Welcome to the 2013 Standalone Reading Challenge (SARC)! If you're back for a second year - welcome back. If you're new to the challenge - welcome, and best of luck! This year is going to be a ton of fun with awesome authors and prizes given away each month. Below is all the information about the challenge. This page will be updated each month with links to the current prize pack and other SARC posts.
Learn About & Sign Up
See which novels qualify for the challenge and join the challenge by linking up to your blog, goodreads, youtube, library thing, or shelfari page.Grab a Button
My co-host, Hafsah at Icey Books has created amazing buttons for you to show off on your blog. Pick your favorite and proudly display it!Author Sign Up
If you are a YA or MG author with a standalone or companion novel coming out in 2013, we'd love to have you participate in the challenge (no donation required). You can sign up at any point in the year. We are trying hard to feature the authors close to the novel's release date for maximum publicity.Goodreads List
I created a Goodreads list to help you find books eligible for the challenge. Please be aware that everyone with a Goodreads account can add to it, so I can not account for the accuracy of every novel on the list. If you see a novel not on it, please add it. If you see a book that is actually part of a series, please leave a comment and I (or another goodreads librarian) will delete it. Thanks so much! Also, please note that this is not a list of the authors who are participating in the challenge, but rather books that count towards readers' goals.Eligible Book List
In addition to the Goodreads list, we have created a spreadsheet of eligible titles. This list is constantly updated and is no way a comprehensive list. Also, please keep in mind that these are eligible books, not a list of the authors who are participating in the challenge. Please leave a comment if you want a title to be added to the list.Prize Packs
All prize packs are US only and end on the last day of the month at midnight. Each participant who links up to a new review of a SARC book during the given month is entered to win. Each linked review counts as a new entry. Winner will be chosen the first week of the following month and contacted via email.April
Special Posts
- "Sister vs Sister" , Christina Dotson, author of Killing Caroline
- Interview with Blaze from Blaze (or love in the time of super villains)
- Interview with Rita Arens, author of The Obvious Game
- Top 10 Most Embarrassing High School Memories, Meredith Towbin, author of Straightjacket
- This-or-That with Elizabeth Eulberg, Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality
- Random Interview with Sarah Skilton, Bruised
- This-or-That with Sam from Gone Fishing (a novel in verse)
- Get to Know Nicole McInnes, author of Brianna on the Brink
- Renee Pace's Top 10 Destinations, author of The Forsaken
- Interview with S.C. Langgle, author of Alice in Everville
- Interview with Scott Blagden, author of Dear Life, You Suck
- Interview with Mary Shelley Black from In the Shadow of Blackbirds
- Interview with Jessica Verdi, author of My Life After Now
- Interview with Bitty, from Canary in the Coal Mine
- Interview with Liesl Shurtliff, author of Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin
- Interview with Izzy, from The Symptoms of My Insanity
- Interview with Marcia Mickelson, author of The Huaca
