2023 Challenge

We got your feedback and have refined the challenge for 2023!

This year will be different - we'll have one theme a month, announced at the start of the month. No bonus themes this year, but we'll still have fun picking and reading for a theme every month!

If you're new here or you'd like a quick revision, here are the rules:

  • We'll vote on and pick one theme a month, you can read any book that fits the theme
  • Book recommendations are crowdsourced. We'll share recommendations here, once a month.
  • Book themes are also going to be crowdsourced once a quarter
  • Feel free to read in any order of themes, you don't have to stick to Jan-Dec order!
  • Listening to audiobooks on Audible/Libby/Storytel/Scribd etc. definitely counts towards the challenge
  • You can read as many books per theme as you'd like!
  • This is the scoring mechanism - you get 2 points for the first book of every theme and 1 point for every additional book in the theme. When you finish all 12 themes, you get 5 bonus points, yay!

Check out this year's themes here!

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If you'd like to set a target score for your reading this year, get to vote on themes that get selected every month, get early recommendations for the winning theme, get to suggest themes once a quarter, use our excellent tracking system to track your books, scores and our recommendations and be part of our fun group discussions, you'll need to sign up for a membership first. You can do that by leaving us your contact details here!