Another slightly unique challenge that I feel plays to me is the Goodreads Award Challenge. Head over to sign up.
The basic principle of this challenge is that you choose a category or two from the Goodreads Choice Awards and try to read a number of last year's finalists. The reasoning behind this challenge is that when it comes to voting time so many of us have only read the odd book or two listed.
On the basis that the books nominated one year are very often in the same series as books nominated the next this should at least give us some kind of grounding to vote from in 2016. The Challenge allows that we may read first books in series in place of the book listed if we have not started the series.
I'm going to be aiming for tier 3 (6-8 books) in the Best Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction Category and in the Best Fantasy Category. The books I'll have to choose from are listed below and I'll link up my reviews as I manage to read them.
Best Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction
The Heir - Keira Cass (book 4)
The Selction
The Elite
The One
The Crown
Six of Crows - Leigh Barry to (book 1) [read]
Crooked Kingdom
Carry on - Rainbow Rowell (standalone)
Queen of Shadows - Sarah J. Maas (book 4)
Throne of Glass
Crown of Midnight
Heir of Fire
The Assassin's Blade
Fire fight - Brandon Sanderson (book 2)
Steelheart
Mitosis
Calamity
An Ember in the Ashes - Sabaa Tahir (book 1)
A Torch against the Night
A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Mass (book 1)
A Court of Mist and Fury
Winter - Marissa Meyer (book 4)
Cinder
Scarlet
Cress
Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard (book 1)
Glass Sword
Uprooted - Naomi Novik (standalone)
Best Fantasy
The Aeronaut's Windlass - Jim Butcher (book 1)
The Olympian Affair
Magic Shifts - Ilona Andrews (book 8)
Magic Bites
Magic Burns
Magic Strikes
Magic Bleeds
Magic Slays
Magic Rises
Magic Breaks
Magic Binds
Trigger Warning - Neil Gaiman (Standalone Short story collection)
Fool's Quest - Robin Hobbes (book 2)
Fool's Assassin
Assassin's Fate
Vision in Silver - Anne Bishop (book 3)
Written in Red
Murder of Crows
Marked in Flesh
The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin (book 1)
The Obelisk Gate
Shadows of Self - Brandon Sanderson (book 5)
The Final Empire [read]
The Well of Ascension [read]
The Hero of Ages [read]
The Alloy of Law
The Bands of Mourning
The Lost Metal
Dead Heat - Patricia Briggs (book 4)
Cry Wolf
Hunting Ground
Fair Game
Burned - Karen Marie Moning (book 7)
Darkfever
Bloodfever
Faefever
Dreamfever
Shadowfever
Iced
Feverborn
Feversong
A Darker Shade of Magic - V. E. Schwab (book 1)
A Gathering of Shadows
The basic principle of this challenge is that you choose a category or two from the Goodreads Choice Awards and try to read a number of last year's finalists. The reasoning behind this challenge is that when it comes to voting time so many of us have only read the odd book or two listed.
On the basis that the books nominated one year are very often in the same series as books nominated the next this should at least give us some kind of grounding to vote from in 2016. The Challenge allows that we may read first books in series in place of the book listed if we have not started the series.
I'm going to be aiming for tier 3 (6-8 books) in the Best Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction Category and in the Best Fantasy Category. The books I'll have to choose from are listed below and I'll link up my reviews as I manage to read them.
Best Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction
The Heir - Keira Cass (book 4)
The Selction
The Elite
The One
The Crown
Six of Crows - Leigh Barry to (book 1) [read]
Crooked Kingdom
Carry on - Rainbow Rowell (standalone)
Queen of Shadows - Sarah J. Maas (book 4)
Throne of Glass
Crown of Midnight
Heir of Fire
The Assassin's Blade
Fire fight - Brandon Sanderson (book 2)
Steelheart
Mitosis
Calamity
An Ember in the Ashes - Sabaa Tahir (book 1)
A Torch against the Night
A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Mass (book 1)
A Court of Mist and Fury
Winter - Marissa Meyer (book 4)
Cinder
Scarlet
Cress
Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard (book 1)
Glass Sword
Uprooted - Naomi Novik (standalone)
Best Fantasy
The Aeronaut's Windlass - Jim Butcher (book 1)
The Olympian Affair
Magic Shifts - Ilona Andrews (book 8)
Magic Bites
Magic Burns
Magic Strikes
Magic Bleeds
Magic Slays
Magic Rises
Magic Breaks
Magic Binds
Trigger Warning - Neil Gaiman (Standalone Short story collection)
Fool's Quest - Robin Hobbes (book 2)
Fool's Assassin
Assassin's Fate
Vision in Silver - Anne Bishop (book 3)
Written in Red
Murder of Crows
Marked in Flesh
The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin (book 1)
The Obelisk Gate
Shadows of Self - Brandon Sanderson (book 5)
The Final Empire [read]
The Well of Ascension [read]
The Hero of Ages [read]
The Alloy of Law
The Bands of Mourning
The Lost Metal
Dead Heat - Patricia Briggs (book 4)
Cry Wolf
Hunting Ground
Fair Game
Burned - Karen Marie Moning (book 7)
Darkfever
Bloodfever
Faefever
Dreamfever
Shadowfever
Iced
Feverborn
Feversong
A Darker Shade of Magic - V. E. Schwab (book 1)
A Gathering of Shadows
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