To start off the new year, I decided to sign up for four reading challenges. It seems like a lot, but in reality, there’s a lot of crossover so it’s not as daunting as I expected. How am I doing so far?

First is the Library Love Reading Challenge. My goal was to read at least 36 books to make me an Overdrive Junkie. So far, I’ve read three books from the library, all borrowed through Overdrive to read on my Kindle. This does not bode well for all the physical books I check out on a regular basis but can never seem to get to, and I end up having to return them because somebody else wants them. I’m due to pick up more books this week, including several of the newly announced children’s books award winners and honorable mentions for 2021, so hopefully I can get to some of those.

Next is the 2021 Audibook Challenge. My goal was Marathoner, or listening to 50+ books. Since I can listen to audiobooks at work, this has been no problem. So far I’ve listened to about 15 books, but have only reviewed eight this month. I’ve been writing reviews all weekend of the other audiobooks I’ve finished and have most of February scheduled already!

Next is my Goodreads Reading Challenge for 2021. My goal is to read or listen to 100 books. I don’t post my books on Goodreads until I’ve reviewed them here on the blog, so it’s not the most accurate depiction of how many books I’ve read because some were read or listened to at the tail end of 2020. Currently my stats say I’m at 19 books.

Next is the 2021 Reading Challenge: 52 Weeks, 52 Books There are specific categories for this one:

Reading Challenge 2021

1. A Productivity Book
2. Book Becoming a Movie in 2021
3. Goodreads Winner in 2021
4. Biography
5. About a Pressing Social Issue’
6. A Book About Books
7. Set in the 1920s
8. An Author Who Uses Initials
9. Poetry
10. A 2020 Bestseller
11. Recommended by a Colleague
12. With a Number in the Title
13. Bottom of Your To-Read List
14. Reread a Favorite Book: All Creatures Great and Small (review to come tomorrow!)
15. Own Voices Story
16. Published in the 1800s
17. Local Author
18. Longer Than 400 Pages: Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy by Larry Tye
19. A Book Turned Into a TV Series All Creatures Great and Small, The Duke and I (Bridgertons)
20. A Book That Makes You Think
21. A WWII Story
22. A Highly Anticipated Book
23. Eye-Catching Cover
24. A Summer Read
25. Coming of Age Story
26. Bestselling Memoir No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality by Michael J. Fox
27. Book Club Favorite
28. A Book About Friendship
29. An Audiobook
30. Set in Australia When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O’Neal (Okay, so it’s New Zealand, but that’s pretty close)
31. By a Nobel Prize winner
32. About an Immigrant
33. Time Travel Novel
34. An Author You Love
35. Childhood Favorite The Clue in the Jewel Box (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #20)
36. Classic Read in High School All Creatures Great and Small
37. Borrowed from the Library
38. Nonfiction New York Times Bestseller
39. From an Indie Publisher
40. Fantasy Spellbreaker by Charles M. Holmberg
41. A Sequel
42. Recommended by a Librarian
43. Psychological Thriller
44. Book Club Pick
45. A Book About Technology
46. Title with Three Words #NetGalley ARC Review #TheLastTiara by M.J. Rose
47. Debut Novel of Famous Author
48. Genre You Don’t Usually Read
49. A Book Everyone Is Talking About
50. You Own But Haven’t Read
51. Borrowed from a Friend
52. A 2021 New Release

So far so good. How are you doing on your reading challenges?