Challenges 2022

I successfully completed all of my reading challenges in 2021, and have signed up for the following year long challenges in 2022:

• Aussie Author Reading Challenge 2022
• 2022 Nonfiction Reader Challenge
• Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 2022

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Aussie Author Reading Challenge 2022

Hosted by Jo from Booklover Book Reviews, I'm aiming to complete the Kangaroo level of the challenge. I'll need to read and review 12 books by Australian authors, of which at least 4 are female, 4 are male, 4 are new-to-me authors and at least 3 genres are covered.

Social media tags: #AussieAuthor22 @BLBookReviews (Twitter)

1.  The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

2.  Vanished by James Delargy

3.  Adrift in Melbourne by Robyn Annear

4.  The Winter Dress by Lauren Chater

5.  Greenlight by Benjamin Stevenson

6.  The Attack by Catherine Jinks

7.  The Tens by Vanessa Jones

8.  Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

9.  What Makes Us Tick by Hugh Mackay

10. CSI Told You Lies by Meshel Laurie

11. Unforgiven by Sarah Barrie

12. Treasure & Dirt by Chris Hammer

Additional books read for the challenge:
13. Characters - Cultural Stories Revealed Through Typography by Stephen Banham

14. Missing, Presumed Dead by Mark Tedeschi QC

15. The Crimson Thread by Kate Forsyth

16. Once Upon A Camino by Matthew S. Wilson

17. Westography by Warren Kirk

18. The Brightest Star by Emma Harcourt

19. Hydra by Adriane Howell

20. Farmhouse by Sophie Blackall

21. A Lifetime of Impossible Days by Tabitha Bird
22. Runt by Craig Silvey

23. The Carnival is Over by Greg Woodland

24. Old Vintage Melbourne 1960 - 1990 by Chris Macheras
25. Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
26. The Way It Is Now by Garry Disher

27. Headcase by Jack Heath

2022 Nonfiction Reader Challenge

Hosted by fellow Aussie book blogger Shelleyrae at Book'd Out, I'm aiming to complete the Nonfiction Nibbler level of the challenge this year.

Social media tags: #ReadNonFicChal @bookdout (Twitter) @shelleyrae_bookdout (Instagram)

For this I'll need to read and review 6 books from any of the following categories:

1.  Social History (The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer)

2.  Popular Science (Revelations in Air: by Jude Stewart)

3.  Language

4.  Medical Memoir (All the Living and the Dead: A Personal Investigation Into the Death Trade by Hayley Campbell)

5.  Climate/Weather

6.  Celebrity (The Killer Across the Table by John E. Douglas)

7.  Reference (Bibliophile by Jane Mount)

8.  Geography (Adrift in Melbourne by Robyn Annear)

9.  Companion to a podcast

10. Wild Animals

11. Economics

12. Published in 2022 (Missing, Presumed Dead by Mark Tedeschi QC)

Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 2022

Hosted by Marg at The Intrepid Reader, I've signed up to complete the Renaissance Reader level again this year. For this I'll need to read 10 historical fiction books to complete the challenge.

Social media tags: #histficreadingchallenge @MargReads (Twitter & Instagram)

1.  The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

2.  The Winter Dress by Lauren Chater

3.  The Leviathan by Rosie Andrews

4.  The Language of Food by Annabel Abbs

5.  The Swift and the Harrier by Minette Walters

6.  Elizabeth of York: The Last White Rose by Alison Weir

7.  The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

8.  The Crimson Thread by Kate Forsyth

9.  The Night Ship by Jess Kidd

10. The Brightest Star by Emma Harcourt

Additional books read for the challenge:
11. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

12. Dawnlands by Philippa Gregory
13. The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
14. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

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I hope you'll enjoy following my reading progress as I make my way through these challenges and let me know if you're participating in any reading challenges.

Carpe Librum!