Challenges

Welcome to my Challenges page! On this page I will show my reading goals for each year. These goals range from reading specific books to exploring genres and new authors. Note: I changed blogs so some of the challenges prior to 2013 may not have reviews on this blog. Ongoing challenges are listed before the yearly challenges.
DNF = Did Not Finish

Ongoing Challenges

• Read all of Stephen King 
• Read all of Haruki Murakami
• BBC Top 100 Books 

2013 Challenges

• 100 Books in One Year
• Nicholas Sparks Challenge  (5 books for me)
• Read more Stephen King (5 books for me: The Tommyknockers, Darktower #1, Insomnia, Under the Dome, In the Tall Grass)
• Reduce spending by using the library and checking out Arthur's bookshelf (Snow Crash, Ready Player One)
• Read more Japanese literature
• Read more Canadian literature (Glossolalia, Half Blood Blues)
• Re-read old books more often (Wicked, The Hunger Games)

Books Read in 2013 (in no particular order)

1. Crazy Sexy Diet by Kris Carr
2. Living Well with Endometriosis by Kerri Ann Morris
3. Horns by Joe Hill
4. Velocity by Dean Koonrtz
5. Insomnia by Stephen King
6. Closure of the Helpdesk by Ali Sheikh
7. School Rumble Vol 2
8. Destiny's Fire by Trisha Wolfe
9. Sailor Moon Vol 10
10. Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
11. Under the Dome by Stephen King
12. In the Tall Grass by Stephen King and Joe Hill (short story)
13. Seafoam by Mark Henry (short story)
14. Wicked by Gregory McGuire (reread)
15. Cardcaptor Sakura omnibus 2
16. True Colors by Kristen Hannah
17. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
18. Jane Eyre by  Charlotte Bronte
19. The Mermaid's Mirror by L.K. Madigan
20. The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
21. The Hunger Games by Susanne Collins (reread)
22. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
23. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen (reread)
24. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
25. The Dark Tower 1: The Gunslinger by Stephen King
26. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
27. Skulduggery Pleasant #1 by Derek Landy
28. Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor
29. Money Rules by Gail Vaz Oxlade
30. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
31. The Yoga Directory by Linda Doeser (reread)
32. TEN by Gretchen McNeil
33. The Giver by Lois Lowry
34. Across the Universe by Beth Revis
35. Calling Out For You! By Karin Fossum
36. School Rumble Vol 1
37. The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
38. Half Blood Blues - Esi Edugyan
39. Glossolalia by Marita Dachsel
40. The Terror by Dan Simmons
41. Rush by Maya Banks
42. N0S4A2 by Joe Hill
43. Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
44. The Round House by Louise Erdrich
45. Firestarter by Stephen King

2012 Challenges

• 100 Books in one year
• Little Women by L. Alcott (DNF)
• Persuasion by Jane Austen (DNF)
• Emma by Jane Austen
• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
• Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Nicholas Sparks
• Agatha Christie
• 4 LGBTQ books
• 2 Horror books
• 2 Canadian authors
• House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski (DNF)
• 2 Psychology books
• 3 new manga series