What Challenge

Katie is participating in this reading challenge from Reddit and this page tracks her progress.

Progress

Genre

  1. Read a book in the Science Fiction genre
  2. Read a book in the Fantasy genre
  3. Read a book labelled as Young Adult
  4. Read a nonfiction book
  5. Read a History book, fiction or nonfiction
  6. Read a Biography, whether normal, Auto, or Memoir.
  7. Read a book about Politics and/or Religion
  8. Read a book in the Thriller or Suspense genre
  9. Read a Mystery book
  10. Read a book labelled as Dystopian
  11. Read a book in the Paranormal genre
  12. Read a book labelled as a Satire or Allegory
  13. Read a book from the Self-Help, Health, Travel, or Guide category
  14. Read a collection of poetry
  15. Read a book from the Horror genre
  16. Read a Romance and/or Erotica book

Publishing

  1. Read a book originally published in a language you do not know
  2. Read a book written before 1950
  3. Read a book written after 1949
  4. Read a book published this year
  5. Read a self-published book
  6. Read an indie book, where the publisher is a small or niche house and not one of the top 6 publishers
  7. Read a book published under one of the Big 6 publishing houses
  8. Read a debut book from this year

Popularity and Notoriety

  1. Read a book that was turned into a movie
  2. Read a popular book, with at least 1 million ratings on any one website
  3. Read an unknown book, with no more than 100 ratings on any one website
  4. Read a book that won a literary award
  5. Read a book labelled as a Best-Seller from this year
  6. Read a book that was, or currently is, banned by a government

Author

  1. Read a book by an author born in the same country as you
  2. Read a book written by a man
  3. Read a book written by a woman

Characters or setting

  1. Read a book with a contemporary setting
  2. Read a book that features animals
  3. Read a book where the main character goes on a journey
  4. Read a book where a stranger comes to town
  5. Read a book by or featuring a character that is LGBT
  6. Read a book set in your country
  7. Read a book not set in your country, but exists today

Book features

  1. Read a short story, one with less than 5,000 words
  2. Read a short book, one between 5,000 and 100,000 words
  3. Read a long book, one between 100,000 and 250,000 words
  4. Read an epic book, one with over 250,000 words
  5. Read the first book in a series
  6. Finish a series
  7. Listen to an Audiobook
  8. Read a book on paper
  9. Read a book with pictures in it

Other

  1. Read a book for the second time
  2. Read a book that's been on your to read-list for more than a year
  3. Combining all the letters of all the titles of all the books you've read this year, complete the Alphabet

Completed 26 / 52 challenges.

Completed Books