The Printz Project

Dates: Perpetual--WooHoo!

Hosts: Suey and Jessica

For details: Click here.

The challenge (put simply): Read the Printz winners. And honors, if you're so inclined.

The list:

2009
Jellicoe Road, by Melina Marchetta
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves, by M.T. Anderson
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart
Nation, by Terry Pratchett
Tender Morsels, by Margo Lanagan

2008
The White Darkness, by Geraldine McCaughrean
Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet, by Elizabeth Knox
One Whole and Perfect Day, by Judith Clarke
Repossessed, by A.M. Jenkins
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath, by Stephanie Hemphill

2007
American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; Volume I: The Pox Party, by M.T. Anderson
An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green
Surrender, by Sonya Hartnett
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak

2006
Looking for Alaska, by John Green
Black Juice, by Margo Lanagan
I Am the Messenger, by Markus Zusak
John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography, by Elizabeth Partridge
A Wreath for Emmett Till, by Marilyn Nelson

2005
how i live now, by Meg Rosoff
Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel
Chanda’s Secrets, by Allan Stratton
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt

2004
The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson
A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly
Keesha’s House, by Helen Frost
Fat Kid Rules the World, by K.L. Going
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler

2003
Postcards from No Man’s Land, by Aidan Chambers
The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer
My Heartbeat, by Garret Freymann-Weyr
Hole in My Life, by Jack Gantos

2002
A Step From Heaven, by An Na
The Ropemaker, by Peter Dickinson
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art, by Jan Greenberg
Abrams Freewill, by Chris Lynch
True Believer, by Virginia Euwer Wolff

2001
Kit’s Wilderness, by David Almond
Many Stones, by Carolyn Coman
The Body of Christopher Creed, by Carol Plum-Ucci
Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, by Louise Rennison
Stuck in Neutral, by Terry Trueman

2000
Monster, by Walter Dean Myers
Skellig, by David Almond
Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
Hard Love, by Ellen Wittlinger

Notes:
Proof that my brain is in a state of decline...I could have sworn I'd signed up for this a few weeks ago. Oh well. Better late than never.

The Lambda Challenge

Dates: No time restraints. :)

Host: Adventures in Reading

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The Challenge (put simply): Read as many Lambda Literary Award winners as you want.

My list:

Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking by Aoibheann Sweeny (Lesbian Debut Fiction)

Name All the Animals by Alison Smith (Autobiography/Memoir)

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (Humor)

Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvaduai (Children's/Young Adult)

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (Lesbian Memoir)

100 Shots of Shorts

Dates: Whenever. (Gotta love that!)

Host: Rob

For details: Click here.

The challenge (put simply): Read one hundred short stories.

My list:

1. "Down to a Sunless Sea" by Mathias B. Freese (1/3/09)
2. "I'll Make It, I Think" by Mathias B. Freese (1/10/09)
3. "The Father Thing" by Philip K. Dick (1/12/09)
4. "Orange" by Neil Gaiman (1/17/09)
5. "Ass-Hat Magic Spider" by Scott Westerfeld (1/17/09)
6. "The Menace From Earth" by Robert Heinlein (1/17/09)
7. "The Home Team" by Greg Wickenhofer (1/17/09)
8. "Summer All in a Day" by Ray Bradbury (1/18/09)
9. "Cheats" by Ann Halam (1/18/09)
10. "The Fluted Girl" by Paolo Bacigulupi (1/18/09)
11. "The Harvest" by Amy Hempel (1/23/09)
12. "The Surfer" by Kelly Link (1/31/09)
13. "The Chatham Bear" by Mathias B. Freese (1/31/09)
14. "Herbie" by Mathias B. Freese (2/14/09)
15. "Alabaster" by Mathias B. Freese (2/15/09)
16. "Juan Peron's Hands" by Mathias B. Freese (2/15/09)
17. "Little Errands" by Mathias B. Freese (2/16/09)
18. "Arnold Schwarzenegger's Father Was a Nazi" by Mathias B. Freese (2/17/09)
19. "Echo" by Mathias B. Freese (2/20/09)
20. "Chicxulb" by T.C. Boyle (2/23/09)
21. "Young Man" by Mathias B. Freese (3/1/09)
22. "Nicholas" by Mathias B. Freese (3/7/09)
23. "Billy's Mirrored Wall" by Mathias B. Freese (3/8/09)
24. "The Babysitter's Code" by Laura Lippman (3/9/09)
25. "Unanswerable" by Mathias B. Freese (3/12/09)
26. "For a While, Here, In this Moment" by Mathias B. Freese (3/17/09)
27. "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor (3/17/09)
28. "The April Witch" by Ray Bradbury (3/21/09)
29. "Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fair" by Charles de Lint (3/22/09)
30. “No One’s a Mystery” by Elizabeth Tallent (3/23/09)
31. "Repair Kit" by Stephen Baxter (7/5/09)

*Stories by Mathias B. Freese are from Down to a Sunless Sea.

1% Well-Read Challenge Round 2

Dates: March 1st of 2009 through March 31st of 2010 (each are the dates for option #3)

Host: 3M

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The challenge (put simply): There are actually 3 different options, but basically it involves reading 10-13 books from "the list."

Notes: Despite the fact that I totally suck at finishing challenges, I'm going for option three which involves 13 books instead of 10. Simply because then I don't have to pay attention if they are from the "old" list or the "new" list. Yes, this boils down to pure laziness.

My list consists only of books which are currently in my house.

I wish I could include rereads as a.) I know I'll be rereading a few on the list because we'll be using them for school, and b.) there's some others I'd just really love to read again (like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and some of the Vonnegut). But I know that's not the point of the challenge.

My list of possibles:

*Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
*The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
*The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
*Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
*Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
*Life of Pi by Yann Martel
*The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Marakami
*The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
*Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
*Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
*The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
*Neuromancer by William Gibson
*Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
*Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
*Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
*The Lords of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (because I still haven't read The Return of the King yet)
*The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
*Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
*The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
*Out of Africa by Isak Dineson
*All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
*Orlando by Virginia Woolf
*We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
*The Hounds of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
*Kim by Rudyard Kipling
*The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
*The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
*Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
*The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
*Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
*Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
*Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
*Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
*Walden by Henry David Thoreau
*Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
*Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Arthurian Challenge 2

Dates: April 1st of 2009 through March 31st of 2010

Host: Becky

For details: Click here.

The challenge (put simply): Read as many books as you'd like that in one way or another involve Arthurian legend.

My list:

*King Arthur and His Knights of The Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green

(O.K., O.K., calling this a list is a stretch. But being completely ignorant of all things Arthur, I thought I'd get my feet wet and see where it goes from there.)

Colorful Reading Challenge

Dates: January 1st through December 31st of 2009

Host: Rebecca

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The Challenge (put simply): Read 9 books with a color in the title. There are six required colors (red, white, blue, black, silver, and gold), and the other three are reader's choice.

My tentative list:

Red: Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech

White: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson.

Blue: The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint

Black: Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden

Silver: The Silver Donkey by Sonya Hartnett

Gold: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Green: Green Angel by Alice Hoffman

Yellow: The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic that Shaped Our History by Molly Caldwell Crosby

Rose: Rose Madder by Stephen King

Young Adult Challenge '09

Dates: January 1st through December 31st of 2009

Host: J.Kaye

For Details: Click here.

The Challenge (put simply): Read 12 young adult books.

My list of possibles:

*An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

*Paper Towns by John Green

*A Bottle in the Gaza Sea by Valerie Zenatti

*Nation by Terry Pratchett

*How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

*The Hollow People by Brian Keaney

*Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

*Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

*The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

*Gossamer by Lois Lowry

*Such a Pretty Girl by Laura Wiess

*Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones

*Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott

*The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

*Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata

*Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

*The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

*The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

*The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer

*American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

*The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett

*Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki