2009: Challenges – ARC Reading Challenge 2010

The ARC Reading Challenge 2010, hosted by So Many Precious Books, So Little Time, is about clearing out those ARC piles! Here are the guidelines:

• To sign up, leave a direct link to your blog post about this challenge that includes your list from rule #2, using Mr. Linky.  Please leave a comment as well.
• List all of the ARC’s that you have to read right now. Then throughout the year, you must continue updating that list as you receive more ARC’s. (This is important). You should also strike out the ones that you finish.
• The Levels
  • Level Bronze:
    • All of us who have or will have less than 12 ARC’s must read all of the ARC’s we have. Note, that if you have 11 ARC’s and then receive a 12th one you will be bumped up.
    • All of us who have or will have more than 12 ARC’s must read and review 12.
  • Level Silver: Read 24 ARC’s
  • Level Gold: Read 25 or more ARC’s
• You don’t have to make a list of which ARC’s you plan to read, but you can if you want.
• Crossovers with other challenges are allowed and Audio-books are allowed as long as they are ARC’s.
• Read the books and review them on your blog. If you don’t have a blog, you can post your review on sites like Powells, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc.
• Please subscribe to the blog, as I will be doing a monthly post with Mr Linky.  Please add your reviews for each month in Mr Linky in the monthly post. For your Name, please use this format Name: (Your Name, Book Title and Author’s Name) for example: (Teddy, Obsessive Reading by Helen Reader).  Please be sure to use the direct link to your review, not just to your blog. Then please leave a comment.
• Enjoy!

Sign up is at So Many Precious Books, So Little Time! For my ARC list, I’m going to try embedding the Google spreadsheets I have my lists in so I only have to update in one place.  I hope it works! I’ll be aiming for Level Gold.  I’ll list my completed ARCs beneath the spreadsheets.

ARCs Completed: (last updated 12/28/10)

1. The First Rule – Robert Crais 
2. Forbidden Falls – Robyn Carr 
3. No One You Know – Michelle Richmond
4. Ivory Tower Cop – George Kirkham & Leonard Territo
5. Gossip of the Starlings – Nina de Gramont 
6. In Ecstasy – Kate McCaffrey
7. So Much For That – Lionel Shriver 
8. A Reliable Wife – Robert Goolrick
9. Horns – Joe Hill 
10. Voices – Arnaldur Indridason 
11. Chenxi and the Foreigner – Sally Rippin
12. Possessed – Kate Cann 
13. The Anniversary Man – R.J. Ellory 
14. Broken – Karin Slaughter
15. The Secret of Ka – Christopher Pike
16. Broken – Karin Fossum
17. Saving Max – Antoinette van Heugten
18. Without Mercy – Lisa Jackson
19. Tapestry of Love – Rosy Thornton
20. Lake Magic – Kimberly Fisk
21. Hollywood is Like High School With Money – Zoey Dean
22. Reckless – Andrew Gross