This has been an intense (just like camping! Get it? Intense? In-tents? Just like-oh never mind.) year for me both with and without books. I graduated high school and went off to college, met a whole new group of friends, attended BookExpo America, went to my first author signing, finished NaNoWriMo...
It's been a great year.
Challenges
I failed epically at the TBR Challenge. Considering the giant pile of books I've had to read this year, you'd think that would have been easier to accomplish, but I kept procrastinating the books I've been procrastinating forever.
I DID complete both the Debut Author 2010 challenge and the Fantasy Reading Challenge. The fantasy one wasn't too difficult - I love fantasy! - and I switched a few titles around on the debut author one depending on what books I could actually obtain.
Next year I'm trying out the YA Historical Fiction challenge, the Debut Author 2011 challenge, and the Steampunk challenge!
Events
I went to my first author signing and to BookExpo America. To say that they were both amazing would be understatements.
Siobhan Vivian and I
Books Read
(List of books I've read this year below.)
My goal this year was to read 52 books - one a week, which I thought was manageable with my constantly adjusting schedule. I did a lot more than that.
Jan - Books 1-5 (10%)
Feb - Books 5-13 (25%)
March - Books 14-21 (40%)
April - Books 22-26 (50%)
May - Books 27-34 (65%)
June - Books 35-44 (85%)
July - Books 45-59 (113%)
Aug - Books 60-69 (132%)
Sept - Books 70-79 (151%)
Oct - Books 80-88 (171%)
Nov - Books 89-90 (173%)
Dec - Books 91-91. (174%)
Nearly double what I set out to read. The last few months I didn't get to read a lot - college! Finals! AHHHH! - but hopefully I'll be able to balance out school and reading a bit more this upcoming year.
It's gonna be a happy new year...
Book List
1. The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
2. Graceling by Kristin Cashore
3. Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
4. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
5. Soulless by Gail Carriger
6. The Field Guide by Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
7. Quatrain by Sharon Shinn
8. Beastly by Alex Flinn
9. Wherever Nina Lies by Lynn Weingarten
10. Prada and Prejudice by Mandy Hubbard
11. The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan
12. Fade by Lisa McMann
13. Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
14. The Pirate Queen by Alan Gold
15. Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
16. Skin Hunger by Kathleen Duey
17. The Pale Assassin by Patricia Elliot
18. Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
19. Evermore by Alyson Noel
20. Bewitching Season by Marissa Doyle
21. Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder
22. Changeless by Gail Carriger
23. The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
24. The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
25. Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy by Ally Carter
26. Princess Ben by Catherine Murdock
27. The Stolen One by Suzanne Crowley
28. White Cat by Holly Black
29. The Musician's Daughter by Susanne Dunlap
30. The Alchemyst by Michael Scott
31. Perchance To Dream by Lisa Mantchev
32. Gone by Lisa McMann
33. Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston
34. Faketastic by Alexa Young
35. The Season by Sarah Maclean
36. Poisoned Honey by Beatrice Gormley
37. The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong
38. Siren by Tricia Rayburn
39. Secondhand Charm by Julie Berry
40. Bad Apple by Laura Ruby
41. Sea Change by Aimee Friedman
42. Secret Society by Tom Dolby
43. Raised by Wolves by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
44. Girl Parts by John M. Cusick
45. The Smoke Thief by Shana Abe
46. The Dream Thief by Shana Abe
47. Epitaph Road by David Patneaude
48. The Twin's Daughter by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
49. Firelight by Sophie Jordan
50. The Queen's Daughter by Susan Coventry
51. Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
52. Ballads of Suburbia by Stephanie Kuehnert
53. Magic Under Glass by Jaclyn Dolamore
54. Don't Judge A Girl By Her Cover by Ally Carter
55. Nightshade City by Hilary Wagner
56. The Cinderella Society by Kay Cassidy
57. Need by Carrie Jones
58. The Space Between Trees by Katie Williams
59. Rae by Chelsea Rae Swiggett
60. Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
61. Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex by Eoin Colfer
62. Alexis by Alexis Papalia
63. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
64. Other by Karen Kincy
65. Hannah by Hannah Westberg
66. Crusade by Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie
67. Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
68. Jane by April Lindner
69. Antigone by Sophocles
70. Prisoners in the Palace by Michaela MacColl
71. Blameless by Gail Carriger
72. The Wake of the Lorelei Lee by L.A. Meyer
73. Low Red Moon by Ivy Devlin
74. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
75. Cate of the Lost Colony by Lisa Klein
76. A Doll's House by Henry Ibsen
77. Ascendant by Diana Peterfreund
78. Nine Rules To Break When Romancing A Rake by Sarah Maclean
79. Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare
80. Extraordinary by Nancy Werlin
81. Branded by Keary Taylor
82. Threads and Flames by Esther Friesner
83. Enchanted Ivy by Sarah Beth Durst
84. Song of the Sword by Edward Willett
85. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
86. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
87. Sula by Toni Morrison
88. Not That Kind Of Girl by Siobhan Vivian
89. Song Quest by Katherine Roberts
90. The Inferior by Peadar Ó Guilín
91. Shadow Horse by Alison Hart