Countdown Challenge 2010

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Anyone up for a 55 book commitment? I actually wasn’t sure I was going to be able to complete this challenge last year, but if you’re already doing the Pub Challenge, it’s actually not too difficult.  Why not join?!  Click on the icon at right to go to the challenge site and sign up.

1. The goal of this challenge is to read the number of books first published in a given year that corresponds to the last digit of each year in the 2000s — 10 books from 2010, 9 books from 2009, 8 books from 2008, etc. The total number of books required, therefore, is 55.
2. This challenge lasts from 9/9/09 through 10/10/10.
3. Crossovers with other challenges are allowed and your lists may change at any time.
4. Sign up using Mr. Linky.
5. Have fun reading!

My partial list of books I’ll choose from:

2010

1. The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
2. The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith

• An Irish Country Girl
• The Lotus Eaters
• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
• Mockingjay
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
• Rock Paper Tiger
• Ship Breaker
• The Invisible Bridge
• Incarceron
• The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan
• A Thread of Sky
• Girl in Translation
• The Unnamed
• Memory Wall
• The Hand That First Held Mine
• Matterhorn
• A Nest for Celeste
• The Night Fairy

2009

1. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
2. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
3. A Rule Against Murder (aka The Murder Stone) by Louise Penny
4. Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
5. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
6. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
7. The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist
8. American Rust by Philipp Meyer
9. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
10. The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
11. Tinkers by Paul Harding
12. Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork

• The Thing Around Your Neck by Adichie
• Her Fearful Symmetry by Niffenegger
• Nocturnes by Ishiguro
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
• The Believers by Heller
• Year of the Flood by Atwood
• Drood by Dan Simmons

2008

1. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
2. The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
3. The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
4. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
5. The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
6. Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
7. At a Loss for Words by Diane Schoemperlen

• Home by Marilynne Robinson
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
• The Likeness
• The Front Porch Prophet

2007

1. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
2. A Fatal Grace (aka Dead Cold) by Louise Penny
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
4. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
5. Vampire Knight Vol 1 by Matsuri Hino
6. Unwind by Neal Shusterman

• In the Woods by French
• First Among Sequels
• Tenderness of Wolves
• The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
• Savage Detectives
• Bridge of Sighs
• Then We Came to the End
• Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
• Run by Ann Pachett
• Reluctant Fundamentalist
• Fire in the Blood
• Maytrees
• Someone Knows My Name
• Astrid and Veronika
• The Blood of Flowers
• Gifted
• Lottery
• Mister Pip
• The Rest Falls Away
• Rises the Night
• Yiddish Policeman’s Union
• Down River by Hart
• The Terror by Simmons

2006

1. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
2. The Inhabited World by David Long
3. Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
4. Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
5. Specials by Scott Westerfeld

• Measuring the World
• Dream Life of Sukhanov

Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Last Town on Earth by Mullen
What is the What
Digging to America
Stolen Child by Donohue
Apex Hides the Hurt
Arthur and George
Black Swan Green
Matrimony
The Tent by Atwood
Moral Disorder by Atwood
The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox

2005

1. Still Life by Louise Penny
2. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
3. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
4. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
5. Pretties by Scott Westerfeld

• Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
• Norwegian Wood by Murakami

• Criss Cross by Lynn Rae Perkins
• History of Love
• Kafka on the Shore
• The Tender Bar
• On Beauty Zadie Smith
• Saturday by McEwan
• Eleanor Rigby by Coupland
• Mother’s Milk
• Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon
• Seven Types of Ambiguity

2004

1. Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
2. The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
3. The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland

• The Ghost Writer
• Runaway by Munro
• Something Rotten
• Cloud Atlas
• Small Island

2003

1. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris

• Vernon God Little
• Molokai
• Mrs. Kimble
• The Well of Lost Plots
• Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
• The Great Fire
• Jennifer Government
• Love by Toni Morrison
• My Life as a Fake
• Reunion by Alan Lightman
• Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

2002

1. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
2. The Good Women of China by Xinran
3. Expat edited by Christina Henry de Tessan

2001

1. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
2. Empire Falls by Richard Russo

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