2026 Reading Challenge discussion

My own cozy corner, to track my challenges for 2026. "Bear" is a nickname I use.

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Annual Challenges:
CLEAR THE SHELVES 2026 Challenge
Indigo 2026 Reading Challenge

Quarterly Challenges:
Q2 - Build Your Own Hall of Fame: Genre Gems Challenge
Goodreads Spring 2026 Challenge

Monthly Challenges:
Daisy Destiny April 2026 Challenge

Inspirational Challenges:
The 52 Book Club: 2025 Challenge

Legend:
📝 TBR
⏳ Currently reading
✔️ Read

CLEAR THE SHELVES 2026 Challenge
Progress: 6/25

Link to challenge
Link to my challenge post

Physical TBR Pile: 3/10
1. Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon.
2. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare.
3. Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz.
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e-Book TBR Pile: 1/10
1. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas.
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Audiobook TBR Pile: 1/5
1. When the Body Says No by Gabor Maté.
2. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
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Daisy Destiny April 2026 Challenge
Progress: 2/5



Link to challenge
Link to my challenge post

1. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare.
2. Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz.
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10 books to pick from:
1. Breathe by James Nestor. (ebook)
2. Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. (book)
3. Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz. (book)
4. Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey. (book)
5. Katabasis by R. F. Kuang. (ebook)
6. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. (book)
7. The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman. (ebook)
8. The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams. (ebook)
9. The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe. (book)
10. Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, M.D. (ebook)

Q2 - Build Your Own Hall of Fame: Genre Gems Challenge
Progress: 0/8



Link to challenge
Link to my challenge post

📝 TBR ⏳ Currently reading ✔️ Read

Q2 Exhibit Rooms — April–June 2026

⭐ The Genre Wing
Award winners that elevated or defined their genre—romance, sci-fi, fantasy, horror, mystery, historical fiction, and more.
📝 Fantasy: The Fifth Season. Hugo Award winner. The Broken Earth trilogy was the first trilogy where all of its books won the Hugo Award.
⏳ Science Fiction: The Left Hand of Darkness. Hugo Award and Nebula Award winner.
📝 Speculative Fiction: The Handmaid's Tale. Winner of the Governor General's Award and Arthur C. Clarke Award.

⭐ The Innovators Gallery
Books rewarded for breaking rules, reshaping form, or pushing creative boundaries in structure, voice, or storytelling.
📝 Fantasy: Gardens of the Moon
📝 Romantasy: Fourth Wing
📝 Science Fiction: Ancillary Justice

⭐ The Gaslamp Revival Room
Award-winning works inspired by Victorian or Dickensian literary traditions—novels rich in atmosphere, social commentary, sprawling casts, or 19th-century influence.
Reviving Victorian literature by reading it.
📝 Dracula
📝 Jane Eyre

Goodreads Spring 2026 Challenge
Progress: 4/12

Link to challenge

✨ Completed: ✨
Page Turner: Read 2 books. Completed 6/4/2026. ✔️

Speed Reader: Read 3 books. Completed 9/4/2026. ✔️

Editors' Picks: Read a book that is selected by an editor. Completed 9/4/2026. ✔️

Book Boss: Read 5 books. Completed 15/4/2026. ✔️


To Do:
Community Picks: Read a mystery or thriller book selected by readers.
Trending Books: Read a selected trending book.
Marathon Reader: Read a selected 600+ page book.
Books on Books: Read a selected book about books.
AAPI Heritage: Read a book to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander authors.
Summer Reading: Read a summer seasonal book.
Escapist Reads: Read an escapist book.

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Pride Month: Revealed on 1/6/2026.

Indigo 2026 Reading Challenge
Progress: 0/16

https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/reading-c...

📝 TBR ⏳ Currently reading ✔️ Read

📝 Banned Book:
📝 Non-Fiction Favourite:
📝 Read the North:
📝 Heather's Pick:
📝 2026 New Release:
📝 Explore a New Genre:
📝 A Book to Get You Back Into Reading:
📝 Timeless Classic:
📝 Page to Screen:
📝 Rebels & Trailblazers:
📝 Personal Discovery:
📝 A Book Everyone Is Talking About:
📝 Award Winner:
📝 Break Free From Your Phone:
📝 Indigo Best of 2025:
📝 Ebook or Audiobook:

The 52 Book Club: 2025 Challenge

Progress: 0/52

I'm picking up this challenge as a way to get unstuck when picking a next book. Definitely not going to finish it in a year, but am hoping to try some new books using these categories. The game is to pick a category at random and see what interests me within that category.

2025 Challenge categories master list

📝 TBR ⏳ Currently reading ✔️ Read

📝 1. A pun in the title
📝 2. A character with red hair
📝 3. Title starts with letter "M"
📝 4. Title starts with letter "N"
📝 5. Plot includes a heist
📝 6. Genre one: set in Spring
📝 7. Genre two: set in Summer
📝 8. Genre three: set in Autumn
📝 9. Genre four: set in Winter
📝 10. Author's last name is also a first name
📝 11. A prequel
📝 12. Has a moon on the cover
📝 13. Title is ten letters or less
📝 14. Climate fiction
📝 15. Includes Latin American history
📝 16. Author has won an Edgar Award
📝 17. Told in verse
📝 18. A character who can fly
📝 19. Has short chapters
📝 20. A fairy tale retelling
📝 21. Character's name in the title
📝 22. Found family trope
📝 23. A sprayed edge
📝 24. Title is a spoiler
📝 25. Breaks the fourth wall
📝 26. More than a million copies sold
📝 27. Features a magician
📝 28. A crossover (set in a shared universe)
📝 29. Shares a universe with prompt 28
📝 30. In the public domain
📝 31. Audiobook has multiple narrators
📝 32. Includes a diary entry
📝 33. A standalone novel
📝 34. Direction in the title
📝 35. Written in third person
📝 36. Final sentence is less than 6 words long
📝 37. Genre chosen for you by someone else
📝 38. An adventure story
📝 39. Has an epigraph
⏳ 40. Stream of consciousness narrative: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.
📝 41. Cover font is in a primary color
📝 42. Non-human antagonist
📝 43. Explores social class
📝 44. A celebrity on the cover
📝 45. Author releases more than one book a year
📝 46. Read in a "-ber" month
📝 47. "I think it was blue"
📝 48. Related to the word Puzzle
📝 49. Set in a country with an active volcano
📝 50. Set in the 1940's
📝 51. 300-400 pages long
📝 52. Published in 2025