The 2009 Pub Challenge

Thanks to those 2008 Pub challenge participants who made it a great success! I hope you’ll consider joining the 2009 Pub as well. For those who didn’t participate last year but want to read at least nine 2009 releases, join us. New members are always welcome! The challenge lasts for all of 2009.

Here are the 2009 rules:

1. Read a minimum of 9 books first published in 2009. You don’t have to buy these. Library books, unabridged audios, or ARCs are all acceptable. To qualify as being first published in 2009, it must be the first time that the book is published in your own country. For example, if a book was published in Australia, England, or Canada in 2008, and then published in the USA in 2009, it counts (if you live in the USA). Newly published trade paperbacks and mass market paperbacks do not count if there has been a hardcover/trade published before 2009. Any questions on what qualifies? Just leave a comment here, and I’ll respond with the answer.
2. No children’s/YA titles allowed, since we’re at the ‘pub.’
3. At least 5 titles must be fiction.
4. Crossovers with other challenges are allowed.
5. You can add your titles as you go, and they may be changed at any time.
6. Sign up HERE using Mr. Linky.
7. Have fun reading your 2009 books!

These are the 2009 titles that I’m considering so far:

1. The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
2. The Houskeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
3. All the Living by C.E. Morgan
4. Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo
5. The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
6. The Tricking of Freya by Christina Sunley
7. Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
8. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
9. The Last Bridge by Teri Coyne
10. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
11. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
12. A Rule Against Murder (aka The Murder Stone) by Louise Penny
13. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
14. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
15. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
16. The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist

• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
• The Believers by Zoe Heller
• Drood by Dan Simmons

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