Reading Challenges

I’m a reading challenge addict, so I’m always participating in several at once. I thought I’d share a few

2012 NetGalley Reading Challenge

This challenge is hosted by Emily at Red House Books. I’m aiming for a green star: 11-20 NetGalley books for 2012

1. The Whisperer by Donato Carrisi
2. Enormity by W.G. Marshall
3. Ragnarok by A.S. Byatt
4. Erebos by Ursula Poznanski
5. The Rook by Daniel O’Malley
6. The Troupe by Robert Jackson Bennett
7. The Fourth Wall by Walter Jon Williams
8. The Pillars of Hercules by David Constantine
9. Edge of Dark Water by Joe R. Lansdale
10. Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain by A. Lee Martinez
11. Nevermore by William Hjortsberg
12. Westlake Soul by Rio Youers
13. Faustus Resurrectus by Thomas Morrissey
14. The Peculiars by Maureen Doyle McQuerry

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My Goodreads bookclub, the South African Book Lovers, is absolutely fanatical about reading challenges. Most of the active members are always doing multiple challenges and thinking up ideas for new ones. Here are a few of them:

Trying New Things (completed)

Read 25 books, each of which fall into one or more of the following catagories:
- an author you’ve never read before
- the first book in a series
- a debut novel
- a genre you’ve never tried before
- a latest release (must be read within 3 months of publication

1. The Revisionists by Thomas Mullen
2. Voices edited by Mark S. Deniz and Amanda Pillar
3. Seed by Rob Ziegler
4. Snuff by Terry Pratchett
5. Variant by Robison Wells
6. A Study in Scarlett by Arthur Conan Doyle
7. The Antithesis: Book Two Beta by Terra Whiteman
8. Carpathia by Matt Forbeck
9. Empire State by Adam Christopher
10. The Whisperer by Donato Carrisi
11. Fantastic Women edited by Rob Spillman
12. Enormity by W.G. Marshall
13. Prador Moon by Neal Asher
14. This Devil’s Dice by Jackson Spence
15. The Spellcoats by Diana Wynne Jones
16. Erebos by Ursula Poznanski
17. Thieves at Heart by Tristan J. Tarwater
18. The Rook by Daniel O’Malley
19. The Troupe by Robert Jackson Bennett
20. God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
21. The Fourth Wall by Walter Jon Williams
22. The Pillars of Hercules by David Constantine
23. Edge of Dark Water by Joe R. Lansdale
24. The Antithesis: Book Three Alpha by Terra Whiteman
25. Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain by A. Lee Martinez

The Series Madness Challenge

Points are awarded for reading books that are part of a series. If you read them in order, you get points according to the book’s position in the series, eg. 3 points for the third book in the series, if you’ve read books 1 and 2. Books read out of order will get you 1 point.

• Polity series by Neal Asher
  Prador Moon - 1Canongate Myths
  Ragnarok (#17) by A.S. Byatt - 1

  Dalemark Quartet by Diana Wynne Jones
  The Spellcoats(chronologically #1) - 1

  Valley of Ten Crescents by Tristan J. Tarwater
  Thieves at Heart - 1

  The Culture by Iain M. Banks
  Use of Weapons(#3) - 1

  Dagmar Series by Walter Jon Williams
  The Fourth Wall(#3) - 1

  The Antithesis by Terra Whiteman
  Book 3 Alpha - 4 This series has odd numbering. Although it’s entitled book 3a, it’s the 4th one in the series so far.

  A Dirge for Prester John by Catherynne M. Valente
  The Habitation of the Blessed(#1) - 1
  The Folded World(#2) - 2

  The Subterrene War by T.C. McCarthy
  Germline(#1) - 1
  Exogene(#2) - 2

  The Fey and the Fallen by Stina Leicht
  Of Blood and Honey(#1) - 1
  And Blue Skies From Pain(#2) - 2

  Matthew Shardlake by C.J. Sansom
  Dissolution(#1) - 1

  Miriam Black by Chuck Wendig
  Blackbirds(#1) - 1
  Mockingbird(#2) - 2

  The Machine Dynasty by Madeline Ashby
  vN(#1) - 1

  Mall Rats by Lily Herne
  Death of a Saint(#2) - 2

Total points: 16