2nds Challenge 2009 Complete

J. Kaye hosted this challenge, which lasted all year and had 12 selections. I was getting worried awhile ago that I might not complete this challenge, but then toward the end of the year everything fell together rather quickly. I enjoyed reading all of these authors’ second books and do plan on reading a third on all of them (or already have in the case of Charlaine Harris and Louise Penny). My two favorites on this list were Unless and A Thousand Splendid Suns. Both were truly outstanding.

1. Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (1st: The Eyre Affair)
2. The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (1st: The Shadow of the Wind)
3. Shanghai Girls by Lisa See (1st: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan)
4. A Short Guide to a Happy Life by Anna Quindlen (1st: Blessings)
5. Unless by Carol Shields (1st: The Stone Diaries)
6. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (1st: Unaccustomed Earth)
7. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1st: Ethan Frome)
8. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (1st: Twilight)
9. A Fatal Grace (aka Dead Cold) by Louise Penny (1st: Still Life)
10. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (1st: The Kite Runner)
11. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris (1st: Dead Until Dark)
12. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (1st: The Hunger Games)

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