Last year, I made an entire post on how I was horrible at keeping up with reading challenges, and that I was going to stop them.
Now, it seems like I did not learn from my previous lesson, as I have decided to start a new reading challenge again this year.
Do I think that I will do better this year? No, I don’t. However, I am motivated to read the books on my list as I didn’t go out of my way to find new book. Instead, I focused heavily on books that were already on my TBR list or on my shelf. I’m hoping this helps.
I decided to do the Pick Your Poison reading challenge. Listed below are the categories that I chose (with a slight modification to one).
If you have read any of the books on my list, please let me know your thoughts on them! I will be updating this post with when I complete a book, and the link to the review if I write one.
| Category | Book | Start Date | Completion Date |
| A Classic | Hounds of Baskerville (Arthur Conan Doyle) | ||
| About a Missing Person | Where’d You Go, Bernadette (Maria Semple) | ||
| A Hobby You Do or Would Like to Do | Yaya Han’s World of Cosplay | ||
| A Local Author | Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi) | ||
| Second Book in a Series | Changeless (Gail Carriger) | ||
| A Toy on the Cover | Toys Go Out (Emily Jenkins) | ||
| A Moon on the Cover | A Monster Calls (Patrick Ness) | ||
| About a Cult | Going Clear (Lawrence Wright) | February 7, 2023 | February 16, 2023 |
| A Steampunk Book | Etiquette & Espionage (Gail Carringer) | ||
| A Travel Memoir | From Scratch (Tembi Locke) | February 21, 2023 | February 26, 2023 |
| An Author with Initials in Their Name | Wonder (R.J. Palacio) | ||
| A Nonfiction Book About a Natural Disaster | The Yellow House (Sarah Broome) | ||
| A Fiction Book with a Real Person as Protagonist | Hamilton and Peggy! (L.M. Elliott) | ||
| A Person Jumping on the Cover | Rebound (Kwame Alexander) | ||
| A Book With Gold Writing on the Cover | Mechanica (Betsy Cornwell) | ||
| A Book About Twins | The Vanishing Half (Brit Bennett) | ||
| A Book with the Word “Elephant” in the Title | Elephants Can Remember (Agatha Christie) | ||
| Sonnets: A Book of Poetry | Call Us What We Carried (Amanda Gorman) | ||
| A Book With an Elderly Protagonist | Killers of a Certain Age (Deanna Raybourn) | ||
| A Book About Ghosts | Mexican Gothic (Silvia Moreno-Garcia) | ||
| A Book With a Protagonist 12 Years Old or Younger | The Dollar Kids (Jennifer Richard Jacobson) | ||
| A Book with Utensils on the Cover | Waisted (Randy Meyers) | January 17, 2023 | March 18, 2023 |
| A Book About Our Ancestors | Root Magic (Eden Royce) | ||
| A Book That Employs “Dark Humor” | Look Who’s Back (Timur Vermes) | ||
| A Book Set in a Bakery or a Sweet Shop | Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe (Jenny Colgan) | ||
| A Title That is a Song Name | Girl on Fire (Alicia Keys) | ||
| A Book Set in the 1800s | The Hacienda (Isabel Canas) |
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