Over the summer of 2016 I discovered booktube. Specifically HaylesNYhearts (or now Hailey in Bookland) and I re-discovered Goodreads and thus re-discovered my want to read more books. I found the goodreads challenge, which is just a challenge you set for yourself for how many books you intend or want to read for the year. Since I hadn't discovered it since summer I decided to not keep myself expectations high and decided 20 books in six months. Well I was able to do 24 books in that time, so I figure if I double that, I should be able to do 50 in 2017.
But there's another challenge in a Goodreads group called: Around the Year in 52 Books. I kind of did this challenge in 2016 but I'm going about it a little differently in 2017. What this challenge is is a themed challenge each week in 2017 (list will be below) So week one is a book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016, week two is a book with at least 2 perspectives.
You can find the group here around the year in 52 books
They have forums to discuss book ideas for different themes, progress forums as well as planning forums on how to talk this challenge. You don't have to read the themes in order, however they do keep track of what week we're on at the top of the group. I personally can't go in order, I like the freedom of being able to choose whatever book I feel, and figuring out what theme it matches later on. Last year I copy and pasted the challenges to a word document and pasted book covers in my Goodreads tbr to the document. This didn't help at all either. A lot of books on my Goodreads tbr I don't own copies of, and when I do go to book stores I tend to buy what catches my eye as opposed to what I know I want to read. When I shop online I tend to buy books I know are on my tbr, unfortunately (or fortunately) I don't buy online too often as I enjoy going into a books store and exploring new things and helping out my local businesses (the book store I tend to go to is an independent local book store that can be a little pricey but my area doesn't have a Barnes and Noble... and I can't say I'm a fan of used books)
So here's this list of the challenges. Challenge yourself and see if you can accomplish it!
The 2017 List
1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016
2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view)
3. A book you meant to read in 2016
4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E"
5. A historical fiction
6. A book being released as a movie in 2017
7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title
8. A book written by a person of color
9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list
10. A dual-timeline novel
11. A category from another challenge
12. A book based on a myth
13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors
14. A book with a strong female character
15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland)
16. A mystery
17. A book with illustrations
18. A really long book (600+ pages)
19. A New York Times best-seller
20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading
21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read
22. A book by an author you haven't read before
23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list
24. A book written by at least two authors
25. A book about a famous historical figure
26. An adventure book
27. A book by one of your favorite authors
28. A non-fiction
29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - check all the editions
30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books
31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre
32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle)
33. A magical realism novel
34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere
35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty
36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee
37. A book you choose randomly
38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature
39. An epistolary fiction
40. A book published in 2017
41. A book with an unreliable narrator
42. A best book of the 21st century (so far)
43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold)
44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next"
45. A book with a one-word title
46. A time travel novel
47. A past suggestion that didn't win
48. A banned book
49. A book from someone else's bookshelf
50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition
51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays)
52. A book set in a fictional location
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