Ducky's Challenges

[Beth]

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[Beth]

Level 1: Serious Readers Challenge for 2014
January:
1. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (re-read)
2. The Narrows 1/2
3. Something Blue 1/3
4. The Art of Fielding 1/5
5. Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN 1/16
6. Hot Six 1/18
7. G is for Gumshoe 1/19
8. 3rd Degree 1/20
9. The Virgin Suicides 1/23
10. Along Came a Spider 1/26
11. Body of Evidence 1/30

February:
12. 4th of July 2/1
13. Seven Up 2/4
14. The Closers 2/8
15. H is for Homicide 2/13
16. Kiss the Girls 2/15
17. The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong 2/16
18. The Diary of Darcy J. Rhone 2/16
19. The 5th Horseman 2/18
20. The Yankee Years 2/22
21. Kinsey and Me: Stories 2/24
22. Jack & Jill 2/27

March:
23. The 6th Target 3/1
24. Rage of Angels 3/5
25. The Lincoln Lawyer 3/8
26. The Overlook 3/12
27. Echo Park 3/18
28. Hard Eight 3/19
29. Dark Places 3/22
30. I is for Innocent 3/29
31. Cat and Mouse 3/31

April:
32. 7th Heaven 4/5
33. A Million Little Pieces 4/13
34. The 8th Confession 4/16
35. Men at Work 4/24
36. Rachel's Holiday 4/29

May:
37. The Wicked Woods 5/1
38. The Wicked Dragon 5/1
39. The Wicked Wolf 5/1
40. J is for Judgment 5/2
41. The 9th Judgment 5/7
42. Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport 5/11
43. The Silent Wife 5/12
44. Pop Goes the Weasel 5/14
45. To the Nines 5/15
46. The Summer I Turned Pretty 5/16
47. Step on a Crack 5/18
48. It's Not Summer Without You 5/24

June:
49. Cop Town 6/3
50. Run for Your Life 6/6
51. Don't Talk to Strangers 6/10
52. The Beach Quilt 6/12
53. The Bell Jar 6/16
54. We'll Always Have Summer 6/17
55. A Wedding in Provence: A Novel 6/18
56. Trespassers 6/19
57. Then Came You 6/20
58. Before I Go 6/22
59. Virgin 6/23
60. Ten Big Ones 6/26
61. Hopeless 6/27
62. Where Have I Been All My Life? A Journey Toward Love and Wholeness 6/29

July:
63. Maybe Someday 7/7
64. To All the Boys I've Loved Before 7/10
65. Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport (re-read)
66. You Know You Love Me 7/11
67. Attachments 7/14
68. Maybe Someday (re-read)
69. The Sky is Everywhere 7/15
70. Losing Hope 7/17
71. Finding Cinderella 7/19
72. Taken 7/20
73. Lucid 7/22
74. Such a Pretty Girl 7/26
75. A Wife for One Year 7/28
76. Gossip Girl 7/28
77. 10th Anniversary 7/31

August:
78. The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story 8/3
79. Anna and the French Kiss 8/4
80. Lola and the Boy Next Door 8/7
81. Fangirl 8/11
82. If These Walls Could Talk: Detroit Tigers: Stories from the Detroit Tigers' Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box 8/11
83. Wicked Sexy 8/16
84. Night Film 8/18
85. We Were Liars 8/19
86. The Wicked Naga 8/22
87. The Wicked Minotaur 8/22
88. The Wicked Merman 8/22
89. Eleanor & Park 8/23
90. Since You've Been Gone 8/29
91. The Infinite Moment of Us 8/29

September:
92. And Then There Were None 9/1
93. Eleven on Top 9/6
94. Twelve Sharp 9/7
95. Lean Mean Thirteen 9/13
96. In the Woods 9/19
97. Love and Other Unknown Variables 9/20
98. Kept - I've become his dirty little secret 9/20
99. Taken - I Am His Dirty Little Secret 9/21
100. The Likeness 9/26

[Beth]

Level 2: Serious Readers Challenge
September (continued)
101. Slammed

October:
102. Point of Retreat
103. Love & Misadventure
104. Faithful Place

[Beth]

12 Towers Challenge
Start date: 10/6/14
Finish date: ??

12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date)

11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest (pre-choose these)

10 books you randomly select from your shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go or pre-choose)

9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs
1. Fearless Fourteen
2. Broken Harbour
3. 11th Hour
4. Gossip Girl, Psycho Killer
5. The It Girl
6. The Black Ice
7. TBA
8. TBA
9. TBA

8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case.

7 books that everyone seems to have read but you
1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2. Ugly Love
3. Isla and the Happily Ever After
4. TBA
5. TBA
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6 anticipated releases (release dates after your start date)

5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads

4 books that you started but never finished
1. A Great and Terrible Beauty
2. Fractured
3. Landline
4. TBA

3 books that you've already read before
1. A Stolen Life
2. Maybe Someday
3. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books
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1 book that intimidates you
1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

[Beth]

Decades Challenge
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