Lotharia's 999 Challenge

I would love to complete this challenge!! I would love it if anyone could give me suggestions to add for the categories I have selected to fill out the empty spots. I am trying to fill up the spaces with books that I already own first, but new suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Some of these titles overlap, so if I can't come up with a book I'll just sort of fill out the categories with books from the same series and adjust it as I go along!! I will spend more time on this list over the next week and hopefully get a complete list by January 1, 2009!!!

*****Vampires*****

1. Cravings, Laurell K. Hamilton et al. Read Aug 22, 2009
2. Minion, L. A. Banks
3. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
4. Full Moon Rising, Keri Arthur
5. Vampires: Encounters with the Undead, David J. Skal
6. The Undead Kama Sutra, Mario Acevedo
7. The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide, J.R. Ward
8. X-Rated Bloodsuckers, Mario Acevedo
9. The Dark-Hunter Companion, Sherrilyn Kenyon
10. Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer

***** Shapeshifters *****

1. Night Play, Sherrilyn Kenyon Read Jul 17, 2009
2. Bitten, Kelley Armstrong Read Jan 22, 2009
3. Stolen, Kelley Armstrong Read Aug 21, 2009
4. Moon Called, Patricia Briggs
5. Bad Blood, L. A. Banks
6. Wounded, Stephen Cole
7. Kissing Sin, Keri Arthur
8. Tempting Evil, Keri Arthur
9. Dangerous Games, Keri Arthur

*****Witches*****

1. Dime Store Magic, Kelley Armstrong Read Sep 1, 2009
2. Industrial Magic, Kelley Armstrong Read Sep 4, 2009
3. Living with the Dead, Kelley Armstrong
4. No Humans Involved, Kelley Armstrong
5. Haunted, Kelley Armstrong
6. Old Magic, Marianne Curley
7. Spellbinder, Melanie Rawn
8. Dead Witch Walking, Kim Harrison
9. The Good, The Bad, and the Undead, Kim Harrison

*****Wizards*****

1. Wizard's First Rule, Terry Goodkind Read Jun 27, 2009
2. Stone of Tears, Terry Goodkind Read Jun 30, 2009
3. Blood of the Fold Read Jul 5, 2009
4. Phantom, Terry Goodkind
5. Naked Empire, Terry Goodkind
6. The Pillars of Creation, Terry Goodkind
7. Faith of the Fallen, Terry Goodkind
8. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
9. The Tombs of Atuan, Ursula K. Le Guin
10. The Farthest Shore, Ursula K. Le Guin
11. Tehanu, Ursula K. Le Guin

*****Ghosts*****

1. Jane Emily: And Witches' Children, Patricia Clapp
2. Blue Girl, Charles de Lint
3. Remember Me, Christopher Pike
4. A Certain Slant of Light
5. Shadowland, Meg Cabot
6. Ninth Key, Meg Cabot
7. Reunion, Meg Cabot
8. Darkest Hour, Meg Cabot
9. Haunted, Meg Cabot

*****Fairies / Faerie / Fey*****

1. Swallowing Darkness, Laurell K. Hamilton Read Jan 4/2009
2. The Opal Deception, Eoin Colfer
3. The Eternity Code, Eoin Colfer
4. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
5. The Arctic Incident, Eoin Colfer
6. Tithe, Holly Black
7. Valiant, Holly Black
8. Ironside, Holly Black
9. Darkfever, Karen Marie Moning

*****Demons / Souls / *****

1. Coraline, Neil Gaiman Read Jan 4, 2009
2. On A Pale Horse, Piers Anthony Read Aug 14, 2009
3. Sebastian, Anne Bishop
4. The Host, Stephenie Meyer
5. Jacob, Jacquelyn Frank
6. Gideon, Jacquelyn Frank
7. Elijah, Jacquelyn Frank
8. Surviving Demon Island, Jaci Burton
9. Hunting the Demon, Jaci Burton
10. The Darkest Fire, Gena Showalter

*****Dragons*****

1. Dragon Prince, Melanie Rawn
2. The Star Scroll, Melanie Rawn
3. Sunrunner's Fire, Melanie Rawn
4. Eragon, Christopher Paolini
5. Eldest, Christopher Paolini
6. Brisingr, Christopher Paolini
7. The Dragon and the George, Gordon R. Dickson
8. The Dragon Knight, Gordon R. Dickson
9. The Dragon on the Border, Gordon R. Dickson

*****Time Travel*****

1. The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger Read Sep 6, 2009
2. Replay, Ken Grimwood
3. The Named, Marianne Curley
4. The Dark, Marianne Curley
5. The Key, Marianne Curley
6. The Drums of Autumn, Diana Gabaldon
7. The Fiery Cross, Diana Gabaldon
8. A Breathe of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
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***** Children's Fantasy *****

1. Coraline, Neil Gaiman Read Jan 4, 2009
2. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer Read Feb 2, 2009
3. The Book of Three, Lloyd Alexander Read Jun 6, 2009
4. The Black Cauldron, Lloyd Alexander Read Aug 1, 2009
5. The Castle of Llyr, Lloyd Alexander Read Aug 7, 2009
6. Watership Down, Richard Adams Read Aug 10, 2009
7. Taran Wanderer, Lloyd Alexander Read Aug 16, 2009
8. The High King, Lloyd Alexander Read Aug 16, 2009

TOTAL PARANORMAL READ: 23

Hi!

First, I love your titles and categories! I am doing the regular 999 challenge but I read a lot of paranormal related books too.

I noticed something in your categories, some of the books by Kelley Armstrong are placed in the wrong categories I think: I am currently reading Dime Store Magic and it' more about witches and sorcerer, while Stolen was about werewolves. It gets confusing since she uses many different narrators. ;-)

Also, I don't know if you've already read Moon called by Patricia Briggs. I haven't read it yet, but I heard it's a good shapeshifter novel. Also, in your ghosts category I would suggest A certain slant of light, which is more a poetic than a horrific story of ghosts. I read Blue Girl and I liked it, although not my most favorite book of the author.

Finally, in the time travel category, The Time Traveler's Wife is really popular, and I enjoyed it too, I thought it was well written and a good page-turner. There's also Replay, by Ken Grimwood, which is not exactly about time travel, at least not in the usual way, but it has an interesting idea.

For Werewolves there is a new la banks series called crimson moon novels.

There will be three once the newest comes out next year, you could add those to your list. As for some of the others please feel free to look at my list, and tell me if you have any I have not thought of.

Thank you for the input!!

kittykay: I haven't read any of the Kelley Armstrong books yet and I know a lot of them overlap, so I will have to get those sorted out!! Thank you for the suggestions, I am going to add them to my list.

jomullane: Cool, thanks!! I just took a peek at your 999 list and I love it! I might have to steal a few of those for my own list! I'll post over there some of my suggestions :)

If you're open to ya books I have some recs for you:

The Mediator series by Meg Cabot (ghosts)
Wereling by Stephen Cole (werewolves)
The Named, The Dark and The Key by Marianne Curley (time travel)
Tithe by Holly Black (Fairies)
Old Magic by Marianne Curley (witches)

For adults:

Sebastian by Anne Bishop (demons)
Many of the Highlander books by Karen Marie Moning deal with time travel.
Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning (fairies)

For your 'Demon' catagory you could possibly read:

Jacquelyn Frank's Nightwalker series. The first book is Jacob
Jaci Burton has a series called 'Demon Hunters' but the hero's of the stories are the Demon's. The first book is Surviving Demon Island.
Gena Showalter's 'Lords of the Underworld' series would also work. The first book is The Darkest Night.

I don't have suggestions for you since the categories I could recommend for you are filled in already! If you like silly chick lit, Marianne Mancusi has two books about time travel, they are what I call my "fun throwaway" type books- cute, quick, and easy.

I love some of the ideas that you have on here for your categories, I may borrow a couple of ideas from you!

Thanks for the suggestions! I appreciate them all! I actually finished 2 books yesterday. I read Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K. Hamilton. It was all right... Probably my least favourite of the Meredith Gentry series, but still I love LKH!! The other book I read was Coraline by Neil Gaiman. I have wanted to read Neil Gaiman for a long time. I enjoyed this book. It was kind of creepy, which I'm sure was the intention. I read it in one sitting and I look forward to reading more of his work.

Oh.. and I love your idea of "fun throwaway" books amysnortts... I usually call those types simply "one-time-reads" but your way is so much more fun to say!!

I've always wanted to read Coraline (1-it's so small, and 2-I love YA books), but I have yet to find a copy to buy. Btw, have you ever read Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman? It's my first and favorite book by him. I'd definitely recommend it. :)

>7 amysnortts: Is one of the Mancusi books titled Moongazer? I just recently got it off of BookMooch and haven't read it yet. I love the cover!

No, I haven't read Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman but it is on my list of books to read... someday!!

Errr... well, so far, I've read...... 3 paranormal books.. It looks like I'm going to have to pick up the pace if I want to complete this challenge!

I finished Bitten by Kelley Armstrong. I quite liked this tale of werewolves and I love the Canadian references. I have Stolen as one of the next books I'm going to read.

I have a whole bunch of books coming from Bookmooch (which, I just started to get involved with and love!) soooooo I'm definitely going to get into some deep reading very soon!!

Well, if it makes you feel better, I've only read 1 paranormal book so far. :D I keep getting sidetracked with non-paranormal books. Oh well. Hope your Bookmooch bundle comes soon. :)

Message 11: Lotharia - me too - Bookmooch is great, I have listed tons of books lately and it's really good that they are going to new homes, have picked up quite a few books recently too.