Librariansteffen's Category Challenges for 2017

I keep track of the books read over here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/248316

These categories include reading I do for some courses I teach, some trips I take, and some ways of structuring my reading that pushes me beyond the usual.

1. YALSA Hub Challenge
2. Bingo Dog 2017
3. CAT Woman
4. Awards CAT
5. Book Riot Read Harder Challenge
6. 2017 Official UN-official SFF/SFFF KIT
7. Books Set In or About Rome, Prague, Berlin, or Amsterdam
8. Books Related to Other Travel
9. More Diversity In My Reading
10. Young Adult Speculative Fiction
11. Mysteries
12. Books Published in 2016 and 2017
13. 1001 Books To Read Before You Die
14. Nonfiction
15. TBR Challenge
16. 75 Book Group Nonfiction Challenge
17. Everything Else

YALSA Hub Challenge



My goal is to finish this by June 23.

Possibilities:

1. And I Darken by Kierstin White
2. *Asking for It by Louise O’Neill
3. Beast by Brie Spangler, read by Andrew Eiden
4. *Becoming Unbecoming by Una
5. *Black Panther, Book One: A Nation Under Our Fee by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze
6. *Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina
7. *Dryland by Sara Jaffe
8. Feminism: Reinventing the F-Word by Nadia Abushanab
9. *Filmish: a Graphic Journey Through Film by Edward Ross
10. *Giant Days by John Allison and Lissa Treiman
11. *Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard
12. If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
13. Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan
14. *Mighty Jack by Ben Hatke
15. *Paper Girls 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
16. *Plutona by Jeff Lemire
17. *Prez, Volume 1: Corndog in Chief by Mark Russel Ben Caldwell, and Mark Morales
18. Rani Patel in Full Effect by Sonia Patel
19. *Romeo and/or Juliet: A Choosable-Path Adventure by Ryan North
20. Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune written by Pamela S. Turner, illustrated by Gareth Hinds
21. *Scythe by Neal Shusterman
22. Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
23. *Tell Me Something Real by Calla Devlin
24. *The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
25. *The Lie Tree by Francis Hardinge
26. *The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry
27. *The Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst
28. *The Reader by Traci Chee
29. *The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner
30. The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
31. Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver
32. We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
33. *When the Moon Was Ours Anna-Marie McLemore
34. *When We Collided by Emery Lord
35. You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Leviathan
36. *Unbecoming

Books Already Read:

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Ghost by Jason Reynolds
March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
Nimona written by Noelle Stevenson,
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Septys
The Diviners by Libba Bray
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon


Books Read

1. The Reader
2. The Serpent King
3. Female of the Species
4. Filmish
5. Burn Baby Burn
6. Scythe
7. Passion of Dolssa
8. Lie Tree
9. Queen of Blood
10. Asking For It
11. Paper Girls 1
12. Giant Days 2
13. Black Panther, Book One
14. Girl Mans Up
15. When the Moon Was Ours
16. Romeo and/or Juliet
17. Becoming Unbecoming
18. Prez
19. Plutona
20. When We Collided
21. Tell Me Something Real
22. Dryland
23. Unbecoming
24. Mighty Jack
25. If I Was Your Girl

Bingo Dog

My goal is to finish this Bingo in the first half of the year.

1. The Sellout
2. Born a Crime
3. White Rage
4. When Paris Sizzled
5. The Sleepwalker
6. Hillbilly Elegy, J.D.Vance
7. Resistance Man
8. Borrowers Afield
9. Grapes of Wrath
10. Here In Berlin
11. Books for Living
12. Dark Flood Rises
13. Woman in Blue
14. Bone Season
15. The Founding
16. Glass Universe
17. My Brigadista Year
18. Man Called Ove
19. Summer
20. Idaho
22. Last Jews in Berlin
23. By Book or By Crook
24. Velvet Hours
25. Heartbreakk Hotel
21. We Love You, Charlie Freeman

CAT Woman

My goal is to finish all the categories by the end of 2017, not necessarily during the designated month.

January: Classics by women Summer
February: Debut books Behold the Dreamers
March: Genres Garden of Lamentations
April: Biography/autobiography/memoir In the Great Green Room
May: Women in the arts
June: Professional women Conviction
July: Women of color Hate You Give
August: Nonfiction or historical fiction The Founding
September: Children's/YA/Graphic novels Genuine Fraud
October: Regional reading Windy City Blues
November: LGBT/Feminist writing All the Single Ladies
December: Modern (post-1960) novels by women -- In the Midst of Winter

AwardsCAT

My goal is to finish all the categories by the end of 2017, not necessarily during the designated month.

January -- Year's Best lists and Costa Book Award - read 9/6/2016-, Behold the Dreamers (NYT Best Books of the Year)
February -- The Sellout Tournament of Books 2016
March -- The Newbery and Caldecott medals and other Genre Awards (any genre prize not already featured) Printz Award Honor 2017 Scythe
April -- International Dublin Literary Award and the Pulitzer Prize Station Eleven
May -- Man Booker International Prize and the Edgar Awards Girl In the Blue Coat
June -- The PEN Literary Awards and the National Book Award (USA) Strangers In Their Own Land
July -- Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and any Science Fiction/Fantasy award Paper Girls
August -- Miles Franklin Award and the Stonewall Book Award If I Were Your Girl
September -- Man Booker Prize and O. Henry Award Home Fire
October -- Nobel Prize for Literature and the Giller Prize
November -- Local Awards
December -- International awards (a prize from a country you aren't living in

Book Riot Read Harder Challenge

Read a book about sports.Patina
Read a debut novel. Man Called Ove
Read a book about books. Books for Living
Read a book set in Central or South America, written by a Central or South American author. In the Midst of Winter
Read a book by an immigrant or with a central immigration narrative. Behold the Dreamers
Read an all-ages comic. Filmish
Read a book published between 1900 and 1950. Grapes of Wrath
Read a travel memoir. Sicilian Odyssey
Read a book you’ve read before. All the Single Ladies
Read a book that is set within 100 miles of your location. Windy City Blues
Read a book that is set more than 5000 miles from your location. Hero of the Empire
Read a fantasy novel. Queen of Blood
Read a nonfiction book about technology. Girl Code
Read a book about war. Book Thieves
Read a YA or middle grade novel by an author who identifies as LGBTQ+. Girl Mans Up
Read a book that has been banned or frequently challenged in your country. Speak
Read classic by an author of colorPassing
Read a superhero comic with a female lead. Paper Girls 1
Read a book in which a character of color goes on a spiritual journey
Read an LGBTQ+ romance novel When the Moon Was Ours
Read a book published by a micropress. Becoming Unbecoming
Read a collection of stories by a woman.Here in Berlin
Read a collection of poetry in translation on a theme other than love. fungus, skull, eye, wing
Read a book wherein all point-of-view characters are people of color. American Street

2017 Official UN-official SFF/SFFF KIT

My goal is to finish all the categories by the end of 2017, not necessarily during the designated month.

January: "Read an SFF you meant to read in 2016, but never started/completed"

February: "Space Travel!" Long way to a small angry planet

March: "Religious Themed SciFi/Fantasy" Pyramids

April: "Dystopian/Apocalyptic theme" Station Eleven

May: "Alien contact" Closed and Common Orbit

June: "Series Month" Queen's Poisoner

July: "Award Winners/Nominees"

August: "Humorous sci fi/fantasy"

September: "Steampunk"

October: "Near Future SciFi"

November: "Historical SFF"

December: "Magic Systems"

Books Set In or About Rome, Prague, Berlin, or Amsterdam

1. Last Jews in Berlin

2. Between Gods

3. Book Thieves

4. SPQR

5. Women in the Castle

6. Orphan's Tale

7. Wolf on a String

8. Here In Berlin

Books Related to Other Travel

1. Sicilian Odyssey

2. My Brilliant Friend

3. Terra Cotta Dog

4. Shape of Water

More Diversity in My Reading

1. Behold the Dreamers
2. The Sellout
3. We Love You, Charlie Freeman
4. Home Fire

Young Adult Speculative Fiction

1. The Reader
2. Carve the Mark

Mysteries

1. Heartbreak Hotel

2. Bone Box

3. Terracotta Dog

4. Shape of Water

5. Lost Book of the Grail

6. By Book or By Crook

7. Paris Spy

8. Crossing Places

9. In Farleigh Field

10. Girl In the Blue Coat

11. Widow's House

12. Fallout

Books Published in 2016 and 2017

1. Lost Book of the Grail

2. To Capture What We Cannot Keep

3. King's Traitor

4. Home Fire

5. Young Jane Young

5. Black Elfstone
6. Reluctant Queen
7. The Thief's Daughter
8. Chalk Artist
9. Anything Is Possible
10. Widow's House
11. Mrs. Fletcher

1001 Books To Read Before You Die (Focused on 19th century novels)

Some fine categories there! I've tried to do the HUB challenge in the past but found it hard to obtain enough titles. I attempted the Read Hard Challenge last year and got within two titles of finishing. Good luck!

Nonfiction

!. Foundation
2. Destruction of Hillary Clinton
3. Hillbilly Elegy
4. My Life With Bob
5. No Is Not Enough
6. Stamped From the Beginning
7. Genius of Birds
8. On Tyranny
9. The Plot to Hack America
10. Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
11. Colony In a Nation
12. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
13. Strangers in Their Own Land
14. Girl Code
15. Atlantic'
16. White Rage
17. Hero of the Empire
18. 67 Shots
19. The Tudors
20. The Foundation

TBR Challenge

1. Grapes of Wrath
2. The Founding
3. Only Time Will Tell

75 Book Group 2017 Nonfiction Challenge

January: Prize Winners a non-fiction book that has been nominated or short-listed (and when info is available, long-listed) for any kind of significant literary prize anywhere in the world White Rage National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Criticism

February: Voyages of Exploration Glass Universe
You define it. It can be a literal voyage (travel) or an imaginary voyage into one's own psyche. The key words here are exploration and voyage -- the book must have some kind of journey, real or rhetorical, toward some kind of goal.

March: Heroes and Villains
People you admire or people you hate. Or people others admire or hate, and that you're just curious about. Hero of the Empire

April: Hobbies, Pastimes and Passions
Anything you want. People suggested categories about gardening, cooking, animals, sports, etc. Whatever excites and interests you. See if you can get the rest of us excited, too...

May: History. SPQR
Pretty self explanatory. One of a few holdovers.

June: The Natural World Genius of Birds
Another holdover. Anything about rocks, logs, the sea, the air we breathe, what grows around us, animal life, etc. And the pollution of same...

July: Creators and Creativity
Rather than just a category about the arts, I've broadened this. So, writing, books about books would qualify. My Life With Bob

August: I’ve Always Been Curious About….
A catch-all category. If the topic of the book can complete the sentence, you can add it to the challenge.
Astrophysics for People In a Hurry

September: Gods, Demons and Spirits
Religion, spirituality of al kinds; read about the Salem witch trials or animism in West Africa if you want. Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve

October: The World We Live In: Current Affairs
It will be a year after Brexit; a year after Trump's election. What does the world look like? What forces are driving us? Find a book about some of the themes and issues that are at the top of the news by then. Unbelievable

November: Science and Technology How To Tame a Fox
Probably self-explanatory, another holdover.

December: Out of Your Comfort Zone
A nonfiction book that isn't something that you would normally gravitate to, about a subject you'd never normally read about, or that is a "book bullet" you'd never previously heard about from another LT reader.
Bobby Kennedy

Books in No Category

I like how you've set up your challenge, especially with your plan to read the various CAT books but not necessarily in the assigned month.

I've been thinking of tackling the "1001 Books To Read Before You Die" list, but it is so daunting - concentrating on one area is a great idea!

Bailey's Women's Prize 2017 Longlist

*Stay With Me, Ayobami Adebayo
*The Power, Naomi Alderman
Hag-Seed, Margaret Atwood
Little Deaths, Emma Flint
The Mare, Mary Gaitskill
*The Dark Circle, Linda Grant
The Lesser Bohemians, Eimear McBride
Midwinter, Fiona Melrose
*The Sport of Kings, C.E. Morgan
The Woman Next Door, Yewande Omotoso
The Lonely Hearts Hotel, Heather O’Neill
The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry
Barkskins, Annie Proulx
*First Love, Gwendoline Riley
*Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien
The Gustav Sonata, Rose Tremain

*2017 Shortlist

1. Stay With Me

Already read:

Hag-Seed

Finished the YALSA Hub Challenge.

Finished Bingo Dog, CATWoman, Read Harder Challenge, 75 Book Group Nonfiction Challenge. Never got the 1001 reading goal; I blame on the politics of the year.