2013 Reading Challenges




2013 Where Are You Reading Challenge, hosted by Sheila at Book Journey -

Alabama:  I Still Dream About You by Fannie Flagg

Alaska: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

Arizona UnWholly by Neal Schusterman

Arkansas: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

California: The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker, The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Lucky for Good by Susan Patron, Hope's Boy by Andrew Bridge

Colorado:

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida: Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall

Georgia: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois: The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Hold Fast by Blue Balliet, In the After by Demitria Lunetta, The Dream by Harry Bernstein

Indiana

Iowa The Twelve by Justin Cronin, Rotters by Daniel Kraus

Kansas

Kentucky Turnabout by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Louisiana: Unbroken by Paula Morris

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts: Trapped by Michael Northrup, The Silver Six by A.J. Lieberman and Darren Rawlins, Defending Jacob by William Landay

Michigan

Minnesota: 

Mississippi

Missouri Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Montana

Nebraska 

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey: American Pastoral by Philip Roth, Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich, Tell Us We're Home by Marina Budhos, Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am by Harry Mazer and Peter Lerangis, Looking for Bobowicz by Daniel Pinkwater

New Mexico

New York: The Giant and How He Humbugged America by Jim Murphy, Arcadia by Lauren Groff, Not Exactly a Love Story by Audrey Couloumbis

North Carolina

North Dakota The Far West by Patricia C. Wrede

Ohio: 

Oklahoma Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver, The Dark Side of Nowhere by Neal Schusterman

Oregon Wildwood by Colin Meloy

Pennsylvania: Redfield Farm: A Novel of the Underground Railroad by Judith Redline Coopey, The Infinity Ring #1: A Mutiny in Time by James Dashner, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosk, The Dumbest Idea Ever! by Jimmy Gownley

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota Across the Great Barrier by Patricia C. Wrede

Tennessee: Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

Texas: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

Utah When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

Vermont The Game of Sunken Places by M.T. Anderson

Virginia The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

Washington:  A Matter of Days by Amber Kizer, Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

West Virginia

Wisconsin The Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede

Wyoming

Outside of US:

Australia:  The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman, Tales of Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan, Stolen by Lucy Christopher

Canada: In Other Worlds by Margaret Atwood

England: The Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein, Crispin -The Cross of Lead by Avi, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Japan: The Yokota Officer's Club by Sarah Bird, The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Agawa

North Korea: The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson 

Germany: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, City of Women by David Gilham

France: The Infinity Ring #2: Divide and Conquer by Carrie Ryan 

Italy: Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter 

South Africa: The Fever Tree by Jennifer McVeigh 

Russia: Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andre Makine

Ireland: In the Woods by Tana French

Lithuania: Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

Scotland:  Flyaway by Lucy Christopher

 

 




2013 TBR Pile Reading Challenge, hosted by Evie at Bookish -

GOAL: A Friendly Hug Level, 11-20 books from TBR pile -
  1.  The Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede
  2. Across the Great Barrier by Patricia C. Wrede
  3. Tales of Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
  4. Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver 
  5. Wildwood by Colin Meloy
  6. The Giant and How He Humbugged America by Jim Murphy 
  7. Crispin -The Cross of Lead by Avi 
  8. The Game of Sunken Places by M.T. Anderson 
  9. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne 
  10. Defending Jacob by William Landay
  11. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness 
  12. The Twelve by Justin Cronin
  13. The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness 
  14. Unbroken by Paula Morris
  15. UnWholly by Neal Schusterman
  16. In the Woods by Tana French 
  17. Tell Us We're Home by Marina Budhos
  18. Flyaway by Lucy Christopher 
  19. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
  20. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  21. Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am by Harry Mazer and Peter Lerangis
  22. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Agawa
  23. Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
  24. Rotters by Daniel Kraus
  25. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris 
  26. Looking for Bobowizc by Daniel Pinkwater



2013 Audio Book Challenge, hosted by Theresa's Reading Corner -

GOAL: Going Steady, 12 audio books - 
  1.  Wildwood by Colin Meloy 
  2. Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
  3. The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom 
  4. The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate 
  5. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne 
  6. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
  7. Not Exactly a Love Story by Audrey Couloumbis
  8. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
  9. A Matter of Days by Amber Kizer
  10. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman 
  11. In the After by Demitria Lunetta 
  12. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  13. Looking for Bobowicz by Daniel Pinkwater
  14. Rotters by Daniel Kraus




Those Books I Should Have Read 2013 Reading Challenge, hosted by Reading with Martinis -


GOAL: Level 1 - 6 Books
  1.  The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
  2. American Pastoral by Philip Roth 
  3. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
  4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 
  6. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
  7. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Agawa

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