I'll post my 2023 list (and my previous lists, I made pages for them but never posted, oops), but for this I wanted to try to help people who might be struggling with the final task, which is to pick a task from any of the previous year's lists to repeat. What this post is going to be is picking a favorite task from each of the previous year's challenges and post a recommendation or two for that task (if the task is from one of the years I personally made a list for: 2015, 2018, or 2021 there will be two recommendations since I'll also list the book I read for that task).
I won't pick a task that is extremely broad (like how in 2015 there were tasks that were just like "Listen to an audiobook" or "Read a book published before 1850), I won't pick a task that overlaps with any of the other 23 tasks for this year, and I'll only pick a task if I finished the book I had picked for it that year (I've always made a full list every year, but I have yet to read all 24 books).
Without further ado, here we go! (Titles will link to their Goodreads pages)
- 2015: Read a microhistory. (The task I chose to do for this year)
- Recommendation 1: Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America by Jeff Ryan
- Recommendation 2: Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle by Claire Hunter
- 2016: Read a book that was adapted into a movie, then watch the movie. Debate which is better.
- Recommendation: Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause (I have a vague recollection of possibly reading this in middle school or high school, too)
- 2017: Read a nonfiction book about technology. (I have an MIS, it would be remiss of me not to choose this task!)
- 2018: Read a classic of genre fiction.
- Recommendation 1: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Recommendation 2: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- 2019: An epistolary novel or collection of letters.
- Recommendation: Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
- 2020: Read a picture book with a human main character from a marginalized community.
- Recommendation: Maiden & Princess by Daniel Haack and Isabel Galupo
- 2021: Read a middle grade mystery (Second recommendation is one I actually read as a child.. at least I think I did!)
- Recommendation 1: Nikki Tesla and the Ferret-Proof Death Ray by Jess Keating
- Recommendation 2: Stacey and the Mystery at the Mall by Ann M. Martin
- 2022: Read a book whose movie or TV adaptation you’ve seen (but haven’t read the book).