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
1. Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott
2. Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez 
3. The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd 
• 3 books about reading and/or writing
1. Three Simple Lines: A Writer's Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku by Natalie Goldberg
2. Dear Reader by Cathy Rentzenbrink 
3. Word by Word by Anne Lamott 
• 3 Catholic books
1. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
2. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
3. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
• 3 books in the same series
1. The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
2. Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell
3. Red Mist by Patricia Cornwell
• 3 Newbery medal winners
1. The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
2. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
3. Amos Fortune Free Man by Elizabeth Yates 
• 3 books under 200 pages.
1. I Can't Complain by Elinor Lipman
2. Alexa, What is There to Know About Love? by Brian Bilston
3. The Seven Last Words by Fulton Sheen
• 3 books published in 2022
1. Made in Manhattan by Lauren Layne
2. Must Love Books by Shauna Robinson
3. Looking for Leroy by Melody Carlson 
• 1 book over 500 pages
1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 

40 Re-reads Before 40 

1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
3. The Rainmaker by John Grisham
4. A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton 
5. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
6. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
7. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate Dicamillo
8. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead 
9. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
10. T-backs, Tee shirts, COAT, and Suit by E.L. Konigsburg
11. The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
12. Stupid Fast by Geoff Herbach
13. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
14. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
15. Nothing But the Truth by Avi
16. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
17. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
18. That Summer by Sarah Dessen
19. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
20. Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
21. Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson  
22. On Writing by Stephen King 
23. The Tenth Justice by Brad Meltzer 
24. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger 
25. The Library Book by Susan Orlean 
26. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
27. The Professor's House by Willa Cather 
28. One More Thing by B.J. Novak
29. Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey
30. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
31. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 
32. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
33. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
34. Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass
35. There's a Girl in my Hammerlock by Jerry Spinelli
36. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 
37. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury 
38. Book Girl by Sally Clarkson
39. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 
40. The Rose Round by Meriol Trevor

6 Historical Fiction Books

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

22 Classics 

1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
3. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie 
4. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
5. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
6. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
7. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor 
8. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
9. 1984 by George Orwell 
10. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
11. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
12. The Divine Comedy by Dante
13. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
14. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 
15. Tess of the D'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 
16. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger 
17. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
18. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner 
19. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
20. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 
21. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 
22. 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

New-To-Me Authors

1. Amanda Eyre Ward 
2. Lia Louis
3. Cherie Priest
4. Mike deCapite
5. Graham Greene
6. William Faulkner
7. Walker Percy
8. Shauna Robinson
9. Brian Bilston
10. Leah Brunner
11. Rachel John
12. Emma Lee Jayne