2023 Beat the Backlist Reading Challenge

Host: Austine Decker
Progress: 4/24 (17%)
1 January, 2023 — 31 December, 2023
In Progress
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!
the prompts
- five word title
- won an award
- meant to read it last year
- giving an author a second chance
- an author writing under a pseudonym
- 2022 debut novel
- standalone
- bought and forgot it
- plants on the cover
- first in a trilogy
- name in the title
- set on a continent you don’t live on
- it’s a trope
- less than 170 pages
- released at least 23 years ago
- protagonist name starts with “M”
- graphic novel outside your favorite genre
- recomended by a bookseller
- letter “z” in the title
- all about music or the arts
protagonist has a pet: Carnage in a Pear Tree by Dakota Cassidy- more than 450 pages
- your favorite genre
- main cover color is your least favorite color