Mixing It Up Challenge 2012

I’m a challenge addict. I can’t help it. I am still desperately attempting to only sign up for challenges which help me read the gigantic pile of books I already own, or library books. I also want to apologise for the blog being pretty much nothing but sign up posts lately, I will post some reviews soon I promise! Anyway, here’s another. Ellie from Musings of a Bookshop Girl is hosting the Mixing it Up Challenge 2012, encouraging us to broaden the genres we read!

There are sixteen categories which are:

Classics - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte

Biography - Dear Fatty - Dawn French

Cookery, Food and Wine

History - Anything Goes - Lucy Moore

Modern Fiction - The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson

Graphic Novels and Manga - Fun Home - Alison Bechdel

Crime and Mystery - One Good Turn  - Kate Atkinson

Horror

Romance - The Patchwork Marriage - Jane Green

Science Fiction and Fantasy - Ready Player One - Ernest Cline

Travel - Stephen Fry in America - Stephen Fry

Poetry and Drama

Journalism and Humour - I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman - Nora Ephron

Science and Natural History

Children’s and Young Adult - Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth - Rick Riordan

Social Sciences and Philosophy - Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother - Amy Chua

There are five levels, named after baking type things, and the one I’m going to go for is the second highest: Two – Tier Cake, which means I need to read 13-15 books from the different categories. The books listed are the ones I intend to read, and as I finish them they will be linked to the reviews. Last year I decided I wanted to read more non-fiction, and managed to stockpile a fair amount of non-fiction books which I’m hoping to read for this challenge. There are no genres in this challenge that I’ve never read before, but there are a lot that I’ve not read much of.

Books in blue are the ones I've read - they will be linked to reviews when I get around to writing them!!

If you want to sign up for this challenge you can do so here.