50 Books A Year Reading Challenge

 

 

 

Emily @ The Nerdy Bookworm is also hosting a near-book-a-week challenge. It is a low-pressure, "you don't have to complete all the prompts" challenge. Since I'm already doing one book-a-week challenge, I'm going to set myself a personal goal of 20 prompts. I may do more--but I'm pretty sure I won't do all of them. I'll post some tentative picks and update as I go. Click on the link if you'd like to join in.

Commitment Complete 3/16/22!

1. 2022 New Release: The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett (8/7/22)

2. Reese Witherspoon BOTM pick: The Guest List by Lucy Foley (4/14/22)

3. Romance book with enemies to lovers trope

4. A Memoir: Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man by William Shatner (2/4/22)

5. Book based on TV series or movie adaptation: Star Trek: Voyage to Adventure by Michael J. Dodge (1/22/22)

6. Book that was recommended to you: Streaked with Crimson by Charles J. Dutton [rec by Rick Mills] (11/12/322)

7. Thriller: Reliquary by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (5/19/22)

8. Book with two or more authors: The Price of the Phoenix by Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath (1/4/22)

9. Graphic novel: Clue: Candlestick by Dash Shaw (3/7/22)

10. Hyped book that everyone is talking about: Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson [lots of my online friends read/talked about this in 2021] (1/23/22)

11. Book on TBR list a very long time: Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge (on TBR since about 1977--came in a batch of books from my grandma and I just never got round to reading it) [6/29/22]

12. Goodread's 2021 Winner or Nominee

13. Book with less than 200 pages: What, Me, Mr. Mosley? by John Greenwood [153 pp] (1/17/22)

14. An audiobook: The One Hundred & One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith [read by Martin Jarvis] (6/18/22)

15. New to you author: The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips (2/6/22)

16. 2022 Bestseller

17. Book that makes you think & contemplate life: Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen (4/21/22)

18. Highly-anticipated read: When Blood Lies by C. S. Harris (5/29/22)

19. Summer vibes/summer read

20. Library Book: Be Holding by Ross Gay (5/19/22)

21. Book with a cover that caught your eye: The Man in the Moonlight by Helen McCloy (3/16/22)

22. Book by an auto-buy author of yours: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (1/9/22)

23. Physical book on your bookshelf: Fadeaway Girl by Martha Grimes (1/2/22)

24. NY Times Nonfiction Bestseller: An Hour Before Daylight by Jimmy Carter (4/2/22)

25. A Holiday Romance

26. Book that gives you fall and/or creepy vibes: All Hallows' Evil by Valerie Wolzien (6/7/22)

27. Office romance novel

28. YA book: The Ruby Raven by Michael Dahl (1/19/22)

29. Book with a summer romance

30. Book with friends to lovers trope

31. Book with paranormal elements: The Ghost Finders by Adam McOmber (3/2/22)

32. Book with pink on the cover: Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie (1/21/22)

33. Book that has a cover you love: Murder at the Spring Ball by Benedict Brown [love the art deco look] (2/5/22)

34. Book written in text messages, emails, or other form of text: What Just Happened by Charles Finch [diary entries] (6/12/22)

35. Book that as mental health aspects to it: And Soon I'll Come to Kill You by Susan Kelly (1/23/22)

36. Book with a place in the title (imaginary or real): Deathblow Hill by Phoebe Atwood Taylor (1/21/22)

37. Coming of age story with characters in school

38. Dual timeline book: Evan's Gate by Rhys Bowen (4/13/22)

39. Book about family: Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie (1/1/22) [and a very dysfunctional family it is, too]

40. Romance with a single parent in it: Seven Tears for Apollo by Phyllis A. Whitney (7/4/22)

41. Book bought from a bookstore: Midsummer Nightmare by Christopher Hale (2/21/22) [from Books on the Square in Virden, IL]

42. Contemporary novel

43. YA Romance

44. Funny book: Brand Spanking New Day by Berkeley Breathed (4/16/22)

45. Book with an animal in it: The Dishonest Murderer by Frances & Richard Lockridge [Siamese cats] (2/25/22)

46. Book you meant to read last year but didn't: A Scream in Soho by John G. Brandon (9/3/22)

47. Book with winter scene on cover: Trixie Belden & the Black Jacket Mystery by Kathryn Kenny (6/8/22)

48. A classic: The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes (4/6/22)

49. Any book from a series: The Case of the Famished Parson by John Bellairs [Inspector Littlejohn #15] (1/2/22)

50. Free space/any book: Bodies from the Library by Tony Medawar [ed] (1/13/22)