Fiction
- Historical Fiction involving royalty / Ultimate Challenge: non-British royalty
- Historical Fiction that takes place in North America between Colonial Times and the outbreak of the Civil War (1600s-1850s) / Ultimate Challenge: pre-1776 America
- Any title written by a non-European, -Canadian or -American author
- Any title with two (or more) different but equally strong genres
- Fictionalized biography or memoir / Ultimate Challenge: see Nonfiction below
- Any title from a “Best Fiction of the 20th Century” list / Ultimate Challenge: a title at least 100 years old
- A collection of short stories / Ultimate Challenge: collection by a single author
Either Fiction or Nonfiction
- A bestseller from the second half of the 20th Century (1950-1999) / Ultimate Challenge: a title from the first 20 years (1950-1975)
- An author you have never read before but always wanted to
- A title outside your reading comfort zone
- A book based solely on the cover
- Reread a favorite book from childhood (100+ pages) / Ultimate Challenge: over 300 pages
Nonfiction
- A title that satisfies your curiosity
- A title on a subject that you are passionate about
- One title from each area of the Dewey Decimal Classification [10 titles total]
- A biography or memoir / Ultimate Challenge: Read both a fictionalized biography and factual biography about the same person
