Challenges 2026

It's time to turn the page on another year and in 2025 I completed two reading challenges and read a total of 65 books. This year I'm reducing my annual reading goal to 60 books to accommodate a slow read of the Wolf Hall series of books by Hilary Mantel.

I'm participating in three reading challenges this year, namely Wolf Crawl, the Non Fiction Reader Challenge and the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge. Come and join me!

Wolf Crawl 2026

Wolf Crawl is a year long reading challenge hosted by Simon Haisell from Footnotes and Tangents to read the Wolf Hall trilogy by Hilary Mantel and comprises Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light.

5 January 2026: Wolf Hall (17 weeks) (reading now)
4 May 2026: Bring Up the Bodies (12 weeks)
27 July 2026: The Mirror and the Light (23 weeks)

Non Fiction Reader Challenge 2026

Hosted by fellow Aussie book blogger Shelleyrae at Book'd Out, I signed up to complete the Nonfiction Nibbler level of the challenge. For this, I'll need to read and review 6 books from any 6 of the categories listed below.

1. History

2. Memoir/Biography

3. True Crime
- The Dark Room: Case Files of a Scotland Yard Forensic Photographer by A.J. Hewitt

4. Science
- Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can't Look Away by Coltan Scrivner

5. Health

6. Food
- The Vegemite Cookbook by Vegemite

7. Humour

8. South East Asia
- Unusual Hotels of the World by Steve Dobson

9. Lost or found

10. Television

11. Subculture

12. Published in 2026

What I'm planning on reading for the challenge:
- And How Does That Make You Feel? Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Therapy by Joshua Fletcher (listening now for the Health prompt)
- Chasing Evil: Shocking Crimes, Supernatural Forces, and an FBI Agent’s Search for Hope and Justice by John Edward (reading soon for the True Crime prompt)

You can join in too! Social media tags: #ReadNonFicChal @bookdout (X) @shelleyrae_bookdout (IG)

Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 2026

Hosted by Marg at The Intrepid Reader, I signed up to complete the Medieval Reader level again this year and will need to read and review 15 historical fiction books in order to successfully complete the challenge.

1. Cape Fever by Nadia Davids

2. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab

3. The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola

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What I'm planning on reading for the challenge:
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (reading now for Wolf Crawl)
- Devil's Wolf by Paul Doherty (reading now)

You can join in too! Social media tags: #histficreadingchallenge @MargReads (X & IG)

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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 this year.

Carpe Librum!