Announcing the 2017 Hub Reading Challenge!

I hadn’t heard anything about the 2017 Hub Reading Challenged and feared it might not happen this year. Then, lo and behold, the announcement came!

The HUB Reading challenge s intended to encourage librarians, library workers, and YA lit enthusiasts to dive into the award winner and honor books and YALSA selected lists with the hope of providing excellent readers’ advisory and even discovering a new favorite title or exploring a genre outside of your comfort zone.

The goal is to read any 25 books of the titles from the above lists and awards. There are almost 100 this year and I have listed them below.

Just about everyone who doesn’t work for ALA is eligible to participate. Non-ALA/YALSA members are eligible. Teens are eligible. Non-US residents/citizens are eligible.

There are a few rules that you can read on the link above, but the most important one is this: format matters.  A title that has been recognized for both the print version and the audiobook version can be both read and listened to and count as two books, but a book that has won multiple awards or appears on multiple lists in the same format only counts as one title.

I’ll be updating my progress on Sundays, so stay tuned.

Here is the official list:

2017 Hub Reading Challenge Eligible Titles

1. Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by MIsty Copeland
2. The Distance Between Us: A Memoir by Reyna Grande
3. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
4. The Diviners by Libba Bray
5. The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
6. The Good Braider By Terry Farish
7. Just One Day by Gayle Forman
8. All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
9. Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver
10. Rani Patel in Full Effect by Sonia Patel
11. The Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst
12. The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales
13. In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero with Michelle Burford
14. Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded by Hannah Hart
15. Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
16. Romeo and/or Juliet: A Choosable-Path Adventure by Ryan North
17. Die Young with Me: A Memoir by Rob Rufus
18. The Wasp that Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon
19. The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach
20. March:  Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
21. Hillary Rodham Clinton:  A Woman Living History by Karen Blumenthal
22. In the Shadow of Liberty:  The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives by Kenneth C. Davis
23. Samurai Rising:  The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune written by Pamela S. Turner, illustrated by Gareth Hinds
24. This Land is Our Land:  A History of American Immigration by Linda Barrett Osborne
25. Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
26. Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen
27. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
28. The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
29. Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
30. What Happened to Goodbye? by Sarah Dessen
31. This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
32. Asking for It by Louise O’Neill
33. The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry
34. Scythe by Neal Shusterman
35. The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
36. Anna and the Swallow Man written by Gavriel Savit, narrated by Allan Corduner
37. Ghost written by Jason Reynolds, narrated by Guy Lockard
38. Dream On, Amber written by Emma Shevah, narrated by Laura Kirman
39. Nimona written by Noelle Stevenson, narrated by Rebecca Soler, Jonathan Davis, Marc Thompson, January LaVoy, Natalie Gold, Peter Bradbury, and David Pittu
40. The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner
41. Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard
42. Rani Patel In Full Effect by Sonia Patel
43. The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
44. Tell Me Something Real by Calla Devlin
45. Beast by Brie Spangler, read by Andrew Eiden
46. Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, read by Carla Corvo, MacLeod Andrews, Steve West, and a full cast
47. Kill the Boy Band by Goldy Moldavsky, read by Barrett Wilbert Weed
48. Nimona by Noelle Stevenson, read by Marc Thompson, Rebecca Soler, January LaVoy, Peter Bradbury, Jonathan Davis, David Pittu, Natalie Gold
49. Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt, read by Christopher Gebauer
50. Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys, read by Jorjeana Marie, Will Damron, Cassandra Morris, Michael Crouch
51. Star Wars Ahsoka by E.K. Johnston, read by Ashley Eckstein
52. Traffick by Ellen Hopkins, read by Kirby Heyborne, Julia Whelan, Madeleine Maby, Rebekkah Ross, Jacques Roy
53. Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke, read by Michael Crouch, Alicyn Packard, and Caitlin Davies
54. The Reader by Traci Chee
55. The Lie Tree by Francis Hardinge
56. The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
57. Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina
58. Salt to the Sea by Ruta Septys
59. Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxam
60. Feminism: Reinventing the F-Word by Nadia Abushanab
61. Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
62. Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E. K. Johnston
63. Plutona by Jeff Lemire
64. Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics
65. This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp
66. All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
67. If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
68. The Geek’s Guide to Unrequited Love by Sarvenaz Tash
69. When We Collided by Emery Lord
70. as brave as you by Jason Reynolds
71. Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan
72. If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
73. How Many Letters are in Goodbye? by Yvonne Cassidy
74. We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
75. Dryland by Sara Jaffe
76. You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Leviathan
77. When the Moon Was Ours Anna-Marie  McLemore
78. This Song Is (Not) for You by Laura Nowlin
79. The Root by Na’amen Gobert Tilahun
80. And I Darken by Kierstin White
81. Giant Days by John Allison and Lissa Treiman
82. Black Panther, Book One:  A Nation Under Our Fee by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze
83. Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer by Diane Stanley, illustrated by Jessie Hartland
84. Balcony on the Moon by Ibtisam Barakat
85. Becoming Unbecoming by Una
86. Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina
87. Makes Her Mark by Debbie Levy, illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley
88. The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
89. Take It As a Compliment by Maria Stoian
90. Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear… and Why by Sady Doyle
91. We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out by Annie E. Clark and Andrea L. Pino
92. Filmish:  a Graphic Journey Through Film by Edward Ross
93. Prez, Volume 1:  Corndog in Chief by Mark Russel Ben Caldwell, and Mark Morales
94. orange:  The Complete Collection 1 by Ichigo Takano
95. Paper Girls 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
96. We Stand On Guard by Brian K. Vaughan, Steve Skroce, and Matt Hollingsworth
97. Lowriders to the Center of the Earth illustrated by Raúl Gonzalez, written by Cathy Camper