2012 Reading Challenges

I have signed up for 5 reading challenges in 2012.  You can follow my progress here:



Check out my 2012 Where Are You Reading Google Map.

Alabama
Alaska
Arizona  Half-Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
Arkansas
California  The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender,
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
Colorado  Breathless by Dean Koontz
Connecticut
Delaware  The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls by Julie Schumacher
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho  The Girls of No Return by Erin Saldin
Illinois: Divergent by Veronica Roth (Chicago)
Indiana  The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Iowa  The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
Kansas
Kentucky The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Louisiana  Ship Breaker by Paolo Bagocalupi
Maine  11/22/63 by Stephen King
Maryland  Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voight
Massachusetts  The Night of the Spadefoot Toads by Bill Harley, Faith by Jennifer Haigh, The Postmistress by Sarah Blake, Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Michigan
Minnesota  Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick, Dead To You by Lisa McMann

Mississippi  Glory By by Augusta Scattergood
Missouri
Montana The Big Burn by Timothy Egan
Nebraska  Revived by Cat Patrick

Nevada
New Hampshire  The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian
New Jersey  Looking for Bobowicz by Daniel Pinkwater, Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich
New Mexico  Brave New World by Aldus Huxley
New York  The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos, Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt, The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg, Time and Again by Jack Finney
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma  Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Oregon 
Pennsylvania Falling Together by Marisa De los Santos
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota 
Tennessee  The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore; An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Texas  Irises by Francisco X. Stork, Everfound by Neal Schusterman
Utah
Vermont
Virginia Greetings from Planet Earth by Barbara Kerley
Washington  Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, The Pregnancy Project by Gaby Rodriguez
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

Other Countries:
Israel - Great House by Nicole Krauss

Vietnam - The Novice: A Story of True Love by Thich Nhat Hanh
England (London) - The Whisper by Emma Clayton, The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart, The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson, Leisl and Po by Lauren Oliver (somewhere in the UK), The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, 1NF1N1TY by Rachel Ward, Magisterium by Jeff Hirsch, Middlemarch by George Eliot
Germany - Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian 
Scotland - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, Sharp North by Patrick Cave
Afghanistan - Rule Number Two by Heidi Squier Kraft



Dystopian Novels Read:
  1. Divergent by Veronica Roth
  2. The Whisper by Emma Clayton
  3. Ship Breaker by Paolo Bagocalupi 
  4. Blood Red Road by Moira Young 
  5. Sharp North by Patrick Cave
  6. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 
  7. Magisterium by Jeff Hirsch



12 Books From My TBR Shelf, including 3 recommended by my husband:
  1. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (recommended by my husband)
  2. Breathless by Dean Koontz (recommended by my husband)
  3. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson (recommended by my husband)
  4. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon  
  5. Sharp North by Patrick Cave
  6. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (recommended by my husband)
  7. Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
  8. Greetings from Planet Earth by Barbara Kerley
  9. Time and Again by Jack Finney
  10. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver


1 - 4 Memoirs:
  1. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson 
  2. The Pregnancy Project by Gaby Rodriguez 
  3. Rule Number Two by Dr. Heidi Squier Kraft

Read one book in each of the following categories:

  1. A book with a topographical feature (land formation) in the title: The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
  2. A book with something you'd see in the sky in the title:  The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
  3. A book with a creepy crawly in the title: The Night of the Spadefoot Toads by Bill Harley
  4. A book with a type of house in the title: Great House
  5. A book with something you'd carry in your pocket, purse, or backpack in the title: Cardboard by Doug Tennapel, The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
  6. A book with a something you'd find on a calendar in the title: Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich, The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

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