I’m not really posting this for anyone to join me, as this is something I’m doing just for me, ahead of time, to make sure I get to read most of the books I want to next year. I still plan on joining a few group challenges in 2008, but I felt I needed to make these lists for myself to keep my own reading priorities straight.
I’m having a personal Triple 8 Challenge. Meaning, I am going to read 8 books in 8 different categories in 2008. That’s 64 books. I am allowing 8 overlaps, which means I have to read 56 separate titles for this.
I only have 7 categories so far, and not all lists are filled in yet. They are also listed in the ’08 books tab above under ’08 challenges.
8 Pulitzers
- Empire Falls (Russo)
- Interpreter of Maladies (Lahiri)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Wilder)
- So Big (Ferber)
- The Magnificent Ambersons (Tarkington)
8 Bookers
- Life of Pi (Martel)
- Possession: A Romance (Byatt)
- The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro)
- Hotel Du Lac (Brookner)
- Life & Times of Michael K (Coetzee)
8 Sci-fi
- 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clark
- Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
- Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
- Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
- That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (and possibly sequels)
8 books in translation
- Independent People by Halldor Laxness (Icelandic)
- The Neverending Story by Michael Ende (German)
- War and Peace by Tolstoy (Russian)
- Sophie’s World by Jostein Gardner (Norwegian)
- Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (Polish)
- If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino (Italian)
8 books ‘Around the World’
- The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
- Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
8 female authors of the 19th century
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- Adam Bede by George Eliot
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
- Villette or Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
8 detective novels
- #3 in No. 1 Ladies series by Smith
- #4 in No. 1 Ladies series by Smith
- #3 in Thursday Next series by Fforde
- #4 in Thursday Next series by Fforde
- ? by Agatha Christie
- ? by Agatha Christie
8 ? (to be determined)
This way when a challenge comes up, I’ll be able to see if it fits with what I’m already planning on reading. Obsessive, I know. 
