First of all, if you’re here looking for my comprehensive list of 2017 Reading and Blogging Challenges, you’re in the wrong place. 🙂 Click the link to go there!
These are the challenges I plan to participate in in 2017. Once again, I had a really hard time deciding what to choose because I don’t want to participate in a million challenges, but there are SO many good ones. Plus, I know I’m not always that great at sticking to challenges, but I still love having goals, even if I don’t completely manage to make them! This year, I’m switching up most of the challenges I’m participating in—it’s always good to try something new!
These are the challenges I ended up with:
I thought I’d start with the obvious. Since Shannon and I are hosting this one, it would be a little strange if I didn’t plan to participate.
The goal of this challenge is to post book related discussions (or getting to know you type discussions work too.) This challenge is so interactive, and I think it might be my favorite thing about my blog, so I’m excited to be continuing it!
Goal: 41+ Discussions – Gift of the Gab
(I reduced the goals a bit this year to make them a bit more realistic. 41+ is much more doable than 49+ and therefore more motivating at the end of the year when my discussions are lagging.)
HOST/SIGN-UP LINK – Feed Your Fiction Addiction & It Starts at Midnight
I absolutely love fantasy! One of the things that caught my eye with this challenge is that this will encourage me to read some of Alexa and Rachel’s favorites—many of which have been on my TBR for a good long time!
Goal: 24 Books Read
There aren’t levels or anything for this challenge, but I figured that an average of two fantasies a month would be doable. Included in these 24, I want to read a few of Alexa and Rachel’s favorites (all of which I already own): Throne of Glass, The Girl of Fire and Thorns, Six of Crows, The Winner’s Curse, Graceling.
HOST/SIGN-UP LINK – Hello, Chelly & Alexa Loves Books
The goal of this challenge is to read books that are in your personal library that were obtained before this year. If you’d asked me last year, I would have said I had this WAY under control – my bookshelves were full, but not overflowing or anything. But THEN I got three new giant bookshelves for Christmas last year. And what do you do when you have bookshelves? Why, you fill them of course! And that’s what I did!
Goal: 21-30 Books – Give your shelves a warm friendly hug
Even though I failed this challenge miserably last year, I’m still going to do it again and I’m not even changing my goal. I’m not going to BEA in 2017, so that right there should give me WAY more time to read books I already own (including a few from BEA 2016 that I didn’t manage to get to). We’ll see how this goes, but I’m hopeful!
HOST/SIGN-UP LINK – Chapter Break & Second Run Reviews
I was horrible at the series challenge I did last year, but I’m not giving up. I NEED to finish some series! So, this year I’m trying a different challenge, specifically geared toward reading that last book in the series.
Goal: 5-10 Books
It would be nice to finish one series per month, but I’m being realistic here and going with a goal of 5-10. Who knows, maybe I’ll surpass it!
Here are just a few of the books I’m hoping to read. These are all books I’ve had on my TBR for a very long time. (I might have to read other books in the series to get to these):
HOST/SIGN-UP LINK – Somewhere Only We Know & Words Fueled by Love
I decided to join in on this one this year since I obviously don’t want to ignore the new releases that come out.
Goal: 61-100 books per year – New Release Veteran
I figure at least half of my books have to be new releases (actually, probably a lot more than that), so I think this goal should be really easy to hit. Maybe I’ll even bump it up if it seems too easy.
HOST/SIGN-UP LINK – (un)Conventional Book Views & Books, Movies, Reviews! Oh My!
I started listening to audiobooks this year, and have really been enjoying them. I thought I’d join this challenge to encourage myself to keep it up!
Goal: 15-20 Books: Socially Awkward (Don’t talk to me)
I listened to somewhere in this range of books this year, so I’m making it my goal to do the same in 2017.
HOST/SIGN-UP LINK – Hot Listens & Caffeinated Book Reviewer
And that’s it! Like I said, there are a TON of other challenges that I would love to join, but I’m trying to keep my goals reasonable. Even these might be a little crazy to keep up with (but I think it’s doable). I’m planning on using the UBB Reading Challenges Add-On to track my challenges this year too. I highly recommend UBB if you’re on WordPress (that’s a referral link, by the way)—it makes life SO much easier!
WOOT! Lots of awesome challenge goals here. Get them girl!
Thanks! I’m sure gonna try!
Awesome challenges! I’m probably going to sign up for one or two, but in general, I just want to keep track of all the books I read but not feel pressured to read certain reads. I like the shelf challenge though, as I DO want to read more of my own titles. I’ll probably do the discussion challenge too, even though I need to do more discussion posts!
-Lauren
I feel like joining the challenges just gives me an extra little push and a little reminder—I don’t know that I actually change my reading habits all that much, but that’s okay. 🙂
I rarely ever do challenges because when it comes down to it… I just wanna read what I wanna read when I wanna read it. 🙂 But I have participated in the #ShelfLove challenge all this year and have really enjoyed it. I plan on signing up for next year as well but that’s the only challenge I’ll be doing. Good luck with all your challenges, Nicole!
If I’m being honest, the challenges don’t change my reading habits all that much, but they DO give me that extra little push to pick up a certain type of book as long as I’m in the mood.
Awesome – I might do the Flights of Fantasy one as well. I’m still trying to figure out which ones I’ll be doing – after taking a challenge break in 2016.
I had a hard time choosing, and it’s still possible I might add one more (the Diversity Challenge, which I did last year). We shall see! 🙂
Love your list. I am SO doing the discussion challenge. I think probably my favorite in the whole blogosphere. The audiobook one should be a good one for me since I listen to audiobooks all the time. Thanks for sharing your list Nicole. It was helpful!
Glad to see you again! I’m excited you’ll be joining back up with the discussion challenge!!!
Good luck! So far I’m signed up for the discussion challenge and the dystopia reading challenge. I might do 1 or 2 more. There are so many good challenges. I can’t make up my mind.
I know—there are SO many good ones. It makes choosing nearly impossible. I try to take into account which ones seem like they’ll probably be well-run and (hopefully) interactive, since those are my favorite types of challenges.
Ooooh so many challenges! I am impressed! I don’t usually do any. I mean, I don’t even keep track of our own so… hahha. But I always join Jana’s debut one because it’s like, low-key, low-pressure, which I love. And then I found out about this dystopian one so YEAH, I am doing that! And I think I am actually going to do the Series Ender one that you have up there, because my GOODNESS, I need to get my act together! I have SO. MANY. series enders that are begging to be read! Thanks for sharing these, and good luck!! 😀
Yes, the series ender one was pretty much essential for me. I hope that it will help me that I listed some specific books I want to read for some of these challenges–it gives me a more solid goal, and these are all books I’ve been wanting to read forever.
This is quite a few reading challenges. I’m restricting myself to 3 I think. Maybe more, we shall see. I am definitely all about doing ones which aren’t too strenuous, anyway. If I do ones which go too far out of my comfortzone I never manage to get them done. I’m fussy like that. I’m thinking I may have to do the shelf love one, though. My TBR shelves have gotten a bit crazy. I want to reduce them down a bit. I think may get more cut throat with culling unread books off of my shelves as well. We shall see. Need to make a decision anyway.
Shannon over at It Starts at Midnight wrote a fun post recently about getting rid of unread books—you should definitely go check it out. I don’t join challenges that are outside of my confort zone either. I don’t like to set myself up to fail!
Oh I love the ones you chose to participate in and I’m hoping you hit all of your goals! I’ve never signed up for a reading/blogging challenge, not even on Goodreads. So this next year I think I’m going to start with a Goodreads reading goal and go from there. 🙂
That’s definitely a good place to start!
I don’t usually do challenges but this year I’m going to join up on the audiobook one! I figure I might as well since I do listen to a lot of audiobooks. 🙂
I hope you enjoy the audiobook challenge! I tend to join challenges that I’m likely to fulfill anyway (or that I really want to fulfill, and the challenge just gives me that little extra push).
Nice selection of challenges! I should really do more – I only do your discussion challenge and the GR one…I have a feeling I’d set myself up for failure if I took on more though, I already struggle with just the two. Oh how I wish we could all quit our day jobs and just read and blog for EVERRRR XD
Yeah, why do we have to do all this other “life” stuff? Isn’t life just about books?
Thanks for joining us, Nicole, in the 2017 Series Enders Reading Challenge! I have the Bloodlines series to finish too – but I think I have at least 2 books to finish that one. Good luck in winning one (or more) of our monthly giveaways! You can do it!!
Holly @ Words Fueled by Love
I’m pretty sure I have two books left in the series as well—possibly three. I’ve been putting them off for far too long!
Ohhhhh so many good challenges. I am also doing the Series Ender and New Releases challenge. I totally know what you mean by being horrible at finishing series. Good luck with your goals 🙂
Yes, I NEED encouragement when it comes to finishing series. Lots of it!
I hope you can smash at all of these challenges! Last year I joined a lot and didn’t keep up with them, so I’m only doing the Popsugar challenge this year 😀
Yeah, I don’t necessarily keep up with all of my challenges, but they still motivate me somewhat, so I think it’s worth it.
Good luck with your challenges this year Nicole! I really enjoyed Winter and The Ruby Circle myself. Thanks for participating! Happy reading!
Sandy @ Somewhere Onyl We Know
I’m looking forward to them!
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