FLIGHTS OF FANTASY READING CHALLENGE 2016

I'm doing this one again since I love fantasy books.  Click  here to sign up and see more details.

I'm so, so happy with the Flights of Fantasy Reading Challenge turnout this year! From fantasy newbies falling in love with the genre, to hardcore fantasy fans revisiting old favorites, it has been one spectacular year. I've gone above and beyond my initial goal of 30 books, so it looks like I've have to raise the bar next year.

Speaking of next year, Rachel of Hello, Chelly & I will be hosting the Flights of Fantasy Reading Challenge again in 2016! We're excited to be reading more fantasies (and there are a ton coming out next year, mind you), and we hope you'll be joining us as well. We've got some fun plans in store throughout the coming year, and can't wait to let you in on them. We hope all fantasy readers - whether you're a newbie or a veteran - will be joining us again, and we promise that, as with last year, things will be real simple.

THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• The challenge will run from January 1-December 31, 2016.
• We're welcoming all readers to join us for this challenge! In order to sign up, readers just need to link to their blogs or their Goodreads profile or their Twitter / YouTube / Instagram account in the Linky below. That way, we can see where you'll be sharing your thoughts on all your fantasy reads (and we can come and visit you)!
• You can read as many fantasy novels as you'd like to. No levels for this challenge!
• There will be two giveaways, one at 6 months and one at the end of the year. More details will be provided closer to those dates.
• Help us spread the word! Feel free to tweet about the challenge using our official hashtag#flightsoffantasy, grab the button to link to the challenge in your blog sidebar, share the image on Pinterest / Instagram or even write your own post about it. We love talking with fellow fantasy fans and want to reach as many of them as possible!

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

• Challenge yourself to read a certain number of fantasy books. Share your challenge number in a comment, a blog post, a tweet or whatever other way you can think of!
• Around the last week of each month, we'll be sharing our personal updates on how the challenge is going for us. We'll be including a Linky, just in case you decided to do the same. (This is optional!)
• As mentioned, there will be giveaways! If you want to gain bonus entries for the giveaways, read any (or even all!) of our favorite fantasy books listed below:
• Joint Favorites: Throne of Glass, Harry Potter, Fire and Thorns, Snow Like Ashes, The Queen of the Tearling, Six of Crows, Truthwitch
• Alexa's Favorites: Eon, Daughter of the Forest, The Elemental Trilogy, Song of the Lioness, The Hobbit
• Rachel's Favorites: The Grisha Trilogy, Harper Hall Trilogy, The Fever series, The Winner's Curse trilogy, Graceling
• We're incorporating Twitter chats into the event next year. The current plan is to do at least three chats - one at the start of the year, one in the middle of the year and one at the end of it. The details will be coming to you closer to the dates.

Here is what I am reading:

1. The Iliad--Homer
2. The Alchemist--Paulo Coelho
3. White Cat--Holly Black
4. Red Glove--Holly Black
5. Black Heart--Holly Black
6. The 5th Wave--Rick Yancey
7. The Metamorphosis--Franz Kafka
8. Far Away and Close to Home--Michael Katz
9. The Pillars of the Earth--Ken Follett
10. Thirst No. 1--Christopher Pike
11. Medea and Other Plays--Euripides
12. Corsets and Clockwork
13. The Odyssey--Homer
14. Six of Crows--Leigh Bardugo
15. The Prophecy of the Stones--Flavia Bujor
16. The Divine Comedy--Dante Alighieri
17. Sleeping Beauty's Daughters--Diane Zahler
18. The Death Cure--James Dashner
19. Etiquette & Espionage--Gail Carriger
20. Curtsies & Conspiracies--Gail Carriger
21. Waistcoats & Weaponry--Gail Carriger
22. Manners & Mutiny--Gail Carriger
23. Deep Blue--Jennifer Donnelly
24. Cress--Marissa Meyer
25. Fairest--Marissa Meyer
26. Winter--Marissa Meyer
27. Stars Above--Marissa Meyer
28. The Girl Who Chased the Moon--Sarah Addison Allen
29. The Crown--Kiera Cass
30. The City of Ember--Jeanne DuPrau
31. The People of Sparks--Jeanne DuPrau
32. The Prophet of Yonwood--Jeanne DuPrau
33. The Diamond of Darkhold--Jeanne DuPrau
34. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children--Ransom Riggs
35. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty--A.N. Roquelaure
36. The Infinite Sea--Rick Yancey
37. The Last Star--Rick Yancey
38. All the Lovely Bad Ones--Mary Downing Hahn
39. The Gates--John Connolly
40. Vampires in the Lemon Grove--Karen Russell
41. The Ghost Bride--Yangsze Choo
42. The Third Witch--Rebecca Reisert
43. Eighth Grade Bites--Heather Brewer
44. Ninth Grade Slays--Heather Brewer
45. Tenth Grade Bleeds--Heather Brewer
46. Eleventh Grade Burns--Heather Brewer
47. Twelfth Grade Kills--Heather Brewer
48. Anya's Ghost--Vera Brogsol
49. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer--Michelle Hodkin
50. It Takes a Witch--Heather Blake
51. Thirst No. 2--Christopher Pike
52. Lenobia's Vow--P.C. Cast
53. An Uninvited Ghost--E.J. Copperman
54. Blood and Chocolate--Annette Curtis Klause
55. The Graveyard Book--Neil Gaiman
56. The Chemist--Stephenie Meyer
57. The Kill Order--James Dashner
58. The Fever Code--James Dashner

Challenge completed on December 9