Reading 52 books in 52 weeks

I'll be hosting the http://www.read52booksin52weeks.com challenge again for 2012. My goal is to read 26 books alphabetically by author and 26 by title. I've had fun doing it this year and discovered some new to me authors.

I couldn't do that. I'm taking it slow. Reading again. But taking it slow. Hats off to anyone who takes this challenge.

I really need to get back into the habit, but this next year I'm moving twice, going to a four year, getting my Associates, several jobs in several places, and upping my personal GPA requirements. I don't think I can commit to reading 52 books. I don't know if I'll be able to even do Nano next year (though I'll try) but I do need to read more.

I will cheer you on, though. That's an impressive achievement. Read some really good books. =)

Oh, wow. I meant to do this on my own already, but having others doing the same will be a great motivator.

Last year goodreads.com introduced a personalized reading challenge. I chose 52 as my number, and will be doing the same next year! (If you're curious, I'm currently 2 books behind thanks to Nano.)

I'm obsessed enough with reading to have a Shelfari account, where I can track my book goals. For 2012 it's going to be 50.

I keep aiming for 50 books each year and never quite make it, I usually get to about 40 books. I will definitely try to reach 50 next year again, though, and will probably make mine "official" on Goodreads as well. Good luck to everybody trying that, it is a tough challenge to juggle around everything else life throws at us!

I would love to do this challenge but I don't have that many books. And I don't know of many libraries here that provide that. Will try to read 25 on-line from the classic texts.

I'm reading 100 because I like having no free time (besides... what else would i do but read and write?)

BUT... good luck to all of us! I'm reading mostly off of FreeBooks-- an iPod Touch app that has a ton of books pre-1923-- a wonderful resource for Dickens and Montgomery and all those other nice people.

Oh good! I want to start reading again (used to do 50+ books a year... I think this year I have read seven so far) so this'll certainly help with that :D

I accepted a challenge to read 100 books in a year. I've finished 7 this far(I get sidetracked by real life and fanfiction a lot). So, I guess you could say I've fallen back spectacularly.
I'm just going to try and get caught up in 2012 then - amidst JanNo and other such tempting things XD
Wonder if I'll be all right? =DD

I definitely want to do this. I went through a huge fiction avoidance period after I completed my English degree. It was probably more due to depression than anything. But that's lifted and now I can read again! I can't wait to tackle this challenge, and will make it official on Goodreads too!

I think my goal for this year will be 150 books. I'm pretty anti social and read a lot anyways. Plus, a lot of books I read are YA so they aren't as difficult to get through as the classics (which I do read). So 150 books is only 13 books a month. Easy peasy!

I bet I could go through several books a day over the summer, but I still want to write quiet a bit... Hmm. Yeah. I'll read 52 starting January. ^^

I've done that for the last two years, and it's awesome. Especially when you have the list of all the books you've read over the year. I'll definitely be doing it again in 2012.

I'd really like to try this. I need to get back into reading. Right now I'm reading a book on my Kindle and I have two actual books to read too. Also I have another book which I'm halfway through but keep abandoning 'cause it freaks me out (House of Leaves.)

Totally in for next year. I've always kind of had the goal of reading all the fiction books in my school's library before I graduate (it's a really small library, in case anyone was thinking that was impossible).

I'm a pretty fast reader myself and read way more than 52 books, but a lot of people don't. I've had fun hosting the challenge the past few years and it's a challenge in itself coming up with interesting topics each week for the weekly check in. I just joined Good Reads this year, but never find the time to update it.

Welcome to all those who will be joining in. We have some mini challenges for those who rather read classics or chunksters. 12 classics in 12 months or 12 chunksters in 12 months. Plus random challenges to read books based on the cover, a word, things like that.

Not everyone involved manages to read 52 books but the fun is in the reading and exploring new authors, new genres.

I'm aiming for 75 again next year. However, I'll be starting a fantasy series reading project and assuming I finish all the books in some of the series there are at least 172 books on the list so far. So yeah, most likely this will be a multi-year project =)

My freshman year in high school my teacher dared me to read 100 books in 9 months. All of them had to be atleast 200 pages or longer.

And I did it. I have faith in everyone who wants to read 52 books in 52 weeks. You just have to find the ones that you can really let yourself get lost in. Trust me, it's not as hard as it looks. But of course, I didn't have a social life back then either. XD