2021 Reading Challenges
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spiraliciousThis year I wasn't going to do any reading challenges. That was a lie.
Good Reads 2021
I am not sure how to link specifically to my progress. Maybe I'll put up one of those progress bar things, if I can find the thingy for that.
Shimmering Worlds This is a reading challenge to encourage reading science fiction and fantasy by authors of colour. Created by @ afantasysky on Instagram
(The challenge is supposed to be do the prompt list OR the bingo card, and on Instagram, but since I don't post to Instagram, I thought I would try to do it here and I posted both the prompt list and the bingo card because, while I am unlikely to actually make a bingo, it might be fun to poke at throughout the year)
Prompt List
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3. Graphic Novel
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5. Travel Between Worlds
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8. Gods
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10. Set in Space
11. Translated
12. Dragons
Bingo Card (I love the pretty bingo card, but I don't have a way of reposting it, so I put the prompts in the bingo card code, hopefully, in the same order for posting here)
| post a book inspired look | buy a 2021 release | recommend five books | ||
| read a book featuring Dragons | post a book stack | read a book set in space | post a book review in 3 different online shops | |
| share five posts with BIPOC books in your stories | FREE SPACE | read a graphic novel | post a picture featuring a book map | |
| buy a sequel | write a blog post | read a book with gods | ||
| post a TBR for this challenge | read a book featuring travel between worlds | read a book translated from another language | make something inspired by a book |
link to challenge post on instagram
link to challenge's storygraph
#ShimmeringWorlds
Inauguration Reading List (reading for the first 100 days/10 books for 100 days)
1. The Doctor Who Fooled the World by Brain Deer
Bonus Read: Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria
2. Uncounted by Gilda R. Daniels
Bonus Read: Our Time is Now by Stacey Abrams
3. An American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal
Bonus Read: Health Justice Now by Timothy Faust
4. The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Bonus Read: Welcome to the New World by Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan
5. Evil Geniuses by Kurt Andersen
Bonus Read: Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton
6. The New Climate War by Michael E. Mann
Bonus Read: Tales of Two Planets by John Freeman
7. We Keep Us Safe by Zach Norris
Bonus Read: Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo
8. How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley
Bonus Read: Worldmaking After Empire by Adom Getachew
9. The Merit Myth by Anthony P. Carnevale
Bonus Read: Sustainable. Resilient. Free. by John Warner
10. Joe Biden by Evan Osnos
Enby Book Club (Instagram)
(June 2020) All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson (post reading book questions)
(June 2020) The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz (post reading book questions)
(July 2020) No Man of Woman Born by Ana Mardoll
(August 2020)
(November 2020) A Two Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby
(December 2020) Pew by Catherine Lacey
(January 2021) Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
(February 2021)
(March 2021) Can't Take That Away by Steven Salvatore
(April 2021) Pew by Catherine Lacey
(May 2021)
(June 2021) A Year Without A Name by Cyrus Grace Dunham
(July 2021) Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
(August 2021) The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon
NowandGen Book Club (spread across Instagram, YouTube, and Good Reads)
(May 2020) Southern Ladies Book Club Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (author chat video)
(June 2020) Lot by Bryan Washington (author chat video)
(July 2020)Three Women by Lisa Taddeo (author chat video)
(August 2020) Self Care by Leigh Stein (author chat video)
(September 2020) Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World by John Freeman (author chat video)
(October 2020)
(November 2020)
(December 2020) THE WINTERING: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
(January 2021) Perestroika in Pairs by Jane Smiley
(February 2021) Under the White Sky; The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
(March 2021) Infinite Country by Patricia Engel (author chat video)
(April 2021) How to Prepare for Climate Change; A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos by David Pogue
(May 2021) The Souvenir Museum by Elizabeth McCracken
(June 2021) Animal by Lisa Taddeo
(July 2021) This is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
(August 2021) The Husbands by Chandler Baker
Genre Book Club
