As the end of 2014 approaches, it’s a great time to start thinking about your reading goals for 2015! I am personally going to challenge myself to the 105 Challenge- and I invite YOU to join me! You might ask, what is this 105 Challenge of which you speak?
Good question! 😉
The 105 Challenge is a goal where I’m going to try and read 105 books during 2015. I got the number 105 by taking 12 (months in a year), adding two to make 14 (for absolutely no reason), then doing 14 + 13 + 12 + 11 + 10 + 9 + 8…+ 1.
To make things interesting, I didn’t want my challenge JUST to be trying to read 105 books. Instead, I am going to try to read…
14. Free category! (aka: I haven’t decided yet :P)
13. 2015 new releases (can be ARC’s)
12. Book club books!
11. YA Contemporary (can be ARC’s)
10. Print ARC’s (can be before or after release date)
9. Indie books
8. Debut books (from any year)
7. 2014 new releases (can be ARC’s)
6. Self Help/Motivational/Business books
5. Sequels
4. Books that were recommended to me (that I had never heard of before)
3. New Adult books
2. Books with rainbow covers
1. Re-read a book
Now here’s the fun part. I want YOU to join me in the challenge to read 105 books, and create a list just like mine where you pick 14 different categories and try to read 1 or 2 or 3…etc of each category.
One incentive for joining the challenge will be a rafflecopter where you can get points for completing each group of books! Rafflecopter will be picking a winner each month who will receive a special prize for completing part of the challenge.
The one requirement that I have for joining this challenge is that whenever you FINISH reading an entire category, please make a GR shelf for it and send me the link through rafflecopter!
So what are you waiting for?
Join me in my quest to read 105 books!
This looks like a really fun challenge! I’m going to make my list. 🙂
So, yeah. I’m participating!
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Twitter: @KaitlinS16
Thanks! 😀
I’m in!! I don’t know how successful I’ll be, but I’ll try 🙂
Here’s my blog: victoriajaynesbooks.wordpress.com
Great, I’m glad to have you on board 🙂
Ooooh, this sounds like a lot of fun of a challenge and we can choose our categories and all! I need to mull this over and figure out how I wanna do it, but I think I’ll join!
Yay, I’m so happy to hear that!
Finally did the sign up post! http://pili-inlovewithhandmade.blogspot.com.es/2014/12/105-challenge-2015-hosted-by-read-write.html
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Definitely joining!
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@yaperfectionist
Yay! 😀
Thank you so much!
I will be participating! – Jacquelyn
This looks so fun!
yay this is a great idea! I really need to diversify my reading so I’ll be participating =)
Blog: Acrossthewords.com
Twitter: @sajdao
So happy to hear that you’re joining!
Yep, definitely doing this! This is gonna be crazy… 😀
Qualityfangirls.blogspot.com
@qualityfangirls
I’m so excited! It will definitely be crazy, but hopefully crazy good. 😀
I’m participating!
http://yayaandmoreya.wordpress.com/2014/12/08/2015-reading-blogging-challenges/
Twitter: @imajarofhearts
Thank you so much! So glad to have you on board with the challenge. 🙂
Definitely going to try this! I’ll figure out my categories later but I’m going to do this! 🙂
http://www.booksandashes.wordpress.com
@books_and_ashes
Thanks for joining! I can’t wait to see your post!
I started making my list. 105 in 2015 should be no problem. 😉
Great, thanks so much!
This is such a great idea! So creative. I can’t wait to decide my categories! Thanks for asking me to join you!
Thank you so much! 🙂
I’m going to attempt this!! Do we need to sign up anywhere??
Yes, please click on the rafflecopter to officially enter!
Yay! I just posted my challenge list on my blog. Cannot wait! xoxo
Woohoo! I’ll check it out now. 🙂
how interesting! 105 was my goal for this year, and I think I may even be a bit over that, but never thought it was the sum of these numbers! cool challenge. can’t join though because of lots of other reading requirements. if you have time for, I also have a fun one: a French bingo!: http://wordsandpeace.com/2014/12/01/french-bingo-2015-reading-challenge/
Congratulations on hitting your goal of reading 105 books! Your French bingo challenge sounds interesting. Good luck! 🙂
Oh, this sounds really fun!! I suck at reading challenges, but I think I could manage this…maybe…probably not 😉
Twitter handle: @_kierra8
Blog: http://wordmineur.blogspot.com
YAY! I’m so happy you’re participating. 😀
I’m totally joining this 😉 This is an awesome idea!
Blog: http://booksequalawesomeness.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @booklover4600
Woohoo! Glad to have you on board 🙂
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This sounds like so much fun! My GR goal was going to be 50 books this year since it’s my first year setting myself a goal and I didn’t know how well I’d do under pressure but I think I’m definitely going to sign up for this one! Maybe it’ll give me more incentive to read even more books.
Just a quick question – I’m not sure if you mentioned it in your post and if you did I’m sorry and I’m a loser but can this challenge cross over with others? So for example I’m going a retelling challenge so can one of the categories for this challenge be retellings?
I’m definitely going to be doing this challenge!
My sign up post is here http://flowersinmybooks.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/2015-challenges.html
Yay, that’s great! It’s always fun to have a big goal and work towards it the whole year. 🙂
You are definitely not a loser haha, but to answer your question, yes, you can combine this challenge with other challenges! As long as you have 12 categories, you are perfectly fine. 🙂
This sounds like fun. I’m trying to improve my year’s book amount read and get out the reading slump I’ve been in for too long (I have no idea why; it just happened). This looks like a good and fun way to get out of it. Now, to think of some categories…
I’m so sorry. Reading slumps are terrible 🙁
This should definitely help you get out of the slump. I can’t wait to see your categories!
Thanks. I think it will, too. 😀
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Working on my sign-up post and list. Will come back to link it up when it’s done. I’m really looking forward to this challenge. Very creative! Bravo! :O)
Oh great! I’m glad to have you join. I can’t wait to see your categories. 🙂
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I’m totally in! I’ve been searching for the ‘right’ reading challenge for 2015 and this is a perfect fit for me! Can’t wait!! 😀
Yay! I’m so happy to hear that. 😀
I’m definitely in, great idea! 🙂
Yay!
I shall join you! I posted my challeges today on pleasefeedthebookworm.com
This sounds like a lot of fun! I’m in.
http://brewingupbooks.wordpress.com
Woohoo! Glad to have you join. 🙂
Have you made your post yet?
I’m joining! I just have to write my blog post. I’ve been so behind lately >.<
I was also adding together the months and I only got 78 o.O I don't know if I made a mistake or not but…just thought I would let you know
No worries, just let me know when the blog post is up! And yes, I have noticed that mistake and am going to be sending out an email soon. Thanks. 😉
I am definitely doing this! I will write a post about it ASAP, because this challenge is kind of perfect! I want to read 115 books overall, so this still leaves a bit of wiggle room. Thanks for doing this, I love it!
Yay, I’m so glad that you’re joining. Make sure to send me a link when you make the post!
I’m participating!
Blog URL: http://www.jackiegirl02.wordpress.com
Blog post: wp.me/p55peJ-3J
Twitter: @JackieGirl02
Yay! So glad that you decided to join. 🙂
I’ve been meaning to join, but school and vacation have made it hard to make time. Can’t wait to start! oh, can I put books I read before the post went live?
As long as you read the books during 2015, yes, they can count!
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Looks like fun! I’ll be making my post with the 14 categories I’ll be reading in the next day or so.
Blog’s here: http://recklessindulgence.wordpress.com/
Twitter handle: @amomentsilence
Awesome, I’m glad to have you on board! Make sure to let me know when your 14 categories are up. 🙂
Oh yes, sorry about that! They’re up already. You can find them here:
http://recklessindulgence.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/105-reading-challenge-2015/
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