Last year I had a bunch of book challenges that I SWORE that I was going to participate in…but I never did. One of my resolutions for this upcoming year is to read more and I think that actually PARTICIPATING in the book challenges will help me to hold to this resolution. Here are the current book challenges I’m participating in, for a more detailed list head over to my book challenges page (you will also find links to the reviews after I have read the books on that page as well.)
Full House Reading Challenges
For details on the rules head to The Book Date’s Blog. Here are the categories for the challenge:
- From the local library
- Theme/issue you think is important
- Reread
- Won or borrowed
- Book from a series
- Best read so far in 2014
- Setting you’d like to visit
- Review persuaded you to read it
- Historical fiction
- Free or bought very cheaply
- From your wishlist
- Suspense or crime
- Free Choice
- Less than 200 pages
- Published in 2013
- Set in different country from you
- Contemporary
- Published before 2013
- Non fiction
- Paranormal, SF, or Dystopian
- Published in 2014
- More than 400 pages
- Book with animal in it
- Author new to you
- You love the cover
Goodreads Book Challenge
For details on the rules head over to the group created for this Goodreads challenge. Note that you have to join the Goodreads group to participate in this challenge. I’m waiting on the email from the group runner for the different categories so I borrowed the list from Sarah at Beyond the Gradebook.
- Read a Clunker (more than 600 pages)
- Mystery
- Young Adult Fiction
- Accidentally watched the movie first
- Relive the magic (read a book from childhood/youth you loved and haven’t read recently)
- Gathering dust (had the book for years and still haven’t read it)
- Loved by others (others are constantly praising this book)
- Second chance (didn’t like the first time)
- Award winner
- Classic
- Biography/memoir
- Contemporary fiction
- Non-fiction
- “Adult” fiction
- Fantasy
- Horror
- Lost in translation (book originally published in a foreign language)
- “Secret Santa” (book assigned to read by another challenger)
- Short stories
- Graphic novel
- Banned book
- True crime
- Current NY Times #1 Best Seller
- Cover story (a book you chose based solely on the cover image, you can’t even read the description)
- Humor
Around the World in 12 Books
For details on the rules head over to the Giraffe Days blog. I’m aiming for the Seasoned Traveler which means I need to read the full twelve books and that these countries need to be included:
- Africa
- Asia
- Europe
- Australia
- New Zealand
- North America
- South America
- and as a bonus The Middle East
Are you participating in any book challenges this year?
Thanks for signing up to the Full House Challenge. I wish you every success with your reading in 2014.
great goals! carving out time to read is something i need to do this year.