books i've read february 2025

 2.1.25

• Little Naturalists: George Washington Carver Loved Plants by Kate Coombs & Seth Lucas (YNF)
• Little Poet Edgar Allan Poe: Nevermore! by Kate Coombs & Carme Lemniscates (PB)
• Little Naturalists: The Adventures of John Muir by Kate Coombs & Seth Lucas (YNF)
• Little Naturalists: Henry David Thoreau in the Woods by Kate Coombs & Seth Lucas (YNF)
• I Feel Brave by DK Publishing (YNF)
• I Feel Proud by DK Publishing (YNF)
• How Do I Feel?: A Little Guide to My Emotions by DK Publishing (YNF)
• My Own Way: Celebrating Gender Freedom for Kids by Joana Estrela & Jay Hulme (PB)
• Basquiat Colors by Mudpuppy (YNF)
• The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djeli Clark (A)

2.2.25

• Frank and the Bad Surprise by Martha Brockenbrough & Jon Lau (Y)
• Yummers! by James Marshall (PB)
• Willis by James Marshall (PB)
• Edwina the Emu by Sheena Knowles & Rod Clement (PB)
• Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles & Rod Clement (PB)
• Idol Dreams #1 by Arina Tonemura (M)
• Ao Haru Ride #9 by Io Sakisaka (M)
• Ao Haru Ride #10 by Io Sakisaka (M)

2.3.25

• The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones (YA)
• Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies by Misha Popp (A)

2.5.25

• A Good Day to Pie by Misha Popp (A)

2.6.25

• The Serpent's Shadow by Mercedes Lackey (A)

2.7.25

• The Last to Pie by Misha Popp (A)
• Maisy Goes to a Show by Lucy Cousins (PB)
• We're Having a Party (for Everyone!) by Katie Vernon (PB)

2.8.25

• Dr. KittyCat: Clover the Bunny by Jane Clarke (Y)
• Little Rat Makes Music by Monika Bang-Campbell & Molly Bang (Y)
• Little Rat Rides by Monika Bang-Campbell & Molly Bang (Y)
• Bunjitsu Bunny Vs. Bunjitsu Bunny by John Himmelman (Y)
• Noise at Night by Beth Raisner Glass, Susan Lubner, & Bruce Whatley (PB)
• Nina in That Makes Me Mad! by Hilary Knight & Steven Kroll (GN)
• Silly Lilly in What Will I Be Today? by Agnes Rosentiehl (GN)
• Written and Drawn by Henrietta by Liniers (GN)
• Jack and the Box by Art Spiegelman (GN)
• Little Hare Finds a Gift by Oleksandr Shatokhin (PB)
• Anonymoose by Shawna J.C. Tenney (PB)
• One Wild Christmas by Nicholas Oldland (PB)
• Slow Down...in the Park by Rachel Williams & Freya Hartas (YNF)
• The Serpent's Shadow: The Graphic Novel by Rick Riordan & Orpheus Collar (GN)
• The Past Is Red by Catherynne M. Valente (A)

2.9.25

• Knight of the Ice #1 by Yayoi Ogawa (M)
• Ao Haru Ride #11 by Io Sakisaka (M)
• Dalmartian: A Mars Rover's Story by Lucy Ruth Cummins (PB)
• Portly McSwine by James Marshall (PB)
• Wings: A Tale of Two Chickens by James Marshall (PB)
• Isty-Bitsy Baby Mouse by Michelle Meadows & Matthew Cordell (PB)
• Asiago by Adam McHeffey (PB)
• Every Wrinkle Has a Story by David Grossman & Ninamasina (PB)
• Bold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote by Kirsten Gillbrand & Maira Kalman (YNF)
• Foxtrot by Becka Moor (PB)
• A Match Made for Thanksgiving by Jackie Lau (A)
• A Fake Girlfriend for Chinese New Year by Jackie Lau (A)
• Kitten Construction Company: Meet the House Kittens by John Patrick Green (GN)

2.10.25

• The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong (A)

2.11.25

• The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang (A)

2.13.25

• Running Mate by Leah Brunner (A)
• A Condition Called Love #3 by Megumi Morino (M)

2.14.25

• A Condition Called Love #4 by Megumi Morino (M)

2.15.25

• Neither: A Story About Being Who You Are by Airlie Anderson (PB)
• F*ck That: An Honest Meditation by Jason Headley (ANF)
• Disappointing Affirmations: Unfollow Your Dreams! by Dave Tarnowski (ANF)
• Unlimited Squirrels: The FRUSTRATING Book! by Mo Willems (PB)
• Unlimited Squirrels: Guess What!? by Mo Willems (PB)
• My Afro Is a Rising Sun by Yaram Yahu & Deann Wiley (PB)
• Feelings Are Better with Friends by Micol Ostow & Keiron Ward (PB)
• Lefty: A Story That Is Not All Right by Dan Santat & Mo Willems (PB)
• Star Wars: Someone Who Loves You by Beth Revis & Sophie Li (PB)
• Rory the Remarkable Dragon by Kathryn Rammell (PB)
• Don't Think of Tigers by Alex Latimer (PB)
• Clive Penguin by Huw Lewis Jones & Ben Sanders (PB)
• Barnaby Unboxed! by Terry Fan, Eric Fan, & Devin Fan (PB)
• Fox, Fox, and More Fox: Three Stories by Corey R. Tabor (PB)
• The Hare Who Wouldn't Share by Steve Small (PB)
• Parachutes by Kelly Yang (YA)
• The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe (YA)
• A Condition Called Love #5 by Megumi Morino (M)

2.16.25

• I Am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story by Martha Brockenbrough, Grace Lin, & Julia Kuo (YNF)
• A Friend for Eddy by Ann Kim Ha (PB)
• When Digz the Dog Met Zurl the Squirrel: A Short Tale About a Short Tail by Chris Pine & Chuck Groenink (PB)
• To See an Owl by Matthew Cordell (PB)
• So Cold! by John Coy & Chris Park (PB)
• The World Needs the Wonder You See by Joanna Gaines & Julianna Swaney (PB)
• Chloe and Maude: 3 Stories About Two Best Friends by Sandra Boynton (PB)
• Lonely Bird's Dream by Ruth Whiting (PB)
• The Man Who Didn't Like Animals by Deborah Underwood & LeUyen Pham (PB)
• Mousetronaut Saves the World: Based on a (Partially) True Story by Mark Kelly & C.F. Payne (PB)
• Pockets of Love by Yamile Saied Mendez & Sara Palacios (PB)
• Pizza for Birds by Bob Shea (PB)
• Saint Spotting: Or How to Read a Church by Chris Raschka (YNF)
• Monsters!: & Other Stories by Gustavo Duarte (GN)
• Free Shit by Charles Burns (ANF)
• Not THIS Bear! by Bernice Myers (PB)
• Big Kicks by Bob Kolar (PB)
• Kitten Construction Company: A Bridge Too Fur by John Patrick Green (GN)
• The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up: A Magical Story by Marie Kondo & Yuko Uramoto (M)
• Maisy Goes to a Wedding by Lucy Cousins (PB)
• Wade's Wiggly Antlers by Louise Bradford & Christine Battuz (PB)
• The Twelve Days of Winter: A School Counting Book by Deborah Lee Rose & Carey F. Armstrong-Ellis (PB)
• The Big Christmas Bake by Fiona Barker & Pippa Curnick (PB)
• Good Night, Planet by Liniers (GN)
• The Big Wet Balloon by Liniers (GN)
• Winter Lullaby by Dianne White & Ramona Kaulitzki (PB)
• The Winter Bird by Kate Banks & Suzie Mason (PB)

2.17.25

• Rabbit & Bear: The Pest in the Nest by Julian Gough & Jim Field (Y)
• Robot Dreams by Sara Varon (GN)
• Ao Haru Ride #12 by Io Sakisaka (M)
• The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner (A)
• Ao Haru Ride #13 by Io Sakisaka (M)
• Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly: Shadow Hills by Jordan Quinn & Ornella Greco (GN)
• Bunjitsu Bunny Jumps to the Moon by John Himmelman (Y)

2.21.25

• Summers at the Saint by Mary Kay Andrews (A)
• Katie the Catsitter: The Purrfect Plan by Colleen AF Venable & Stephanie Yue (GN)

2.22.25

• The Long Game by Elena Armas (A)
• My Best Friends Are Balls by Jen Jenivive (PB)
• Unicorn Time Machine by Dana Simpson (GN)
• Girlmode by Magdalene Visaggio & Paulina Ganucheau (GN)

2.23.25

• The Ace and Aro Relationship Guide by Cody Daigle-Orians (ANF)
• When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll (GN)
• The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag (GN)
• Lumberjanes: True Colors by Lilah Sturges & Polterink (GN)

2.24.25

• Charming as a Verb by Ben Philippe (YA)
• Patina by Jason Reynolds (Y)
• The Avant-Guards: Down to the Wire by Carly Usdin, Noah Hayes, Lea Caballero, & Eleonora Bruni (GN)
• Iggy Peck and the Mysterious Mansion by Andrea Beaty & David Roberts (Y)

2.25.25

• Sunny by Jason Reynolds (Y)

2.28.25

• Sofia Valdez and the Vanishing Vote by Andrea Beaty & David Roberts (Y)

02.25 total: 126

11 youth nonfiction; 52 picture books; 14 adult fiction; 11 youth fiction; 11 manga; 4 young adult fiction; 19 graphic novels; 4 adult nonfiction

books i've read january 2025

 1.1.25

• Komi Can't Communicate #29 by Tomohito Oda (M)
• Classmates #4: Sora & Hara by Asumiko Nakamura (M)
• Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery by Deborah Howe & James Howe (Y)
• Super Fake Love Song by David Yoon (YA)

1.2.25

• I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home by Jami Attenberg (ANF)
• Open Throat by Henry Hoke (A)

1.3.25

• I Hear You, Ocean by Kallie George & Carmen Mok (PB)
• I Hear You, Mountains by Kallie George & Carmen Mok (PB)
• The Class with Wings by Paul Fleischman & Hannah Salyer (YNF)
• Gertie: The Darling Duck of WWII by Shari Swanson & Renee Graef (YNF)
• Tumblebaby by Adam Rex & Audrey Helen Weber (PB)
• Insect Detective by Steve Voake & Charlotte Voake (YNF)
• The Totally Not Boring Book of Feelings by Jolie Taylor & Brandon Dorman (Y)
• This Is My Brain!: A Book on Neurodiversity by Elise Gravel (YNF)
• Komi Can't Communicate #30 by Tomohito Oda (M)
• A Condition Called Love #1 by Megumi Morino (M)

1.4.25

• Hold Hands by Sara Varon (PB)
• It's Really Cold Outside! by Harriet Ziefert (PB)
• Fall Parade by Camelia Kay & Allyn Howard (PB)
• The Ogre Who Wasn't by Michael Morpurgo & Emily Gravett (PB)
• Mama's Magnificent Dancing Plantitas by Jesus Trejo & Eliza Kinkz (PB)
• Rumie Goes Rafting by Meghan Marentette (PB)
• Just One Girl: A Fight for Equal Rights by Trinka Hakes Noble & Amanda Calatzis (PB)
• Mooncakes Mean Family by Benson Shum (PB)
• A Rose, a Bridge, and a Wild Black Horse by Charlotte Zolotow, Crescent Dragonwagon, & Julie Morstad (PB)
• Mixed-Up Mooncakes by Christina Matula, Erica Lyons, & Tracy Subisak (PB)
• Alpacas Make Terrible Librarians!! by Kristi Mahoney, Chantalle Thorne, & Burgen Thorne (PB)
• Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (A)
• Brownstone by Samuel Teer & Mar Julia (GN)
• Classmates #5: O.B. Occupation to Beloved by Asumiko Nakamura (M)
• Twinkle Stars Volume 1 by Natsuki Takaya (M)

1.5.25

• Leia: Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray (YA)
• Conventionally Yours by Annabeth Albert (A)

1.6.25

• Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan (Y)
• The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho (A)

1.7.25

• Twinkle Stars Volume 2 by Natsuki Takaya (M)

1.9.25

• Love, Lies & Hocus Pocus: Beginnings by Lydia Sherrer (A)
• Sponge at Heart: How to Live a Bikini Bottom Life by Melissa Wygard (A)

1.11.25

• This Will Be Fun by E.B. Asher (A)

1.12.25

• Jasper & Joop by Olivier Dunrea (PB)
• Flip the Script by Lyla Lee (YA)

1.13.25

• Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee (YA)
• Pick a Pine Tree by Patricia Toht & Jarvis (PB)
• The Woofmore Is Not Haunted by Donna Gephart, Lori Haskins Houran, & Josh Cleland (Y)
• A Day with Mousse by Clair Lebourg (Y)
• Lore Olympus Volume Seven by Rachel Smythe (GN)
• What You Are Looking for Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama (A)
• The Red Pyramid: The Graphic Novel by Rick Riordan & Orpheus Collar (GN)
• Hospital Heroes Save the Day! by R.W. Alley (YNF)
• McToad Mows Tiny Island by Tom Angleberger & John Hendrix (PB)
• The North Star by Peter H. Reynolds (PB)
• Miss Leoparda by Natalia Shaloshvili (PB)
• Little and Big by Anne Gutman & Georg Hallensleben (PB)

1.14.25

• Rumple Buttercup: A Story of Bananas, Belonging, and Being Yourself by Matthew Gray Gubler (Y)
• The Baby Firebird by Paula Harrison (Y)
• The Nine Lives of Aristotle by Dick King-Smith & Bob Graham (Y)

1.15.25

• Lady Eve's Last Con by Rebecca Fraimow (A)
• Princess Pulverizer: The Dragon's Tale by Nancy Krulik & Justin Rodrigues (Y)

1.17.25

• Lone Wolf Gets a Pet by Kiah Thomas & K-Fai Steele (Y)

1.18.25

• Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters by Andrea Beaty & David Roberts (Y)
• Montezuma's Tantrum by Nuria Gomez Benet & Santiago Solis (PB)
• The Boy and the Elephant by Freya Blackwood (PB)
• Perfect by Waka T. Brown & Yuko Jones (PB)
• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, Georghia Ellinas, & Jane Ray (PB)
• Gray by Laura Dockrill & Lauren Child (PB)
• Ups and Downs: A Book of Emotions by Mike Wohnoutka (PB)
• Plumber Pearl! by Andrea Zimmerman & Dan Yaccarino (PB)
• Walter Finds His Voice: The Story of a Shy Crocodile by Ann Kim Ha (PB)
• Sometimes: A Day Full of Feelings by Stephanie Stansbie & Elisa Paganelli (PB)
• Abuela's Library by Lissette Norman & Jayri Gomez (PB)
• It's Fall! by Renee Kurilla (PB)
• A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Fletcher (A)
• Bert the Bowerbird by Julia Donaldson & Catherine Rayner (PB)
• John the Skeleton by Triinu Laan & Marja-Liisa Plats (Y)
• Sweaterweather & Other Short Stories by Sara Varon (GN)

1.19.25

• The Star Wolf by Paula Harrison (Y)
• Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire (A)

1.20.25

• Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes (A)
• Fighting Words by Leonarda Carranza & Erika Medina (PB)
• Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover by Markus Motum (YNF)

1.24.25

• The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith (A)

1.25.25

• A Stickler Christmas by Lane Smith (PB)
• How to Know a Crow: The Biography of a Brainy Bird by Candace Savage & Rachel Hudson (YNF)
• Safe Crossing by Kari Percival (YNF)
• Little Bear's Big House by Benjamin Chaud (PB)
• Tippy and the Night Parade by Lilli Carre (GN)

1.26.25

• Fence #6 by C.S. Pacat, Johanna the Mad, & Joana Lafuente (C)
• Too Many Moose! by Lisa M. Bakos & Mark Chambers (PB)
• Bear and Bird: The Adventure and Other Stories by Jarvis (Y)
• You Love Me by Caroline Kepnes (A)
• Karakuri Odette #1 by Julietta Suzuki (M)

1.27.25

• Can't Spell Treason without Tea by Rebecca Thorne (A)

1.29.25

• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (A)

1.30.25

• Dog's First Baby by Natalie Nelson (PB)
• Cat's First Baby by Natalie Nelson (PB)
• Dog's First Christmas by Natalie Nelson (PB)
• Spy X Family #12 by Tatsuya Endo (M)
• Komi Can't Communicate #31 by Tomohito Oda (M)
• Bungo Stray Dogs #2 by Kafka Asagiri & Sango Harukawa (M)
• Bungo Stray Dogs #3 by Kafka Asagiri & Sango Harukawa (M)

1.31.25

• That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming (A)
• Bungo Stray Dogs #4 by Kafka Asagiri & Sango Harukawa (M)
• A Condition Called Love #2 by Megumi Morino (M)

01.25 total: 103

14 manga; 14 youth fiction; 4 young adult fiction; 1 adult nonfiction; 17 adult fiction; 39 picture books; 8 youth nonfiction; 5 graphic novels; 1 comic

2024 Reading Challenge--Book Riot Read Harder

I continued to track any book that met challenge prompts, so I have multiple books per prompt.  Some only have two because they were difficult or I didn't like them.  I did complete the challenge twice!  I was able to complete the bonus challenge of reading books with LGBTQ authors on some of the prompts, but not all.

2024 BOOK RIOT READ HARDER CHALLENGE
First time finished: 6/12/24
Second time finished: 6/8/24

Read a cozy fantasy book

• A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (bonus with LGBTQ author)
• The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
• Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club by Roselle Lim
• Dallergut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee
• The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. MacLean

Read a YA book by a trans author

• Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder edited by Saundra Mitchell
• We Are Totally Normal by Naomi Kanakia (bonus with LGBTQ author)
• I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver
• The Borrow a Boyfriend Club by Page Powars

Read a middle grade horror novel

• The Stars Do Wander Darkling by Colin Meloy
• Tunnel of Bones by Victoria Schwab
• Ghost Squad by Claribel A. Ortega
• Ophie's Ghost by Justina Ireland
• Ravenfall by Kalyn Josepson

Read a history book by a BIPOC author

• Black Archives: A Photographic Celebration of Black Life by Renata Cherlise
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi

Read a sci-fi novella

• Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Finna by Nino Cipri (bonus with LGBTQ author)
• The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

Read a middle grade book with an LGBTQIA main character

• Green by Alex Gino
• Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff (bonus with LGBTQ author)
• Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky
• Small Town Pride by Phil Stamper
• Camp QUILTBAG by Nicole Melleby & A.J. Sass

Read an indie published collection of poetry by a BIPOC or queer author

• your wound/my garden by ALOK
• Femme in Public by ALOK (bonus with LGBTQ author)

Read a book in translation from a country you've never visited

• Komi Can't Communicate #9 (Japan) by Tomohito Oda
• The Girl Who Can't Get a Girlfriend (Japan) by Mieri Hiranishi (bonus with LGBTQ author)
• Horimiya #13 (Japan) by Hero & Daisuke Hagiwara
• The Cat Who Saved Books (Japan) by Sosuke Natsukawa
• The Wolf in Underpants at Full Speed (France) by Wilfrid Lupano, Mayana Itoiz, & Paul Cauuet

Read a book recommended by a librarian

• Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era by Jason Baumann (Ed.), Kay Tobin Lahusen, & Diana Davies
• Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder edited by Saundra Mitchell
• Black Archives by Renata Cherlise
• Messy Roots by Laura Gao

Read a historical fiction book by an Indigenous author

• Murder on the Red River by Marcie R. Rendon
• If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth (bonus with LGBTQ author)

Read a picture book published in the last five years

• Cinderella--with DOGS! (2003) by Linda Bailey & Freya Hartas
• Cookie Time (2024) by Jessie Sima (bonus with LGBTQ author)
• Baller Ina (2023) by Liz Casal
• Adam and His Tuba (2022) by Ziga X Combac & Maja Kastelic
• The Littlest Yak and the New Arrival (2022) by Lu Fraser & Kate Hindley
• Rock Your Mocs (2023) by Laurel Goodluck & Madelyn Goodnight
• Eyes That Weave the World's Wonders (2024) by Joanna Ho, Liz Kleinrock, & Dung Ho
• Lucky Duck (2024) by Greg Pizzoli
• Bros (2024) by Carole Boston Weatherford & Reggie Brown

Read a genre book (SFF, horror, mystery, romance) by a disabled author

• Redsight (sci-fi) by Meredith Moore
• Show Me a Sign (historical YA fic) by Ann Clare LeZotte
• Can Bears Ski? (picture book) by Raymond Antrobus & Polly Dunbar
• Sail Me Away Home (historical YA fic) by Ann Clare LeZotte

Read a comic that has been banned

• Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
• Maus: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman

Read a book by an author with an upcoming events (virtual or in person) and then attend the event

• Three Kinds of Lucky by Kim Harrison
• Don't Label Me: How to Do Diversity Without Inflaming the Culture Wars by Irshad Manji (bonus with LGBTQ author)

Read a YA nonfiction book

• An Illustrated Guide to Ghosts by Adam Allsuch Boardman
• Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth (bonus with LGBTQ author)

Read a book based solely on the title

• War and Speech by Don Zolidis
• Devil's Chew Toy by Rob Osler (bonus with LGBTQ author)
• The Monster Mac and Cheese Party by Todd Parr
• Songs of the Fog Maiden by Tomie dePaola
• The Adventures of Sophie Mouse: Silverlake Art Show by Poppy Green & Jennifer A. Bell

Read a book about media literacy

• This Book Is Overdue! by Marilyn Johnson
• You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney
• Chicken Little and the Very Long Race by Sam Wedelich
• A Kids Book About Life Online by Dave S. Anderson & Blake Fleischacker

Read a book about drag or queer artistry

• Trixie and Katya's Guide to Modern Womanhood by Trixie Mattel & Katya
• GuRu by RuPaul (bonus with LGBTQ author)

Read a romance with neurodivergent characters

• Neanderthal Seeks Human by Penny Reid
• Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner (bonus with LGBTQ author)
• Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun
• Late Bloomer by Mazey Eddings
• Game On by Seressia Glass
• Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood

Read a book about books (fiction or nonfiction)

• The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
• Books Make Good Friends by Jane Mount
• The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead & Wendy Mass

Read a book that went under the radar in 2023

• For Girls Who Walk Through Fire by Kim DeRose
• Love in Winter Wonderland by Abiola Bello

Read a manga or manhwa

• Horimiya #12 by Hero & Daisuke Hagiwara
• The Girl Who Can't Get a Girlfriend by Mieri Hiranishi (bonus with LGBTQ author)
• Beastars #16 by Paru Itagaki
• Komi Can't Communicate #8 by Tomohito Oda
• Natsume's Book of Friends #23 by Yuki Midorikawa
• School Zone Girls #1 by Ningiyau
• Behind the Scenes!! #3 by Bisco Hatori
• Black Butler #32 by Yana Toboso

Read a howdunit or whydunit mystery

• When I Am Through with You by Stephanie Kuehn
• You by Caroline Kepnes
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Pick a challenge form any of the previous years' challenges to repeat

• Love in Winter Wonderland (set in bookstore, 2022) by Abiola Bello
• The Prospects (trans character by trans author, 2023) by KT Hoffman

2024 Reading Challenge--PopSugar

I continued to track any book that met challenge prompts, so I have multiple books per prompt.  Some only have two because they were difficult or I didn't like them.  I did complete the challenge twice!

2024 POPSUGAR READING CHALLENGE
Finished first time: 6/25/24
Finished second time: 8/25/24

A book with the word "leap" in the title

• Lucky Leap Day by Ann Marie Walker
• Once Upon a Leap Year by Anna Bell

A bildungsroman

• Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth
• If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth
• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
• Sail Me Away Home by Ann Clare LeZotte

A book about a 24-year-old

• Scott Pilgrim Vs. the Universe by Bryan Lee O'Malley
• Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O'Malley

A book about a writer/author

• Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
• Lucky Leap Day by Ann Marie Walker
• Glitterland by Alexis Hall

A book about K-pop

• Somewhere Only We Know by Maureen Goo
• Once Upon a K-Prom by Kat Cho
• XOXO by Axie Oh
• ASAP by Axie Oh

A book about pirates

• Vengeance of the Pirate Queen by Tricia Levenseller
• Seafire by Natalie C. Parker
• Steel Tide by Natalie C. Parker
• Stormbreak by Natalie C. Parker
• The Final Curse of Ophelia Cray by Christine Calella
• Pie-Rats! by Lisa Frenkel Riddiough & David Mottram

A book about women's sports and/or by a woman athlete

• Grand Slam Romance Book 1 by Ollie Hicks & Emma Oosterhous
• Evonne Goolagong by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara & Lisa Koesterke
• Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner
• Hoops by Matt Tavares
• Mary Kom by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara & Jen Khatun

A book by a blind or visually impaired author

• Redsight by Meredith Mooring
• The Secret Ingredient by Paul Castle
• A Dead & Stormy Night by Steffanie Holmes

A book by a deaf or hard-of-hearing author

• Show Me a Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte
• The Silence Between Us by Alison Gervais
• Can Bears Ski? by Raymond Antrobus & Polly Dunbar
• Animals Albums from A to Z by Cece Bell
• Sail Me Away Home by Ann Clare LeZotte

A book by a self-published author

• Femme in Public by ALOK
• Letter from the Queen by Tara Lipsyncki & Cherry Mock
• your wound/my garden by ALOK
• The Secret Ingredient by Paul Castle

A book from a genre you typically avoid

• If I Ever Get Out of Here (historical fiction) by Eric Gansworth
• Show Me a Sign (historical fiction) by Ann Clare LeZotte

A book from an animal's POV

• The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead & Wendy Mass
• Burt the Beetle Doesn't Bite! by Ashley Spires
• Burt the Beetle Lives Here! by Ashley Spires
• Don't Label Me by Irshad Manji
• Cold Clay by Juneau Black
• Mirror Black by Juneau Black
• Junia: The Book Mule of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson & David C. Gardner
• The Fox & Little Tanuki #1 & #2 by Mi Tagawa
• All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil
• Loaf the Cat Goes to the Powwow by Nicholas DeShaw & Tara Audibert

A book originally published under a pen name

• A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
• Behind the Scenes!! #3 by Bisco Hatori
• The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
• The Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb
• A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
• The Sizzle Paradox by Lily Menon

A book recommended by a bookseller

• Cheeky Brat #1 by Mitsubachi Miyuki
• Bitsy Bat, School Star by Kaz Windness
• Blue Period #1 by Tsubasa Yamaguchi
• Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner

A book recommended by a librarian

• Black Archives by Renata Cherlise
• Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era by Jason Bauman (Ed.), Ky Tobin Lahusen, & Diana Davies
• Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder edited by Saundra Mitchell
• Messy Roots by Laura Gao
• The Strange Library by Maruki Murakami
• The Accidental Human by Dakota Cassidy

A book set 24 years before you were born

• Indignation by Philip Roth
• To Catch a Thief by David Dodge

A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list

• The Unhoneymooners (Maui) by Christina Lauren
• The Cat Who Saved Books (Japan) by Sosuke Natsukawa
• I Hope This Doesn't Find You (Australia) by Ann Liang

A book set in space

• The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
• Across the Universe by Beth Revis
• Redsight by Meredith Mooring
• Dear Galaxy by Paige Lavoie
• Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes
• Prime Deceptions by Valerie Valdes
• Fault Tolerance by Valerie Valdes

A book set in the future

• The Passengers by John Marrs
• The Marriage Act by John Marrs
• The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
• Across the Universe by Beth Revis

A book set in the snow

• Alone in the Wild by Kelley Armstrong
• The Wolf-Birds by Willow Dawson
• Flubby Does NOT Like Snow by J.E. Morris

A book that came out in a year that ends in "24"

• Bride by Ali Hazelwood
• Three Kinds of Lucky by Kim Harrison
• Cirque Du Slay by Rob Osler
• Bros by Carole Boston Weatherford & Reggie Brown

A book that centers on video games

• Cat + Gamer #1-4 by Wataru Nadatani
• Twelfth Knight by Alexene Farol Follmuth
• Game On by Seressia Glass
• Role Playing by Cathy Yardley
• Two Can Play by Ali Hazelwood

A book that features dragons

• The Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb
• 100 Mighty Dragons All Named Broccoli by David LaRochelle & Lian Cho
• It's Your Year, Baby Dragon by Ariel Hsu
• Luma and the Grumpy Dragon by Leah Mohammed & Loretta Schauer
• A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
• The Truth About Dragons by Julie Leung & Hanna Cha
• The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan
• In the Labyrinth of Drakes by Marie Brennan
• Within the Sanctuary of Wings by Marie Brennan
• Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours

• This Is All Your Fault by Aminah Mae Safi
• Somewhere Only We Know by Maureen Goo
• The Passengers by John Marrs
• Luma and the Grumpy Dragon by Leah Mohammed & Loretta Schauer
• House Party: A Novel edited by Justin A. Reynolds

A book that was published 24 years ago

• History: A Very Short Introduction by John H. Arnold
• Everything Is Mine by Andrea D'Aquino

A book that was turned into a musical

• Pygmalion (My Fair Lady) by Bernard Shaw
• Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (Cats) by T.S. Eliot & Edward Gorey

A book where someone dies in the first chapter

• Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
• A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
• My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
• Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones
• Harriet's Reflections (first page) by Marion Kadi
• Gone with the Witch by Angela M. Sanders
• Starter Villain by John Scalzi
• Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver

A book with a main character who's 42-years-old

• The Knockoff by Lucy Sykes & Jo Piazza
• Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
• Since I Could Die Tomorrow #1 by Sumako Kari

A book with a neurodivergent main character

• The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older
• I Am Odd, I Am New by Benjamin Giroux & Roz MacLean
• Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner
• Neanderthal Seeks Human by Penny Reid
• Lost Inside My Head by Vigg
• Henry and the Something New by Jenn Bailey & Mika Song
• Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun
• Late Bloomer by Mazey Eddings
• Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood

A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary

• Combinatorics by Robin Wilson
• Crystallography by A.M. Glazer

A book with a title that is a complete sentence

• Don't Label Me by Irshad Manji
• You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney
• I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang
• Hurry, Little Tortoise, Time for School! by Carrie Finison & Erin Kraan
• I Want to Be a Wall #1 by Honami Shirono

A book with an enemies-to-lovers plot

• I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang
• The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
• Here We Go Again by ALison Cochrun
• 10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall
• Last Chance Books by Kelsey Rodkey
• Instant Karma by Marissa Mayer

A book with an unreliable narrator

• My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
• More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
• When I Am Through with You by Stephanie Kuehn
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

A book with at least three POVs

• The Marriage Act by John Marrs
• The Passengers by John Marrs
• The Knockoff by Lucy Sykes & Jo Piazza
• For Girls Who Walk Through Fire by Kim DeRose
• Hollowthorn by Kayln Josephson
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• Redsight by Meredith Mooring
• Children on Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adeyemi
• Eat Your Heart Out by Kelly deVos

A book with magical realism

• Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club by Roselle Lim
• The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
• The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead & Wendy Mass
• Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
• New Adult by Timothy Janovsky
• Maria Mariposa by Karla Arenas Valenti & Ana Ramirez Gonzalez
• All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil
• Natalie Tan's Book of Luck & Fortune by Roselle Lim

A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person

• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

A book written during NaNoWriMo

• Side Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy
• All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil

A cozy fantasy book

• The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
• Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club by Roselle Lim
• A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
• Dallergut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee
• The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. MacLean

A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author

• Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff
• Green by Alex Gino
• Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder edited by Saundra Mitchell
• Paper Planes by Jennie Wood, Dozerdraws, & Micah Myers
• Finna by Nino Cipri
• Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly
• Chef's Choice by TJ Alexander

A horror book by a BIPOC author

• Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones
• My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

A memoir that explores queerness

• The Times I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crewes
• Messy Roots by Laura Gao
• Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope by Karamo Brown

A nonfiction book about Indigenous people

• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth

A second-chance romance

• All the Right Notes by Dominic Lim
• Grand Slam Romance Book 1 by Ollie Hicks & Emma Oosterhous
• Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun

An autobiography by a woman in rock 'n' roll

• The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
• The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer

An LGBTQ+ romance novel

• Queerly Beloved by Susie Dumond
• All the Right Notes by Dominic Lim
• Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly
• Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner
• Forward March by Skye Quinlan
• Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun
• 10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall
• Chef's Choice by TJ Alexander
• Heartstopper Volume 5 by Alice Oseman
• Glitterland by Alexis Hall
• The Love Study by Kris Ripper

ADVANCED
A book in which a character sleeps for more than 24 hours

• Across the Universe by Beth Revis
• The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
• Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes

A book with 24 letters in the title

• The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
• Goldilocks and Just One Bear by Leigh Hodgkinson

A collection of at least 24 poems

• Shake Loose My Skin by Sonia Sanchez
• Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth
• poyums by Len Pennie
• Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

The 24th book of an author

• The Dastard by Piers Anthony
• Hardcore Twenty-Four by Janet Evanovich
• The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett

A book that starts with the letter "X"

• XOXO by Axie Oh
• xxxHOLiC #1-3 by CLAMP

2023 Reading Challenge--Book Riot Read Harder

I realized I never posted my reading challenges from last year, so I'm doing that now!

I continued to track any book that met challenge prompts, so I have multiple books per prompt.  For some prompts, I was able to do the bonus challenge of reading books with LGBTQ authors.

2023 BOOK RIOT READ HARDER CHALLENGE
Finished: 10/14/23

Read a novel about a trans character written by a trans author

• Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
• Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee (bonus with LGBTQ author)
• Kisses for Jet by Joris Bas Backer
• Rabbit Chase by Elizabeth LaPensee & KC Oster
• If You're a Kid Like Gavin: The True Story of a Young Trans Activist by Gavin Grimm, Kyle Lukoff, & J Yang
• Man o' War by Cory McCarthy
• Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White
• Welcome to St. Hell by Lewis Hancox
• Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
• Spell Bound by F.T. Lukensz
• The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta

Read one of your favorite author's favorite books

• Dragonsong (Kim Harrison) by Anne McCaffrey
• Boy's Life (TJ Klune) by Robert McCammon (bonus with LGBTQ author)
• Saga Book One, Two, & Three (Rainbow Rowell) by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples
• The Rose That Grew from Concrete (Angie Thomas by Tupac Shakur

Read a book about activism

• "You Just Need to Lose Weight" by Audrey Gordon
• Choosing Brave by Angela Joy & Janelle Washington
• How We Can Live: Principles of Black Lives Matter by Lalena Garcia & Caryn Davidson
• Forest Fighter by Anita Ganeri & Margaux Carpenter
• The Mess That We Made by Michelle Lord & Julia Blattman

Read a book that's been challenged recently in your school district/library OR read one of the most challenged/banned books of the year by a queer and/or BIPOC author

• This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawnson
• All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson (bonus with LGBTQ author)
• Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison

Read a completed webcomic

• Crumbs by Danie Stirling
• Artifice by Alex Woolfson & Winona Nelson (bonus with LGBTQ author)
• Scurry by Mac Smith
• Let's Get Burgers by Ash S.

Finish a book you've DNFed

• Dark Triumph by Robin LaFevers

Listen to an audiobook performed by a POC of a book written by an AOC

• Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar
• Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (bonus with LGBTQ author)
• Finding Me by Viola Davis

Read a graphic novel/comic/manga if you haven't before; or read one that is a different genre than you normally read

• Cult Girls (fictionalized memoir/anf) by Natalie Grand & Cassandra Bolan
• My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness (manga memoir) by Nagata Kobi
• Sensory: Life on the Spectrum (comic anthology) edited by Bex Ollerton
• A First Time for Everything (comic memoir) by Dan Santat

Read an independently published book by a BIPOC author

• Wonder Doodles by Joanne Shi
• Bedtime in Nunatsiavant by Raeann Brown
• Moose Is Loose on the Palouse by Seema Jot Kaur & Chris Shanahan
• How We Can Live: Principles of Black Lives Matter by Lalena Garcia & Caryn Davidson
• Forest Fighter by Anita Ganeri & Marguax Carpenter

Read a book you know nothing about based solely on the cover

• Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes
• Viking in Love by Doug Cenko

Read a cookbook cover to cover

• Baking by Feel by Becca Rea-Tucker
• Baking Yesteryear by B. Dylan Hollis (bonus with LGBTQ author)

Read a nonfiction book about BIPOC and/or queer history

• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
• Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyam (bonus with LGBTQ author)
• The Stonewall Riots by Archie Bongiovanni & A. Andrews

Read an author local to you

• The Family Fortuna by Lindsay Eagar (SLC)
• Rise Up with a Song: The True Story of Ethel Smyth, Suffragette Composer by Diane Warthey (Moscow) & Helena Perez Garcia
• Starhug: A Journey of Hope, Healing & Hugs by Cindy Wong & ShiShi Nguyen (Seattle)
• Braver Than Brave by Janet Sumner Johnson (SLC) & Eunji Jung
• I Am a Warrior Goddess by Jennifer Adams (SLC) & Carme Lemniscates
• Woof Woof, the Bad Dog by Kate Nilson (SLC) & My Vu
• Inclusion Alphabet by Kathryn Jenkins (SLC area)
• A Place for Pluto by Stef Wade & Melanie Demmer (SLC)

Read a book with under 500 Goodreads ratings

• The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen by Gary Eldon Peter
• Changes Book Four: Forever by T Cooper & Allison Glock-Cooper (bonus with LGBTQ author)
• Erroll by Hannah Shaw
• Cult Girls by Natalie Grand & Cassandra Bolan
• In the Rabbitgarden by Leo Lionni
• Ferdinand Cheval: The Postman Who Delivered a Palace (1st review!) by Anne Renaud & Ana Salopek
• Moose Is Loose on the Palouse by Seema Jot Kaur & Chris Shanahan
• Cockatoos on a Cruise by Russell Punter & David Sample
• Save Yourself! by Bones Leopard, Kelly Matthews, & Nichole Matthews

Read a historical fiction book set in an Eastern country

• Travelers Along the Way by Aminah Mae Safi
• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
• A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark

Read a romance with bisexual representation

• Rosaline Painter Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall
• Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun (bonus with LGBTQ author)
• A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone
• Hani and Ishu's Guide to fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar
• Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales
• Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert
• Only Mostly Devastated; & If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales
• Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli
• Forever Is Now by Mariama J. Lockington
• Delilah Green Doesn't Care; & Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail by Ashley Herring Blake
• Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan
• Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster by Andrea Mosqueda

Read a YA book by an Indigenous author

• The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

Read a comic or graphic novel that features disability representation

• Sensory: Life on the Spectrum edited by Bex Ollerton
• The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott by Zoe Thorogood

Read a nonfiction book about intersectional feminism

• Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

Read a book of poetry by a BIPOC or queer author

• The Rose That Grew from Concrete by Tupak Shakur
• Resistencia edited by Mark Eisner & Tina Escaja
• The Girl and the Goddess by Nikita Gill
• Dark Testament: Blackout Poems by Crystal Simone Smith

Read a book of short stories

• Cool. Awkward. Black. edited by Karen Strong
• Gleanings by Neal Shusterman

Read any book from the Ignyte awards shortlist/longlist/winner list

• Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston
• Root Magic by Eden Royce
• A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark

Read a social horror, mystery, or thriller novel

• Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans
• The Black Queen by Jumata Emill (bonus with LGBTQ author)
• The Case of the Missing Chalk Drawings by Richard Byrne
• The Mystery of the Love List by Sarah Glenn Marsh & Ishaa Lobo
• Not an Alphabet Book: The Case of the Missing Cake by Eoin McLaughlin & Marc Boutavant
• Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
• Shady Hollow by Juneau Black
• A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

Pick a challenge from any of the previous years' challenges to repeat

• The Banned Bookstore of Maggie Banks (set in bookstore, 2022) by Shauna Robinson
• Sam's Super Seats (disabled author, 2022) by Keah Brown & Sharee Miller

2023 Reading Challenge--PopSugar

I realized I never posted my reading challenges from last year, so I'm doing that now!

I continued to track any book that met challenge prompts, so I have multiple books per prompt.  Some only have two because they were difficult or I didn't like them.  I did complete the challenge twice!

2023 POPSUGAR READING CHALLENGE
Finished first time: 9/20/23
Finished second time: 11/8/23

A book you meant to read in 2022

• Harrow the Ninth by Tasmyn Muir
• Changers Book Three: Kim by T Cooper & Allison Glock-Cooper

A book you bought from an independent bookstore

• This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson
• Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison

A book about a vacation

• People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
• Spy X Family #8 & #9 by Tatsuya Endo
• Cockatoos on a Cruise by Russell Punter & David Sample
• Happy Place by Emily Henry
• Gigi, Listening by Chantel Guertin

A book by a first-time author

• Milo and Marcus at the End of the World by Kevin Christopher Snipes
• Love Radio by Ebony LaDelle
• The Spirit of Springer by Amanda Abler & Levi Hastings
• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
• Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee

A book with mythical creatures

• Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
• Confessions of a Dork Lord by Mike Johnston & Martha Altes
• Moonstruck: Troubled Waters by Grace Ellis, Shea Beagle, & Claudia Aguirre
• Cryptid Club by Sarah Anderson
• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

A book about a forbidden romance

• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
• Milo and Marcus at the End of the World by Kevin Christopher Snipes
• Cult Girls by Natalie Grand & Cassandra Bolan
• Lore Olympus Volume Four by Rachel Smythe

A book with "girl" in the title

• The Girl from the Other Side, Siuil, a Run #7-11 by Nagabe
• The Girl and the Goddess by Nikita Gill
• The Girl and the Dinosaur by Hollie Hughes & Sarah Massini
• Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan

A celebrity memoir

• Beyond the Wand by Tom Felton
• Finding Me by Viola Davis
• I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
• Pageboy by Elliot Page
• Leslie F*cking Jones by Leslie Jones

A book with a color in the title

• The Black Gryphon by Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon
• Little Goddess Girls: Persephone & the Unicorn's Ruby by Joan Holub, Suzanne Williams, & Yuyi Chen
• The Blue Scarf by Mohamed Danawi & Ruaida Mannaa
• Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni
• A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin by Jen Bryant & Melissa Sweet
• Green on Green by Dianne White & Felicita Sala
• Gold by Jed Alexander
• Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche by Nancy Springer
• A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney
• Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond & Daniel Minter
• The Kindest Red: A Story of Hijab and Friendship by Ibtihaj Muhammad, S.K. Ali, & Hatem Aly

A romance with a fat lead

• A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone
• Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert
• The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory

A book about or set in Hollywood

• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Beyond the Wand by Tom Felton

A book published in spring 2023

• Spell Bound by F.K. Lukens
• When Things Aren't Going Right, Go Left by Marc Colagiovanni & Peter H. Reynolds
• The Knowing by Ani Di Franco & Julia Mathew
• I Am Temple Grandin by Brad Meltzer & Christopher Eliopoulos
• Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
• Happy Place by Emily Henry

A book published the year you were born

• Salem's Lot by Stephen King
• A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni
• Pezzettino by Leo Lionni
• In the Rabbitgarden by Leo Lionni

A modern retelling of a classic

• The Princess and the Fangirl by Ashley Poston
• Cinderella and the Furry Slippers by Davide Cali & Raphaelle Barbanegre
• Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion by Alex T. Smith
• Rabbit Chase by Elizabeth LaPensee & KC Oster
• Gold by Jed Alexander
• The Three Little Pugs and the Big, Bad Cat by Becky Davies & Caroline Attia
• Hollow by Shannon Watters, Branden Boyer-White, & Berenice Nelle
• A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney
• Poisoned Apple by Anne Lambelet
• Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith & Boulet
• Teach the Torches to Burn by Caleb Roehrig
• Little Miss Splendid and the Beast by Alice Downes & TJ Morrow

A book with a song lyric as its title

• Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales
• Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun
• Friday I'm in Love by Camryn Garrett

A book where the main character's name is in the title

• Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall
• Milo and Marcus at the End of the World by Kevin Christopher Snipes
• Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Banned Bookstore of Maggie Banks by Shauna Robinson
• Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake
• Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail by Ashley Herring Blake
• Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything by Lindsay Eagar

A book with a love triangle

• Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun
• Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Inheritance Games; The Hawthorne Legacy; & The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

A book that's been banned or challenged in any state in 2022

• The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
• All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
• Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez
• This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson

A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past challenge

• The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (A book about witches from 2022) by Sangu Mandanna
• Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake (Romance with single parent from 2021) by Alexis Hall
• Season of the Bruja Volume 1 (A book about witches from 2022) by Aaron Duran & Sara Soler
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (MC with a mobility issue from 2022) by Gabrielle Zevin
• The Empress of Salt and Fortune (Hugo winner from 2022) by Nghi Vo
• The Heartbreak Bakery (includes a recipe from 2022) by A.R. Capetta

A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2023

• Romancing Mr. Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
• Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Salem's Lot by Stephen King
• Nimona by N.D. Stevenson

A book set in the decade you were born

• Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Salem's Lot by Stephen King

A book with a queer lead

• The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
• Milo and Marcus at the End of the World by Kevin Christopher Snipes
• Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall
• Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
• Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee
• A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone
• Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun
• Chef's Kiss by Melendez, Brink, Jones, & Otsmane-Elhaou
• Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar
• Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Man o' War by Cory McCarthy
• Only Mostly Devastated; & If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales
• Hollow by Shannon Watters, Branden Boyer-White, & Berenice Nelle
• The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes
• Kings of B'More by R. Eric Thomas
• Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli
• Spell Bound by F.T. Lukens
• Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee
• Delilah Green Doesn't Care; & Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail by Ashley Herring Blake
• A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
• Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey

A book with a map

• Confessions of a Dork Lord by Mike Johnston & Marta Altes
• A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone
• Nubby by Dan Richards & Shanda McCloskey
• Bo the Brave by Bethan Woollvin

A book with a rabbit on the cover

• Laser Moose and Rabbit Boy: Disco Fever by Doug Savage
• Everything Will Be Okay by Anna Dewdney & Judy Schachner
• Chibi Usagi: Attack of the Heebie Chibis by Julie Sakai & Stan Sakai
• The Disappearing Mr. Jacques by Gideon Sterer & Benjamin Chaud
• Little Goddess Girls: Persephone & the Unicorn's Ruby by Joan Holub, Suzanne Williams, & Yuyi Chen
• Rabbit Chase by Elizabeth LaPensee & KC Oster
• Nubby by Dan Richards & Shanda McCloskey
• Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

A book with just text on the cover

• Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond
• Linus by Stuart Hausmann
• A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green
• Recitatif by Toni Morrison
• She's Gone by David Bell

The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list

• Food Friends: Fun Foods That Go Together by Cece Bell
• Busy Buddies by Cece Bell
• Go, Pea, Go! by Joe Moshier & Chris Sonnenberg

A #BookTok recommendation

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Inheritance Games; The Hawthorne Legacy, & The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

A book you bough secondhand

• Changes Book Four: Forever by T Cooper & Allison Glock-Cooper
• Striking Distance by Sarah Rees Brennan
• Changes Book Three: Kim by T Cooper & Allison Glock-Cooper

A book your friend recommended

• The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate & Daniel Mate
• The Very Nice Box by Laura Blackett & Eve Gleichman

A book that's on a celebrity book-club list

• Finding Me by Viola Davis
• African Proverbs for All Ages by Johnetta Detsch Cole & Nelda LaTeef

A book about a family

• Spy X Family #3-8 by Tatsuya Endo
• The Inheritance Games; The Hawthorne Legacy; & The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
• Once Upon a Goat by Dan Richards & Eric Barclay
• The Promised Neverland #20 by Kaiu Shirai & Posuka Demizu
• The Family Fortuna by Lindsay Edgar

A book that comes out in the second half of 2023

• Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
• Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose by Nancy Springer
• Big Little Spells by Hazel Beck
• Iris Kelly Doesn't Date by Ashley Herring Blake

A book about an athlete/sport

• Striking Distance by Sarah Rees Brennan
• Madani's Best Game by Fran Pintadera & Raquel Catalina
• Sarah and the Big Wave by Bonnie Tsui & Sophie Diao
• Skater Cielo by Rachel Katstaller
• The Fifth Quarter by Mike Dawson
• Sisters: Venus & Serena Williams by Jeanette Winter
• Bibi's Got Game by Bianca Andreescu, Mary Beth Leatherdale, & Chelsea O'Byrne
• Courage in Her Cleats: The Story of Soccer Star Abby Wambach by Kim Chaffee & Alexandra Badici
• Fence: Rivals by C.S. Pacat, Johanna the Mad, & Joana Lafuente

A historical-fiction book

• Travelers Along the Way by Aminah Mae Safi
• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
• A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

A book about divorce

• Karen's Birthday by Katy Farina & Ann M. Martin
• What About Neko?: A Book About Divorce by Nancy Loewen & Elisa Paganelli
• Stuntboy, in the Meantime by Jason Reynolds & Raul the Third

A book you think your best friend would like

• Chef's Kiss by Melendez, Brink, Jones, & Otsmane-Elhaou
• Beyond the Wand by Tom Felton
• I Don't Care by Julie Fogliano, Molly Idle, & Juana Martinez-Neal
• So This Is Ever After by F.T. Lukens
• The Winter Soldier: Cold Front by Mackenzi Lee
• Killer Queens by David M. Booher, Claudia Balboni, Harry Saxon, & Lucas Gattoni

A book you should have read in high school

• The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
• The Pearl by John Steinbeck

A book you read more than 10 years ago

• Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
• A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni
• Happy Hippo, Angry Duck by Sandra Boynton
• Can I Play Too? by Mo Willems
• Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey

A book you wish you could read for the first time again

• Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey
• Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey

A book by an author with the same initials as you

• Wildflower by Drew Barrymore
• She's Gone by David Bell

ADVANCED
A book written during NaNoWriMo

• Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
• The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

A book based on a popular movie

• Into the Heartlands (Black Panther) by Brown, Araujo, Bustos, & Aguirre
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: The Courage to Dream by Frederick Joseph & Nikkolas Smith
• In Every Generation (BtVS) by Kendare Blake
• The Winter Soldier: Cold Front by Mackenzi Lee

A book that takes place entirely in one day

• The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera
• If I See You Again Tomorrow by Robbie Couch

A book that was self-published

• Cult Girls by Natalie Grand & Cassandra Bolan
• Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

A book that started out as fan fiction

• After by Anna Tood
• After We Collided by Anna Todd

A book with a pet character

• Izzy at the End of the World by K.A. Reynolds
• Antoine's Tale by Janet Curran
• Best Day Ever! by Marilyn Singer & Leah Nixon
• Douglas, You're a Genius! by Ged Adamson
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

A book about a holiday that's not Christmas

• Once Upon an Eid edited by S.K. Ali & Aisha Saeed
• Tomorrow Is New Year's Day (Korean New Year) by Aram Kim
• The Eight Knights of Hanukkah by Leslie Kimmelman & Galia Bernsein
• Chloe's Lunar New Year by Lily LaMotte & Michelle Lee
• Grumpy New Year by Katrina Moore & Xindi Yan
• Happy Easter from the Crayons by Drew Daywalt & Oliver Jeffers
• A Super Scary Narwhalloween by Ben Clanton
• The Matzah Ball (Hanukkah) by Jean Meltzer
• Chinese New Year by Adam Hargreaves
• Mr. Impossible and the Easter Egg Hunt by Adam Hargreaves
• Little Miss Valentine by Adam Hargreaves
• Little Red Ruthie: A Hanukkah Tale by Gloria Koster & Sue Eastland
• Halloween Is a Treat! by Sabrina Moyle & Eunice Moyle
• Ganesha Goes Green (Ganesha Chaturthi) by Lakshmi Thamizhmani & Debasmita Dasgupta
• It's Navidad, El Cucuy! (Christmas & Las Posadas) by Donna Barba Higuera & Juliana Perdomo

A book that features two languages

• Resistencia edited by Mark Eisner & Tina Escaja
• Rabbit Chase by Elizabeth LaPensee & KC Oster
• The Story of Ukraine by Olena Kharchenko, Michael Sampson, & Polina Doroshenko
• Season of the Bruja Volume 1 by Aaron Duran & Sara Soler
• Team Up by Raul the Third & Elaine Bay
• Milo + Niko by D Guzman
• A Crown for Corina by Lae Kan Sea Kemp & Elisa Chavarri
• We All Play/Kimetawanaw (Cree) by Julie Flett
• Hear My Voice compiled by Warren Binford
• Small Nap, Little Dream by Talia Aikens-Nunez & Natalia Colombo
• Book of Questions: Selections by Pablo Neruda & Paloma Valdivia
• Luna Oscura by Heidi Moreno
• Luli and the Language of Tea by Andrea Wang & Hyewon Yum
• Spanish Is the Language of My Family by Michael Genhart & John Parra

The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list

• A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
• After We Fell by Anna Todd
• Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas

A book with alliteration in the title

• Fate of Flames by Sarah Raughley
• A Turtle in the Toilet by Jonathan Emmett & Caroline Jayne Church
• Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
• Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle by Nina LaCour & Kaylani Juanita
• The Worrywarts (in book, not title) by Pamela Duncan Edwards & Henry Cole
• Animalia (in whole book) by Graeme Base
• The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Drew Hayes
• The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen by Gary Eldon Peter
• A Darkening of Dragons by S.A. Patrick
• The Fangs of Freelance by Drew Hayes

2024 reading year in review

 2024 Goodreads reading challenge goal: 1111
Total books read in 2024 (according to Goodreads, which is wrong): 1673
2024 Goodreads reading challenge goal met on: 9/7/24
Something's up with Goodreads' tracker.  It was pretty accurate until the last couple of weeks.  I'm not sure when it changed exactly.  But my progress toward my goal for 2025 is also messed up.  It seems to be counting books twice.

Total books read in 2024 (according to my records): 1569

2 book challenges completed (shared in separate posts) in 2024
2024 PopSugar Reading Challenge -- 6/25/24 (first time) & 8/25/24 (second time)
2024 Book Riot Read Harder Challenge -- 6/12/24 (first time) & 6/8/24 (second time)

2024 total: 1569
By category:
586 picture books
290 manga
184 youth nonfiction
163 adult fiction
126 graphic novels
91 youth fiction
85 young adult fiction
35 adult nonfiction
5 comics
4 young adult nonfiction

My month of least reading was in August with 71 books.
My month of most reading was in June with 178 books.

For comparison:
2023
Total: 1399
663 picture books
203 youth nonfiction
159 graphic novels
93 adult fiction
90 young adult fiction
82 manga
56 youth fiction
36 adult nonfiction
12 comics
4 young adult nonfiction
1 zine

2022
Total: 1214
631 picture books
156 youth nonfiction
153 graphic novels
71 adult fiction
66 young adult fiction
54 adult nonfiction
40 youth fiction
34 manga
8 young adult nonfiction
1 comic

I'd like to dedicate this year to having 6 library cards, new (to me) libraries with huge manga collections, the opening of the new library building in my town, and audiobooks while baking and doing other things around the house.  :D