This year was the first year that I participated in Reading Challenges. I participated in five different reading challenges, and they were a lot of fun.
While I met every prompt for each challenge, I will say that I didn’t do them in order, and I am not planning on doing it in order next year; I enjoy going with the flow when I read!
The first challenge I participated in was the Goodreads reading challenge. The goal I originally set for myself was 150 books, but after challenges with anxiety that got in the way of my reading and then starting college, I lowered my goal to 120 books. I completed this goal and read 139 books in 2024!
The second challenge that I participated in was through my local library. There was a goal to read 75 books and I completed that goal during the summer, if I recall correctly.
The third challenge I completed was a Fairytale Retelling Challenge. The challenge was to read fairytale retellings to meet specific prompts. The prompts were:
Bluebeard which I meet by reading Beasts and Beauty.
Red Riding Hood which I met by reading Scarlet.
Hansel and Gretel which I met by reading Beasts and Beauty.
Beauty and the Beast which I met by reading Belle.
Cinderella which I met by reading Cinder and So This is Love.
Aladdin which I met by reading The Desert Princess.
Rapunzel which I met by reading Golden and Cress.
Free Choice which I met by reading Wild Orchid and Fate be Changed.
Rumpelstiltskin which I met by reading Beasts and Beauty.
Peter Pan which I met by reading Beasts and Beauty.
Snow White which I met by reading Winter.
The Nutcracker which I met by reading Nutcracked.
The second challenge I participated in was the Color Coded Reading Challenge. In this challenge I had to match up the color of the book to the prompt. The prompts were blue; red; yellow; green; brown; black; white; purple, orange, silver, or pink; and rainbow, polka dot, plaid, shadow, paint or ink.
The hardest prompt for me to meet was the rainbow, polka dot, plaid, shadow, paint, or ink. I met this prompt with Mind the Gap, Dash and Lily.
The final challenge I took part in was the Keyword Challenge. The goal of this challenge was to match up a book with a word in the title that is part of one of the months prompts. Here are the prompts:
JAN– Secret, Heaven, True, House, Come, Only, Know, Winter
I completed this prompt by reading Winter by Marissa Meyer.
FEB– Heir, Night, Bride, Down, Women, Hand, Teach, Guest
I completed this prompt by reading All Fall Down by Ally Carter.
MAR– Story, Hunt, Plot, City, You, Cry, Another, Paint
I completed this prompt by reading The Storyteller’s Daughter by Cameron Dokey.
APR– Darling, Funny, Familiar, Somewhere, List, Meet, Never, Word
I completed this prompt by reading Unfamiliar by Haley Newsome.
MAY– Library, Dark, Drown, Ex, Iron, Done, Love, Stranger
I completed this prompt by reading I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn.
JUN– Ink, Fragile, Road, Summer, Breath, Every, Push, Sorry
I completed this prompt by reading The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han.
JUL– Mine, Again, Honey, Paradise, Still, Club, Train, Legend
I completed this prompt by reading Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree.
AUG– School, Cut, Sky, Fate, Wing, Belong, Justice, Way
I completed this prompt by reading Fate Breaker by Victoria Aveyard.
SEP– Twice, World, Man, Quiet, Sweet, Hold, Shallow, Invisible
I completed this prompt by reading World’s Collide by Chris Colfer.
OCT– Vampire, Here, Mist, Death, One, Missing, Bite, Witch
I completed this prompt by reading The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm by Christopher Paolini.
NOV– Spice, Life, Hello, Keep, Truly, Couple, Joy, Young
I completed this prompt by reading Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart.
DEC– Snow, Season, Ice, Merry, White, Under, Mistletoe, Inn
I completed this prompt by reading Let it Snow by John Green, Lauran Myracle, and Maureen Johnson.
2024 was a fun year, with new challenges and new books. I’m looking forward to 2025 and the challenges it brings!
How did your 2024 reading challenges go?
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