Dystopia 2013

Following is information about, and sign-up for, BA’s Dystopia Reading Challenge. This is for the 2013 challenge only. If you have any questions or issues you can’t find the answer to on this page, please visit the Challenge F.A.Q.s.

Challenge Quick Links

BA’s 2013 Dystopia Reading Challenge

About: The Dystopia Challenge is all about, well, dystopia. Read books set in dystopian settings, with totalitarian governments, or something more close-knit. The Dystopia Challenge includes Post-Apocalyptic themes as well. For more about Dystopia check out Diva Schuylers’s definition and BA has a Must Reads list to get you started.

Dystopia Examples: Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, 1984 by George Orwell.

Post-Apocalyptic Examples: The Road by Cormac McCarthy, I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, Above Ground by A.M. Harte, Angelfall by Susan Ee.

The Finer Deets

  • Running dates for all 2013 challenges: 1st of January – 31st of December 2013
  • Sign-Ups are accepted until the 16th of December 2013.
  • Formats: All BA Challenges are eBook, audio, short story, and graphic novel friendly.
  • Crossovers: You’re welcome to crossover with BA’s challenges. Include as many books across all the challenges as you can, I always say.

How To Sign-Up and Join In

  1. Choose Your Level: Choose a challenge level listed below.
  2. Sign Up Post: Create a post on your blog, in a group, or on a forum (where possible) to let others see what you’re aiming for (a predefined list of books is optional).
  3. Grab The Badge: Download or grab the badge and place it in your sign up post. Then link back to BA's Dystopia Reading Challenge for 2013. Grab me!Bookish Ardour.
  4. Link Up: Grab the direct URL to your sign up post, not your blog, click the Mr Linky graphic and enter your link.
  5. Blogless? Don’t worry, you can sign up with your social network profile (YouTube, Twitter, GoodReads, Shelfari included), just make sure you link to your review list, shelf, tweet, or category. If you don’t have any of those feel free to comment.
  6. Your Reviews: Reviewing is optional! But if you do review it would be great for you to share them by submitting them on the review page.
  7. Finished: When you’re done it’s completion post time and you can share these on the completion/wrap-up page.

Challenge Levels

  1. Asocial– Choose 5 books to read
  2. Contagion – Choose 15 books to read
  3. Soldier – Choose 30 books to read
  4. Drone – Choose 50 books to read
  5. Conditioned – Choose 75 books to read
  6. Brainwashed – Choose anywhere between 76-135 books to read
  7. Totalitarian – Choose anywhere between 136-200 books to read

Extra Challenges

If you feel like that extra kick to your reading challenges here’s several you can choose from.

  • World: Choose a country as your theme, reading only books from that country or where it’s the setting. For how high you go you can choose more than one country;
    • Level Asocial to Soldier: Choose one country
    • Level Soldier to Conditioned: Choose two countries
    • Level Conditioned to end of Brainwashed: Choose three countries
    • Level Totalitarian: Choose four countries.
  • Gender Battle: Read books only by female or male authors. Another alternative is to read equal amounts of both.

Sign Up

Click the Mr Linky and away you go!

Who Has Joined So Far

1. Sam @ SIK Book Reviews
2. Isa @ Chasing Quills
3. Jessie @ Jessie’s Book Place
4. Stephanie @ Curling Up by The Fire
5. Hannah @ The Girl in a Cafe
6. Lianne @ The Towering Pile
7. Heather @ BookStacksOnDeck
8. Kelly @ Reading With Martinis
9. Melissa Melton
10. Melissa Melton
11. Bonnie Sparks Writes (BA)		 12. Cecilia
13. Kyla
14. Alexis @ Reflections of a Bookaholic
15. Piper@Piper’s Pages
16. Lettie @ Above Average Below Special
17. jen @ i like big books
18. Jennifer @ Fountain Reflections
19. Johanna @Jojo’s BookBlog
20. Susan @Bloggin’ ’bout Books
21. Carrie @ wvredreads
22. Aaron @ Dreaming About Other Worlds		 23. Melissa C. @ 4 a Happier Me
24. Susan
25. Andrea @ Andrea’s Book Nook
26. Maria @ Reading is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
27. Louisa @ Words I Write Crazy
28. Roxana@Falling in love with books
29. alberta ross
30. Ricki @Reading Challenged
31. Jenna @ Little Bird Reads

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122 thoughts on “Dystopia 2013”

  6. I’ve just signed up for the 2013 challenge, and posted about it. I’m really happy to join this challenge. Thanks for hosting it. I forgot to put my level – Asocial, 5 dystopian novels this year.

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  9. Are you going to be hosting all of your reading challenges for 2013 as well? If so, when do you think the sign up linky will be put up? Just curious…I know there’s still lots of time, I’m just anxious for next year! Lol. :)

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    • I sure will be Sam. I’m not sure when the linky will be up. I’m still trying to figure out how I will be going about putting the new links up and where to put the current widgets. I should probably get cracking though, we don’t have much longer!

      I’m the same as you when it comes to next year’s challenges. I start getting anxious for them in October. Don’t worry, I’ll make an annoucement when the new ones open up ;)

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  10. Okay so apparently I grossly under rated myself LOL finished 15 for this Challenge on August 6!
    1.Crossed by Ally Condie
    2.Cinder by Marissa Meyer
    3.The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
    4.The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
    5.The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
    6.Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
    7.Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
    8.Delirium by Lauren Oliver
    9.The Girl in the Arena by Lise Haines
    10.Wither by Lauren DeStefano
    11.Fever by Lauren DeStefano
    12.Nineteen-Eighty-Four by George Orwell
    13.Animal Farm by George Orwell
    14.Divergent by Veronica Roth
    15.Blood Red Road by Moira Young

    I would have to say my favourite of the year, possibly of all this genre I’ve read so far, was Divergent by Veronica Roth! And my least favourite was a tie between The Girl in the Arena & Blood Red Road, although the story in Blood was far superior the purposeful spelling and grammatical errors were highly distracting and made it very difficult to get though.

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  17. Question! I have discovered this contest a bit late into the year, but I have already read a bunch of Dystopian novels, can I include any of the books I’ve read since the beginning of the year? Or do I have to start the count from when I “officially” joined the challenge? Thanks.

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  20. What a cool challenge! I’ve always liked dystopian novels, and this is a great way to raise my awareness of great books that I’ve never heard of. Thanks for hosting it!

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  27. Hi again lol … so apparently I have a problem lol aiming for “Contagion” (15) and created a wordpress blog thinking it’ll be easier to keep track of all my challenges that way… I am so confused by the process lol. Hopefully will eventually figure out how to put the challenge links up on my page… we shall see…. another great book challenge :)

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    • Hey Nikki, have you done any sign up posts at all? Sorry, I can’t check as I’m doing this from the phone.

      If you haven’t already, create a sign up post on your blog (here is an example.
      You don’t need to be as elaborate as mine, it can be a small post just to say you’re joining in and any thoughts you want to share on it.
      Make sure you include the challenge image in the post and a link back to the challenge page.

      The next step depends on if you’re going to review the books your read (reviews are optional).

      If you review them – just post your review on your blog as normal and when you’re done copy the URL to that post. Come back to BA and visit the challenge review page where there is a Mr Linky image. Click on the Mr Linky image and paste in your URL with the title you’ve reviewed. It has to be books you’re reviewing for the challenge only.

      If you’re not reviewing you can still share what you’re reading on the review page, just share in the comments.

      I hope that has helped to answer your question, but if you have any more or need to clear something up just let me know.

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  29. Hey I was wondering does the book Hope’s Daughter count as Dystopia? I asked the author and she said it was a mixture of that and sci-fi.
    Emily.

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  31. I haven’t done my post yet, but I’m definitely joining the challenge! It seems like a busy reading year, so I’m going to just start out with five and hope I can make it to 15 instead :)

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  36. This is my first time, and I’m a bit of a sissy, so I’m only aiming for 5, but I’m really hoping to read to 15 in the end; if you have any suggestions to add to my sign-up page (which is here, please don’t hesitate to let me know about them.

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    • There’s nothing wrong with aiming for 5. I’ve aimed for 5 myself. Sometimes it’s the best way, aiming small, and then hopefully going over. Good luck and have fun.

      P.S. We have a list of recommended books on BA for dystopia readers, I’ll stop by your blog and share it with you.

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    • Hey Fran, sorry I didn’t get back to you before you got it all together, but I’m glad you got it all figured out in the meantime. I’ll fix the links up soon and thank you for letting me know. Have fun!

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  38. HI! I want to sign up & I did it wrong. I signed up before making my intro post. Also I can’t find the HTML to the badge for my sidebar & to put in my intro post.
    Should I re do it and re link my correct post? Also how do I get the badge?
    Thanx
    fcoleman76 @ gmail . com

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  42. I really didn’t succeed last year, despite *loving* the genre. We’ll see if I manage to do better this year. Aiming for 5, hoping to bump that to a higher challenge level once I succeed!

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    • Luckily you can read your heart’s content worth of post-apocalyptic fiction and it will still count. If you need any suggestions for pure dystopia though, 1984, Brave New World, and others like that are a good place to start.

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  46. I’m loving this! Dystopia is (are ??) my favourite genre! I don’t have a blog but am on Goodreads as deanna boocock . Contagion here I come.

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    • Goodreads only is not a problem Deanna. Looks like you’re already underway ;) Remember you can also post your reviews from Goodreads onto the review Mr Linky as well.

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      • 3 Prison Nation by Jenni Merritt
        4 Shade (Shade #1) by Jeri Smith-Ready
        5 New World Orders by Edward G. Talbot
        6 Divergent by Veronica Roth
        7 Containment by Christian Cantrell
        8 Ashes by Ilsa Bick
        9 Hollowland (The Hollows #1) by Amanda Hocking
        10 The Burn by Annie Oldham
        11 The Cause by Clint Stoker

        Almost there!

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        • Just a few more
          12 Cinder by M. Meyer
          13 The Maze Runner by James Dashner
          14 The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
          15 The Death Cure by James Dashner
          16 Forest Of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
          17 The Dead Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan
          18 The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan

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    • Your link wasn’t working properly, but I’m using your Challenges page for it so not a worry there. The only problem is I can’t seem to find you in the Mr Linky. Do you remember what name you used for it? In the meantime I’m entering your new link in under the name Emily at Confessions of a Bookaholic, but if you could let me know about the other entry so I could delete it that would be great.

      Thanks Emily!

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    • Hey Christy, there’s lots of newbies to the challenges so don’t worry. You need to download/grab the badge and upload it to the page/post you’re signing up with. I’ve updated the link for you because it was taking me to your blog, but it kept telling me it couldn’t find your post. So don’t worry about the link now, just the image. Let me know if you need any help with uploading the image.

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  49. It’s 2012! Now we can all start reading! Good luck everyone and I hope you have plenty of fun.

    For those just signing up now, the limit to sign up is the end of this year so you can take your time. For those having trouble with badges and have let me know about them, I’ll be sending it out to you today.

    Enjoy!

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  53. I was going to do my sign up post in the first week of January but I now see that it is not allowed. I don’t think I will be have time to blog anymore in December though. Can I just sign up anyway and make the post later?

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    • Hi Lynne. It’s actually linking to the Mr Linky widget, did you do that? You can always sign up with your Twitter account or Goodreads one until it goes live and then I can update it later. When will your blog be going live?

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    • I’ve re-entered your link to go to your blog, even though I know it’s still under construction. That’s ok that it is, but I thought it would be better to do it now so no one forgets later :)

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    • Awesome! That’s really cool you’ve gone with this one for your first. I hope you enjoy it and watch out, you might get addicted to reading challenges… I like to think of it as a healthy addiction though.

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