Reading Challenges for 2012 – I’m an Addict
Who doesn’t love a challenge? Well, it’s not me, even though I’ve tried hard over the last two decades to defeat a dominant family “competitiveness gene.”
Once again, it’s that time of year when reading challenges are being posted and I see so many I’d like to join, my head spins. In fact, I’m an addict and I’m going to prove it by joining the Reading Challenge Addict challenge at the “In-Flight” level of 11-15 completed challenges.
Two years ago, I signed up for several and, although I completed most of them, I didn’t blog about the results. This year, I’ll do better!
So here’s a master list of the challenges I’ve taken on so far, and I’ll update this as I add more (although I don’t think you’ll get updates). I’m going to set up a page for each challenge and update those separate pages as I go but, again, I don’t think you’ll see any of those reports, so I’ll be sure to note any ‘challenges met’ in my monthly summary of books I’ve read.
3. Outdo Yourself Reading Challenge
4. Mount TBR Reading Challenge
5. Vintage Mysteries Reading Challenge
6. Bucket List Reading Challenge
7. Back to the Classic Reading Challenge
8. A Classics Challenge with a Twist
9. New Authors Reading Challenge
11. Cruisin’ through the Cozies Reading Challenge
12. TBR Double Dare
13. TBR Pile Reading Challenge
14. Off the Shelf Reading Challenge
15. 12 in ’12 Reading Challenge
16. Dead End Follies Smooth Criminals Reading Challenge
17. What’s In a Name Reading Challenge
18. Reading the (2011) Award Winners Challenge
19. Mixing It Up Reading Challenge
20. Wish List Reading Challenge
21. Tea & Books Reading Challenge
22. War Through the Generations Reading Challenge
23. Southern Literature Reading Challenge
24. European Reading Challenge
25. Evie’s TBR Pile Reading Challenge
26. Reading Shakespeare: A Play a Month
27. Non-Fiction Non-Memoir Reading Challenge
28. Battle of the Prizes – American
29. Battle of the Prizes – British
30. Read Canadian Award Winners Challenge
31. First in a Series Reading Challenge
32. Finishing the Series Reading Challenge
33. ‘I Want More’ 2012 Reading Challenge
35. Truth in Fiction Reading Challenge
36. Classic Doubles 2012 Reading Challenge
37. The Illustrated Year Picture Book Challenge
38. The 3660 Minute Reading Challenge
39. The (Newbery & Printz) Award Winning Reads Challenge
40. The A – Z Reading Challenge
41. The Short Story 2012 Reading Challenge
42. The 2012 Chunkster Reading Challenge
43. The Time Travel Reading Challenge
44. The Memorable Memoir Reading Challenge
45. South Asian Reading Challenge
46. The Read Your Name Challenge 2012
47. The Sir Terry Pratchett Reading Challenge
48. The Find the Cover Challenge 2012
49. The Mammoth Book 2012 Reading Challenge
50. The Books I Started But Didn’t Finish 2012 Reading Challenge
51. Books Won 2012 Reading Challenge
52. The Global 2012 Reading Challenge
53. Books That Made Me Love Reading Challenge
54. Color Coded Reading Challenge
55. Short Story Reading Challenge
56. Australian Women Authors Reading Challenge
57. Birth Year Reading Challenge
58. Books Published in the First Years of My Life Reading Challenge
59. A-Z Double Whammy Reading Challenge
60. Read Amazon Best of 2011 Challenge
61. Criminal Plots Reading Challenge
62. Dewey Decimal Reading Challenge
63. Books in Translation Reading Challenge
I didn’t know there was a challenge for challenges. That might be a bit too much for me. I’m still working on finishing up a few of my challenges for this year.
It might prove to be my undoing, Leslie – but it seemed a good way to at least keep track of the challenges I take on.
Wow … it is that time of year again, isn’t it? I kind of finked out on challenges after being really gung-ho last year. I think I burnt myself out. Still, it is fun to see what challenges people are coming up with. There are so many neat ideas out there. Have fun with them!
Ah, Mrs. J – I may well burn myself out this coming year, but it’ll be the blogging, not the reading, I think. We’ll see…
Wow, that’s an awful lot of reading challenges
though I’m happy that you now also signed up for the Tea & Books Reading Challenge on my blog!
Ohhh my…that’s a lot of challenges lol
Glad to meet you and so glad you have decided to join in on the fun!! Stop by often throughout the year and let us know your progress. Also, our resident Queen Addict Bev, usually will find more challenges for us to join.
See you in a couple of weeks!!!
Thanks for dropping by, Cheryl!
hey, im a middle school student, and my class has a cool way for kids to branch out the types of books we’re reading: my teacher does a Genre Bingo Board. She’ll take genres that most of us wouldn’t typically read (but still will enjoy) and sticks them in different places, while throwing in a couple of our favorite types, and we’re required to do at least one “Bingo” of genres. I’ve read soooooooooo many books that i loved, and would never have read otherwise!
I discovered this site about an hour ago and its already on my bookmarks bar, and i’m looking for a button that says “ALERT ME EVERY TIME THERE’S A NEW POST”!!!!
I just thought all you reading junkies might like a new way to expand your horizons!
Happy Reading!
That sounds like a great idea, Madi – I shall have to challenge myself with that at some point.
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I was looking around for reading challenges, and I am so glad I found your blog! Thanks for the nice list
I’m glad you found my list useful, Manisha. (And I’ll be adding another dozen to it in the next day or two.)