Soelo tries to spread out

I read a lot of series, fantasy books, historical fiction, and mysteries. Plus, I am already doing several challenges for these genres in 2022. My TBR holds plenty of memoirs and biographies that I never seem to get around to reading, so I am setting my categories accordingly.

5 memoirs/autobiographies from 2000 or later
1 The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin - Read Jan 13th
2 I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum - Read May 4th
3 The Answer Is . . .: Reflections on My Life - Alex Trebek
4 Big in China by Alan Paul
5 How Y'all Doing? by Leslie Jordan

5 memoirs/autobiographies pre-2000
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5 biographies
1 Lafayette in the Somewhat United States Read March 17th
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5 Short stories - not part of series or collections
1 "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman Read Jan 29th
2 Girlfriend's guide to Gods by Maria Dahvana Headley Read Feburary 27th
3 Fortunately The Milk Read March 15th
4 Unknown Number by Blue Neustifter - originally posted on Twitter using screenshots and nominated for a Hugo in 2022
5 A Night at the Frost Fair Read April 29th

I will also try to participate in some of the CATs, KITs, and Bingo Dog. I don't read horror, so I am skipping ScaredyKit, but I will at least keep track of the others and try to get at least 6 books for each this year:
BingoDog
AlphaKIT
CATWoman
ShakespeareCAT
AuthorCAT
SFFKit
MysteryKIT
RandomKIT

1 - Silver Birch, Blood Moon
2 - A Coin for the Ferryman
3 - A Thousand Acres
4 - Vicious
5 - The Quick and the Thread
6 - The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax
7 - Slippery Creatures
8 - The Constant Rabbit
9 - Ruled Britannia
10 - A Mirror Mended
11 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January
12 - Storm Warning
13 - Murder on the Red River - for Author Cat
14 - The Emperor's Code
15 - Deny All Charges
16 - The Happiness Project
17 - The Stolen Slippers
18 - The Missing of Clairedelune
19 - Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
20 - Subtle Blood
21 - A Symphony of Echoes
22 - The Viper's Nest
23 - Mrs. Pollifax on Safari
24 - Yesterday is History
25 - Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle

Finished on June 23rd, 2022

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Welcome to the Category Challenge, hopefully it will help you toward a great reading year!

Good luck with this challenge.

Good luck with your 2022 challenge!

Welcome aboard and have fun with your challenges!

Good luck! And welcome.

Thanks everyone! Planning is always my favorite part

Welcome aboard and happy reading in 2022!

Good luck with your challenges! (I love the planning bit too!)

Happy reading in 2022!

Welcome and best wishes on your reading!

I like your challenges because my shelves look a little similar. I have a lot of biographies and autobiographies and I keep buying them because they are so interesting, but I hardly ever read one. It feels hard to actually sit down and get into one when it's so much easier to read a favourite series or a shiny new novel. Thus, I am very interested to see how your challenge will work out!

I love the planning part too. Good luck with your challenge!

January:
AlphaKIT - R and H - The Happiness Project - Gretchen Rubin
CATWoman - memoir - The Happiness Project - Gretchen Rubin
ShakespeareCAT - King Lear - A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
AuthorCAT - Indigenous - Murder on the Red River - Marcie Rendon
SFFKit - Villain or Morally Grey MC - Vicious - V. E. Schwab
MysteryKIT - series - The Quick and the Thread - Amanda Lee
RandomKIT - Home - Murder on the Red River - Marcie Rendon

February:
SFFKit - time travel - A Second Chance by Jodi Taylor
CATWomen - in translation - The Missing of Clairdelune by Christelle Dabos

March:
RandomKIT: hobbies - Knot My Sister's Keeper - Mary Marks
AuthorCAT: published after 40 - Knot My Sister's Keeper - Mary Marks
AlphaKIT - P and S - The Star of Kazan - Eva Ibbotson and A Pawn for a Queen - Fiona Buckley

April:
AlphaKIT - L and J - Books Can Be Deceiving - Jenn McKinlay - Library Lover's Mystery
AuthorCAT: debut - Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle - Clare Hunter

May:
RandomKIT - Flowers - A Forgery of Roses - Jessica S. Olson
Alpha Kit - O and D - A Forgery of Roses - Jessica S. Olson, The Coloring Crook by Krista Davis, Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief and Mrs. Pollifax Pursued by Dorothy Gilman
CATWoman - Classics by Women - Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

June:
CATWoman - Set in Cities - The Brass Queen by Elizabeth Chatsworth, Witches of Brooklyn, What the Hex?!
SFFKit - a sequel - Vengeful by V. E. Schwab (sequel to the book I read for SFFKit in January) - A Gathering of Shadows also by V. E. Schwab
MysteryKit - historical fiction - Murder at Marble House by Alyssa Maxwell - Newt's Emerald by Garth Nix
AuthorCAT - non fiction Big in China by Alan Paul

July:
AuthorCAT - asian authors - The Book Eaters - Sunyi Dean
Random - dogs - Path of Beasts - Lian Tanner
SFFKit - family - The Ink of Elspet - J. D. Peabody

August:
CATWoman - Children's/YA/Graphic Novels - The Secret Benefits of Invisibility and Julieta and the Diamond Enigma
SFFKit - SFF by Asian authors - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Babel

September:
Alpha Kit - K and I - A Colorful Scheme
CATWoman - Women during War - Unnatural Magic
AuthorCAT - Africa - Secrets of the Nile, The Door of No Return
SFFKit - Quests and Journeys -The Lost Property Office

October:
CATWoman - Women and Crime - Sinister Graves

November:
RandomKit - "City" or city name in title - Shadowseer: London and Shadowseer: Paris

December:
AlphaKIT - Y and W - Year of the Reaper by Makiia Lucier
CATWoman - Prize Winner - The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
AuthorCAT - Favorite Authors - Gilded by Marissa Meyer
SFFKit - Wished for Book - Pink Moon by Annabel Chase and Tana Grey
Random - Sweets - Writing a Wrong by Betty Hechtman

This is my best month after January where I read one book for each of the seven categories I was following. I have pared down to four for 2023: KiddyCAT, MysteryKIT, SeriesCAT, and RandomKIT. I am also going to do BingoDog.