This is my first challenge, so I might be tweaking this as I go. But here's the preliminary list of categories, without clever titles (which I will try to come up with at a later date):

1. WordsWorth Book Club picks

2. Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour winners

3. travel writing

4. gothic lit

5. food writing

6. science/natural history

7. biography/memoir

8. great graphic novels

9. 1001 books

10. favourite childhood books

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WordsWorth Book Club picks

1. Our Lady of the Lost and Found by Diane Schoemperlen
2. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
3. This is How by M.J. Hyland
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Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour

1. Never Shoot a Stampede Queen by Mark Leiren-Young
2. With Axe and Flask: the History of Persephone Township by Dan Needles
3. The Fencepost Chronicles by W.P. Kinsella
4. King Leary by Paul Quarrington
5. The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick by Morley Torgov
6. Letters from the Country by Marsha Boulton
7. Beauty Tips from Moosejaw by Will Ferguson
8. Prayers of a Very Wise Child by Roch Carrier
9. Just Add Water and Stir by Pierre Burton
10. Jake and the Kid by W.O. Mitchell

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Travel Writing

1. Beyond Belfast by Will Ferguson
2. The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara
3. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
4. Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
5. Through the Embers of Chaos by Dervla Murphy
6. The River at the Centre of the World by Simon Winchester
7. Incontinent on the continent: my mother, her walker, and our grand tour of Italy by Jane Christmas
8. Through Siberia by Accident by Dervla Murphy
9. Beauty Tips from Moosejaw by Will Ferguson
10. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

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Gothic Lit

1. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
2. The Monk by M.G. Lewis
3. Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin
4. Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu
5. Vathek by William Beckford
6. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
7. Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe
8. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Food Writing

1. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
2. Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl
3. The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten
4. Is There a Nutmeg in the House? by Elizabeth David
5. The Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher
6. On Food and Cooking: the Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee
7. Feast: a History of Grand Eating by Roy Strong
8. Near a Thousand Tables: a History of Food by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
9. Endless feasts: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet compiled by Ruth Reichl
10. My life in France by Julia Child

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Science/Natural History

1. Winter World: the Ingenuity of Animal Survival by Bernd Heinrich
2. Summer World: a Season of Bounty by Bernd Heinrich
3. The book of eels by Tom Fort
4. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
5. Stiff: the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
6. A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
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Biography/Memoir

1. Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
2. Billy Bragg: Still Suitable for Miners by Andrew Collins
3. The Snoring Bird by Bernd Heinrich
4. Dickens: Public Life and Private Passion by Peter Ackroyd
5. Shakespeare: the Biography by Peter Ackroyd
6. Village of Small Houses: a Memoir of Sorts : by Ian Ferguson
7. Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer
8. Blake by Peter Ackroyd
9. The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
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Great Graphic Novels

1. From Hell by Alan Moore
2. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
3. 300 by Frank Miller
4. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
5. Maus by Art Spiegelman
6. Louis Riel by Chester Brown
7. American Splendour by Harvey Pekar
8. Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
9. It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken by Seth
10. Black Hole by Charles Burns

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1001 Novels

I'm cheating a bit here - I'm using the 1001 list to pick up some books I've been meaning to read!

1. Ulysses by James Joyce
2. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
3. The Trial by Franz Kafka
4. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
5. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
6. The Name of the Rose
7. Neuromancer by William Gibson
8. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
9. Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
10. Felicia's Journey by William Trevor

Message edited by its author, Oct 27, 2009, 12:44pm.

Welcome, and I love your Wordsworth Books category, because I'm a fan of that store myself! I haven't gone to any of their book club meetings but I attend their other events once in a while. Nice to see some locals around here on LibraryThing!

Childhood favourites

1. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
2. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
3. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
4. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
5. The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter
6. The Time Quintet by Madeleine L'Engle
7. Danny, Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
8. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
9. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
10. Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Message edited by its author, Nov 2, 2009, 5:20pm.

Looking forward to read what you think of the books in your Gothic Lit, Great Graphic Novels and 1001 Novels categories.

Hi & welcome, You have some graphic novels there which I have never heard of, be interested to see what you think.

Very interesting categories, and for me a nice blend of stuff I've read and liked, stuff I've been meaning to read and stuff I've never heard of. This will be an interesting thread to follow!

Are you starting january 1st 2010?

Thanks, all, for the interest!

Gingerbreadman, I'm starting January, if I can wait that long... :-D