I was recently browsing through a book blog, and I saw a fun reading/book challenge posted for 2023. It Here’s the thing, though…these challenges really overwhelm me on the front end. If I try to plan my reading year around a challenge then I get really flustered and overwhelmed. But! I thought it may be fun to look at my 2022 reading and see how much of this challenge I did in this past year. I think it is WAY more fun to look back and see what I’ve already read and how much of the challenge I accomplished. No book repeats allowed!
So, here is the 52 book reading challenges- let’s see how I did in 2022 š
- Winter Read – Wintering by Katherine May
- Goodreads Winner – Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- By a Black Author – The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
- More Than 500 pages – Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Published in Your Birth Year – /
- Famous Author You’ve Avoided – Happy Go Lucky by David Sedaris
- Character with a Disability – Thank You For Listening by Julia Whalen
- Fiction and Non-fiction Pairing – The Devil in the White City and Danger on the Flying Trapeze
- Non-fiction and Fiction Pairing – /
- By a Local Author – /
- A Western – Something Wilder
- You Own But Hadn’t Read Yet – Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
- Animal on the Cover – Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
- Recommended by a Librarian- /
- Newberry Award Winner – King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
- About Royalty – The Selection Series by Kiera Class
- Written before 1850 – Little Women by Louisa May Alcott is the closest I got and this was published in 1868
- With Dual Timelines – The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
- Dewey Decimal System- 300s – 100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet by Pamela Paul
- Mother-Daughter Story – Memphis by Tara Stringfellow
- Empowering Read – Bibliophile by Jane Mount
- World War I Book – /
- Domestic Thriller – The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
- 2022 New Release – Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- Read w/ Jenna Book Club Pick – Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson (Jenna Book Club Pick February 2022)
- A Book Everyone is Talking About – Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
- A Book that Become a Movie in 2022- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- About Complicated Relationships – Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
- Recommended on TikTok- Book Lovers by Emily Henry
- An Audiobook- Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingall’s Wilder
- Set in the 1930s – On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingall’s Wilder
- Contemporary Fiction Bestseller – The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
- About Adoption – The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
- Genre You Don’t Usually Read – Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
- Title Starts with an A – Accidental Saints by Nadia Bola-Weber
- Set in South America – The Fate of the Yellow Woodbee by Dave and Neta Jackson
- Detective Story – The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
- About Power – Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
- 2021 Bestseller – /
- By an Author You Love – Welcome Home by MyQuillan Smith
- With a Long Title – Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One by Raphelle Giodano
- Five Star Read – The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
- YA Historical Fiction- I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
- About Magic – /
- A Book that Makes You Happy – Slow by Brooke McAlary
- Award Winning Nonfiction – The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Greene
- Modern Classic – The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- Borrowed from a Friend – Four Aunties and Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto
- Red Cover- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
- Reread a Favorite – Winter Street series by Elin Hilderbrand
- Bottom of Your TBR – Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop by Roselle Lim
- Holiday Romance – A Season for Second Chances by Jenny Bayliss
Alright! So I read 45/52 in this challenge! Fun! Some of the categories that I didn’t fill in I could have filled in, but I had already used the book in a different category and I couldn’t fill in the other category with a different book. I didn’t read any books set in WWI nor did I read any books about magic, nor did I pick up any books published in 1991 (my birth year). I did read 2021 bestsellers, I’m sure, but a quick google perusal didn’t pull up any that I hadn’t already used in a different category. The local author one really stumped me as did a recommendation from a librarian. I’m sure I picked up one or two books that happened to coincide with a recommendation from a librarian, but I didn’t ask any librarians directly, so I feel like I couldn’t take credit for that.
Also please note that this is not my review of any of these books, these books just happened to meet the challenge criteria. If you want to see my reviews, you can follow me on Goodreads or at my book instagram account @nomundanebook
For the record, in 2022 I read 121 books! I will be breaking down my books stats like F/NF, my 5 star reads, etc in another blog post either this week or next week! Those are my FAVORITE blog posts to read, so I hope you enjoy them, too!
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