My name is Jess, and I am a book addict...

Merry Christmas everyone! :) This has been a truly full year for me - I finished my Master's degree, started a travel agency, got a new part time job (that helps me pay the bills while I grow my travel agency lol), lost my grandfather and a family friend, bought a second home and leased our current home, and so much more.

And, of course, I read some great and some not-so-great books.

As I was catching up on Goodreads, putting in reviews for books I finished up a while ago but just hadn't had time to type up the reviews, I noticed that my "To Read" list on Goodreads had surpassed 5200 books. That's a whole dang lot of books, especially since I've only been averaging about 130 books read per year! Some of those books are ones that I am not actually interested in, but rather than wade through the entire list to delete them I have just let them sit there.

That inspired me to try something different this upcoming year. Rather than just read whatever I feel like, without regard to whether or not it is on my To Read list, I decided to limit myself to books that are only on the To Read list, with one exception - if I am offered books by publishers/authors for review that aren't on my list, I won't be turning them down (because as my fellow book addicts understand, nothing feels quite so thrilling as a few book!).

So I went to a random number generator online, and input my beginning and end values matching the length of my To Read list, and VOILA - I had a ready-made way of deciding which books off my To Read list I would be tackling this upcoming year. I kept the list at 130 books, which is about my average, knowing that I may not be able to get to quite that many when you factor in publisher/author requests. As I went through the numbers and pulled up the corresponding book from my To Read list, I also weeded out any books that weren't actually interesting to me - that cut out about 50 books from my list automatically!

The hardest part about this particular challenge is that I am not allowing myself to add any additional books to my To Read list this year, unless it is a corresponding book in a series that I start this year (several of the books I ended up with are #1 in a series, meaning if I like that book I will be marking the second book in the series as "to read"). This makes me a little sad, as one of my favorite pastimes when I am not reading is going through the Giveaways listed on Goodreads, but I know that it will be worth it! :)

Now for the part you can help me with - I'd like to line up all of these books for FREE if possible, as I don't make any money by reviewing books! ;) Some should be available at my local library, but for the rest I am hoping that my lovely followers will help me to obtain free copies. When I am finished reading, I will be doing one of two things with the book - either 1) passing it on to a friend or family member who I think would appreciate it, or 2) adding it to my pile of books to be donated to a local library here that is in desperate need of a better variety of books!! I'll keep track of how many books I get to donate by the end of the year - my goal is to donate at least 75 of the 130 books!

Without further ado, here is my anticipated reading list for 2013:

	Failing Test (The Shadow Series, #1)	Pierce, J.M. *
	Lily Loves to Love	Reil, Maureen*
	Nate Rocks the World (Nate Rocks, #1)	Toz, Karen Pokras *
	Before I Go to Sleep	Watson, S.J. *
	The Shapeshifter's Secret	Ostler, Heather*
	Rise of the Retics (Rosehaven the Hidden City, #1)	Lantz, T.J.
	Hammerhead	Bond, Jason Andrew *
	Aldo's Fantastical Movie Palace	Friesen, Jonathan
	Lost in Petra	Mahle, Melissa Boyle *
	Whiskey Rebellion (An Addison Holmes Mystery #1)	Hart, Liliana*
	Nanowhere	Howard, Chris *
	Sinners And Saints	Murray, Victoria Christopher
	Tropical Delusion: Misadventures in Paradise	Ashmead, Jeff*
	The Missing	Leslie, M.A.
	Silas	Duperre, Robert J. *
	The Counterfeit Princess	Knight, Aubrey *
	This Brilliant Darkness	Tash, Red *
	The Vanishers	Julavits, Heidi
	The Chronicles of Brendan Earle, Apprentice Mage. Totally Interactive. Autosaved.	Studholme, Bob*
	The Moon Moth	Vance, Ja
	No One is Here Except All of Us	Ausubel, Ramona *
	The Thread	Hislop, Victoria
	Silverweed: A Supernatural Fairy Tale (Volume 1)	Vann, Dorlana*
	27	Heald, R.J.
	An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace	Adler, Tama
	In Your Face: The New Science of Human Attraction	Perrett, David*
	The Cordello Quest (Lazuli Portals #1)	Gawn, Joanna *
	The Labbitt Halsey Protocol	Ryan, Andrew M. *
	Amaranth (The Resistance Trilogy, #1)	Wade, Rachael *
	Sunset (Pact Arcanum, #1)	Ahsanuddin, Arshad *
	Harvest of the Heart	Selmer, Michael *
	Fair Coin (Coin, #1)	Myers, E.C. *			3.54
	Goddess Cottage	Dub, Sherri A.*
	Homegrown and Handmade: A Practical Guide to More Self-Reliant Living	Niemann, Deborah *
	Glow (Sky Chasers, #1)	Ryan, Amy Kathleen *
	Katana (Katana, #1)	Gibsen, Cole *
	Wake Me When the Sun Goes Down (Forged Bloodlines #1)	Olsen, Lisa
	Naked Brain	Hunt, Michael A. *
	The Marcella Fragment	LaForge, Anna*
	How To Lose a Demon in 10 Days (10 Days, #1)	DeWylde, Sarann
	The Fire King	Marks, C.S. *
	Date with a Vampire (Harold the Kung Fu Kid, #1)	Gow, Kailin
	Just Add Magic	Callaghan, Cindy *
	The Legend of Mickey Tussler: A Novel	Nappi, Frank
	Destiny's Call (The Lightbridge Legacy, #1)	James, Elayne G. *
	Summer of the Wolves	Kline, Lisa Williams *
	Lady of The Shadows	Weikel, Belinda M. *
	Humblebrag: The Art of False Modesty	Wittels, Harris
	Walden 3.0: A Dystopian Romance	Fragasso, Phil
	The Never Prayer	Ritchey, Aaron Michael*
	The Puppet Maker's Bones(Death's Order, #1)	Tangredi, Alisa*

			Burning Blue			Griffin, Paul
			The Dream Sanctum			Koeker, Daniel*
			Wordcatcher: An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words			Cousineau, Phil*
			Before Ever After: A Novel			Sotto, Samantha *
			The Hour of Tiamat			Taylor, Lisa *
			Sonora and the Eye of the Titans (Sonora, #1)			Hall, Travis
			Buying Time (An Aspen Moore Novel, #1)			Cochran, Kelly*
			The Mermaid Collector			Marks, Erika *
			Cycles			Brown, Lois D. *
			Aventurine Heart			Wood, Carole
			Program 13 (The Emile Reed Chronicles, #1)			Sobon, Nicol
			Failstate			Otte, John W
			Freakling (Freakling, #1)			Krumwiede, Lana *
			The Seven Keys of Alaesha			Warren, Samantha *
			The Mulligans of Mt. Jefferson: A Novel			Reid, Don
		Spirit Binder (The Cascadian Chronicles #1)			Doidge, Meghan Ciana*
			Thorn			Khanani, Intisar*
			Blue Straggler			Harris, Kathy Lynn *
			Vigilare			James, Brooklyn *
			Rockapocalypse: A Disharmony of Justice			Suggs, Byron
			Edge of the Triangle			Cook, D.H.
			The Hunt (The Hunt, #1)			Fukuda, Andrew
			Matadors			Bauman, Steve*
			Soul Catcher (Dueling with the Devil, #1)			Dumas, Vivi *
			Until Darkness Comes			Price, Melynda*
		How to Be a Woman			Moran, Caitlin
	The Babysitter Murders			Young, Janet Ruth *
	The Torah Codes			Barany, Ezra
	Comic Squad			Voight, Ginger *

					Cinderella Geek						Jennkrist, K. Sean
					The Raven's Gift						Rearden, Don*
					Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America's Imperial Dream						Jones, Gregg
					Lisa's Way						Collins, Robert
					The Pawnbroker						Stuart, Glen
					Hidden from Destiny						Fischer, Micaela *
					Eat Naked: Unprocessed, Unpolluted, and Undressed Eating for a Healthier, Sexier You						Floyd, Margaret *
				The Faerie Guardian (Creepy Hollow, #1)						Morgan, Rachel*
			Multiplayer							Brewer, John C. *
			The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise							Stuart, Julia
			Try Not to Breathe							Hubbard, Jennifer R
			The Burn							Oldham, Annie*
			Songs of the Earth							Cooper, Elspeth *
			Wake Forest							Jackanicz, Charlotte *
			Written In The Sky: Rise of The Wadjet Witch							Obodo, Juliet C. *
			Romeo Spikes							Reay, Joanne
			Dolphin Girl							Delisle, Shel *
			Soul Seeker (Lasniniar, #1)							Smith, Jacquelyn *
			How Lucky You Are							Lewis, Kristyn Kusek *
			Beyond the Misty Shore(Seascape Trilogy, #1)							Barrett, Victoria
		The Only Living Man With A Hole In His Head					Pliss, Todd Colby
	Fathers & Sons (Forts, #1)					Novak, Steven
	Thief (Fringe, #1)					McLeod, Anitra Lynn
	Bound in Vengeance					Nelson, Erik Robert *
	As If a Bird Flew By Me: A Novel					Greenslit, Sara*
	Jokers Club					Bastianelli, Gregory *
	The Black God's War (Splendor and Ruin, #1)					III, Moses Siregar *
	Lacrimosa (Requiem, #1)					Fonseca, Christine *
	Marty Boggs and the Curse of the Mummy's Tomb					Acquaire, M.T. *
	My Dead Boyfriend (Daughter of the Sidhe, #1)					Rose, Barbara
	Big Miracle					Rose, Tom
	Black Crystal (Black Scarlet Saga, #1)					Oakes, R.A. *
	Redheart					Gamber, Jackie *
	Deadwood					Andrews, Kell*
	Lowcountry Boil (A Liz Talbot Mystery, #1)					Boyer, Susan M.*
	Amy Mah Vampire					Mah, Amy
	Freud's Sister: A Novel					Smilevski, Goce
	The Pond					Dubois, Michelle*
	Beautiful Lies					Warman, Jessica
	The Lost Book of Mala R.					MacDowell, Rose *
	The Pawnbroker					Stuart, Glenn
	The Crystal Bridge					Pulsipher, Charles M. *
	The Veil					Oakes, Cory Putman *
	Mouch and Company: The Dream Psychic					Dixon, Bob *
	Vampyre Kisses (The Last Witch, #1)					Kolodziej, Elizabeth J. *
	A Royal Likeness					Trent, Christine *
	Undertow					Kingston, Callie*
	Atlantean (Eternal Trilogy, #1)					Watkins, E.N. *
	The Awakening					Lacy, M.L. *
	The Genesis Key					Barney, James*

Merry Christmas, and a book-tastic New Year to all of you! :)