Read-at-Home Mom: Challenges

Goldberry Book Reading Challenge

January: ~~A mystery you haven't read~~ Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
February: ~~A classic you haven't read~~ The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
March: ~~A genre you normally don't love~~ 1984 by George Orwell
April: ~~A biography about a non-American~~ The Lightning Dreamer by Margarita Engle
May: ~~A book your mom/grandma/wife loves~~ Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
June: ~~A book your dad/grandpa/husband loves~~ Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
July: ~~A book that takes place somewhere you want to visit~~ The Patron Saint of Second Chances by Christine Simon
August: ~~A book from the year you were born~~ Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
September: ~~A nature or travel book~~ Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr
October: ~~A book by an author you love that you haven't read~~ The Clock Winder byAnne Tyler
November: ~~A book by an author from your home state~~ The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day
December: ~~A book published in 2022~~ Look Closer by David Ellis

Buzzword Readathon 2022

January: ~~A book with one of the 5 w’s in the title~~ The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
February: ~~A book with a personal/possessive pronoun in the title.~~ As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
March: ~~A book with a location in the title~~. Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon
April: ~~A book with ‘little’ or ‘big’ in the title.~~ The Garden of Small Beginnings by Abbi Waxman
May: ~~A book with a direction in the title.~~ Up Island by Anne Rivers Siddons
June: ~~A book with ‘all’ in the title.~~ All in Good Time by Carolyn Astfalk
July: ~~A book with a book related word in the title.~~ How to Write a Mystery by Lee Child
August: ~~A book with an item/object in the title.~~ Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
September: ~~A book with ‘light’ or ‘dark’ in the title.~~ Under the Lights by Abbi Glines
October: ~~A book with an animal or creature in the title.~~ Sleeping Tiger by Rosamunde Pilcher
November: ~~A book with ‘ing’ in the title.~~ The Most Perfect Thing in the Universe by Tricia Springstubb
December: ~~A book with a number in the title.~~ Eight Winter Nights by Liz Maverick

Read Your Bookshelf Challenge

January: ~~a QUIET word in the TITLE~~ The Other Side of Silence by Margaret Mahy
February: ~~LOVE in the TITLE~~ Must Love Books by Shauna Robinson
March: ~~GROWTH~~ In Bloom by Fern Michaels
April: ~~YOUR INITIALS in the TITLE~~ Thankful for Love by Kristen Ethridge
May: ~~NEW TO YOU AUTHOR~~ The Treehouse on Dog River Road by Catherine Drake
June: ~~BOOK on COVER~~ Meet Me in the Margins by Melissa Ferguson
July: ~~Want to read but HAVE AVOIDED~~ The Gilded Years by Karin Tanabe
August: ~~BODY PART in TITLE~~ My Big Heart-Shaped Fail by Cindy Callaghan
September: ~~a COLLECTION~~ Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories by Colin Dexter
October: ~~SECRET in TITLE~~ The Secret History by Donna Tartt
November: ~~COZY or NOSTALGIC~~ The Broken Spine by Dorothy St. James
December: ~~Mostly WHITE on the COVER~~ Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney

22 Books for 2022

3 Book of the Month books

Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott
Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

3 books about reading and/or writing

Three Simple Lines: A Writer's Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku by Natalie Goldberg
Dear Reader by Cathy Rentzenbrink
Word by Word by Anne Lamott

3 Catholic books

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

3 books in the same series

The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell
Red Mist by Patricia Cornwell

3 Newbery medal winners

The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Amos Fortune Free Man by Elizabeth Yates

3 books under 200 pages.

I Can't Complain by Elinor Lipman
Alexa, What is There to Know About Love? by Brian Bilston
The Seven Last Words by Fulton Sheen

3 books published in 2022

Made in Manhattan by Lauren Layne
Must Love Books by Shauna Robinson
Looking for Leroy by Melody Carlson

1 book over 500 pages

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

40 Re-reads Before 40

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Rainmaker by John Grisham
A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate Dicamillo
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
T-backs, Tee shirts, COAT, and Suit by E.L. Konigsburg
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
Stupid Fast by Geoff Herbach
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Nothing But the Truth by Avi
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
That Summer by Sarah Dessen
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
On Writing by Stephen King
The Tenth Justice by Brad Meltzer
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Professor's House by Willa Cather
One More Thing by B.J. Novak
Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass
There's a Girl in my Hammerlock by Jerry Spinelli
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Book Girl by Sally Clarkson
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Rose Round by Meriol Trevor

6 Historical Fiction Books

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
The Gilded Years by Karin Tanabe
Sackett's Land by Louis L'Amour
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus

22 Classics

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
1984 by George Orwell
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
The Divine Comedy by Dante
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Tess of the D'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Back to the Classics 2022

~~A 19th century classic. Any book first published from 1800 to 1899~~ Tess of the D'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
~~A 20th century classic.~~ A Separate Peace by John Knowles
~~A classic by a woman author.~~ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
~~A classic in translation.~~ Purgatorio by Dante
~~A classic by BIPOC author.~~ A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
~~Mystery/Detective/Crime classic.~~ Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
A classic short story collection.
Pre-1800 classic.
A nonfiction classic.
Classic that's been on your TBR list the longest.
~~Classic set in a place you'd like to visit.~~ Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
~~Wild card classic.~~ As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner