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: 101/52 books published before 2018
Straight from my TBR pile: (81)
Rereads: (27)
Challenge completed
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
Blog All About It challenge
Goals: 0/12 blog posts
Blogger Shame challenge
Goals: 18/24 old galleys
2018 Debut Author challenge
Goals: 27/24 debut books of 2018
Challenge complete!
Audiobook challenge
Goals: 63/50 books
Challenge complete
Netgalley & Edelweiss Reading challenge
Goals: 205/100 galleys
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Challenge complete
Contemporary Romance reading challenge
Goals: 44/21+ contemporary romances
Challenge completed
AtoZ reading challenge
Goals: 26/26 books
Challenge completed
Witches & Witchcraft reading challenge
Goals: 32/16 books
Challenge completed
Cloak and Dagger challenge
Goals: 27/16 books
Challenge completed
SOS reading challenge
Goals: 38/40 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 – Nightingale
- Book from Secret Ninja list – Little Monsters
- Highest rated book on TBR – Vengeful
- Originally written in a language you can’t speak – A Winter’s Promise (French)
- 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 – Garrison Girl
- Author with same first name, last name or initials as you – Duke of Bannerman Prep
- Author from country you never visited – Sons of Ares
- 2017 debut author – Nyxia
- Second chance author
- Latinx author – What If It’s Us (Adam Silvera)
- 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 – After the End
- 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: 164/31 diverse books
New Release challenge
Goals: 189/200 books
Challenge completed
Paranormal reading challenge
Goals: 95/24 books
Challenge completed
Book to Movie reading challenge
Goals: 19/8 books
Challenge completed
What’s in a Name challenge
Goals: 3/7 challenges
- The word ‘the’ used twice – The Good, the Bad and the Undead
- A fruit or vegetable
- A shape – Circle of Shadows
- A title that begins with Z – Zojaqan
- A nationality – Anna and the French Kiss
- A season
Swords and Stars Reading Challenge
Goals: 18/20 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 – 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
