2013 TBR PILE Reading Challenge

The 2013 TBR Pile Reading Challenge is hosted by Evie@ Bookish, Rachel @ Fiktshun, Justin @ Justin's Book Blog, Tiffany @ Escaping…One Book at a Time, Bonnie @ Words at Home and Emily @ Doodle's Book Blog. In my goals for 2013 I stated that I wanted to get more involved in the blogging community, thus, I am doing a challenge!!! 

Challenge Guidelines:

1. This challenge will run from Jan 1, 2013 - Dec 31, 2013.
2. Anyone can enter! You don't have to be a blogger, as long as you review the book you've read! (On your blog, Amazon or Goodreads/Shelfari!)
3. Any genre, length or format of book counts, as long as it is a book that's been sitting on your shelf for some time now. Only books released in 2012 and earlier! NO  2013 ARCs and 2013 fresh-off-the-press releases allowed!
4. You can list your books in advance or just put them in a wrap-up post. If you list them, feel free to change them as the mood takes you.
5. When you sign up in the linky, put the direct link to your post about joining the 2013 TBR PILE Reading Challenge. (If you don't have a blog, post about it on Facebook or Tweet!)
6. You can move up levels, but no moving down.
7. Sign-ups will be open until Dec 15, 2013, so feel free to join at any time throughout the year.
8. On the 20th of each month one of the hosts will post a wrap-up. Every wrap-up will have it's unique theme, a mini-challenge, a giveaway and place for you to link up your reviews from this month. For each review you link up, you will get one entry in a drawing of one book of choice from Book Depository. It's open to INTERNATIONALS. The giveaway will be open until the next wrap up post goes up! (i.e. the entire month)
9. If you miss a wrap-up post + giveaway, you can link up your reviews next month. Do not, however, try to link up one review twice - we will be checking ;) 
10. December is a wrap-up for the whole year. All the book reviews you linked up January-November + the ones you'll link up in December will be entered into a HUGE giveaway - a box of books. 
11. You don't have to follow all the hosts to join the challenge, but you do have to follow all of us to be entered in giveaways!

Levels:
(how many books you're planning to read for this challenge in 2013)

1-10 - A Firm Handshake
11-20 - A Friendly Hug
21-30 - A Sweet Kiss
31-40 - Love At First Sight
41-50 - Married With Children

Schedule:

January 20th: Evie @Bookish (www.evie-bookish.blogspot.com)

February 20th: Rachel @Fiktshun (http://www.fiktshun.com)

March 20th: Justin @Justin's Book Blog (http://www.justinsbookblog.com/)

April 20th: Tiffany @Escaping.. One Book At A Time (http://escapingonebookatatime.blogspot.com/)

May 20th: Bonnie @Words At Home (www.wordsathome.ca/)

June 20th: Justin @Justin's Book Blog (http://www.justinsbookblog.com/)

July 20th: Emily @Doodle's Book Blog (doodlesbookblog.blogspot.com/)

August 20th: Tiffany @Escaping One Book At A Time (http://escapingonebookatatime.blogspot.com/)

September 20th: Rachel @Fiktshun (http://www.fiktshun.com)

October 20th: Emily @Doodle's Book Blog (doodlesbookblog.blogspot.com/)

November 20th: Bonnie @Words At Home (www.wordsathome.ca/)

December 20th: This one will be posted on all the blogs. There will also be a huge BOX OF BOOKS giveaway and this time you can link up ALL YOUR TBR Pile REVIEWS you wrote for the entire year!

Here's a tentative list of the books I'm hoping to read this year! I'm aiming for A Sweet Kiss, which is 21-30 books. (Crossed off books are the ones I have read and reviewed as of January 13th!)

• The Calling by Kelly Armstrong
• Graceling by Kristin Cashore
• The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell
• City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
• Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
• The Lost Saint by Bree Despain
• Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier
• Beautiful Chaos by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
• Hunger by Michael Grant
• North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley
• The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa
• The Iron Fey by Julie Kagawa
• Cinder by Marissa Meyer
• Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
• The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
• This is So Not Happening by Kieran Scott
• The Alchemyst by Michael Scott
• The Lying Game by Sara Shepard
• The List by Siobhan Vivian
• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
• Supernaturally by Kiersten White
• All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin

 And hopefully I'll get time for more! This year, I am determined to finish them all! I'm hoping this challenge will keep me organized and help me get my TBR in check!

Good luck to all those who are taking on this challenge!
~Kristy