The 52 Book Club's 2024 Reading Challenge

Each year, I take on different reading challenges as a way to get outside of my reading comfort zone. For 2024, I plan to read a total of 104 books by completing the 52 Book Club's 2024 reading challenge (consisting of 52 books) and the Booklist Queen's 2024 Reading Challenge (also consisting of 52 books.) 

If you'd like to participate in this 2024 reading challenge, visit www.the52bookclub.com/2024-reading-challenge.

Below is the list of reading prompts for the 2024 reading challenge which I'll start on January 1, 2024. 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 2024 Reading Challenge:

1. Locked-room mystery:
2. Bibliosmia: A smelly book:
3. More than 40 chapters:
4. Lowercase letters on the spine: It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time by Kylie Scott
5. Magical Realism:
6. Women in STEM:Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs
7. At least four different POV: 
8. Features the ocean:
9. A character-driven novel:
10. Told in non-chronological order:
11. Title starting with the letter "K:"
12. Title starting with the letter "L:" Last Dance by Hanna Schroy
13. An acdemic thriller:
14. A grieving character:
15. Part of a duology: Ravaged by Naima Simone
16. An omniscient narrator:
17.Nominated for The Booker Prize:
18. An apostrophe in the title: Your Heart's Desire by Melody Carlson
19. A buddy read:
20. A revenge story: 
21. Written by a ghostwriter:
22.A plot similar to another book:
23. The other book with the similar plot:
24. A cover without people on it: Recitatif by Toni Morrison
25. An author "everyone" had read except you:
26. Hybrid genre: The Book of Denial by Ricardo Chavez Castaneda
27. By a neurodivergent author: Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew
28. A yellow spine: Rizzio by Denise Mina
29. Published in a Year of the Dragon:
30. Picked without reading the blurb: Black People Breathe: A Mindfulness Guide to Racial Healing by Zee Clarke
31. Includes a personal phobia: The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
32. Timeframe spans a week or less:
33. An abrupt ending:
34. Set in a landlocked country:
35. Title matches lyrics from a song:
36. Has futuristic technology:
37. Palindrome on the cover:
38. Published by Hachette:
39. Non-fiction recommended by a friend: Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life by Betty Reid Soskin
40. Set during a holiday you don't celebrate:
41. A sticker on the cover:
42. Author debut in second half of 2024:
43. About finding identity:
44.Includes a wedding:
45. Chapter headings have dates:
46. Featuring indigenous culture: Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America by Matika Wilbur
47. Self-insert by an author:
48. The word "secret" in the title: The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel 
49. Set in a city starting with "M:"
50. Musical instrument of the cover:”
51. Related to the word "Wild:"
52. Published in 2024:  

Booklist Queen's 2024 Reading Challenge

Each year, I take on different reading challenges as a way to get outside of my reading comfort zone. For 2024, I plan to read a total of 104 books by completing the 52 Book Club's 2024 reading challenge (consisting of 52 books) and the Booklist Queen's 2024 Reading Challenge (also consisting of 52 books.) 

Although I am usually able to accomplish my reading goald for the year, for this year's challenge Booklist Queen has added the following details to those particpating in the 2024 reading challenge:

If you feel overwhelmed by 52 categories, don’t worry. It’s okay if you don’t finish the challenge. I want this Reading Challenge for 2024 to be aspirational. I want to push you to read more – whether that’s 12 books a year or 52. I want you to get out of your reading rut and try new genres. 

Don’t like one of the categories in the 2024 Reading Challenge? Change it or skip it. Double count a book for multiple prompts. Interpret the prompts any way you like. 

If you'd like to participate in this 2024 reading challenge, visit www.booklistqueen.com/reading-challenge-2024.

Below is the list of reading prompts for the 2024 reading challenge which I'll start on January 1, 2024. 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's 2024 Reading Challenge:

1. You Meant to Read Last Year: The Guncle by Steven Rowley
2. Goodreads Winner in 2023: Happy Place by Emily Henry
3. About Mental Health:
4. Five-Star Read:
5. An Audiobook: Into the Thinnest of Air by Simon R. Green
6. Set in the 1950s
7. Unreliable Narrator:
8. Book Becoming a Movie in 2024:
9. With an Epilogue:
10. About Starting Over:
11. Author You Love:
12. Flowers on the Cover: The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
13. Title Starts withb "B:" But Have You Read the Book: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Movies by Kristen Lopez 
14. Published in 2014: What If: Serious Scientific Questions to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
15. Purple Cover: Bloom by Helen Hardt
16. Historical Mystery:
17. With Multiple Points of View:
18. A Book You Couldn' Put Down:
19. One Word Title: Blossom by Helen Hardt
20. Debut Author:
21. 2023 Bestseller:
22. Intriguing Premise: Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
23. A Friend's Favorite Book:
24. Author from Southern Hemisphere:
25. About Secrets:
26. Bottom of Your To-Read List:
27. Your Favorite Genre:
28. Character Who is an Actor: Thank You for Listening by Julia Whelan
29. Recommended on a Podcast: 60 Songs That Explain the 90s by Rob Harvilla
30. Set in Paris:
31. Ugly Cover:
32. Set in a Small Town: Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead
33. Three Books by the Same Author (1:) Heart and Hand by Rebel Carter 
34. Three Books by the Same Author (2:) Hearth and Home by Rebel Carter
35. Three Books by the Same Author (3:) Honor and Desire by Rebel Carter
36. A Quick Read: So Now You Know: A Compendium onf Completely Useless Information by Harry Bright and Harlan Briscoe
37. Set During Autumn:
38. Classic by a Female Author:
39. Memoir by a Person You Admire: Haben: The Deathblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma
40. About a Historical Event:
41. Written Under a Pseudonym:
42. Legal Thriller:
43. Fantasy Book:
44. Popular Book You've Never Read:
45. Inspiring Nonfiction:
46. 2024 New Release:
47. Genre You Don't Normally Read:
48. You Own But Haven't Read:
49. Book about Books: The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time by Keith Houston
50. Book Everyone is Talking About:
51. With a Place in the Title:
52. Reread a Favorite: