2012 Reading Goals

I'm kinda late with this but I wasn't really reading when 2011 ended. Now that I am again I figure it's a good time to think about what I want to read this upcoming year.

• Read at least 5 books of poetry (The Chameleon Couch by Yusef Komunyakaa; Coming to That by Dorothea Tanning; The Smooth Yarrow by Susan Glickman; )
• Read at least 5 collections of short stories (Radio Belly by Buffy Cram; )
• Read at least 2 plays
• Read at least 5 novels in verse (I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder; Fallout by Ellen Hopkins; October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Lesléa Newman; Collateral by Ellen Hopkins; )
• Read at least 5 non-fiction books (The Untamed Garden by Sonia Day; The Skinny Rules by Bob Harper; Invincible Microbe by Jim Murphy and Alison Blank; The Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall; The Art of the Epigraph compiled and edited by Rosemary Ahern)
• Read at least 5 classics ( )
• Read at least 5 memoirs (Eating Dirt by Charlotte Gill; Blue Nights by Joan Didion; The Guardians by Sarah Manguso;  )

Some specifics: 

• Read a book by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Read a book by Sarah Addison Allen
• Read a book by Lauren Oliver (Pandemonium; Before I Fall; The Spindlers)
• Read Matched by Ally Condie 
• Read a book by Kelley Armstrong (The Calling)
• Read a book by John Green
• Read The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Read Waking Storms by Sarah Porter
• Read a series by Scott Westerfeld (Peeps; The Last Days)
• Read a book by Maile Meloy (The Apothecary)
• Read a book by Stephanie Perkins (Anna and the French Kiss; Lola and the Boy Next Door)
• Read Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
• Read a book by Kirsten Hubbard (Like Mandarin; Wanderlove)
• Read The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
• Read a book by Haruki Murakami
• Read a book by Donna Freitas
• Read a book by Amy Reed
• Read a book by Laura Kasischke
• Read a book by Sarah Dessen 
• Read a book by Courtney Summers (Cracked Up To Be; Some Girls Are; This Is Not A Test)
• Read a book by Sarah Ockler (Twenty Boy Summer)
• Read a book by José Saramego

Well there they are. I don't plan to check back to this list often but I figure it can't hurt to have some inspiration if I feel like I can't find anything to read. Do you have any 2012 reading goals? Or anything I absolutely must add to my list?

2012 Sophomore Reading Challenge

I was looking across reading challenges I might enjoy in 2012 and came across this one. It is hosted by Chick Loves Lit, and it'll give me a chance to pick up second books by authors I enjoyed, or try out some I missed the first time around. You can click here to sign up.

What: Reading books by authors with their second MG or YA published in 2012
When: January 1st 2012-January 31st 2013
Level: Read at least ten books by sophomore MG/YA authors

Read:

1. The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe (Review)
2. Wanderlove by Kristen Hubbard (Review)
3. Monstrous Beauty by Elizabeth Fama (Review)
4. Zero by Tom Leveen (Review)
5. Insurgent by Veronica Roth (Review) 
6. First Comes Love by Katie Kacvinsky (Review)
7. Kill Me Softly by Sarah Cross (Review) 
8. Scorch by Gina Damico (Review) 
9. Waking Storms by Sarah Porter (Review) 
10. Burn by Heath Gibson (Review)
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Here's my tentative list so far:

1. A Million Suns by Beth Revis
2. Fever by Lauren DeStefano
3. Try Not To Breathe by Jennifer R. Hubbard
4. Revived by Cat Patrick
5. Never Enough by Denise Jaden 
6. The Right & the Real by Joëlle Anthony
7. The Blood Keeper by Tessa Gratton  
8. Rebel Heart by Moira Young 
9. Arise by Tara Hudson 

I have already read the following titles: Hallowed by Cynthia Hand

2012 Debut Author Challenge

Hosted by The Story Siren, I really enjoyed participating in this challenge in 2011 because it encouraged me to pick up books by new authors, many of which I really loved. You can click here to sign up.

What: Reading young adult books by authors debuting in 2012
When: January 1st 2012-January 31st 2013
Level: Read at least twelve books by debut YA authors

I've already cheated and suspect there will be a couple more I read before the official start date, but these are the tentative titles, I'll be updating this page as well once the challenge officially begins.

Read:

1. The Princesses of Iowa by M. Molly Backes (Review)
2. The Edumacation of Jay Baker by Jay Clark (Review)
3. Torn by Stephanie Guerra (Review)  
4. Croak by Gina Damico (Review) 
5. Struck by Jennifer Bosworth (Review) 
6. Never Eighteen by Megan Bostic (Review)
7. All These Lives by Sarah Wylie (Review)
8. Auracle by Gina Rosati (Review)
9. The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind by Meg Medina (Review)
10. Something Like Normal by Trish Doller (Review)
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To Read:

1. Precious Bones by Mika Ashley-Hollinger
   
2. After the Snow by S.D. Crockett
3. The Whole Story of Half a Girl by Veera Hiranandani  
4. Slide by Jill Hathaway
5. Under The Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
6. Everneath by Brodi Ashton
7. Incarnate by Jodi Meadows
8. The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
9. The Vicious Deep by Zoraida Córdova
10. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
11. Tempest by Julie Cross
12. Above by Leah Bobet
13. The Other Life by Susanne Winnacker 
14. Article 5 by Kristen Simmons
15. Breaking Beautiful by Jennifer Shaw Wolf
16. What She Left Behind by Tracy Bilen
17. Trafficked by Kim Purcell
18. Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone by Kat Rosenfield
19. The Girls of No Return by Erin Salden
20. Lies Beneath by Anne Greenwood Brown
21. Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
22. Glitch by Heather Anastasiu
23. Splintered by A.G. Howard
24. Chained by Lynne Kelly
25. The Glimpse by Claire Merle
26. Cracked by K.M. Walton
    

Read before challenge start date: Fracture by Megan Miranda, May B. by Caroline Starr Rose