21 Books In 2021 Challenge

Hello everyone! It’s been a long time since my last post. What can I say, 2020 was a doozy. My hope this year is to be more active here but at the same time still keep things low key and as stress free as possible. This is supposed to be fun 🙂

My first post for 2021 is a reading challenge that I have been seeing around both in the blogging world and on Instagram. It seems like the perfect way to knock off some books that have been sitting on my TBR list for far too long as well as books I acquired last year that I had fully intended on reading in 2020. My full reading goal for the year is 75 books so this will be only a fraction of what I hope to read this year. This challenge is pretty self-explanatory… to choose 21 books that you want to read in 2021.

• The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
• Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• Aurora Rising by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman
• Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw
• Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
• A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown
• Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati
• The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
• With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
• Ross Poldark by Winston Graham
• Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff
• Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• Regretting You by Colleen Hoover
• The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
• Recursion by Blake Crouch

I feel like this is a pretty good mix of genres so I should be able to fit all of my moods whenever they strike. What books are you hoping to read this year that you haven’t gotten around to in years past?

20 Books of Summer: 2020

Hello! I’m here for another attempt at the 20 Books of Summer challenge! I don’t know that I’ve ever read all of the books I’ve picked for my challenge TBR but it’s fun to put them together anyways. I am a mood reader so I put together a different variety of genres to keep me interested all summer long. I will also be focusing on ARCs as I mentioned in my last post but I decided not to include those in this list. So here we have my book choices for the next three months. I don’t have them in any particular order so I will just pick and choose throughout the list as I go. The two books marked with an * are books I need to read before two of the ARCs on my list for June.

(All links are to each book’s Goodreads page)

1. Recursion by Blake Crouch
2. The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski
3. Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw
4. Regretting You by Colleen Hoover
5. The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
6. Warrior of the Altaii by Robert Jordan
7. The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh
8. The Near Witch by V.E. Schwab
9. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
10. Misery by Stephen King
11. The Lost Queen by Signe Pike*
12. Escaping From Houdini by Kerri Maniscalco
13. Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
14. Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater
15. House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
16. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
17. Postscript by Cecelia Ahern
18. DEV1AT3 by Jay Kristoff*
19. Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor
20. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The following are the ARCs that I will be focusing on for the month of June. As I mentioned above, two of these ARCs I need to read a preceding book for and I included those books in my challenge TBR, marked with an *. I also marked the corresponding ARCs with an *. I put these in order of publication date and my plan is to read them in this exact order.

 

1. Blood Countess by Lana Popovic
2. Ruthless Gods by Emily A. Duncan
3. A Bad Day for Sunshine by Darynda Jones
4. Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
5. The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner
6. The Dilemma by B.A. Paris
7. TRUEL1F3 by Jay Kristoff*
8. The Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike*

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Have you read any of the books on my list?

 

 

2019 Beat the Backlist

Surprise! I’m going to do another reading challenge this year! I didn’t think I would be joining any other challenges this year but this one actually fits in perfectly with one of my goals this year so why not! Austine @ NovelKnight is hosting this great challenge. The goal of this challenge is to read books that have been on your TBR for awhile. Basically any book that was published 2018 or earlier is fair game. The challenge runs from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019 so any book from your backlist read between those dates counts towards the challenge.

I already wanted to read a lot of the books that I’ve kept waiting on my shelves so I didn’t really have a set number or anything that I wanted to go with. So I just emptied one of my shelves and filled it up with different choices that I really want to read this year. Links go to Goodreads.

• The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
• Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor
• Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff
• The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer
• Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
• And I Darken by Kiersten White
• Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
• The Fallon Blood by Reagan O’Neil (aka Robert Jordan)
• Sinner by Maggie Stiefvater
• The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
• Vicious by V.E. Schwab
• Mariana by Susanna Kearsley
• Missoula by Jon Krakauer
• The Kingmaker’s Daughter by Philippa Gregory
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Wayfarer by Alexandra Bracken
• Ivory and Bone by Julie Eshbaugh
• My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows
• Ten Thousand Skies Above You by Claudia Gray
• Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati
• My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
• This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab

I will also very loosely be marking off squares for this bingo card. I’m not going to go out of my way to fill in any squares but any book published pre-2019 that fulfills a square will be great.

Are you participating in this challenge? Have you read any of the books on my list?

 

 

2018 When Are You Reading Challenge

Click on the image above to be taken to this year’s post!

Hey guys! I came across this awesome reading challenge yesterday on Yvo @ It’s All About Books blog.  She had just posted her wrap up for the 2017 edition of the challenge.  I’ve been looking for ways to add more variety to what I read this year since last year was fully dominated by fantasy and this seems like the perfect way to do it.  The challenge is hosted annually by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. Basically the goal is to read one book that takes place in each time section by the end of the year.  I was originally going to participate unofficially because my main goal for the year is to read my unread owned books (there are a LOT) but when I did some digging around, I found at least one book that will fulfill each section so I decided to just go for it officially.  As I complete books for each category, I will update this post with title, author, and year.

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The complete challenge will include 12 books from the following eras:

• Pre 1500
  • The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory (1450s-1485)
• 1500-1599
  • Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness (1591)
• 1600-1699
• 1700-1799
• 1800-1899
  • Captain Wentworth’s Diary by Amanda Grange (1806-1816)
  • Mr. Knightley’s Diary by Amanda Grange
• 1900-1919
• 1920-1939
  • The Diviners by Libba Bray (1926)
• 1940-1959
  • Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys (1941)
• 1960-1979
  • The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock (1977)
• 1980-1999
  • It by Stephen King (1984-1985)
• 2000-Present
  • The Opportunist by Tarryn Fisher (2011)
  • Dirty Red by Tarryn Fisher (2012)
  • Thief by Tarryn Fisher (2013)
  • Without Merit by Colleen Hoover (2017)
  • Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli (2018)
• The Future

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Are you participating in this challenge?  What are some of your favorite historical fiction novels?

2016 Read My Books: November Update

Wow! I am really late this month in posting the link up for the challenge! Sorry about that guys! November was a crazy month.  It’s hard to believe we are now down to the last month of the challenge already.  We’re in the home stretch now!  Good luck to you all! 🙂

If you are participating in this challenge, you must link up a progress report in order to get another entry into the end-of-year giveaway!  You don’t have to make an entire post just for the challenge, just include a line for how many books counted towards the challenge in your monthly recap post.  If you don’t do a monthly recap post on your blog, feel free to send out a tweet with your progress and link up using the direct URL to that tweet.  You could also post a photo to Instagram and link up using the direct URL to that photo!  Don’t forget the challenge hashtag – #2016readmybooks