My Reading Challenge for 2016

My Reading Journal is full of titles I want to read this year.  My goal is 75 books of all genres including children’s literature.  That goal was set at the New Year on Goodreads, but I am excited about a newer reading challenge that appeared on Facebook in two places.  I have been joining other reading and writing blogs for two months and I discovered a fun one called Modern Mrs. Darcy.  Of course, the title grabbed me immediately because my daughter and I are huge Jane Austen fans.

Want to hear about this fun Reading Challenge for 2016?  You only need to read 12 books per year! I plan to expand on the titles I read but I want to share the 12 categories which are intriguing.  For a mystery lover, I find I will have to do some sleuthing in the library and pick my own brain to come up with the titles which match the categories.  Here are the celebratory ideas some creative readers have shared with us (BTW, the order is arbitrary).

1. What is a title of a book that you should have read in school.  (this category is my hardest to choose.)
2. Choose a book you can read in one day!
3. Read a book recommended by a librarian or bookseller.  ( I am compiling the ones I read in 2015 to match these categories, too, just for fun.)
4. Choose a book recommended by a spouse, a sibling, your child or your BFF.
5. Re-read a book you have read already at least once.  (What fun to re-discover a fav.)
6. Read a book you have abandoned.  (You may want to write notes in your journal telling why you abandoned the book and what you think now.)
7. Find a book to read that was written before you were born.
8. Can you read a new book published in the current year?
9. Check out a list of banned books and read one you never read.
10.  Choose a book that has always intimidated you.  (Ulysses by James Joyce, anyone?)
11. Look on your shelf at home for a book you own and have never read.  ( A treasure!)
12. Read a book you have always been meaning to read.