Booklist Queen's 2023 Reading Challenge

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.booklistqueen.com/reading-challenge-2023.

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 Booklist Queen 2023 Reading Challenge:

1. Winter Read: Winter Stars: An Elderly Mother, An Aging Son, and Life''s Final Journey by Dave Iverson
2. Goodreads Winner in 2022: The Maid by Nita Prose
3. By a Black Author: Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 
4. With More Than 500 Pages: Butterfly by Kathryn Harvey
5. Published in Your Birth Year: Ramona and Her Mother by Beverly Cleary (1979)
6. Famous Author You’ve Avoided: The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingslover
7. Character with a Disability: Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
8. Fiction & Nonfiction Pairing:Hindsight by Iris & Roy Johansen
9. Fiction & Nonfiction Pairing: Hindsight by Justin Timberlake
10. By a Local Author: Purgatory Has An Adress by Romaine Washington
11. A Western: Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins
12. You Own But Haven’t Read:Will Travel For Vegan Food by Kristin M. Lajeunesse
13. Animal on the Cover: Sad Animal Babies by Brooke Barker
14. Recommended by a Librarian: Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying by Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley
15. Newberry Award Winner:The Summer of the Swans (1971) by Betsy Byars
16. About Royalty: The Remarried Empress, Vol. 1 by Alphatart 
17. Written Before 1850: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) by Washington Irving and Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
18. With Dual Timelines: Forget Me Not by Julie Soto
19. Dewey Decimal System: 300s: The Second Half: Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty by Ellen Warner
20. Mother-Daughter Story: A Thousand Miles to Graceland by Kristen Mei Chase 
21. Empowering Read: Fat Girls Hiking: An Inclusive Guide To Getting Outdoors At Any Size or Ability by Summer Michaud-Skog 
22. World War I Book: Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce by Stanley Weintraub
23. Domestic Thriller: Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent
24. 2023 New Release: Slow AF Run Club:The Ultimate Guide For Anyone Who Wants To Run by Martinus Evans 
25. Read with Jenna Book Club Pick: The Measure by Nikki Erlick (July 2022)
26. A Book Everyone is Talking About: The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
27. Book Becoming Movie in 2023: Are You There God,It's Me Margaret by Judy Blume
28. About Complicated Relationships: Assassinistas by Tini Howard
29. Recommended on TikTok: Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
30. An Audiobook: Spare by Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex
31. Set in the 1930s: Better Luck Next Time by Julia Claiborne Johnson
32. Contemporary Fiction Bestseller: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
33. About Adoption: Then She Found Me by Elinor Lipman
34. Genre You Don’t Usually Read: A Perfect Amish Romance by Shelley Shepard Gray (Christian Fiction)
35. Title Starts with “A”: Animal Farm by George Orwell
36. Set in South America: The Jolly Roger Social Club: A True Story of a Killer in Paradise by Nick Foster (Panama)
37. Detective Story: Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man by Emily J. Edwards
38. About Power: The Power To Get Things Done: (Whether You Feel Like It Or Not) by Steve Levinson, PHD  and Chris Cooper
39. 2022 Bestseller: Recitatif by Toni Morrison
40. By an Author You Love: Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert 
41. With a Long Title: The Art of War for Women: Sun Tzu's Ultimate Guide to Winning Without Confrontation by Chin-Ning Chu
42. Five-Star Read: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou 
43. YA Historical Fiction: Buffalo Flats by Martine Leavitt
44. About Magic: The Memory Thieves by Dhonielle Clayton 
45. A Book That Makes You Happy: Things To Look Forward to: 52 Large and Small Joys For Today and Everyday by Sophie Blackall
46. Award Winning Nonfiction: Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh (Kansas Notable Book Award 2019.)
47. Modern Classic: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
48. Borrowed from a Friend: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
49. Red Cover: They Shouldn't Have Killed His Dog by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman  
50. Reread a Favorite: Gypsyworld by Julian Thompson
51. Bottom of Your To-Read List: Thicker than Water: A Memoir by Kerry Washington
52. Holiday Romance: Build Your Own christmas Movie Romance by Riane Konc