A new year beckons and bookworms around the world will be eagerly planning their 2021 reading, scribbling new additions to sprawling lists, and stacking piles onto piles onto piles…
We’ve got an additional offering to help structure your New Year reading: the annual Briefly Reading Challenge. There are 12 categories which we hope will extend and enrich your 2021 page-turning. The aim is to open you up to new opportunities, genres, styles and themes; these aren’t the sorts of prompts that will restrict and limit you to specific or arbitrary selections.
Use this list as you wish: read one book from each category, in order, reverse order, or no order at all; read two, three, four or more books from one category that really takes your fancy; or skip straight to the bonus prompts if you’re feeling rebellious!
Whatever you choose to do, good luck and happy reading in 2021!
The Briefly Reading Challenge 2021
- A book made into a film (if you’ve seen the film and not read the book!)
- A book to heal the generational divide
- An epistolary novel
- A book about mental health
- A book you can read in one day
- A book about cooperation
- A book you’ve owned a long time and (still) never read
- A book written in or about prison
- A book that was banned
- A book that teaches lessons from history
- An author from your hometown
- A book set somewhere you want to travel
BONUS:
- A book about a dystopian future
- A book that offers hope
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