Challenge - 100 Books in a Year Reading Challenge for 2012

For 2012, I am once again going to attempt the 100+ Books in a Year challenge hosted by Book Chick City. I came up well short last year, but it was a decidedly unusual reading year for me, so I have confidence I will meet the challenge in 2012.

100+ Books in a Year Reading Challenge for 2012:

Cigars of the Pharaoh by Hergé

The Blue Lotus by Hergé

The Broken Ear by Hergé

The Black Island by Hergé

King Ottokar's Sceptre by Hergé

The Crab with the Golden Claws by Hergé

The Shooting Star by Hergé

The Secret of the Unicorn by Hergé

Red Rackham's Treasure by Hergé

The Seven Crystal Balls by Hergé

Prisoners of the Sun by Hergé

Land of Black Gold by Hergé

Destination Moon by Hergé

Explorers on the Moon by Hergé

The Calculus Affair by Hergé

The Red Sea Sharks by Hergé

Tintin in Tibet by Hergé

The Castafiore Emerald by Hergé

Flight 714 by Hergé

Tintin and the Picaros by Hergé

Captured by Julia Rachel Barrett

The Demon of Renaissance Drive by Elizabeth Reuter

CassaFire by Alex J. Cavanaugh

Slant of Light by Steve Wiegenstein

Conqueror: A Novel of Kublai Khan by Conn Iggulden

Expedition Beyond: The Anderson Theory by Roger Bagg

The Big Time by Fritz Leiber

Legend of a Ninja: Beneath the Shadows by Jarius Raphel

Legend of a Ninja 2: Rise of the Shadowsalve by Jarius Raphel

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein by Robert A. Heinlein

City by Clifford D. Simak

Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis

Perelandra by C.S. Lewis

That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis

White Raven: The Sword of Northern Ancestors by Irina Lopatina

Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins by Ian Tattersall

Tales from Super-Science Fiction by Robert Silverberg (editor)

Gaelen's Gold by M.K. Flowers

The Testament of Jesse Lamb by Jane Rogers

Crucible of Gold by Naomi Novik

 Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman

Shadows of the Past by E.A. Jensen

 Spear of Seth by René Daniel

 The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan

Second Skin by Peter Darrach

 21^st Century Dead: A Zombie Anthology by Christopher Golden (editor)

Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher

 The Sundered by Ruthanne Reid

 Mariner Valley by James Crawford

 Escape from Eternity by Nate Scholze

Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury by Sam Weller (editor) and Mort Castle (editor)

 The 5 Moons of Tiiana: The Chronicles of Rez Cantor by Paul T. Harry

Tintin: Hergé and His Creation by Harry Thompson

Second Skin, Too by Peter Darrach

 Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer

 More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon

The Hugo Winners, Volume 1 by Isaac Asimov (editor)

 More Stories from the Hugo Winners, Volume II by Isaac Asimov (editor)

The Hugo Winners, Volume 3, Book 1 by Isaac Asimov (editor)

 Time Untamed by Ivan Howard (editor)

Other 2012 Challenges:
The 2012 Graphic Novels Challenge
2012 Sci-Fi Challenge 
The Dystopia 2012 Challenge

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2011 Challenges in Review

2011 was not a good reading year for me. Despite the high hopes I had at the outset of the year, I only managed to read and review about fifty new books in the year, which is about a third of what I normally read in that span. There were several reasons for this: maintaining this blog took up a lot of time, I took some classes earlier in the year that required a substantial time commitment, and a number of other issues that had to be dealt with that I don't want to go into here.

Through the year, I tracked the reading blog-based challenges I participated in despite my anemic efforts. For 2011, I participated in the 100 Books Challenge, the 2011 Non-Fiction Challenge, the Dystopia Challenge 2011, the Graphic Novels Challenge for 2011, and the Speculative Fiction Challenge for 2011. The links below take you to the tracking page for each of the challenges.

100 Books in a Year Reading Challenge for 2011
2011 Non-Fiction Challenge
Dystopia Challenge 2011
Graphic Novels Challenge for 2011
Speculative Fiction Challenge for 2011

Here's to looking forward to 2012 and hoping that it is a better year than 2011.

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