January 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015
One of my favourite challenges to take part in during 2012 and 2013 was The Book Blogger Recommendation Challenge, which was hosted by Reading with Tequila but seems to have since disappeared.
In case you don’t know, the challenge was simple: book bloggers nominated their favourite books, and then a list was made, with books nominated the most often at the top. To take part in the challenge, you picked a level and read a specified number of recommended books from the list.
I think it’s a really great challenge, because you get to discover books other bloggers loved and share your own favourites (and isn’t that kind of the point of book blogging?). I put out a call for book recommendations, and have had some great feedback already, so I’m going to try hosting it for 2015. I’m still putting the list together but there will be at least 100 titles to choose from – if I’m a few short, I’ll be using people’s end of the year favourites lists or something to make sure we hit that.
The rules are crazy simple:
- The challenge runs from January 1st 2014 to December 31st 2015
- There are five levels to choose from. You can increase your goal as many times as you want, or (because we all know real life happens!) you can decrease your goal once at any point throughout the year.
- The full list of books to choose from will go up on New Year’s Eve
- You don’t have to commit in advance to your choices, though of course you can plan them if you want to.
I want to recommend some books!
Please do! You can either vote using the form available here, or leave a comment on this post. I’ll be taking recommendations up until the 25th of December – that gives me a few days to add them in before the full list goes up on New Year’s Eve.
Is there a giveaway?
There will definitely be a giveaway at the end of the year. I haven’t figured out the details of that yet but I’ll let you know!
The Levels
Bronze – 3 books
Silver – 5 books
Gold – 10 books
Platinum – 25 books
Diamond – 50 books +
This reading challenge is hosted by GeekyZooGirl. For more information and to sign-up, please see this post.
