In an attempt to jolt myself into reading more consistently and in a hope to hit my overall Goodreads challenge target of 18, I was inspired to throw together a list of mini challenges.  In the same vein as Instagram photo challenges, with 30 days of prompts to take a photo of, these lists are created by lots of bookish sites and accounts and do the rounds every January and I missed out on them.  Below is my challenge list, created in August, to see how well I can do in 4 months.  It’s a bit of a mash up of other reading challenge lists I read through as well as some completely my own.

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Core Challenges: 5 points each

• A book with ‘cat(s)’ in the title
• Set in space
• Set in Scandinavia
• Published this year (2019)
• Published before you were born
• A ghost story
• A story with dragons
• A non-fiction book
• A comic or graphic novel
• A translated book
• A book you know nothing about
• A book someone recommended to you personally
• Tagged LGBT on Goodreads
• A debut novel
• A sequel
• …with a two word title
• An audiobook
• …from an author from Asia, Africa or Latin America
• A book over 500 pages long
• …that is also (or shortly will be) a movie/TV Series

 

Bonus Challenges: 10 points each

• A multi-author book (translators don’t count)
• …in a genre you don’t normally choose
• Read more than one translated or International book during the year
• A book you’ve owned for more than 5 years (and haven’t read yet)
• A “book to read before you die”

 

Know Thy Enemy Ultra Challenge: 50 points

• Read a book by an author you actively dislike

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Usually these challenges don’t involve a points system but I thought it’d add an extra dynamic based on how hard I thought each one would be for me.

I’ve already ticked some of these off – I think I’ve gathered maybe 50 points so far – and I’m working on another two actively at the moment.  I’ll come back in December/January and post what books went with what challenges.

Anyone else have any cunning strategies for keeping yourself reading?