2011, another new year, many new books

Starting off another year. Don't know how it's possible that a whole year has passed since I started this blog. This year I am going to continue doing the 52 books in 52 weeks challenge (52 Books in 52 Weeks Challenge). But I have decided to spice it up a bit by participating in several other challenges that will all blend into the 52 in 52. Here are the other challenges I am going to do this year:

The Debut Author Challenge. I will read 12 books by debut authors. Should be fun. I probably read that many debut authors a year anyway.This is where you can find the challenge: The Story Siren.

The Dystopian Challenge, I will read 15 Dystopian novels. There are different levels to this challenge, I will be doing the Contagion (15 books). This challenge can be found Here
These are the books I have chosen: along with some alternatives if needed

1. Matched   by Ally Condie
2. The Maze Runner   by James Dashner
3. Skinned      by Robin Wasserman
4. Crashed     by Robin Wasserman
5. Wired        by Robin Wasserman
6. The Forest of Hands and Teeth    by Carrie Ryan
7. Bar Code Tattoo      by Suzanne Weyn
8. Life as We Knew It      by Susan Beth Pfeffer
9. The Dead and the Gone  by Susan Beth Pfeffer
10. This World We Live In   by Susan Beth Pfeffer
11. Feed by MT Anderson
12. The Bar Code Rebellion   by Suzanne Weyn
13. Dead Tossed Waves   by Carrie Ryan
14. Gone     by Michael Grant
15. Hunger  by Michael Grant

These are my alternatives:

1. Never Let me Go   by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. The Scorch Trials   by James Dashner
3. Unwind       by Neal Schusterman
4. The Sky Inside   by Clare B Dunkle
5. The Shadow Children Sequence  by Margaret Peterson Haddix
6. The Secret Under My Skin   by Janet Elizabeth McNaughton

1st in a series Challenge: I have chosen the lowest level on this challenge so I will leave myself room for none scheduled books: Series Novice, 3 books that are the first in a series. Here is the link to this challenge.
Here are the books I have Chosen for this as well as a few alternatives:

1. White Cat  (Curse Workers)   by Holly Black
2. Moonlight   (Dark Guardian)   by Rachel Hawthorne
3. Strange Angels (Strange Angels)  by Lili St. Crow

Alternatives

1. Bloodlust (Vampire Beach) by Alex Duval
2. Cycler  by Lauren McLaughlin
3. A Taint in the Blood   (Shadowspawn) by SM Sterling

Seconds Challenge: With this challenge I must choose books that are the second in a series or second book I have read by that author. I have again chosen the lowest level because I don't want to fill up all my spaces I will be doing Just a spoonful, 3 books.   The link is here.
The books I will read plus alternatives

1. Valiant (Modern Tale of Faerie book 2) by Holly Black
2. Full Moon (Dark Guardian) by Rachel Hawthorne
3. Watching the Roses (Egerton Hall book 2)   by Adele Geras

Alternatives

1. Blue Moon (Immortals book 2)  by Alyson Noel
2. Rise of the Evening Star (Fablehaven Book 2) by Brandon Mull
3. Seeing Redd (Looking Glass Wars Book 2)  by Frank Beddor

 What's in a Name Challenge: This challenge has 6 different categories and you must read one book in each category. Here is the Link   The Categories are :

1. A book with a number in the title:  I Am Number Four, Less Than Zero, 33 Snowfish
2. A book with jewelry or a gem in the title:  Midnight Pearls,
3. A book with a size in the title:  Deadly Little Secret
4. A book with travel or movement in the title: The Journey (Ga'Hoole),
5. A book with evil in the title: Token of Darkness,
6. A book with a life stage in the title  Ghostgirl, Nice Girls Don't have Fangs, Boys that Bite      

All of the small challenges I have chosen to do add up to 39 books which leaves me a total of 13 books that I can choose at random. Last year when I did the 52 books in 52 weeks challenge I was not structured at all... I just chose my books as I would finish them. It should be interesting doing this by a list. Looking forward to a Stimulating year.