Reading challenge 2024

This is an overview of the reading challenges that I set out in 2024. At the end of 2023 I decided that I didn't want to do another year of geographical challenges, instead I selected two nature themed challenges that fit my vision of explorer core. I made the goal for female authors slightly more challengin than last year, because I enjoyed the challenge so much.

Here you can find an archive of previous challenges, and this page shows an overview of all the books I read in 2024 (my aim is to read 40).

Female authors (17/15)

✅ Pursuit of love - Nancy Mitford (4/5)
✅ Rest is resistance - Tricia Hersey (1/5)
✅ Paradise rot - Jenny Hval (3/5)
✅ The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith (4/5)
✅ Ripley Under Ground - Patricia Highsmith (3/5)
✅ Ripley's Game - Patricia Highsmith (4/5)
✅ Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth - Xiaolu Guo (4/5)
✅ The Lover - Marguerite Duras (3/5)
✅ The English Understand Wool - Helen DeWitt (2/5)
✅ The Living Mountain - Nan Shepherd (4/5)
✅ The Wall - Marlen Haushofer (4/5)
✅ Bergen aan zee - Pauline Slot (2/5)
✅ Taal is zeg maar echt mijn ding - Paulien Cornelissen (3/5)
✅ Move like water - Hannah Stowe (3/5)
✅ Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion (3/5)
✅ Ik ben vrij - Lale Gül (2/5)
✅ Longitude The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time - Dava Sobel (4/5)

Water themed books (6/5)

✅ De ondergang van de Batavia - Mike Dash (4/5)
✅ Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad (3/5)
✅ The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea - Yukio Mishima (3/5)
✅ The Curse of Lono - Hunter S. Thompson (3/5)
✅ Move like water - Hannah Stowe (3/5)
✅ Longitude The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time - Dava Sobel (4/5)

Mountain themed books (5/5)

✅ De buitenjongen - Paolo Cognetti (2/5)
✅ Zonder de top te bereiken - Paolo Cognetti (2/5)
✅ The Living Mountain - Nan Shepherd (4/5)
✅ The Wall - Marlen Haushofer (4/5)
✅ Bergen aan zee - Pauline Slot (2/5)