This is the first time I've attempted this - and also my first full year working at the bookshop - so I'm not sure just how many books I'll be reading in 2010! To that end I'm following the example of other 1010-ers and starting with five books per category. If I find that I'm getting ahead of myself I'll just add more books later on to bring me closer to a 'true' 1010! I'll change the titles of books I've read to bold type to set them apart.



Don't get too excited - these are tentative ideas for now and who knows, I might have read some of them by 2010!

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Category 1: Short Stories, Letters and Essays
Does what it says on the tin
1) Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
2) Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters edited by Merlin Holland
3) A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
4) Gates of Eden by Ethan Coen
5) Essays by George Orwell

A few more ideas:
* Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman (re-read)
* The Groucho Letters by Groucho Marx
* The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters edited by Charlotte Mosley
* 84, Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff

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Category 2: Light as a Feather
Pure and unashamed fluff
1) Strawberry Shortcake Murder by Joanne Fluke
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Category 3: Golden Oldies
You can't beat the classics
1) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
2) The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
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Category 4: Pure Poetry
It's about time I actually read some of my collections!
1) Evangeline by Henry Longfellow
2) The Nation's Favourite Poems, foreword by Griff Rhys Jones
3) Poetry of the Romantics, ed. Paul Driver
4) John Clare (Everyman poetry), edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell
5) Christina Rossetti (Everyman poetry), edited by Jan Marsh

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Category 5: I Was Born, I Grew Up...
Biographies and autobiographies, or 'ego massagers' as I sometimes like to think of them
1) Catch Me if You Can by Frank W. Abagnale
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Category 6: You Learn Something New Every Day
Random non-fiction
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Category 7: Lights, Camera, Action!
Books that have been adapted for TV or film
1) Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
2) Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
3) Atonement by Ian McEwan
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Category 8: Stepping Out of the Comfort Zone
New authors, new genres
1) I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
2) The Green Mile by Stephen King
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Category 9: Come Fly With Me
Travelling without the hassle
1) Around the World in 80 Days by Michael Palin
2) A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
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Category 10: Lady's Choice
Open for new recs, new buys, and general 'I must read this now' stubborness...
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Hello elliepotten, your categories are great. I especially like Lights, Camera Action!

I work in an antiquarian bookstore in Arizona USA. That's how I got the reading bug, although I can't afford the books I sell. Good luck with your challenge and you book business.

Thanks! I'm really looking forward to having an afternoon between Christmas and New Year, messing around with my library and filling the categories up. They still won't be set in stone, but I'll have my Christmas presents/wintry comfort buys to add into the mix by then!

Hi, good mix of categories. It is a lot of fun to pick books for this challenge, I just hope I have as much fun actually reading them!

Hi there! I had already starred this thread before your comment showed up on mine, primarily on the basis of your first category. I love your profile. I especially love the listing of favorite books read for each year. Mine for 2009 is almost certainly going to be A.S. Byatt's Possession. Have fun in 2010.