Diversify Your Reading Challenge

 2023 Diversify Your Reading Challenge

Source: Mongan Moments

Updated: 1/1/2023

January: Self-Help

February: Romance

March: Literary Fiction

April: Memoir

May: Young Adult

June: Thriller

July: Non-Fiction

August: Contemporary Fiction

September: Fantasy

October: True Crime/Mystery

November: Historical Fiction

December: Science Fiction


 2022 Diversify Your Reading Challenge

Source: Mongan Moments

Updated: 1/1/2023


January: Memoir

One Life by Megan Rapinoe (started, finished in March)

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb (continued, but not finished)

Will by Will Smith (started, but not finished)

February: Romance

Heir by Katee Robert

Queen by Katee Robert

March: Fantasy

Fierce Fairytales by Nikita Gill

Dinotopia: River Quest by John Vornholt

April: Mystery

Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala (started, by not finished)

May: History

The Course of History by Struan Stevenson

June: Thriller

The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark

July: Contemporary Fiction

This Place of Wonder by Barbara O'Neal

August: Young Adult

September: Literary Fiction

October: Historical Romance

Portrait of a Scotsman by Evie Dunsmore

November: Non-Fiction

December: Historical Fiction

The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper (started, but not finished)

The Circus Train by Amita Parikh (started, but not finished)

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