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12X12 Reading Challenge

Hi and thanks for joining. This group is for everyone who loves a good reading challenge. The idea is to chose 12 categories/subjects and read 12 books for each one. The challenge runs from January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013. Feel free to join in at any time.

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  • MEDoyle

    Meaghan's 12x12 Challenge

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    This is a fantastic idea! I doubt I'll get through 144 books. In fact, before I saw this group my goal for the year was 24 books. But I like the idea of choosing categories and trying to get through a number of books per category, so I'm joining anyway. I'll consider this a success if I do at least 2 books in each category.

    1. Urban Fantasy ✔ ✔
    2. Epic Fantasy ✔✔
    3. Cheesy Mysteries (comedy, not hardboiled) ✔✔✔
    4. SciFi ✔ ✔
    5. YA - Realistic ✔✔
    6. Award Winners ✔
    7. Biography/Memoir ✔ •
    8. Adventure ✔ •
    9. English Professor Literature (pre-1900)
    10. Popular Science •
    11. Something from the shelf bought before 2007 ✔ •
    12. Trendy New Fiction (2011 or 2012 release, hyped by pop media) ✔✔
    13. Bonus Books ✔✔✔✔✔ ✔

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    January -

    (1) Blood Bound - Patricia Briggs ★★★

    (12) Ready Player One - Ernest Cline ★★★★

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    February -

    (2) Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin ★★★★★

    (6) Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward ★★★★

    (5) Paper Towns - John Green ★★★★


    March -

    (13) The Magicians - Lev Grossman ★★

    (3) High Five - Janet Evanovich ★★★


    April -

    (8) Kon-Tiki - Thor H. ★★★

    (11) I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith ★★★★


    May -

    (3) Hot Six - Janet Evanovich ★★★

    (4) Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy, book 2 by Douglas Adams ★★★


    June -

    (5) All the Right Stuff - Walter Dean Myers ★★

    (13) Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs ★★★★


    July -

    (3) Seven Up - Janet Evanovich ★★★

    (12) The Night Circus - Erin Morganstern ★★★★


    August -

    (13) The Hangman's Daughter ★★★★


    September -

    (1) Fool Moon - Jim Butcher ★★★


    October -

    (2) Feast for Crows - George R.R. Martin ★★★★

    November -

    (13) The Case of the Missing Servant - Tarquin Hall ★★★★

    (7) Bossypants - Tina Fey ★★★★

    December -

    (13) The Man Who Loved Books Too Much ★★★★

    (4) Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card ★★★★★

    (13) John Dies at the End - David Wong ★★★

    (10) A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking (reading now)

    (11) Literacy and Longing in L.A. (reading now)

    (7) John Adams - David McCullough (reading now)

    (8) King Solomon's Mines - HRR Haggard (reading now)

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    Possibilities:

    1. Urban Fantasy ✔ ✔
    Blood Bound - Patricia Briggs
    Fool Moon by Jim Butcher

    2. Epic Fantasy ✔ ✔
    Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin
    Feast for Crows by George R R Martin

    3. Cheesy Mysteries (comedy, not hardboiled) ✔ ✔ ✔
    High Five by Janet Evanovich
    Hot Six - Janet Evanovich
    Seven Up - Janet Evanovich
    Revenge of the Spellmans - Lisa Lutz

    4. SciFi ✔ ✔
    Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy, book 2 by Douglas Adams
    Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

    Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein

    5. YA - Realistic ✔ ✔
    Paper Towns - John Green
    All The Right Stuff - Walter Dean Myers

    6. Award Winners ✔
    Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward

    7. Biography/Memoir ✔ •
    Bossypants - Tina Fey
    John Adams by David McCullough

    Einstein by Walter Isaacson
    The Secret Life of Houdini

    8. Adventure ✔ •
    Kon-Tiki - Thor H...
    In Trouble Again - Redmund O'Hanlon
    King Solomon's Mines HR Haggard

    9. English Professor Literature (pre-1900)
    Dickens?
    Middlemarch by George Elliot

    10. Popular Science •
    A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
    Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel

    11. Something from the shelf bought before 2007 ✔ •
    I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
    A Death in Belmont - Sebastien Junger
    Literacy and Longing in L.A.

    12. Trendy New Fiction (2011 or 2012 release, hyped by pop media) ✔ ✔
    Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
    The Night Circus - Erin Morganstern

    13. Bonus Books (don't fit a category, but couldn't wait for next year!) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ •
    The Magicians - Lev Grossman
    Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
    The Hangman's Daughter
    The Case of the Missing Servant - Tarquin Hall
    The Man Who Loved Books Too Much - Allison Hoover Bartlett

    John Dies at the End - David Wong

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