This year I was invited to join the 2015 Everything YA Reading Challenge by EM at Books and Iced Coffee (thanks a bunch!) and as per my New Year’s resolution to join 3 reading challenges, I decided to sign up for this one.
Learn more about the challenge and to sign up click here!
My Goal:
Complete the Monthly Mini Challenges + Read 2 YA novels per month
Here is my progress so far:
—2 YA per Month
—Monthly Mini-Challenges
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Month |
YA Books Read | Monthly Mini Challenges | ||
| Series | Book | Author |
✔ Read a Standalone YA novel Pick:
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January ✔Two YA books ✔Mini Challenge |
Archers of Avalon Trilogy | -Avow | Chelsea Fine | |
| Pushing the Limits Series | -Breaking the Rules | Katie McGarry | ||
| Starling Trilogy | -Transcendent | Lesley Livingston | ||
| The Vincent Boys Series | -The Vincent Boys -The Vincent Brothers |
Abbi Glines | ||
| Slammed Trilogy | -Slammed | Colleen Hoover | ||
| Firebird Trilogy | -A Thousand Pieces of You | Claudia Gray | ||
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February ✔Two YA books ✖Mini Challenge |
Trust Me | -Trust Me, I’m Lying | Mary Elizabeth Summer |
✖Reread a Favourite Novel Pick: |
| – | –Whatever Life Throws at You | Julie Cross | ||
| Waterfire Saga | – Deep Blue -Rogue Wave |
Jennifer Donnelly | ||
| Alienated | -Alienated | Melissa Landers | ||
| Worldwalker | -Trial by Fire | Josephine Angelini | ||
| – | –The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend | Kody Keplinger | ||
| – | –Forget You | Jennifer Echols | ||
| Hopeless | -Hopeless -Losing Hope -Finding Cinderella |
Colleen Hoover | ||
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March ✔Two YA books ✔Mini Challenge |
The Conspiracy of Us | –The Conspiracy of Us | Maggie Hall |
✔Read a Book Someone Has Picked for You Pick:
Picked by: my local library! |
| Arcana Chronicles | –Poison Princess -Endless Knight-Dead of Winter |
Kresley Cole | ||
| Alienated | -Invaded-Until Midnight | Melissa Landers | ||
| Bloodlines | –The Ruby Circle | Richelle Mead | ||
| The Winner’s Trilogy | –The Winner’s Curse–The Winner’s Crime–Bridge of Snow | Marie Rutkoski | ||
| Beau Rivage | -Tear You Apart | Sarah Cross | ||
| Sorceress Trilogy | -Sorceress-The First Midnight Spell | Claudia Gray | ||
| Snow Like Ashes | -Snow Like Ashes | Sara Raasch | ||
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April ✔Two YA books ✔Mini Challenge |
Embassy Row | –All Fall Down | Ally Carter |
✔Read a book that has been made into a movie Pick:
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| The Book of Ivy | -The Book of Ivy | Amy Engel | ||
| – | -Princess of Thorns | Stacey Jay | ||
| Uninvited | -Unleashed | Sophie Jordan | ||
| – | -Written in the Stars | Aisha Saeed | ||
| Anna and the French Kiss | -Anna and the French Kiss | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| Red Queen | -Red Queen | Victoria Aveyard | ||
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May ✔Two YA books ✖Mini Challenge |
Beautiful Creatures | -The Mortal Heart | Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl |
✖Read:
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| Once Upon a Crime Family | -Hold Me Like a Breath | Tiffany Schmidt | ||
| Talon | -Rogue | Julie Kagawa | ||
| Throne of Glass | -Heir of Fire | Sarah J Maas | ||
| An Ember in the Ashes | -An Ember in the Ashes | Sabaa Tahir | ||
| A Court of Thorns and Roses | -A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J Maas | ||
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June ✔Two YA books ✔Mini Challenge |
– | –99 Days | Katie Cotugno |
✔ Read a Summer Themed novel Pick:
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| – | –Fangirl | Rainbow Rowell | ||
| – | -All the Rage | Courtney Summers | ||
| The Selection | -The Heir | Kiera Cass | ||
| Grisha Trilogy | -Shadow and Bone | Leigh Bardugo | ||
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July ✔Two YA books ✖Mini Challenge |
Age of Legends | –Empire of Night | Kelley Armstrong |
✖Read a Graphic Novel Pick: N/A |
| – | –Little Peach | Peggy Kern | ||
| Grisha Trilogy | –Siege and Storm -Ruin & Rising |
Leigh Bardugo | ||
| Thunder Road | –Nowhere but Here | Katie McGarry | ||
| Inherit the Stars | –Inherit the Stars | Tessa Elwood | ||
| Scarlet | –Lady Thief | A C Gaughen | ||
| – | –Vengeance Road | Erin Bowman | ||
| – | –Forbidden | Tabitha Suzuma | ||
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August ✔Two YA books ✖Mini Challenge |
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| – | –Mechanica | Betsy Cornwell |
✖Read a Children’s Novel Pick: N/A |
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| The Program | –The Program -The Treatment |
Suzanne Young | ||
| The Heartbreaker Chronicles | –The Heartbreakers | Ali Novak | ||
| Light Trilogy | –Shattered Blue | Lauren Bird Horowitz | ||
| – | –My Heart and Other Black Holes | Jasmine Warga | ||
| – | –Every Last Promise | Kristin Halbrook | ||
| – | -Rook | Sharon Cameron | ||
| Dark Elements Trilogy | –Every Last Breath | Jennifer L Armentrout | ||
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September ✔Two YA books ✖Mini Challenge |
The Girl at Midnight | –The Girl at Midnight | Melissa Grey |
✖Read an audiobook Pick: N/A |
| The Illumination Paradox | -Lumière | Jacqueline Garlick | ||
| Nevermore Trilogy | -Oblivion | Kelly Greagh | ||
| The Orphan Queen | -The Orphan Queen | Jodi Meadows | ||
| – | –Never Never | Brianna Shrum | ||
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October ✔Two YA books |
Throne of Glass | -Queen of Shadows | Sarah J Maas |
No Challenge this Month |
| Until Friday Night | -Until Friday Night | Abbi Glines | ||
| Six of Crows | -Six of Crows | Leigh Bardugo | ||
| The Orphan Queen | -The Hidden Prince
-The Glowing Knight |
Jodi Meadows | ||
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November ✔Two YA books
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Illumination Paradox | –Noir | Jacqueline Garlick |
No Challenge this Month |
| Snow Like Ashes | –Ice Like Fire | Sara Raasch | ||
| The Young Elites | -The Rose Society | Marie Lu | ||
| Lorien Legacies | -Fate of Ten | Pittacus Lore | ||
| Iron Fey: Call of the Forgotten | -Iron Warrior | Julie Kagawa | ||
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December ✖Two YA books ✖Mini Challenge |
✖TBA |
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Last Updated: November 30, 2015
The Rules:
- Participants must create a shelf or a page that is solely dedicated to this challenge and must be entitled “2015 Everything YA Reading Challenge”. This page should be easily accessible and should list the books that you’ve read for the year ^_^
- Book must meet any of the sub- genres of the young adult category, whether it’s paranormal, romance, drama, contemporary, horror, etc.
- Must be longer than 100 pages. Novellas are accepted- just as long as they meet this criteria ^_^
- The year of when the book was published does not matter. As long as you have read the book in 2015, it will be accepted.
- All formats are acceptable (paperback, ARC, ebook, etc.)
- You must set your own reading goals and it must be visible on your challenge page! (FYI, you do not need to complete all of the mini challenges in order to complete this challenge).