
It’s finally time to introduce the 2021 EDIWTB Reading Challenge!
My goal with the Challenge is to help you expand your reading horizon a bit, make a dent in your TBR list and read your bookshelves, without making it all feel like a chore. This is supposed to be fun!
Here is the spreadsheet where you can keep track of your progress. If your name doesn’t already appear from former challenges, please add it to the list. When you complete a category, add the book title and author to your row on the spreadsheet. It’s fun to see what other people are reading!
Here are the 2021 categories! (Some of these are repeats from prior challenges.)
- A book with a red cover
- A book that’s been sitting on your shelf for 2+ years
- Pick a book any book – go up to your shelves, eyes closed, and pick the first unread book you touch. No do-overs!
- A genre you don’t usually read. Go outside your comfort zone!
- A book recommended by your best friend
- A memoir
- A non-fiction book on a topic you love
- A debut novel
- A historical fiction novel
- A book/movie pairing. Read a book, and then watch a movie or show based on that book.
- Celebrity book club pick. There are a lot of celebrity/influencer book clubs out there – pick one of the books chosen for one of them in 2021
- A book by an author you love
Thanks for joining the 2021 EDIWTB Reading Challenge! Please also join the 2021 EDWITB Reading Challenge Facebook Group, where we share book ideas and encourage each other as the year goes by.
This looks like a great challenge!
Thanks! Glad you’re joining!
Oh, why not! I never do book challenges, for the same reason I’m not in a book group — because I don’t read enough as it is, and so when I do read, I want to read what I want to read — but I know your approach is casual, Gayle, and it will be fun to see how many categories I fill even if I’m not going to try very hard. 🙂
Yay! Glad to have you!!
I’m really enjoying reading your blog. I just finished my first 5 star 2021 book–The Allspice Bath. I think the author is an immensely talented writer and I look forward to reading her in the future. The Allspice Bath is going to be 2021’s The Girl with the Louding Voice. I hope you will have a chance to read this book because I’d love to read your review.
PS I agreed with the books you thought were over-hyped in 2020–estpecially The Vanishing Half. I just finished 2 books I think are over-hyped in 2021: The Divines and Good Company.
Thanks so much for your sweet comment. I am glad to have you as a reader! I will check out The Allspice Bath! Good to know about The Divines and Good Company! I will avoid.