I just completed the 2017 Modern Mrs. Darcy Reading for Growth and Reading for Fun Challenges. This was the second year that I’ve done a reading challenge. In 2016, I completed the PopSugar Reading Challenge.

Reading for Fun:

• A book you chose for the cover: In the Land of Blue Burqas by Kate McCord
• A book with a reputation for being un-put-down-able: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• A book set somewhere you’ve never been but would like to visit: Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Meyers
• A book you’ve already read: The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• A juicy memoir: What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding by Kristin Newman
• A book about books or reading:The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler
• A book in a genre you usually avoid: Besieged: Stories from The Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne
• A book you don’t want to admit you’re dying to read: The Mistress by Danielle Steel
• A book in the backlist of a new favorite author: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
• A book recommended by someone with great taste: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by JD Vance
• A book you were excited to buy or borrow but haven’t read yet: The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
• A book about a topic or subject you already love: Submerged: Adventures of America’s Most Elite Underwater Archeology Team by Daniel Lenihan

Reading for Growth:

• A Newbery Award winner or Honor book: Daughter of the Mountains by Louise S. Rankin
• A book in translation: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• A book that’s more than 600 pages: The Passage by Justin Cronin
• A book of poetry, a play, or an essay collection: New Enlarged Anthology Of Robert Frost’s Poems by Robert Frost
• A book of any genre that addresses current events: The Syrian Tragedy by Carsten Stormer
• An immigrant story: The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century by David Laskin
• A book published before you were born: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• Three books by the same author: Division of the Marked, Elevation of the Marked, and Maturation of the Marked: A Ko-Jin Novella by March McCarron
• A book by an #ownvoices or #diversebooks author: The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
• A book nominated for an award in 2017: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• A Pulitzer Prize or National Book Award winner: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr