Carolina vs. The World

The 2012 Reading Challenge: 18/33

I love to read, but most of the time I find myself lacking time to read all the books I want. And after seeing a lot of others making reading lists for 2012, I decided to set up my own as well. Year after year I do make a promise to read my way through a reading list/challenge, but I never fully commit to it, but not this year! This year I’m making a reading challenge that I will complete. I’m only making it 33 books, which is a fair amount to me and is not completely impossible to end. I’ll probably end up finishing it and reading making another list, but for now, this is fine. 

My reading list reads as follows:

Genre Category:
1. Realistic Fiction/Social Issues: The Brutal Language of Love by Alicia Erian
2. Romance: Dark Lover by J.R. Ward
3. Fantasy: City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare
4. Science Fiction
5. Apocalyptic/Dystopia
6. Mystery/Thriller
7. Classic: The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles
8. Adventure/Graphic
9. Horror: Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror by H.P. Lovecraft
10. Anthology: The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
11. Non-Fiction

Setting/Narrator Category:
12. Female Protagonist: Why Girls Are Weird by Pamela Ribon
13. Male Protagonist
14. LGBT Character: City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
15. Non-Human Protagonist: A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
16. Involves family conflict: The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
17. Takes place in a school: A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
18. Takes place in other country
19. Takes place in your home state: Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith
20. First person narrator: The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
21. Third person narrator: City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
22. Multiple-perspective narrator: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Graham Smith

Author/Award Category:
23. Author you’ve never read before: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
24. Author from a country other than U.S., U.K., Canada, or Australia
25. A book that was originally a different language
26. Book that is being made or has been made into a movie: The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
27. First book of a series: Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
28. Nebula Award
29. National Book Award
30. Hugo Award
31. From Oprah’s Book Club
32. Michael L. Printz Award
33. Orange Prize Fiction

January: I found this list on PaperBackSwap, but I changed it a bit. I’ve already started and have crossed off two books, as you can see. Both of which I loved. I’m off to a good start, but with school starting soon, I think my pace may slow down. But I will finish this challenge…hopefully. 

May: So far I’ve read 12, which makes about an average of about 2.5 books per month. I thought I’d be farther at this point, but I’ll eventually finish this.

June: I only read one book this month…and I finished it in one day. I need to start reading. But I also have been busy with Camp Nanowrimo, so yeah.