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2024 Reading ChallengeBibliopoly - 2024
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2024
Progress: 26 out of 40
Player Levels:🐱 36-40: Grand Master
Inspired by the classic Monopoly board game, this yearly challenge takes bibliophiles around the board through forty bookish game spaces. Read books related to property color groups; original game tokens; book, author and character traits; and community/group activities!
You may read prompts in order, randomly, or roll dice to choose your next square. If you print the Bibliopoly board for tracking, please note that prompts may be abbreviated in the graphic. The prompt list contains more detail.
Prompts may be repeated. New! Add up to four houses 🏠 and a hotel 🏨 for repeating a prompt from a completed property group -- Purple, Blue, Pink, Orange, Red, Yellow, Green, Dark Blue.
Prompts
🗺️ 1. Go: Read a book set on two or more continents:
When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal - **** - 1/13/2024 - 348 Pages
🟪 2. Purple: Read a book with a wheelbarrow, garden tool or plant on the cover or in the title.
🎁 3. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Group Reads. (Which month and book?)
🟪 4. Purple: Read a translated book originally written in a language other than your native tongue.
💲 5. Tax: Read a book with money on the cover or in the title.
🚂 6. Reading Railroad: Read a book from a celebrity book club list, such as Oprah, Reese Witherspoon, etc.
🟦 7. Blue: Read a book with any type of hat or headwear on the cover or in the title.
❓ 8. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest or lowest number of ratings.
🟦 9. Blue: Read a book with an author or character whose sexual orientation is different from your own:
Cowgirl Up and Ride by Lorelei James - **** - 1/22/2024 - 280 Pages
🟦 10. Blue: Read a book with any shade of blue on the cover or in the title:
The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer - ***** - 1/1/2024 - 416 Pages
🔒 11. In Jail: Read a banned or challenged book.
🌸 12. Pink: Read a book with any type of dog on the cover or in the title:
Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez - ***** - 4/14/2024 - 416 Pages
💡 13. Electric Company: Read a book with a light source on the cover.
Portrait in Death by J.D. Robb - ***** - 3/10/2024 - 347 Pages
🌸 14. Pink: Read a book with an author or character whose nationality or birth country is different from your own:
The Kingdom of Sweets by Erika Johansen - **** - 1/23/2024 - 368 Pages
🌸 15. Pink: Read a book with any shade of pink on the cover or in the title:
The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore - ***** - 1/11/2024 - 267 Pages
🚂 16. Pennsylvania Railroad: Read a book published under an author’s pen name.
🟠 17. Orange: Read a book with a ship or boat on the cover, or involving water travel:
Surviving Savannah by Patti Callahan Henry - **** - 1/22/2024 - 432 Pages
🎁 18. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Readathons. (Which readathon? List one book you read for it.)
While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams - ***** - 3/3/2024 - 367 Pages - Black/Women's History Months
🟠 19. Orange: Read a book with an author or character whose religious or spiritual beliefs are different from your own:
I'm No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts: Mini-Meditations for Saints, Sinners, and the Rest of Us by Kristin Chenoweth - ***** - 2/10/2024 - 224 Pages
🟠 20. Orange: Read a book with any shade of orange on the cover or in the title:
Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood - ***** - 2/19/2024 - 389 Pages
🚘 21. Free Parking: Read a book of your choice. Anything goes!:
Scent of Darkness by Christina Dodd - ***** - 1/21/2024 - 416 Pages
🟥 22. Red: Read a book with a car, truck or bus on the cover, or involving a road trip:
Paradise Valley by Robyn Carr - ***** - 1/31/2024 - 368 Pages
❓ 23. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf among the ten oldest or newest additions.
The Women by Kristin Hannah - ***** - 4/21/2024 - 480 Pages
🟥 24. Red: Read a book with an author or character whose race or ethnicity is different from your own:
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto - **** - 2/3/2024 - 302 Pages
🟥 25. Red: Read a book with any shade of red on the cover or in the title:
XOXO, Cody: An Opinionated Homosexual's Guide to Self-Love, Relationships, and Tactful Pettiness by Cody Rigsby - *** - 1/9/2024 - 240 Pages
🚂 26. B&O Railroad: Read a book with an author or title beginning with B or O. (Author’s first or last name; title’s first main word. Omit the, and, of, etc.):
Out There by Seaerra Miller - ***** - 2/4/2024 - 232 Pages
🟨 27. Yellow: Read a book with a boot or shoe on the cover, or involving foot travel.
Sugar Rush by Sawyer Bennett - **** - 4/11/2024 - 301 Pages
🟨 28. Yellow: Read a book with an author or character who has a physical disability or impairment, an emotional or mental disorder, or a neurodivergent condition.
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson - ***** - 4/26/2024 - 318 Pages
🚿 29. Water Works: Read a book with any form of water on the cover.
🟨 30. Yellow: Read a book with any shade of yellow on the cover or in the title:
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy - ***** - 2/24/2024 - 320 Pages
👮♂️ 31. Go to Jail: Read a crime fiction or true crime book.
🟩 32. Green: Read a book with a thimble, sewing or craft implement on the cover or in the title.
🟩 33. Green: Read a book with an author or character whose gender is different from your own:
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix - ***** - 1/7/2024 - 419 Pages
🎁 34. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Buddy Reads or TBR Twins. (Which activity? What book did you and your twin/buddies read?)
🟩 35. Green: Read a book with any shade of green on the cover or in the title:
When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill - **** - 1/29/2024 - 367 Pages
🚂 36. Shortline Railroad: Read a book under 200 pages long:
Under the Christmas Tree by Robyn Carr - ***** - 2/5/2024 - 93 Pages
❓ 37. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest or lowest average star rating.
HBR Guide to Project Management by Harvard Business School Press - ***** - 3/30/2024 - 192 Pages
🧿 38. Dark Blue: Read a book with any type of cat on the cover or in the title.
💍 39. Luxury Tax: Read a book with a gemstone or precious metal on the cover or in the title:
Hot Ice by Nora Roberts - **** - 2/7/2024 - 312 Pages
🧿 40. Dark Blue: Read a book that won an award. (Which one?):
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins - ***** - 2/11/2024 - 326 Pages - Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award for Grades 6-8 (2006)
Update for message #23: 🎲 Progress: 17/20 🎲
Thanks!
Update to message #424/13
Completed prompt 35
Prompts🗺️ 1. Go: Read a book set on two or more continents.
Sidesplitter: How To Be From Two Worlds At Once by Phil Wang 26/04/24
🟪 2. Purple: Read a book with a wheelbarrow, garden tool or plant on the cover or in the title.
🎁 3. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Group Reads. (Which month and book?)
🟪 4. Purple: Read a translated book originally written in a language other than your native tongue.
Before the Queen Falls Asleep: A powerful novel about exile, displacement and family by an iconic Palestinian writer by Huzama Habayeb - 03/05/24 - Originally in Arabic
💲 5. Tax: Read a book with money on the cover or in the title.
🚂 6. Reading Railroad: Read a book from a celebrity book club list, such as Oprah, Reese Witherspoon, etc.
Sunny by Sukh Ojla 16/02/24 - Richard Herring Book Club
🟦 7. Blue: Read a book with any type of hat or headwear on the cover or in the title.
❓ 8. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest or lowest number of ratings.
🟦 9. Blue: Read a book with an author or character whose sexual orientation is different from your own.
The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz 25/07/24
🟦 10. Blue: Read a book with any shade of blue on the cover or in the title.
03/01🔒 11. In Jail: Read a banned or challenged book.
🌸 12. Pink: Read a book with any type of dog on the cover or in the title.
💡 13. Electric Company: Read a book with a light source on the cover.
🌸 14. Pink: Read a book with an author or character whose nationality or birth country is different from your own.
Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott 05/02
🌸 15. Pink: Read a book with any shade of pink on the cover or in the title.
27/01🚂 16. Pennsylvania Railroad: Read a book published under an author’s pen name.
🟠 17. Orange: Read a book with a ship or boat on the cover, or involving water travel.
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier 26/05/24
🎁 18. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Readathons. (Which readathon? List one book you read for it.)
🟠 19. Orange: Read a book with an author or character whose religious or spiritual beliefs are different from your own.
Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef 15/01
🟠 20. Orange: Read a book with any shade of orange on the cover or in the title.
🚘 21. Free Parking: Read a book of your choice. Anything goes!
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden 16/05/24
🟥 22. Red: Read a book with a car, truck or bus on the cover, or involving a road trip.
30/05/24❓ 23. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf among the ten oldest or newest additions.
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey 19/02/24
🟥 24. Red: Read a book with an author or character whose race or ethnicity is different from your own.
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 28/01
🟥 25. Red: Read a book with any shade of red on the cover or in the title.
06/04/24🚂 26. B&O Railroad: Read a book with an author or title beginning with B or O. (Author’s first or last name; title’s first main word. Omit the, and, of, etc.)
🟨 27. Yellow: Read a book with a boot or shoe on the cover, or involving foot travel.
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 26/03/24
🟨 28. Yellow: Read a book with an author or character who has a physical disability or impairment, an emotional or mental disorder, or a neurodivergent condition.
🚿 29. Water Works: Read a book with any form of water on the cover.
🟨 30. Yellow: Read a book with any shade of yellow on the cover or in the title.
12/06/24👮♂️ 31. Go to Jail: Read a crime fiction or true crime book.
🟩 32. Green: Read a book with a thimble, sewing or craft implement on the cover or in the title.
🟩 33. Green: Read a book with an author or character whose gender is different from your own.
’Salem’s Lot by Stephen King 16/01
🎁 34. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Buddy Reads or TBR Twins. (Which activity? What book did you and your twin/buddies read?)
🟩 35. Green: Read a book with any shade of green on the cover or in the title.
18/04/24🚂 36. Shortline Railroad: Read a book under 200 pages long.
Farewell Fountain Street by Selçuk Altun 24/01
❓ 37. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest or lowest average star rating.
🧿 38. Dark Blue: Read a book with any type of cat on the cover or in the title.
💍 39. Luxury Tax: Read a book with a gemstone or precious metal on the cover or in the title.
🧿 40. Dark Blue: Read a book that won an award. (Which one?)
The Postcard by Anne Berest 04/03/24 - It won the Prix Renaudot des lycéens
Update to message 13:🌸 15. Pink: Read a book with any shade of pink on the cover or in the title. Holly
2/20
Update to msg #36 please! Progress: 7/16
Update to 552/36-39
🌸 14. Pink: Read a book with an author or character whose nationality or birth country is different from your own. : Vagabonds! The author is Nigerian, and the book is set in Lagos, Nigeria.
Updated message 89. Progress: 4/16
Update to msg #36 please! Progress: 8/16
Update to Message #37 -GOAL: 6/40
PROMPT #25: RED - Read a book with any shade of red on the cover, or in the title: Evernight by Claudia Gray
PROMPT #1: GO - Read a book set on two or more continents: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
PROMPT #2: PURPLE - Read a book with a wheelbarrow, garden tool or plant on the cover or in the title: The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
Update to message #62: 24/40 books read!
Update to message 13:20. Orange: Read a book with any shade of orange on the cover or in the title. Star Splinter
3/20
Updated message #344/
BIBLIOPOLY28/36
Prompts
🗺️ 1. Go: Read a book set on two or more continents.
🟪 2. Purple: Read a book with a wheelbarrow, garden tool or plant on the cover or in the title.
🎁 3. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Group Reads. (Which month and book?)
🟪 4. Purple: Read a translated book originally written in a language other than your native tongue.
💲 5. Tax: Read a book with money on the cover or in the title.
🚂 6. Reading Railroad: Read a book from a celebrity book club list, such as Oprah, Reese Witherspoon, etc.
🟦 7. Blue: Read a book with any type of hat or headwear on the cover or in the title.
❓ 8. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest or lowest number of ratings.
🟦 9. Blue: Read a book with an author or character whose sexual orientation is different from your own.
🟦 10. Blue: Read a book with any shade of blue on the cover or in the title.
🔒 11. In Jail: Read a banned or challenged book.
🌸 12. Pink: Read a book with any type of dog on the cover or in the title.
💡 13. Electric Company: Read a book with a light source on the cover.
🌸 14. Pink: Read a book with an author or character whose nationality or birth country is different from your own.
🌸 15. Pink: Read a book with any shade of pink on the cover or in the title.
🚂 16. Pennsylvania Railroad: Read a book published under an author’s pen name.
🟠 17. Orange: Read a book with a ship or boat on the cover, or involving water travel.
🎁 18. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Readathons. (Which readathon? List one book you read for it.)
🟠 19. Orange: Read a book with an author or character whose religious or spiritual beliefs are different from your own.
🟠 20. Orange: Read a book with any shade of orange on the cover or in the title.
🚘 21. Free Parking: Read a book of your choice. Anything goes!
🟥 22. Red: Read a book with a car, truck or bus on the cover, or involving a road trip.
❓ 23. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf among the ten oldest or newest additions.
🟥 24. Red: Read a book with an author or character whose race or ethnicity is different from your own.
🟥 25. Red: Read a book with any shade of red on the cover or in the title.
🚂 26. B&O Railroad: Read a book with an author or title beginning with B or O. (Author’s first or last name; title’s first main word. Omit the, and, of, etc.)
🟨 27. Yellow: Read a book with a boot or shoe on the cover, or involving foot travel.
🟨 28. Yellow: Read a book with an author or character who has a physical disability or impairment, an emotional or mental disorder, or a neurodivergent condition.
🚿 29. Water Works: Read a book with any form of water on the cover.
🟨 30. Yellow: Read a book with any shade of yellow on the cover or in the title.
👮♂️ 31. Go to Jail: Read a crime fiction or true crime book.
🟩 32. Green: Read a book with a thimble, sewing or craft implement on the cover or in the title.
🟩 33. Green: Read a book with an author or character whose gender is different from your own.
🎁 34. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Buddy Reads or TBR Twins. (Which activity? What book did you and your twin/buddies read?) Buddy read-
🟩 35. Green: Read a book with any shade of green on the cover or in the title.
🚂 36. Shortline Railroad: Read a book under 200 pages long.
❓ 37. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest or lowest average star rating.
🧿 38. Dark Blue: Read a book with any type of cat on the cover or in the title.
💍 39. Luxury Tax: Read a book with a gemstone or precious metal on the cover or in the title.
🧿 40. Dark Blue: Read a book that won an award. (Which one?)
Update to msg #36 please! Progress: 9/16
Regina wrote: "I'd like to sign up for 36, please."Welcome to the game, Regina! 🎲
Jess wrote: "Prompts🗺️ 1. Go: Read a book set on two or more continents.
🟪 2. Purple: Read a book with a wheelbarrow, garden tool or plant on the cover or in the title.
🎁 3. Community Chest: Participate in one..."
Welcome to the challenge, Jess! 👋🏻 I listed your goal as 40 since you listed all the prompts. Be sure to make a new post to update your progress as we go through the year. Instructions for updating are in post #2. 😊
Suzanne wrote: "2024 Reading ChallengeBibliopoly - 2024
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2024
Progress: 0 out of 40
Player Levels:🐱 36-40: Grand Master
Inspired by the classic Monopoly board game, this yearly..."
Welcome, Suzanne! Hope you enjoy this challenge. 👋 Post again to update your progress. Instructions are in post #2. 🙂
Updated through here!Remember, there's an individual readathon starting at the end of this month. If you read a book for Black/Women's History Months during that 4-day readathon, you can count it for prompt #18 in this challenge.
If I get caught up in the readathon, my first March update could be a few days late. Consider yourselves. warned. 😉
Updating message #358/40 completed
🟩 33. Green: Read a book with an author or character whose gender is different from your own. Before You Leap: A Frog's-eye View of Life's Greatest Lessons DONE
Update to message #425/13
Completed prompt 10
Update to Message #91Progress 5/20
🟦 9. Blue: Read a book with an author or character whose sexual orientation is different from your own. - House of Flame and Shadow
🟦 7. Blue: Read a book with any type of hat or headwear on the cover or in the title. - Clean Sweep
Update message 13:7. Blue: Read a book with any type of hat or headwear on the cover or in the title. Radigan
4/20
Update to Message #37 -GOAL: 7/40
PROMPT #19: ORANGE - Read a book with an author or character whose religious or spiritual beliefs are different from own: (main character was catholic; I am baptist): I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
Update to Message #37 - GOAL: 12/40
PROMPT #10 - BLUE - Read a book with any shade of blue on the cover or in the title: (blue on the cover): The Weekenders by Mary Kay Andrews
PROMPT #13 - ELECTRIC COMPANY - Read a book with a light source on the cover: (lantern in tents): Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
PROMPT #14 - PINK - Read a book with an author or character whose nationality or birth country is different from your own: (author is from Sweden): Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
PROMPT #22 - RED - Read a book with a car, truck or bus on the cover, or involving a road trip: (road trip): Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
PROMPT #29: WATER WORKS - Read a book with any form of water on the cover: (stream): Dragonworld by Byron Preiss
PROMPT #30 - YELLOW - Read a book with any shade of yellow on the cover or in the title: (yellow on the cover): Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich
Updating message #359/40 completed
❓ 37. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest or lowest average star rating. The Last Thing You Surrender DONE
Updated message #89. Progress: 5/16
Update to message #59: 6/40 books read
Update to message 71, 20/30. Please can I increase my goal to 30? I have been enjoying this challenge and found I'm able to hit more prompts than expected already!🟪 4. Purple: Read a translated book originally written in a language other than your native tongue. - Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder
🟠 19. Orange: Read a book with an author or character whose religious or spiritual beliefs are different from your own. - The Hammer of Thor
🟥 24. Red: Read a book with an author or character whose race or ethnicity is different from your own. - Where Sleeping Girls Lie
🟨 28. Yellow: Read a book with an author or character who has a physical disability or impairment, an emotional or mental disorder, or a neurodivergent condition. - Redsight
🟨 30. Yellow: Read a book with any shade of yellow on the cover or in the title. - House of Flame and Shadow
🟩 33. Green: Read a book with an author or character whose gender is different from your own. - Divine Rivals
🧿 38. Dark Blue: Read a book with any type of cat on the cover or in the title. - Starter Villain
🎁 34. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Buddy Reads or TBR Twins. Carrie Soto Is Back (February Buddy read)
🚿 29. Water Works: Read a book with any form of water on the cover. - Rebel Fire
🚂 36. Shortline Railroad: Read a book under 200 pages long. - EchoStar: is always listening
👮♂️ 31. Go to Jail: Read a crime fiction or true crime book. - Evil Under the Sun
February update for message #4012/35
Update to message #15 - 19/40 books read!
Update to msg #36 please! Progress: 10/16
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