(Links to all challenges with full details, and to sign-up, can be found in this post.)
Challenges listed below:
Book Challenge by Erin 16.0Book Challenge by Erin 17.0
2022 TBR Pile Challenge
Read with Fey: Reading Challenge for Writers
I Read Horror Year-Round Reading Challenge
1000 Books Project: Fantasy 2022
2022 Book to Movie (and TV) Challenge
2022 Read Your (Book) Shelf Challenge
2022 TBR Pile Challenge
Read with Fey: Reading Challenge for Writers
I Read Horror Year-Round Reading Challenge
1000 Books Project: Fantasy 2022
2022 Book to Movie (and TV) Challenge
2022 Read Your (Book) Shelf Challenge
Freebie: Other Fires by Lenore H. Gay
Read a book that you predict will bring you joy and happiness:
The Modern Witch’s Guide to Magical Self-Care by Tenae Stewart
Book set in Canada: Unless by Carol Shields
Book by an author of different race/religion: The Devil in Silver, Victor LaValle
Flower in the title or a picture of a flower on the cover: The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Book in the title:
Book set in Canada: Unless by Carol Shields
Book by an author of different race/religion: The Devil in Silver, Victor LaValle
Flower in the title or a picture of a flower on the cover: The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Book in the title:
The Modern Witchcraft Grimoire: Your Complete Guide to Creating Your Own Book of Shadows by Skye Alexander
Published the year of a significant event in your life: Once by James Herbert
Published the year of a significant event in your life: Once by James Herbert
(2001 - the year I first became a mom…my most cherished accomplishment)
Discover on the "staff recommendations" shelf (Powell’s Staff Picks - Horror):
In the House in the Dark Woods by Laird Hunt
Includes a trip or a vacation/holiday: Ten by Gretchen McNeil
One of these five words in the title: earth, air, fire, water or space:
Includes a trip or a vacation/holiday: Ten by Gretchen McNeil
One of these five words in the title: earth, air, fire, water or space:
Fire and Blood by George R.R. Martin
Starts with “C”: Certain Dark Things,Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Published in 2020 or 2021: The Year of the Witching, Alexis Henderson
Read 10 books for writers by the end of the year (or you can set a lower or higher goal). I'm going to attempt 10. Not sure which books yet, but The Vein of Gold by Julia Cameron will most likely be one of them.
I host this challenge at my sister (horror) blog, Castle Macabre.
Here are the prompts and levels.
Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie (Feb 22)
The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah (Dec 23)
Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates (2022)
Starts with “C”: Certain Dark Things,Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Published in 2020 or 2021: The Year of the Witching, Alexis Henderson
'You' in title: Thank You for the Flowers, Scott Nicholson
Set on an island: Ten, Gretchen McNeil
Indigenous/First Nations author: The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones
Read a biography: Poe: A Life Cut Short, Peter Ackroyd
Ace, King, Queen, Jack, or Joker in title: Queen Victoria and the Men who Loved Her, Robert Stephen Parry
Book of poetry: The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Robert Graves
Inspired by Jane Austen: Longbourn, Jo Baker
Alternates:Set on an island: Ten, Gretchen McNeil
Indigenous/First Nations author: The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones
Read a biography: Poe: A Life Cut Short, Peter Ackroyd
Ace, King, Queen, Jack, or Joker in title: Queen Victoria and the Men who Loved Her, Robert Stephen Parry
Book of poetry: The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Robert Graves
Inspired by Jane Austen: Longbourn, Jo Baker
- The Vampire Armand, Anne Rice
- Merrick, Anne Rice
- Blood and Gold, Anne Rice
- A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
- Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt, Barbara Mertz
- The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
- Red Queen, Victoria Avelard
- Fevre Dream, George R.R. Martin
- Other Fires, Lenore H. Gay
- Once, James Herbert
- The Death Pit, Tony Strong
- Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks
- Silas Marner, George Eliot
- Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Eliot
- The Vein of Gold, Julia Cameron
I host this challenge at my sister (horror) blog, Castle Macabre.
Here are the prompts and levels.
- Book by a BIPOC (female)
Certain Dark Things, Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Read - Book by a BIPOC (male)
The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones - Read - Folk Horror (Ideas: https://tinyurl.com/yy8jj56a or https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/83087.Folk_Horror_Mystery
- A Gothic horror classic (published 50 or more years ago, published no later than 1972)
The House on the Borderland, William Hope Hodgson - A modern Gothic tale (published within 50 years ago, published 1973 or later)
Dracul, Dacre Stoker/J.D. Barker - Purple, orange, or green on the cover
The Devil in Silver, Victor LaValle - Serial killer from the past - fiction or non-fiction (before 20th century) Examples: Jack the Ripper, H.H. Holmes, Burke and Hare (List of serial killers before 1900)
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson - Short story collection/Anthology
20th Century Ghosts, Joe Hill - Slasher
- Vampires
- Werewolves
Witches
In the House in the Dark Woods, Laird Hunt
Spooky: Read 6 books from 6 catergories
Chilling: Read 12 Books from all 12 categories
Frightful: Read 2 books from each category for a total of 24 books
Horrifying: Read 3 books from each category for a total of 36 books
I'm doing the Chilling level. I've listed some of my planned reads above.
Chilling: Read 12 Books from all 12 categories
Frightful: Read 2 books from each category for a total of 24 books
Horrifying: Read 3 books from each category for a total of 36 books
I'm doing the Chilling level. I've listed some of my planned reads above.
The Enthusiast: Read 1-3 books with movies/shows releasing in 2022
My list of potentials -
The Black Phone, Joe Hill-from 20th Century Ghosts (June 24)Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie (Feb 22)
The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah (Dec 23)
Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates (2022)
Fire and Blood, George R. R. Martin (House of the Dragon, 2022)
Kindred, Octavia E. Butler (2022 or 2023 estimated)
Red Queen, Victoria Aveyard (2022 potentially)
The Movie Was Better (What?!): watch the movie(s) for the book(s) you read.
Kindred, Octavia E. Butler (2022 or 2023 estimated)
Red Queen, Victoria Aveyard (2022 potentially)
Not Ready to Let Go: read at least one (1) book made into a movie or series in 2021
My list of potentials -
The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton (2021)
The Last Duel, Eric Jager (2021)
The Last Duel, Eric Jager (2021)
The Woman in the Window, A. J. Finn (2021)
The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan (2021)
The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan (2021)
All Things Cease to Appear, Elizabeth Brundage (2021) - Read
Living in the Past: read at least one (1) book made into a movie in previous years
Ten, Gretchen McNeil (2017)1.
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