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Awards: Goodreads Choice Awards (2011) Reading Challenge
Catherine wrote: "As this is my first challenge, I think I am going to go for the Easy level... I must apologise in advance for my terrible html - it has been..."Your HTML looks fine to me, Catherine.
I'm in. Don't know the books yet, but I'm in :o)Duration
Start: 1/1/2012
End: 12/31/2012
Levels
Easy- 10 books
1/10
Favorite Book of 2011
State of Wonder 24/Feb
I should really attempt to read some of these books instead of just saying that I'm going to read them :-P
Books Read: 8Best Book of 2011:
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Fiction:
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Best Food and Cooking:
Best History and Biography
Humor:
Seriously...I'm Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres
Non-Fiction
YA Fantasy/Science Fiction
Haha thanks Sashana, hopefully I will get a bit quicker at it soon!
READ: 3/10Mystery & Thriller: Before I Go to Sleep - S.J. Watson
Mystery & Thriller:A Red Herring Without Mustard - Alan Bradley
Best Paranormal Fantasy: Living Dead in Dallas - Charlaine Harris
Best Paranormal Fantasy: Summer Knight - Jim Butcher
Best Fantasy: A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
Best Horror: What the Night Knows - Dean Koontz
✔Best Romance: Just Like Heaven - Julia Quinn 3/2
✔Best Young Adult Fantasy/SciFic: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs 2/7
✔Best Goodreads Author: Cassandra Clare: Clockwork Prince 1/6
Best Goodreads Author: Ilona Andrews: Magic Slays
I need to stop as this is becoming very addictive but just liked that these are more current books than I usually read.NBRC Goodreads Choice Awards (2011) Reading Challenge
Duration: 01/01/12 - 12/31/12
Level: Easy (2/10)
Best Fiction ~ State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Mystery & Thriller ~ Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson
Best Historical Fiction ~ The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Best Fantasy ~ The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
✔Best Science Fiction ~ 11/22/63 by Stephen King (04/03/12)
Best Romance ~ Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn
✔Best Humor ~ Bossypants by Tina Fey (06/15/12)
Best Nonfiction ~ Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way by Jon Krakauer
Best History & Biography ~ Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Best Memoir & Autobiography ~ The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels by Ree Drummond
READ: 4/10Mystery & Thriller: Before I Go to Sleep - S.J. Watson
✔Mystery & Thriller:A Red Herring Without Mustard - Alan Bradley 3/10
Best Paranormal Fantasy: Living Dead in Dallas - Charlaine Harris
Best Paranormal Fantasy: Summer Knight - Jim Butcher
Best Fantasy: A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
Best Horror: What the Night Knows - Dean Koontz
✔Best Romance: Just Like Heaven - Julia Quinn 3/2
✔Best Young Adult Fantasy/SciFic: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs 2/7
✔Best Goodreads Author: Cassandra Clare: Clockwork Prince 1/6
Best Goodreads Author: Ilona Andrews: Magic Slays
READ: 5/10Mystery & Thriller: Before I Go to Sleep - S.J. Watson
✔Mystery & Thriller:A Red Herring Without Mustard - Alan Bradley 3/10
Best Paranormal Fantasy: Living Dead in Dallas - Charlaine Harris
Best Paranormal Fantasy: Summer Knight - Jim Butcher
Best Fantasy: A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
✔Best Horror: What the Night Knows - Dean Koontz 3/12
✔Best Romance: Just Like Heaven - Julia Quinn 3/2
✔Best Young Adult Fantasy/SciFic: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs 2/7
✔Best Goodreads Author: Cassandra Clare: Clockwork Prince 1/6
Best Goodreads Author: Ilona Andrews: Magic Slays
4/10 CompleteBest Horror:
Deadline 2/28/12 ★★★★★
Best Young Adult Fantasy and Sci-Fi:
Across the Universe 3/17/12 ★★★☆☆
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 3/20/12 ★★★☆☆
Best Horror:
Those Across the River 3/26/12 ★★★☆☆
I am joining in on this challenge, starting with Easy and working my way through!Level: Easy (10 Books)
4/10
1. Favorite Book of 2011 Winner:
--1/7/122. Best Fantasy Runner Up:
--2/10/123. Best Horror Winner:
--2/21/124. Best Fiction Winner:
--3/27/125.
Potentials reads:
I'm in on this. No definite plan yet. Will add as I go...
Welcome to the challenge, Jennifer and Tracy!
Books Read: 11Best Book of 2011:
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Fiction:
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Best Food and Cooking:
Best History and Biography
Humor:
Seriously...I'm Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres
Non-Fiction
YA Fantasy/Science Fiction
Duration: 1/1/2012 - 12/31/2012Level: Easy
Completed: 10/10
Design borrowed from Dragana
♡ Best Fiction ♡ (2/2)
☑ 1Q84 ♚ ★★★ 14 Nov 2012
☑ The Peach Keeper ★★ 25 June 2012
♡ Mystery & Thriller ♡ (1/1)
☑ Smokin' Seventeen ♚ ★★ 12 June 2012
♡ Science Fiction ♡ (2/2)
☑ 11/22/63 ♚ ★★★★ 24 July 2012
☑ Ready Player One ★★★★ 12 Oct 2012
♡ Humor ♡ (2/2)
☑ Bossypants ♚ ★ 29 June 2012
☑ If You Ask Me ★★★★ 26 June 2012
♡ History & Biography ♡ (1/3)
☑ In the Garden of Beasts ★★★ 20 Dec 2012
♡ YA Fantasy & Science Fiction ♡ (2/2)
☑ Divergent ♚ ★★★★ 22 Aug 2012
☑ Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children ★★★★ 20 Aug 2012
READ: 6/10Mystery & Thriller: Before I Go to Sleep - S.J. Watson
✔Mystery & Thriller:A Red Herring Without Mustard - Alan Bradley 3/10
Best Paranormal Fantasy: Living Dead in Dallas - Charlaine Harris
Best Paranormal Fantasy: Summer Knight - Jim Butcher
Best Fantasy: A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
✔Best Horror: What the Night Knows - Dean Koontz 3/12
✔Best Romance: Just Like Heaven - Julia Quinn 3/2
✔Best Young Adult Fantasy/SciFic: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs 2/7
✔Best Goodreads Author: Cassandra Clare: Clockwork Prince 1/6
✔Best Goodreads Author: Ilona Andrews: Magic Slays 4/13
READ: 7/10Mystery & Thriller: Before I Go to Sleep - S.J. Watson
✔Mystery & Thriller:A Red Herring Without Mustard - Alan Bradley 3/10
Best Paranormal Fantasy: Living Dead in Dallas - Charlaine Harris
✔Best Paranormal Fantasy: Summer Knight - Jim Butcher 4/18
Best Fantasy: A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
✔Best Horror: What the Night Knows - Dean Koontz 3/12
✔Best Romance: Just Like Heaven - Julia Quinn 3/2
✔Best Young Adult Fantasy/SciFic: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs 2/7
✔Best Goodreads Author: Cassandra Clare: Clockwork Prince 1/6
✔Best Goodreads Author: Ilona Andrews: Magic Slays 4/13
I'm a little late to the challenge but would love to join!!:Favorite book of 2011: Divergent and The Night Circus
Best Historical Fiction: The Paris Wife
Best Romance: Fifty Shades of Gray
Best Science Fiction: 11/22/63
Best Memoir: Two Kisses for Maddy
Best Young Adult Fiction: Lola and the Boy Next Door, What Happened to Goodbye, Beauty Queens
Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction: Bloodlines
I'm a little late, but better late than never. ;) I picked books just from my favorite genres, hope that is OK.NBRC Goodreads Choice Awards (2011) Reading Challenge
Books read: 12/30
The annual Goodreads Choice Award gives readers around the world a chance to recognize their favorite books of the year. Here at NBRC, we like to utilize this award by making a reading challenge out of it... You are not limited to Choice Award winners; runner ups and nominees in each category will also count.
♥ (1/2) Best Fiction
☐ The Peach Keeper
☑ State of Wonder ☆ 20.02.
♥ (3/10) Best Fantasy
☑ A Dance With Dragons ♚ ☆☆☆ 20.04.
☐ The Night Circus
☐ The Wise Man's Fear
☐ Don't Breathe a Word
☐ The Magician King
☐ Prince of Thorns
☐ The Rogue
☑ Among Others ☆☆ 06.07.
☑ Deathless ☆☆ 17.07.
☐ The Kingdom of Gods
♥ (2/6) Best Paranormal Fantasy
☐ Shadowfever ♚
☐ A Discovery of Witches
☑ Second Grave on the Left ☆☆☆☆ 17.09.
☐ Hounded
☑ Blood Rights ☆☆☆ 29.06.
☐ Grave Dance
♥ (2/5) Best Science Fiction
☐ 11/22/63 ♚
☑ Ready Player One ☆☆☆☆☆ 27.08.
☐ When She Woke
☑ Silver Shark ☆☆☆☆ 19.07.
☐ Robopocalypse
♥ (3/4) Best Romance
☑ Fifty Shades of Grey ☆☆☆ 11.09.
☐ Just Like Heaven
☑ When Beauty Tamed the Beast ☆☆☆☆☆ 24.08.
☑ Dragon Bound ☆☆☆☆ 18.07.
♥ (1/3) Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction
☐ Divergent ♚
☑ Delirium ☆☆☆ 17.08.
☐ Across the Universe
3/30Aaaargh...decisions, decisions! Will go for hard level and narrowing it down to two from each category. Goal is 30 but may end up reading extras because there are so many great titles on the list. I hope we do this every year!
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Goodreads Choice Awards (2011) Reading Challenge (5/10)✔ = done!
Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction: Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick
Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction: Bloodlines by Richelle Mead
Favorite Book of 2011: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Favorite Book of 2011:The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel by David Levithan
✔Best Paranormal Fantasy: Second Grave on the Left by Darynda Jones
✔Best Romance: Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
✔Best Romance: Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn
Best Young Adult Fiction: The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson
Best Young Adult Fiction: Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
✔Best Young Adult Fiction: Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles
✔Best Fiction: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
READ: 9/10✔Mystery & Thriller: Before I Go to Sleep - S.J. Watson 6/12
✔Mystery & Thriller:A Red Herring Without Mustard - Alan Bradley 3/10
✔Best Paranormal Fantasy: Living Dead in Dallas - Charlaine Harris 6/14
✔Best Paranormal Fantasy: Summer Knight - Jim Butcher 4/18
Best Fantasy: A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
✔Best Horror: What the Night Knows - Dean Koontz 3/12
✔Best Romance: Just Like Heaven - Julia Quinn 3/2
✔Best Young Adult Fantasy/SciFic: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs 2/7
✔Best Goodreads Author: Cassandra Clare: Clockwork Prince 1/6
✔Best Goodreads Author: Ilona Andrews: Magic Slays 4/13
Dragana wrote: "I'm a little late, but better late than never. ;) I picked books just from my favorite genres, hope that is OK.NBRC Goodreads Choice Awards (2011) Reading Challenge
Duration: 01.01.2012. - 31.12...."
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Yes of course you can. :)Melissa (ladybug) wrote: "Hello :D Can I borrow your design? "
I am slowly working through this challenge. I have about eight books to go.Next up:
CHALLENGE COMPLETE!READ: 10/10
✔Mystery & Thriller: Before I Go to Sleep - S.J. Watson 6/12
✔Mystery & Thriller:A Red Herring Without Mustard - Alan Bradley 3/10
✔Best Paranormal Fantasy: Living Dead in Dallas - Charlaine Harris 6/14
✔Best Paranormal Fantasy: Summer Knight - Jim Butcher 4/18
✔Best Fantasy: A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin 7/19
✔Best Horror: What the Night Knows - Dean Koontz 3/12
✔Best Romance: Just Like Heaven - Julia Quinn 3/2
✔Best Young Adult Fantasy/SciFic: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs 2/7
✔Best Goodreads Author: Cassandra Clare: Clockwork Prince 1/6
✔Best Goodreads Author: Ilona Andrews: Magic Slays 4/13
I am in for this challenge! I am going for 30. Best Fiction:
The Peach Keeper
The Story of Beautiful Girl
The Midwife's Confession
Best Mystery & Thriller:
Before I Go To Sleep
A Red Herring Without Mustard
These Things Hidden
Now You See Her
Live Wire
Iron House
Best Historical Fiction:
The Sisters Brothers
Best Science Fiction:
Ready Player One
Robopocalypse
Best Horror:
What the Night Knows
My Life As a White Trash Zombie
Zone One
The Last Werewolf
The Cypress House
Best Romance:
Fifty Shades of Grey
Best Humor:
Bossypants
Go the Fuck to Sleep
Best Memoir & Auto-Biography:
Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss and Love
A Stolen Life
Best Young Adult Fiction:
Where She Went
Beautiful Disaster
Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction:
Divergent
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Across the Universe
Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Best Middle Grade and Children's:
Wonderstruck
A World Without Heroes
The Emerald Atlas
I've read half of my goal. I kind of forgot about this challenge to be honest. 5/10
Best Horror:
Deadline 2/28/12 ★★★★★
Best Young Adult Fantasy and Sci-Fi:
Across the Universe 3/17/12 ★★★☆☆
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 3/20/12 ★★★☆☆
Best Horror:
Those Across the River 3/26/12 ★★★☆☆
Best Young Adult Fiction:
Beauty Queens 4/22/12 ★★★★☆
There is always next year, Jex. Thanks for participating nonetheless!
I forgot about this challenge too... and I've read so little this year... anyway, I tried to squeeze some of those into this challenge. Goodreads Choice Awards (2011) Reading Challenge
4/10 read
Best Fiction
State of Wonder 24/Feb
Best Paranormal Fantasy
Grave Dance 07/May
Best Romance
Fifty Shades of Grey 03/Sep
Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction
Daughter of Smoke & Bone 15/Oct
We have almost two months left... maybe I'll be able to pull it off...or not :o)
Sonia wrote: "We have almost two months left... maybe I'll be able to pull it off...or not :o) "
At least you tried, Sonia.
I'm still sad... I was on a reading hiatus for 4-5 months (real life's fault, not mine) the result was a ton of unfinished reading challenges and books.
Real Life does that to us sometimes, Sonia. **sigh**
In the past few months I've been reading significantly less as well. I can count the amount of books I've read in three months and still have a few fingers left over. So I understand completely.
The list is posted for the 2012 winners. Are we doing this challenge again next year?P.S. - I'd be happy to put it together if you'd like.
Jex wrote: "The list is posted for the 2012 winners. Are we doing this challenge again next year?P.S. - I'd be happy to put it together if you'd like."
That would be neat, Jex! Thanks!
Jex wrote: "The list is posted for the 2012 winners. Are we doing this challenge again next year?P.S. - I'd be happy to put it together if you'd like."
You can put it together and post it, Jex. I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested in doing this challenge again.
Even though I don't read as many of them as I'd like, I still like this challenge. I like to see what people think are award winners. My next day off work I'll put together a post for it if others are interested in doing the challenge with me. Hopefully I won't be alone.
Sashana wrote: "Jex wrote: "The list is posted for the 2012 winners. Are we doing this challenge again next year?P.S. - I'd be happy to put it together if you'd like."
You can put it together and post it, Jex. ..."
Since I wasn't able to finish it this year, I'm willing to give it another try next year. I was thinking of do it anyway in my book blog even if it wasn't an "official challenge"
I agreee with Sonia, I didn't read as much books as I planned, but I discovered some good reads and I would love to do it next year too. :)
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Best Historical Fiction (Winner): The Paris Wife (Paula McLain)
Best Science Fiction (Winner): 11/22/63 (Stephen King)
Favourite Book of 2011 (Nominee): Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Ransom Riggs)
Favourite Book of 2011 (Nominee): Delirium (Lauren Oliver)(10.04.12)Favourite Book of 2011 (Nominee): Dead Reckoning (Charlaine Harris)(25.03.12)Favourite Book of 2011 (Nominee): The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)
Favourite Book of 2011 (Nominee): Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Laini Taylor)
Best Fiction (Nominee): The Marriage Plot (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Best Fiction (Nominee): The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes)
Best Fiction (Nominee): Swamplandia! (Karen Russell)