Topeka & Shawnee Co. Public Library discussion

Time Travel Challenge

Last year, our reading challenge took us on a road trip through the United States. So for this year’s challenge, I thought it would be fun to travel through time instead. Stock up on your science fiction, historical fiction, and history books for this challenge.

Here are the basic ground rules:

1) Read enough books to complete as many options as you can listed below
2) The same book can be used on more than one option
3) Both fiction and nonfiction count
4) Only books that are finished in 2013 count
5) If 1 book takes place in different time periods, it all counts

Option 1: 20th Century Traveler

1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s

Option 2: 1st Millennium Challenge

1-99
100s
200s
300s
400s
500s
600s
700s
800s
900s

Option 3: 2nd Millennium Challenge

1000s
1100s
1200s
1300s
1400s
1500s
1600s
1700s
1800s
1900s

Option 4: Back to the Future

Read 10 books that take place in the future

Option 5: Pre-History Lesson

Read 10 books that take place during the Bronze Age (3600-300 BC)

Achievement Levels:

1 Option Completed: BILL & TED - Novice Adventurer
2 Options Completed: SAM BECKETT - Professor of Time Travel
3 Options Completed: DOC “EMMETT” BROWN - Avid Explorer of Time
4 Options Completed: PHINEAS BOGG - Professional Time Traveler
5 Options Completed: TERMINATOR - Nearly Indestructible Time Travel Expert

Check out this fun time travel graphic (http://www.informationisbeautiful.net...)
Good Luck!

This sounds like fun! I haven't read many books featuring time-travel, so I will definitely have to participate this year.

You have great ideas!

Melanie, I hope you finished the 2012 challenge. I haven't checked yet, but it looks like you're our only hope to finish. I am missing about 10 to 15 states. I didn't think the challenge was going to be that hard!!! I know I can at least finish one of these options next year. Thanks for the positive feedback!

I didn't get finished. I was doing really good, but a lot of my reading choices were dictated by others. i also got into a spell where I wasn't ready much. It seems like many books take place in the same places.

Option 1: 20th Century Traveler

1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s-And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
1950s-And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini; American Vampire Vol. 4 by Scott Snyder
1960s-Bond on Bond by Roger Moore
1970s-And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini; Bond on Bond by Roger Moore
1980s-Bond on Bond by Roger Moore
1990s-Lunatic Cafe by Laurell K Hamilton, Bond on Bond by Roger Moore

Option 2: 1st Millennium Challenge

1-99-Under the Eagle by Simon Scarrow
100s
200s
300s
400s
500s
600s
700s
800s
900s

Option 3: 2nd Millennium Challenge

1000s-American Gods by Neil Gaiman
1100s
1200s
1300s
1400s
1500s
1600s
1700s-American Gods by Neil Gaiman; American Vampire Vol. 4 by Scott Snyder
1800s-Heartless by Gail Carriger, Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore, & The Husband List by Janet Evanovich
1900s-And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

Option 4: Back to the Future

Read 10 books that take place in the future

Option 5: Pre-History Lesson

Read 10 books that take place during the Bronze Age (3600-300 BC)

Sweet! I started the new (teen sci fi) Eoin Colfer book "The Reluctant Assassin" last night and it is modern day London and Victorian 1880s London...so far. Of course, it also has an extremely creepy bad guy and I won't be reading it late at night again....

Option 1: 20th Century Traveler

1900s- Surprised by Joy
1910s- Surprised by Joy
1920s- The Great Gatsby
1930s
1940s- Farewell to Manzanar
1950s- Cutting for Stone
1960s- Cutting for Stone
1970s- Farewell to Manazanar, Cutting for Stone
1980s- Cutting for Stone
1990s

Option 2: 1st Millennium Challenge

1-99
100s
200s
300s
400s
500s
600s
700s
800s
900s

Option 3: 2nd Millennium Challenge

1000s
1100s
1200s
1300s
1400s
1500s
1600s
1700s - Thomas Jefferson
1800s- The Wire-Cutters, The Awakening, Thomas Jefferson
1900s

Option 4: Back to the Future

Read 10 books that take place in the future

Option 5: Pre-History Lesson

Read 10 books that take place during the Bronze Age (3600-300 BC)

Option 1: 20th Century Traveler

1900s-Nicholas and Alexandra
1910s-Nicholas and Alexandra
1920s
1930s
1940s-The Keep
1950s
1960s
1970s-Promised Land
1980s
1990s

Option 2: 1st Millennium Challenge

1-99
100s
200s
300s
400s
500s
600s
700s
800s
900s

Option 3: 2nd Millennium Challenge

1000s-Hood
1100s
1200s
1300s
1400s
1500s
1600s
1700s-The Seekers
1800s-The Seekers
1900s-Nicholas and Alexandra

Option 4: Back to the Future

Read 10 books that take place in the future

Option 5: Pre-History Lesson

Read 10 books that take place during the Bronze Age (3600-300 BC)

I seem to be stuck in the present!!! :)

Okay I admit that I didn't get very far on this challenge. I'm too lazy to really go back through, but if I finished anything it was Option 1. I hope you all had better luck than I did. :)