This page is for all year-long challenges. For shorter challenges like month-long readathons, please go to Readathons.
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Beat the Backlist
Goals: 68/52 books published before 2018
Straight from my TBR pile: (52)
Rereads: (20)
Challenge completed
Series to Finish 2018 challenge
Goals: 5/24 series (one current+one new per month)
January: Seraphina (new)
February: Storymakers (new) 
March & April: Daughter of the Pirate King (old) 
July: Bright Smoke, Cold Fire (old) 
and Dividing Eden (new) 
Blog All About It challenge
Goals: 0/12 blog posts
Blogger Shame challenge
Goals: 6/24 old galleys
2018 Debut Author challenge
Goals: 15/24 debut books of 2018
Audiobook challenge
Goals: 40/50 books
Netgalley & Edelweiss Reading challenge
Goals: 96/100 galleys
Contemporary Romance reading challenge
Goals: 23/21+ contemporary romances
Challenge completed
AtoZ reading challenge
Goals: 20/26 books
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Witches & Witchcraft reading challenge
Goals: 13/16 books
Cloak and Dagger challenge
Goals: 8/16 books
SOS reading challenge
Goals: 27/40 challenges
- A book you’ve been putting off because you don’t like the aesthetic – Seraphina
- Red on the cover – Through a Dark Glass
- Orange on the cover – For a Muse of Fire
- Yellow on the cover – Yellow on the cover
- Green on the cover – As You Wish
- Blue on the cover – Shadow Scale
- Purple on the cover – Truly Devious
- A stunning cover – Strange the Dreamer
- Animal on the cover or in title – The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza
- One word title – Everless
- Recommended by someone in the group
- A book with mixed GR reviews
- Book from Secret Ninja list – Little Monsters
- Highest rated book on TBR
- Originally written in a language you can’t speak
- A book set in your country/city – Ms Ice Sandwich
- Interesting format or with illustrations /images – The Lover’s Dictionary
- Main character with different ethnic background – Midnight Jewel
- Featuring disability or illness – Finding Audrey
- LGBT main character – Derailed
- Own voices book – The Hate U Give
- Contains magic – Remembering Majyk
- Genre you don’t normally read – Hidden Figures (biography genre)
- Middle grade or children’s book – A Monster Calls
- A retelling – Spelled
- A non fiction – Scrappy Little Nobody
- Released before 2014 – Shatter Me
- Under 100 ratings on GR
- Author with same first name, last name or initials as you
- Author from country you never visited – Sons of Ares
- 2017 debut author – Nyxia
- Second chance author
- Latinx author
- Buddy read with group member – To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
- Finish a series – Daughter of the Siren Queen
- A book with an adaptation – How to Train Your Dragon
- #37 on TBR
- A standalone – 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank
- Book over 500 pages – The Tarot Cafe Manga Collection: Volume 1 (528 pages)
- Shortest book on shelves – Tomboy
Diversity challenge
Goals: 81/31 diverse books
New Release challenge
Goals: 87/101 books
Paranormal reading challenge
Goals: 45/24 books
Challenge completed
Book to Movie reading challenge
Goals: 16/8 books
Challenge completed
What’s in a Name challenge
Goals: 0/7 challenges
- The word ‘the’ used twice – The Good the bad and the Undead
- A fruit or vegetable
- A shape
- A title that begins with Z
- A nationality
- A season
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Swords and Stars Reading Challenge
Goals: 16/20 challenges
1) Read a book with Dragons in it – Seraphina
2) Read a book over 500 pages – Shadow Scale
3) Read an SFF novella – Beneath the Sugar Sky
4) Read a first book in a series – Everless
5) Read a Science Fiction classic
6) Read a Fantasy classic
7) Read a book whose title matches the first letter of your last name – Norse Mythology
8) Read a book that has a weapon on the cover – Remembering Majyk
9) Read a book that has a Spaceship on the cover
10) Read a book that has been adapted – To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
11) Read a book with time travel in it
12) Read a book that has been on your TBR shelf for over 2 years – Shatter Me
13) Read a book whose cover has stars in it or whose title has any variation of the word star in it – A Conspiracy of Stars
14) Read a book with magical realism in it – As You Wish
15) Read an SFF graphic novel – Sons of Ares
16) Read a Sequel – Midnight Jewel
17) Read a diverse SFF book – Rosemarked
18) Read a Random SFF book – Wonder Woman: Warbringer
19) Read a fantasy book inspired by another story, fairytale, myth etc. – Spelled
20) Read a book with a map – Sabriel
