It’s official! I have reading challenge fever. I said in my post on reading new year’s resolutions that I wanted to expand my reading horizons this year, post more reviews, and break the 200 book mark. If I complete all the challenges that I’m interested in, then I will have completed all my reading goals for the year.
All I can say is thank goodness for overlap or I’d be doing nothing but reading this year, and I really want to get a book of my own written too!
Here’s the list I’m going to play with. I haven’t gotten signed up for all of them yet, or figured out reading lists so watch for those individual posts coming over the course of the week. I’ll do a few each day so as not to bombard you with a ton of challenge posts all at once. I’ll link to them here as I get the posts completed.
- Countdown Challenge
- Genre Challenge
- 100+ Reading Challenge
- Suspense & Thriller Challenge
- 1st in a Series Challenge
- 2nds Challenge
- Ebook Reading Challenge
- Erotica Romance Challenge
- The 2009 Pub Challenge
- The 999 Challenge
- A to Z Challenge
- Read Your Own Books
- What’s In a Name
- National Just Read Novels Month
- Historical Fiction Challenge
- Buy One Book and Read It
- 18th and 19th Century Women Writers
- 20 Books in 2009
- Canadian Book Challenge, Part 2
- Chick Lit Challenge
- Chunkster Challenge
- Dewey’s Books Challenge
- Decades 2009 Challenge
- Romance Reading Challenge
- Themed Reading Challenge
- New Author Challenge
- Paranormal Challenge
- 2009 TBR Challenge
- Montgomery Mini Challenge
- Celebrate the Author
- In Their Shoes
- Latin American Reading Challenge
- The Numbers Challenge
- Re-reading Challenge
- Victorian Challenge
- World War II Challenge
- World Citizen Challenge
- Casual Classics
- John Steinbeck Mini Challenge
I’m sure that there will be others throughout the year, but that’s the start of my list. It’s gonna be a great year of reading and book buying!
What are your thoughts on reading challenges? Do you play?
on Jan 11th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
This is the first year I’ve done a reading challenge. I haven’t signed up for as many as you, yet, but I do have a list…. I’m also hosting TWO challenges of my own. John Sandford’s Prey series (perpetual since the series is still being written) and Reading through the Seasons (must have a season in the title)
We’re doing some of the same challenges but you’ve got a great list so I may be adding to mine!
on Jan 12th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
I love reading challenges, too! This is also my first year completing any of them. I started book blogging in the summer of 2008 and, until then, had no idea such things even existed! I started a few challenges Jan. 1 and am having some moderate successes so far, considering it’s only the second week of 2009. Good luck this year! :)