2023 Reading Challenges

Posted December 5, 2022 / Book Challenges, Features / 0 Comments

It’s time for the annual challenge sign-up! I decided to switch things up a little bit this year and try a few new challenges, in addition to a tried-and-true favorite.


The 52 Book Club's 2022 Reading Challenge

The 52 Club focuses on reading 52 books in a year, aka one book a week. I feel like (at this point in my life) that could be a more realistic goal for me but I refuse to dip lower than 75 books for my goal. I still thought this would be a fun Popsugar-esque reading challenge for the year! I really like most of the prompts.
I hope to read all of the books, as always, but I think a more realistic number is 40. I try to read 40 of the 50 Popsugar prompts per year so let’s assume the same for these.

Here are all of the prompts for this year’s challenge:


Mystery/Thriller Storygraph Challenge


I usually do the Calendar of Crime Challenge but am feeling a little bored of that particular format. Still highly recommend for other mystery/thriller readers if they haven’t tried it before! I recently started using Storygraph in addition to Goodreads and decided to partake in a couple of challenges that are listed there. It seems really easy and fun to join them, so why not?! The first is the Mystery/Thriller Challenge.
I definitely think I can get to all of these books. Much like Calendar of Crime, I read at least one (or many) mystery/thriller types of books each month. I can guarantee that I’ll be able to complete 26 within the genre! The biggest question will be if I can make sure to hit all of the prompts… they’re fairly easy so hopefully!

Here are all of the prompts for this year’s challenge – all of them need to be in the mystery, crime, thriller, etc. genre overall:

Popular author never read
Bestselling book
New-to-you author
Favorite author
First in a series
With bad reviews
Highly rated
Paranormal
Historical
Novella
Over 400 pages
Surprising ending
Domestic thriller
Female villain
Involves travel
Set in different country
Season important to plot
Seen on Booktok/IG
Cult following
Dual timeline
Should be movie/show
Out of comfort zone
True crime podcast
Author not from US/CAN/UK/AUS
Horror
Plant on the cover


I attempted Romanceolopy once before and definitely failed. I thought it would be fun to give it a go and really commit to it this year! I mean I pretty much only read contemporary fiction and mystery/thrillers at this point, so I should really expand my horizons WITHIN one of those genres at least…

This challenge basically utilizes a romance-themed game board that you roll the dice and move around. When you land on a prompt, it’s your next book to read! You can go the easier route and read a book within the general subgenre it lands on OR you can do the full-blown prompt to make it a little more specific.
I hope to just have fun with this one – I don’t think I’ll end up clearing the board or anything. I’d like to roll my dice at least once a month and include a book on my monthly TBR that meets the prompt/space on the board. I can guarantee 12 books per year that way. Ideally, I would keep rolling and see if I can make more work as I go!

You can better see all the prompts here in the Storygraph challenge tracker, but here’s a picture of the game board.


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And finally, the tried-and-true for this year: Popsugar. I always do this one! I usually run out of steam 2/3 of the way through the year as the remaining prompts get a little harder but it’s fine. I still enjoy seeing how much I can accomplish and how far I can go out of my comfort zone.

As usual for this one: 40/50 prompts would be my minimum goal! I usually can achieve around that amount without trying too hard or adding books I wouldn’t normally read to my TBR.

I won’t include the big list of prompts here because they only have a PDF version, but you can check out their website at the link above! There are a lot of repeats and familiar prompts, which I’m okay with, but the challenge is a little easier this year as a result.

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