2018 Challenges

Goodreads Reading Challenge

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2018 Beat the Backlist is a reading challenge focused on knocking off titles that have been on your TBR for a while/were pushed aside for new releases. YOU set your own reading goal. YOU pick the books. YOU read at your own pace.

Host: Novelknight
Goal: Team Dewey Dragons – knock off as many books on my TBR as I can
Progress: 
1 January 2017 — 31 December 2017

Books on my TBR for 2018

These are books that have been waiting for too long on my shelves and I have to get to them this year. ✓ So let’s tackled them! ✓

1. Uprooted by Naomi Novik
2. Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (May) ✓ 
3. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (March) ✓ 
4. It Ends With Us by Coleen Hoover (February) ✓ 
5. The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis (January) ✓ 
6. Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen 
7. The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
8. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
9. Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge (October)✓ 
10. Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson
11. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
12. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (February) ✓
13. Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (February) ✓ 
14. The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis (February) ✓ 
15. Cracked Up To Be by Courtney Summers (February) ✓ 

Series for 2018

These are some of the series I should have started or finished by now but shamelessly didn’t: ✓ Let’s tackled them! ✓

1. TMI & TID: City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls, and City of Heavenly Fire & Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, and Clockwork Princess
2. Daughter of Smoke & Bone: Daughter of Smoke & Bone, Days of Blood & Starlight and Dreams of Gods & Monsters
3. The Grishaverse: Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising
4. The Darkest Minds: The Darkest Minds, Never Fade, In the Afterlight
5. Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (re-read), The Horse and His Boy, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair and The Last Battle

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Shelflove Reading Challenge 2018

1. Book over 600 pages – Anna Karenina
2. Read the book on your TBR the longest –
3. A protagonist with a culture different than your own – Aru Shah and the End of Time
4. A book you can read in one sitting – By Your Side
5. A book by a 2018 debut author – The Hazel Wood
6. Read a book published before 1968 (50 years ago) – The Outsiders
7. Reread your all-time favorite book – The Count of Monte Cristo
8. Read a book set near home –
9. Banned book –
10. Girl power book –
11. An audiobook – Illuminae
12. A book with an epic journey –
13. Read a book to make yourself happy – Fruits Basket 1 (re-read)
14. Read a classic YA book you never picked –
15. A book that won/was nominated for an award –
16. A historical fiction – Salt to the Sea
17. A retelling of a classic or fairytale –
18. Read a book before the movie comes out – Ready Player One
19. A cover buy book from 2017 –
20. Book under 150 pages – Tales of Beedle the Bard
21. Book with illustrations – Quidditch Through the Ages
22. Genre you don’t usually read –
23. Don’t judge a book by its cover (a book you don’t like the cover) –
24. Read a book that won a 2017 Goodreads award – Little Fires Everywhere
25. A book made into a movie you’ve already seen – The Hobbit
26. A book that starts with your first initial –
27. A book with 4+ stars on Goodreads – Beneath the Sugar Sky
28. A title that starts with a verb – Sleeping Giants
29. One word title – Matilda
30. A book with a mystery you can solve before the end –
31. A celebrity autobiography –
32. A book with multiple point of views – Salt to the Sea
33. A book with a dress on the cover – A Court of Frost and Stralight
34. A sequel to a series you started in 2017 – City of Fallen Angels
35. A book with an unreliable narrator –
36. Dystopian – The Divinity Bureau
37. A book from Shelflove Crate’s most anticipated picks – Sky in the Deep
38. Set outside of this world –
39. A book with a flower on the cover – Take Your Medicine
40. A book with a male narrator – Strange the Dreamer
41. A book with a yellow cover – Pride and Prejudice
42. A book with an epic romance –
43. A friend of family member recommends – The Fellowship of the Ring
44. The final book in a series – Hero at the Fall
45. Translated from a language other than your own – Anna Karenina
46. A character with extraordinary abilities – November Rain
47. An L/G/B/T/Q main character – Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda
48. A book that inspired a bookish candle – The Cruel Prince
49. A book with pirates – A Darker Shade of Magic
50. A 2018 Shelflove Crate book of the month –

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2018 Mount TBR Reading Challenge

Host: My Reader’s Block
Goal: Mt. Vancouver – Read 36 books from your TBR pile/s
Progress: 
1 January 2018 — 31 December 2018

1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
2. The Magician’s Nephew
3. Little Fires Everywhere
4. Matilda
5. Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 2
6. Cracked Up To Be
7. Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda
8. It Ends With Us
9. The Female of the Species
10. Lord of the Flies
11. Prince of the Elves (Amulet #5)
12. Firelight (Amulet #7)
13. Escape from Lucien (Amulet #6)
14. Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 2
15. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Hogwarts Library)
16. Ready Player One
17. Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer #1)
18. Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices #1)
19. The Outsiders
20. Tales of Beedle the Bard (Hogwarts Library)
21. Anna Karenina
22. By Your Side
23. The Hobbit
24. Quidditch Through the Ages (Hogwarts Library)
25. City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments #4)
26. Salt to the Sea
27. Dracula
28. Clockwork Prince
29. The Raven Boys
30. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
31. City of Lost Souls
32. The Dream Thieves
33. Sleeping Giants
34. Illuminae
35. A Darker Shade of Magic
36. Anne of the Green Gables
37. Blue Lily, Lily Blue

2017 Challenges

Goodreads Reading Challenge

I really like this one. Mainly because I like to see all my reads and the percentage bar feeling in… But also because I post my reviews on Goodreads.

*CHANGED FROM 65 TO 100 BOOKS*  – COMPLETED-

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2017 Mount TBR Reading Challenge

Host: My Reader’s Block
Goal: Mount Blanc – Read 24 books from your TBR pile/s
Progress: 19/24  FAILED
1 January 2017 — 31 December 2017

1. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
2. Truthwitch
3. Windwitch
4. Rebel of the Sands
5. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
6. City of Bones
7. City of Ashes
8. The Hidden Oracle
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses
10. A Court of Mist and Fury
11. City of Glass
12. The Hidden Oracle
13. Fangirl
14. The Fault in Our Stars
15. Death Note, Vol.1: Boredom & Vol.2: (Death Note #1)
16. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
17. The Martian by Andy Weir
18. Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 1 (Sailor Moon #1)
19. O, Tempora! O, Mores! – poem by Edgar Allan Poe

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Contemporary Romance Reading Challenge 2017

Host: Andi’s ABCs
Goal: 3rd Base- 11-15 Books
Progress: 27/15 COMPLETED
1 January 2017 — 31 December 2017

1. Just the Two of Us
2. Happily Ever After
3. Everything, Everything
4. Things I Should Have Known
5. But Then I Came Back
6. Definitions of Indefinable Things
7. The One Memory of Flora Banks
8. How to Make a Wish
9. Countless
10. The Upside of Unrequited
11. Words in Deep Blue
12. The Hate U Give
13. Noteworthy
14. History is All You Left Me
15. What to Say Next
16. Paintbrush
17. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
18. P.S. I Still Love You
19. Always and Forever, Lara Jean
20. Fangirl
21. Young Jane Young
22. Eliza and Her Monsters
23. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
24. When Dimple Met Rishi
25. Queens of Geek
26. The Fault in Our Stars
27. Juniper Lemon’s Happiness Index

1. Things We Have in Common
2. The Lost Children
3. Everything, Everything
4. Things I Should Have Known
5. Definitions of Indefinable Things
6. The One Memory of Flora Banks
7. Room Empty
8. How to Make a Wish
9. Countless
10. Bad Little Girl
11. The Hate U Give
12. History is All You Left Me
13. Words on Bathroom Walls
14. City of Saints & Thieves
15. What to Say Next
16. The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue
17. Eliza and Her Monsters
18. Saint Death
19. Odd & True
20. When Dimple Met Rishi
21. Daughter of the Burning City
22. Manipulated Lives
23. Warcross
24. Dear Martin
25. A Silent Voice manga
26. Queens of Geek
27. The Fault in Our Stars
28. My Sweet Friend

Monthly Mini-Challenges

Progress: 10/11 FAILED

*started this challenge in the middle to end of June, so I was just lucky I had read books that fit in the categories… But I did miss May, so I read it in July and because of that, I am counting it in.

• January– diverse folklore/mythology – The Bear and the Nightingale ✅
• February– POC Main Character / Biracial / Multiracial – Rebel of the Sands ✅
• March– main characters with a disability – The One Memory of Flora Banks ✅
• April– mental health –  Countless & Room Empty ✅
• May– religious diversity – And I Darken* ✅
• June & July– sexuality and gender identity – Noteworthy ✅
• August– non-Western setting – Saint Death ✅
• September– #ownvoices – When Dimple Met Rishi and Dear Martin ✅
• October– Intersectionality – Queens of Geek ✅
• November– diverse retellings – X
• December– 2017 Releases – My Sweet Friend ✅

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2017 Netgalley & Edelweiss Reading Challenge

Host: Bookish Things and More
Goal: Silver – 25 Books
Progress: 48/25 COMPLETED
1 January 2017 — 31 December 2017

1. Disney Graphic Novels #4: Great Parodies: Mickey’s Inferno
2. The Bear and the Nightingale
3. Just the Two of Us
4. Moranifesto
5. The Fearless Traveler’s Guide to Wicked Places
6. The Pain Eater
7. Things We Have in Common
8. 100% Real (cookbook)
9. The Gift
10. The Lost Children
11. Things I Should Have Known
12. But Then I Came Back
13. Definitions of Indefinable Things
14. The One Memory of Flora Banks
15. Room Empty
16. How to Make a Wish
17. Countless
18. One of Us is Lying
19. Bad Little Girl
20. Words in Deep Blue
21. Noteworthy
22. When We Danced at the End of the Pier
23. Words on Bathroom Walls
24. The Disappearances
25. City of Saints & Thieves
26. Hello, Sunshine
27. What to Say Next
28. Paintbrush
29. Random Illustrated Facts: A Collection of Curious, Weird, and Totally Not Boring Things to Know
30. Emma in the Night
31. Young Jane Young
32. Moonrise
33. Odd & True
34. When I Cast Your Shadow
35. Nyxia
36. The Little Red Wolf
37. A Short History of the Girl Next Door
38.  First We Were IV
39. Dear Martin
40. Manga Classics: The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe 
41. Girl in the Tower
42. Manga Classics: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
43. The Girl in the Tower
44. Manga Classics – The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
45. Beasts Made of Night
46. Sing, Unburied, Sing
47. Manga Classics – Jane Eyre
48. Juniper Lemon’s Happiness Index

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YA SUMMER READS BINGO – 2017

Host: Kyra’s Library
Goal: Do as many Bingos as possible
Progress: COMPLETED
1 June 2017 — 31 August 2017 

• Book with Yellow Cover – City of Saints & Thieves ✅
• A Contemporary Read – To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before ✅
• A Book by a Female Author – Hello, Sunshine ✅
• A Book Genre That You Don’t Normally Read – Random Illustrated Facts ✅
• A Book Set In a Foreign Country – Fangirl ✅
• The First Book in a Series – This Savage Song ✅
• Re-read of an Old Favorite – The Secret Garden ✅
• A Finale of a Book Series – Always and Forever, Lara Jean ✅
• A Book That Was Turned Into a Movie – The Perks of Being a Wallflower ✅
• A Book With A One-Word Title – Paintbrush ✅
• A Fantasy Read – Every Heart a Doorway ✅
• A Book Published This Summer – The Disappearances ✅
• A Book With a Strong Female Heroine – Now I Rise ✅
• A Book With Flowers on the Cover – And I Darken ✅
• A Book That Takes Place in Summer – The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue ✅
• A Science Fiction Read – Outlander ✅
• A Book Set in a Fictional World – Shadow and Bone ✅
• A Standalone – Words on Bathroom Walls ✅
• A Graphic Novel – Wires & Nerve #1 ✅
• A Book With a LGBTQ+ Character – History is All You Left Me ✅
• A Book from A Debut Author – The Hate U Give  ✅
• A Historical Fiction Read – When We Danced at the End of the Pier ✅
• A Book With A Diverse Main Character – What To Say Next ✅
• A Book About Fandom –  Eliza and Her Monsters ✅

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Summer 2017 Bookish Bingo

Host: Pretty Deadly Reviews
Goal: Do as many Bingos as possible
Progress: COMPLETED
1 June 2017 — 31 August 2017

• Ace Rep (Asexual Representation) – Every Heart a Doorway ✅
• Over 5 Years Old – Outlander ✅
• Thriller – City of Saints & Thieves ✅
• Red Cover – This Savage Song ✅
• Latinx MC – Saint Death ✅
• A Book About Fandom – Eliza and Her Monsters ✅
• Sci-fi – Wires and Nerve  #1 ✅
• LGBT+ – History is All You Left Me ✅
• Summer Release – What To Say Next ✅
• White Cover – Noteworthy ✅
• Family Drama – Paintbrush ✅
• Blue Cover – Moonrise ✅
• On Your TBR Forever – To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before ✅
• Revolution and Rebellion – Our Dark Duet ✅
• A Sequel – P.S I Still Love You ✅
• Name in the Title – Young Jane Young ✅
• Royalty – Shadow and Bone ✅
• A Book With a Map – Now I Rise ✅
• Author From Another Continent – The Hate U Give ✅
• Flowers on the Cover – And I Darken ✅
• Travel – The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue ✅
• Outside Your Comfort Zone – Milk & Honey ✅
• Romance – Fangirl ✅
• Award Winner – The Secret Garden ✅

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Flights of Fantasy Reading Challenge

Host: Alexa Loves Books & Hello, Chelly
Goal: 30 Books and some of the hoster’s favorites!
Progress: 31/30 COMPLETED
1 January 2017 — 31 December 2017

1. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
2. Truthwitch
3. Windwitch
4. The Bear and the Nightingale
5. Rebel of the Sands
6. Traitor to the Throne
7. Wintersong
8. The Fearless Traveler’s Guide to Wicked Places
9. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Parts One and Two
10. City of Bones
11. City of Ashes
12. The Hidden Oracle
13. A Court of Thorns and Roses
14. A Court of Mist and Fury
15. City of Glass
16. A Court of Wings and Ruin
17. The Dark Prophecy
18. This Savage Song
19. Shadow and Bone
20. Our Dark Duet
21. And I Darken
22. Every Heart a Doorway
23. Down Among Sticks and Bones
24. Now I Rise
25. Girls Made of Snow and Glass
26. The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding
27. Daughter of the Burning City
28. Wonder Woman: Warbringer
29. The Girl in the Tower
30. A Skinful of Shadows
31. Beasts Made of Night

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#GetGraphic Readathon

Host: #GetGraphic
Goal:  all the 5 books
Progress: 6/5 COMPLETED
6 October 2017 — 8 October 2017

• A new-to-you series – Bunny Drop #1 ✅
• Two installments from the same series – A Silent Voice #2 and A Silent Voice #3✅
• Read a work over 300 pages – Manga Classics: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ✅
• Read black & white art – A Silent Voice #4 ✅
• A recommendation by a friend – Monstress Volume 1: Awakening ✅
• Read five things – ✅

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Spookathon

Host: BooksandLala, Bookerly and Paige’s Pages
Goal:  Do the 5 challenges + the buddy-read
Progress: 6/6 COMPLETED
16 October 2017 — 22 October 2017

Spookathon challenges:

1. read a thriller – A Stranger in the House ✅
2. read a book with a spooky word in the title –  Slasher Girls & Monster Boys ✅
3. read a book based on a childhood fear –  A Skinful of Shadows ✅
4. read a book with orange on the cover –  A Skinful of Shadows ✅
5. read a book that has a spooky setting – We Have Always Lived in the Castle ✅
6. read-along book – A Stranger in the House ✅

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Personal Goals

• Read a book from Rory Gilmore Challenge (at least) every two months FAILED

I already had this challenge last year but I started almost in the end and I didn’t have time to do much. This year I will continue and for sure I will read a lot more than last year!

2016 Challenges

Goodreads Reading Challenge

Personal Goals

• Some books on Rory Gilmore Challenge – (read 3)