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: Self-Care for Black Men by Jor-El Caraballo
4. Five-Star Read: James by Percival Everett
5. An Audiobook: Into the Thinnest of Air by Simon R. Green
6. Set in the 1950s: Tyler Cross: Black Rock by Fabien Nury 
7. Unreliable Narrator: The Devil You Know by K.J. Parker
8. Book Becoming a Movie in 2024: Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
9. With an Epilogue: How To Break Up With Your Phone: THe 30 Day Plan to Take Back Your Life by Catherine Price
10. About Starting Over: Single Mother by Anna Härmälä 
11. Author You Love: Untouchable by Talia Hibbert
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: The Night Portrait by Laura Morelli
18. A Book You Couldn't Put Down: Rental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto
19. One Word Title: Blossom by Helen Hardt
20. Debut Author: Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch by Emily C. Hughes 
21. 2023 Bestseller: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
22. Intriguing Premise: Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
23. A Friend's Favorite Book: American Dreamer by Adriana Herrera
24. Author from Southern Hemisphere:
25. About Secrets:
26. Bottom of Your To-Read List: A Walk in the Park by Rebekah Weatherspoon
27. Your Favorite Genre: (Romance) The Write Escape by Charish Reid 
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: The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind
31. Ugly Cover: The Jump-Off Creek by Molly Gloss
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: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
39. Memoir by a Person You Admire: Haben: The Deathblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma
40. About a Historical Event: I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 by Lauren Tarshis
41. Written Under a Pseudonym:
42. Legal Thriller: Take It Back by Kia Abdullah
43. Fantasy Book: That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming
44. Popular Book You've Never Read: You are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero
45. Inspiring Nonfiction: Pack Light: A Journey to Find Myself by Shilletha Curtis
46. 2024 New Release: Prez: Setting a Dangerous President by Mark Russell and Ben Caldwell
47. Genre You Don't Normally Read: Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys: The World's Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West
48. You Own But Haven't Read: Your Pace or Mine:What Running Taught Me About Life, Laughter, and Coming Last by Lisa Jackson
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: Melania by Melania Trump
51. With a Place in the Title: My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder by Nie Jun
52. Reread a Favorite: And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman