Nikki's 2020 reading challenge tracker

[Nikki]

Planned reading challenges for 2020:

1) PBT monthly tags
2) My personal US states challenge carried forward from 2019
3) PBT 2020 Poll Ballot Tally
4) Continuing to read from other cultures in the spirit of the Horizons challenge

[Nikki]

PBT monthly tags:

Starred books/totals indicate books chosen specifically for the challenge.

✅January - thriller - 5 (4*): Station Eleven*, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore*, The Black Minutes*, Oligarchy, Dark Matter*
✅February - survival - 5 (4*): The Great Alone*, Hillbilly Elegy*, The Best We Could Do*, A Gentleman in Moscow, Beloved*
* March - journalism: plans = Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, The Library Book, maybe Telling True Stories
* April
* May
* June
* July
* August
* September
* October
* November
* December

2020 total: 10 books (8 chosen specifically for the monthly tags)

[Nikki]

US states:

This is an ongoing personal challenge - I'm keeping a running total but I think I'll star the ones I read in 2020.

I'm counting anything where the book being set in a particular state feels meaningful, i.e. where I feel I've come away with a greater understanding of the experience of living in that state, either now or in the past. Ideally the author would also be from the state, but I'm not going to make this a firm requirement. I'm including memoirs with a strong narrative (e.g. Hillbilly Elegy but not In the Shadow of Statues) as well as novels.

Using https://bookriot.com/2018/08/22/best-... as a starting point to gather ideas.

* Alabama
✅Alaska - The Great Alone*
* Arizona
* Arkansas
✅California - There There, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo*
* Colorado
* Connecticut
* Delaware
* Florida
* Georgia
* Hawaii
* Idaho
* Illinois
* Indiana
* Iowa
* Kansas
* Kentucky
* Louisiana
* Maine
✅Maryland - Kindred
✅Massachusetts - The Heretic's Daughter
✅Michigan - Middlesex
* Minnesota
* Mississippi
* Missouri
* Montana
* Nebraska
* Nevada
* New Hampshire
* New Jersey
* New Mexico
* New York
✅North Carolina - Where the Crawdads Sing
* North Dakota
✅Ohio - Hillbilly Elegy*
* Oklahoma
* Oregon
✅Pennsylvania - American Rust
* Rhode Island
* South Carolina
* South Dakota
* Tennessee
* Texas
* Utah
* Vermont
* Virginia
✅Washington - Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, & Snow Falling on Cedars
* West Virginia
* Wisconsin
* Wyoming

[Nikki]

PBT 2020 Poll Ballot Tally:

I'm curious to see whether there will be any natural overlap between this and my personal states challenge! I won't include planning & ideas here, but will list books I've completed & reported...

Alabama - civil rights
Alaska - Inuit
Arizona - Grand Canyon
Arkansas - education
✅California - Hollywood - Station Eleven, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Colorado - Rocky Mountains
Connecticut - Constitution
✅Delaware - business - Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
District of Columbia - presidents
Florida - Disney
✅Georgia - antebellum - Beloved
Hawaii - volcanoes
Idaho - nature
✅Illinois - comedy - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Indiana - auto racing
✅Iowa - politics - The Best We Could Do, Nixonland, A Gentleman in Moscow, Cutting for Stone, Girl, Woman, Other
Kansas - weather
Kentucky - horses
Louisiana - southern gothic
Maine - Stephen King
Maryland - Navy
Massachusetts - witches
Michigan - Great Lakes
Minnesota - vikings
Mississippi - blues
Missouri - pioneers
Montana - wildlife
Nebraska - farming
Nevada - gambling
New Hampshire - hiking
New Jersey - mafia
New Mexico - extraterrestrials
New York - Broadway
✅North Carolina - Appalachia - Hillbilly Elegy
North Dakota - paleontology
Ohio - industry
Oklahoma - Great Depression
✅Oregon - ecology - How to Do Nothing, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Pennsylvania - Amish
Rhode Island - sailing
South Carolina - pirates
✅South Dakota - frontier - The Great Alone
Tennessee - country music
✅Texas - space - An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Utah - Mormon
Vermont - libraries
Virginia - FBI
Washington - coffee
West Virginia - mining
Wisconsin - cheese
Wyoming - western

[Nikki]

Continuing to read from other cultures:

Less of a challenge and more of a vague intention, inspired by the PBT Horizons challenge that I enjoyed so much this year.

Read:
Italy - My Brilliant Friend
Mexico - The Black Minutes
Vietnam - The Best We Could Do
Russia - A Gentleman in Moscow
Ethiopia - Cutting for Stone

Ideas:

[Joanne]

Nikki wrote: "Continuing to read from other cultures:

Less of a challenge and more of a vague intention, inspired by the PBT Horizons challenge that I enjoyed so much this year.[..."

Nikki Cutting For Stone made my Top Ten this year, I know you would love it~

[Nikki]

Joanne wrote: "Nikki wrote: "Continuing to read from other cultures:

Less of a challenge and more of a vague intention, inspired by the PBT Horizons challenge that I enjoyed so much this year.[..."

Nikki Cuttin..."

Thanks! I'm hoping to get to it soon...