#NewYearNewMe may be all about health and fitness, but reading challenges are a thing of habit to me by now. This year, again, I’ve devised my own reading challenge. The challenge contains books I already own, to make sourcing easier. There’s also an affinity to Indian writing that I can’t get over!
I intend to read 50 books at the very least, in the following categories:
I intend to read 50 books at the very least, in the following categories:
- A biography of a writer
- A book based on a fairy tale
- A book based on mythology
- A book by a Bengali writer
- A book by a Japanese writer
- A book by a Kannada writer
- A book by an African writer
- A book by an author you don’t like
- A book by an Indian diaspora writer
- A book by your favourite author
- A book by a Malayali writer
- A book by a Marathi writer
- A book from your neighbouring country
- A book of poems
- A book of short stories
- A book from Oprah’s book club
- A book recommended by a friend
- A book that has been gifted to you
- A book that was made into a movie
- A book whose cover you love
- A book with feminist overtones
- A book with LGBT overtones
- A book with more than 4* ratings on Goodreads
- A book you have owned for long but not yet read
- A book you started reading but did not finish earlier
- A Buzzfeed recommendation
- A children’s book
- A detective novel
- A fantasy
- A free ebook
- A historical fiction
- A horror
- A humourous book
- A national award-winning book
- An international award-winning book
- A non-fiction book by an Indian
- A play
- A romance
- A science fiction
- A thriller
- A travelogue
- A war book
- An ancient book
- An autobiography/memoir
- Re-read a book you read in school/college
- A translated work in your mother tongue
- A self-published writer’s book
- A book borrowed from a friend
- A book published in 2017
- A graphic novel
Based on these, I made a TBR jar for 2017, in which I put in 52 titles under these headings.
I’ll pick up one each time I want to read a one, and this way the books would be both pre-decided and by chance! Since I’m bound to read over 100 books, this TBR jar contains only serious reading. The rest I’ll pick up based on my whimsy! I’ve set my Goodreads 2017 Reading Challenge to 52, and I am all set to start! Oh wait, I’ve already finished 6 books, and #nowreading 2 versions of Ramayana side-by-side — one by Ralph Griffith and another by C. Rajagopalachari. #happyme
