The Get Graphic Readathon begins this weekend, and guess who’s participating? I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to binge read all of my unread graphic novels, so here we are.

This readathon is dedicated to reading only graphic novels, comics, and manga. The readathon begins at 5 pm on Friday, October 6th and runs through October 8th. I do love that the readathon begins Friday evening. Now I don’t have to stare at the pile of graphic novels and manga all night!

Like most readathons, there is a list of challenges for readers can decide to participate in. This list is as follows.

Challenges:
1. Read from a new-to-you series.
2. Read two installments of the same series.
3. Read a work over 300 pages.
4. Read a work with black and white art.
5. Read a work picked out by a friend.
6. Read at least 5 works.

I expect some of these challenges to be easier than others. I read a good deal of manga and have plenty on my shelf that are unread, so reading a work with black and white art will be easy enough. Funnily, one of the challenges which may be the most difficult for me is reading two installments of the same series. By this point in life I know that I can be very easily distracted. No matter how many installments in a series I have, no matter how many of them are set out before me, I know I will get distracted by something. Skipping over tbr piles has become too easy for me. But I will persevere!

So, what is this list of books I’ll probably wind up changing on the day the Get Graphic Readathon starts? Here’s the list:

Black Clover Vol. 1 by Yuki Tabata
Black Orchid by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
FLCL Omnibus by Gainax
Watamote Vols 8-9 by Nico Tanigawa
D-Frag! Vol 4-5 by Tomoya Haruno
Konosuba Vol 1 by Masahito Watari, Natsume Akatsuki & Kurone Mishima
Monstress Vol 2: The Blood by Marjorie M. Liu & Sana Takeda
The Sandman Vol 3: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman
Descender Vol. 3: Singularities by Jeff Lemire

Honestly, I could just keep listing things. Between everything I have borrowed from Hoopla and Comixology along with the the recent manga I received in the Loot Anime crates I have more graphic novels than one list warrants. And that doesn’t even include the stacks of owned but yet unread manga.

I’m not sure how many manga and graphic novels I will get to. I’m also not positive how good I will be at actually sticking with my to-read list. It’s something that I always struggle with. I set books aside to read next and get distracted by newer books or pretty covers or remember halfway though something that there was another book I had meant to read last month and I should probably get to that one first.

As always reviews of the books will follow the readathon. Stay tuned to see what gets read and what thoughts on each title!

Are you participating in the Get Graphic Readathon? Let us know what graphic novels and manga you’ll be reading in the comments below!