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Out of the Comfort Zone
Progress: 8/8 -- CHALLENGE COMPLETE
1. START NEW READING CHALLENGES
Challenges encourage readers to find more diverse authors, explore new genres, or try out a different kind of literature.
❎ Chasing the Moon
✔ One Dark and Stormy Knight (10/20/22)
❎ Word Hunt
✔ Bewitched to Death (10/6/22)
✔ Resolved: You're Dead (10/6/22)
✔ Second Chances (10/7/22)
✔ Death of a Dead Man (10/8/22)
2. FIND BOOKS IN YARDSALES OR SECONDHAND STORES
Another way to push yourself is to leave your physical comfort zone by venturing outside of the bookstore or website you normally frequent trying your luck in different places.
3. GATHER RECOMMENDATIONS FROM YOUR NETWORK
Who better to turn to for advice on spicing up your reading life than your fellow readers?
4. DIVERSIFY YOUR BOOKSHELVES
Revamping your reading life can be as simple as seeking out a wider variety of authors (different countries, cultures, sexualities, gender, etc.)
5. FOCUS ON ONE FIELD OF INTEREST
If you have too many options to choose from and don’t know what to pick up next, challenge yourself to zero in on one field of interest.
*Love Inspired Romance Books*
✔ A Soldier's Promise (10/30/22)
6. VISIT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY
Seek help from librarians. They can often pinpoint what features you like in a book so that you can hunt them down in other novels.
7. JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER
Sometimes judging a book by its cover (or title) is OK. Who knows? You may end up choosing something you may have never considered otherwise.
✔ What Happened That Night (10/18/22)
8. RANDOMIZE YOUR TBR SHELF
Set your Goodreads TBR list to show XX books per page (the number you prefer), then choose Random in the Sort menu and bob's your uncle, list randomized.
✔ Party Line (12/28/22)
9. EXPLORE THE UNKNOWN
In Goodreads main menu, go to Browse > Genres > Write: Unknown > Find genre > Choose a shelf or a list > Find books you want to read or that are in your want to read shelf already.
Serial ReaderShelf 3
Series Ongoing
(Books #11 and Above) 8/8
✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️ The Baby-sitters Club: (view spoiler)
✔️✔️ The Cupcake Club: (view spoiler)
✔️ The Hardy Boys #78 Cave-In
Serial ReaderShelf 2
Series Continuing
(Books #6-#10) 4/4
✔️ Hardy Boys Casefiles #9 The Genius Thieves
✔️ Hemlock Falls #7 A Steak in Murder
✔️ Sweet Briar Sweethearts Book #9 Redemption on Rivers Ranch
✔️ Tea Shop Mystery #8 Dragonwell Dead
Serial ReaderShelf 1 -- CHALLENGE COMPLETE!
Serial Reader 52/50
Series Starting
(Books #1-#5) 40/40
✔️✔️✔️✔️ Agatha Raisin: (view spoiler)
Alex Cross #1 Along Came a Spider
✔️✔️ Aurora Teagarden:(view spoiler)
✔️ Baby-sitters Club Super Special #1 Baby-Sitters on Board!
✔️ Baby-sitters Little Sister #1 Karen's Witch
Bridgerton: The Duke and I
✔️ Cassie Coburn Mystery #1 Poison in Paddington
✔️ Cedar Harbor Mystery #2 Donna Rose and the Roots of Evil
✔️ Crayon Kitten Cozy Mystery #1 Bewitched to Death
Culhane Family #2 The Husband List
✔️ Curious Bookstore Cozy Mystery #1 The Witching Place: A Fatal Folio
✔️ Delicious Regency #1 An Apple Pie for a Duke
✔️✔️ Elsie Hawkins: (view spoiler)
Enola Holmes: The Case of the Missing Marquess
✔️ The Family Upstairs #1 The Family Upstairs
✔️ Fear Street #1 The New Girl
✔️✔️ The Hardy Boys: (view spoiler)
The Herdmans #3 The Best Halloween Ever
Holly Gibney #1 The Outsider
✔️✔️ Horror High: (view spoiler)
✔️ Ivy Malone #1 Invisible
Jackson Falls #1 Forbidden Promises
The Jones Gang #1 Wagered Woman
Kay Scarpetta #1 Postmortem
✔️ The Kids in Ms. Colman's Class #1 Teacher's Pet
✔️ Little Black Book of Secrets #1 The Problem with Playboys: An opposites attract, workplace romance
Mercy Thompson #1 Moon Called
✔️✔️ Nancy Drew: (view spoiler)
✔️ Playbook #2 Fumbled
✔️ Queen Bees Quilt Shop Mystery #1 Murders on Elderberry Road
✔️ The Saddle Club #1 Horse Crazy
✔️ Sanctuary Island #1 Sanctuary Island
✔️ Secrets of the Manor #3 Elizabeth's Story, 1848
✔️ Taming the Tulanes #1 Small Town Scandal
✔️ The Unconventional Ladies of Mayfair #1 Not the Kind of Earl You Marry
✔️ Undead #1 Undead and Unwed
The Vampire Diaries #1 The Awakening
✔️ Victoria Square #2 The Walled Flower
Virgin River #1 Virgin River
The Wedding Date #2 The Proposal
✔️ Welcome Inn #1 Secret in the Moonlight
✔️✔️ The Westmorelands: (view spoiler)
✔️✔️ The Winnie Years: (view spoiler)
Genre Bingo
Progress: 3/3 Bingos - CHALLENGE COMPLETE!
Graphic Novel: Boy-Crazy Stacey (1/1/22)
Anything Goes: Karen's Witch (1/3/22)
Romance: Love Unexpected: With All My Heart (1/5/22)
Middle Grade: Kristy and the Snobs (1/7/22)
Holidays: Sleigh Ride with the Rancher (1/8/22)
Horror: The Amityville Horror (1/9/22)
Historical Fiction: Longbourn (1/15/22)
Coming of Age: Twelve (1/21/22)
Cozy Mystery: A Christmas Escape (1/29/22)
Series Book: Thirteen (2/1/22)
Thriller: Real Murders (2/3/22)
On TBR 5+ Years: Lakeside Sweetheart (2/19/22)
Green Cover: Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener (2/22/22)
Literary Fiction: Anxious People (3/6/22)
YA Fantasy: The Ghost's Grave (3/14/22)
Suspense: Backfire (3/16/22)
Paranormal: The Dollhouse Murders (6/13/22)
Short Stories: The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories (7/23/22)
Fantasy: Bewitched to Death (10/6/22)
Science Fiction: Pines (10/26/22)
Clear the Shelves
Progress: 31/30 - CHALLENGE COMPLETE
√ 1. Love Unexpected: With All My Heart
√ 2. Sleigh Ride with the Rancher
√ 3. The Amityville Horror
√ 4. Longbourn
√ 5. Twelve
√ 6. A Christmas Escape
√ 7. Real Murders
√ 8. Fumbled
√ 9. Lakeside Sweetheart
√ 10. Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener
√ 11. The Case of the Ill-Gotten Goat
√ 12. Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley
√ 13. Katia's Promise
√ 14. Wife for Hire
√ 15. Her Wyoming Valentine Wish
√ 16. Murder Gets a Life
√ 17. The Ghost's Grave
√ 18. Backfire
√ 19. Gather Together in My Name
√ 20. Mother's Helper
√ 21. The Rocky Road to Romance
√ 22. Secret in the Moonlight
√ 23. The Problem with Playboys: An opposites attract, workplace romance
√ 24. The Golden Hawk
√ 25. The Vicious Vet
√ 26. Missing Since Monday
√ 27. A Steak in Murder
√ 28. Redemption on Rivers Ranch
√ 29. A Bone to Pick
√ 30. Thorn's Challenge
√ 31. Dragonwell Dead
Bookworms Take Shelfies
Progress: 25/32
*Author: James Patterson: 1/5
✔️ 1. The River Murders
*Genre: Cozy Mysteries: 5/5
✔️ 1. Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener
✔️ 2. The Case of the Ill-Gotten Goat
✔️ 3. Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley
✔️ 4. Murder Gets a Life
✔️ 5. Poison in Paddington
*Length: Under 200 pages: 10/10
✔️1. Karen's Witch
✔️2. Claudia and the New Girl
✔️3. The Genius Thieves
✔️4. A Christmas Escape
✔️5. Good-bye Stacey, Good-bye
✔️ 6. Hello, Mallory
✔️ 7. Teacher's Pet
✔️ 8. Little Miss Stoneybrook... and Dawn
✔️ 9. Mother's Helper
✔️ 10. Cave-In
*Friendship, Love, and Marriage: Romance Novel Series' Books: 5/5
✔️1. Fumbled
✔️2. A Little Dare
✔️3. Wife for Hire
✔️4. The Rocky Road to Romance
✔️5. The Problem with Playboys: An opposites attract, workplace romance
*Film & Theater: Movie Adaptations: 3/3
✔️ 1. The Amityville Horror
✔️ 2. A Bone to Pick
✔️ 3. Nights in Rodanthe
*Listopia: What Women Born in the 80's are Reading in 2021: 1/4
✔️ 1. Anxious People
Personal Reading Goals✅ Read 90 books
✅ Donate 20 books to charity or Little Libraries
✅ Finish at least 3 yearly challenges
Finish at least 6 monthly challenges (1/6)
Finish 2 book series' (1/2)
✅ Read 8 books over 300 pages
Read 2 books over 400 pages (1/2)
Yearly Challenges
Bookworms Take Shelfies
Clear the Shelves *COMPLETED*
Genre Bingo *COMPLETED*
Serial Reader *COMPLETED*
Shelf 1
Shelf 2
Shelf 3
I just joined the Around the Year group and am starting to make my plan for 2022. This will be kind of tough but is exciting at the same time!THE 2022 LIST
1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y: The Kite Runner
2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021: The Nine-Month Marriage
3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title
4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list
5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name
6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover: When No One is Watching
7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind
8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1
9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2
10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3
11. A book from historical fiction genre
12. A book related to glass: The Mark on the Mirror
13. A book about a woman in STEM: Gorillas in the Mist
14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads
15. A book without a person on the cover
16. A book related to Earth Day
17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge
18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author
19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history
20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951
21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover
22. A book with a Jewish character or author: The Diary of a Young Girl
23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship
24. A book related to inclement weather
25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages: Daddy-Long-Legs
26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1
27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2
28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards: The Fault in Our Stars
29. A book set on or near a body of water
30. A book related to mythology
31. A book published at least 10 years ago: Déjà Dead
32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer: Murder on the Last Frontier
33. The next book in a series
34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role
35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1
36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2
37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name
38. A book by a Latin American author
39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time
40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards
41. A book with a theme of food or drink
42. A book with a language or nationality in the title
43. A book set in a small town or rural area: Peace Like a River
44. A book with gothic elements: Mexican Gothic
45. A book related to a game: Whack 'N' Roll
46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters
47. A book with handwriting on the cover
48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022
49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons"
50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years
51. A book published in 2022
52. A book with a time-related word in the title
Fiorentino wrote: "Would anyone like to read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens in December with me? It's one of my favorites that I read every December. It's a short read and perfect for the Christmas ..."I'm in :)
3/7 complete :)
13/20 complete :)
Progress: 26/26 --
CHALLENGE COMPLETED
✔ A - Alexis Becker from Katie and the Cupcake War
✔ B - Bert Bobbsey from The Dune Buggy Mystery
✔ C - Christy Knight from All I Want Is You
✔ D - David Savage from Double Play
✔ E - Elsie Hawkins from Back to the Bedroom
✔ F - Fletcher, Sadie from Spyhunt
✔ G - Grant Clifton from The Man Who Had Everything
✔ H - Henry Alden from The Mystery of the Queen's Jewels
✔ I - Izzy Gilmore from Vanilla Bean Killer
✔ J - Jeri McKane from Pick Your Poison
✔ K - Kate MacGregor from Kate and Holly: The Beginning
✔ L - Leah from From Scratch
✔ M - Elizabeth "Lizzy" McVay from The Prom Queen
✔ N - Nicole from Speak
✔ O - Ophelia Redmond from Somebody's Baby
✔ P - Poonachi from Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat
✔ Q - Sarah Quilliam from A Dash of Death
✔ R - Rafe Khatchadorian from Dog's Best Friend
✔ S - Samantha from The Stolen Sapphire: A Samantha Mystery
✔ T - Tira Beck from Beloved
✔ U - Ursula Drake from Peppermint Twisted
✔ V - Violet Alden from The Mystery at the Fair (Boxcar Children Mystery & Activities Specials #6)
✔ W - Winchester, Teddy from 1-800-CUPID
✔ X - Xander Orlock from Vamps
✔ Y - Yinka from My Sister, the Serial Killer
✔ Z - Pedro Zamora from Secrets in the Hills: A Josefina Mystery
Finished. TY for hosting the challenge :)
Progress: 2/2 Bingos - CHALLENGE COMPLETED!
Any book: Pick Your Poison by Kristi Holl (3/23/21)
Middle Grade: The Mystery at the Fair (Boxcar Children Mystery & Activities Specials #6) by Gertrude Chandler Warner (3/23/21)
Young Adult: The Prom Queen by R.L. Stine (3/20/21)
Romance: Beloved by Diana Palmer (3/21/21)
Mystery: The Mystery of the Queen's Jewels by Gertrude Chandler Warner (3/25/21)
Adventure: Spyhunt by Michele Ashman Bell (3/28/21)
Memoir: Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West (3/31/21)
Sci Fi: His Human Nanny by Michele Mills (4/9/21)
Book-to-Film: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (4/11/21)
Historical Fiction: Beth's Story, 1914 by Adele Whitby (4/19/21)
Thriller: Stolen Children by Peg Kehret (7/30/21)
Horror: Be Mine by Jane McFann (8/3/21)
Award Winner: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (8/10/21)
Suspense: Liar Liar by James Patterson (8/12/21)
Chick-lit: Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot (8/30/21)
Short Stories: BWWM Interracial Romance Short Stories 2 (10/12/21)
I changed my word to Zombies. So I am now trying for 7 books. And I've read 2 of them. So 2/7. Please see msg. 3. TY! :)
Elaine wrote: "I'll join in with You Had Me at Hola and Dash & Lily's Book of Dares in November."Awesome!!
