Reading Challenges Update: Jan – March

Winter has come and gone…well, hopefully it is gone…and it is time to do a quarterly update of the three year-long reading challenge I am participating in this year!

My goal for NovelKnight’s Beat the Backlist challenge is to read at least 24 books off of my massive TBR list! I am not quite as far as I would like to be in this challenge, but I’m hoping to play catch-up in April and May.

This is what I have read for this challenge from Jan – March:

• The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
• The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
• The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
• George by Alex Gino
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• Year of No Sugar by Eve O. Schaub

Favorite: The Underground Railroad

Least Favorite: Year of No Sugar

Total Read: 6/24 books  – 25% Complete. ON SCHEDULE!

 

Diversity Bingo 2017

This is definitely my favorite challenge of the year! Here is what I read from Jan – March:

• MC of Color in SFF – Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin.
• Black MC (Own Voices) – The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.
• Indigenous MC (Own Voices) – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.
• PoC on the Cover – Ms. Marvel, Volumes 2-5 by G. Willow Wilson.
• Practicing Jewish MC – Dawn by Elie Wiesel.
• Bisexual MC (Own Voices) – Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst.
• Book by Author of Color – The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas.
• D/dEAF/Hard of Hearing MC – El Deafo by Cece Bell.
• Own Voices (Transgender) – George by Alex Gino.

Favorite: The Hate U Give

Least Favorite: Of Fire and Stars

Total Read: 9/36 books – 25% Complete. ON SCHEDULE!

 

Popsugar Reading Challenge 2017

Popsugar always has a fun 52-week reading challenge that I like to do. Last year I failed miserably at completing the challenge, and I am hoping to do better in 2017! Here is my progress so far:

• A book that has been on your TBR list for way too long: Dawn by Elie Wiesel. 

• A book that is a story within a story: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin. 

• An espionage thriller: The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

• A bestseller from a genre you don’t normally read: The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin.

• A book with a subtitle: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family or Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance.

• A book that’s published in 2017: A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab.

• A book about food: A Year of No Sugar by Eve O. Schaub.

• A book with a red spine: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.

• A book with a title that’s a character’s name: Ms. Marvel, Volumes 2 – 5.

• A book with an unreliable narrator: The Perfect Stranger by Megan Miranda.

• A book with pictures: Why I March: Images from the Women’s March Around the World by Abrams Image, New York

• A book about a difficult topic: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. 

Favorite: A Conjuring of Light

Least Favorite: A Year of No Sugar

Total Read: 12/52 – 23% Complete. BEHIND SCHEDULE (but not by much!)

 

 

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