Here’s my challenge list for 2015. These are all of the challenges that are lasting all year long and/or are generally ongoing. For my one-time challenges, readathons, and read-a-longs that I join, check here!
Click to learn more and track my progress: Fairytale Retelling Challenge | Reread Challenge | 105 Challenge | TBR Pile Challenge | Library Challenge | Series-A-Month Challenge | Flights of Fantasy Challenge | Book Blogger Organization Challenge | Audiobook Challenge (links jump to their section on this page)
Fairy Tale Retelling Challenge
Details
Original sign-up post: HERE
Hosted by: The Daily Prophecy
Purpose: Read fairy tale retellings throughout 2015 and reach levels with your reading.
My goal: Reach Big Bad Wolf level (10-15 books)
TBR: (Image of first book in series represents entire series)
- Princess of Thorns – Stacey Jay
- A Court of Thorns and Roses – Sarah J. Maas
- Between the Lines – Jodi Picoult
- Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
- Stardust – Neil Gaiman
- Mirrored – Alex Flinn
- Cinder – Marissa Meyer
- Scarlet – Marissa Meyer
- Cress – Marissa Meyer
- Winter – Marissa Meyer
- The Isle of the Lost – Melissa de la Cruz
- Penny Dora 1 – Michael Stock
- Fairest – Marissa Meyer
Reread Challenge
Details
Original sign-up post: HERE
Hosted by: So Obsessed With and Belle of the Literati
Purpose: Reread as many books as you’d like throughout 2015. Review the books including the following information: when I first read, what I remember, why I wanted to reread, how I felt after rereading, and would I reread again.
My goal: Reread the books on my TBR, either physical copies or by audio.
TBR: (Image of first book in series represents entire series)
- HP Sorcerer’s Stone – JK Rowling
- HP Chamber Secrets – JK Rowling
- HP Prisoner Azkaban – JK Rowling
- HP Goblet Fire – JK Rowling
- HP Order Phoenix – JK Rowling
- Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
- What Happened to Goodbye – Sarah Dessen
- Keeping the Moon – Sarah Dessen
- HP Half-Blood Prince – JK Rowling
- HP Deathly Hallows – JK Rowling
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chobsky
105 Challenge
Details
Hosted by: ReadWriteLove28
Purpose: Read 105 books in 2015. The books will be are broken down into 14 different categories with decreasing numbers of books in each category. (Example: 14 new releases, 13 mystery, 12 contemporary etc.)
My goal: Read all 105 books in my categories below. I’ll only be including rereads in the category for rereads; no double counting in general.
TBR: To be determined. I don’t want to restrict my TBR within each category, because I know I won’t get it done that way.
14 new releases
- The Darkest Part of the Forest – Holly Black
- Station Eleven – Emily St John Mandel
- Emmy & Oliver – Robin Benway
- Even When You Lie to Me – Jessica Alcott
- When – Victoria Laurie
- Play On – Michelle Smith
- All the Bright Places – Jennifer Niven
- The Pretty App – Katie Sise
- Kissing in America – Margo Rabb
- All We Have Is Now – Lisa Schroeder
- Jesse’s Girl – Miranda Kenneally
- Magonia – Maria Dahvana Headley
- The Revenge Playbook – Rachael Allen
- Signs Point to Yes – Sandy Hall
13 YA contemporary
- Meant to Be – Lauren Morrill
- This Is What Happy Looks Like – Jennifer E. Smith
- The Boyfriend App – Katie Sise
- The Disenchantments – Nina LaCour
- Second Helpings – Megan McCafferty
- Charmed Thirds – Megan McCafferty
- Saint Anything – Sarah Dessen
- Fourth Comings – Megan McCafferty
- Perfect Fifths – Megan McCafferty
- PS I Still Love You – Jenny Han
- Cut Both Ways – Carrie Mesrobian
- Stealing Parker – Miranda Kenneally
- Racing Savannah – Miranda Kenneally
12 debuts
- My Last Kiss – Bethany Neal
- Tease – Amanda Maciel
- The Falconer – Elizabeth May
- The One Thing – Marci Lyn Curtis
- The One That Got Away – Bethany Chase
- Even in Paradise – Chelsey Philpot
- Everything, Everything – Nicola Yoon
- Rules for 50/50 Chances – Kate McGovern
- The Night We Said Yes – Lauren Gibaldi
- Cinder – Marissa Meyer
- My Life Next Door – Huntley Fitzpatrick
- Nantucket Blue – Leila Howland
11 from authors previously read
- The DUFF – Kody Keplinger
- Siege and Storm – Leigh Bardugo
- HP Sorcerer’s Stone – JK Rowling
- HP Chamber Secrets – JK Rowling
- Landline – Rainbow Rowell
- Complete Nothing – Kieran Scott
- HP Prisoner Azkaban – JK Rowling
- Just One Year – Gayle Forman
- Ruin and Rising – Leigh Bardugo
- HP Order Phoenix – JK Rowling
- HP Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling
10 new adult
- All Lined Up – Cora Carmack
- All Broke Down -Cora Carmack
- Losing It – Cora Carmack
- All Played Out – Cora Carmack
- The Deal – Elle Kennedy
- Last Will and Testament – Dahlia Adler
- Call Me, Maybe – Ellie Cahill
- The Mistake – Elle Kennedy
- Faking It – Cora Carmack
- Snowed Over – Angie Stanton
9 ARCs
- Perfect Couple – Jennifer Echols
- All Fall Down – Ally Carter
- The Start of Me and You – Emery Lord
- Red Queen – Victoria Aveyard
- Promposal – Rhonda Helms
- When Joss Met Matt – Ellie Cahill
- A Court of Thorns and Roses – Sarah J. Maas
- Things We Know by Heart – Jessi Kirby
- 99 Days – Katie Cotungo
8 already owned on Kindle
- On the Fence – Kasie West
- Between the Lines – Jodi Picoult
- Behind the Scenes – Dahlia Adler
- Cress – Marissa Meyer
- The Raven Boys – Maggie Stiefvater
- I Am Princess X – Cherie Priest
- Christmas Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses
- The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight – Jennifer E. Smith
7 series-starters
- Get Even – Gretchen McNeil
- Just One Day – Gayle Forman
- Sloppy Firsts – Megan McCafferty
- These Broken Stars – Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner
- The Program – Suzanne Young
- Only Everything – Kieran Scott
- The Isle of the Lost – Melissa de la Cruz
6 nonfiction (memoir, humor, etc.)
- Yes Please – Amy Poehler
- Full Frontal Feminism – Jessica Valenti
- The Disaster Artist – Greg Sestero
- Modern Romance – Aziz Ansari
- The Internet is a Playground – David Thorne
- Bossypants – Tina Fey
5 time-bending/parallel universe
- Pivot Point – Kasie West
- Split Second – Kasie West
- Maybe in Another Life – Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Resonance – Erica O’Rourke
- Parallel – Lauren Miller
4 rereads (not done exclusively via audio)
- Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
- What Happened to Goodbye – Sarah Dessen
- Keeping the Moon – Sarah Dessen
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chobsky
3 books owned before college
- Just Listen – Sarah Dessen
- Stuff White People Like – Christian Lander
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – JK Rowling
2 books with pink covers
- Something True – Kieran Scott
- The Good Girls – Sara Shepard
1 book out of my “comfort zone”
- Nowhere But Home – Liza Palmer
TBR Pile Challenge
Details
Hosted by: Roof Beam Reader
Purpose: Read 12 books that have been on your TBR list for over a year. (Nothing published after January 1st, 2014 will count)
My goal: Read one book a month (or 12 throughout the year) that were published in 2013 or earlier. My own personal goal is that these will be MOSTLY books I’ve already purchased and currently own. Both physical and e-books apply.
TBR: Any book from my owned shelves on Goodreads (Kindle or physical) that was published in 2013 or earlier. I’ll choose depending on my mood, but I will definitely get to all of these:
- The DUFF – Kody Keplinger
- Meant to Be – Lauren Morrill
- Just One Day – Gayle Forman
- Nowhere But Home – Liza Palmer
- The Boyfriend App – Katie Sise
- The Disenchantments – Nina LaCour
- Sloppy Firsts – Megan McCafferty
- Second Helpings – Megan McCafferty
- These Broken Stars – Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner
- Charmed Thirds – Megan McCafferty
- Fourth Comings – Megan McCafferty
- Perfect Fifths – Megan McCafferty
- Between the Lines – Jodi Picoult
- The Program – Suzanne Young
- Stardust – Neil Gaiman
- Stealing Parker – Miranda Kenneally
- Things I Can’t Forget – Miranda Kenneally
- Racing Savannah – Miranda Kenneally
- Just Listen – Sarah Dessen
- Full Frontal Feminism – Jessica Valenti
- Where the Stars Still Shine – Trish Doller
- The Lying Game – Sara Shepard
- Never Have I Ever – Sara Shepard
- Two Truths and Lie – Sara Shepard
- Hide and Seek – Sara Shepard
- Cross My Heart, Hope to Die – Sara Shepard
- Seven Minutes in Heaven – Sara Shepard
- What Happened to Goodbye – Sarah Dessen
- Cinder – Marissa Meyer
- Keeping the Moon – Sarah Dessen
- Nantucket Blue – Leila Howland
- How to be Bad – 3 authors
- Two-Way Street – Lauren Barnholdt
- Scarlet – Marissa Meyer
- The Disaster Artist – Greg Sestero
- Hollywood is like High School with Money – Zoey Dean
- Out of Sight, Out of Time – Ally Carter
- United We Spy – Ally Carter
- The Raven Boys – Maggie Stiefvater
- Jellicoe Road – Melina Marchetta
- Icing on the Lake – Catherine Clark
- The Internet is a Playground – David Thorne
- Bossypants – Tina Fey
- The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight – Jennifer E. Smith
- Stuff White People Like – Christian Lander
- Faking It – Cora Carmack
- Decked with Holly – Marni Bates
- Snowed Over – Angie Stanton
Library Challenge
Details
Hosted by: Book Journey
Purpose: Check out books from your local library (any format) and move up to different levels. For example, “Novice” is level one and includes 1-5 checkouts.
My goal: Reach the highest level (Going Pro) with over 28 checkouts. I need to use my library even more and spend less money! To keep things challenging for me, I am going to limit myself to ONLY physical books. No audio or e-books!
TBR: To be determined! This will depend on what I want to read and what strikes me when I get to the library.
- Siege and Storm – Leigh Bardugo
- The Secrets of Lily Graves – Sarah S
- My Last Kiss – Bethany Neal
- This Is What Happy Looks Like – Jennifer E. Smith
- Station Eleven – Emily St John Mandel
- Ruin and Rising – Leigh Bardugo
- The Falconer – Elizabeth May
- All the Bright Places – Jennifer Niven
- The Disenchantments – Nina LaCour
- Sloppy Firsts – Megan McCafferty
- Second Helpings – Megan McCafferty
- Charmed Thirds – Megan McCafferty
- Fourth Comings – Megan McCafferty
- Perfect Fifths – Megan McCafferty
- Magonia – Maria Dahvana Headley
- Lying Out Loud by Kody Keplinger
- Where the Stars Still Shine – Trish Doller
- Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda – Becky Albertalli
- What Happened to Goodbye – Sarah Dessen
- The Night We Said Yes – Lauren Gibaldi
- Resonance – Erica O’Rourke
- The Remedy – Suzanne Young
- The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly – Stephanie Oakes
- Magnolia – Kristi Cook
- A Madness so Discreet – Mindy McGinnis
- I’ll Give You the Sun – Jandy Nelson
- Fairest – Marissa Meyer
- The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight – Jennifer E. Smith
Flights of Fantasy Challenge
Details
Hosted by: Hello, Chelly and Alexa Loves Books
Purpose: Read as many fantasy books as you’d like throughout the year.
My goal: Read 20 fantasy books this year, which will include a reread of the Harry Potter series.
TBR: (Image of first book in series represents entire series; second book in Grisha trilogy is shown because I’ve already read the first book but plan to finish the trilogy this year)
- Siege and Storm – Leigh Bardugo
- HP Sorcerer’s Stone – JK Rowling
- HP Chamber Secrets – JK Rowling
- Princess of Thorns – Stacey Jay
- The Darkest Part of the Forest – Holly Black
- Red Queen – Victoria Aveyard
- A Court of Thorns and Roses – Sarah J. Maas
- HP Prisoner Azkaban – JK Rowling
- HP Goblet Fire – JK Rowling
- Ruin and Rising – Leigh Bardugo
- The Falconer – Elizabeth May
- HP Order Phoenix – JK Rowling
- Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
- Stardust – Neil Gaiman
- Magonia – Maria Dahvana Headley
- Cinder – Marissa Meyer
- HP Half-Blood Prince – JK Rowling
- Scarlet – Marissa Meyer
- Truthwitch – Susan Dennard
- Cress – Marissa Meyer
- Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo
- Winter – Marissa Meyer
- The Isle of the Lost – Melissa de la Cruz
- Penny Dora 1 – Michael Stock
- The Raven Boys – Maggie Stiefvater
- Fairest – Marissa Meyer
Book Blogger Organization Challenge
Hosted by: The Book Addict’s Guide
Purpose: Get your blog organized throughout the first six months of the year. There will be different themes to each month that help determine areas of your blog to focus on.
My goal: Follow along with the “schedule” for the year and get my blog in tip-top shape. Since moving to self-host and changing my theme around, I have a lot of images to update from old posts and links to make sure work.
Schedule: (copied directly from Brittany’s sign-up page!)
- JANUARY: Reading challenges & resolutions
- Picking challenges, making resolutions, scheduling, forming plans, picking reading/blogging buddies
- FEBRUARY: Blog maintenance
- Updating old reviews, pages, layouts, features/memes, contact info
- Clean up images, broken links
- SEOs
- MARCH: Social Media + Review Outlets
- Update social media accounts: bios, who you follow, delete old accounts you won’t use, resolve to use some accounts more
- Organize Goodreads shelves: duplicate copies, version of books, creating shelves, removing shelves
- Cross-posting
- APRIL: Graphics, HTML, CSS, Plug-ins
- Update graphics for posts/memes/events, update button, update header
- Learn Photoshop/Gimp/PicMonkey
- Brush up or try to learn simple HTML and CSS (for layouts, fonts, etc). Take this month to delve into the scary world of coding! (Or at least teach yourself one new thing!)
- MAY: Book clean-up + spring cleaning!
- Culling shelves, giveaways, donations, giving back borrowed books
- Reading books you were given as gifts, ARC catch up
- Rearranging shelves, updating Goodreads again, giving back borrowed books
- More cross-posting & cleaning up GR shelves
- JUNE: Freebie
- Recapping what you’ve organized, focus on biggest area of need, review TBR list
Audiobook Challenge
Hosted by: The Book Nympho and Hot Listens
Purpose: Outdo your previous year of audiobooks and challenge yourself to listen more. Any genres and rereads count.
My goal: Reach the My Precious level (30-50 audiobooks). I usually can do one per week but I may need to take some breaks in between. This range allows me some wiggle room and I’ll set my official goal at 35.
TBR: (Image of first book in series represents entire series; pictures below are current audiobooks I own that I plan to listen to, but obviously the list will get much longer!)
- HP Sorcerer’s Stone – JK Rowling
- HP Chamber Secrets – JK Rowling
- Yes Please – Amy Poehler
- Get Even – Gretchen McNeil
- Losing It – Cora Carmack
- Landline – Rainbow Rowell
- Tease – Amanda Maciel
- HP Prisoner Azkaban – JK Rowling
- HP Goblet Fire – JK Rowling
- When – Victoria Laurie
- HP Order Phoenix – JK Rowling
- Saint Anything – Sarah Dessen
- Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
- Stardust – Neil Gaiman
- Magonia – Maria Dahvana Headley
- Get Dirty – Gretchen McNeil
- The Lying Game – Sara Shepard
- Never Have I Ever – Sara Shepard
- Two Truths and Lie – Sara Shepard
- Hide and Seek – Sara Shepard
- Cross My Heart, Hope to Die – Sara Shepard
- Seven Minutes in Heaven – Sara Shepard
- What Happened to Goodbye – Sarah Dessen
- Keeping the Moon – Sarah Dessen
- Two-Way Street – Lauren Barnholdt
- The Boy Most Likely To – Huntley Fitzpatrick
- HP Half-Blood Prince – JK Rowling
- Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo
- A Madness so Discreet – Mindy McGinnis
- The Disaster Artist – Greg Sestero
- The Isle of the Lost – Melissa de la Cruz
- Modern Romance – Aziz Ansari
- The Raven Boys – Maggie Stiefvater
- Fairest – Marissa Meyer
- Bossypants – Tina Fey
- Faking It – Cora Carmack
Ongoing Challenges
Series-A-Month Challenge
Details
Original sign-up post: HERE
Hosted by: Love at First Page
Purpose: Read a series each month. It must be a series with at least two out of 3+ books published or a completed duology.
My goal: Keep track of the series I read on my series tracker and try to read one a month, or at least one every other month.
TBR: (Image of first book in series represents entire series)
Updates & Progress
- 2014
- November: The Maze Runner (original trilogy, not including prequels or novellas)
- December: None
- 2015
- January: None
- February: True Love Trilogy by Kieran Scott; Just One Day (3 books) by Gayle Forman
- March: None
- April: Jessica Darling series by Megan McCafferty (first two books)
- May: Jessica Darling series by Megan McCafferty (final three books)
- June: Hundred Oaks by Miranda Kenneally
- July: Daylight Falls by Dahlia Adler (duology) and The Lying Game by Sara Shepard
- August:
- September:
- October:
- November:
- December:
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