Expand Your Shelf Cover Reading Challenge

I love to engage new reading goals with a new reading challenge! It adds a little excitement to the process and the new books waiting to be discovered.

This is a great way to read those books already on your shift plus those new ones you'll pick up along the way! Meet the Expand Your Shelf Reading Challenge!

Reading Challenge Instructions

The concept:

This challenge is designed to help you explore new genres, settings, emotions, and reading experiences but without strict rules or deadlines.

How it works:

• There are 64 prompts total - 48 challenge prompts and 16 bonus challenge prompts.

• Complete them in any order, at your own pace within a year (recommended).

• Choose books that best fit each prompt (interpretation is flexible; it's how you decipher the prompt).

• One book per prompt.

Rules (or lack thereof):

• No dates, no pressure — this challenge works at your pace.

• Any format counts.

• Any genre counts.

• DNFs are allowed just choose another book for that prompt.

• Rereads are allowed.

• Use this challenge alongside other reading goals.

The goal:

Read widely. Read joyfully. Explore new books and authors.

Tips:

• Pull from your existing shelves or browse a bookstore/library just by sight.

• This challenge pairs perfectly with Bookstagram photos.

• Have fun discovering books you might normally overlook.

• Please feel free to tag me in your reading challenge posts! I love to see them (@jl_books).

Templates:

Download the template for the Expand Your Shelf Reading Challenge below: