Reading Challenge 2022 is ready! While leaving 2021 behind, I thought about how this year went regarding reading and my relationship with books. As if one wasn’t enough, I created a second book club with excellent women, and we talked about books and literature whenever we wanted. I bought books about books, read many of them, and created various reading lists. You see, 2021 was filled with literature, and I want 2022 to be the same: full of books and literature.
I prepared an eclectic reading list this year, just like last year. I wanted Reading Challenge 2022 to be a reading list where we focus on new things and discoveries. I look forward to reading authors I haven’t read before and exploring topics that I’m unfamiliar with, and I want you to join me. When choosing books, think about if they’ll teach something to you; Let’s enjoy learning and discovering this year!
Reading Challenge 2022
The Year of Discoveries
1- A historical fiction
The Sultan of Byzantium – Selçuk Altun
2- A book set in a city you love
The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery
3- A book by a woman writer you’ve never read before
Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout
4- A book about art
The Private Lives of the Impressionists – Sue Roe
5- A book from a writer whose last name begins with S
The Age of Light – Whitney Scharer
6- A short story collection
A Manual for Cleaning Women – Lucia Berlin
7- A novel written in the 2000s
Masterpiece – Miranda Glover
8- A book set in more than one city/country
The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova
9- A book with an adorable cover
The Hired Man – Aminatta Forna
10- A non-fiction book
Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius – Ryan Holiday
11- A book that will make you think
Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils – David Farrier
12- A book with a one-word title
Vladimir – Julia May Jonas
13- A science fiction book by a woman writer
The Dreamers – Karen Thompson Walker
14- A book you bought last year
The Light and the Dark – Mikhail Shishkin
15- A book waiting to be read for years
Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de’ Medici – Miles J. Unger
16- An LGBTQ+ writer’s book
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt
17- A memoir or an essay
Borges and Me – Jay Parini
18- A book with a city/country name in the title
A Year in Provence – Peter Mayle
19- A children’s book
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20- A book with an animal in the title
The Gospel of the Eels – Patrik Svensson
2 Comments
Thank you for organizing this challenge! I really enjoyed it this year! Are you planning another for 2023? Thanks again!
Hello Tenille,
Thank you so much! I’m planning to do a challenge but I maybe a little bit late. Visit again in early January. 🙂