Welcome to my Reading Challenge. There are lots of reading challenges out there, but I hope you’ll like the flexibility found in this one. Reading should be fun.
There are fifteen tasks in each of three categories. Once you have read a book for each task, write down the book’s name and the date you completed it. When all the tasks in one category are finished, let me know on the Footle and Grok blog, and I’ll send you your virtual badge (see below for virtual badge details.)
You can complete the categories in any order and do one, two, or three of them as you wish.
You get to choose which book fits each task; the only rule is no duplicates. It can be a book you’ve read a dozen times or a new book. I won’t be grading you, so have fun with this reading challenge.
Categories
- Reading Roundup
- Genre Gambles
- Author Adventures
Virtual Badges
There are three styles of badges to choose from, Whimsical, Magical, and Scholarly. (You can see each style below.) Each style has three badges that you can earn:
- Finish one category to earn the one badge
- Finish two categories and earn two badges
- Finish all three categories and earn all three badges
Contact info
If you have any questions, are ready to earn a badge, or would like any book suggestions, contact me at boldjmv@gmail.com or here on the Footle and Grok website.
I have several PDF forms of the challenge for you to print.
- Click here for the complete rules and one fill-out sheet for each category
- Click here for a one-page list of all the tasks in all the categories
- Click here for a bookmark that lists all the tasks in all the categories
Reading Roundup
Read a book:
- you read in school
- from your childhood
- published in 2020 or 2021
- with a number in the title
- with an animal in the title
- someone recommended
- from a banned list
- where you want to visit
- that became a movie
- published your birth year
- that won an award
- with dragons
- translated to English
- you never finished
- mentioned in another book
Genre Gambles
Read a book from each genre:
- Afro-futurism
- Graphic novel
- Religion
- Humor
- Biography
- Historical fiction
- Classic
- Science non-fiction
- Romance
- Short story
- Picture book
- Cozy Mystery
- Science Fiction
- Urban Fantasy
- Fairy Tale
Author Adventures
Read an author who is:
- dead
- a different nationality
- a different religion
- Roald Dahl
- family or friend
- a new author
- an indie author
- from Australia
- from Asia
- from Africa
- from Mexico
- from Europe
- from South/Central America
- an LGBTQ+ author
- your favorite author
