Pages & Patterns
A welcoming twelve-prompt challenge designed to help readers try something new while making progress with books they already want to read.
Status
active
Difficulty
beginner
Qualifying books
12
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.
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.