1. Books based in England COMPLETE!!

Consequences by Penelope Livey Finished 1/21/2008
Quite Honestly by John Mortimer Finished 1/24/2008. Gave this only 1/2 star.
The Art Thief by Noah Charney Finished 4/4/2008 (could also be Mystery)
End in Tears by Ruth Rendell, Finished 10/1/2008
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shafer, Finished 9/20/2008
The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill, Finished 10/30/1008
Neverwhere: A Novel by Neil Gaiman, Finished 11/01/2008
She May Not Leave by Fay Weldon, Finished 11/10/2008
Second Chance by Jane Green, Finished 12/16/2008 (Extra)

2. Books by Joyce Carol Oates COMPLETE!!

Beasts Completed 01/26/2008
Black Girl White Girl Finished 2/15/2008
Missing Mom Finished 5/6/2008
We Were the Mulvaneys Finished 5/29/2008
Wild Nights!: Stories about the last days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James and Hemingway Finished 6/21/2008
Man Crazy Finished 8/5/2008
First Love Finished 10/26/2008
Freaky Green Eyes Finished 11/6/2008
My Sister, My Love Finished 11/30/2008 (Extra)

3. Books based in Massachusetts COMPLETE!!!!!

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult finished 03/09/2008
Run by Ann Patchett finished 03/22/2008
All in One Piece by Cecelia Tishy Finished 03/30/2008 (could also be Mystery or Supernatural catagories)
The Wrong Man by John Katzenack Finished 05/10/2008
Without a Map by Meridith Hall Finished 07/23/2008
Summer Blowout by Claire Cook Finished 07/25/2008
Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult Finished 08/02/2008
Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell Finished 11/20/2008
The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry Finished 12/09/2008 (Extra)

4. Mysteries COMPLETE!!!!!!!

The Quiet Girl by Peter Hoeg Finished 1/18/2008
The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld finished 1/21/2008
Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen finished 2/19/2008
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey finished 02/29/2008
Magic Hour : a novel by Kristin Hannah finished 4/12/2008
The Darkest Evening of the Year by Dean Koontz finished 05/27/2008 (could also be Supernatural)
Reservation Road by John Burnham Schwartz finished 8/11/2008
Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman Finished 10/12/2008
Night Villa by Carol Goodman Finished 10/15/2008 (Extra)
Over Her Dead Body by Kate White Finished 11/09/2008 (Extra)

5. Crime Dramas (I'm having a bit of a hard time distinguishing Mysteries from Crime Dramas!) COMPLETE!!!!!

Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell completed 1/12/2008. I didn't enjoy this :-(
The Crime Writer by Gregg Hurwitz finished 1/25/2008
Stone Cold by David Baldacci Finished 3/25/2008
The Second Mouse by Archer Mayor Finished 6/6/2008
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain Finished 6/12/2008
In The Woods by Tana French Finished 7/6/2008
The Broken Window by Jeffery Deaver Finished 8/1/2008
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Finished 08/09/2008

6. Books in which a Lawyer is the Protagonist COMPLETE!!!

The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly Finished 4/5/2008
The Mayor of Lexington Avenue by James Sheehan Finished 5/12/2008
Reckless Abandon by Stuart Woods Finished 6/8/2008
The Appeal by John Grisham Finished 6/21/2008
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoulet Finished 7/25/2008
Killer Heat by Linda Fairstein Finiished 8/17/2008
Bound: A Novel by Sally Gunning Finished 10/21/2008
Play Dead by David Rosenfeldt Finished 12/20/2008

7. Books involving Time Travel - COMPLETE!!

Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon completed 1/31/2008
Voyager by Diana Gabaldon completed 5/1/2008
Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon completed 7/25/2008
Time and Time Again by Jack Finney, finished 6/5/2008
Timeline by Michael Crichton, Finished 8/24/2008
The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon, Finished 9/14/2008
The Plot to Save Socrates by Paul Levinston, Finished 10/25/2008
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler, Finished 12/07/2008
Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon Underway (Extra)

8. Books involving the Supernatural (e.g., ghosts, vampires, shape-shifters, etc.) COMPLETED!!!

Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill finished 1/1/2008
The Devil You Know by Mike Carey Finished 3/3/2008
Frankenstein Book One: Prodigal Son by Dean Koontz and Kevin J Anderson Finished 2/20/2008
Mozart's Ghost by Julia Cameron finished 3/16/2008
Duma Key by Stephen King Finished 4/5/2008
The Spirit of the Place by Samuel Shem (advanced reader's) 5/7/2008
Frankenstein Book Two: City of Night by Dean Koontz finished 8/29/2008
You've Been Warned by James Patterson Finished 10/6/2008 (could also be mystery)
Blood Canticile by Anne Rice, Finished 11/03/2008 (extra)

Doesn't Fit In A Category:

Finding Mother's Body finished 3/3/2008
The Education of Little Tree by Forest Carter finished 2/29/2008
Two Old Women by Velma Wallis finished 3/6/2008
The Race by Richard North Patterson finished 5/1/2008
The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III Finished 8/3/2008
The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom Finished 8/29/2008
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson Finished 9/5/2008
The Fire (advanced reader's copy) by Katherine Neville Finished 10/01/2008
Where the River Ends by Charles Martin Finished 10/18/2008
Identical by Ellen Hopkinis, Finished 10/22/2008
The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III Underway
The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer Finished 11/11/2008
The Letters by Luanne Rich & Joseph Monninger Finished 11/23/2008
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch Finished 12/04/2008
Goldengrove by Francine Prose Finished 12/08/2008
Off Season by Anne Rivers Siddons Finished 12/21/2008

Message edited by its author, Dec 21, 2008, 6:52pm.

I think I'm doing well on most of my categories, but I fear I'm running out of ideas for my "time travel" category. I've got one more book in Diana Gabaldon's Clare and Jamie Frasier series (Breath of Snow and Ash) on my list, which will bring me to seven. I've already read such classics of time-travel fiction as The Time Traveler's Wife, To Say Nothing of the Dog, and From Time to Time. I've gone through all of Jasper Fforde's (fabulous) Thursday Next books. I read Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and, of course, HG Well's Time Machine.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

FYI, I'm not much of a sci fi reader.

Thanks.

Re time travel: Have you read A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux?

>6 Ha! I was going to suggest Timeline by Michael Crichton, but see you've already read it (and rated it the same as I did!).

The only other book in my library with that tag is The Time Traveler's Wife. But two others are on my wishlist: Time's Arrow by Martin Amis and A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle.

Plot to Save Socrates by Paul Levinson is a time travel book. It integrates some interesting Socratic and Platonic philosophy but is basically along the lines of the Willis books, although I love love the Willis books.

I was browsing through my lists and noticed that Flight by Sherman Alexie is about time travel. Then I spent 15 minutes trying to figure out who in the 888 Challenge was looking for time travel books. (I knew someone was, couldn't remember who?!?) Anyway awesome book, the main character jumps through time visiting acts of violence toward Native Americans, and it prevents him from committing an act of violence toward others.

Hey OneMorePage - I was going to suggest A Knight in Shining Armor too.... it's a wonderful book.

I have one other book tagged time travel. I got it at the Friends of the Library Sale last fall and really, really enjoyed it - The Dechronization of Sam Magruder by George Gaylord Simpson. It has a preface by Arthur C Clarke and an afterward by Steven Jay Gould and is about a man who figures out the physics of time travel then goes back 80 million years! It's fun to read how he figures out "when" he is.

Simpson was the "preeminent paleontologist of the 20th Century" and this was found after his death. There's also a memoir by his daughter. It's a fun quick read if you can find it.

I'm done! I'm done! I'm so happy!

Congrats on finishing! What a great accomplishment! :)
--BJ