Countdown Challenge 2010

ALL 2010 CHALLENGES ARE A FAIL DUE TO PERSONAL REASONS

UPDATE: FAILED challenge

Okay, I'm officially crazy....another challenge! I just couldn't resist.  I've been seeing this one around the book blogosphere and it's just so listy! It speaks to my inner organizational self (way inner...I'm talking buried deep inside the outer layers of procrastinator self!).



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.



Click here to go to the site and sign up/link with Mr. Linky.





I'm not going to completely fill in the list now.  I'll have to come back to it.  And the 2010 books I know will be filled in mostly by ARCs!



MY LIST OF BOOKS--EITHER TO READ OR COMPLETED AFTER 9/9/09



2010

1. The Silent Governess by Julie Klassen--completed
2. Shadow Hills by Anastasia Hopcus--completed
3. Hush by Kate White--completed
4. The Mark by Jen Nadol--completed
5. Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show by Frank Delaney
6. The Queen's Pawn by Christy English
7. Cardboard by Fiona Place--completed
8. Anastasia's Secret by Susanne Dunlap--completed
9. Live a Life You Love by Dr. Susan Biali--completed
10. A Vintage Affair by Isabel Wolff--completed

2009

1. 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs--completed
2. Arch Enemy by Frank Beddor--completed
3. The Christmas List by Richard Paul Evans--completed
4. Matchless by Gregory Maguire--completed
5. Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran
6. Virgin and the Crab by Robert Parry--completed
7. Drood by Dan Simmons
8. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
9. Her Mother's Daughter by Julianne Lee

2008

1. The Other Queen by Phillipa Gregory
2. The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
3. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins completed
4. ???
5. ???
6. ???
7. ???
8. ???

2007

1. Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor--completed
2. The Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
3. The Terror by Dan Simmons
4. New England White by Stephen L. Carter
5. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer--completed
6. ???
7. ???

2006

1. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer-completed
2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy-completed
3. Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
4. Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett
5. The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard
6. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

2005

1. The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
2. ???
3. ???
4. ???
5. ???

2004

1. Lucrezia Borgia by John Faunce
2. ???
3. ???
4. ???

2003

1. The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
2. ???
3. ???

2002

1. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold--completed
2. The Passion of Artemesia by Susan Vreeland

2001

1. ???