AWR Challenge 2012


I’m pleased to announce that the Award Winning Reads Challenge has graduated from just a summer challenge to a year long challenge! Yippee! I’m hoping the year long event will encourage more people to join.

The Award Winning Reads Challenge is a Printz and Newbery reading challenge.

I’m so happy to be hosting this challenge along with Ashley at Basically Amazing Books! Make sure to stop by her blog and show some love as well.

Just to give you an idea as to what types of books are eligible for the challenge, here are the books I reviewed for the summer challenge. (for a complete list of eligible books, look under the rules/guidelines on this post)


Here are the list of books I really, really want to read during the challenge! I may mix it up and pick other books to read at times, but these books are a starting point for me. I’ll throw in a couple more Newbery books as well…I think!

Ship Breaker by Paulo Basigalupi
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
North of Beautiful by Jennifer Donnelly
The House of Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance 1973 by John Barnes
One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
…and more!

My pledge for this challenge to is to read one challenge book a month…so 12 books total.

Ashley will more than likely be posting a review every Wednesday for the challenge throughout the entire year! She’s a trooper! I will probably just be posting the last Wednesday of every month. For more on that, please read farther down.

If you would like to participate in this challenge, please read the rules and guidelines below and follow the instructions to sign-up!
2012 Award Winning Reads Challenge Rules & Guidelines

-Monthly link-up posts will be posted the last Wednesday of every month during the challenge for Award Winning Reads Wednesday. Feel free to post reviews on that day or any other day during that month and link-up accordingly. Ashley and Jacinda will be doing their best to post reviews for the challenge titles on Wednesdays throughout the entire year. It isn’t a requirement to post on Wednesdays, but with the two of us only posting on Wednesdays, it makes the challenge run smoother.

-Reviewing and linking to your reviews in the monthly link-up post will give you additional entries into giveaways. Giveaways at this point are up in the air and will happen whenever Ashley and Jacinda feel like hosting a giveaway for the participants. More than likely, we will have giveaways randomly throughout the year, for mini-challenges (see below for more information), and at the end of the challenge.
-You do NOT have to be a blogger to participate. If you aren’t a blogger, feel free to post reviews for the challenge books on Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc. It isn’t a requirement to review every book you’ve read for the challenge.  Also, Ashley and Jacinda would LOVE to have non-bloggers do guest reviews! Just email either one of us. Or even leave a comment on any AWR Challenge post letting us know.

-You do NOT have to be in the United States to participate. To enter all giveaways, unless otherwise stated since it’s possible for us to have an international giveaway, you will have to live in the United States or Canada. International shipping is expensive unless you use The Book Depository since they ship for free.

-Sign-ups are open throughout the entire year. YIPPEE! Feel free to sign-up at any time. If you sign-up later in the year, any books you’ve read in 2012 that fit within the guidelines of this challenge, can be included in your final book count.

-Books eligible for this challenge have to be one of the following:
  • A Newbery Winner or Honoree
  • A Printz Winner or Honoree
-Goodreads has easy to view lists of all of the medal winners/honor award winners. You can find them all here:


You can also read the lists on the following websites:

-The books HAVE to be read between January 1st, 2012-December 31st, 2012

-In 2011, the Award Winning Reads Challenge was only during the summer. This year it will be year long, but we still want to have some sort of blitz in the summer time. Many people have more time to read in the summer, so do your best to read more challenge titles during this time. I also understand some people might have less time, and that is fine as well.

-We will also have a mini-challenge of sorts every few months throughout the year. The details haven’t been ironed out yet. To give you an idea, a challenge might be reading a new or specific genre, reading an older book, or telling us a bit about a book you thought you’d hate but ended up loving!

-You are probably wondering about levels for this challenge. In the summer, we had 4 different challenge levels. For 2012, we are getting rid of the levels! You just need to pledge what you THINK you will be able to read or what you want to push yourself to read. That’s it! Make sure when you fill out the linky below, you add the number of books for your goal after your name. Example: “Jacinda @ The Reading Housewives (8)”

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Please grab the button for this challenge and put it on your sidebar if you’d like and put it in your review posts. :)

If you want to sign-up for the 2012 Award Winning Reads Challenge, please fill out the linky below with your NAME, EMAIL ADDRESS, blog address (if you have one, if not, Goodreads profile will work), and YOUR PLEDGE for this challenge. Follow the format listed in the linky’s description
If you have any questions about this challenge, leave a comment or email Ashley or Jacinda!

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