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The Book Challenges - 2020 Edition

Updated: Jan 5, 2021

I have some reading goals for myself this year, and thought it might help me be more accountable to post about them here.


1. Read at least 35 books.

2. Read at least 12 new-to-me classics.

3. Read at least 6 sci fi or dystopian (or fantasy!) books.

4. Read as much from my TBR bookcase as possible. (Not including books from Christmas season or new to me in 2020.)


As I complete books, I will post about them on my Goodreads page, and then later, update my goals here as well.

 

35 BOOKS

1. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (2018)

2. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (2019)

3. Someday by Drew Hayden Taylor (1993)

4. Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Marc Sumerak (2019)

5. Our House by Louise Candlish (2018)

6. Shakespeare's Counselor by Charlaine Harris (2001)

7. Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler (2009)

8. A Girl Walks Into a Book: What the Brontës Taught Me about Life, Love, and Women's Work by Miranda K. Pennington (2017)

9. The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff (2007)

10. The Guilty Party by Mel McGrath (2019)

11. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (2000)

12. Everything Under by Daisy Johnson (2018)

13. Three Women by Lisa Taddeo (2019)

14. A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E.Schwab (2015)

15. A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab (2016)

16. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (2006)

17. What Remains of Her by Eric Rickstad (2018)

18. The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (2019)

19. The Maid's Version by Daniel Woodrell (2013)

20. Downtrodden Abbey: The Interminable Saga of an Insufferable Family by Gilian Fetlocks (2013)

21. The Returned by Jason Mott (2013)

22. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (original 1886)

23. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi, Mattias Ripa (translator) (2004)

25. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (1990)

26. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe (2009)

27. A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote (1956)

28. Mistletoe and Other Disasters by Alyne Hart (2019)

29. The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits by Les Standiford (2008)

30. The Christmas Promise by Donna VanLiere (2007)

31. Comfort and Joy by Kristin Hannah (2006)

32. The Greatest Gift: A Christmas Tale by Philip Van Doren Stern(1943)

33. Skipping Christmas by John Grisham (2001)

34. Finding Christmas by Karen Schaler (2019)

35. Hot Dudes Reading (2016)


12 CLASSICS

1. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (2000)

2. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (original 1886)

3. A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote (1956)

4. The Greatest Gift: A Christmas Tale by Philip Van Doren Stern(1943)


6 SCI-FI/DYSTOPIA/FANTASY

1. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (2019)

2. The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (2019)

3. A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E.Schwab (2015)

4. A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab (2016)

5. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (original 1886)

6. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (1990)


TBR BOOKS

1.Shakespeare's Counselor by Charlaine Harris (2001)

2. Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler (2009)

3. A Girl Walks Into a Book: What the Brontës Taught Me about Life, Love, and Women's Work by Miranda K. Pennington (2017)

4. The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff (2007)

5. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (2000)

6. Downtrodden Abbey: The Interminable Saga of an Insufferable Family by Gilian Fetlocks (2013)

7. The Maid's Version by Daniel Woodrell (2013)

8. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (2006)

9. A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E.Schwab (2015)

10. A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab (2016)

11. The Returned by Jason Mott (2013)

12. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (original 1886)

13. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi, Mattias Ripa (translator) (2004)

14. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (1990)

15. Mistletoe and Other Disasters by Alyne Hart (2019)

16. The Christmas Promise by Donna VanLiere (2007)

17. The Greatest Gift: A Christmas Tale by Philip Van Doren Stern(1943)

18. Finding Christmas by Karen Schaler (2019)

19. Hot Dudes Reading (2016)

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