It's confession time: I love reading. Addition: I am obsessed with books. Writing this from my library (some say “bedroom,” but let's be honest, there are far more books in here than there are beds), I sit surrounded by stacks that are equal part Jane Austen and Alice Walker.

Relevance: Thanks to one of my favorite blogs, Modern Mrs. Darcy, I've found the perfect reading challenge to satisfy my inner bookworm this year. And I'm inviting you to rise to the challenge with me!

For those who follow the lovely and witty Modern Mrs. Darcy, you'll know she hosts an annual reading challenge. The rules of the challenge are simple: There are 12 categories for 12 months, one book a month. The categories (shown below) are open enough to allow you the freedom to customize your year of book-reading glory to suit your tastes and interests.

What I love most about the Modern Mrs. Darcy's challenge is the healthy balance of material; it gives me a chance to catch up on the books I've been meaning to read/know I should have already read, while it also encourages me to expand my reading horizons with categories like “a book published this year” and “a book recommended by local librarian/bookseller.”

For the month of January, I chose the category “a book you've been meaning to read,” diving deep into the hearts of a book thief, an accordion player, a Jewish fist fighter, and a boy with lemon hair in Markus Zusak's "The Book Thief" (2013).

Next month, I'm all set to read "Things Fall Apart" (1958) by Chinua Achebe for the “a book published before you were born” category. A revolutionary postcolonial text, Achebe's novel changed the way both Westerners and Africans viewed the history of the continent before British imperialism. While I chose "The Book Thief" because of my passion for both postmodernist and World War Era texts, I chose "Things Fall Apart" because the novel's history and subject matter are foreign to me. Choosing Achebe's book for the challenge is the perfect opportunity for me to push my literary boundaries.

For other nifty book ideas, you can check out the Modern Mrs. Darcy's 2016 list here.

Think you're up to the challenge? Choose your books, begin your reading, and participate in the challenge across social media platforms with the hashtags #MMDchallenge and #MMDreading, and MMDarcy's instagram @annebogel.

So, what books will you choose?