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Finished!Nothing But Reading Challenges
New 2U Authors Challenge 2023
Duration: 1/1/2023 - 12/31/2023
Progress: 20 out of 20+
Levels
Come What May = Let's see how many I read.
Fresh Face = 5
Adventurer = 10
Risk Taker = 15
Devil May Care = 20 or more!
Reoccurring every year, but start fresh from January to December.
(If you start after January, you may back-post from the beginning of the year.)
Rules
Read books by authors that are New 2 U (new to you).
• If an author writes under a pseudonym, you may use that, provided it is a different genre (or sub-genre, writes Historical Romance under one name and Paranormal Romance under another) and you have NOT read any of those books.
• Anthologies are always a wonderful way to try someone new, so as long as one of the stories has been written by a New 2 U author, they are permitted.
• Audiobooks are fine.
• Novellas are fine.
• You can set your goal now, or adjust as the year progresses.
• Feel free to make a special comment, if you found a real winner.
(★Stars★ or ♥hearts♥ indications welcome!)
January
1. Part of Your Nightmare by Vera Strange - *** - 1/5/2023 - 218 Pages
2. Bad Blood by L.A. Banks - **** - 1/7/2023 - 342 Pages
3. InvestiGators by John Patrick Green - **** - 1/9/2023 - 208 Pages
4. Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living by Nick Offerman - ***** - 1/15/2023 - 352 Pages
5. Passion on Park Avenue by Lauren Layne - **** - 1/15/2023 - 279 Pages
6. Surrender Bay by Denise Hunter - ** - 1/16/2023 - 298 Pages
7. The Mayor of Noobtown by Ryan Rimmel - **** - 1/20/2023 - 226 Pages
8. If Only It Were True by Marc Levy - ***** - 1/30/2023 - 216 Pages
February
9. Star Wars: Jedi Academy by Jeffrey Brown - **** - 2/10/2023 - 160 Pages
10. The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree by Susan Wittig Albert - **** - 2/11/2023 - 290 Pages
11. Texas Destiny by Lorraine Heath - ***** - 2/14/2023 - 384 Pages.
12. The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking by Edward B. Burger - ** - 2/20/2023 - 157 Pages
13. The Deep by Rivers Solomon - **** - 2/20/2023 - 166 Pages
14. The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni - ***** - 2/27/2023 - 448 Pages
March
15. Dead Man's Hand by James J. Butcher - ***** - 3/6/2023 - 384 Pages
16. Hilda and the Hidden People by Luke Pearson - ***** - 3/7/2023 - 216 Pages
17. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles - *** - 3/16/2023 - 377 Pages
18. Bitter Is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office by Jen Lancaster - ***** - 3/17/2023 - 400 Pages
19. The Witches of New York by Ami McKay - ***** - 3/23/2023 - 529 Pages
20. You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin - 3/28/2023 - 215 Pages
Mar 28, 2023 01:33PM
- 215 PagesCurrent Total: 534,837
Mar 27, 2023 11:34PM
- 372 PagesCurrent Total: 532,998
Mar 25, 2023 11:44PM
- 422 PagesCurrent Total: 528,885
Mar 23, 2023 11:14PM
- 529 Pages
- 324 PagesCurrent Total: 518,222
Mar 20, 2023 11:58AM
- 354 Pages
- 299 PagesCurrent Total: 507,856
Mar 19, 2023 02:30PM
Mar 13, 2023 07:02PM
- 401 PagesTotal Group Pages: 488,352
Mar 12, 2023 11:53PM
- 339 PagesCurrent Total: 485,159
Mar 09, 2023 10:09PM
- 476 PagesNew Group Total: 463,261
Nothing But Reading ChallengesAll About You, Part One!
Duration: 3/9/2023 - 3/8/2024
Progress: 71 out of 71 - Then Move to Part 2
This challenge lasts for 1 year from the date you start
Because this is challenge is all about you, you can choose the order, you can trade out one monthly challenge for one you create, or you can substitute the sign or gem you wish you had for the one that is yours. Just let this challenge reflect the uniqueness of you, because this challenge is, after all, All About You.
Month 1: Read your Birthday Month (Spell it out challenge)
N: No Land's Man by Aasif Mandvi - **** - 4/13/2023 - 192 Pages
O: Richard Osman; The Man Who Died Twice - ***** - 3/25/2023 - 422 Pages
V: Carrie Vaughn; Kitty Goes to Washington - **** - 5/18/2023 - 342 Pages
E: Erin Mallon; Pale Blue Dot - *** - 4/16/2023 - 91 Pages
M: Ami McKay; The Witches of New York - ***** - 3/23/2023 - 529 Pages
B: Bitter Is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office by Jen Lancaster - ***** - 3/17/2023 - 400 Pages
E: Janet Evanovich; The Recovery Agent - *** - 5/18/2023 - 320 Pages
R: The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks - ***** - 3/12/2023 - 339 Pages
Month 2: Read your Birthstone (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 books with covers that match the color of your birthstone or 3 or 4 books with the name of your Birthstone in the title
C: Loretta Chase; Dukes Prefer Blondes - ***** - 3/27/2023 - 372 Pages
I: The Indigo Spell by Richelle Mead - **** - 3/13/2023 - 401 Pages
T: Travis Baldree; Legends & Lattes - ***** - 5/4/2023 - 296 Pages
R: Amber Ruffin; You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism - 3/28/2023 - 215 Pages
I: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara - ***** - 4/15/2023 - 352 Pages
N: Nora Roberts; The Becoming - * - 5/26/2023 - 448 Pages
E: E.B. White; Charlotte's Web - ***** - 7/8/2023 - 184 Pages
Month 3: Read your sign (Spell it out challenge):
S: Sarah Knight; You Do You: How to Be Who You Are and Use What You've Got to Get What You Want - ***** - 3/20/2023 - 299 Pages
C: Thomas Cahill; How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe - ** - 4/3/2023 - 246 Pages
O: The Owl & Moon Cafe by Jo-Ann Mapson - **** - 5/1/2023 - 357 Pages
R: Round Robin by Jennifer Chiaverini - **** - 4/18/2023 - 304 Pages
P: Carly Phillips; Under the Boardwalk - **** - 4/11/2023 - 271 Pages
I: Samantha Irby; Quietly Hostile: Essays - *** - 8/21/2023 - 304 Pages
O: The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin - *** - 5/7/2023 - 410 Pages
Month 4: Read your Chinese zodiac sign:
G: John Patrick Green; Take the Plunge - **** - 5/21/2023 - 208 Pages
O: Off the Hook by John Patrick Green - ***** - 6/6/2023 - 208 Pages
A: Ali Hazelwood; Love on the Brain - ***** - 3/19/2023 - 354 Pages
T: Tiya Miles; All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake - *** - 3/16/2023 - 377 Pages
Month 5: Read 3 or 4 books set in a country you'd like to visit
France: Taste: My Life through Food by Stanley Tucci - ***** - 6/3/2023 - 291 Pages
France: Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler - *** - 8/30/2023 - 375 Pages
France: Hot Ice by Nora Roberts - **** - 2/7/2024 - 312 Pages
Month 6: Read 3 or 4 books from your favorite genre
FANTASY: Bite the Bullet by L.A. Banks - **** - 4/12/2023 - 349 Pages
FANTASY: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - ***** - 6/2/2023 - 479 Pages
FANTASY: The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin - **** - 6/7/2023 - 416 Pages
Month 7: Read 3 or 4 books with your child or a friend
Feminist Book Club: Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce - ***** - 4/9/2023 - 352 Pages
SOUTHSIDE LADIES BOOK CLUB: The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf - *** - 7/26/2023 - 352 Pages
SOUTHSIDE LADIES BOOK CLUB: Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult - ***** - 4/24/2023 - 464 Pages
Month 8: Read 3 or 4 books written by some of your favorite authors
1. The Wicked Deeds of Daniel Mackenzie by Jennifer Ashley - ***** - 6/17/2023 - 384 Pages
2. Scandal And The Duchess by Jennifer Ashley - ***** - 6/20/2023 - 143 Pages
3. Rules for a Proper Governess by Jennifer Ashley - **** - 7/5/2023 - 320 Pages
Month 9: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
19 Books
Month 10: Read one of your favorite foods (Spell it out challenge)
S: A Symphony of Echoes by Jodi Taylor - ***** - 5/14/2023 - 336 Pages
M: Ami McKay; Half Spent Was the Night - ***** - 3/24/2023 - 112 Pages
O: One Bad Apple by Sheila Connolly - *** - 7/4/2023 - 262 Pages
R: Taylor Jenkins Reid; Daisy Jones & The Six - ***** - 5/6/2023 - 368 Pages
E: Emily Henry; Happy Place - **** - 9/4/2023 - 400 Pages
S: Sabrina Jeffries; To Pleasure a Prince - ***** - 6/4/2023 - 384 Pages
Month 11: Read 3 or 4 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
1. Mending Places by Denise Hunter - **** - 3/23/2023 - 324 Pages
2. milk and honey by Rupi Kaur - **** - 6/16/2023 - 204 Pages
3. Fake It Till You Bake It by Jamie Wesley - **** - 4/14/2023 - 336 Pages
Month 12: Read your favorite Book Crush's name
R: Diana Rowland; How the White Trash Zombie Got Her Groove Back - ***** - 8/1/2023 - 328 Pages
O: An Offer From a Gentleman by Julia Quinn - ***** - 9/9/2023 - 358 Pages
A: Artificial Condition by Martha Wells - ***** - 4/4/2023 - 158 Pages
R: Rachel Smythe; Lore Olympus: Volume Four - ***** - 6/15/2023 - 416 Pages
K: Karen's Birthday by Katy Farina - **** - 5/17/2023 - 156 Pages
E: The Emotionally Exhausted Woman: Why You’re Feeling Depleted and How to Get What You Need by Nancy Colier - ***** - 9/8/2023 - 168 Pages
P.S. If you want a specific part of the challenge to last longer than a month or shorter it's up to you. You decide. No pressure. It's just for fun. :)
Nothing But Reading ChallengesAll About Audio Books PART THREE: A Reading Via Your Ears Challenge
Duration: 3/9/2023 - 3/8/2024
Progress: 2 out of 50
Duration: Twelve months from when you start.
Levels:
Voice Over: 1-5 books
Remixer: 6-10 books
Audio Technician: 11-15 books
Sound Engineer: 16-20 books
Producer: 21-24 books
Director: 25-30 books
Executive Director: Pick & choose which ones to double and make it 50 books.
Rules & How to:
Option One - Freestyle:
►Pick a level and choose your own audiobook styles.
►You may read as many books as you want for each audio book type.
►Categories may overlap; (e.g. Flying Too High could be 1st book in a series, or location of Australia, but you may only use it in one category for this challenge.
Option Two - Want-It-All:
►The same as option one, but you must read at least one book in each category.
◈Listen from the List
Choose one book from each list
✣Best Audio Narration
✣Best Non Fiction Audio Books
✣100 of The Best Bios & Memoirs AudioBooks
◈Series Sequence
✣Read a book that is next in a series
The Indigo Spell by Richelle Mead - **** - 3/13/2023 - 401 Pages
✣Read a book that is not part of a series
◈Series Buster
✣Read a whole series ( or as many books that are released)
◈First Published
✣Read a book first published in the year you were born
✣Read a book first published in the year your pet was born
✣Read a book first published in the year your spouse/partner was born
✣Read a book first published in the year your child(ren) was/were born
✣Read a book first published in the year your parents were born
✣Read a book first published in the year your siblings were born
◈Geographical Location
✣Read a book based in your home town or country
✣Read a book based in a country you have always wanted to visit
✣Read a book written by an author in your home town or country
◈Same Name
✣Read a book narrated by an author with the same first name as you( spelling variations and translated names are acceptable)
✣Read a book written by an author with the same first name as you ( spelling variations and translated names are acceptable)
◈TBR Helper
✣Read a book that is on your "to read" shelf that has the highest number of pages
✣Read a book that is on your "to read" shelf with the highest GR star rating
✣Read a book that is on your "to read" shelf with the lowest GR star rating
✣Read a book that has been on your "to read" shelf since you joined GR
The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks - ***** - 3/12/2023 - 339 Pages
Nothing But Reading ChallengesContemporary - Round 1
Duration: 3/9/2023 - 3/8/2024
Progress: 2 out of 25
This challenge lasts for 1 year from the date you start
You ever wondered what everyone else is reading in a certain genre? Are you in a funk and just need some suggestions? Or have read through all your TBR and you are looking for your next favorite book?
In this Challenge Theme, we will take a random week and list all the most read books that week in Goodreads for various genres.
Explore the different books your fellow Goodreaders are reading to find your next book.
---For this particular challenge, the books won't change. It'll stay the 100 books posted above. Just pick how ever many books you want to read in a year from this list.
---We will revisit the most read in this genre at another time. Possibly months from now. With hopefully, or at least mostly, a new list of 100 books. Those would be separate challenges from this one. They are each individual.
---If there are books listed in this challenge that you've already read this year, you can certainly backdate the start of your challenge year so that you may include them.
---If a book from the above list is in a series, you can read a book earlier in the series in its place and it will count.
---You can read your novels in any language.
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng - ***** - 6/15/2019 - 338 Pages
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman - **** - 10/7/2023 - 336 Pages
The Girl on the Train
P.S. from Paris
milk and honey by Rupi Kaur - **** - 6/16/2023 - 204 Pages
When I'm Gone
Behind Closed Doors
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty - ***** - 4/15/2021 - 458 Pages
The Hideaway
Small Great Things
Drumline
Ghosted
The Wronged Sons
Truly Madly Guilty
His Christmas Miracle
The Boy I Hate
Exit West
My Absolute Darling
Everything We Keep
Sourdough
Working Fire
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng - ***** - 1/16/2017 - 304 Pages
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
The Identicals
Five
Play On
The Barefoot Summer
Allie and Bea
Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin - **** - 8/6/2018 - 304 Pages
A Merciful Death
Before the Fall
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell - ***** - 1/9/2017 - 328 Pages
A Dark Lure
We Were Liars
My Not So Perfect Life
The Keeper of Lost Things
Commonwealth
Seeing Red
After You by Jojo Moyes - ***** - 5/22/2019 - 352 Pages
A Dead End
My Name Is Lucy Barton
Sweet Little Thing
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman - ***** - 4/29/2022 - 372 Pages
Little Boy Lost
Dark Legacy
Mercy
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith - ***** - 3/28/2017 - 455 Pages
The Bookshop on the Corner
Mrs. Fletcher
Fierce Kingdom
Say You're Sorry
The Moonglow Cafe
Under Her
The Burning Girl
Any Dream Will Do
Britt-Marie Was Here
The Nest
Our Souls at Night
Accidentally Hers
If There's No Tomorrow
Pitch Please
The Romanov Ransom
A Merciful Truth
Anything Is Possible
The Last Move
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan - ***** - 11/26/2018 - 403 Pages
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue - **** - 7/11/2018 - 380 Pages
Everything We Left Behind
The Power
The Goldfinch
The Light We Lost
History of Wolves
The Silent Wife
Autumn
Fallen Heir
Class Mom
The Art of Hiding
King of Code
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid - ***** - 1/24/2022 - 389 Pages
Goodbye, Vitamin
Come Sundown
A Little Life
Mrs. Saint and the Defectives
NutshellLies
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
Wreckage
Meet Me at Beachcomber Bay
Breaching the Contract
Today Will Be Different
Before I Knew
Seaside Surprises
Passenger 19
Do Not Become Alarmed
Temporary
The One
Nothing But Reading Challenges Fantasy - Round 1
Duration: 3/8/2023 - 3/7/2024 - This challenge lasts for 1 year from the date you start
Progress: 2 out of 25
You ever wondered what everyone else is reading in a certain genre? Are you in a funk and just need some suggestions? Or have read through all your TBR and you are looking for your next favorite book?
In this Challenge Theme, we will take a random week and list all the most read books that week in Goodreads for various genres.
Explore the different books your fellow Goodreaders are reading to find your next book.
---For this particular challenge, the books won't change. It'll stay the 100 books posted above. Just pick how ever many books you want to read in a year from this list.
---We will revisit the most read in this genre at another time. Possibly months from now. With hopefully, or at least mostly, a new list of 100 books. Those would be separate challenges from this one. They are each individual.
---If there are books listed in this challenge that you've already read this year, you can certainly backdate the start of your challenge year so that you may include them.
---If a book from the above list is in a series, you can read a book earlier in the series in its place and it will count.
Already Read:
(view spoiler)
1. The Selection by Kiera Cass - *** - 2/4/2024 - 336 Pages
2. Day Shift by Charlaine Harris - ***** - 4/2/2024 - 307 Pages
3.
The List
Wildfire
Gwendy's Button Box
Secondborn
Afterlife
The One
Crown of Midnight
Lord of Shadows
Heir of Fire
All the Breaking Waves
The Man of Legends
Six of Crows
White Hot
Star Witch
The Keeper of Lost Things
The Power
Empire of Storms
Hollow City
The Heir
A Gathering of Shadows
Clockwork Princess
Worlds Collide
Ruin and Rising
The Gender Game
Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Spellbinder
The Wrath and the Dawn
Shifter's Shadow
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
Fury of a Phoenix
Darkness of Dragons
The Gender Secret
Lady Midnight
Blood Gamble
Day Shift
The Hammer of Thor
The Assassin's Blade
First Year
The Delirium Brief
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
The Rose & the Dagger
Meddling Kids
Rhapsodic
Apprentice
Raised in Fire
Wild Blood
Spoonbenders
Every Day
The Dragon's Treasure
Steelheart
The Wishing Spell
A Million Junes
Midnight Star
Seven Stones to Stand or Fall
Candidate
A Strange Hymn
The Secret of Spellshadow Manor
Besieged
The Jane Austen Project
Last Stand
Camp Half-Blood Confidential
Tempting Raven
Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy
Daughter of the Pirate King
Grave Ransom
Ash and Quill
Written in Fire
Moonshadow
Scythe
The Dispatcher
The Furthest Station
Revival
Dragon's Storm
The Fifth Doll
The Invasion of the Tearling
The Novice
The Battlemage
Dark Rites
Pandemonium
Traitor to the Throne
Thrawn
Nothing But Reading ChallengesRead Your Name
Duration: 3/1/2023 - Til Done!
Progress: 7 out of 7
Spell out your name using the title, author's first or last name for each letter. Too short of a challenge? Try spelling out your initials or middle or last name. Have fun!
S: Sarah Knight; You Do You: How to Be Who You Are and Use What You've Got to Get What You Want - ***** - 3/20/2023 - 299 Pages
U: Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood by Lisa Damour - **** - 4/7/2023 - 352 Pages
Z: Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler - *** - 8/30/2023 - 375 Pages
A: Andy Weir; Project Hail Mary - ***** - 3/8/2023 - 476 Pages
N: Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty - **** - 3/7/2023 - 453 Pages
N: Nicholas Sparks; The Rescue - ***** - 3/12/2023 - 339 Pages
E: Erin Mallon; Pale Blue Dot - *** - 4/16/2023 - 91 Pages
Mar 07, 2023 10:20PM
- 453 Pages
- 216 PagesCurrent Total 453,864
Mar 06, 2023 10:26PM
- 128 Pages
- 384 PagesCurrent Total: 436,326
