Hinesh's 2020 Reading Corner

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1. 2020 Goodreads year in books
2. 2020 Goodreads challenge
3. 2020 Challenge Tracker

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Challenge Tracker


Yearly Challenges
1. Goodreads Challenge (20)
2. Genre Bingo (25)
3. Listopia (20)
4. Serial Reader (5)
5. Book Riots Read Harder Challenge (18)
6. Best Books of 2019 Choice Award (16)

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Goodreads Challenge


Goal: 5/20

January
1. ★★★★☆ The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
2. ★★★★★ Educated

March
1. ★★★☆☆ Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope
2. ★★★★★ Impostor

April
1. ★★★★★ How to Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong

May
1. ★★★★☆ The Da Vinci Code

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Genre Bingo


Goal 3/25 Books




B
B1. Young Adult Fantasy
* The Wicked King
B2. Dystopian
* Animal Farm
B3. General Nonfiction
* ✅ The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
B4. Memoir
* ✅ Educated
B5. Graphic Novel
* Watchmen

I
I1. Science Nonfiction
* The Gene: An Intimate History
I2. Suspense
* Gone Girl
I3. Humor and Comedy
* Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
I4. Classics
* To Kill a Mockingbird
I5. Magical Realism
* One Hundred Years of Solitude

N
N1. Mystery or Thriller
* ✅ Impostor
N2. Romance
* Red, White & Royal Blue
N3. Free Space
* Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
N4. Westerns
* Lonesome Dove
N5. Satire
* Catch-22

G
G1. Young Adult
* The Lightning Thief
G2. Crime
* In Cold Blood
G3. Family Saga
* The Thorn Birds
G4. Horror
* The Institute
G5. Science Fiction
* Recursion

O

O1. Coming of Age
* The Catcher in the Rye
O2. Chick-lit
* Can You Keep a Secret?
O3. Historical Nonfiction
* The Diary of a Young Girl
O4. Tragedy
* Hamlet
O5. Short Stories or Novella
* What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

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Listopia


Goal 20

Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

* To Kill a Mockingbird
* 1984
* Pride and Prejudice
* The Diary of a Young Girl
* Animal Farm

Best Young Adult Books

* The Lightning Thief
* The Hunger Games
* The Giver
* The Fault in Our Stars
* City of Bones

Best Books of the 20th Century

* The Great Gatsby
* The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
* The Little Prince
* Fahrenheit 451
* The Catcher in the Rye

Best Historical Fiction

* Memoirs of a Geisha
* Gone with the Wind
* The Pillars of the Earth
* The Book Thief
* The Red Tent

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Serial Reader


I will finish the Robert Langdon Series I have started before this year. (5 books)

1. ✅ Angels & Demons
2. ✅ The Da Vinci Code
3. The Lost Symbol
4. Inferno
5. Origin

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Book Riots Read Harder Challenge


Goal 18

1. Read a YA nonfiction book
* Shout

2. Read a retelling of a classic of the canon, fairytale, or myth by an author of color
* The Girl from the Well

3. Read a mystery where the victim(s) is not a woman
* A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder

4. Read a book about a natural disaster
* A Fire Story

5. Read a historical fiction novel not set in WWII
A Gentleman in Moscow

6. Read the LAST book in a series
* Origin

7. Read a book that takes place in a rural setting
* Our Wayward Fate

8. Read a debut novel by a queer author
* Better Off Red

9. Read a memoir by someone from a religious tradition (or lack of religious tradition) that is not your own
* Casting Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken World

10. Read a romance starring a single parent
* The Bride Test

11. Read a book about climate change
* American War

12. Read a doorstopper (over 500 pages) published after 1950, written by a woman
* The Priory of the Orange Tree

13. Read a sci-fi/fantasy novella (under 120 pages)
* Binti

14. Read a book by or about a refugee
* Escape from Aleppo

15. Read a middle grade book that doesn’t take place in the U.S. or the UK
* The Lacemaker and the Princess

16. Read a book with a main character or protagonist with a disability (fiction or non)
* The Pretty One

17. Read a horror book published by an indie press
* The Place of Broken Things

18. Read a book in any genre by a Native, First Nations, or Indigenous author
* Future Home of the Living God

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Best Books of 2019 Choice Award Challenge


Goal 16

1. Fiction
* The Testaments

2. Mystery & Thriller
* My Sister, the Serial Killer

3. Historical Fiction
* Daisy Jones & The Six

4. Fantasy
* Ninth House

5. Romance
* Red, White & Royal Blue

6. Science Fiction
* Recursion

7. Horror
* The Institute

8. Humor
* Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

9. Nonfiction
* Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals

10. Memoir & Autobiography
* Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

11. History & Biography
* The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

12. Science & Technology
* Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

13. Poetry
* Shout

14. Debut Novel
* The Ten Thousand Doors of January

15. Young Adult Fiction
* Five Feet Apart

16. Young Adult Fantasy
* The Wicked King