2018 Reading Challenges

This page is for all year-long challenges. For shorter challenges like month-long readathons, please go to Readathons.

Sign-up post for Beat the Backlist

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Beat the Backlist

Goals: 118/52 books published before 2018

Straight from my TBR pile: (90)

             

Rereads: (28)

  

Challenge completed

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Series to Finish 2018 challenge

Goals: 19/24 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)

August: The Crown’s Game (old) Word$ (old)   Red Queen (old)

September: Rosemarked (old)   Villains (old)

October: Warcross (old) The Last Star (old)

November : Jackaby (old) Ryogan Chronicles (old) The Glittering Court (old)

December: The Heirs of Watson Island (new) , Emma Nash (new) Strange the Dreamer (new) After the End (new)

7 new series + 12 old series

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Blog All About It challenge

Goals: 0/12 blog posts

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Blogger Shame challenge

Goals: 23/24 old galleys

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2018 Debut Author challenge

Goals: 27/24 debut books of 2018

Challenge complete!

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Audiobook challenge

Goals: 64/50 books

 

Challenge complete

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Netgalley & Edelweiss Reading challenge

Goals: 213/100 galleys

     

Challenge complete

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Contemporary Romance reading challenge

Goals: 45/21+ contemporary romances

 

Challenge completed

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AtoZ reading challenge

Goals: 26/26 books

           

Challenge completed

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Witches & Witchcraft reading challenge

Goals: 33/16 books

        

 Challenge completed

Cloak and Dagger challenge

Goals: 28/16 books

Challenge completed

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SOS reading challenge

Goals: 39/40 challenges

1. A book you’ve been putting off because you don’t like the aesthetic – Seraphina
2. Red on the cover  – Through a Dark Glass
   
3. Orange on the cover – For a Muse of Fire
4. Yellow on the cover – Yellow on the cover
   
5. Green on the cover – As You Wish
6. Blue on the cover – Shadow Scale
   
7. Purple on the cover – Truly Devious
8. A stunning cover – Strange the Dreamer
   
9. Animal on the cover or in title – The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza
10. One word title – Everless
    
11. Recommended by someone in the group
12. A book with mixed GR reviews – Nightingale
13. Book from Secret Ninja list – Little Monsters
    
14. Highest rated book on TBR – Vengeful
15. Originally written in a language you can’t speak – A Winter’s Promise (French)
16. A book set in your country/city – Ms Ice Sandwich
    
17. Interesting format or with illustrations /images – The Lover’s Dictionary
    
18. Main character with different ethnic background – Midnight Jewel
    
19. Featuring disability or illness – Finding Audrey
    
20. LGBT main character – Derailed
    
21. Own voices book – The Hate U Give
    
22. Contains magic – Remembering Majyk
23. Genre you don’t normally read – Hidden Figures (biography genre)
    
24. Middle grade or children’s book – A Monster Calls
    
25. A retelling – Spelled
    
26. A non fiction – Scrappy Little Nobody
    
27. Released before 2014 – Shatter Me
    
28. Under 100 ratings on GR – Garrison Girl
29. Author with same first name, last name or initials as you – Duke of Bannerman Prep
30. Author from country you never visited – Sons of Ares
    
31. 2017 debut author – Nyxia
    
32. Second chance author – The Lies They Tell by Gillian French
    
33. Latinx author – What If It’s Us (Adam Silvera)
34. Buddy read with group member – To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
    
35. Finish a series – Daughter of the Siren Queen
    
36. A book with an adaptation – How to Train Your Dragon
    
37. #37 on TBR – After the End
    
38. A standalone – 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank
    
39. Book over 500 pages – The Tarot Cafe Manga Collection: Volume 1 (528 pages)
    
40. Shortest book on shelves – Tomboy
    

 

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Diversity challenge

Goals: 173/31 diverse books

                        

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New Release challenge

Goals: 194/200 books

              

Challenge completed

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Paranormal reading challenge

Goals: 104/24 books

                    

Challenge completed

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Book to Movie reading challenge

Goals: 21/8 books

Challenge completed

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What’s in a Name challenge

Goals: 5/6 challenges

• The word ‘the’ used twice – The Good, the Bad and the Undead
• A fruit or vegetable – Apple & Rain
  
• A shape – Circle of Shadows
• A title that begins with Z – Zojaqan
• A nationality – Anna and the French Kiss
• A season

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Swords and Stars Reading Challenge

Goals: 19/20 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 – Frankenstein
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 – A Spark of White Fire
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 – Echo Room
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

    

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