Challenge Addict 2021 Links to My Challenge tracking

  I decided to try something a little different for tracking which challenges I am doing this year.  Since I plan to sign up for the reading challenge addict challenge I figured I would use this challenge page as the compilation page for all the challenges.  This site also hosts intermittent reading challenges at different times of the year as well.  

How addicted are you?

• Easy as Pie: 1-5 Challenges (Entered & Completed)
• On the Roof: 6-10 Challenges (Entered & Completed)
• In Flight: 11-15 Challenges (Entered & Completed)
• Out of This World: 16+ Challenges (Entered & Completed)    <=====  Going for this level

Click on the challenge titles to see the detailed post about that challenge and the books I've read for each challenge.   The date in parentheses is the completion date of the challenge

General Tracking Challenges

Library Love  #LibraryLoveChallenge  

Literary Escapes  (Destination) 

AtoZ   #2021AtoZReadingChallenge

Alphabet Soup #AlphabetSoupChallenge  

Alphabet Soup Author Edition #AlphabetSoupAuthorChallenge  

Finishing the Series   #FinishingTheSeries2021

Color Coded

Audiobook

TBR Based Challenges

Beat the Backlist #BTB2021

2021TBR  #2021ReadingChallenge

Mount TBR   #MountTBR2021

Virtual Mount TBR #VirtualMountTBR2021

Back List Reader  #Backlistreader

Genre Specific

Calendar of Crime  #CalendarOfCrime2021   

Cozy Mysteries   

Cruisin thru Cozies 

Cloak & Dagger  #CloakDaggerChal 

Craving for Cozies  

Memoir

Historic Fiction  #histficreadingchallenge  

Non Fiction Reader  #2021ReadNonFic 

Humor  

Prompt Based Challenges

PopSugar #popsugarreadingchallenge

Around the Year in 52 Books

52 Book Club

The Unofficial Magnus Archives Challenge

BooklistQueen

A Pretty Mess Challenge

NJM Book Challenge  #NJMBookChallenge2021  

While I was Reading  

What's in a Name   

Nerd Daily  #NERDREADING2021

Bookworm  

Magic in the Books

Spells and Spaceships 

Pick your Poison

Bloggers Bookshelf   #bloggersbookshelf

Monthly Criteria

Monthly Motif #MonthlyMotifGXO

Monthly Keyword #MonthlyKeyWordGXO

Monthly Book Awards #AwardReadingChallenge

Uncorked Reader #UncorkedReading2021

Book Voyage  #bookvoyagechallenge

Diversify your reading #DYRC21

Beyond the Bookends  

Backpacking Bookworm  #bbReadingChallenge2021 

Creative Tracking Challenges

Medical Examiner Challenge  

Beachcomber Challenge  

Six Shooter Challenge  

52 books in 52 weeks

Agatha Christie 

Unruly Reader Bingo  

Chapter Break Book Bingo

Hi, I'm Traci and I have a book problem...

As the past few posts have pointed out I am a bit addicted to finding reading challenges for 2020.  The next posts will be outlining in more detail the challenges I am attempting and more importantly where you can find them and do them yourself.

I think I counted more than 20 challenges I plan to attempt that I have mentioned in the previous 2 entries.  So, it is only fitting that I have signed up for The Reading Challenge Addict contest.


This fun blog has a level approach to set a goal for how many challenges you are going to participate in and FINISH.  That's the tough part folks. I am aiming high for the Out of this World Level but there are many other levels to get you started in the world of book challenges.  Sign up here 


The site has a description of the levels you can sign up to attempt.  This is found under their about tab.

How addicted are you?

• Easy as Pie: 1-5 Challenges (Entered & Completed)
• On the Roof: 6-10 Challenges (Entered & Completed)
• In Flight: 11-15 Challenges (Entered & Completed)
• Out of This World: 16+ Challenges (Entered & Completed)

What if I don't know of any challenges?

 Reading challenge addicts also have a great listing of challenges that are out on the web to try for 2020. The list contains all sorts of different topics and themes.  They even list some that are open ended and not specific to 202.  Their listing can be found here

If you cannot find enough there, the Girls XOXO have a listing of 2020 challenges are their blog as well.  It can be found here.

There is some overlap between the 2 lists but lots of unique challenges on each on.

Stay tuned for more challenge details to come.   Remember to see the different challenges I am attempting, see the previous posts Starting to Sort the challenges and And Then There were more.

And then there were more

Had you fooled for a minute didn't I?   No we are not talking about the Agatha Christie book just yet.  It is on my planned reading list for 2020 so we will get to it later.  Right now we are talking about more challenges.

Apparently I am a bit crazy when it comes to reading.  I have found some additional challenges I am going to attempt in 2020.   Fortunately, most of them are just building on the others I have already selected.  Most of them just involve tracking my reading of my mysteries that I already do by default.

One that is a bit more involved is the 2020 TBR List found at Stacked-reviews   This involves 22 challenge prompts many of which overlap with others I already am attempting.

The other more complex challenge I just discovered is the 20 in 20 challenge hosted on A Bookworms musings.  This is 20 prompts to chose from but there's an additional spin to pick 10 nonfiction and 10 fiction titles to fit the prompts.

Escape with DollyCas has several challenges she is hosting in 2020.

• 2 challenges related to the alphabet.  One is Alphabet Soup for titles and the other is Alphabet Soup Authors.   Pretty straightforward AtoZ challenges

• A bit more complex challenge is her Literary Escapes Challenge.  Trying to "visit" 50 States plus DC during the year.  You accumulate points for each you accomplish, with a bonus if you make all 50.  I will track for fun but doubt I will hit all 50 states. 

Carolina Book Nook is hosting a challenge that is all about Titles.  There are 6 Categories in the What's in a Name 2020 challenge.  Seems pretty fun and straightforward

I found 2 more challenges that are all about setting goals and tracking tallies.  Not too hard to do if you are already doing other challenges.

1. The Library Love Challenge at Angel's Guilty Pleasures is just what it sounds like.  Track books borrowed from Library.
2. Cloak and Dagger involves tracking mystery books you read.  It is hosted at Carol's Notebook

This last group of challenges are quite unique.  They are hosted at Rick Mill Project.   Rather than prompts, Rick uses different themed ways to track mystery books you read.  

1. The Medical Examiner Mystery challenge involves tracking who dies and how.  You then submit a Death Certificate report for each book you've read
2. There is also a Murder Mystery Bingo  This involves tracking items you come across in the story you read, trying for Bingo.  
3. The Six shooter challenge involves tracking how many times you read an author.  You aim for 6, but be careful not to be too ambitious because accuracy counts

Well, this means if  I have added correctly that I might be trying to do more than 20 challenges in 2020.   I guess I better grab a cup of tea and a blanket and get started.  At least it's Winter and I have an excuse to stay indoors.  See you in Spring.

Starting to sort the challenges

Right now I am trying to get myself all set up for the different challenges I want to try in 2020.  This means I have listed all the prompts to select books from into a separate tab for each challenge.  I have then brainstormed ideas and cross referenced where a book can count for more than 1 challenge.  I don't realistically see myself having the time to read unique books for each challenge although there are readers out there who want cross utilize a title for different challenges.  I think half the fun for me is the setup and the research and planning.

Some of these challenges require a monthly commitment whereas others are a less demanding approach.

My plans for this year are:

Popsugar Reading Challenge

Around the Year in 52 Books on Goodreads

52 books in 52 weeks on mommymannegren 

A to Z challenge on gingermomandcompany

A color based challenge on myreadersblock

Girlxoxo.com is hosting several that interested me.  They also have a listing of book challenges to reference.

•  A monthly book award challenge

• A monthly motif and

• A monthly keyword challenge

There are several challenges based on genre of the books.  I am using the prompts in the 52 week challenges to address many of these categories

• For my love of mysteries I found  Calendar of Crime on myreadersblock

• Memoir lovers can find a challenge on jannghi.blogspot.com

• Historical Non Fiction is being hosted over at hiberantors library 

Several of the challenges just involve a tally of how many books you finish falling into the category.

The two I want to track are:

Mount TBR on Goodreads- to track how many books you read that you already own physical or ebook.  You set a goal of how many on your list you want to tackle.  If you reach that mountain top you can scale something higher.

Like Mount TBR, Craving for a cozy is about tracking how many cozies you read.  I found this challenge on www.escapewithdollycas.com

Since I have bitten off so many challenges I decided it was only fitting that I join a challenge tracking how many challenges you are doing.   I found this at reading challenge addict.  

Stay tuned over the next few posts for descriptions of the individual challenges to see if you might be interested in joining in.