Feature: It's Reading Challenge time!

It's Reading Challenge time! 
by Lynsey Taylor

The time for looking back on 2012's best moments and achievements is over. We've reminisced over our Best Reads of 2012 and patted ourselves on the back for the reading resolutions we were able to keep. But now it's time to look forward.

Last year I attempted two challenges (not including my resolution to review very book). Those were: to reach a reading target goal of 220 books and to take part in the 12x12 in 2012 challenge. And this year I'm doing it again!

I only just barely made the 220 books by the skin of my teeth. I had to squeeze in a few last minute novellas, but I did it. The year before I'd read 256 books, so I hadn't thought 220 was overly ambitious, but I think the extra reviewing /blogging I did last year slowed me down quite a bit.

For the 12x12 challenge, the group that hosts it decided that 13x13 in 2013 was going to be too much for people. It would mean 169 books and many people just don't read those kind of amounts in a year, so to put it up seemed crazy. So 12x12, or 144 books, it is. Again!

The rules of the challenge are to create 12 reading categories—they can be different genres or any kind of categories you want—and you need to read 12 books per category totalling 144 books.

So here are my categories. If anyone has any recommendations for any of them, let me know in the comments. I've already pencilled in a few I plan to read! :)

Review:

My categories are as follows:

1. To be continued... = Next in series
2. Dude, it's like romance that's, like, totally set, like, now? Or something? = Contemporary Romance
3. Out of this world and into the next. = High Fantasy
4. I like slim ankles and I cannot lie!
You other Dandies can't deny
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
and a corset tied with lace
You get sprung! = Historical Romance
5. Kaboom! Aggh! Zombies! Do as you're told! = Dystopian, Post-apocalyptic and other Speculative fiction
6. Cybersex and the City = Urban Fantasy
7. Those were the Days of our Lives = Young Adult
8. Love bites, and then you die = Paranormal Romance
9. So what else is new? = New authors
10. Everyone is entitled to my opinion = Books for review
11. I say, I say. What's Colonel Mustard doing in the Drawing Room with that candlestick? = Mystery
12. OMG you have got to drop everything and read this book right now! Zomg! = Rave recommendations

1. To be continued... = Next in series

1. Come Alive (Experiment in Terror, #7) by Karina Halle
2. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
3. Grave Visions (Alex Craft #4) by Kalayna Price
4. Dare You To (Pushing the Limits #2) by Katie McGarry
5. Frost Burned (Mercy Thompson #7) by Patricia Briggs
6. Tempt the Stars (Cassandra Palmer #6) by Karen Chance
7. Magic Rises (Kate Daniels #6) by Ilona Andrews
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2. Dude, it's like romance that's, like, totally set, like, now? Or something? = Contemporary Romance

1. Ten Tiny Breaths by K.A.Tucker
2. Hopeless by Colleen Hoover
3. The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden by Jessica Sorensen
4. The Edge of Never by J.A. Redmerski
5.The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay
6. My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick
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3. Out of this world and into the next. = High Fantasy

1. The Amaranth Enchantment by Julie Berry
2. Vessel by Sarah Beth Durst
3. Raven Flight (Shadowfell #2) by Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
4. Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1) by Juliet Marillier
5. Wildwood Dancing (Wildwood, #1) by Juliet Marillier
6. Heart's Blood (Whistling Tor #1) by Juliet Marillier
7. Path of Fate (Path #1) by Diana Pharaoh Francis
8. The Smoke Thief (Drakon #1) by Shana Abé
9. Star of the Morning (Nine Kingdoms #1) by Lynn Kurland
10. Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop
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4. I like slim ankles and I cannot lie!
You other Dandies can't deny
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
and a corset tied with lace
You get sprung! = Historical Romance

1. The Chieftain (Return of the Highlanders #4) by Margaret Mallory
2. The Guardian (Return of the Highlanders #1) by Margaret Mallory
3. The Captain of All Pleasures (Sutherland Brothers #1) by Kresley Cole
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5. Kaboom! Aggh! Zombies! Do as you're told! = Dystopian, Post-apocalyptic and other Speculative fiction

1. Dragonfly by Erica Hayes
2. Grimspace (Sirantha Jax #1) by Ann Aguirre
3. Cinder (Lunar Chronicles #1) by Marissa Meyer
4. Feed (Newsflesh Trilogy #1) by Mira Grant
5. Hollowland (The Hollows #1) by Amanda Hocking
6. This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers
7. Trance by Kelly Meding
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6. Cybersex and the City = Urban Fantasy

1. The Thing About Weres by Leigh Evans
2. Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris
3. Untitled (Downside Ghosts #6) by Stacia Kane
4. Mountain Echoes (Walker Papers #8) by C.E. Murphy
5. Blood Trade (Jane Yellowrock #6) by Faith Hunter
6. Pretty When She Dies (Pretty When She Dies #1) by Rhiannon Frater
7. License to Ensorcell (Nola O'Grady #1) by Katharine Kerr
8. My Life As a White Trash Zombie (White Trash Zombie #1) by Diana Rowland
9. A Blood Seduction (Vamp City #1) by Pamela Palmer
10. Discount Armageddon (InCryptid #1) by Seanan McGuire
11. Mind Games (The Disillusionists #1) by Carolyn Crane
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7. Those were the Days of our Lives = Young Adult

1. Smokeless Fire (Fire Spirits, #1) by Samantha Young
2. Blood Will Tell (Warriors of Ankh #1) by Samantha Young
3. Tiger's Curse (The Tiger Saga #1) by Colleen Houck
4. Opal (Lux #3) by Jennifer L. Armentrout
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8. Love bites, and then you die = Paranormal Romance

1. Redemption (Penton Legacy #1) by Susannah Sandlin
2. North of Need (Hearts of the Anemoi #1) by Laura Kaye
3. A Love Untamed (Feral Warriors #7)by Pamela Palmer
4. Forged in Fire (Red-Hot SEALs #1) by Trish McCallan
5. Wicked as They Come (Blud #1) by Delilah S. Dawson
6. Shadow's Claim (The Dacians: Realm of Blood and Mist #1) by Kresley Cole
7. Marked (Eternal Guardians #1) by Elisabeth Naughton
8. Masked by Moonlight (Moonlight #1) by Nancy Gideon
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9. So what else is new? = New authors

1. Death's Hand (Descent #1) by S.M. Reine
2. Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy #1) by Sarah Rees Brennan
3. Wildest Dreams (Fantasyland #1) by Kristen Ashley
4. Kindling the Moon (Arcadia Bell #1) by Jenn Bennett
5. The Better Part of Darkness (Charlie Madigan #1) by Kelly Gay
6. A Rush of Wings (The Maker's Song #1) by Adrian Phoenix
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10. Everyone is entitled to my opinion = Books for review

1. Blood's Pride by Evie Manieri
2. Sins & Needles (The Artists Trilogy #1) by Karina Halle
3. A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan
4. Chantress by Amy Butler Greenfield
5. If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch
6. Highlander Most Wanted (The Montgomerys and Armstrongs #2) by Maya Banks
7. Sealed with a Curse (Weird Girls #1) by Cecy Robson
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11. I say, I say. What's Colonel Mustard doing in the Drawing Room with that candlestick? = Mystery

1. Opal Fire (A Stacy Justice Mystery #1) by Barbra Annino
2. The Taken (Celestial Blues #1) by Vicki Pettersson
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12. OMG you have got to drop everything and read this book right now! Zomg! = Rave recommendations

1. Wallbanger by Alice Clayton
2. The Golden Dynasty (Fantasyland #2) by Kristen Ashley
3. Seduction and Snacks (Chocolate Lovers #1) by Tara Sivec
4. The Bronze Horseman (Tatiana and Alexander #1) by Paullina Simons
5. The Sweet Gum Tree by Katherine Allred
6. When We Collide by A.L. Jackson
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