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)

  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)
  9. The English Understand Wool – Helen DeWitt (2/5)
  10. The Living Mountain – Nan Shepherd (4/5)
  11. The Wall – Marlen Haushofer (4/5)
  12. Bergen aan zee – Pauline Slot (2/5)
  13. Taal is zeg maar echt mijn ding – Paulien Cornelissen (3/5)
  14. Move like water – Hannah Stowe (3/5)
  15. Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion (3/5)
  16. Ik ben vrij – Lale Gül (2/5)
  17. 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)

  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)
  4. The Curse of Lono – Hunter S. Thompson (3/5)
  5. Move like water – Hannah Stowe (3/5)
  6. 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)

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