2012 Audio Book Challenge

Hi, everyone! Time for another 2012 Reading Challenge!!

This is my favourite challenge! Audiobooks are what got me back on the road to reading and are my preferred format!! Once again, it is being hosted by Teresa at Teresa's Reading Corner.

Here are the details copied from Teresa's blog:

2012 Audio Book Challenge:

I’ve been listening to your feedback and I’m convinced that the 2012 challenge is going to be better than ever. There will still be targets for achievement, but I’m raising them a bit since many of our participants are avid audio book listeners.

Once again, there are four levels to the challenge

Flirting-Listen to 6 Audio Books
Going Steady- Listen to 12 Audio Books
Lover- Listen to 25 Audio Books
Married-Listen to +++ Audio Books

*A big Thank You to fellow blogger and twitter buddy @dogearedcopy for her suggestions on the level names.

There will be a monthly link up so that we can share what we’ve listened to and make suggestions to each other. Along with that monthly link up there will be a special monthly challenge so make sure you stop by each month!

Inspired by Beth Fish Reads and There’s A Book I’m going to be adding a feature (still unnamed) in which we get to know Audio Book Publishers. I’ll be asking them about what they’ve got coming up as well as about their back list titles and of course, the chance to win an Audio Book or two!

I’ll also be adding a feature in which we can get to know our fellow participants. If you are interested in appearing in this feature, please fill out the attached google form.

Official Challenge dates: 1/1/2012-12/31/2012

If you would like to join me in the challenge, click on the challenge badge at the beginning of this post.

Since I am currently listening to my 37th audiobook this year, I am aiming for "Married Level" which is listening to more than 25 audiobooks. I hope to beat my 2011 total, so I will update this post with the exact number that I am trying to beat!

CHALLENGE COMPLETE!
"MARRIED" LEVEL REACHED ON OCTOBER 9, 2012

I am going to keep track of my progress below:

1. Crossed by Ally Condie (Matched, Book 2)
2. Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
   
3. Water Bound: A Sea Haven Novel by Christine Feehan (Sisters of the Heart, Book 1) 
4. Spirit Bound by Christine Feehan (Sisters of the Heart, Book 2) 
5. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (Outlander, Book 1)
6. Across the Universe by Beth Revis (Across the Universe, Book 1)  
7. A Million Suns by Beth Revis (Across the Universe, Book 2)  
8. Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood (The Cahill Witch Chronicles, Book 1)  
9. Blue Monday by Nicci French (Frieda Klein, Book 1)  
10. Walk Away the Pounds by Leslie Sansone  
11. Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs (Alpha & Omega, Book 1)  
12. Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs (Alpha & Omega, Book 2) 
13. Fair Game by Patricia Briggs (Alpha & Omega, Book 3) 
14. The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye (Timothy Wilde, Book 1)  
15. Gilt by Katherine Longshore (The Royal Circle, Book 1)
16. Lover Reborn by J.R. Ward (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 10)  
17. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving  
18. 3rd Degree by James Patterson and Andrew Gross (Women's Murder Club, Book 3)
19. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 
20. Cinder by Marissa Meyer (Lunar Chronicles, Book 1) 
21. The Yard by Alex Grecian (London Murder Squad, Book 1)
22. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker 
23. Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire (Beautiful, Book 1) 
24. Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake (Anna, Book 1)
25. Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake (Anna, Book 2)
26. Battle Royale by Koushun Takami 
27. The Gunslinger by Stephen King (The Dark Tower, Book 1)
28. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters  
29. Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers by Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D. and Gabor Maté, M.D.
30. Thy Neighbor by Norah Vincent 
31. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 
32. The Last Bastion of the Living: A Futuristic Zombie Novel by Rhiannon Frater 
33. Poison Princess by Kresley Cole (The Arcana Chronicles, Book 1) 
34. Pretty When She Dies by Rhiannon Frater (Pretty When She Dies, Book 1) 
35. Red Rain by R.L. Stine 
36. Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton (Agatha Raisin, Book 1) 
37. Blood Red Road by Moira Young (Dust Lands, Book 1) 
38. Ashes of Twilight by Kassy Tayler (Ashes Trilogy, Book 1) 
39. A Winter Dream by Richard Paul Evans 
40. Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet by M.C. Beaton (Agatha Raisin, Book 2)