The Unread Shelf Project
Monthly Challenges
A book you bought as a new release (May)
A book bought in a spending spree (June)
A book bought for the cover (July)
A book from an independent bookstore (August)
A book you want to learn from (September)
A book you're secretly afraid of (October)
A book published before 2000 (November)
A book that reminds you of childhood (December)
Bonus Challenges
A book with more than 500 pagesAn impulse buy
A book on your unread shelf longer than one year
A book you bought because of a recommendation
A book given to you that you didn't ask for
A book you got for a special occasion
A book from your favorite genre
A book bought because of the hype
A book from a Little Free Library
The unread book most recently acquired
A backlist title by an author with a newer release available
Modern Mrs. Darcy Challenge
Three Newbery Award winners- When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
- Sounder by William Armstrong
- The 21 Balloons by William Pene du Bois
Three books that are the last/most recent in a series
- The Love of Friends by Nancy Bond
- The Heart of the Family by Elizabeth Goudge
- Majesty by Katharine McGee
Three books of more than 500 pages
- Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- Fox's Earth by Anne Rivers Siddons
Three books by the same author
- The Late Show by Michael Connelly
- The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
- Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly
Three audiobooks with the same narrator
- The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
- The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn
- An Offer from a Gentleman by Julia Quinn
Three Catholic nonfiction books.
- Mother Angelica by Raymond Arroyo
- Be Bold in the Broken by Mary Lenaburg
- Motherhood Redeemed by Kimberly Cook
Three general nonfiction books.
- Romance is My Day Job by Patience Bloom
- Upstairs at the White House by J.B. West
- And Then They Stopped Talking to Me by Judith Warren
Three books under 200 pages.
- Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather
- Dream Work by Mary Oliver
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Three books about books or reading.
- How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
- We Are the Babysitters Club
- Steeped in Stories by Mitali Perkins
Three books about writing.
- The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
- Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake Snyder
Three books published in 2021.
- Just Like That by Gary D. Schmidt
- Treasures: Visible and Invisible by Catholic Teen Books
- Sunshine by Marion Dane Bauer
Three re-reads
- Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
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