2020 Reading Challenge Prompts

Challenge Guidelines

It's your challenge, complete it your way.

We intentionally do not call these rules, as we feel passionately that reading should be enjoyable and not encumbered with do and don't lists. To that end, take these guidelines and the prompts and interpret them as you want.

Questions or feedback? We would love to hear from you. Message us on Facebook or Instagram, post in the Facebook group, or shoot us an email.

  • Cozy Mysteries only.

    • This is the only hard and fast rule. This challenge was built to expand our love within the Cozy genre so feel free to pull selections from all sub-genre's but the books must be a Cozy Mystery to count.

  • One Book Per Prompt

    • Unless you want to check off five prompts with the same book, then go for it. 😉 Your challenge your rules remember.

  • Participate

    • We love to see your posts on Instagram, read your comments, on Facebook, and see what books you've added to the prompts on Storygraph. It's so much more fun when everyone participates, and we Mods get bored when it's just us talking and posting.

2020 Standard Prompts

Prompt #1

Cozy with recipes

Prompt #2

Cozy for kids or teens

Prompt #3

Cozy made into a movie or TV show

Prompt #4

Cozy with an author who's name starts with the same letter as yours

Prompt #5

Cozy based outside your country

Prompt #6

Cozy with a one word title

Prompt #7

Holiday based cozy

Prompt #8

Cozy featuring your favorite beverage

Prompt #9

Cozy set or published the year you were born

Prompt #10

Cozy published in 2020

Prompt #11

Cozy that's been on your TBR the longest

Prompt #12

Cozy you wanted to read in 2019

Prompt #13

Cozy with a book on the cover

Prompt #14

Cozy from a new to you author

Prompt #15

Cozy set in your state

Prompt #16

Cozy nominated for an Agatha Award

Prompt #17

Cozy from the library

Prompt #18

A recommended cozy

Prompt #19

Cozy set by a body of water

Prompt #20

Cozy about books or a book club

2020 Bonus Prompts

Bonus Prompt #1

Three cozies by the same author

Bonus Prompt #2

Cozy from a series with 20 or more books

Bonus Prompt #3

Cozy with a main character in their 20s

Bonus Prompt #4

Cozy with no death

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