What's in a Name Reading Challenge

Dates: January 1st through December 31st

Host: Annie

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The Challenge (put simply): Read one book in each of 6 categories...a book with a color in its title, a book with an animal in its title, a book with a plant in its title, a book with a place in its title, a book with weather event in its title, and a book with a person's name in its title.

My list:

*Light on Snow by Anita Shreve (weather event)

*Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (plant)

*Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King (place)

*Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule (color)

*The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (first name)

*I Was a Rat by Philip Pullman (animal)

Substitutes:

*The Floods: Good Neighbors by Colin Thompson (weather event)

*The Rose and the Beast by Francesca Lia Block (plant)

*New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers by Robert S. Desowitz (place)

*The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson (first name)

Book Around the States Reading Challenge

Dates: Ongoing, as in no time limit! (This makes it impossible to resist!)

Host: Bonnie

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My list: (filled in as I come up with appropriate books)

Alabama--Sonny's House of Spies by George Ella Lyon
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas--100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts--The Borden Tragedy by Rick Geary
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon--Emily's Runaway Imagination by Beverly Cleary
Pennsylvania--Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

Hometown Challenge

***What can I say? I totally forgot about this one! And all I needed to do was read a single book. Oh well.***

Dates: November 1st through March 1st

Host: Callista

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The Challenge (put simply): Read at least 1 book either set in your hometown or by an author from your hometown.

My list:

*The Tenth House by Phillip Tomasso III (set in the Rochester, NY area)

*If, and only if, I enjoy the first, I'll also read the sequel, Third Ring.

Y.A. Reading Challenge

Dates: January 1st through December 31st

Host: Joy

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The Challenge (put simply): Read 12 Young Adult books.

My list:

*elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

*Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

*Stardust by Neil Gaiman

*The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

*The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

*The Secret Hours by Scott Westerfield

*Gossamer by Lois Lowry

*The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint

*The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

*The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer

*Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

*The Legend of Holly Claus by Brittney Ryan

Substitutes:

*The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

*The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

*Star Split by Kathryn Lasky

*Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

*The Missing Girl by Norma Fox Mazer

*Sonny's House of Spies by George Ella Lyon

*Enna Burning by Shannon Hale

*Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Numbers Challenge

***WooHoo! Finished this baby in the knick of time! (Seriously, with just a couple hours to spare.) Well, thanks to Callista's extension, that is.***

Dates: January 1st through August 1st

Host: Callista

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The Challenge (put simply): Read 5 books with numbers in their title.

My list:

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson

The 6th Target by James Patterson

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

Alternates:

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

24 Hours by Greg Iles

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

Vampire Plagues, London 1850 by Sebastian Rook

Book of A Thousand Days by Shannon Hale

Decades Challenge 2008

Date: January 1st through December 31st

Host: 3M

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The Challenge (put simply): Read at least 8 books from 8 consecutive decades.

My "possibles" list:

1860s-

*Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

*Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

1870s-

*The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

*The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

1880s-

*The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

*Heidi by Johanna Spyri

1890s-

*The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

*The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

*Dracula by Bram Stoker

1900s-

*Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

*Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

*The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

1910s-

*The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

*Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter

1920s-

*Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

*All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

1930s-

*Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

*And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

1940s-

*Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

*A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

*All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

1950s-

*Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

*The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson

1960s-

*Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

*The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

1970s-

*Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry

*The Princess Bride by William Goldman

*All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

1980s-

*The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

*Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

*Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

1990s-

*The Giver by Lois Lowry

*The Stand: Complete and Uncut edition by Stephen King

*Stardust by Neil Gaiman

--This is obviously many more books than I will actually read for the challenge. I just wanted to give myself some leeway as to not only what 8 consecutive decades I actually tackled, but also which particular from each decade.