January 2012 Harper Imprint Challenge

Because I wasn't crazy enough signing up for almost a dozen year-long challenges, I thought I'd sign up for a month-long challenge to kick off January. The Harper Imprint Challenge is being hosted by Chelsey at Starry Sky Books and will run from January 1st-31st 2012.

This is pretty much a challenge to read as many books from the HarperCollins imprints that publish YA books: Harper Teen, Greenwillow, Katherine Tegen Books, and Balzer + Bray. 

Guidelines:

• Open to anyone, whether you blog or not
• Books started before January 1 do not count - and we're going on the honor system with this!
• Audio books and ebooks do count of course
• Your books can be crossovers with other challenges
• Sign-ups will stay open through January 7
• Choose a challenge level and make an intro post with a link back to this post!

Challenge levels:

• Easy: 1-4 books
• Medium: 5-8 books
• Hard: 9-12 books

And here's a schedule of events that will be happening throughout the month, with more possibly to be added.

• January 1: Event starts! Review link-up for the first week posted.
• January 4: First 24 hour Harper book giveaway!
• January 8: Review link-up for the second week goes up.
• January 11: Second 24 hour Harper book giveaway.
• January 15: Harper Imprint Challenge Readathon! Starts at 9am Pacific time and lasts for 24 hours; Review link-up for the third week
• January 18: Third 24 hour Harper book giveaway.
• January 22: Review Link-up for the last week, including the 29th through the 31st
• January 25: Last 24 hour Harper book giveaway!
• January 31: - Last day of the challenge!

On February 1 there will be one final giveaway for those who participated and do a wrap up post of your accomplishments! 

I'm just going to commit to the Easy level - 1-4 books. My own novel is releasing in January, so it's going to be a crazy month, but when I saw this challenge I couldn't pass it up! Now I just need to make a list of Harper books so I can be prepared.