2023 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.
2023 Standard Prompts
Prompt #1
Set in a different time period
Prompt #2
Companion that isn't a dog or cat
Prompt #3
Has a beverage recipe
Prompt #4
Paranormal or Magical
Prompt #5
Set somewhere you'd like ot vacation
Prompt #6
Sun, Moon, or Stars on the cover
Prompt #7
A cozy matching the season
Prompt #8
A cozy opposite the season
Prompt #9
Male Author
Prompt #10
Main Character is different than you
Prompt #11
An author who uses initials
Prompt #12
A past Book Chat selection you haven't read
Prompt #13
A library book
Prompt #14
A reread
Prompt #15
Serves a food you'd like to eat
Prompt #16
Includes a celebration
Prompt #17
Includes a home project
Prompt #18
Judge a book by it's cover
Prompt #19
Has a setting different from yours
Prompt #20
Has a purple cover
2023 Bonus Prompts
Bonus Prompt #1
Three cozies by the same author
Bonus Prompt #2
Cozy without murder
Bonus Prompt #3
Read the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue covers)