This challenge is to read books by Southern authors set largely in the American South. I expect this will be a library-based challenge on my end, given my general To Be Read list. Although I may surprise myself and find something among my owned pile.
I am signing up for the Level 3 challenge – 5-6 books started and completed in 2024. Books will be listed below as I start them, and linked once I complete them.
Adding a couple other challenges to my list to get through my To Be Read piles in the house. Between trips to the Book Barn and random Friends of the Library sales, I have a bit of a pile issue. 🙂 The Backlist Reader Challenge is for books that were published at LEAST a year ago – so in 2022 or earlier. Fresh reads only, no re-reads (although the rules do allow for them if it’s been over 10 years and can’t remember it).
I will have my list up before December 31st in this post!
I have a ton of books around my house to read thanks to multiple trips to the glorious Book Barn in Niantic, CT. Covid really did a number on my reading habit, and one of my goals for 2024 is to get back into reading. A couple reading challenges will definitely help me get back on track!
Gillion at Rose City Reader is sponsoring the TBR 24 in ’24 challenge. For full details, check out her blog via the link above. Essentially it’s a read 24 books in 2024 from the “To Be Read” stack you already own. 🙂 I’ll add books to the list as I go, and link to thoughts as I finish them.
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’m making a list of books that I’ve been wanting to read – partially to pull them out of Goodreads, partially for an exchange I’m going to be part of themed to Iceland’s wonderful holiday tradition of Jolabokaflod. I’m always up for other suggestions, too. I read a little bit of everything, although this list may not appear that way. I have this organized by author, since I do enjoy going into series reading quite a bit.
Ackerman, Sara – Radar Girls
Adams, Richard – Watership Down
Bird, Isobel – So Mote it Be
Black, Holly – Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd
Borges, Jorge Luis – Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Bronte, Charlotte – (any books)
Bulgakov, Mikhail – The Master and Margarita
Butler, Octavia E. – Dawn (Xenogenesis #1)
Capote, Truman – The Grass Harp, Including A Tree of Night and Other Stories
Chiaverini, Jennifer – Fates and Traitors
Coelho, Paulo – The Alchemist and The Witch of Portobello
Edwards, Kim – The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Erdrich, Louise – The Night Watchman
Finkel, David – The Good Soldiers
Flynn, Gillian – Gone Girl
Flower, Amanda – The Magical Bookshop Series – Crime and Poetry/Prose and Cons/Murders and Metaphors/Verse and Vengeance/Crimes and Covers
Forster, E.M. – A Passage to India
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Glaser, Mechthild – The Forgotten Book
Grandhi, Preetham – A Circle of Souls
Grau, Shirley Ann – The Keepers of the House
Gregory, Philippa – (any books)
Hesse, Jennifer David – A Wiccan Wheel Mystery Series – Midsummer Night’s Mischief
Hosseini, Khaled – The Kite Runner
Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World
Jemisin, N.K. – (any books)
Larson, Erik – In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
Lawrenson, Deborah – The Lantern
Millwood Hargrave, Kiran – The Girl of Ink and Stars
Morton, Kate – The Forgotten Garden
Niffenegger, Audrey – The Time Traveler’s Wife
Obreht, Tea – The Tiger’s Wife
Owens, Delia – Where the Crawdads Sing
Penner, Sarah – The Lost Apothecary
Plath, Sylvia – The Bell Jar
More coming later… gotta get to work. 🙂