Well it has to be said that I really did a bad job of this years Goodreads Summer Reading Challenge. I did much better with 2018’s Summer Reading Challenge where I could just read whatever book I fancied.
This year there were two sections of the reading challenge:
- Section One: For Beginners
- Section Two: Expert-Level Additions
Within these two Sections their were 21 different categories:
Section One For Beginners:
- Good as Gold: Read a book that won a Goodreads choice award
- The Book is Better: Read a book being adapted for TV or a Film this year
- Short & Sweet: Read a book with less than 100 pages (or a book you can finish in one sitting)
- On the Bandwagon: Read one of the “Most Read” books right now on Goodreads
- Actually Want to Read: Read a book that’s been on your want to read shelf for more than a year
- Not From Around Here: Read a book set in a different culture from your own
- In the Friend Zone: Read a book that a friend has recommended
- It Takes Two: Read a coauthor book
- Wheel of Format: Read a book in a format that you don’t normally read in (a graphic novel, poetry, a play, an audio book, etc)
- New Voices: Read a debut novel
- Past Love: Reread a book you loved when you were younger
- Armchair Traveller: Read a book set in a destination you want to visit
Section Two Expert-Level Additions:
- Stay Awhile: Read a book with more than 500 pages
- Stranger Than Fiction: Read a nonfiction book published this year
- Tongue-Tied: Read a translated book
- No Place Like Home: Read a book that appears in your Goodreads news feed
- Continental Drift: Read a book set on every continent
- Genre Explorer: Read a book from a genre you’ve never read before
- Reading Roulette: Read the third book you see on your “want to read shelf”
- Primary Reading: Read a book with a number or colour in the title
- Back to School: Read a book about a subject you don’t know much about
What I Managed to Completed in 2019’s Goodreads Summer Challenge:
Short & Sweet: Naughty Scott by Frankie Love & C M Seabrook, Pages: 60, My Rating: 
My Review: Here
Actually Want to Read: Someone Else’s Fairytale by E M Tippetts, Pages: 356, My Rating: 
My Review: Here
Not From Around Here: The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri, Pages: 400, My Rating: My Review: Here
It Takes Two: Naughty Scott by Frankie Love & C M Seabrook, Pages: 60, My Rating: My Review: Here
New Voices: Needlemouse by Jane O’Connor, Pages: 352, My Rating: 
My Review: Here
Armchair Traveller: One Last Greek Summer by Mandy Baggot, Pages: 280, My Rating: My Review: Here
Stay Awhile: The Glittering Hour by Iona Grey, (This one is a bit of a cheat as it’s 20 pages short), Pages: 480, My Rating: My Review: Here
Continental Drift: The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri, Pages: 400, My Rating: My Review: Here
Primary Reading: One Last Greek Summer by Mandy Baggot, Pages: 280, My Rating: My Review: Here
As you can see I only managed to complete 9 of the categories. If you see how many books I actually managed to read between the 1st June to 31st August the total was 17 except not all of them fitted in with the Goodreads Reading Challenge.
What I Read This Summer:
- Darkness Awakened by Stephanie Rowe
- Needlemouse by Jane O’Conner
- The Diary of Bink Cummings Vol 2 by Bink Cummings
- Naughty Scott by Frankie Love & C M Seabrook
- The Celtic Connection (Kilts Book 4) by Jeanie M Martin
- Someone Else’s Fairtale by E M Tippitts
- One Last Greek Summer by Mandy Baggot
- The Other Half of Augusta Hope by Joanna Glen
- The Glittering Hour by Iona Grey
- Hell on Wheels (The Kings of Mayhem Book 4) by Penny Dee
- Claiming Mine (Unforgiven Riders M C Book 1) by Amy Davies
- Ruthless King (Mount Trilogy Book 1) by Meghan March
- Defiant Queen (Mount Trilogy Book 2) by Meghan March
- Sinful Empire (Mount Trilogy Book 3) by Meghan March
- Breaking Spade (The Dead Presidents M C Book 6) by Harley Stone
- The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
- Secret Coven (Dark Journals Book 2) by Stephen Skoblick
*** If you did this years Goodreads Summer Reading challenge please let me know how you did. Did you manage to complete more or less of the challenge? ***
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