21 Reading Challenges and Our Awesome List of Picks

In this episode we throw out a reading challenge to you, literary warrior. We go over our list and share books we have read from each category. Enjoy this free printable from our website to help you stay on track and keep track of your reading goals. I also provided links to the versions of each book we recommend and the link to the episode if we have reviewed it on the show. You are welcome, that was a chore! Ha!

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are our favorite Russian translators. Be sure to look for them if you are wanting to read a Russian novel. I couldn't remember their name during the show but have linked to all their versions of the classic we read that were translated by them below.

1. Book written by someone on a different continent or translated -

   Count of Monte Cristo episode 65 episode 68

   Dr Zhivago episode 18⁠, ⁠episode 20⁠

   Anna Karenina episode 14

   Alchemist episode 40

2. Book written before 1900-

   Oliver twist written in 1837, episode 49

   Count of Monte Cristo 1844,

   Pinocchio,

3. Graphic Novels- I survived series

   I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic 1912

   I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916

   I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944

   I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001

   I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967

   I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005

   I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871

   
   

   Investi Gators series episode 62

   Amulet Series 1-8

4. Book set in wartime-

   War and Peace episode 29

   Beneath a Scarlet Sky episode 21

   The Last Green Valley episode 26

   Unbroken episode 7

   The Blackout Book Club episode 71

   Nightingale

   A Place to Hang the Moon episode 5

   Book of Lost Names episode 50

5. Book recently turned into a movie-

   Where the Crawdads Sing episode 33

   Redeeming Love,

6. Book set in dystopian future-

   Among the Hidden

   Hunger Games

   Giver

7. Pulitzer Prize book-

   All the Light We Cannot See episode 12

   Gone With the Wind

   To Kill A Mockingbird

8. Newbury Award-

   A Door In the Wall episode 36

9. Book about religion or spirituality-

   Unoffendable episode 61

   Joyous Leadership episode 16

   Live No Lies episode 24

   Imprinted episode 48

   A Lineage of Grace

   Sons of Encouragement

   Goliath Must Fall episode 70

10. Book written in year you were born-

    If You Give A Mouse A Cookie

    Polar Express

    Sarah Plain and Tall

    Berenstain Bears

    Perilous Road episode 55

    Witch of Black Bird Pond

11. A mystery-

    Agatha Christie And Then There Were None episode 35

    The Golden Spyder episode 44

    Peppermints in the Parlor

12. Book narrated by child-

    Words On Fire episode 59

13. AScary book-

    Crime and Punishment episode 2

    Frankenstein episode 1 (our first episode!)

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde episode 51

14. Memoria -

    The Reading Promise episode 41

    Broken Places and Outer Spaces.

15. Book about spy’s -

    The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

    How I Became a Spy

    Book of Lost Names

16. Romance-

    The Second Mrs. Astor episode 6

    The Masterpiece

    Book Woman of Troublesome Creek episode 22

17. Fantasy-

    The Hobbit (If reading to kids this version is a must! The illustrations are great!) episode 13

    The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

    Wind in Willows episode 4

18. Plays -

    Shakespeare’s episode 39

19. Western-

    Call of the Canyon episode 10

20. Series-

    Among the Hidden episode 15

    Agatha Christie Poirot's 1st book The Mysterious Affair at Styles

21. Depression era

    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn episode 3

    The Four Winds

    Some Place to Call Home episode 9

    Nothing to Fear episode 57

Items mentioned in the show:

My Book Journal: A 100-Book Reading Diary for Bibliophiles

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