The 999 Challenge

1. Pick 9 categories

2. Read 9 books in each of those categories

3. Complete them in 2009.

4. To make it easier ---
you could overlap 9 books, but that's up to you. I didn't overlap any books.

5. To make it harder ---
Complete all your books by 9/9/09.

Sign up for the challenge here. The challenge blog is here.

My catagories:
YA Fiction
1 A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle
2 The Day I Killed James by Catherine Ryan Hyde
3 The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
4 Stealing Heaven by Elizabeth Scott
5 Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
6 Nick of Time by Ted Bell
7 Looking For Alaska by John Green
8 Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman
9 A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

Book Club
1 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
2 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
3 Les misérables / by Victor Hugo ; adapted by Monica Kulling.
4 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
5 Around the World In 80 Days by Jules Vern
6 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
7 Everyone is Beautiful by Katherine Center
8 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
9 Little Women by Lousia Mae Alcott

Historical Fiction
1 The Book Thief
2 Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
3 Nick of Time
4 Washington's Lady
5 Light to My Path
6 Chains
7 Juliet's Moon
8 Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
9 The Boy Who Dared

New-to-me Authors
1 Madeleine L'Engle
2 Catherine Ryan Hyde
3 James Scott Bell
4 Marcus Zusak
5 Agnes Desarthe
6 Elizabeth Scott
7 Jean Lee Latham
8 M.L. Tyndall
9 Ted Bell

Published in 2009
1 The Red Siren
2 Gingham Mountain
3 Age Before Beauty
4 Daniel's Den
5 The School of Essential Ingredients
6 The Temptation of The Night Jasmine
7 The Independence of Miss Mary Bennett
8 Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
9 Silent on the Moor

On my TBR pile
1 The Red Siren
2 Courting Emma
3 Gingham Mountain
4 Age Before Beauty
5 Daniel's Den
6 Cry of Justice
7 Yesterday's Embers
8 Ransomed Dreams
9 The Unquiet Bones

Series Books
1 Try Dying
2 Try Darkness
3 Critical by Robin Cook
4 A Passion Redeemed
5 The Pawn by Steven James
6 The Rook by Steven James
7 A Great and Terrible Beauty
8 A Light To My Path
9 Salvation in Death

Romance
1 The Red Siren
2 A Passion Redeemed
3 Courting Emma
4 A Promise To Believe In
5 The Temptation of the Night Jasmine
6 A Constant Heart
7 The Treasure
8 The House In Grosvenor Square
9 The Redemption

Supporting my local library
1 Hamlet
2 A Wrinkle In Time
3 Try Dying
4 Try Darkness
5 The Day I Killed James
6 The Book Thief
7 Riven
8 Chez Moi
9 Stealing Heaven