The Printz Award Challenge

January 1 - December 31, 2008

Here's another one hosted by Dewey! The Printz Award Challenge challenges readers to read six books which have won the Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature OR one of the Honor books. You may overlap challenges and change your list at any time. Dewey has provided a link on her blog to all the eligible books. Interested? If so, pop on over here and leave Dewey a comment!

Man Booker Prize Challenge

January 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008

Dewey's hosting another challenge! This one fits in well with Laura's The Complete Booker. For the Man Booker Prize Challenge simple choose six books that have either won, been short listed or long listed for the Man Booker Prize and read them. You can overlap challenges or change your list at any time. To sign up, leave a comment with a link to your post about the challenge here.

Japanese Literature Challenge

November 30, 2007 - January 30, 2008

Bellezza of Dolce Bellezza is hosting the Japanese Literature Challenge and is offering some fabulous prizes!

Read three novels of Japanese Literature (any genre) and post your review to your blog. Sign ups are here (leave Bellezza a comment to participate).

The Graphic Novels Challenge

January 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008

Dewey at The Hidden Side of a Leaf is hosting The Graphic Novels Challenge. She says:

To participate in the Graphic Novels Challenge, simply choose at least 6 graphic novels to read from January 2008 to December 2008. When you’ve posted your list, please leave the link to your post in the comments.

I’ll start a list of participant links at the bottom of this entry so that everyone can easily visit each other.

She is allowing overlaps to other challenges and has some great reference links to award winning graphic novels, series, and young adult novels...as well as some personal recommendations. Never read a graphic novel? Now's the time! Pop on over to Dewey's blog and leave her a comment.

Brian Moore Challenge

December 1, 2007 - Whenever

Lizzy is challenging readers to read author Brian Moore's books. She's starting on December 1, 2007 and will be reading one of his books each month, hoping to complete all his novels. There is no time limit and she'd love some company in reaching her goal. To read more about the guidelines and to let Lizzy know you're going to join her, go to this post on her blog and leave her a comment.

101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge

December 1, 2007 - August 28, 2010

Here's a challenge that puts a spin on the 1001 Books To Read Before You Die list. Twiga is hosting this fun, long range challenge. You can go here to get more information and see her list of books. She's allowing for flexibility - you can pick your own start and stop date and she gives you a link to calculate them.

Sound like fun?

Diana Gabaldan - A Live Journal Challenge

Bloggers at Live Journal are challenging themselves to read all of Diana Gibaldan's Outlander novels beginning in January 2008. They are proposing a chapter a week with discussion questions posted weekly. You can go here to read more about this challenge. To sign up you must be a member of the Live Journal community!

Young Reader's Challenge

January 1 - December 31, 2008

Becky at Becky's Book Reviews is hosting The Young Reader's Challenge for those readers interested in children's literature (board books, novelty books like bath, shape, or pop-up, picture books, early readers, chapter books, etc.) geared toward the 12 and under crowd.

The goal is to complete at least 12 books in 12 months. Becky says:

This would be a great challenge to join with your kids. You can read aloud to them. Or for older children, you can read a book together and take turns.

For more information about the challenge and to sign up, go here.

A Christmas Challenge - 2007

November 3 through December 31, 2008

**LATEST UPDATE: November 7, 2007: Looks like the challenge it OFFICIALLY ON! Go here for the latest post and information.

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**October 31, 2007 UPDATE: It appears that Susan may not be hosting this challenge after all. Her latest post to her blog indicates she was having some difficulty with spam...that post was in August and there are no further updates. Members of A Novel Challenge Yahoo group are going to do the challenge "unofficially" anyway and post their updates and reviews to our list. If you want to join the Yahoo group, go here to sign up!

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Susan at My Reading Adventures is thinking about hosting a Christmas Challenge. And although she admits it is a little early to think about Christmas, she wants to get an idea if people would be interested in this idea.

Here is how she presents this pending challenge:

"The Rules:(1) Pick books (the number will be determined by the poll results) with a Christmas related theme.(2) Comment on my blog (My Reading Adventures) that you are in the challenge and link to your blog.(3) Post your picks on your blog.(4) You have from November 1, 2007 to Dec 31, 2007 to read and review the books you choose.

Prizes: I will randomly draw 3 participant's names from a "hat". They will receive a small, bookish trinket via Snail Mail if they've read the "required" amount of books! To be eligible for a prize, though, they need to have their list of books somewhere where they can be verified."

Susan has set up an opinion poll on her site - click on over and let her know what you think!!

Children's Book Week

November 12 - 18, 2007

This is not a formal challenge, but as with Banned Books Week, many readers are challenging themselves to read children's literature during Children's Book Week.

Share your events and enthusiasm with the community. Involving your school, your library, your parents, and your town in Children's Book Week...

Reading Full Circle Challenge

January 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008

Joy at Thoughts of Joy is hosting the Reading Full Circle Challenge "just for fun." Joy explains:

Use the common words from your book titles to connect the last title and the following title. For example:

Last Days of Summer

Book of a Thousand Days

A Thousand Bones

Winter's Bone

There are a few simple rules (you can't use change words or use certain words as links; but you are allowed to pluralize words, use more than six titles and read them in any order you wish). For the full rules and to sign up, go here!

Joy says:

The main purpose of this challenge is to have fun with words and see how all your books are linked together. Can you do it?

The Year of Reading Dangerously Challenge

January 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008

Heather and Andi from Estella's Revenge are hosting a tempting challenge - The Year of Reading Dangerously. They've picked twelve "official" Estella's Revenge "Dangerous" novels ("worthwhile and intimidating" novels to stretch your reading), but readers can also pick their own novels to read. They've started a group discussion blog where monthly questions and discussions will be posted; and they will be offering an array of prizes and giveaways for readers who participate.

Read more and sign up here.