Young Adult Book Reading Challenges discussion

Quarterly Challenge #10
Welcome to YA Book Club's tenth Reading Challenge!

Rules

Duration: June 1, 2013 – August 31, 2013

We are a YA Book Club, so all books should be young adult.

You have 3 months to read 10 YA books that satisfy following requirements:

1) Read a book that from ALA's 2013 Teens’ Top Ten Nominations list. The list can be found here: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/sites/ala.or.... If you find nothing you want to read on that list, you may read from other other years. The full list is here http://www.ala.org/yalsa/teenstopten

2) Read a book that is a new release published in June, July or August of 2013. GoodReads offers lists of the most popular new releases by month, they might help you to make your choices – June, July or August (If you have difficulties obtaining these new books, you can read a release from the same months in 2012).

3) Read a book set in summer or that has a summery cover (beach and such).

4) Read a book whose title starts with one of the letters of the word SUMMER.

5) Read a classic title

6) Read a book with a cover that does not have a person on it

7) Read a book that involves traveling – a road trip, a trip or moving to another state, country or continent.

8) Read a book that is funny

9) Read an author's debut novel (a list of this year’s debut authors can be found here: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/19...)

10) Read a book which is a 5-star favorite of one of your GoodReads friends (if you’ve yet to make any GoodRead’s friends, choose a 5-star favorite of a co-moderator – and friend them if you want!)

Everything should be done on this thread - your questions, your plans and your progress.

Happy reading!

I am in again. Sounds great. About that classic: Do you mean classic YA or classic-classic?

Progress 10/10!

1) ALA Teens Top Ten: The Running Dream (Long list of 2012, 08/03)
2) June/July/August: Tides (06/13)
3) Summer theme/cover: A Midsummer's Nightmare (06/25)
4) summEr: Enshadowed (06/24)
5) Classic: Madita (06/15)
6) Personless cover: Shades of Earth (07/02)
7) Traveling: Glow (07/08, I know: space travel feels a bit like cheating, because the ship does not reach its destination for about 25 years. Maybe I'll replace it later.)
8) Humor: Will Grayson, Will Grayson (08/15)
9) Debut: Shatter Me (06/30)
10) Friend's favorite: Holier Than Thou (06/05, Recommended by Nomes, also 5-stars for me!!)



Abandoned on the go: Shifting (for 4 at 55%), Pushing the Limits (for 1 at 40%), In Honor (for 7 at 42%)

Hi oliviasbooks :)
All books should be YA, but that said, I'm not particular about the "classic". Many teens read all types of classics (for class or fun), so I'd say it's pretty open. It's also a great opportunity to join our book club next month. We're reading the classic The Wizard of Oz. You'll notice that I often try to include one category that fits easily into our book club selections. If you've never read The Wizard of Oz, now's your chance. It's so much different from the movie.

Ah. Then it's not for me. Maybe I'll reread a Lindgren. Since Oz is rather children's, too, that should work..

I am so in!

7/10

1) ALA Teens Top Ten: I Hunt Killers
2) June/July/ August: 45# More or Less
3) Summer theme/cover:
4) SUMMER: Seraphina
5) Classic:The Wizard of Oz
6) Personless cover: Ungifted
7) Traveling: Personal Effects
8) Humor:
9) Debut: Trash Can Days
10) Friend's favorite:

I am in !

10/10

1. ALA: I Hunt Killers
2. June: Another Little Piece
3. Summer theme: Twenty Boy Summer
4. SUMMER: Siege and Storm
5. Classic: Lord of the Flies
6. Personless cover: Flat-Out Love
7. Traveling: An Abundance of Katherines
8. Humor: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
9. Debut: Poison
10. Friend's favorite: Winterling

I'm in!
....


1. ALA: Immortal City
2. July: The Forgotten Ones
3. Summer Themed: The Summer I Became a Nerd
4. SUMMER: Days of Blood & Starlight
5. Classic: Emma
6. Personless Cover: Prodigy
7. Traveling: You Are Here
8. Funny: Sean Griswold's Head
9. Debut: Pivot Point
10. Friend's Favorite: Unearthly

Finished! 28 July '13

I'm in!
10/10

1. ALA: Wintergirls
2. Released: Ink
3. Cover: Halo
4. SUMMER: Sever
5. Classic: Dracula
6. No one: Eragon
7. Travelling: An Abundance of Katherines
8. Funny: The Lightning Thief
9. Debut: Taken
10. Friend: Angelfall

I'm in!
7/10

1) ALA Teens Top Ten: The Raven Boys - August 28, 2013 - ★★★★★
2) June/July/ August: Siege and Storm - June 17 - ★★★★☆
3) Summer theme/cover: Along for the Ride
4) SUMMER: Sweet Evil - June 3 - ★★☆☆☆
5) Classic: Pride and Prejudice - July 28 - ★★★★☆
6) Personless cover: Angelfall - July 8 - ★★★★★
7) Traveling: You Are Here - June 25 - ★★☆☆☆
8) Humor: An Abundance of Katherines
9) Debut: Pivot Point - August 5 ★★★☆☆
10) Friend's favorite: Unwind

Yes! I'll post again with all my final choices towards the send up the summer, since I'm not 100% sure what I'm going to read yet :) Good luck to everyone else!

I'm in! Also, super glad we were able to put a classic into this quarter! I've been meaning to read more of them! :)

Completed: 10/10

1. ALA: 172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad 06/03; 4 stars
2. New Release: The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen 08/15; 4 stars
3. Summer Theme: That Summer by Sarah Dessen 07/12; 3 stars
4. SUMMER: Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead 07/16; 5 stars
5. Classic: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 06/08; 2 stars
6. Person-less Cover: Legend by Marie Lu 07/25; 5 stars
7. Traveling: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan 06/30; 5 stars
8. Humor: The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan 08/25; 3 stars
9. Debut: Maid of Secrets by Jennifer McGowan 06/23; 4 stars
10. Friend's Fav: Perfect by Ellen Hopkins 06/14; 5 stars

I'm in :)
10/10 completed

1. Top 10 Nominee: Wake by Amanda Hocking
2. New Release: Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant by Tony Cliff
3. Set in Summer: The Truth about Forever by Sarah Dessen
4. SUMMER: The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani
5. Classic: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
6. Person-less Cover: Dangerous by Shannon Hale
7. Trip: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
8. Funny: Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong by Prudence Shen
9. Debut Novel: Bad Unicorn by Platte F. Clark
10. 5-star Fav: Every Day by David Levithan (Kristine’s 5-star Fav)

I will Complete this Quarter,

Completed: 2/10

1) ALA Teens Top Ten: Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers
2) June/July/ August: Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard
3) Summer theme/cover: Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini
4) SUMMER: Shadowfell by Juliet Marillier
5) Classic: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen OR Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
6) Personless cover: The Diviners by Libba Bray
7) Traveling: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan 5 Stars
8) Humor: Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green
9) Debut: The Dark Unwinding by Sharon Cameron
10) Friend's favorite: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 5 Stars

Completed::

As it is only a couple weeks before the end, and I haven't even started on my list, I must withdraw from this quarterly challenge. Darn real life getting in the way of my reading!

8/10

1) ALA Teens Top Ten: Wake

2) New release: Crown of Midnight

3) Summer theme/cover:

4) SUMMER: Marked

5) Classic: Wuthering Heights or Pride and Prejudice or Great Expectations or The Scarlet Letter

6) Personless cover: Beautiful Disaster

7) Traveling: How I Live Now

8) Humor: Switched

9) Debut: Wither

10) Friend's favorite: The Iron King

Done!

10/10 Completed

My new release got pushed back!!! So I picked another one :)

1) ALA: Seraphina
2) New Release: My Life Next Door
3) Summer Theme: Along for the Ride
4) SUMMER: Siege and Storm
5) Classic: Dracula
6) Personless Cover: Gone, Gone, Gone
7) Traveling: Wanderlove
8) Humor: Boy Meets Boy (I'm hoping this counts David Levithan is really funny to me!)
9) Debut: Splintered
10) Friend's favorite: Kat Kennedy loved Angelfall so I hope I will too!!

So we are looking for YA classics then? I didn't even think about it when I made my list the first time!

Awesome challenge...will definitely consider participating.


Completed 15/10

1: ALA Teens Top Ten: Every Day and Dare You To
2: June/July/ August: Dirty Little Secret or Out of Breath or When You Were Here
3: Summer theme/cover: When Summer Ends
4: SUMMER: Unmaking Hunter Kennedy
5: Classic: The Giver series (4 books)
6: Personless cover: Fixing Delilah , The Book of Broken Hearts , Cross My Heart
7: Traveling: Right of Way or Thou Shalt Not Road Trip
8: Humor: Ten Things We Did and Dizzy
9: Debut: Click to Subscribe
10: Friend's favorite: Some Girls Are

Rachel wrote: "So we are looking for YA classics then? I didn't even think about it when I made my list the first time!"

Any classic will do. I think Dracula is a fine choice :)

I have no idea if I'll be able to complete this by August, but I'm willing to try! Gives me an excuse to read books I might otherwise not have! :) I was wondering about re-reads too...

0/10

1) ALA Teens Top Ten:
2) June/July/ August:
3) Summer theme/cover:
4) SUMMER:
5) Classic:
6) Personless cover:
7) Traveling:
8) Humor:
9) Debut:
10) Friend's favorite:

I'm in!!!

Completed: 0/10


1: ALA Teens Top Ten:
2: June/July/ August: Joyland (June 11)
3: Summer theme/cover: Ten Tiny Breaths(July 31)
4: SUMMER: Silence (July 27)
5: Classic:
6: Personless cover: Scarlet (July 5)
7: Traveling: The Eternal Ones - travelling (July 12)
8: Humor: Andrew Jenks: My Adventures As a Young Filmmaker (June 24)
9: Debut:
10: Friend's favorite



6/10

Completed: 06/10

01. ALA: Abandon (2012 list)
02. June/July/August: A Tale of Two Centuries (August 4)
03. Summer theme/cover: Nantucket Blue (June 10)
04. SUMMER: Sky on Fire by Emmy Laybourne (June 8)
05. Classic: The Giver
06. Personless cover: 4 to 16 Character (August 9)
07. Travel: An Abundance of Katherines
08. Funny:
09. Debut: Prep School Confidential (August 21)
10. Friend's Favorite: Hallowed (August 12)

A book-filled summer is exactly what I'm looking forward to. I'll join. (:

Read: 1 / 10

1) ALA Top Ten: The False Prince
2) New Release: A Darkness Strange and Lovely
3) Summer setting/cover: This Is What Happy Looks Like
4) SUMMER: Siege and Storm
5) Classic: The Outsiders
6) Cover without a person: Marco Impossible
7) Traveling: Amy and Roger's Epic Detour
8) Humor: The Princess Bride
9) Debut: Trash Can Days: A Middle School Saga
10) Friend's 5-star book: Battle Royale

I totally want to try this! Not sure if I will make this, but I want to try

I'm in!

0/10

1) ALA Teens Top Ten:
2) June/July/ August:
3) Summer theme/cover:
4) SUMMER:
5) Classic:
6) Personless cover:
7) Traveling:
8) Humor:
9) Debut:
10) Friend's favorite:

I'm in again as well! :)

1. ALA: 172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad
2. New Release: Truly, Madly, Deadly by Hannah Jayne
3. Summer Theme: Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
4. SUMMER: Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
5. Classic: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
6. Person-less Cover: Glass by Ellen Hopkins
7. Traveling: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
8. Humor: Winger by Andrew Smith
9. Debut: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
10. Friend's Favorite: Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

I'm definitively in!

Completed 9/10

1) ALA Teens Top Ten: Every Day - David Levithan
2) June/July/ August: New Moon The Graphic Novel - Stephenie Meyer, Young Kim
3) Summer theme/cover: The Lycky One - Nicholas Sparks
4) SUMMER: The Sea of Tranquility - Katja Millay
5) Classic: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
6) Personless cover: Half Blood - Jennifer L. Armentrout
7) Traveling: Just One Day - Gayle Forman
8) Humor: The Fault In Our Stars - John Green(re-read)
9) Debut: Pivot Point (Pivot Point, #1) - Kasie West
10) Friend's favorite: The Edge of Never - J.A. Redmersk

I'm in!!!! Will put my list up when completed!!!

10/10

1. ALA: Grave Mercy (done)
2. New Release: Winter Queen (done)
3. Summer Theme: The Ring of Solomon (done)
4. SUMMER: Splintered (done)
5. Classic: The Magician's Nephew (done)
6. Person-less Cover: Legend (done)
7. Traveling: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (done)
8. Humor: Gorgeous (done)
9. Debut: The Night Circus or Wither (done)
10. Friend's Favorite: Wild Magic (done)

Count me in!

Completed: 8/10

1) ALA Teens Top Ten: Pushing the Limits

2) June/July/ August:

3) Summer theme/cover: Beachroad

4) SUMMER: Eragon

5) Classic: The Great Gatsby

6) Personless cover:Divergent

7) Traveling:Eat Pray Love

8) Humor:The Hobbit

9) Debut:

10) Friend's favorite: The Hunger Games




Any suggestions for my last two Debut and New Release!!!

I'm in!
1) ALA Teens Top Ten: Wake
2) Summer release: (2012) Every Day
3) Summer theme/cover: The Truth About Forever
4) SUMMER: Shatter Me
5) Classic: The Great Gatsby
6) Cover without a person: The Fault in Our Stars
7) Traveling: The Sea of Monsters (re-read)
8) Humor: The Bro Code
9) Debut: Let the Sky Fall
10) Friend's Favorite: City of Bones

Rene, it's funny that you have already progressed to 8 out of 10 before the beginning of June. A typo?

Count me in!
0/10
1) ALA Teens Top Ten:
2) June/July/ August:
3) Summer theme/cover:
4) SUMMER:
5) Classic:
6) Personless cover:
7) Traveling:
8) Humor:
9) Debut:
10) Friend's favorite:

6/10

1. ALA:Grave Mercy
2. New release:A Want So Wicked(2012)
3. Summery cover:Cracked Up to Be
4. SUMMER:Requiem 9/6/13
5. Classic:Of Mice and Men 28/6/13
6. No person:The Maze Runner 15/6/13
7. Travel:Pandemonium 3-6-13
8. Funny:
9. Debut:Pivot Point 11/8/13
10. Friend's favourite:Gone 6/8/13

I'm in!!!

1: ALA Teens Top Ten: The Raven Boys
2: June/July/ August: Faking It
3: Summer theme/cover: Sixteenth Summer
4: SUMMER: My Life Next Door
5: Classic: Pride and Prejudice
6: Personless cover: Fissure
7: Traveling: First Comes Love
8: Humor: The Avery Shaw Experiment
9: Debut: Pivot Point
10: Friend's favoriteForever Changed

Completed: 3/10

Yes! Definitely in. Will add more books soon =) Last updated: 6/16/13

1. ALA Teens Top Ten - I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
2. June/July/August - Crushed by Sara Shepard
3. Summer theme/cover - Beautiful Days by Anna Godbersen
4. SUMMER - Spirit by Brigid Kemmerer
5. Classic - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
6. Person-less cover - Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
7. Traveling - Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen
8. Humor - The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver by E. Lockheart
9. Debut - Belle Epoque by Elizabeth Ross
10. Friend's favorite - If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Read: 3 of 10

I finished the last one with one day to spare! Hopefully starting this one on time will get me ahead of the game, haha.

Completed: 10/10 - Finished with a week to spare!

1) ALA Teens Top Ten: Pushing the Limits
2) June/July/ August: Letting Ana Go
3) Summer theme/cover:The Moon and More
4) SUMMER: Every Day
5) Classic: Holes
6) Personless cover:The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them
7) Traveling: The Calling
8) Humor: Spud
9) Debut: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 01
10) Friend's favorite:Thirteen Reasons Why

I'm in
Completed 10/10
1) ALA Teens Top Ten:Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne
2) New Release June/July/ August: Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
3) Summer theme/cover: This Is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith
4) SUMMER:The Moon Dwellers by David Estes
5) Classic: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
6) No person in the cover: Phoenix by Elizabeth Richards
7) Traveling:Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
8) Humor: Diary of a wimpy kid
9) Debut: In the After by Demitria Lunetta
10) Friend's favorite:Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

I always got bored and don't complete challenges but I'm determined to do this one!
Completed 5/10
1) ALA Teens Top Ten: Insurgent-Veronica Roth
2) June/July/ August: 13 Reasons Why - Jay Asher ✔
3) Summer theme/cover:Lola and The Boy Nex Door-Stephanie Perkins ✔
4) SUMMER:Maze Runner-James Dashner ✔
5) Classic:Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen
6) Personless cover:Will Grayson, Will Grayson-John Green ✔
7) Traveling:On the Road - Jack Kerouac
8) Humor:The Fuck Up - Arthur Nersesian
9) Debut:Insomnia - J.R.Johansson
10) Friend's favorite:The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend - Kody Keplinger ✔

Progress 9/10

1) ALA Teens Top Ten: Of Poseidon
2) New Release: The Universe Versus Alex Woods
3) Summer theme/cover: Dragonfly
4) SUMMER: Mind Games
5) Classic: The Great Gatsby
6) Personless cover: Burned
7) Traveling: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
8) Humor: Beauty Queens
9) Debut:
10) Friend's favorite: Anna and the French Kiss

, , , , , , , ,

10/10
1) ALA Teens Top Ten: Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes
2) New Release (July 2012): Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
3) Summer theme: Wanderlove by Kirsten Hubbard
4) SUMMER: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
5) Classic: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6) Personless cover: Spoiled by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
7) Traveling: In Honor by Jessi Kirby
8) Funny: Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants by Louise Rennison
9) New Release: The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson
10) Five-Star Favorite: Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

doing this for sure! will add the books as i read them, otherwise i'll forget. hah.

Progress 9/10

1) ALA Teens Top Ten: i hunt killers by barry lyga four stars, june 16 and monument 14 by emmy lybourne three stars, june 14
2) New Release: siege and storm by leigh bardugo three stars, july 4
3) Summer theme/cover: twenty boy summer by sarah ockler four stars, june 7
4) SUMMER: sisters red by jackson pearce 3 stars, june 10
5) Classic:
6) Personless cover: icons by margaret stohl june 3
7) Traveling: amy and roger's epic detour by morgan matson four stars, june 16
8) Humor: the avery shaw experiment by kelly oram two stars, june 29
9) Debut: pivot point by kasie west 3 stars, june 23
10) Friend's favorite: the princesses of iowa by m. molly backes 5 stars by A., five stars by me, june 21

Progress: 9/10

Kim wrote: "Quarterly Challenge #10
Welcome to YA Book Club's tenth Reading Challenge!

Rules

Duration: June 1, 2013 – August 31, 2013

We are a YA Book Club, so all books should be young adult.

You have 3 m..."

This is SUCH a good idea, but I was planning on reading the Harry Potter series, and now I am so torn. Gah, books.

I'm in too!

6/10

1) ALA Teens Top Ten: Of Poseidon by Anna Banks
2) New Release: The Shade of the Moon by Susan Beth Pfeffer
3) Summer theme/cover: The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls by Julie Schumacher
4) SUMMER: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
5) Classic: White Fang by Jack London
6) Personless cover: Necromancing the Stone by Lish McBride
7) Traveling: Oblivion Road by Alex McAulay
8) Humor: Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford
9) Debut: The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney
10) Friend's favorite: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

I'm in! Sounds like fun.

0/10

1: ALA Teens Top Ten: Wake by Amanda Hocking
2: June/July/ August: Another Little Piece by Kate Karyus Quinn
3: Summer theme/cover:
4: SUMMER:Marking Time by April White
5: Classic:
6: Personless cover:
7: Traveling:
8: Humor:
9: Debut:
10: Friend's favorite:

Okay, it doesn't look like I'm going to quite finish this challenge (plus, I cheated and changed some of my titles), but here's my list:

1) ALA: Oops! I didn't get to this one!
2) New Release: Viral Nation by Shaunta Grimes
3) Takes Place in Summer: Temptation by Karen Ann Hopkins
4) SUMMER: Storm by Brigid Kemmerer
5) Classic: I didn't get to this either!
6) Personless Cover: Slammed by Colleen Hoover
8) Funny: Poison by Bridget Zinn
9) Debut: Branded by Ali Ketner and Missy Kalicicki
10) Friend’s 5 Star: Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

I have a question. Do you have to start the book in these months or could you have started it in May?

1: ALA Teens Top Ten: Insurgent
2: June/July/ August: The Moon and More
3: Summer theme/cover: Someone Like You
4: SUMMER: Extras
5: Classic: To Kill a Mockingbird
6: Personless cover: Bitterblue
7: Traveling: 13 Little Blue Envelopes
8: Humor: The Host
9: Debut: Divergent
10: Friend's favorite: Academy 7

Loralee wrote: "Awesome challenge...will definitely consider participating.

Do re-reads count?"

Re-reads definitely count!