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Year Long Challenges
50/50 Challenge

50 States Challenge

Decades Challenge 11-11-11 to 12-12-12

Goodreads Choice Awards (2011) Reading Challenge

Level 1 of the Serious Readers Challenge for 2012

No time Limit
Mind~Body~Spirit Challenge

2012 Book Count

January
1. Only His by Susan Mallery
2. Second Grave on the Left by Darynda Jones
3. Sleepless by Terri Clark
4. Love in a Nutshell by Janet Evanovich
5. Talk Me Down by Victoria Dahl
6. The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross
7. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
8. Wife For a Week by Kelly Hunter
9. Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse by Lee Goldberg
10. Hallowed by Cynthia Hand
11. Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr


February
12. Love Unscripted by Tina Reber
13. Smokeless Fire by Samantha Young
14. Wanderlove by Kirsten Hubbard
15. The Millionaire's Nanny Arrangement by Linda Goodnight
16. Welcome, Caller, This Is Chloe by Shelley Coriell
17. Past Perfect by Leila Sales
18. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
19.Fifty Shades Darker by E.L. James
20.Fifty Shades Freed by E.L. James
21. Legend by Marie Lu


March
22. Third Grave Dead Ahead by Darynda Jones
23. Divorced, Desperate and Delicious by Christie Craig
24. What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
25. Prince Charming by Julie Garwood
26. Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles
27. And The Bride Wore Red by Lucy Gordon
28. Midnight's Daughter by Karen Chance
29. A Shameful Consequence by Carol Marinelli
30. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
31. The Vincent Boys by Abbi Glines
32. Double Clutch by Liz Reinhardt
33. Overprotected by Jennifer Laurens
34. Junk Miles by Liz Reinhardt


April
35. Forever Mine by Elizabeth Reyes
36. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
37. Always Been Mine by Elizabeth Reyes
38. The Juliet Club by Suzanne Harper
39. Blood Will Tell by Samantha Young
40. Sleeping with Paris by Juliette Sobanet
41. Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
42. An Indecent Proposition by Carol Marinelli
43. Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn
44. Noah by Elizabeth Reyes
45. Touch of Power by Maria V. Snyder


May
46. Babe in Boyland by Jody Gehrman
47. I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
48. Epic Fail by Claire LaZebnik
49. Something Wonderful by Judith McNaught
50. Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart by Sarah MacLean
51. Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins
52. Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood
53. Grave Mercy by R.L. LaFevers


June
54. Rainshadow Road by Lisa Kleypas
55. Of Poseidon by Anna Banks
56. Partials by Dan Wells


July
57. Soulbound by Heather Brewer
58. The Selection by Kiera Cass
59. Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore

50/50 Challenge

Movies
1. Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
2. Real Steel
3. Walking the Halls
4. An Invisible Sign
5. Love, Wedding, Marriage
6. Albatross
7. Dirty Girl
8. From Prada to Nada
9. You Again
10. Suburban Girl
11. Footloose
12. The Iron Lady
13. Mao's Last Dancer
14. The Vow
15. Jane Eyre
16. School for Seduction
17. The Hunger Games
18. Mirror, Mirror
19. Rocky
20. 35 and Ticking
21. Leap Year
22. The Avengers
23. Good Deeds
24. Changeling
25. Blue Lagoon: The Awakening
26. Sarah's Key
27. Skin
28. The Hammer
29. LOL
30. Snow White and the Huntsman
31. Think Like a Man
32. The Five-Year Engagement
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50 States Challenge (16/50)
Official Challenge Post
✔ = done!
♠ = currently reading

✔Alabama - The Vincent Boys by Abbi Glines
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
✔California- Only His by Susan Mallery
✔Colorado- Talk Me Down by Victoria Dahl
Connecticut
Delaware
✔ Florida- Sleepless by Terri Clark
✔Georgia - Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
✔Michigan- Love in a Nutshell by Janet Evanovich
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska -
✔Nevada - Midnight's Daughter by Karen Chance
New Hampshire
✔New Jersey - Double Clutch by Liz Reinhardt
✔New Mexico- Second Grave on the Left by Darynda Jones
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
✔Ohio- Smokeless Fire by Samantha Young
Oklahoma
Oregon
✔Pennsylvania- Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr
✔Rhode Island- Love Unscripted by Tina Reber
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
✔Texas- The Millionaire's Nanny Arrangement by Linda Goodnight
Utah
Vermont
✔Virginia- Past Perfect by Leila Sales
✔Washington- Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
West Virginia
Wisconsin
✔Wyoming- Hallowed by Cynthia Hand

Decades Challenge 11-11-11 to 12-12-12



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Goodreads Choice Awards (2011) Reading Challenge (5/10)
✔ = done!

Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction: Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick
Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction: Bloodlines by Richelle Mead
Favorite Book of 2011: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Favorite Book of 2011:The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel by David Levithan
✔Best Paranormal Fantasy: Second Grave on the Left by Darynda Jones
✔Best Romance: Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
✔Best Romance: Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn
Best Young Adult Fiction: The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson
Best Young Adult Fiction: Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
✔Best Young Adult Fiction: Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles
✔Best Fiction: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

Mind~Body~Spirit Challenge (2/8)

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Body
The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross (enhanced ability: sight, hearing)
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty (heroine is instructed by someone in some type of exercise)



Spirit
Welcome, Caller, This Is Chloe by Shelley Coriell (spitfire heroine)

Pretty!

Thank you :)

Greak work with these, love the state challenges graphic. I've seen those done before, certainly a tricky looking challenge.

Erin wrote: "Greak work with these, love the state challenges graphic. I've seen those done before, certainly a tricky looking challenge."

Thanks, Erin! I 'stole' the graphics from Lisa Kay. The state challenge is really fun, I started strong but I've slowed down a bit.