Hello Everyone,

Starting August 1st we will be starting a Count Down Reading Challenge. The goal will be to read 20 books in two months.

You can either make a post here of each book as you read them,or you can create the list and then check them off as you go.

You can join at anytime, but the challenge will end 10/01/09.

I hope you all have fun and use this challenge to help make some progress through those piles of books I know many of us have.

Yay! I'm so excited :)

This is a great idea. Hopefully it will help me with my to-be-read pile. =]

Sweet!! Where do I post my list? Here?

Yay I'm glad people are excited about the challenge!

Linda-you can just post your list here

Sweet!! I will get it ready. Do they have to be Young Adult books?

Not for this challenge,this challenge is really just so you can get through some of the books you've been wanting to read. So any book will be fine.

I am certainly not a young adult--in fact, much older, I teach middle school students in Indiana, and need to know what moves them. I would love to join your group and be a part of discussions. Patty

Kristen wrote: "Yay! I'm so excited :)"

What is your "to be read pile"?

Linda Grace wrote: "Sweet!! I will get it ready. Do they have to be Young Adult books?"

Linda Grace wrote: "Sweet!! I will get it ready. Do they have to be Young Adult books?"

Katie wrote: "This is a great idea. Hopefully it will help me with my to-be-read pile. =]
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Where are you/ I like to know with which part of the U. S. I am corresponding with? Sorry, being anal...

Patty wrote: "Linda Grace wrote: "Sweet!! I will get it ready. Do they have to be Young Adult books?"

Linda Grace wrote: "Sweet!! I will get it ready. Do they have to be Young Adult books?"

Katie wrote: "Thi..."

Hi--Patty here-- I am still trying to figure out this text "thing", please let me know if you receive this. I would much prefer to communicate by cell phone. Patty

Hey Patty! Welcome to the group! I am from California, but I think a lot of us from different places. A TBR, or to-be-read pile, is a pile of books you have been wanting to read, but haven't gotten around to it yet. I have about 8 books I own that I haven't read yet, so these will be the books I read plus some for this challenge. Let us know if you have any other questions! Welcome again!

Here is my list:

In August I plan to read:
1. J. K. Rowling The Wizard Behind Harry Potter
2. Something Borrowed
3. The Girls from Ames A Story of Women and Friendship
4. Love in the Time of Cholera
5. Chasing the Horizon Our Adventures Through the British Isles and France
6. The Black Dagger Brotherhood An Insider's Guide
7. Wicked Lovely
8. Fragile Eternity
9. The Hunger Games
10. City of Glass

In September I plan to read:
1. The Lightning Thief
2. The Sea of Monsters
3. The Titan's Curse
4. The Battle of the Labyrinth
5. The Last Olympian
6. The Mysterious Benedict Society
7. Sea Change
8. A Northern Light
9. The Secret Hour
10. Touching Darkness

I will cross books off as I finish them (probably not in order).

Awesome List Linda!

Thanks! Is it okay if I change a few books as I go, if I can't get the books in time?

Oh yeah no problem!

Awesome! I love lists... :)

Yeah I'm really excited for this challenge. I hope everyone has a ton of fun with it.

This sounds like such a great idea! In fact it is going to be my first challenge on Goodreads. I will be posting my list soon!

Shanna, this is a good challenge to start out with! Some challenges can be a little intimidating when starting out and something like this will be perfect! :) Hope you enjoy your first challenge!

I'm really glad you'll be joining our challenge Shanna. I hope everyone has a ton of fun with it!

Here is my list:

In August I plan to read:

1. The Book Thief
2. Fragile Eternity
3. Watchmen
4. Something Borrowed
5. Looking for Alaska
6. The City of Ember
7. The Luxe
8. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
9. Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants Even Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
10. Stardust

For September I plan to read:

1. Wake
2. An Abundance of Katherines
3. Neverwhere
4. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
5. Peeps
6. The Secret Garden
7. Ironside A Modern Faery's Tale
8. The Wild Girls
9. Sabriel
10. Away Laughing on a Fast Camel Even More Confessions of Georgia Nicolson

I will mark each book off as I read them! YAY I'm so excited!

Great list! Looks like there are couple that we will both be reading in August!

You can post it here... I posted mine here right under my list.

thanks!

Anytime!

20 Books in 2 Months

To Read:

*Subject to Change!

Currently Reading:

Completed:

Yay I'm glad that some of us will be reading some of the same books. That way we can discuss them once we finish!

Great list Shanna,I love how you did cover pictures for your list,it's really fun to look at.

I agree! It's like a wallpaper for her challenge. :)

thanks! i like it to. lol!

Excited to start the challenge tomorrow!

Started my first book this morning.

Yay me too.

Hey all :) I'm new to this group but love this challenge. I am hoping to read the following in the next 2 months:

August:
1. The Host
2. The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite
3. Child 44
4. The Laughing Corpse (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #2)
5. Circus of the Damned (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #3)
6. Jane Eyre
7. Speak
8. Tithe A Modern Faerie Tale
9. Wicked Lovely
10.Dead Until Dark

September:
1.Holes
2. Uglies
3. Touch the Dark
4. City of Bones
5. The Bell Jar
6. Living Dead in Dallas
7. Herland
8. 1984
9. Evermore
10. Claimed By Shadow

Welcome to the group Pollyanna, I hope you have a ton of fun with this challenge!

Great list Pollyanna,I've read a few of the books on your list,so you'll have to let me know what you think once you've read them!

Thanks, I have got into so many series in books recently and since watching True Blood I have to read the series now.

I am going to participate but I don't really have a list. I will probably just write them down as I read them and then post the list. =]

Hey guys!

Sorry I'm so pokey lately!

I'm so excited for this contest.. finally I can fit every book I read into this category! hahaha.

So here's my game plan:

August:
1. The Kindling of GreenFyr Book One of the Reunification Conspiracy
2. Hush, Hush
3. Ash
4. Shiver
5. Ballad The Gathering of Faerie
6. Another Faust
7. Candor
8. Violet Wings
9. Watersmeet
10. Give Up the Ghost

September:
11. Dragon Spear
12. Magician of Hoad
13. Bran Hambric The Farfield Curse
14. Tricks
15. The Maze Runner
16. Troubadour
17. Hate List
I'm not sure past there.

I know a lot of you are going to look at these and say.. wait these aren't out yet! But I have a ton of Advanced Reader Copies from the ALA conference. I need to read them. :)

Yay I'm glad you decided to join the challenge Katie! Adding the books as you go works just fine! I hope you enjoy your books!

Wow Kristen,lucky girl! I wish I had that many advanced released books. I only have the ones that I got through the First reads giveaways! Great list though,I put a bunch of those on my to read list...which just keeps on getting bigger hehe.

Wow Kristen I am so jealous of those books. I have some ARC's but yours practically make me drool. Enjoy!

Haha thanks guys! This first book is over 500 pages! Gah! It'll be a day or two before I get to the rest of that list hehe. I'm just lucky I could go to ALA this summer. It was a ton of fun!

Whee! I'm really excited about this challenge; but here's my list! Hopefully, I'll make it *crosses fingers*

August:
1.Nightwalker
2.Hush, Hush
3.Dayhunter
4.Storm Born
5.Destined for an Early Grave
6.Demon Inside
7.Sacred Scars
8.Heroes at Risk
9.Gifted Out of Sight, Out of Mind
10.Shiver

September:
1.Dreaming Anastasia A Novel of Love, Magic, and the Power of Dreams
2.Crashed
3.Boy Proof
4.Eyes Of Crow
5.Devil's Kiss
6.Dying Bites The Bloodhound Files
7.Give Up the Ghost
8.Tekgrrl
9.Going Bovine
10.Spiral Hunt
Currently reading:

Okay so this is just going to be ongoing and I will just come back and edit it when I finish a book.

1.Geektastic edited by Cecil Castelluci and Holly Black
2.How It Ends by Laura Wiess
3.Psych Major Syndrome by Alicia Thompson
4.Breathless by Jessica Warman
5.The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
6.Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
7.Love Is The Higher Law by David Levithan
8.As You Wish by Jackson Pearce
9.Snap by Carol Snow
10.The Lost Summer by Kathryn Williams
11.Radiant Darkness by Emily Whitman
12.The Season by Sarah Maclean
13.Second Skin by Jessica Wollman
14.The Devil's Kiss by Sarwat Chadda
15.All-American Girl by Meg Cabot
16.Hate List by Jennifer Brown
17.Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
18.Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have by Allen Zadoff
19.Suspicion by Kate Brian
20.Ever by Gail Carson Levine

And hopefully I will get through all 20.

Two down! Loved both of these!

August:
1. Heartsinger
2. Fade to Blue
3. The Kindling of GreenFyr Book One of the Reunification Conspiracy
4. Hush, Hush
5. Ash
6. Shiver
7. Ballad The Gathering of Faerie
8. Another Faust
9. Candor
10. Violet Wings


September:
11. Watersmeet
12. Give Up the Ghost
13. Magician of Hoad
14. Bran Hambric The Farfield Curse
15. Tricks
16. The Maze Runner
17. Troubadour
18. Hate List
19. Dragon Spear
I'm not sure past there.

Wow looks like everyone is doing well so far! Shanna you are just zooming through those books. If you want to discuss any of them feel free to post a thread in the Young Adult Book Discussions Folder.