I enjoy participating in reading challenges and sharing books I have enjoyed. Most of these challenges involve the type of books I would be reading anyway. The only difficulty comes in the time it takes for record-keeping. I haven't decided yet which challenges I will participate in next year. But I can recommend any of these.
Most of the challenge hosts require a wrap-up post at the end of the year. I shared my Back to the Classics Challenge Wrap-Up, hosted by Karen at Books and Chocolate here. But I decided to include all the rest in one post so as not to be tedious for readers.
Bev at My Reader's Block hosts the Mount TBR Reading Challenge. The idea is to read books you already owned before the start of this year. Bev has made levels in increments of twelve, each named after a mountain, and we're to choose a level to shoot for. Even though I've reached Mt. Ararat (48 books) the last couple of years, I decided to play it safe and stick with Mt. Vancouver (36 books).
That turned out to be a wise decision as I just made it with 38 books. Instead of making a separate list, I marked the books in this category with (MTBR) on my list of all the books I read this year.
Shelly Rae at Book'd Out hosts the Nonfiction Reader Challenge. She provided 12 categories of nonfiction, and participants chose which level they want to aim for. Thankfully, this year she has included a Nonfiction Grazer category where we set our own goals for how many and what kind of nonfiction to read. That worked best for me this year.
I read a total of 33 non-fiction books this year, which can be seen on my Books Read in 2022 post.
As to my personal goals for this challenge:
Even though I didn't hit every category I wanted to, I did more in others, and I feel I had a rich and varied nonfiction reading experience this year.
The Audiobook Challenge is hosted by Caffeinated Reader. I aimed for the Binge Listener level at 20-30. I finished 28, so I was right on target. I also marked these on my list of books read this year.
The Historical Fiction Reading Challenge is hosted by The Intrepid Reader. I aimed for the Medieval level of 15 books. I completed 22.
As you can tell, Roseanna M. White and Kristy Cambron are favorites in the category.
I've included split-time novels here, which have both a modern and a historic timeline. I've never been sure whether classics count---books written before our time but were modern in the time in which they were written. If so, I'd have eleven more.
And finally:
The Literary Christmas challenge hosted by Tarissa at In the Bookcase. For this I read:
I also started Hope for Christmas by Malissa Chapin, but haven't finished it yet. Maybe I will by the end of the year.
I didn't get quite as many in this category as I had hoped to, but we had a very busy December.
Whew. It's been a good year of reading.
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