We’ve noticed that the challenges on our sidebar are woefully out of date, but the number of challenges springing up in the blogosphere just keep growing. Here are a few more we’d like to share with you. And don’t forget our version of the Genre Challenge. Click on the title of any of the challenges…

Here at Read This! we follow several book blogs. At any given time, the readers behind these blogs are involved in reading challenges, each with a given set of guidelines and timelines. We found one just recently that we thought we’d adapt for our patrons. It’s called the Genre Challenge. Guidelines: Chose one of the…

If you like to read about other people’s lives, the In Their Shoes is a challenge for you. The rules are real simple: you pick the number of books that you want to read. They just have to be either a memoir, autobiography, or biography. This challenge started January 1, 2008 and it will end…

If you’re starting to make your new year’s reading lists here are a few challenges to keep you busy. These little (and some big) challenges are addictive, so don’t say we didn’t warn you. We’ll bring you a couple of challenges each week during the month of January; we hope you find one you want…

If you enjoy the reading challenges that are out there, here are a few more. You can also look at other people’s challenge lists to get ideas for things to read. The Armchair Traveler Challenge: Read 6 books (fiction or  non-fiction) from July-December. The books should be travel-related or where the location is “integral to…