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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
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A welcoming twelve-prompt challenge designed to help readers try something new while making progress with books they already want to read.
Status
active
Open to join
Difficulty
beginner
A moderate challenge
Qualifying books
12
From the source collection
Deadline
No date set
Join now, choose a book later
Joining adds the challenge to your plans. You do not need to select a book until you are ready.
Your progress
Read a book you can finish in a few comfortable reading sessions.
Requirements: The book must have fewer than 250 pages in the edition you read.
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Read a book by an author whose work you have never read before.
Requirements: The author must be new to you when you begin the book.
Read a work that was originally published in a language different from the one you read it in.
Requirements: The book must name or credit a translator.
Read a book primarily set in a place you have never visited.
Requirements: The setting may be real or fictional, but it must be central to the book.
Read a book that won a recognized literary or genre award.
Requirements: A nomination alone does not count; the book must have won.
Begin a series that is new to you.
Requirements: Read the first published book in the series.
Read a complete story that is not part of a series.
Requirements: The book must be intended to stand on its own.
Choose a book from a genre you rarely or never read.
Requirements: Use your own reading history to decide what counts as unusual for you.
Read a book personally recommended by someone whose taste you value.
Requirements: Record who recommended it so you can tell them what you thought.
Read a nonfiction book that answers a question you have wondered about.
Requirements: Choose the question before you begin reading.
Reread a book that mattered to you in an earlier part of your life.
Requirements: You must have completed the book at least once before.
Add one more book for any reason that makes reading feel rewarding to you.
Requirements: This is an optional bonus prompt; any completed book counts.