Literary Exploration Challenge

This is a challenge on Goodreads, where it is also a group, to encourage people to read all over the literary landscape, with a heavy concentration on fiction. They have categories ranging from Easy to Insane. I have signed up for Easy, but I'm also putting the Insane list as more of a long term goal. Some categories seem kind of nebulous, so I'll browse around the challenge to see what they are really talking about.

Per my usual policy, I'll start it from when I start writing this post, even thought it won't post for a week or so. But I'm not going back to see what I've already read this year, so I'm starting out behind. Looking at the Easy Challenge, I can see that Horror and Literary Fiction might be hard, so if I have to, in December I can go back and retroactively decide God Help the Child counted as literary.

Easy Challenge

Classics: Blake: Huts of America, Martin Delaney 5/18/16
Fantasy: Republic, Lindsay Buroker 3/23/16
Graphic Novels : Twin Spica 6, Kou Yaginuma 3/28/16
Historical Fiction : The Bride's Story 7, Kaoru Mori 3/29/16
Horror : Slasher Girls & Monster Boys, ed. April Genevieve Tucholve 5/30/16
Literary Fiction: Hild, Nicola Griffith 4/13/16
Mystery : The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R. King 4/17/16
Non Fiction : Most Dangerous, Steve Sheinkin 3/18/16
Romance : Not Always a Saint, Mary Jo Putney 3/18/16
Science Fiction: Clean Sweep, Ilona Andrews 4/7/16
Thriller : Airtight, David Rosenfelt 4/2/16
Young Adult : Paper Towns, John Green 3/17/16

12/12!

Insane Challenge

Action/Adventure The Six, Mark Alpert 4/23/16
Auto-Biography/Biography : Symphony for the City of the Dead, M.T. Anderson 4/12/16
Chick-Lit : Sisterland, Curtis Sittenfeld 5/14/16
Childrens Book : The Soldier's Secret, Sheila Solomon Klass 4/12/16
Classics : Blake: Huts of America, Martin Delaney 5/18/16
Contemporary/Drama : A Spool of Blue Thread, Anne Tyler 4/30/16
Cyberpunk/Steampunk : Crux, Namez Raam 6/2/16
Dystopian/Post-Apocalyptic : An Inheritance of Ashes, Leah Bobet 4/17/16
Epic: The Spider's War, Daniel Abraham 6/27/16
Erotica: Counterpunch, Aleksandr Voinov
Espionage 
Fantasy: Republic, Lindsay Buroker 3/23/16
Graphic Novels : Twin Spica 6, Kou Yaginuma 3/28/16
Gothic 
Historical Fiction : The Bride's Story 7, Kaoru Mori 3/29/16
Horror : Slasher Girls & Monster Boys, ed. April Genevieve Tucholve 5/30/16
Humour: Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas 7/25/16
Literary Fiction : Hild, Nicola Griffith 4/13/16
Magical Realism: Bone Gap, Laura Ruby 5/1/16
Mystery: The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R. King 4/17/16
Non Fiction : Most Dangerous, Steve Sheinkin 3/18/16
Paranormal/Supernatural : Pillars of the World, Anne Bishop 4/2/16
Philosophical : Spilling Clarence, Anne Ursu 6/9/16
Poetry : William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope, Ian Doescher 5/7/16
Pulp – (Hard-Boiled or Noir) 
Romance : Not Always a Saint, Mary Jo Putney 3/18/16
Science Fiction :Clean Sweep, Ilona Andrews 4/7/16
Self Help/Educational : The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo 4/3/16
Short Stories: Kiss Me Deadly, ed. Trisha Telup 6/28/16
Thriller : Airtight, David Rosenfelt
Travel: Touching My Father's Soul, Jamling Tenzing Norgay 8/30/16
True Crime 
Urban Fantasy : Grave Peril, Jim Butcher 3/21/16
Victorian : Death Cloud, Andrew Lane 7/1/16
Western: Silver on the Road, Laura Anne Gilman 5/25/16
Young Adult : Paper Towns, John Green 3/17/16

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