The 5th Annual Linzthebookworm/Logophile Reading Challenge (2022)

Huzzah! While I am not always the best about my challenge update posts throughout the year (stay tuned for a doozy, y’all), Linz and I are having so very much fun creating our annual reading challenges, and it appears a good number of the general public have found our challenge entertaining as well… so let’s keep doing it, shall we?

This year, in fact, is a very special year – this is the 5th year that Linz and I have collaborated on the reading challenge (see 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 in the archives). In celebration, we’ve included some 5th anniversary themed challenge prompts, and two very special prompts to select books from your hosts’ previously read archives. We’ve also both recently joined the StoryGraph and added our challenge to their challenge directory. Come play along with us!

As always, the challenge is organized into 5 levels of 12 prompts. This is a choose-your-own-adventure challenge. Play however you like: pick your challenge level of choice and try to complete everything within the levels… or just bounce around and see how many you can check off. Or be a completionist. One of these years I will get through all the categories, I swear! You can download a printable PDF to keep track of all the categories and your selections to fulfill them here.

Now, on to the challenge! Don’t forget to let us know in the comments if you’re playing along. What’s your favorite category from this year’s list?

The Linzthebookworm/Logophile 2022 Reading Challenge

Level 1: Book of the Month Club
1. Read a book that cost less than $5
2. Read a book that is under 350 pages
3. Read a book that was recommended to you
4. Read a newly published book (within the past year)
5. Read a book that has a type of plant or flower in the title
6. Read a book because of the cover
7. Read a book about a mythical creature
8. Read a book that takes place in the future
9. Read a book by an author that’s new to you
10. Read a book from NPR’s top 50 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of the past decade
11. A book by an author whose first or last name has 5 letters
12. Free Space – Pick any book!

Level 2: Casual Reader Club
13. Read a book published 5 years ago
14. Read a Speculative Fiction
15. Read the first book in a duology
16. Read the second book in a duology
17. A book that was published when you were 5 years old
18. Read a book by an author named Alex, Alexander, Alexandra (or variant)
19. Read a book about Zombies
20. Read a book with a black cover
21. Read a book from AbeBooks.com’s list of 100 (fiction) books to read in a lifetime
22. Read a book with the word City in the title
23. Read a book about a musician (non-fiction or fiction)
24. Free Space – Pick any book!

Level 3: Dedicated Reader Club
25. A book with a title that has 5 letters
26. Read a book published by Macmillan (or subsidiary)
27. Read a book with a title that doesn’t start with an article (A, An, The)
28. Read a book you recently acquired
29. Read a book that’s been on your TBR for over a year
30. Read a Revenge Story
31. Read a book by Philippa Gregory
32. Read a book that takes place on an island
33. Read a book that does not have a person (or people) on the cover
34. A book that you intended to read on last year’s challenge
35.Read a Pyschological Thriller
36. Free Space – Pick any book!

Level 4: Speed Reader Club
37. Read a book over 500 pages
38. Read a book that starts with the letter Z (or has Z in the title)
39. Read a book that takes place around your favorite holiday
40. A book with 5 objects on the cover
41. Read a book with the word Wisdom in the title
42. Read a Dystopian Fiction
43. Read a book by an author with the same name as one of your parents (Biological, Step, Adopted)
44. Read a book that a movie/show you’ve watched is based on but have yet to read (example: Watched The Hobbit, but never read the Hobbit)
45. Read a book about a Saint (non-Fiction or Fiction)
46. Read any book from the Men’s Health most popular book list
47. Read a book published in a year that was important to you
48. Free Space – Pick any book!

Level 5: Overachiever Club
49. Read the 5th book in a series or an author’s 5th novel
50. Read a True Crime book
51. Read a book by Georges Simenon (or one of his Pen Names)
52. A book with the number 5 in the title
53. Read a book that takes place in Russia
54. Read a book by an author using intials as part of their name
55. Read a book that has a title in the form of a question
56. Read a banned book from this banned book list
57. A book with at least 5 prominent characters
58. Read a book that Linz read previously (see book review archive here)
59. Read a book that Tress read previously (see reading category archive here)
60. Free Space – Pick any book!