2015 Show Your Shelves Some Love: A No Book Buying Challenge

The Show Your Shelves Some Love challenge is sort of like the various TBR reading challenges, but with the focus on not buying books rather than just on reading your TBR books. Since my TBR pile continues to grow (though I've slowed the growth a little!), this challenge could be just what I need.

Now, I'm not ready to commit to buying no books for a year. But I am going to set a budget (that's February's monthly topic for this challenge) and stick to it, while focusing on reading the books I already own.

To start with, I'm going for the second level of this challenge: blue belt, requiring 11-20 TBR books read.

Books will be listed below as I read them, and linked to reviews as I write them.

1. Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
2. The Book of David by Anonymous
3. Pink by Lili Wilkinson
4. In the Time of Dinosaurs (Megamorphs #2) by K.A. Applegate
5. The Babysitter by R.L. Stine
6. The Departure (Animorphs #19) by K.A. Applegate
7. Beach Party by R.L. Stine
8. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
9. The Boyfriend by R.L. Stine
10. The Discovery (Animorphs #20) by K.A. Applegate
11. The Threat (Animorphs #21) by K.A. Applegate
12. The Snowman by R.L. Stine
13. The Solution (Animorphs #22) by K.A. Applegate
14. The Babysitter II by R.L. Stine
15. The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner #2) by James Dashner
16. The Pretender (Animorphs #23) by K.A. Applegate
17. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
18. The Suspicion (Animorphs #24) by K.A. Applegate
19. The Extreme (Animorphs #25) by K.A. Applegate

2015 Diversity on the Shelf Challenge

It's time for a second year of Diversity on the Shelf! I successfully completed this challenge last year, but I'd like to see my numbers increase quite a bit. So, I'm still signing up for the lowest level this year (1st shelf: read 1-6 books), but with a general goal of reading more books for this challenge than I did last year.

Books will be listed below as I read them, and linked to reviews as I write them.

1. Damaged by Kia DuPree
2. Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
3. The Faceless One by Mark Onspaugh
4. None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio
5. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

2015 Women Challenge

Yay for the one challenge I always complete! :) I will once again be signing up for the highest level of the Women Challenge: Wonder Woman, requiring 20+ books written by women. In recent years, about half of my total books read have been written by women, and I'm looking to keep increasing that.

Books will be listed below as I read them, and linked to reviews as I write them.

1. Damaged by Kia DuPree
2. The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
3. Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper
4. Binky the Space Cat by Ashley Spires
5. Mindblind by Jennifer Roy
6. Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
7. Chopsticks by Jessica Anthony
8. Pink by Lili Wilkinson
9. In the Time of Dinosaurs (Megamorphs #2) by K.A. Applegate
10. The Departure (Animorphs #19) by K.A. Applegate
11. The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall
12. From Anna by Jean Little
13. A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett
14. Secrets Found in Gimli by Diane Alexander
15. None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio
16. The Discovery (Animorphs #20) by K.A. Applegate
17. The Threat (Animorphs #21) by K.A. Applegate
18. The Solution (Animorphs #22) by K.A. Applegate
19. The Vampire Armand (Vampire Chronicles #6) by Anne Rice
20. Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
21. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
22. Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome by Rudy Simone
23. The Hork-Bajir Chronicles by K.A. Applegate
24. The Pretender (Animorphs #23) by K.A. Applegate
25. The Suspicion (Animorphs #24) by K.A. Applegate
26. The Extreme (Animorphs #25) by K.A. Applegate

2015 Mount TBR Reading Challenge

Aaaaand, here we go again! I tried to set realistic challenge goals last year, but underestimated just how little free time school would allow me. So I failed this challenge yet again. But no more! Because this year, I'm signing up for the lowest level: Pike's Peak, requiring 12 books read off my TBR shelf. 12! I can totally do this!

Books will be listed below as I read them and linked to reviews as I write them.

1. Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
2. The Book of David by Anonymous
3. Pink by Lili Wilkinson
4. In the Time of Dinosaurs (Megamorphs #2) by K.A. Applegate
5. The Babysitter by R.L. Stine
6. The Departure (Animorphs #19) by K.A. Applegate
7. Beach Party by R.L. Stine
8. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
9. The Boyfriend by R.L. Stine
10. The Discovery (Animorphs #20) by K.A. Applegate
11. The Threat (Animorphs #21) by K.A. Applegate
12. The Snowman by R.L. Stine
13. The Solution (Animorphs #22) by K.A. Applegate
14. The Babysitter II by R.L. Stine
15. The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner #2) by James Dashner
16. The Pretender (Animorphs #23) by K.A. Applegate
17. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
18. The Suspicion (Animorphs #24) by K.A. Applegate
19. The Extreme (Animorphs #25) by K.A. Applegate