Beat the Backlist 2024
Beat the Backlist is a yearly reading challenge hosted by Austine Decker. The goal is to help participants read some of the books lingering on their TBR stacks from years past. There are (optional) reading prompts to help motivate or increase the fun. You can follow my challenge progress on this page, which I update monthly.
Read Harder 2024
Read Harder is hosted by BookRiot and contains a list of 24 prompts. These will help participants read more thoughtfully and diversely. I started using a reading tracker spreadsheet that included the prompts, so I figured I’d give it a try. Check out my progress here.
TTT Bookish Goals Challenge for 2024
This is more of a self-challenge. These goals first appeared in my Top Ten Tuesday post back in January called Bookish Goals for 2024.
Reading Goals: 200 Books
As of the beginning of May, I’ve read 95 books, so I’m on target to easily meet this goal.
Backlist Reading Goals
Goal: 3-5 Classics by Women and/or BIPOC. So far this year, I’ve read:
- WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Brontë
- I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS by Maya Angelou
- SENSE & SENSIBILITY by Jane Austen
- THE COLOR PURPLE by Alice Walker
Goal: 3-5 backlist Nonfiction titles: So far I’ve read:
- STAMPED: RACISM, ANTIRACISM AND YOU by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
- GENDERQUEER: A MEMOIR by Maia Kobabe
- KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON by David Grann
- THE 57 BUS by Dashka Slater
Goal: 10-12 Backlist titles: I’ve read about 29 backlist titles so far this year, which is a little more than one-quarter of the books I’ve read.
Beat the Backlist: I joined the Beat the Backlist 2024 Reading Challenge and have tracked the books I’ve read for those prompts on that page. So far, I’ve read 16 out of 52 prompts.
Book Riot’s Read Hard(er) 2024 Challenge: I also joined Book Riot’s Read Hard(er) 2024 Reading Challenge. The books I’ve counted toward those prompts are listed on the page linked above. So far, I’ve completed 10 out of 24 prompts.
