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2011 Reading Challenge
To date, we have more than 20,000 people participating, with a total goal of more than 1.7 million books across all users! And users have already read more than 39,000 books in 2011 toward their goals.
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I think it's a great idea too.Anyone who is on goodreads shouls like books.i do.but as the goodreads president, i thinks it's a well suited idea.THANK YOU Mayanka!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Any chance that we could get a similar "2011 Pages Challenge", too? I love this idea (I'm aiming for 50 books!), but lots of people read longer books and that would be more meaningful.
Lindsey wrote: "Any chance that we could get a similar "2011 Pages Challenge", too? I love this idea (I'm aiming for 50 books!), but lots of people read longer books and that would be more meaningful."I like this idea!
When I first saw the challenge set, I put 25, but I'm now thinking that I'll try to do 52, one for each week at least... and if I can't manage, then I will at least finish Wheel of Time before the new book comes out.
YEAH :D I'm so doing the challenge that was my new years resoulution Not joking
Nice! I set it to 25, because I thought 50 would be too enthusiastic.
This is the first year I've ever done this, so I'm just going for 30, but I'm going to raise it up to 40, 50, or 60 next year.
Wicked, my first year doing this so ill start at 30 books :)
yay! last year i attempted 30 and got that far and now I'm aiming for 52! Three down so far!
Don't be nasty, some people really don't read much, and committing to one book a month - or even just one book! - is more than they're used to reading. Those of us who read more shouldn't snark about it!
Incredible, I didn't know, but I always wanted a community challenge like this one.
Already set my goal for 50 books. Can't wait to see how I progress throughout the year!
This is awesome. I love how it tell you your percentage so far and how you did last year. Great idea!
Twelve book club books. Ten discussion-series books. That leaves me 78, or six to seven books a month that I WANT to read, rather than MUST read for work. Yeah, that's a reasonable goal. We'll see.
Great challenge!I wish there was some way to count rereads also towards this challenge, other than by changing the date read to the most recent one. I like to keep my 'date read' set to the first time I read a book. Is there something that can be done about that?
I would love to join too. I mean I have so many books to read I need to set a goal.
This is a cool idea. I've joined a few days ago.
Is anyone having troube adding books? I added a book I just finished yet it is not showing up in my challenge.
Kendra wrote: "Is anyone having troube adding books? I added a book I just finished yet it is not showing up in my challenge."I had that problem initially. When I added the challenge I had already finished 2 books in 2011 and it took time till they showed as part of the count.
Okay it must just be a little bit of a delay :) Thanks! Just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something wrong :)
This is a great idea! Maybe this will motivate me to read more.
Kendra wrote: "Okay it must just be a little bit of a delay :) Thanks! Just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something wrong :)"Hey Kendra, I forgot to add that you should also have a date for the time when you finished the book, otherwise it won't show at all. That wouldn't be a problem if it had passed through your 'currently-reading' shelf first.
I need help :( i cant figure out how to add the books , well i can figure it out but it just puts it in the comment is that right?
thank u so much goodreads for this great new year resolution which is a resolution plus challenge that we can give to ourselves.
Venus wrote: "Kendra wrote: "Okay it must just be a little bit of a delay :) Thanks! Just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something wrong :)"Hey Kendra, I forgot to add that you should also have a date fo..."
Okay, where do I do that???
Kendra wrote: "Venus wrote: "Kendra wrote: "Okay it must just be a little bit of a delay :) Thanks! Just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something wrong :)"Hey Kendra, I forgot to add that you should also ..."
I FOUND IT SORRY :)
I originally challenged myself to 100 books, but that's easy for me so I'm considering changing it. I challenge myself every year, but this is a fun way to keep track!
I went with 200. I plan on reading a total of 500 for my 101 things in 1001 days. 200 in 2011, 250 in 2012 and 50 the first couple of months in 2013.
I'm really excited to do this!! I'm trying for a hundred... I did 74 last year.
Julia wrote: "My goal is 144 for 2011. last year I read 136."YOU ARE MY HERO!!lol :) i hope to get close to that!!!
Love the idea and looking forward to the challenge. My brothers and I used to compete to read the most when we were kids and found out the maximum books we could take out of the library very quickly!
How can you guys read so much? It's the 12th and so many people have already read upwards of 8 books! Good for you - I'm at 2.5 so far, which I thought was pretty great for myself. My goal is 65...slightly less than I read last year and the year before, so I'm hoping to surpass that easily.
This is a great idea. I don't really make New year revolutions so this gives me something to work towards all year long. I hope to read 20 books this year. I tend to read books slowly sometimes it takes two or there months for me to read 1 book so for me reading 20 books is a challenge.
I started in June of last year logging what I had read as a month by month shelf. When I went back and counted the "read" dates back to January, I read 232 books last year. I only put 200 books down this year, but it should be interesting...
My challenge is a book each week for a whole year. It amazes me how people can read more than a 100 or 200 books a year! Maybe one day I'll set a goal like this too :)
More, more, more... let's read more.No matter what you read as long as you read more and more and more...
Quantity over quality. Sad.
gina wrote: "I'd love to see people set the goal of 111 in 2011 :) (unless you're going above that number that is!)"Great idea! Updated my goal from 100 to 111.
This is an amazing idea! This will be my first year doing something like this and my goal is 50 books! I can't wait to read with everyone for this challenge! Thanks for the well-organized challenge, GoodReads. This site makes it easy to see how many books you've read. :D
