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YA Dystopian Reading Challenge

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Letting people comment on your posts can lead to unexpected things! ;)

Such as hosting your first reading challenge. I suspect Joanna (The Book Zombie) knew exactly what she was doing, when she said:

So many great looking books, thanks for the list! Makes me think that someone should really create a YA Dystopian reading challenge :D

Well, what’s a book-blogger supposed to do?!

So, here I am, starting The YA Dystopian Reading Challenge! Taking place from October 15th through to the end of the year. (So yes, those 24 Hour Read-a-Thon books will count!)

Dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia, kakotopia, cackotopia, or anti-utopia) is the vision of a society in which conditions of life are miserable and characterized by poverty, oppression, war, violence, disease, pollution, nuclear fallout and/or the abridgement of human rights, resulting in widespread unhappiness, suffering, and other kinds of pain. (Source: Wikipedia)

The idea is to have fun with this, and as I know with the year-end rapidly approaching, thoughts will be turning to completing all the other challenges we are all signed up to! So your level of participation is up to you, simply pick a target of between 1 & 4 books to read during the two and a half months of the challenge.

It’s that easy. :)

There’s no need to list your selected books upfront, but it’s always fun to see everybody’s book pools :D (Not just because we all like to do a bit of book-coveting ;) but somebody might spot a great read they had never considered before!) So if you want to do that, then go right ahead.

Short of ideas for books? Then take a look at the original post, or this tagmesh on librarything, for plenty of great ideas!

Feel free to grab one of these buttons to use on your blog. (if you like the image, check out more of the photographer’s by Kr3stO’s Flickr stream, many thanks to Kr3stO for releasing it under a Creative Commons licence.)

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If you want to sign up to the challenge, just enter your details in the MrLinky below, and If you created a sign-up post/and or a reading pool, then remember to enter the permalink for that post in the URL box, so people can click straight through to your post!

(Are you a twitter user? The please consider using the ‘Re-Tweet’ button just above the comments to spread the word. Thanks in advance!)

Edit: You wait ages for one, Young Adult Dysopian Challenge, then two come along at once! Books on the Nightstand, have just posted about their new challenge, DystopYA (cool name by the way!) Why not sign up for both and knock off two challenges for the price of one! DystopYA starts on the 5th and mine starts technically on the 15th, but I promise to look the other way, if you want to start both on the 5th! ;)

1. Sara (The Hiding Spot)
2. Misty (Book Rat)
3. Heather (Capricious Reader)
4. Chris (Stuff as Dreams)
5. Trish (Hey Lady! Whatcha Readin'?)
6. Jenn's Bookshelves
7. Becky (Becky's Book Reviews)
8. Tricia (Library Queue)
9. Katrina (katrinasreads)
10. Ann (Books on the Nightstand)
11. The Brain Lair
12. Dominique (Coffee Stained Pages)
13. Nancy (Bookfoolery & Babble)
14. Amanda (The Zen Leaf)		15. Michelle (Galleysmith)
16. tanabata (In Spring it is the Dawn)
17. Beth F
18. Stephanie @ Confessions of a Book-a-Holic
19. Aly
20. raidergirl3
21. Joanne (The Book Zombie)
22. shanda
23. Corinne (Book Nest)
24. April (Books&Wine)
25. Cait (Escape Through the Pages)
26. Tia (Tia's Book Musings)
27. Kathryn's Book Nook
28. Bunny (bookosaurus rex)		29. Carrie K. (Books and Movies)
30. Stephanie (Reviews by Lola)
31. Louise
32. Amy Melniczenko (Melniczenko Musings)
33. Nany
34. Melissa
35. Dana's Scrap Therapy
36. celi.a (Adventures of Cecelia Bedelia)
37. Velvet (vvb32 reads)
38. Laura @ Tattooed Books
39. Megan
40. Kara (Reading Cause I'm Addicted)
41. Jesus care
42.
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    35 Responses to “YA Dystopian Reading Challenge”
    1. Amanda says:
      October 3, 2009 at 5:17 pm

      Awesome! I will blog about this soon and sign up. You rock!!

      Reply
    2. Sara says:
      October 3, 2009 at 7:59 pm

      I can’t wait to do this challenge… it is going to be so much fun! :) Now I have to choose my books!

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    3. Misty says:
      October 3, 2009 at 9:06 pm

      Not that I don’t have enough to do, but I read so much dystopian lit anyway, I might as well. And I LOVED The Knife of Never Letting Go; I just picked up The Ask and the Answer the other day. Hope you’re enjoying it. :)

      Reply
    4. Chris says:
      October 3, 2009 at 10:32 pm

      I’m in for sure!!

      Reply
    5. Lindy says:
      October 3, 2009 at 10:32 pm

      Is there are list somewhere of these kinds of books? I am visually impared and my library does not file where I can easily find them. Lindy/CT

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    6. Tokemise says:
      October 4, 2009 at 2:21 am

      I’m going to join in on this fun challenge and try to get my teens to do it too. I’ll post on my blog and link back to you in a day or two after I chose my book list.

      Reply
    7. Aly says:
      October 4, 2009 at 5:41 am

      Not like I don’t have enough on by TBR pile but since several of them are dystopian YA novels I’m in for the challenge. Hmmm..which ones do I want to start with.

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    8. katrina says:
      October 4, 2009 at 10:00 am

      Grrr!!!!! And I said I wasn’t doing anymore challenges! I’m weak.
      As I love this style of novel I’m all signed up, and have ordered Uglies, Exodus and The Knife of Never Letting Go from the library in preparation for the challenge.

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    9. Joanne says:
      October 4, 2009 at 4:51 pm

      Yahoo!! You are just the awesome of my day Bart! My comment wasn’t really meant as a *hint hint* more like wishful thinking ;) So glad to see you’ve created this challenge and what a fabulous logo! Now to make my list – my sign up post will be up this week :)

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    10. The Brain Lair says:
      October 4, 2009 at 9:11 pm

      Saw Ann’s post – havent read 3 of the books on her list – own two – so I’m joining both challenges. I know two books I’ll read are:
      Candor by Pam Bachorz
      The Maze Runner by James Dashner

      Not sure of third yet – possibly The Ask and The Answer by Patrick Ness since I have it here somewhere…

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    11. Beth F says:
      October 4, 2009 at 9:43 pm

      I’m definitely in this one. Just give me a day or so to get my post up and I’ll link up with Mr. Linky.

      Reply
    12. Bookfool, aka Nancy says:
      October 6, 2009 at 5:30 am

      Blame it on New Orleans Chris. I am seriously challenge-challenged, but I’m signing up because I’ve got The Forest of Hands and Teeth and Hunger Games. Might as well do something to shove myself into reading them. :)

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    13. Aly says:
      October 10, 2009 at 10:42 pm

      Finally decided on which four books I am going to use for the challenge…
      Unwind by Neal Shusterman, Skinned by Robin Wasserman, The Maze Runner by James Dashner, and The Girl in the Arena by Lise Haines. Whew!

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    14. shanda says:
      October 11, 2009 at 4:08 pm

      This looks fun and just the kinds of books I like reading anyway!

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    15. Corinne says:
      October 12, 2009 at 3:22 am

      OH snaps I am thrilled with this challenge! Thrilled, I tell you!! Thanks for hosting :)

      Also, I just finished The Maze Runner by James Dashner – fits this challenge perfectly :)

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    16. Cait says:
      October 13, 2009 at 2:52 pm

      I love dystopias, so this challenge is amazing! Thanks so much for hosting it, I’m definitely joining :)

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    17. Tia says:
      October 14, 2009 at 1:24 am

      I’ve been reviewing books on my blog as more of a private “journal” activity and was amazed to discover a huge community of book lovers out there (yeah, I’m slow to catch on). I still would have kept my writing to myself, but I am a huge fun of dystopic lit, and I’m always looking for new young adult works (gotta keep my 9th grade students reading), so this challenge has brought me out. I’m currently reading “Uglies” and am excited to read about other books I’ve missed!

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    18. Kathryn says:
      October 14, 2009 at 12:14 pm

      I am really excited about this challenge! I looked at a list and several of the books I want to read are on it so I am looking forward to it. Would His Dark Material trilogy be considered Dystopian? I don’t really know. Thanks!

      Reply
    19. Bunny says:
      October 15, 2009 at 12:00 am

      there is so much good material for this challenge, and so many examples of the genre are already in my tbr pile. i’m in!

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    20. Amy Melniczenko says:
      October 20, 2009 at 2:40 am

      I’m definitely joining in … will be posting on my blog tomorrow. I’ll be back to officially enter :) Thanks!

      Reply
    21. Louise says:
      October 20, 2009 at 7:59 pm

      Might be too late to join, but now I did it :)

      Reply
    22. Laura says:
      November 21, 2009 at 3:59 pm

      Thanks for the great challenge. It’s my first!

      Reply
    23. Kara Cardwell says:
      January 1, 2010 at 1:32 am

      Ii’m glad this challenge is 1-4 books because I’ve only done two and I’ll finish my third book January 1st.

      Reply
    24. Kara Cardwell says:
      January 1, 2010 at 1:34 am

      I’m glad you said we could choose from 1-4 books instead of an exact number. :)

      Reply

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