Reading Focus Challenge

[Virginie, Meow.]

A new challenge to start the new year! The idea is to pick one theme (or more if you're ambitious) to focus your reading on.

The themes can be as broad (Fantasy books) or narrow (Dragon books published in 1987 by a female author) as you want. The goal here is to choose something you genuinely want to read more of.

Once you've chosen your theme(s), you can either pledge to read X books within it or keep an open-ended list to see how many you can manage in a year (or any other length of time). Just start your own thread and share your accomplishments with us :)

Here's some ideas of themes you can draw from:
- Standalones
- Anthologies/Collections of short stories
- Published pre-1980
- Newly released books (published in the current year)
- Above 700 pages
- Novellas
- Originally written in a langage other than English
- On your TBR for more than 3 years
- From your collection (owned)
- Retellings (fairy tales / myths)
- Non-human protagonist
- Diverse protagonist (or author)
- Non-medieval Europe-inspired settings
etc.

I hope you will have fun with this challenge, and good luck!

[Tnkw01]

What a great idea. Mine for 2019 is going to be "Series" and "Free Spirit" (read what I'm in the mood for).

[Bill]

Love it. I was going to cut way down on my challenges for the year but like how open this one is. I’m considering doing some combination of standalones, anthologies, published pre-1980, novellas, on tbr for more than 3 years, retellings and female authored.

[Virginie, Meow.]

I'm glad you two like the idea :D

I haven't decided my themes yet; probably standalones, novellas, published in 2019 and diverse protagonist. And dragons!

[Yvette]

This is a great idea!
I've actually been trying to break out of the mold of always reading the authors I love (I've failed miserably...LOL). I think mine will be - Authors I've never read, regardless of genre.

[Bill]

Yvette, I have the opposite problem. This year alone I've tried 40 authors for the first time. Maybe I need to do a focus challenge for previously read authors.

[Virginie, Meow.]

Oh, good one, Yvette!

[Helen, I·ᴍ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ]

Well I really should read those books sitting on my shelves...

[Lesia]

What a great idea! I'm definitely taking some of the prompts! This is going to help me to read those things I never get around to.

[Tifani]

Helen wrote: "Well I really should read those books sitting on my shelves..."

I think that should be my challenge for the rest of this year!