Each year, I take on different reading challenges as a way to get outside of my reading comfort zone. For 2023, I plan to read a total of 104 books by completing the 52 Book Club's 2023 reading challenge (consisting of 52 books) and the Booklist Queen's 2023 Reading Challenge (also consisting of 52 books.)
If you'd like to participate in this 2023 reading challenge, visit www.the52bookclub.com/2023-reading-challenge.
Below is the list of reading prompts for the 2023 reading challenge which I'll start on January 1, 2023. After I finish each reading prompt, I'll update this list. If you want to see more of the books I've read this year and previous years, check out my Goodreads profile at: https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/15431036.
The 52 Book Club's 2023 Reading Challenge:
1. Book with a subtitle: What The Amish Teach Us:Plain Living In A Busy World by Donald B. Kraybill
2. Featuring an inheritance: Inheritance: A Memoir of Generalogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
3. Title starting with the letter “G:” Gray Hair Don't Care by Karen Booth
4. Title starting with the letter “H:” Happily Ever Older: Revolutionary Approaches to Long-Term Care by Moira Welsh
5. Title starting with the letter “I:” Invisible Wounds by Jess Ruliffson
6. Under 200 pages: From a Cat House to the White House by Jesse Pender
7. A city or country name in the title: Paris: The Memoir by Paris Hilton
8. Dystopian Fiction: Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds
9. A book with a dedication: You Got Anything Strong by Gabrielle Union
10. Takes place during the roaring twenties: Emipre of Deception by Dean Jobb
11. A book about secrets: The Stranger She Loved: A Mormon Doctor, His Beautiful Wife, and an Almost Perfect Murder by Shanna Hogan
12. High Fantasy: An Embarrassment of Witches by Sophie Goldstein and Jenn Jordan
13. Published posthumously: It Is Well With My Soul: The Extraordinary Life of a 106- Year-Old Woman by Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson
14. A survival story: The Birthday Party by Stanley N. Alpert
15. Set in Australia:In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
16. Featuring one of the “seven deadly sins:” Greed in the Gilded Age: The Brillant Con of Cassie Chadwick by William Elliott Hazelgrove
17. By a Caribbean author: Kiss Me Catalina by Priscilla Oliveras (Puerto Rico)
18. Set during a war other than WWI or WWII: Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates By Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger (The Barbary Wars)
19. Typographic cover: I'm Not Yelling: A Black Woman's Guide to Navigating the Workplace by Elizabeth Leiba
20. A book about siblings: The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue by John Glatt
21. A second-hand book: The Runner's Guide To The Meaning Of Life by Amby Burfoot
22. A body-positive message: Body Positive: A Guide To Loving Your Body by Emily Lauren Dick
23. An alliterative title: Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally by Emily Ladau
24. Nordic Noir: The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis
25. A fashionable character: Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir by Daniel R. Day
26. Has an epilogue: Black Girl In Love (with herself) by Trey Anthony
27. Newbery Medal Winner: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (1993)
28. Includes a funeral: It's Your Funeral: Plan the Celebration of a Lifetime Before It's Too Late by Kathy Benjamin
29. Sends you down a rabbit hole: Running While Black: Finding Freedom in a Sport That Wasn't Built For Us by Alison Mariella Désir
30. An author with a same name as you: Tallulah The Tooth Fairy CEO by Dr. Tamara Pizzoli
31. Set in a workplace: Please Be Advised by Christine Sneed
32. Published by Macmillan: The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
33. A banned book: A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Sruvive by Dave Pelzer
34. Featuring mythology: Medusa by Rosie Hewlett
35. A book you meant to read last year: Marriage Be Hard by Kevin and Melissa Fredericks
36. Chapters have cliffhangers: Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave
37. Written in present tense: Blush by Helen Hardt
38. An enemies-to-lovers plot: West Side Love Story by Priscilla Oliveras
39. The final book in a series: Master of Pleasure by Tara Sue Me
40. Written by a comedian: Number One Is Walking by Steve Martin and Harry Bliss
41. A character who is a refugee: The Night Diary by Veera Hiranaandani
42. Time in the title: Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes
43. A book “everyone” has read:The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
44. A contemporary setting: Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
45. First word in the book is “The:” The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
46. Script font on spine: Old School Love and Why It Works by Joseph "Rev Run" Simmons and Justine Simmons
47. Set in the city of Dublin: Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy
48. A book by Octavia E. Butler: Unexpected Stories by Octavia E. Bulter
49. Books on the cover: The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
50. Related to the word “murder:” The Coworker by Freida McFadden
51. A book that doesn’t fit any of the other 51 prompts: The Way of the Househusband by Kousuke Oono (graphic novel)
52. Published in 2023: Bad Ass Vegan by John Lewis
