2017 Reading Challenge

Goodreads Reading Challenge

Hosted by: Goodreads

Goal: 70 books

Check my progress here

Discussion Challenge

Hosted by: Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight

Goal: 12 discussion posts

1. Changing of Seasons in YA Love Interest
2. Does insta-love only exists in real life or is it only in YA?
3. What is your perspective while reading?
4. Women’s History Month: Wonder Women that Help Shape Indonesia
5. How My Reading Nook Will Look Like

6. Book Cover Doppelganger

7. Prequel, Sequels and Novella – Are the Authors Milking or Expanding the Series?
8. Intersectionality on Diversity
9. ARCs and Materialism
10. Contemporary = Perfect Read for Summer?
11. About Albus Dumbledore
12. Creative Boundaries in Writing Retellings
13. Books I Need to Read Before 2017 Ends
14. High School: U.S. vs Indonesia
15. Does Our Value Affects Our Reading Opinion?
16. 7 Blacksheep Bookish Opinion
17. What is the Perfect Page Length?

Personal Challenges:

Read 12 Classic

1. Arsene Lupin: The Golden Triangle by Maurice leBlanc
2. Herakles by Menelaos Stephanides
3. The Hideout by Egon Hotovsky
4. Arsene Lupin: The Crystal Stopper by Maurice leBlanc
5. The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Read 3 Debut

1. Done Dirt Cheap by Sarah Nicole Lemon
2. The Hundreth Queen by Emily R. King
3. Geekerella by Ashley Poston
4. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
5. Forest of A Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao

Read 5 Non-fiction

1. #Girlboss by Sophia Amorusso
2. Hello Me, It’s You by Various Authors
3. I Feel Bad by Orli Auslander
4. Breaking Up is Hard to Do… But You Could’ve Done Better by Hilary Campbell
5. 101 Things Young Adult Should Know by John Hawkins
6. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
7. Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (DNF)
8. Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson (DNF)
9. One Nation: America Remembers 9/11 10 years later by LIFE Magazine
10. Beautiful Bodies by Kimberly Rae Miller
11. Ikigai by Hector Garcia Puigcerver

Read 12 Diverse Books

1. The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi {PoC // Indian people and cultures}
2. A Mortal Sword by Megan Crewe {PoC // Japanese people and cultures}
3. Geekerella by Ashley Poston {PoC main character, lesbian side ship}
4. Noteworthy by Riley Redgate {PoC main character, diverse cast of characters from various race, social class, sexuality and background… this book is just an all around diverse book}
5. Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh {PoC // Japanese people and cultures}
6. The Go-Between by Veronica Chambers {PoC // Stories about latinx}
7. Deadman by Sarah Vaughn {Non binary character, bi main character}
8. The Hundreth Queen by Emily R. King {PoC // Indian setting and culture
9. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (DNF) {Japanese writer, characters, and setting}
10. The Dollmaker of Krakow by R. M Romero {PoC // Jewish people during WWII}
11. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng {PoC // Chinese}
12. Forest of A Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao {PoC // Chinese setting, culture, and characters}