Hello Readers! Leslie @ Books Are The New Black inspired me to join the Trope-ical Readathon when she shared her TBR. By some miracle, I found myself with only one ARC to read this month, so it seemed like the perfect time to join the challenge. Readathons help me to read more during the month and cross off some of those backlist books on my shelves, as well!

All the rules and information for this challenge can be found @ JenJenReviews. There are a lot of details but they also have a YouTube video that helped me understand how each challenge works. Basically, you choose your team and each team gets points for challenges completed. But you don’t have to stick to the challenges, you can also get points just for pages read on any book you choose.

Point System

• Common Challenges: 50 POINTS EACH
• Team Challenges: 100 POINTS EACH
• Team Books: 150 POINTS EACH
• Pages Read: 1 POINT PER PAGE

Common Challenges

There are two options for the Common Challenges: read a book with the given trope OR one that satisfies the alternate prompt. It’s highly unlikely that I’ll get to all of these, but the options will give me plenty of room for mood reading. I’ll also be choosing books that satisfy my yearly Popsugar Reading Challenge or ARCs I have waiting to be read for later on in the year.

(Link to Goodreads synopsis through book title.)

A book with multiple authors

The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren

A book you could use as a weapon (500+ pages)

Chain of Iron (The Last Hours, #2) by Cassandra Clare

A book with a one-word title

Heartless by Marissa Meyer

Coming-of-Age

Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah

Dystopia

The Last Star (The 5th Wave, #3) by Rick Yancey

A book published before 2000

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

An audiobook

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

An ebook

Odd Woman Out by Melanie Chartoff

Boarding School

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

A book you previously DNFed

Anchored Hearts by Priscilla Oliveras

Technically, I read an excerpt of this one, but I haven’t finished it yet, so I think that counts! 😉

Multiple POV/Multiple POC characters

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

A genre you don’t usually read

The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark

A book with a TV or movie adaptation

The Duke and I (Bridgertons, #1) by Julia Quinn

Team Challenge

I’ve chosen Team Contemporary/Literary/Historical Fiction because it’s the only team that had a book I own and haven’t read—The Kite Runner—AND I liked the challenge prompts.

Team Book

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Team Challenges

1. Read a book with “Bookish” themes – The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan (alternate – The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams)
2. Read a book featuring a historical figure – The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (From what I understand, this book contains at least one actual historical figure, Edith Cavell.)

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Hopefully I’ll get to cross off several of these books this month. Will you be participating in the Trope-ical Readathon? Let me know in the comments!

Happy Wandering!