Lili Lost in a Book: 2023 Reading Challenges

I love reading challenges! I literally started looking for them in November this year 😆

2023 Reading Challenge

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The challenge: To read books released in 2023.
Last year I read the most new releases I have ever read in a year and I honestly had a great time doing it. Let's see if I can read more than 25 new releases I read last year.
Level chosen: New Release Newbie — 1-30 books released in 2023.

The challenge: To read books you have owned prior to January 1, 2023.
In 2022 I didn't quite get to my goal of 36 books, but I'm gonna keep my goal at this level again for 2023 and hope for the best 😅
Level chosen: Mt. Vancouver — Read 36 books from your TBR pile.

The challenge: To read books that have been published before 2022 AND already be on your TBR list or pile.
When looking through backlist reading challenges, I ended up picking this one because the second part (AND already be on your TBR list or pile) was the part that was important to me. So any books added to my TBR in 2023 will NOT count! Here we go. Wish me luck getting my TBR pile under control 😅
Goal: Read 45 backlist books from my TBR pile.

The challenge: Read your Netgalley/Edelweiss books.
Currently, my Feedback Ration on Netgalley is at 72%, which isn't bad, but it also isn't 80% 😅 I'm hoping this challenge will inspire me to read some of those reviews books I've had for a while.
Level chosen: Bronze — 10 Netgalley/Edelweiss books.

The challenge: To read the last book in a series.
I am so bad at finishing series. In 2022 I did a particularly bad job at finishing series, so hopefully, I have better luck this year 😅
Level chosen: Level 2 — 5–10 series enders

The challenge: To read one book that has a title starting with every letter of the alphabet. You can drop the A’s and The’s from the book titles—The First Main Word Needs To Be The Letter You Are Counting, except for that pesky Q, X, and Z titles, then the word that starts with the challenge letter can be anywhere in the title.
I always enjoy I good Alphabet reading challenge, so I thought I would officially join this one this year!
Aphrodite: Goddess of Love (Olympians #6) by George O'Connor
Bitter Bite (Elemental Assassin #14) by Jennifer Estep
Chain of Iron (The Last Hours #2) by Cassandra Clare
Darkest Dawn (Fear Street Nights #3) by R.L. Stine
E
Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte
Galatea by Madeline Miller
Heart Stings (Elemental Assassin #19.5) by Jennifer Estep
I
J
Keeper of Night, The by Kylie Lee Baker
Last Strand (Elemental Assassin #19) by Jennifer Estep
My Plain Jane (The Lady Janies #2) by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, & Jodi Meadows
Nightmare Dilemma, The (The Arkwell Academy #2) by Mindee Arnett
Only Good Enemies (Galactic Bonds #2) by Jennifer Estep
Paradise-1 (Red Space #1) by David Wellington
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang & Nate Pedersen
R
Snared (Elemental Assassin #16) by Jennifer Estep
The Saha Declination (Colonial Explorer Corps #3) by Julia Huni
Unwanted (Elemental Assassin #14.5) by Jennifer Estep
Venom in the Veins (Elemental Assassin #17) by Jennifer Estep
War of Flesh and Metal (Flesh and Metal #3) by Alicia Ellis
X- We Jace you a Clary Xmas by Cassandra Clare
You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron
Z

The challenge: To read one book that has an author whose first name, middle, or last name starts with every letter of the alphabet.
And why join one Alphabet challenge when I can join TWO! 😆
Ashton, Brodi [My Plain Jane (The Lady Janies #2)]
Bryan, J.L. [Sunset House (Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper #18)]
Cassandra Clare [Chain of Iron (The Last Hours #2)]
David Wellington [The Last Astronaut]
Estep, Jennifer [Bitter Bite (Elemental Assassin #14)]
F
Grady Hendrix [How to Sell a Haunted House]
Huni, Julia [Changing the Speed of Light Bulbs (Tales of a Former Space Janitor #4)]
Iain Rob Wright [2389]
Jennifer Estep [Unwanted (Elemental Assassin #14.5)]
Kylie Lee Baker [The Keeper of Night]
Lydia Kang [Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything]
Munroe, Randall [What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions]
Ness Brown [The Scourge Between Stars]
O'Connor, George [Hera: The Goddess and Her Glory (Olympians #3)]
Paige, Danielle [Slasher Girls & Monster Boys]
Q
Randall Munroe [What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions]
Stine, R.L. [The Stepbrother (New Fear Street #1)]
Thomas Morris [The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine]

Urban, Diana [Lying in the Deep]
Vincent, Rachel [My Soul to Lose (Soul Screamers #0.5)]
Wellington, David [Paradise-1 (Red Space #1)]
X
Y
Z

This is more of a personal challenge. I really want to catch up on Rachel Vincent's books, but my focus will be on finishing her Soul Screamers and Shifters series. Anything else I read is a plus!

Soul Screamers

This challenge seems like so much fun because there is a prompt for each month of the year, but each of the prompts play off of the book you chose for the previous prompt! It is so cool! I'm very excited for this one!

January: A book that starts with the word “a” or “the”: The Saha Declination (Colonial Explorer Corps #3) by Julia Huni
February: A book where the cover or spine is in a complementary color from your January book: Lying in the Deep by Diana Urban
March: The title has to start with the next letter in the alphabet from your February book: My Plain Jane (The Lady Janies #2) by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, & Jodi Meadows
April: A book that is in a different genre than your March book: Only Good Enemies (Galactic Bonds #2) by Jennifer Estep
May: A book that is longer than your last one: Paradise-1 (Red Space #1) by David Wellington
June: The title for your June book will have half as many letters as your May title: Hera: The Goddess and Her Glory (Olympians #3) by George O'Connor
July: A book set in a different country or world than your June book: You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron
August: A book that is the same genre as your July book: Frightmares by Eva V. Gibson
September: Turn to page 50 in your August book (or 49 or 51 if page 50 is blank) and your September book has to have one of the words from that page in the title: There's No Way I'd Die First by Lisa Springer
October: The book will start with the first letter of the author’s last name from your September book: Spider and Frost (Elemental Assassin #19.6 Mythos Academy #6.5) by Jennifer Estep
November: Choose a book from a different time period from your October book: Ares: Bringer of War (Olympians #7) by George O'Connor
December: And for the last month your book has to be within 20 pages of your November book's page count: Apollo: The Brilliant One (Olympians #8) by George O'Connor

And this challenge isn't so much a reading challenge as it is a blogging challenge. I love doing discussion posts AND reading them, so I always look forward to this challenge!
Level chosen: Terrifically Talkative – 31-40 discussion posts

The challenge: Enter and complete reading challenges.
One could say I'm addicted to reading challenges, so this is perfect for me 😆 I've actually joined this one in the past, it's just been YEARS since then. The ideal goal is to complete all of the challenges I signed up for, but realistically I'd be happy if I finished half. Lol.
Level chosen: On the Roof — 6-10 Challenges (Entered & Completed)

~~Goodreads Reading Challenge~~ [COMPLETED on Dec 30th]
~~New Release Reading Challenge~~ [COMPLETED on Nov 28th]
Mount TBR Reading Challenge
Backlist Reader Challenge
Netgalley & Edelweiss Reading Challenge
~~Series Enders Reading Challenge~~ [COMPLETED on July 18th]
Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge
Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge: Author Edition
Author Catch-Up Challenge
~~Read Your Bookshelf Challenge~~ [COMPLETED on Aug 27th]
~~Discussion Challenge~~ [COMPLETED on July 15th]

That's it for now! But honestly, I'm still keeping my eye out for more challenges that might pique my interest. Which is probably a bad idea considering all these challenges I already joined 😆

Let me know what reading challenges you'll be joining in 2023!