GraceCollection Cat Challenge

I wasn't sure about posting a reading list. I've never tracked the books I've read in a public forum; I've only begun tracking my reading at all in the past few months.

Since I have such little experience with tracking my reading, I'm not sure how much reading I'll be able to complete. So I figured I would track month-by-month, and if I drop from trying 4 CATs/KITs down to completing only 1, I won't have a bunch of unused posts, and if I start out trying 4 CATs/KITs and find that I can complete them all, I don't have to worry about how to combine them or adding them at the end.

I'm new to the Category Challenge in general and only joined LT in May or June of this year. I'm hosting CultureCAT this year, and hosting a month each for CultureCAT and NatureKIT, which will be my first priorities for reading in the upcoming year. I'm also planning to try BingoDOG, but will try my best to hit those squares out of books I'm already reading for a CAT/KIT.

January Reading:

CultureCAT: Featuring Migration or Displacement Tentative choices: Lost Children Archive or The Fire Horse Girl
NatureKIT: Sheep & Shepherding Tentative choice: Wisdom of Sheep (ebook)
RandomKIT: Eat, Drink, & Be Merry Tentative choices: Eats, Shoots & Leaves or Mooncakes (ebook)
SF&FKIT: Cosy Fantasy Tentative choice: Mooncakes (ebook)

Stretch books if I get through those four in time to read more:
ScaredyKIT: Diverse Perspectives Tentative choices: Harrow the Ninth (ebook) or Rock, Paper Scissors
ColourCAT: Green Green Grass, Running Water
AlphaKIT: O Tentative Choices: Where the Crawdads Sing or something from TBR list, if I can acquire a copy by then (library?)

Double duty books:
CoverKIT: Let's Have a Tea Party Tentative choice: Mooncakes (ebook)
AlphaKIT: S Tentative choice: Wisdom of Sheep (ebook)
MysteryKIT: Winter Mysteries Tentative choice: Rock, Paper, Scissors

February Reading:

CultureCAT: Finno-Urgic Peoples
NatureKIT: Forests, Farms & Grasslands
RandomKIT: (Not looking at RandomKITs until I start planning for that month)
SF&FKIT: The Art of SFF

March Reading:

CultureCAT: Neurodiverse Voices
NatureKIT: Landscapes
RandomKIT: (Not looking at RandomKITs until I start planning for that month)
SF&FKIT: Magical Realism

April Reading:

CultureCAT: TTRPG & LARPers
NatureKIT: Flying Creatures
RandomKIT: (Not looking at RandomKITs until I start planning for that month)
SF&FKIT: Women Authors

May Reading:

CultureCAT: Punk/Metal
NatureKIT: Plants, Fungi, etc.
RandomKIT: (Not looking at RandomKITs until I start planning for that month)
SF&FKIT: Authors of Global South

June Reading:

CultureCAT: Aboriginal Australia
NatureKIT: Oceans and Rivers
RandomKIT: (Not looking at RandomKITs until I start planning for that month)
SF&FKIT: Anthologies and Collections

July Reading:

CultureCAT: India
NatureKIT: Inner Lives of Animals **I am hosting
RandomKIT: (Not looking at RandomKITs until I start planning for that month)
SF&FKIT: Alternative History

August Reading:

CultureCAT: TBD
NatureKIT: Weather and Climate
RandomKIT: (Not looking at RandomKITs until I start planning for that month)
SF&FKIT: Space

September Reading:

CultureCAT: Working Class Cultures
NatureKIT: Urban Nature
RandomKIT: (Not looking at RandomKITs until I start planning for that month)
SF&FKIT: Back to School SFF

October Reading:

CultureCAT: Non-Mainstream Religious Subcultures (Amish, Quakers, Mennonites, or Church of the Brethren)
NatureKIT: Endangered Species
RandomKIT: (Not looking at RandomKITs until I start planning for that month)
SF&FKIT: Mysterious Artifacts

November Reading:

CultureCAT: Indigenous North America **I am hosting
NatureKIT: The Effect of Nature on Human Beings
RandomKIT: (Not looking at RandomKITs until I start planning for that month)
SF&FKIT: The Day After

December Reading:

CultureCAT: LGBTQ+
NatureKIT: Wild Card
RandomKIT: (Not looking at RandomKITs until I start planning for that month)
SF&FKIT: Disabled Main Character

Year-Long Categories:

Trying to read more female authors overall.

I'm hoping to strike a balance, if I can manage, between fiction and non-fiction. I've oscillated, in my life, between reading almost exclusively fiction and almost exclusively non-fiction. 2024 was mostly a non-fiction year, but in these last few months I've been working up an appetite for fiction again. With this in mind, I'm going to attempt to read about half non-fiction and half fiction (including poetry, plays, etc) in any given month. But we will see how that goes.

CultureCAT Bonus 1: South East Asia/Pacific Islander
CultureCAT Bonus 2: Wrongly Convicted People

BingoDOG:

Good luck with your challenge! I didn’t track my reading either until I joined LT, but I have found that writing a short recap helps me remember the books a little better.

You really jumped into the deep end! Good for you. Remember all this is for fun and for help in exploring the world of books. If something isn't working for you, dump it. Try something else instead.

All that said, I find monthly tracking by far the easiest way to track reading.

Good luck and enjoy. And Welcome.

Good luck with your challenges. I've done both monthly and categories over the years and as long as I'm reading, it all works out. Looking forward to seeing what you read in 2025.

Good reading in 2025.

The thing I like about the Category Challenge is that you can customize it to be whatever you want! Absolutely drop anything that stops being fun, and there’s no obligation to keep posting if you don’t want to (though I always enjoy seeing what other folks are reading and how they like it).

Enjoy your 2025 reading!

>16 MissWatson: Thanks! I have been doing a private log similar to that for a few months, but not long enough that I think I've got a good handle on how many books I could get through in a month. So we'll find out together!

>17 majkia: Thank you! 'Moderation' is a bit of a dirty word for me. I'll cut back if I have to, but I'm going to start strong and see where I go!

>18 dudes22: Thank you! I am too!

>19 mnleona: Thanks. Good reading to you as well!

>20 Charon07: I'll do well to keep that in mind. Sometimes I keep at stuff out of a sense of obligation even when it stops being fun. Hopefully no reading can stop being fun, though, right? Right??

>21 DeltaQueen50: Thanks, you too.

Welcome to the Challenge. I only listed books my first year and am now totally invested in certain challenges and posting short opinions on my read books.

>23 lowelibrary: Thank you! I hope to become invested in category challenges.