2019 Reading Challenge

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