I have now completed my 40 Book Challenge!! I am so excited! Looking back at the books that I have read, I see a huge variety of genres and titles. I did get stuck for a while on a "survivalist" kick (Climb or Die, Peak, etc.) and then got on a "end of the world as we know it" kick (Ashes, Ashes, Empty, Eleventh Plague, etc.). But other than that I tried to read a huge variety. Some books were more boy oriented. Some were geared more for girls. I tried to read a huge range of reading levels also. I read anywhere from 3.5 up to 6.0. One thing I did not do was throw in a nonfiction book, but I needed to keep to my 100 page minimum.
Overall, I enjoyed this challenge. It really kept me in tune with what my students were reading and made my job of recommending books a lot easier. I plan to do a different challenge next year where I read at least one book from every bookcase in the library. It will be called the Bookcase Challenge.
Happy Reading!!