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Luck of the Irish Challenge
Challenge Closed
Goal: Build your own challenge using the St. Patty's Day-related sayings.
Length: 3/1/12 - 5/31/12
Like a Good Neighbor, Goodreads is There
Challenge Closed
Goal: Read 25 books. Follow the instructions for each category to pick your books.
Length: 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2014
Like a Good Neighbor, Goodreads is There Challenge Closed
Goal: Read 25 books. Follow the instructions for each category to pick your books.
Length: 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2017
Like a Good Neighbor, Goodreads is There Challenge Closed
Goal: Read 25 books. Follow the instructions for each category to pick your books.
Length: 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2019
Like a Good Neighbor, Goodreads is There
Goal: Read 25 books. Follow the instructions for each category to pick your books.
Length: 1 year (user sets start-end dates)
Reading Rainbow
Challenge Closed
Goal: Using cover colors, read 3 books for each color in the rainbow
Length: 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2015
Reading Rainbow
Goal: Using cover colors, read 3 books for each color in the rainbow
Length:
Break It Down
Challenge Closed
Goal: Read 6-18 books - a different book for each category.
Length: 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2015
Break It Down
Goal: Read 6-18 books - a different book for each category.
Length:
Travel the US in 2015
Challenge Closed
Goal: Read 16-50 books - a different book for each US state, time zone or region.
Length: 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2015
Travel the US in 2017 Challenge Closed
Goal: Read 16-50 books - a different book for each US state, time zone or region.
Length: 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2017
Travel the US
Goal: Read 16-50 books - a different book for each US state, time zone or region.
Length:
Grammatically Correct
Goal: Pick a level and read the specified # of books (5-15 bks) using any combination of the choices within each of the categories (Verbs, Nouns, Adjectives, and Prepositions).
Length: 6 Months (member defined)
ISBN: In Series Books Necessary
Goal: Follow the rules and read 10 (or 13) series books.
Length: 6 Months (member defined)
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
Goal: Read 6 books fitting the following categories. Choose two books from each of the three levels listed.
Length: 3 Months (member defined)
16 in 2016
Goal: Read up to 100 books! Choose your Level and Read a book for each category as listed.
Length: 1 year (beginning on/after 1 Jan 2016)
18 in 2018
Goal: Read up to 105 books! Choose your Level and Read a book for each category as listed.
Length: 1 year (beginning on/after 1 Jan 2018)
20 in 2020
Goal: Read up to 100 books! Choose your Level and Read a book for each category as listed.
Length: 1 year (beginning on/after 1 Jan 2020)
2016 Deciphered Reading
Challenge Closed
Goal: Reach an exact total of 2016. Each participant's number of books read will vary depending on their cipher choice and books read throughout the challenge.
Length: 1 Jan -31 Dec 2016
Deciphered Reading
Goal: Reach an exact total of the year in which you're reading (ie: total = 2025 if you're reading in 2025). Each participant's number of books read will vary depending on their cipher choice and books read throughout the challenge.
Length:
New for Me & You [2016]
Challenge Closed
Goal: Choose your level and Read 12-48 new releases (1-4 books/month). Participants may read each month's new release(s) at any time throughout the year, however book choices must have a release date in each month of the year.
Length: 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2016
New for Me & You [2017] Challenge Closed
Goal: Choose your level and Read 12-48 new releases (1-4 books/month). Participants may read each month's new release(s) at any time throughout the year, however book choices must have a release date in each month of the year.
Length: 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2017
New for Me & You [2018] Challenge Closed
Goal: Choose your level and Read 12-48 new releases (1-4 books/month). Participants may read each month's new release(s) at any time throughout the year, however book choices must have a release date in each month of the year.
Length: 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2018
New for Me & You [2019] Challenge Closed
Goal: Choose your level and Read 12-48 new releases (1-4 books/month). Participants may read each month's new release(s) at any time throughout the year, however book choices must have a release date in each month of the year.
Length: 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2019
New for Me & You [2020] Challenge Closed
Goal: Choose your level and Read 12-48 new releases (1-4 books/month). Participants may read each month's new release(s) at any time throughout the year, however book choices must have a release date in each month of the year.
Length: 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2020
New for Me & You [2021] Challenge Closed
Goal: Choose your level and Read 12-48 new releases (1-4 books/month). Participants may read each month's new release(s) at any time throughout the year, however book choices must have a release date in each month of the year.
Length: 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2021
2015's Best of the Best
Challenge Closed
Goal: Read 12 books found on one of the following BEST OF 2015 lists.
Length: 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2016
2020's Best of the Best Challenge Closed
Goal: Read 12 books found on any of the following BEST OF 2020 lists.
Length: 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2021
Sweet Sixteen | 2016 Debut Author Challenge
Goal: Read sixteen debuts in 2016 to see if you can find YOUR 2016 favorite(s)!
Length: 1 year (beginning on/after 1 Jan 2016)
Roadtripper
Goal: Read 7-11 books chosen from the categories associated with a typical road trip
Length: 3 months (member defined; 90 days from start to finish)
Look What I Can Do!
Goal: List the required number of characters exhibiting one of the following abilities.
Length: You can choose to either (1) see how many abilities you can read in six months -or- (2) aim to read 30 (½ the list) in twelve months
Supe du Jour
Goal: Read 20 books fitting one (or more) of the listed SUPErnatual categories
Length: 6 months (member defined)
Out with the Old to Make Room for the New (2016)
Challenge Closed
Goal: Choose your level(s) and read a book for each; Members may choose to read for all levels, only one or a mix - you choose.
Length: 1 month / Jan 1 - 31, 2016
Out with the Old to Make Room for the New (2019) Challenge Closed
Goal: Choose your level(s) and read a book for each; Members may choose to read for all levels, only one or a mix - you choose.
Length: 2 months / Jan 1 - Feb 28, 2019
2010's Decade Dust-Off
Goal: Read as many of the books you put on your 'want to read' shelf as you want, those that were published in 2010-2019, and clear off your shelf for the next decade and beyond.
Length: Member defined duration and categories
Decade Dust-Off [2021]
Goal: Read as many of the books you put on your 'want to read' shelf as you want, those that were published in 2011-2020, and clear off your shelf for the next decade and beyond.
Length: Member defined duration and categories
2022's Two by Two Challenge
Challenge Closed
Goal: Read 2 books for each category = 44 books
Length: 1/1 - 12/31/22
Bite Me! Challenge (In Memoriam Anne Rice)
Goal: Read 2 books for each vampy category = 8 books (10 w/Bonus books)
Length: User defined; on/after 13 Dec 2021
"What's on the Menu?" Challenge
Goal: Read nine (9) books using the categories listed
Length: 2 months
"Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry House Challenge"
Goal: Read 5 - 20 books using the categories listed for the wizarding houses
Length: 2 months (user defined; from start of challenge)
"SOS' Slump Buster Game"
Goal: Break your reading slump.
Duration: Totally up to you. No time frame requirement or restrictions. Play 1 round and done. Play over and over. Or, play simply whenever needed to break a slump, fill gaps between BSB rounds, or just 'cuz.
Length: user defined based on board game play
"The Quidditch Cup Reading Challenge"
Goal: 12-52 prompts; While there are 52 prompts (plus a bonus), you can decide which level of the Quidditch Cup challenge you’re attempting to attain!
Length: +/-1 year (user defined; from start of challenge)
"The Giving Tree" Challenge
Goal: Using the rating of your last book, choose your next book(s) and so on, for as long as you'd like to challenge yourself
Length: +/-1 year (user defined; from start of challenge)
'The Shifter Sifter' Challenge
Goal: Read 6 books, each featuring a specific shifter type
Length: 3 months from start date
'TimBeR' Challenge
Goal: Read as many books from your existing TBR list as possible within 12 months
Length: 1 year from start date
'To the Moon and Back' Challenge
Goal: Read 24 + 120 books based on categories listed for each phase of the moon (+ 1 bonus option)
Length: 1 year from start date
'Randomized Reads' Challenge
Goal: Read 52 books using the seven different randomizing ways listed
Length: 1 year from start date
'Short & Sweet' Challenge
Goal: Read 2 stories fitting each size listed (flash fiction, short story, novelette, and novella)
Length: 6 months from start date
'25 in 2025' Challenge
Goal: Read 25 books in 2025; books must fit at least one of the listed 🎯 targets
Length: 1 year from start date
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Length: 7/1 - 9/30/2012
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