📢 announcing the 2023 READ YOUR BOOKSHELF CHALLENGE!! 📢 reading prompts for every month of the year
Welcome to year FOUR of the Read Your Bookshelf Challenge!
This is a low pressure reading challenge with reading prompts for every month of the year.
Plus, like always with my Read Your Bookshelf Challenges – there’s a giveaway involved!
Watch the video and/or read the rest of the post to find out more details on the prompts and the giveaway. Also, at the bottom of this post there will also be a printable to go with the challenge for you.
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2023 READ YOUR BOOKSHELF CHALLENGE
This year each of the prompts are going to play off of the book you chose for the previous prompt which is a lot of fun!
If any of the prompts need more explaining, watch the video, hopefully that will help clear things up.
Also, you can head to this page to share which books you’re reading for each month!
JANUARY
We’re kicking things off by reading a book that starts with the word “a” or “the”. This should give you lots of options and be a good place to start for the year.
FEBRUARY
In February the prompt is to read a book where the cover or spine is in a complementary color from your January book. There is a cool complementary color generator here you can use.
MARCH
For the next prompt the title has to start with the next letter in the alphabet from your February book. So if your book in February started with the letter C your March book will have to start with the letter D. (If your February book happened to start with Z just start back with A for March.)
APRIL
April is pretty simple, just read a book that is in a different genre than your March book.
MAY
This month we will just be reading a book that is longer than our last one. One of my goals for 2023 is going to be to read some bigger books and this will help me for that I think.
JUNE
The title for your June book will have half as many letters as your May title.
JULY
This book needs to be set in a different country or world than your June book.
AUGUST
If you watched my video I originally skipped August somehow. Well, I’m pretty sure I know how, I was prepping for this video while we were babysitting our former foster kids and they were sick with fevers and I was running on little sleep and then I filmed it in the morning they went home so I was exhausted. Anyway, I had to slide something in for August so I decided to keep it simple and we’re just going to read a book that is the same genre as our July book.
SEPTEMBER
In September we are going to be turning to page 50 in our August book (or 49 or 51 if your page 50 is blank) and our September book has to have one of the words from that page in the title.
OCTOBER
For October the title of our book will start with the first letter of the author’s last name from our September book.
NOVEMBER
Choose a book from a different time period from your October book.
DECEMBER
And for the last month your book has to be within 20 pages of your November book (so if your book had 300 pages your December book will need to be between 280 and 320 pages).
I am excited to get started on another year of the Read Your Bookshelf Challenge!
If you want the printable version of the 2023 Read Your Bookshelf Challenge you can download that here.
Are you joining in for the challenge? I would love for you to let me know!
GIVEAWAY
To enter the giveaway, just fill in the form below! I’ll be doing the draw for the winner in the beginning of 2024!
22 Comments
Shirley Baker
Chantel,
Your channel is challenging me to get out of my comfort reading zone and try different genres, and I find I am reading more books. I am excited to participate in your 2023 Reading Challenge. I am even think about forming a book club. Thanks for putting this together.
Shirley Baker
Chantel
That’s so exciting, I hope you do start a book club!
Sara Kovach
I am so excited to do this. I really love the format this year.
Chantel
Yay, I’m really excited about it as well!
Eleanor
This challenge seems so fun, I’m excited! I love the way that you set this up ♡
Tennille
I love the way this challenge is set up! I’m really looking forward to it! I also just recently moved back to Saskatchewan, and it’s great to see someone from Saskatchewan doing this!
Chantel
Oh yay, it’s always fun to “meet” local-ish people!
Cheryl Carsten
Sounds like a lot of fun!
Mimi Michele
My friend just told me about this cool challenge and I am so looking forward to participating. I am like you, I could read all day. I have my challenge sheets printed and will be checking back frequently to see what else is going on between now and the start of the challenge.
Chantel
I’m excited to have you here!
Becky
I’m planning to participate! I have never done a reading challenge before because I’ve always worried it would feel too limiting, but this one sounds so fun, and not limiting, yet I think it could get me to read a few books I wouldn’t normally read, and get to some books on my physical bookshelf as well! Thanks for putting together such a fun challenge! I can’t wait!
Chantel
Yay! I hope you have a lot of fun with it!
Bev Baird
Just discovered your reading challenge – looks like it will be very enjoyable. I’m in.
Chantel
I hope you have fun with it!
Patty
New to your blog and youtube channel! I am super excited to take on my very first reading challenge with these fun prompts.
Chantel
Welcome here, I’m glad to have you!
Jjean
This looks fun, just saw it…… I’m in!!!
Chantel
Yay, thanks for joining in!
DeeAnn
I’m joining you!! I really need to read my selves!
Leah
I just found your challenge and watched your video…and I love it…I’m totally in!
Heather
Hi Chantel! I did your reading challenge in 2022 for the first time and really enjoyed it. I’m looking forward to 2023!
Heather
Suz
Hi Chantel,
Will there be a site where we enter and share our books, like there was last year?