Challenges 2023

I successfully completed all of my reading challenges in 2022, but after the Aussie Author Reading Challenge came to an end at the close of 2022, I'll only be participating in 3 reading challenges this year. I'm aiming to read 75 books again in 2023, and will be actively participating in the following challenges throughout the year. Wish me luck!

Non Fiction 2023 Reader Challenge

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

For this, I will need to read and review 6 books from any 6 listed categories below. 

The categories are:
1. History
Black - The History of a Colour by Michel Pastoureau
The Dirt on Clean - An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg
This Mortal Coil - A History of Death by Andrew Doig

2. Memoir/Biography
On Writing - A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
And Away... by Bob Mortimer
What Lies Beneath - My Life as a Forensic Search and Rescue Expert by Peter Faulding

3. Crime & Punishment
The Widow of Walcha by Emma Partridge
Badness by Gary Jubelin

4. Science
Storm in a Teacup - The Physics of Everyday Life by Helen Czerski

5. Health
Built to Move - The 10 Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully
Bizarre - The Most Peculiar Cases of Human Behavior and What They Tell Us about How the Brain Works by Marc Dingman

6. Travel
Maphead - Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings

7. Food
RecipeTin Eats Dinner by Nagi Maehashi

8. Social Media
Copywrong to Copywriter by Tait Ischia

9. Sport

10. Relationships
Sorry, Sorry, Sorry by Marjorie Ingall & Susan McCarthy
Care Packages by Michelle Mackintosh
Fierce Love by Susan Scott

11. The Arts
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera Companion
Almost Lost Arts by Emily Freidenrich
The Book of the Raven - Corvids in Art & Legend by Angus Hyland & Caroline Roberts

12. Published in 2023
Shoes - An Illustrated History by Rebecca Shawcross
Corners of Melbourne by Robyn Annear
Retro Sydney 1950-2000 by Nathan Mete

What I'm planning on reading for the challenge:
- Thinking with Your Hands by Susan Golden-Meadow (reading now for Health prompt)
- You're All Talk by Rob Drummond (reading now for the Relationships or Published in 2023 prompts)

You can join in too! Social media tags: #ReadNonFicChal @bookdout (Twitter) @shelleyrae_bookdout (Instagram).

2023 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge

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.

1. The Whispering Muse by Laura Purcell
2. The Death of John Lacey by Ben Hobson
3. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
4. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
5. The Miniscule Mansion of Myra Malone by Audrey Burges
6. Homecoming by Kate Morton
7. One Illumined Thread by Sally Colin-James
8. The Book of Eve by Meg Clothier
9. The Becoming of Mrs Mulberry by Jackie French
10. Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See

Additional books read for the challenge:
11. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
12. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
13. The Murder of Harriet Monckton by Elizabeth Haynes
14. Newes from the Dead by Mary Hooper
15. The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman

16. Miss Austen by Gill Hornby
17. The Widow of Pale Harbour by Hester Fox
18. Bone Rites by Natalie Bayley
19. The Armour of Light by Ken Follett
20. The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters
21. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
22. The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

Additional books I'm planning on reading for the challenge: 
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You can join in too! Social media tags: #histficreadingchallenge @MargReads (Twitter & Instagram)

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 this year.

Carpe Librum!