Welcome to 2013 TBR PILE Reading Challenge!!!

6 BLOGGERS, 12 MINI-CHALLENGES, 24 BOOKS TO WIN!!!

We all have those books. We buy them, win them, they're gifted to us.. Then we put them up on a bookshelf and there they stay, collecting dust, waiting for the time when we'll finally decide to pick them up..

Join us on a quest to dust off your TBR Pile and read all the books you've been telling yourself you'll read next time you'll get a chance.. This is your chance! And we've got PRIZES!!! :D

My Goals: 

I'm sure most bloggers will know just how difficult it is to balance reading books you've bought, while also making sure to get in all of the review books you might get throughout the year. It can become quite the challenge. I haven't been accepting many review books lately though, and want to try to cut back in 2013 to get through most if not all of my TBR Pile by next December.

With that said, I am going to start my goal at 31-40 books that I want to have read from my TBR pile in 2013. I feel like that is a goal I could pretty easily reach, so I might end up raising it to the maximum by the end of the year. Will just have to see how it all goes. But I am positive I can knock out at least 31 of the titles  in my TBR pile. 

I will give you a little list of some of the titles I will be reading, not going to list all of them right now. But as I come back to the post to mark them off as I read, I will continue to add more and more to the list. 

Books I plan to read: 

Read so far: 14 out of 40

- Dearly Departed by Lia Habel 

- A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly

- Fallen by Lauren Kate

- Perchance to Dream by Lisa Mantchev

- The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter

- Looking for Alaska by John Green

- Crossed by Ally Condie

- I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

- Beastly by Alex Flinn

- Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz

- Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi

- Wild Roses by Deb Caletti

- This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen

- Winter White by Jen Calonita

- The Lying Game by Sara Shepard

- Tight Knit by Allie Brennan

- Tempestuous by Kim Askew and Amy Helmes 

- Dramatic Pause by P.G. Kain

- The Edge of Never by J.A. Redmerski

- Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

- Hopeless by Colleen Hoover

- Deadweather and Sunrise by Geoff Rodkey

- Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire

Challenge Guidelines:

- This challenge will run from Jan 1, 2013 - Dec 31, 2013.

- 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!)

- 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!

- 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.

- When you sign up in the linky, put the direct link to your post about joining the 2013 TBR PILE Reading Challenge.

- You can move up levels, but no moving down.

- Sign-ups will be open until Dec 15, 2013, so feel free to join at any time throughout the year.

- 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) 

- 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 ;)

- 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.

- 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:

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


WRAP-UP POST 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 (http://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 (http://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 month!


Make sure to include this button somewhere on your blog if you sign up using the linky I will include below.




If you want to take part, make sure to sign up using the linky below. We would love to have you all taking part!