2021 Fall Reading Challenge

2021 Fall Reading Challenge

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Summer is over and Fall is beckoning us with all its inspiration! Now that I have finished my Summer Reading Challenge and my house is full of pumpkins and leaves and all the cozy things, I decided I MUST start a Fall reading challenge.

This one will theoretically run from now until after the New Year when we all need a fresh start… on a new book list.

Will we be able to read this many books in that much time? We don’t know. But that’s never stopped us before!

Pick a few interesting or challenging prompts, grab your book, and lay in your hammock smelling the crisp fall air drinking hot apple cider. Can’t you just picture it??

Here’s my list with what I plan to read for each one. If you would like to participate in the challenge, it would be awesome if you could comment on this post with whatever category/book you plan to read so that other readers can get more ideas for each category!

If you’re struggling to find a book for each category, try searching around on Goodreads.com or shoot me a message and I can see if I can offer some other suggestions.

Shelf Reflection’s 2021 Fall Reading Challenge:

1. A book with magic:
   Spellbreaker by Charlie M. Holmberg

2. A book written by someone from your state:
   Everything We Didn’t Say by Nicole Baart

3. A book with spies:
   The Silent Sisters by Robert Dugoni

4. A book with opposites in the title:
   Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell

5. A book about/in a hospital:
   This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Medical Resident by Adam Kay

6. A book with a place in the title:
   The Desolation of Devil’s Acre by Ransom Riggs

   The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles

7. A nonfiction book about a topic you’re interested in:
   The Gathering Storm: Secularism, Culture, and the Church by R. Albert Mohler Jr.

8. A book written by a POC (person of color):
   Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democratic Plantation by Candace Owens

   Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe by Voddie T. Bauchum Jr.

   How to Fight Racism: Young Readers Edition: A Guide to Standing Up for Racial Justice by Jemar Tisby

9. A book written by an author who is now deceased:
   Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God by J.I. Packer

10. A book that’s been made into a movie:
    To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han

11. A book someone gave to you:
    A Gentle Answer: Our ‘Secret Weapon’ in an Age of Us Against Them by Scott Sauls

12. A book written by/about LGBTQ:
    Born Again This Way: Coming Out, Coming to Faith, and What Comes Next by Rachel Gilson

13. A book with fewer than 1000 Goodreads reviews:
    Radical Womanhood: Feminist Faith in a Feminist World by Carolyn McCulley

    The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks

14. A book with a title containing a natural element (tree, river, mountain, etc):
    Stars and Smoke by Marie Lu

15. A book about someone with different beliefs than you:

    Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik

16. A book with a person’s name in the title:

    Eve in Exile: And the Restoration of Femininity by Rebekah Merkle
    

Bonus:
A book you never got to from the last reading challenge:

Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
Color, Communism, and Common Sense by Manning Johnson

[I will update this list with links to each review as I read these books.]

Share this post on your social media pages and let’s get a community of readers doing this challenge!

Don’t forget to share your list (even if it’s only a couple books) in the comments.

Happy Fall Reading!

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