Duodecathon

Length a week per month
12 weeks, 12 challenges!

This event is usually at the end of every month! There will be reading challenges to complete during the read-a-thons.

You pick one challenge every Duodecathon to complete out of the list of 12 challenges, so by the end you will have completed all the challenges:


2018 Challenges
- Read 1,200 pages
- Read the second book in a series
- A book about a villain/antihero
- A book published the year you were born
- A 2018 bestseller
- An award winning book
- A book with multiple points of view
- A book with antonyms in the title
- A banned book
- A book with a great first line
- A "high school" book you haven't read
- A book recommended by someone in the Duodecathon group (one of the threads is where you can post recommendations)

I only have 4 opportunities but I will try my hardest to follow it for the next few months.

2018 Dates:
September 1-7
October 8-14
November 22-28
December 22-28

So I will Read the second Book in a series options we have:
  1. Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater but this is a reread and it might not count
  2. A wind in the door by Madeline L'Engle 
  3. Seige and storm by Leigh Bardugo

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