2023 Personal Reading Challenge

2023 Personal Reading Challenge
Current Tally: 18

I made this up for me. I wouldn’t recommend this particular challenge in this particular format to anyone else. But I would recommend that you do read books. It’s fun! When I turned 50 I decided to read more – and read more outside my preferred narrow band of genres. I see this changing year over year to finely tune it.

Oh, and I didn’t create this until late May 2023, so there’s no way I’m going to actually fulfill the challenge, but I’m curious how I feel about it at Christmas to see what would be best for 2024.

The 2023 rules:

Read 52 Books in 2023

No double counts across categories

NYT Bestsellers: Any adult # 1 books, 7/1/22-6/30/23

At least two books must be Chunksters (400+ pages)

At least 20 must be women authors

At least 10 must be from my own bookshelf

Only books completed in calendar year count

Extra books are fine and fun

No cheating, you jerk

4 2023 Book Award Winners

A 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner, The 2023 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award Winner, a 2022 National Outdoor Book Awards Winner, and a 2023 Edgar Awards Winner (Mystery)

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