My Out of Your Comfort Zone Challenge TBR 💗

Hello fellow bookworms 💗I’ve already talked about what 2020 Reading Challenges I’m joining this week, but as I made my very own reading challenge this year (still so excited and nervous about that, ahh!!) I decided to post my #outofcomfortzonechallenge TBR separately, so here we go! I picked out 4 genres and one age range out of my comfort zone to read this year and I have dedicated mostly 5 books per category to put on my TBR! Of course – as the year goes on – I’ll also add other books I read that can count towards being out of my comfort zone and add them under the fitting category! Let’s see how much I can do this year 😄 I’m starting with a short reminder of what my challenge is all about (you can still join in anytime this year, I’d love to read together with you! Thank you to everyone who already signed up!) and then it’s straight to my TBR! 💕

Me trying to leave my comfort zone 😮

What is the Out of Your Comfort Zone Reading Challenge? 💗

The aim of this challenge is to read books that you consider to be outside of your comfort zone. The Challenge itself is tailored to your goals, so it’s going to be really relaxed and individual as everyone has a different definition of their comfort zone. You can set yourself a number of books to read in a particular genre (or subgenre, age range, etc.) or make a TBR with books you hope to get to! There are also fun levels and badges to collect if you’re interested in that!

Get all the information in my announcement post 💗

I’d love for you to join me and chat about our progress throughout the year 🥰

• Signup For
• Form for adding your read books

My #outofcomfortzonechallenge TBR 💗

I’ve been hoping to venture outside of the YA age range as I get older, so this was my first priority for my own reading challenge. I love YA a lot but I’m out of the target audience and would love to mix up my reading with other books ass well. That’s why I so desperately wish New Adult was more of a thing (I need those transitionary books, as adult books often feature characters at such different points in their life that it feels a bit alienating) but I have also put some Adult books on my TBR (starting with some Fantasy tomes as it’s my favorite genre)! I have high hopes for all of these books as they got great reviews or are by authors I’ve read before! 💗

1. Red, White & Royal Blue (Casey McQuiston)
2. Vengeful (V.E. Schwab)
3. The Broken Eye (Brent Weeks)
4. The Lies of Locke Lamora (Scott Lynch)
5. A Court of Wings and Ruin (Sarah J. Maas)

Back in September of last year, I enjoyed a bunch of sci-fi books and it really got me wanting to read more YA sci-fi, as I don’t reach for it that often anymore (my main genres are Fantasy and Contemporary). I even though I’m no expert in the genre, I have some starting points and even more books than listed here in mind that I think I’d enjoy reading. Luckily I started some great sci-fi book series already so I have three sequels on my TBR that feel both heavy with expectations but also not that daunting because I already enjoyed the first book. In general, I’m excited to find some new favorites and especially read book set in space, because space is cool ⭐

1. Undying (Kaufman, Spooner)
2. These Broken Stars (Kaufman, Spooner)
3. This Mortal Coil (Emily Suvada)
4. Rogue Heart (Axie Oh)
5. Defy the Worlds (Claudia Gray)

I actually really like Historical Fiction, but I so rarely reach for it. I have no idea why, but compared to other genres there never have been tons of books I’d like to read or already have on my TBR, so I want to change that this year. Especially because there are books I’m excited about and I love reading about things happening in the past, be it mixed with fantasy elements or more focused on real-life events. Maybe this is my inner history major from high school but history is cool and incredibly intriguing when retold or twisted by an author! I even put an adult book on my TBR (is this a double win?) because I heard amazing things about it, so here’s to hopefully finding some historical fiction favorites this year! ⌛

1. Courting Darkness (Robin LaFevers)
2. Something Strange and Deadly (Susan Dennard)
3. Salt to the Sea (Ruta Sepetys)
4. The Girl in the Steel Corset (Kady Cross)
5. My Calamity Jane (Hand, Ashton, Meadows)

We’re slowly getting more out of my comfort zone as the list goes on, as I don’t usually read nonfiction at all. It’s probably the most out of comfort zone genre on my TBR, as I’m simply so busy devouring all the fiction that anything else gets pushed to the side. That’s kind of sad, as I enjoy reading interesting memoirs and have loved reading some writing craft books in the past to improve my own writing. Basically, if a topic catches my interest, I feel like I’m more open to reading about it. This TBR mostly consists of memoirs/autobiographical pieces as this seems to be a good starting point for me 😊

1. Becoming (Michelle Obama)
2. Reasons to Stay Alive (Matt Haig)
3. The Little Book of Bob (James Bowen)
4. In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom (Yeonmi Park)
5. Educated (Tara Westover)

I used to be very opposed to reading anything slightly related to mystery or thriller books (I still don’t like most crime focused media), as anything too intense tends to stress me out. However, I’ve rediscovered my love for mysteries (thanks to shows like Dark messing with my mind) and coming up with all of my own theories have been so much fun to me! From time to time I enjoy switching things up and read more thrilling and intense books if I’m in the mood for it. Therefore, I’ve carefully selected some more mysterious books to hopefully enjoy, probably very soon as most of these are library books as I’m not that sure about buying books for myself in such an out of comfort zone genre! 👀

1. Jackaby (William Ritter)
2. We Were Liars (E. Lockhart)
3. Don’t Look Back (Jennifer L. Armentrout)
4. Wilder Girls (Rory Power)
5. The Naturals (Jennifer Lynn Barnes)

Are you planning on participating in the #outofcomfortzonechallenge? What are some books out of your comfort zone you’d like to read?  💗