Book Challenge: Read 50 Books in 2022

Welcome to the Spine & Leaf Books 2022 Book Challenge!

How Do I Do the 2022 Book Challenge?

This book challenge will help you read 50 books in the next year! Choose a book from the list every week to complete the list in a calendar year. You get 2 weeks off for when life gets a little crazy… or you get stuck on #20.

Check off each number as you read a book that fits that description. You can complete this list in any order, but you cannot use one book to mark off more than one number.

Feel free to read more than one book per week if you have extra time and don’t feel bad if you get a bit behind at some point. The challenge is to complete 50 books in 2022, so you have all year!

You can use this list as a way to create your own book journal for the year by writing the title and author next to each item on this list. Check out my full post on starting a book journal here.

Why Do a Book Challenge?

Why do a book challenge this year? Well, reading has been proven to have some incredible benefits. If you’re looking to set up a New Year’s resolution to improve your health or increase your knowledge, then reading is for you!

Reading books can:

• Reduce stress
• Improve your vocabulary skills
• Increase dopamine
• Make you kinder
• Increase your knowledge
• Improve your memory and concentration

On top of all of these benefits, starting a book challenge can broaden your reading horizons. People like to read certain genres and topics because they find them the most enjoyable, but I think we can all agree that occasionally branching out has some positive effects. It’ll help you learn and grow and maybe even find a new favorite.

Getting Started

Some of you are probably worried about the number of books in this book challenge and that’s ok. You’re right, 50 books in just 365 days is a lot of reading.

I’d like to encourage everyone to give this their best shot because you never know, you might just surprise yourself. Also, if you only get 10 books read from this challenge that’s still 10 books that you will read this year and that’s amazing!

For my avid bibliophiles- here’s an extra challenge that only the biggest readers will accomplish:

-Complete this list twice to reach 100 books in 2022 by choosing 2 different books per number!

This is an excellent way to compare books and authors. Plus, you’ll get some fun out of reading 2 books in the same series for #4 and expanding your knowledge in particular subjects, like #28 and #36.

Book Challenge 2022: Read 50 Books This Year!

Read a book…

1. With a color in the name
2. Set in a foreign country
3. Recommended by a friend
4. Part of a series
5. That you should have read in school
6. On the New York Times Bestseller list
7. Already on your bookshelf
8. With an animal in the name
9. From an author you already know
10. About health and wellness
11. With a pretty book cover
12. More than 20 years old
13. Released in the year you were born
14. Published this year
15. Translated from another language
16. With a female protagonist
17. That’s a memoir
18. With a one-word title
19. That was made into a movie
20. Over 500 pages long
21. Under 100 pages long
22. With a music or art theme
23. Involving water
24. With a green book cover
25. Set in the 1800s
26. With a magical element
27. That’s a one-hit wonder
28. About nature
29. With chapter titles
30. With an index
31. With a map in the front
32. That you heard about from a co-worker
33. Bought from your local bookstore
34. That’s a Young Adult novel
35. Only published as an e-book
36. About sports
37. That’s a murder mystery
38. Featuring the LGBTQ+ community
39. By an author who shares your name
40. On audiobook read by the author
41. That’s a guilty pleasure
42. Written by 2 authors
43. Of poetry
44. About business
45. About current events
46. Everyone is talking about
47. Based on a real person
48. That’s a coming of age story
49. About science
50. That makes you smile

Can you think of a book for each of these ideas? Post below what books you used to complete the list!

Good luck and happy reading!

*Monthly Updates:

• January Book Update
• February Book Update
• March Book Update
• April Book Update
• May Book Update
• June Book Update