Reading Challenges in 2016

I had a relatively good year with my reading in 2015. I guess I didn’t over-commit myself this year as opposed to 2013 and 2014. In 2015, I only did the Goodreads challenge and my target was to read 25 books. As of today, I have read 28 books and I’m sure I’ll get it up to at least 30 by the end of the year. It’s a good time though to think about my challenges for the new year. As I don’t have uni this year, and because I will get to travel by public transport to work, I think I should be able to set my sights higher. For 2016, I have signed up to the following reading challenges:

Goodreads Challenge: I am setting my target this year to 40 books, 15 more than 2015. You can add me on Goodreads to follow my journey.

Aussie Author Challenge: I have previously participated in this challenge by Jo and loved it. I stopped in the past two years but I’m back this year. I love my Aussie authors and this challenge expands my knowledge of them. I’m aiming to reach the Kangaroo level of reading 12 books by Aussie authors {4 males, 4 females and 4 authors that are new to me}

Erin’s Book Challenge 4.0: Erin runs this reading challenge via a Facebook group twice a year. It is a points based challenge and is quite interesting. Basically we read 10 books with set guidelines (e.g. a book starting with the letter D, a book set in Asia etc.) between 1st January 2016 and 30th April 2016. My list for this is as follows:

• Any book that is at least 200 pages long (5 pts): The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
• Begins with the letter “D” (10 pts): Daughter by Jane Shemilt
• Book with a four word title (10 pts): The lives of others by Neel Mukherjee
• Book with one of the following words in the title “Mother(s), Father(s), Son(s), Daughter(s), Child(ren) (10 pts): The secret daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
• A book by Amazon’s top 100 authors (20 pts): True colours by Kristin Hannah
• A book set in Asia (20 pts): Bombay time by Thrity Umrigar
• A book with a season in the title (“Summer”, “Spring”, “Winter”, “Autumn”, I’ll even allow “Fall”) (25 pts): Summerland by Malcolm Knox
• A book that will make you laugh from the attached list (30 pts): Bossypants by Tina Fey
• A book that is a friend or family member’s favourite (30 pts): The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
• A book published the year you were born (35 pts): Money by Martin Amis

Outdo yourself reading challenge: Corinne is running this challenge where we try to outdo our reading from the previous year. As my goal is to read 40 books, which is 15 more than 2015, I will be looking at the Breaking a Sweat level of this challenge.

How have you been going with your reading? 

Are you joining in on any challenges in 2016? 

Do share!

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Until next time,

Cheers!!!