New Authors Reading Challenge 2018 Sign-up

Well hello my dear book lovers and welcome to another Reading Challenge sign-up post! 

First, let me wish you the best of Happy New Years. I hope your year started out amazing, as it should start or everyone, and that you'll have a wonderful 2018. 

I've missed discovering new authors and getting out of my comfort zone. While I have managed to read some books by new-to-me authors in the past years, it's been a while since I've pushed myself to actually seek out books by new authors. Basically since the last time I signed up for the New Authors Reading Challenge hosted by the amazing gals behind Literary Escapism. 

The rules are pretty simple: just pick a goal for yourself, a number of new authors you want to discover in a year, and then read. Read as much as you can. If you want, you can also write reviews, which is what I'm going to do, because I love spreading the word about the books I read. 

For this year, I'm going with my regular number, the one I've picked in the past, and that is 100. Yep, I commit to reading at least 100 books written by 100 authors I've never read before 2018. I will update this page with the authors and links to my reviews as I read them, so you can find out which authors I've discovered. 

If you want to join in on the fun, just go to the sign-up post on the Literary Escapism website. Have fun reading!

2018 Reading Challenges: The Master List

Heya there bookworms! Since I decided to dedicate a lot more reading time to backlist books next year, I've also decided to sign up to a bunch of reading challenges. And since there are many, many challenges I want to sign up to, I decided to make a Master List instead of individual sign-up posts. Here are the challenges I want to take a part of.

2018 Beat The Backlist Sign-up Post

Well hello my dear bookworms! The reading challenges for 2018 are starting to appear and I'm trying to decide which one to sign up to. One of the challenges I just know I'll sign up to is Novel Knight's Beat The Backlist challenge.

I previously signed up for the 2017 edition of this challenge, however life happened and I wasn't able to even hit the half mark on my initial goal. Which makes me sad, but that's another story. Anyway.

Because I want to read those books I signed up with last year, I'll keep the list the same, taking out those books I've already finished (the amazing, unbelievably huge number of 2, if you want to know), and adding a few more books that I probably won't get to finish before the year is over. So, without further ado, here's my list for Beat The Backlist:

1. The Pelican Brief - John Grisham
2. The Firm - John Grisham
3. The Gathering - Kelley Armstrong
4. Roverandom - J.R.R. Tolkien
5. The Children of Hurin - J.R.R. Tolkien
6. Outlander - Dianna Gabaldon
7. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
8. Wedding Night - Sophie Kinsella
9. Unrivaled - Alyson Noel
10. Evening Class - Maeve Binchy
11. Dangerous Creatures - Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl
12. Dangerous Deception - Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl
13. The Taxidermist's Daughter - Kate Mosse
14. The Square Root Of Summer - Harriet Reuter Hapgood 
15. Girls In The Moon - Janet McNally
16. City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales - Gigi Little
17. The Palace - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
18. Started For Ten - David Nicholls
19. Legacy - Hannah Fielding
20. The Chic Boutique On Baker Street - Rachel Dove
21. The Children Of Freedom - Marc Levy
22. Matilda - Roald Dahl
23. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
24. Ariel - Donna McDonnald
25. The Soul Summoner - Elicia Hyder
26. The Treemakers - Christina L. Rozelle
27. The Last Priestess - Elizabeth Baxter
28. More Than Exes - Elizabeth Briggs
29. Nefertiti's Heart - A.W. Exley
30. Netherworld - K.N. Lee
31. Novelista Girl - Meredith Schorr
32. Puck Buddies - Tara Brown
33. Finding Home - Lauren K. McKellar 
34. Unseen - Stephanie Erickson
35. The Color Of Water In July - Nora Carroll
36. Aurora Sky - Nikki Jefford
37. Dirty Little Secrets - Liliana Hart
38. Embers - Karen Ann Hopkins
39. The Faerie Guardian - Rachel Morgan
40. The Language of Souls - Lena Goldfinch
41. The Language of Sparrows - Rachel Phifer
42. Shimura Trouble - Sujata Massey
43. Graveyard Shift - Angela Roquet
44. Suspended - Sarah Noffke
45. Atlantis Riptide - Allie Burton
46. Marked - Elisabeth Naughton
47. The Dark Of Twilight - Kate Danley
48. The Illusionist's Apprentice - Kristy Cambron
49. A Kiss of Venom - Hailey Edwards
50. Frostbitten - Kelley Armstrong
51. Waking The Witch - Kelley Armstrong
52. Spell Bound - Kelley Armstrong
53. Thirteen - Kelley Armstrong

You can also check out my progress on my Goodreads shelf dedicated to this challenge, that I'll update with books as I read them/as I decide to read more backlist titles. Right now, there are 53 planned books for this challenge for me to read. 

Are you signing up for this challenge? What's your goal?

Edited to add: I'm on the Book Bards team