Category: Reading Challenges

From the 52 Book Club. This is my personal tracking page. They’re also on Facebook, Goodreads, and Instagram for discussions about the prompts and good books in general.

1. Pun in the title
2. Character with red hair
3. Title starts with an M
4. Title starts with an N
5. Plot includes a heist
6. Set in Spring
7. Set in Summer
8. Set in Autumn
9. Set in Winter
10. Author’s last name is also a first name
11. A prequel	Compulsory – Martha Wells
12. Has a moon on the cover
13. Title is 10 letters or less	Compulsory – Martha Wells
14. Climate fiction
15. Includes Latin American history
16. Author has won an Edgar Award
17. Told in verse
18. Character who can fly
19. Has short chapters	Artificial Condition – Martha Wells
20. Fairy tale retelling
21. Character’s name in the title
22. Found family
23. A sprayed edge
24. Title is a spoiler
25. Breaks the fourth wall
26. More than a million copies sold	Artificial Condition – Martha Wells
27. Features a magician
28. A crossover (set in a shared universe)
29. Shares a universe with prompt 28
30. In the public domain
31. Audiobook has multiple narrators
32. Includes a diary entry	The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides
33. A standalone novel
34. Direction in the title
35. Written in the third person
36. Final sentence is less than 6 words
37. Genre chosen for you by someone else
38. An adventure
39. Has an epigraph
40. Stream of consciousness narrative	Artificial Condition – Martha Wells
41. Cover font is in a primary color	Compulsory – Martha Wells
42. Non-human antagonist
43. Explores social class
44. A celebrity on the cover
45. Author releases more than 1 book per year
46. Read in a “-ber” month
47. “I think it was blue”	Here One Moment – Liane Moriarty
48. Related to the word Puzzle
49. Set in a country with an active volcano
50. Set in the 1940s
51. 300-400 pages long	The Silent Patient = Alex Michaelides Remarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt
52. Published in 2025

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This one’s from Escape with Dollycas. This is my personal tracking page. The goal is to read a book that starts with each letter of the alphabet before the end of the year. For Q, X, and Z, the letters can be anywhere in the title.

A –	Artificial Condition – Martha Wells
B –	Burning Water – Mercedes Lackey
C –	Compulsory – Martha Wells
D –
E –
F –
G –
H –	Here One Moment – Liane Moriarty
I –
J –
K –
L –
M –
N –
O –
P –
Q* –
R –	Remarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt
S –	the Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides
T –
U –
V –
W –
X* –
Y –
Z* –

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This challenge is to read more than a dozen books that have 500 or more pages. I don’t know where I found the original challenge, but I’ve been doing it for several years now.

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Books that are over 400 pages and under 500 pages

1. Here One Moment – Liane Moriarty (480)
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This one’s from StoryGraph. This is my personal tracking page. The goal is to read a book that the author’s name starts with each letter of the alphabet before the end of the year. For Q, X, and Z, the letters can be anywhere in the name.

A –
B –
C –
D –
E –
F –
G –
H –
I –
J –
K –
L –	Lackey, Mercedes – Burning Water
M –	Moriarty, Liane – Here One Moment Michaelides, Alex – The Silent Patient
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O –
P –
Q* –
R –
S –
T –
U –
V –	Van Pelt, Shelby – Remarkably Bright Creatures
W –	Wells, Martha – Compulsory; Artificial Condition
X* –
Y –
Z* –

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