Hogwarts Reading Challenge

I tried to resist; I mean I seriously am involved in enough challenges, but the concept was so unique I just had to join in.  Worth Reading It is hosting a Hogwarts Reading Challenge where participants are sorted into houses and compete for the House Cup.  Points are awarded for reading books that fall into specific categories.

I took the test to be sorted into a house, and - not really a surprise here - the sorting hat put me in Ravenclaw.  While I appreciate the honor and nobility of Gryffindor, the amiability and honesty of Hufflepuff, and even the ambition and cunning of Slytherin, I'm really not surprised to be placed with the nerds...

 I am now and always have been a geek.  So what wonderful categories do I get to read by December 13?

MY CURRENT POINT TOTAL:  367 (includes Summer Reading Challenge)

The Series
First, I will read the Harry Potter books themselves, earning 25 points for each one read.  This will fit in with my Flashback Challenge and my YAL Challenge, so that is just fantabulous.  But I also get to read based on the below "classes".

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 

The Classes

Transfiguration - read any book that has trans or figure in its title, is about shape shifting, has a shape shifter in it, or is about anything having to do with changing one thing into another.

• Fables: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
• Deogratias, A Tale of Rwanda by J.P. Stassen
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
• The Surrogates by Robert Venditti 
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin 
• The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff  
• Beastly by Alex Finn 
• Film Club by David Gilmour 
• Jekel Loves Hyde by Beth Fantaskey  
• Incognegro by Mat Johnson 
• The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno by Ellen Bryson 
• Dracula, My Love by Syrie James 
• Marked by P.C. and Kristen Cast 
• Gender Outlaws by Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman 

Defense Against the Dark Arts - read any book that has defence (defense), dark and/or art(s) in its title, read any book that is about self defense, war, history of war/marital arts, murder mysteries

• Coraline by Neil Gaiman 
• Allies of the Night by Darren Shan 
• Badass by Ben Thompson 
• Denial: A Memoir of Terror by Jessica Stern 
• The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
• The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan 
• The Passage by Justin Cronin 
• The New Annotated Dracula by Bram Stoker 
• How to Grow Up and Rule the World by Vordak the Incomprehensible 
• March of the Wooden Soldiers by Bill Willingham 
• Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
• Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott 
• Annexed by Sharon Dogar 
• Curse of the Warmbloods by Suzanne Collins
• Prophecy of Bane by Suzanne Collins
• Agamemnon by Aeschylus 
• The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus 
• The Eumenides by Aeschylus 
• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
• Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld

Charms - read any book that has charm in its title, any book that deals with gives something or someone a new aspect (for example the nerdy guy become a handsome doctor)

• Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
• The Great Lover by Jill Dawson 
• Of All the Stupid Things by Alexandra Diaz 
• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel 
• Strings Attached by Nick Nolan 
• Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins 
• Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates 
• The Financial Lives of Poets by Jess Walter 
• The Odyssey by Homer

Potions - read any book that has potion in its title, cookbooks count but you must cook at least one recipe out of the book

• The Alcoholic by Jonathan Ames 
• The Wave by Susan Casey

Astronomy - read any book that has astronomy in its title, books about planets, stars, etc, sci-fi

• The Eternal Smile by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim 
• Trickster by Matt Dembicki 
• Packing for Mars by Mary Roach 
• Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur

History of Magic - read any book that has history or magic in its title, books about magic, witches, etc

• Blood Brothers by Nora Roberts 
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 
• Search for Senna by K.A. Applegate 
• The Bacchae by Euripides 
• The Boneshaker by Kate Milford 
• Land of Loss by K.A. Applegate
• Enter the Enchanted by K.A. Applegate
• Realm of the Reaper by K.A. Applegate
• Discover the Destroyer by K.A. Applegate
• Fear the Fantastic by K.A. Applegate
• Fables: Storybook Love by Bill Willingham

Herbology - read any book that has herb in its title, again cookbooks count and again you must cook at least one recipe out of the book

Arithmancy - read any book that has arithmancy in its title, any book with a number in its title, any book that deal with numbers or math

• 101 Things I Learned in Film School by Neil Landau and Matthew Frederick 
• Matched by Ally Condie 
• The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson

Ancient Runes - read any book that has ancient or runes in its title, books about historical places like the pyramids, Stonehenge, great wall of china, or any book about symbols

• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri  
• Nomansland by Lesley Hauge 
• The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood 
• Inferno by Dante Alighieri 
• The Epic of Gilgamesh

Divination - read any book that has divine in its title, any book about psychics or psychic abilities, tarot reading etc

•  From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris 
• Trance by Linda Gerber

Care of Magical Creatures - read any book that has magical or creatures in its title, about supernatural beings

• The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan 
• The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan 
• Animal Farm by Bill Willingham 
• The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan 
• The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan 
• Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris 
• The Angel Experiment by James Patterson
• School's Out - Forever by James Patterson
• Dust by Joan Frances Turner 
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster 
• Soulless by Gail Carriger 
• Changeless by Gail Carriger

Muggle Studies - nearly any book works here, what better why to understand Muggle than to read what they read

• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 
• Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
• W;t by Margaret Edson
• The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet by Myrlin Hermes 
• Either You're in or You're in the Way by Logan and Noah Miller 
• Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan 
• Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon 
• Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger 
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba 
• Thumbing Through Thoreau by Kenny Luck 
• Why Our Decisions Don't Matter by Simon Van Booy 
• Deliver Us From Evie by M.E. Kerr 
• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins 
• The Firework-Maker's Daughter by Philip Pullman
• The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen 
• Queer Questions Straight Talk by Abby Dees 
• Wildthorn by Jane Eagland 
• Disturbed by Her Song by Tanith Lee 
• will grayson, will grayson by david levithan and john green
• Room by Emma Donaghue
• Blameless by Gail Carriger
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

How to list your books and keep track of points:
When you copy this post onto your blog just list the book you read for the challenge under the subject to which it fits. Please include the name of the book/author and the the date you finished reading it

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SUMMER MINI-CHALLENGE = 140

Read 3 books from any summer reading list = 60 points
Each extra reading list book = 15 pts each
One word match to Hogwarts Reading List = 25 pts

• The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan from the Getting Boys to Read  and the School Library Journal summer reading lists.
• The Passage by Justin Cronin on Oprah's Summer Reading List 
• The Boneshaker by Kate Milford on the New Albany-Floyd County Public Library list

Extra:


The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba on Saint Ignatius High School list extra for matching Men Who Love Dragons too Much

The New Annotated Dracula by Bram Stoker and Leslie K. Klinger on the Lahser High School summer reading list, extra for matching New Theory of Numerology

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