2020 Reading Challenges

These are the challenges I plan on completing for 2020! Keep checking back here for my progress.

"We’ve been hosting it since 2019, when we merged some concepts from the Platypire Diversity Challenge and the 2017 Diverse Reads Book Challenge hosted by Chasing Faerytales and Read.Sleep.Repeat.  There’s the basic challenge of reading as many diverse books as you can, with the added monthly theme mini-challenge, where you can get bonus points for reading towards a theme each month (and by bonus points, we really just mean bragging rights).  It’s a way to challenge yourself, but still reward yourself for just reading diversely altogether."

My goal next year is to read at least 50 diverse books and to also participate in the monthly challenges (themes). I don't have the specific books picked out just yet and I may just read freely, but I will keep track of them. 

1.  Training My Heart to Love You
2.  b.b. free #1
3.  The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 
4.  Pumpkinheads
5.  Dancing in the Wings
6.  Hosea Plays On 
7.  New Year, New Boo?
8.  The 57 Bus 
9.  The Avant-Guards Vol. 1
10.  The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver
11.  Claiming You
12.  The Tea Dragon Society
13.  Loveboat, Taipei
14.  The Okay Witch
15.  Patricia's Vision
16.  Pet
17.  I Believe I Can
18.  From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess
19.  Miles Morales
20.  Hocus Pocus and the All-new Sequel
21.  Long Way Down
22.  Look Both Ways
23.  The Kingmaker 
24.  Sweet On You
25.  Anti/Hero
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Monthly Themes:

January - Diverse Folktales/Culture/Mythology; or Diverse Retelling; or Non-Western Setting
February - POC: Black/African American :
March - #ownvoices; or gender: female authors in male-dominated genres/non-fiction
April - POC: Middle Eastern/South Asian
May - POC: East Asian/Southeast Asian/Pacific Islander
June - LGBT+ pride summer: sexuality and gender identity
July - LGBT+ pride summer: sexuality and gender identity
August - Mental Health/Addiction
September - POC: Hispanic/Latinx
October - Physical/Sensory/Cognitive/Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities
November - POC: Native American
December - Religious Minorities

There's sort of an extra level to the LGBT+ pride summer in June and July -- aim to check off as many letters in LGBTQQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual) as possible

Progress: 

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"We’re back for another year!!  This challenge is focused on finally finishing those series that you’ve started but not yet completed.  It was previously hosted by Bea’s Book Nook, but we’ve been hosting it since 2018."

I plan to challenge myself to the B-list where finish at least 5 - 8 series. Below are the series I plan to finish reading although they may change as the year goes on. 

The Mortal Instruments

• City of Bones 
• City of Ashes 
• City of Glass 
• City of Fallen Angels 
• City of Lost Souls 
• City of Heavenly Fire 

The Infernal Devices 

• Clockwork Angel 
• Clockwork Prince 
• Clockwork Princess

The Fallen Kingdom Series 

• Fallen Kingdoms 
• Rebel Spring 
• Gathering Darkness
• Frozen Tides
• Crystal Storm 
• Immortal Reign 

Grishaverse

• Shadow & Bone
• Siege & Storm
• Ruin & Rising 

Lunar Chronicles

• Cinder
• Scarlet 
• Cress 
• Winter 
• Novellas

Throne of Glass 

• Throne of Glass
• Assassins Blade 
• Crown of Midnight 
• Heir of Fire 
• Queen of Shadows
• Empire of Storms
• Tower of Dawn 
• Kingdom of Ash

There are a few other challenges that I would like to complete on my own which will be listed below:

Goodreads Challenge: 100

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Read 50 Picture Books: 

1.  A is for Audra
2.  Shaking Things Up
3.  First Snow
4.  Jack and the Beanstalk and the French Fries
5.  Hattie & Hudson
6.  Thirsty, Thirsty Elephants
7.  Just Like A Mama
8.  Brown Baby Lullaby 
9.  The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver
10.  Earth Hour
11.  Fred's Big Feelings   
12.  Patricia's Vision
13.  I Believe I Can 
14.  It's Okay To Be A Unicorn 
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Read 50 Comics/Graphic Novels/Manga

1.  Something Is Killing the Children, #1
2.  B.B. Free
3.  Diana, Princess of The Amazons
4.  Pumpkinheads
5.  The Avant Guards, Vol. 1
6.  Something Is Killing the Children, #2
7.  The Tea Dragon Society 
8.  Best Friends
9.  The Okay Witch
10.  Something Is Killing the Children, #3
11.  Junior High Drama
12.  Dreamin Sun Vol. 1
13.  Locke & Key, Vol. 1
14.  Food Wars! Vol. 5
15.  Food Wars! Vol. 6
16.  My First Time Was My Boyfriend's Little Brother, Vol. 1
17.  Paper Girls, Vol. 1
18.  Paper Girls, Vol. 2
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