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

2011 Debut Author Challenge

Hosted by the Story Siren after contemplating it for awhile I have decided to join the Debut Author Challenge.

What: Reading young adult books by authors debuting in 2011

When: January 1st 2011-December 31st 2011

Level: Read at least twelve books by debut YA authors

Completed:

1. XVI by Julia Karr (Review) 
2. Darkness Becomes Her by Kelly Keaton (Review) 
3. Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys (Review)
4. Bumped by Megan McCafferty (Review) 
5. Die for Me by Amy Plum (Review)
6. Wither by Lauren DeStefano (Review)
7. Blood Magic by Tessa Gratton (Review) 
8. The Lipstick Laws by Amy Holder (Review)
9. Divergent by Veronica Roth (Review)
10. With or Without You by Brian Farrey (Review) 
11. Ashes, Ashes by Jo Treggiari (Review)
12. Across the Universe by Beth Revis (Review)
13. Forgotten by Cat Patrick (Review)
14. Vaclav and Lena by Haley Tanner (Review) 
15. Subject Seven by James A. Moore (Review)
16. Unearthly by Cynthia Hand (Review) 
17. Blood Red Road by Moira Young (Review) 
18. Possession by Elana Johnson (Review)
19. Lost Voices by Sarah Porter (Review) 
20. Hereafter by Tara Hudson (Review)
21. Exposed by Kimberly Marcus (Review)
22. Cold Kiss by Amy Garvey (Review) 
23. A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan (Review) 
24. Audition by Stasia Ward Kehoe (Review)

Already reviewed: Choker by Elizabeth Woods 

Completed: July 19 2011