2022 Beat the Backlist Reading Challenge

Host: Austine Decker
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Progress: 22/24 (92%)
1 January, 2022 — 31 December, 2022
Failed

In this challenge, the goal is to beat the backlist by reading any book published prior to the current year. There’s an additional option to read with prompts, 24 or 52. I’m choosing 24! Join the challenge and read the rules here!

prompts	my reads
indie or self-published	The Misbegotten Son by Jack Olsen
new-to-you author	The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
published in the month you were born	Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson
2+ people on the cover	The Collective by Alison Gaylin
everyone has read it but you	Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
6+ words in the title	The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick
title is an alliteration	Crown Court Killer by Dahlia Donovan
picked by a celebrity book club	Honor by Thrity Umrigar
a book in a genre you never/rarely read	Mean Baby by Selma Blair
forgotten on your shelf or eReader	Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
your favorite trope on the page	The Black Gryphon by Mercedes Lackey
you watched the show or movie first
second or fourth book in a series	Storm Rising by Mercedes Lackey
finish a series	Storm Breaking by Mercedes Lackey
first in a series you’ve been putting off	Beyond by Mercedes Lackey
classic novel
longer than 500 pages	Island Queen by Vanessa Riley
debut novel	The Damage by Caitlin Wahrer
one word title	Poisoned by Jennifer Donnelly
number in the title	A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston
co-authored	The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
non-fiction	Terrible Typhoid Mary by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
discovered via social media	Reckless Girlsby Rachel Hawkins
novella	A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow