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: The Mystic's Accomplice by Mary Miley
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: Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever by Eddie Ndopu
25. About Secrets: The Personal Assistant by Kimberly Belle
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: Picture Perfect Autmun by Shelley Noble 
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: ThornHedge by T. Kingerfisher
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

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 

Booklist Queen's 2022 Reading Challenge

Each year, I take on different reading challenges as a way to get outside of my reading comfort zone. For 2022, I plan to read a total of 104 books in 2022 by completing the 52 Book Club's 2022 reading challenge and the Booklist Queen 2022 Reading Challenge. If you'd like to participate in this 2022 reading challenge, visit www.booklistqueen.com/reading-challenge-2022.

Below is the list of reading prompts for the 2022 reading challenge which I'll start on January 1, 2022. 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 2022 Reading Challenge:

1. By a author you love: Head Bangers by Zane
2. Goodreads winner in 2021: The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
3. Book becoming a movie in 2022: Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka
   
4. Book with a twist: A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
5. Speculative fiction: Dwellers by Eliza Victoria
6. With a bird on the cover: Feral Creatures by Kira Jane Buxton
   
7. About a difficult choice: Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat by Patricia Williams 
8. Published in 2012: Wild by Cheryl Strayed 
9. With a name in the title: Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper
10. By a local author: Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
11. Discussion-worthy book club book: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
12. 2021 bestseller: The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
13. Genre you don't usually read: Sackett's Land (western) by Louis L' Amour
    
14. Shakespearean play: Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
    
15. With a two word title: Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades
16. About a Muslim protagonist: How It All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi
17. Set in the 1980's: The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak
18. Asian American & Pacific Islander Author: The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
    
19. Bottom of your to-read list: Heated by Naima Simone
20. Literary fiction: I Liked My Life by Abby Fabiaschi
21. Recommended on Instagram: The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
22. LBGTQ+ book: Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
23. Book everyone is talking about: Finding Me by Viola Davis
24. Pulitzer prize winner: The Tradition by Jericho Brown (2020 winner in poetry)
25. With a blue cover: My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran & Larissa Zageris
26. Author who shares your initials: Spy x Family, vol. 1 by Tatsuya Endo
27. Epic adventure: Kill the Farm Boy by Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne
28. A guilty pleasure read: Larger Than Life by Maria Sherman
29. An audiobook: Run the Mile You're In by Ryan Hall
30. Catchy title: Eat Cake for Breakfast and 99 Other Small Acts of Happiness by Viola Sutanto
31. About nature: Friluftsliv by Oliver Luke Delorie
32. Two books by the same author (1): Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire 
33. Two books by the same author (2): Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
34. YA fantasy: The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton
35. Purchased at a bookstore: An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten
36. Family drama: Revenge of the Scapegoat by Caren Beilin
    
37. Classic you've avoided: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
38. Set in Africa: The Memory of an Elephant by Alex Lasker
39. Recommended by a librarian: Wash  Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith
40. By a British author: Assembly by Natasha Brown
41. Reread a favorite: The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
42. Under 300 pages: Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine
43. Spooky read: Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
44. Nonfiction bestseller:  Atlas of the Heart by Brene' Brown
    
45. A book about life: You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar
46. Reese Witherspoon book club pick: Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman
    
47. Makes you laugh: Everything I Need to Know I learned From a Golden Book by Diane Muldrow
48. Historical novel: The Forty Elephants by Erin Bledsoe
49. A 2022 new release: Tanqueray by Stephanie Johnson & Brandon Stanton
50. Inspiring memoir:  Lady Death:  The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper by Lyudmila Pavlichenko
51. Cozy mystery: Murder in Cherry Hill by Paige Sleuth
52. You own but haven't read: Book Nerd by Holly Maguire