Challenges & Projects
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Links to my lists are found above through the pull-down menu, or underneath each challenge in the bullet points. Feel free to use them as suggestions if you are stumped about what books to read for your own projects.
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Runs from January 1 to December 31, 2010
- Here is my list of the hundred, which is subject to change - often
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Runs from January 1 to December 31, 2010
- My List of authors
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Runs from February 1 to January 31, 2011
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Regular print books must be 450 pages or more; large print 525 pages or more
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My goal is to read 4 chunksters
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January 1, 2010 - November 30, 2010
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Choose a goal of reading 10, 20, or 30 essays
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5-Year Project to read 100 books
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Runs April 1, 2009 to April 31, 2014
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The project carries a 25% accident forgiveness feature, meaning if you finish 75 titles in 5 years, you may consider yourself to be victorious
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List should be made up of books you feel “fill in the gap” between what you read, and have read, and what you feel you should read or should have read.
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Here is my list of “fillers”
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Runs from January 1 to December 31, 2010
- My list of Historical books
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Runs from January 1 to December 31, 2010
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Authors must be new to you; pick 15, 25 or 50 new authors
- Here is my list of authors (TBA)
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Perpetual Challenge
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Create & read a list of books that you’ve always heard others rave about
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List must have at least 3 books on it
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
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The Girl Who Played With Fire
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Hunger Games
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Catching Fire
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Runs from January 1 to December 31, 2010
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Review each book you read
- Due to the nature of this challenge, the list will start (and grow) as I read
- Runs from January 1 to December 31, 2010
- Pick the number of books you would like to read in one year (75)
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Due to the nature of this challenge, the list will start (and grow) as I read
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Runs from January 1 to December 31, 2010
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I am taking Option B: Read 6 books in 12 months
- My List (subject to change):
- Alias Grace
- Cannery Row
- Fried Green Tomatoes
- Snow Falling on Cedars
- Brideshead Revisited
- Heart-Shaped Box
- Perpetual Project
- My goal is to read between 6 to 10 a year
- My ever expanding list
- Perpetual Project
- Read all the winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- Overlaps with other projects and challenges allowed
- My List of read Pulitzer’s as well as what I have in my TBR
- Perpetual Project
- Read books making a most notable list (New York Times, Publishers Weekly, etc.)
- Due to the nature of this challenge, the list will start (and grow) as I read
- Perpetual Project
- Read the books on this list
I know it’s Australian, but reading enjoyment is universal - Due to the nature of this challenge, the list will start (and grow) as I read
Personal Projects
- Banned and Challenged Books
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Award Winners other than the Pulitzer
