My 52 Week Reading Challenge 2018

52 Challenges, 52 Books

At the end of last year I decided to embark on a journey when I stumbled across this list of 52 reading challenges for 2018 on Pinterest. The list was created by Liz Mannegren, and you can find it here: https://mommymannegren.com/2017/11/28/2018-reading-challenge-free-printable/amp/

Last year I only read 37 books so I wanted to push myself to read more and 52 seemed doable. Well I have far exceeded my goal of 52 books, but not every book I have read this year met one of the categories. I wanted to count one book for one challenge, not mark off a bunch of the challenges for one book. I really struggled with some of the challenges and others were incredibly easy. Here are all the challenges, the books I read to meet those challenges, and what rating I have gave those books. I completed 50 out of the 52! 

• A book by a Canadian author - Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery: 4/5
• A childhood favorite - Uglies by Scott Westerfeld: 3/5
• A novel that is considered a "classic" - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett: 5/5
• A mystery novel - All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda: 3/5
• A book you've been meaning to read but haven't gotten to - Colorblind by Aaron Slade: 5/5
• A science fiction novel - Now That You're Here by Amy K. Nichols: 3/5
• An adventure/espionage novel - A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle: 3/5
• A biography - An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew by Annejet van der Zijl: 4/4
• A book that challenges your viewpoint - The Cresswell Plot by Eliza Wass: 3/5
• The first book in a trilogy - Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa: 5/5
• A book with over 600 pages - Perfect by Ellen Hopkins: 3/5
• A book you can read in a day - Angelhead by Greg Bottoms: 4/5
• A book that has won a Pulitzer Prize - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr: 5/5
• Any book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas: 5/5
• A book that has been made into a movie - Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli: 4/5
• A book chosen solely by its cover - Caraval by Stephanie Garber: 4/5
• A book on theology - The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence: 3/5
• A celebrity memoir - Where Am I Now? by Mara Wilson - 4/4
• A book with a six-word title - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark: 3/5
• A book set in  country you want to visit - The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee: 5/5
• A book that makes you laugh out loud - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty: 4/5
• A book you read in school - Did Not Complete
• A book with a green spine - Tomorrow Girls: Behind the Gates by Eva Gray: 4/5
• A book with a character that shares your name - Impulse by Ellen Hopkins: 4/5
• A book published in 2018 - Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan: 5/5
• A book recommended by a friend - Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders: 4/5
• A book recommended by a librarian - Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow: 4/5
• A book written by an author under 30 - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green: 4/5
• A book written before 1920 - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: 4/5
• A book that makes you cry - Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward: 3/5
• An e-book - The Emperor of Evening Stars by Laura Thalassa: 4/5
• A book with bad reviews - Rainbow Party by Paul Ruditis: 2/5
• A Young Adult bestseller - They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera: 4/5
• A book set in Africa - Dear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 4/5
• A book by Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie: 3/5
• A historical non-fiction book - The Great Degeneration by Niall Ferguson: N/A
• A book that inspires you - Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor: 5/5
• A short story - Soldiers of Spiritos from Do Not Deny Me by Jean Thompson: N/A
• A book that's been on the New York Times Bestseller list for more than 10 weeks - Life After Life by Kate Atkinson: 2/5
• Political book (fiction or non-fiction) - Demagoguery and Democracy by Patricia Roberts-Miller: 4/5
• A book by a Scandinavian author - Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist: 2/5
• A book with non-human characters - Strange Hymn by Laura Thalassa: 4/5
• A book about a topic you're passionate about - The Sociological Imagination: 2/5
• A book set in the Middle East - Did Not Complete
• A book already on your bookshelf - The Dominion of the Dead by Robert Pogue Harrison: 3/5
• A book that was once banned - The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky: 5/5
• A book originally published in the year you were born - Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine: 3/5
• A book about travel - While You Were Gone by Amy K. Nichols: 3/5
• A foreign book translated into English - The Emperor's Handbook by Marcus Aurelius: 4/5
• A book with the letter "Y" somewhere in the title - The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin: 4/5
• A book with food on the cover - Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser: 3/5
• A book about a current world issue - The Truth Matters by Bruce Bartlett: 3/5