Stina's Rollover Challenge for 2024

I was hosting this in a Goodreads group, but it's been glitchy this year, so I'm just plunking this in here for now. This list is a rollover of reading challenge prompts I failed to complete in the previous year. Which is a lot. I post this for my own benefit (and self-flagellation), so you are welcome to take from it however much or little you like and set your own goals. Feel free to chat in the comments here about what you're reading for this.

Part I: Penitent Prioritization - Though I have supposedly been prioritizing these since 2020. The more asterisks, the older the failure.

*** The oldest ARC you own - Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls
*** A LitRPG book - RiftWorlds Online: Book 1 - Space Opera Insertion: a LitRPG Sci-Fi Adventure
*** A family member's favorite book - The Family Trade
** An edition of a literary magazine - Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 56, May 2022 - EQMM #553
** A book from the 2019 Reading Women Award shortlists and honorable mentions - The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
** Read a Victorian (1837-1901) diary or collection of letters - The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick: Victorian Maidservant
* Book becoming a movie in 2021 - News of the World
* Read an SFF anthology edited by a person of color - Heartwood: Non-binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy - New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color - Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda
* Read a book from the neighborhood library box - Forever... - The Long Call - Flowers in the Attic
* A book by a Slovak author - Seeing People Off
* A Victorian sensation novel - Lady Audley's Secret
- A "Sense of Gender Award" winner, or a similar award such as the Otherwise Award - Perdido Street Station - Changeless - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - Waking the Moon - Half Life - The Drowning Girl - When the Moon Was Ours
- Read a biography of an author you admire - Dangerous Water: A Biography Of The Boy Who Became Mark Twain
- Read a new-to-you literary magazine (print or digital) - Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 56, May 2022
- (190) Read a memoir written by someone who is trans or nonbinary - Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place - Pageboy - My Body Is Distant: A Memoir
- Read a "Best _______ Writing of the Year" book for a topic and year of your choice - The Best American Mystery Stories 1998
- Read an award-winning book from the year you were born - Ringworld
- A historical fiction novel featuring Korea - The Calligrapher's Daughter - Broken Summer - A Crane Among Wolves
- An award-winning Korean novel - The Vegetarian - The Cabinet


Part II: Lost Levels - These are the remnants of levels I did not complete in Linz and Tress's 2022 and 2023 tiered challenges.

*2022's Level 5*
- Read a book by Georges Simenon - Le Chien jaune - Pietr-le-Letton - Un échec de Maigret
- Read a banned book from the specified ALA list - The Glass Castle - The Hate U Give - The House of the Spirits - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Year of Wonders
- Free Space! Pick any book.

2023's Level 2: Casual Reader Club
- Read a book by Mary Faulkner - The Seven Purposes: An Experience in Psychic Phenomena
- Read a book by Dean Koontz - The Silent Corner - Odd Thomas
- Read a trilogy: book two - Us Against You
- Read a trilogy: book three - The Winners
- Free Book!

Part III: This section is for 2023 prompts I failed in other challenges and readathons.
- A mystery related to the word "spring" - Running for Shelter
- A book longer than 600 pages - The Mysteries of Udolpho - Dhalgren - House of Leaves
- A Victorian first-person narrative - The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick: Victorian Maidservant - On the Stage--and Off The Brief Career of a Would-Be Actor
- Nordic noir - The White Lioness
- Set in Dublin - In the Woods - The Henna Wars - The Rachel Incident
- By Octavia Butler - Bloodchild and Other Stories
- Borrowed from a friend - Scandalous Women: The Lives and Loves of History's Most Notorious Women
- World War I book - The Good Soldier
- Read by @readwithallison in 2022 - The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires - The Book of Cold Cases - The Kind Worth Killing - You're Invited - The It Girl
- (137) Main character with your name - A Piece of the World
- Duology: book 1 -
- Duology: book 2 -
- (1) A National Book Award winner - Interior Chinatown - Farewell Summer - James - Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
- A book that's becoming a movie in 2023 - Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics - Leave the World Behind
- A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2023 - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - Wool Omnibus - The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
- A book about divorce - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Kramer vs. Kramer - Heartburn - Dear Dad, Love Laurie
- A space opera novel or novella published by a small press - RiftWorlds Online: Book 1 - Space Opera Insertion: a LitRPG Sci-Fi Adventure
- A space opera series finale - The Last Emperox
- (153) A book with the word "Mystery" in the title - The Mystery of Mrs. Christie


Part IV: Specific Titles - These are specific books that were group reads, randomized picks, or in some way "assigned" for me to read, but I didn't. (There are many other books that meet this description, but I am trying to handle them in other ways.)

- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
- Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
- The Brave by James Bird
- The Blood Countess by Elizabeth Bathory
- The Sundial by Shirley Jackson
- Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
- Footsteps in the Dark by Georgette Heyer
- Pony by R.J. Palacio
- A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
- Gone to the Woods by Gary Paulsen
- The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

1. A book by an Asian author that features an Asian character and is focused on identity and self-discovery - Last Night at the Telegraph Club
4. Purple spine - Notes on an Execution
9. A thriller - Argylle
18. A book by a first-time author - Metzengerstein

29. Read the third book in a trilogy - Bridge of Souls
33. Read a genre novel by an Indigenous, First Nations, or Native American author - To Shape a Dragon's Breath
35. A book with a protagonist aged 50+ - Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

41. A food book about a cuisine you've never tried before - Recipes for Love and Murder
50. A time loop book - Cassandra in Reverse
52. A nonfiction book related to the word "Capital" - Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes
55. Set in the 1930s - Lord Edgware Dies
58. Newbery Medal winner - Bridge to Terabithia
59. An Agatha Christie book that Janelle was "too fond of" - Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
60. A book translated from Korean - Cursed Bunny

77. A mystery related to the word "cleaning" - The Maid
85. Read a book published in 1998 - Autobiography of Red
92. Read a zombie book - Z Is for Zombie: An Illustrated Guide to the End of the World

95. (55) A book you read as a child - Quacko and the Elps
103. A play - Is He Dead?

124. Read a book that Linz read previously - The Secret, Book & Scone Society
125. Read a book that takes place in Alaska - City Under One Roof
126. Free Book! Cut and Thirst
127. A Becca Rec book - Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
128. Jane Austen-inspired - Pride, Prejudice and Poison
129. A book by an author with a name that starts with the letter X - Anxious in Nevada

136. A Western authored by someone other than Zane Grey or Louis L'Amour - The Call of the Wild
137. (1) A book that has been banned or challenged in any state in 2022 - Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out

147. (128) A book set in the fall - What Have You Done?
152. (77) A book recommended by someone you just met - Listen for the Lie
153. Read a movie novelization book - The Mystery In Dracula's Castle
154. Free Book! Camp Tiger

170. A book with a spine you love - Vespertine
172. An Indigenous literature award nominee, such as the AIYLA, Burt, Indigenous Voices Awards, Nga Kupu Ora, etc. - Braiding Sweetgrass
174. Read one of your favorite author's favorite books - Fugitive Telemetry

190. Read a book that's been challenged recently in your library - Gender Queer
194. Read a trilogy: book one - Beartown
203. A book in a different language - La primera luna llena de Gatita

225. Holiday romance - Faux Ho Ho
238. A book picked based on its spine - The Pot Thief Who Studied Calvin