by Torrey Maldonado
The Heartstopper Yearbook

I Hope This Finds You Well (NF)
How To Sell a Haunted House
The Hurting Kind (NF)
Hummingbird Heart (GN)
The Humbling and other poems (NF)
The Hobbit
A House With Good Bones
Hotel Dare (GN)
The House Across the Lake

I
The Illustrated Herbiary (NF)
I Was Born For This
It Won't Always Be Like This (GN)
It's Lonely At the Centre of the Earth (GN)
Isla to Island (GN)
Into the Light
The Islands of Elsewhere

J

Jo: An Adaptation (GN)

K

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Kindred: the graphic novel (GN)
Kodi (GN)

L

The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama (NF)
Loveless by Alice Oseman
Lost in the Moment and Found
Lore Olympus Vol 3 (GN)
Light Filters In (NF)
Lawn Boy
The Lost Girls of Willowbrook
Lore Olympus Vol 4 (GN)

M
The Mermaid's Voice Returns In This One (NF)
Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders
Mindful Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
The Man Who Came Down the Attic Stairs (GN)
A Mystery of Mysteries
Motherthing
Monstrous
The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone
Mr. Tucket
Mysteries of Thorn Manor
Melissa

N

Night Bus (GN)
Ninth House

O
Odder by Katherine Applegate

P
The Princess Saves Herself In This One (NF)
Pet
Pilu of the Woods (GN)
The Poison Season
Pillow Thoughts (NF)
Pillow Thoughts II (NF)

Q

Queer: A Graphic History

R

Ring Shout
The Ruins

S
Shine Your Icy Crown (NF)
Sorrowland
Sharks in the Rivers
Skeleton Song
Small World 
Swim Team (GN)
The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
Solitaire
The Sunbearer Trials
Song of the Sea (GN)

T
Twig (GN)
Taproot (GN)
To Make Monsters Out of Girls (NF)
To Drink Coffee With A Ghost (NF)
A Thousand Mornings
This Poison Heart
Tucket's Ride
Through the Groves

U
Unlock Your Storybook Heart (NF)

V

W
The Witch Doesn't Burn In This One (NF)

What We Saw by Mary Downing Hahn
We Survived the Holocaust: The Bluma and Felix Goldberg Story (NF GN)
The Wilderwomen
Why I Wake Early (NF)
The Weight of Blood
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure
Weyward

X

Y
* The Year of the Introvert
You Don't Have to Be Everything
You: the Story

Z

I'll be linking up to the 2023 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge hosted by EscapeWithDollycas.
You can see the general rules and sign up HERE.

You can follow and see what I'm currently reading at Goodreads, Storygraph & Bookstagram! 

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LazyDayLit's JANUARY 2023 TBR & Reading Goals

HELLO 2023!!!


New year, new TBR! 

I like to make a big list of 100 books that I may try to read throughout the year (you can find it at listchallenges)
but to begin with,
here's my ambitious TBR for just January! 


Library Loans

Nonfiction Picks

I've been gravitating toward nonfiction a lot more lately. 
Here's what I'm hoping to get to this month!

Backlist Books

What are you most looking forward to reading this month?

You can keep up with what I end up reading over on Bookstagram @LazyDayLit! 

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LazyDayLit's DECEMBER 2022 TBR & Reading Goals

Hello December! 

This year has flown by!
I'd usually save this time of the year to finish any books I started but didn't finish or any extra attempts at finishing any challenges I've started, but I've been in the holiday spirit and have picked quite a few reads to reflect that this year, which is pretty new for me. I usually don't read for any holiday but for Halloween. 

Here's what I'm hoping to get to: 


LIBRARY LOANS: 

From My Shelves: 

What are you most looking forward to reading this month?

You can keep up with what I end up reading over on Bookstagram @LazyDayLit! 

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LazyDayLit's NOVEMBER Reading Wrap Up & Challenge Progress

 Goodbye November! 

Apologies for the hiatus! I'm still reading and trying to get back into the reviewing / blogging flow. 


What I read this month:

Graphic Novels

FICTION READS

NONFICTION READS

CHAPTER BOOKS READ TO MY DAUGHTER

CHALLENGE PROGRESS

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

22 / 26

JAN: +7

C, E, G, H, L, N, V

FEB: +5

A, B, M, P, R

MAR: +2
F, W

APR: +1
T

MAY: +2
O, S

JUNE: +1
D,

JULY: +2
I, U

AUGUST: +1
J

SEPTEMBER: +1

Y

OCTOBER: +0

NOVEMBER: +0

BookRiot's READ HARDER Challenge

JAN: 1/24
FEB: 4/24
MAR: 4/24
APR: 4/24
MAY: 5/24

JUNE: +1
JULY:
AUGUST: +1
SEPTEMBER:
OCTOBER:
NOVEMBER:

The52BookClub Reading Challenge

20 / 52

JAN: +5
FEB: +3
MAR: +1
APR: +2
MAY: +2
JUNE: +2
JULY:
AUGUST: +5

SEPTEMBER: +
OCTOBER: +2




PopSugar Reading Challenge

Jan: 4 / 40
Feb: 7 / 40
Mar: +1 = 8/40
Apr: +0 = 8 / 40
May: +2 = 10/40
JUNE: +5 = 15/40
JULY: 
AUGUST: +3
SEPTEMBER:
OCTOBER: +3
NOVEMBER: 



NEW TO ME AUTHORS

NOVEMBER:
Raina Telgemeier
Jessi Zabarsky
Diane Setterfield
Stephanie Moulton Sarkis
Merlin Sheldrake


Happy reading! 

LazyDayLit's NOVEMBER 2022 TBR & Reading Goals

Hello November! 

I hope you readers all had a fantastic October! 

I'm still reading from my spooky pile and library loans but have a few new hopefuls to share with you all. Here they all are:

For Review

Many thanks to St. Martin's Press, Kensington Books, and Imagine & Wonder ! 


Library Loans

Nonfiction Loans

FROM MY SHELVES

What are you most looking forward to reading this month?

You can keep up with what I end up reading over on Bookstagram @LazyDayLit! 

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