Challenges Complete (Round 1 of Wrap-Up Posts)

I participated in a lot of reading challenges this year. And amazingly, I completed them, too! In an effort not to flood all my awesome readers with a bazillion wrap-up posts, I'm aiming to cover several challenges at a time. So here is the first round​!

Hosted by The Worm Hole

These are the books I read for each category:

A word including "ing" in it: The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
A color: The Yellow House by Patricia Falvey
A familial relation: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
A body of water: Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
A city: A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
An animal: The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

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Hosted by My Reader's Block

These are the books I read for each color:

Blue: The Turquoise Ledge by Leslie Marmon Silko
Red: Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong
Yellow: The Yellow House by Patricia Falvey
Green: ​The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
Brown: Sorcery & Cecelia, or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Patricia Wrede & Caroline Stevermer
Black: The Black Reckoning by John Stephens
White: ​The Hidden White House by Robert Klara
Any other color: Pat of Silver Bush by L.M. Montgomery
An implied color: A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

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Hosted by Giraffe Days

I signed up to read a book from each continent, plus six more, for a total of 12. I tried to find books set in countries outside of Europe. This is what I read:

Africa: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba (Malawi)
Asia: Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong (China)
Europe: The Little Book by Selden Edwards (Austria)
Australia/New Zealand: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (Australia)
North America: The Guardians by Ana Castillo (New Mexico/Mexico)
South America: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia)
The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley (Brazil)
The Last Bookaneer by Matthew Pearl (Samoa)
​Faith of My Fathers by Lynn Austin (Israel)
Turn Right at Machu Picchu:​ Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams (Peru)
Xanadu: Marco Polo and Europe's Discovery of the East (Mongolia)
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Pakistan)

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Hosted by the Chunkster Challenge website

This was a set-your-own-goal sort of challenge. I aimed to read 5 chunksters, which were defined as books longer than 450 pages. I actually ended up reading 9!

1. A Passion Redeemed by Julie Lessman (477 pages)
2. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (643 pages)
3. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (549 pages)
4. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (644 pages)
5. The Great Bridge by David McCullough (562 pages)
6. A Passion Denied by Julie Lessman (475 pages)
7. The Cracks in the Kingdom by Jaclyn Moriarty (468 pages)
8. Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman (596 pages)
​9. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (608 pages)

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Hosted by me, Smiling Shelves!

I was hoping to make it up to the next level, but I didn't quite get there. I still met the goal I set for myself in my sign-up post, which was the Spinelli level (anywhere from 30 to 44 points). I ended up with a total of 34 points.

1.  Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (3 points)
2. A Single Shard by Linda Sue Pack (3 points)
3. A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck (2 points)
4. A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (3 points)
5. The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (3 points)
6. Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (2 points)
7. The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (3 points)
8. Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (3 points)
9. Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (3 points)
10. Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (3 points)
11.  Holes by Louis Sachar (3 points)
12. The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (3 points)