Time to Give Me Your Recs!

Do I think anyone will see this? Nah, not really. But it's still worth a shot. I've tried this type of post before, but when you do not have readers, you get what you get and you don't throw a fit.

In 2021, I decided I wanted to diversify my reading to get me out of a reading rut. I searched the internet for Reading Challenges and came across a couple goods ones, and I'm thankfully filling them up fast.

Every time I finish a book, I compare it to my list of outstanding challenges, which you may have seen in my TikTok visual ASMR scrapbooking reviews. Therefore, the remaining outstanding list has been updated since the last time I tried to get responses from a post like this.

The following are my outstanding challenges. Some of them have books planned to fulfill them, I just have to get around to it or find a copy. I also have over 1,200 books on my TBR list at Goodreads. If you've read one of them and it fits a prompt, please be a dear and let me know? GOODREADS TBR

The Uncorked Librarian 2020

• International Indie Novel
• Translated Woman Author (planned: Rita Indiana, Tentacle)
• Hygge Book (planned: Clara Christensen, Hygge and Kisses)

PopSugar 2021

• Book about Body Positivity
• Book about a Passion Subject
• Book published Anonymously (planned: Nick Carter Killmaster)
• Book by an Indigenous Author
• Book by a Muslim American (planned: Samira Ahmed, Hollow Fires)
• Book by an Online Personality (planned: Daniel B Green, Breach of Peace)
• Book by an Author with Shared Zodiac: Aries (planned: Patricia C Wrede, Frontier Child)
• Book with a Card Suit on the Cover (planned: Carole Nelson Douglas, The Cat and the King of Clubs)
• Features a Family Tree
• A Free Book from Your TBR (planned: Jayne Deaux, Carved by Secrets)
• Longest Book on Your TBR (planned: Victor Hugo, Les Misérables)
• Oxymoron in the Title
• Title is the Same as a Song

The Uncorked Librarian 2021

• Translated from Spanish (planned: Rita Indiana, Tentacle)
• Banned Book from the 21st Century (planned: Lawrence Hill, The Book of N3groes)
• True Crime (planned: Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City)
• Inspired by Norse Mythology (planned: Rick Riordan, The Sword of Summer)

Booklist Queen 2022

• About Nature (planned: Richard Powers, The Overstory)
• A Local Author: Indiana
• Nonfiction Bestseller
• Shakespearean Play (planned: William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew)
• Muslim Protagonist (planned: Samira Ahmed, Hollow Fires)
• Purchased in a Bookstore
• Set in the 1980s (planned: Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow)

PopSugar 2022

• About a Band or Musical Group
• Adapted to Screen in 2022
• Pacific Islander Author
• Ace Spectrum Character
• Cutlery on the Cover
• Tiger on the Cover (planned: Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger)
• Features a Nonpatriarchal Society
• Social Horror
• Protagonist uses a Mobility Aid
• Set in Favorite Season: Spring
• Set in a Sister City: Chicago
• Board Game in Title (planned: John Ellsworth, No Trivial Pursuit)
• Onomatopoeia in Title (planned: Rene Gutteridge, Boo Hiss!)
• Palindromic Title
• Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner

The Uncorked Librarian 2022

• Set in a Vineyard/About Wine
• Set in Australia
• Set in a Haunted House
• Set in Thailand
• Set in Ecuador

Beyond the Bookends 2023

• Historical Romance
• About Music, Bands, and Musicians

Booklist Queen 2023

• Adapted into a Movie in 2023
• Local Author: Indiana
• Contemporary Fiction Bestseller
• Jenna Book Club Pick
• Borrowed from a Friend (Anyone comfortable with loaning? Promise I'll give it back. lol)
• Holiday Romance (planned: CR McCormack, Mobster Under the Mistletoe)
• Western
• YA Historical Fiction
• Published before 1850
• Rated 5 Star
• Set in 1930s
• Set in South America
• Set in World War I
• Award Winning Nonfiction
• A Goodreads 2022 Winner
• Newberry Award Winner

PopSugar 2023

• About Athlete/Sports (planned: CR McCormack, I Think I'm Playing for a Mobster)
• About Divorce
• About/Set in Hollywood
• Banned in 2022
• Just Text on the Cover
• Rabbit on the Cover
• Features a Love Triangle
• Published Spring 2023
• Published Year You Were Born: 1980
• Purchased at an Independent Bookstore
• Celebrity Book Club
• Set During a Non-Christmas Holiday
• Based on a Popular Movie
• Song Lyric Title
• Written Originally as Fanfiction (I will not read Fifty Shades, so do not recommend it.)

The Uncorked Librarian 2023

• Japanese Fantasy
• Set in Costa Rica (planned: Erich Krauss, Primitives)
• Set in Hawai'i
• Features Unicorns
• Set in Kenya
• LGBTQIA+ Graphic Novel
• About Animals
• About Music, Bands, or Musicians
• Set in Canada
• Set in New Zealand
• Set in One Day (planned: Alison B Hart, The Work Wife)
• Set in Panama
• About Beer
• Set in a Castle
• Set in Ireland
• Set in Scotland

2024

I have not focused heavily on the 2024 challenges, but I have a small rule. Books read can only be used for challenges that year or previous years, not future. Since I have only 18 Completely Read books this year so far, they haven't actually fit all that well into the challenges much.

Beyond the Bookends 2024

• JAN - Read a Book Being Adapted to Screen
• MAR - Middle Grade Realistic Fiction
• APR - Read a Book Set Abroad
• MAY - Read a Biographical Fiction
• JUN - Read an Animal Novel
• AUG - Read a Fashion Book
• NOV - Read a Feel Good Nonfiction
• DEC - Read a Holiday Story

January-March

• Book with a Con Artist
• Old Hollywood Setting
• Book to be Adapted
• Sherlock Holmes or Retelling
• Fake Dating

April-June

• Classic or a Classic Retelling
• Middle grade Realistic Fiction
• Set in College
• Friends to Lovers
• Book Set Abroad
• Psychological Thriller
• Book with a Pirate
• Biographical Fiction
• Book to Make You Cry

July-September (not yet announced)

October-December (not yet announced)

Booklist Queen 2024

• Goodreads Winner in 2023
• Set in the 1950s
• Flowers on the Cover
• Published in 2014
• Purple Cover
• With Multiple Points of View
• A Book You Couldn't Put Down
• One Word Title
• 2024 Debut Author
• 2023 Bestseller
• Intriguing Premise
• A Friend's Favorite Book
• Author from the Southern Hemisphere
• Your Favorite Genre: Fantasy
• Character Who is an Actor
• Recommended on a Podcast
• Set in Paris
• 3 Books by the Same Author (2) (planned: Luanne G Smith, The Vine Witch)
• 3 Books by the Same Author (3) (planned: Luanne G Smith, The Witch's Lens)
• A Quick Read
• Set During Autumn
• Classic by a Female Author
• Memoir by a Person You Admire
• About a Historical Event
• Written Under a Pseudonym
• Legal Thriller
• Fantasy Book
• Popular Book You've Never Read
• Inspiring Nonfiction
• 2024 New Release
• Genre You Don't Usually Read
• You Own But Haven't Read
• Book About Books
• Book Everyone Is Talking About
• With a Place in the Title
• Beyond the Bookends 2024
• Read a Book Being Adapted to Screen
• Middle Grade Realistic Fiction
• Read a Book Set Abroad
• Read a Biographical Fiction
• Read an Animal Novel
• Read a Fashion Book
• Read a Feel Good Nonfiction
• Read a Holiday Story
• Book with a Con Artist
• Old Hollywood Setting
• Book to be Adapted
• Sherlock Holmes or Retelling
• Fake Dating
• Classic or a Classic Retelling
• Middle grade Realistic Fiction
• Set in College
• Friends to Lovers
• Book Set Abroad
• Psychological Thriller
• Book with a Pirate
• Biographical Fiction
• Book to Make You Cry

The Uncorked Librarian 2024

January-March

• Mount Everest
• Folk Horror
• Favorite City
• Werewolves
• Fem STEM

April-June

• Cuba
• Prolific Author
• Southern Gothic
• Ancient Greece
• Debut
• Indian Mythology
• Dark Fantasy

July-September

• Appalachia
• Celebrity Memoir
• Apocalypse
• Great Outdoors
• Croatia
• Vietnam
• Noir Mystery
• BIPOC

October-December

• Coffee
• Outer Space
• Serial Killers Or Con-artists
• Historical Fiction
• Weather Event/Natural Disaster
• New England
• Diaspora
• Favorite Holiday/Season