It was actually a couple weeks ago that I technically completed my reading challenges, but I’m just now getting around to recording them.
I did cut back a little bit this year, and stuck to mostly broad stroke challenges that covered multiple genres within a more specific subject. This did go pretty well, and let me work from my slightly ridiculous TBR bookcase (it outgrew the tote this year). But, I still found it a bit restrictive.
Next year, I’m going to cut back to just the Once Upon a Time and RIP challenges, unless I see one that just captures my fancy (I really did enjoy the Foodie Challenge this year, even though it took me a while to get going). I’m hoping to blow through a good chunk of the TBR pile way.
But, any way, this year for challenges, I read:
2011 TBR Lite Reading Challenge 1/1/11 – 12/31/11 – finished 10/16/11
- The Light of Day – Graham Swift -finished 10/16/11
- The Hidden Worlds – Kristin Landon – finished 8/15/11
- Wizards – edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois – finished 6/28/11
- Moonlight & Vines – Charles de Lint – finished 4/26/11
- The Shadow of the Sun – A. S. Byatt – finished 1/29/11
- Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue – John McWhorter – finished 1/15/11
RIP VI Reading Challenge – 9/1/11 – 10/31/11 – finished 10/23/11
- Dark Lord of Derkholm – Diana Wynne Jones – finished 10/23/11
- Jane and the Damned – Janet Mulllany – finished 9/28/11
- The Gates – John Connolly – finished 9/23/11
- The Somnambulist – Jonathan Barnes – finished 9/20/11
- From Dead to Worse – Charlaine Harris – finished 9/13/11
- The Ruby in the Smoke – Philip Pullman – finished 9/8/11
Once Upon a Time V 3/21/11 – 6/20/11- finished 5/27
- Swordspoint – Ellen Kushner – finished 5/27/11
- Elf Magic – ed. Martin Greenberg – finished 5/5/11
- Moonlight & Vines – Charles de Lint – finished 4/26/11
- Orphans of Chaos – John C. Wright – finished 4/24/11
- The Third Magic – Molly Cochran – finished 4/22/11
- Firebird – Mercedes Lackey – finished 4/17/11
- Tempest Rising – Nicole Peeler – finished 4/14/11
- The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume II – Diana Wynne Jones – finished 4/10/11
- The Bell at Sealey Head – Patricia A. McKillip – finished 4/3/11
- Soul Hunt – Margaret Ronald – finished 4/1/11
- The Tourmaline – Paul Park – finished 3/31/11
Foodie’s Reading Challenge 1/1/11 – 12/31/11 – finished 11/29/11
- The Book Lover’s Cookbook – Shaunda Kennedy Wenger and Janet Kay Jensen – finished 11/29/11
- Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant – edited by Jenni Ferrari-Adler – finished 11/22/11
- Tender at the Bone – Ruth Reichl – finished 11/11/11
- In the Kitchen with a Good Appetite – Melissa Clark – finished 9/5/11
- Toast – Nigel Slater – finished 1/9/11
2011 YA Reading Challenge 1/1/11 – 12/31/11 – finished 11/26/11
- The Two Princesses of Bamarre – Gail Carson Levine – finished 11/26/11
- I, Coriander – Sallly Gardner – finished 11/24/11
- The Princetta – Anne-Laure Bondoux – finished 11/18/11
- Dark Lord of Derkholm – Diana Wynne Jones – finished 10/23/11
- The Ruby in the Smoke – Philip Pullman – finished 9/8/11
- Percival’s Angel – Anne Eliot Crompton – finished 8/24/11
- The Thief – Megan Whalen Turner – finished 8/5/11
- A String in the Harp – Nancy Bond – finished 7/19/11
- Melting Stones – Tamora Pierce – finished 7/12/11
- The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins – finished 5/20/11
- Wolf Star – Tanith Lee – finished 3/11/11
- The Grand Tour – Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer – finished 1/22/11