Aussie YA Book Challenge 2011

If you haven’t noticed I am big fan of Aussie young adult fiction.  Many of my favourite books (On The Jellicoe Road, Six Impossible Things, Raw Blue, A Little Wanting Song - just to name a few) are by Aussie authors and I now try to read at least one Aussie book at week.   

So, I have been signing up for some reading challenges for 2011 when I noticed there was none for Aussie YA books. I know a few bloggers who are passionate about Aussie YA so I thought why not host a challenge to encourage more people to read Australian young adult fiction.  So with a lot of help from Nomes at Inkcrush, together we have created the Aussie YA Reading Challenge 2011:

The challenge is as follows:

Australian participants - Read at least 12 young adult books by Australian authors from 1^st January, 2011 to 31^st December, 2011.

International participants - Read at least 6 young adult books by Australian authors from 1^st January, 2011 to 31^st December, 2011.

They can be old or new titles, however no re-reads.

It is open to everyone. You don’t have to be a blogger but you MUST POST A REVIEW.   Reviews can be posted anywhere - Blogs, Goodreads, Shelfari or non-bloggers can even do a guest post on a blog like mine.

You can join anytime. The challenge runs from 1^st January 2011 to 31^st December, 2011.

There will be prizes throughout the year and guest posts and interviews from some awesome Aussie authors.   

If you sign up by the 25th January, 2011 you could be the lucky winner of one of the following titles, thanks to Nomes at Inkcrush.  These are some of Nomes' favourite titles that are available internationally.  Open to everyone as long as The Book Depository ships to you.

Getting Started:

 
Create a post for the challenge listing some of the titles you are wanting to read (you don’t have to list them all just post some ideas of what you are thinking of reading) and link back to this post.  

Place one of the buttons or create your own in the side bar of your blog.

Non-Bloggers: Post your list of books (just a few titles again) in the comment section of this post.

Sign up with the link at the bottom of the this post, linking to your challenge post.   

Non-Bloggers just put your Goodreads, Shelfari or this post link in.


Reading Ideas:

You can check out the following links for some reading ideas:

Goodreads -  Favourite Aussie YA, Aussie YA Paranormal & Fantasy, Aussie YA 2011 Releases, My Aussie YA Shelf

Aussie YA @ Inkcrush 
Aussie Reviews

Buttons: (you can use the top pic or the one's below or create your own):-



They are so many wonderful other challenges (from Off the Shelf to Vampires to Kindle) out there at the moment that are worth checking out as well.  Here are some of my personal favourites and they all help inspired me to start my own little challenge: The Story Siren Debut Author Challenge, The Contemps Challenge, The Bookette British Challenge. 

If you have any question please feel free to email me at irresistiblereads@hotmail.com. 

Don't forget to fill out the below link!