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 (8/15)

  1. ✅ Pursuit of love – Nancy Mitford (4/5)
  2. ✅ Rest is resistance – Tricia Hersey (1/5)
  3. ✅ Paradise rot – Jenny Hval (3/5)
  4. ✅ The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith (4/5)
  5. ✅ Ripley Under Ground – Patricia Highsmith (3/5)
  6. ✅ Ripley’s Game – Patricia Highsmith (4/5)
  7. ✅ Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth – Xiaolu Guo (4/5)
  8. ✅ The Lover – Marguerite Duras (3/5)
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Water themed books (3/5)

  1. ✅ De ondergang van de Batavia – Mike Dash (4/5)
  2. ✅ Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer – Joseph Conrad (3/5)
  3. ✅ The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea – Yukio Mishima (3/5)
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Mountain themed books (2/5)

  1. ✅ De buitenjongen – Paolo Cognetti (2/5)
  2. ✅ Zonder de top te bereiken – Paolo Cognetti (2/5)
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