Most people are writing out their New Year’s Resolutions. Book lovers are writing out their reading challenge. A brand new year is a great way to set a new reading goal for yourself! 52 books for 52 weeks. Challenges will give you a chance to read outside your comfort zone and make sure that you are entertained all year-long.
For 2019, my goal is to read 75 books, five more books compared to my goal for 2018. Unfortunately I didn’t complete the challenge I created for myself this past year but I did get through a huge chuck of it, so that is a bit of a success. For this year’s challenge, I kept some of the same categories but changed/added a couple of different ones. Let’s start 2019 off right with a year of great reading!
Below you will find a PDF printout of the challenge so you can check off which categories you successfully completed this year. If you want more accountability or a better way to track your reading progress, add a social element to your reading by using social media accounts like Pinterest, Instagram, of course, Goodreads.
Here are the categories:
- A classic book you’ve meant to read
- A book by your favorite author
- A book recommended by a librarian or a bookseller
- a memoir
- a biography on someone who is still living
- a biography on someone who has passed away
- a book by an author who is of different race, ethnicity, religion than your own
- a book than can be finished in a day
- a book that has 500 or more pages
- a graphic novel that is not published by Marvel or DC Comics
- a manga
- a book with at least 1 million ratings on Goodreads
- a book that recently been nominated or won an award
- Read outside your comfort “genre” zone
- a book set in a city/country you visited
- a book that was translated
- a historical novel
- True crime book
- a book published in the year you were born
- a book from an independent publisher
- an epistolary novel
- a book written by a female author writing under a male pseudonym
- a book featuring an amateur detective
- a book set in a country you’d like to visit
- a debut novel
- a book you wanted to read last year
- a romance
- a book published in 2019
- a book you were always too scared to read
- reread your favorite book
- a book about a family
- a ghost story
- a cozy mystery
- a book written by a Native American author
- a book about mental health
- a book that was recommended to you by a friend
- a retelling of a classic book
- a book that is part of “book hype”
- a young adult novel
- a literary fiction
- a book of short stories
- an alternate history/dystopia novel
- Multiple narratives
- a book becoming a movie in 2019
- a self-published book
- a book about characters having superpowers
- an author that is new to you
- a lesser known work by a popular author
- a nonfiction book about a topic you are passionate about
- a book with a name in the title
- a book of mythology or folklore
- read an e-book
- listen to an audiobook
Click Here to Download the 2019 Reading Challenge
Love this! I’m doing a reading challenge too, and I am so excited to start:)