IAmMidnight's 999 Challenge

This is going to be a fun year. ^_^

-New-to-me Authors
-Non-fiction
-Classics
-Realistic Contemporary Fiction
-Award Winners
-Crime: Organized or Unorganized
-Humor
-Fantasy/Sci-Fi
-Miscellaneous

I haven't already picked out books for each category, so I'll probably just add them after I've read them or checked them out of the library.

{Update 8/02/09} I've read:

New-to-me Authors
1. The Terrorist by Caroline B. Cooney
2. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
3. The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
4. Janeology by Karen Harrington
5. Neptune's Children by Bonnie Dobkin
6. Impossible by Nancy Werlin
7. The Dead Fathers Club by Matt Haig
8. The Covenant by Beverly Lewis
9. Madapple by Christina Meldrum

Non-fiction
1. Evil and the Justice of God by N.T. Wright
2. Who You Are When No One Is Looking by Bill Hybel
3. The Case Against Perfection by Michael J. Sandel
4. You Said What? Lies and Propaganda Througout History by Bill Fawcett
5. Illegitimate: How a Loving God Rescued a Son of Polygamy by Brian Mackert
6. Stolen Innocence: My story of growing up in a polygamous sect, becoming a teenage bride, and breaking free of Warren Jeffs by Elissa Wall
7. Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
8. Selling Olga: Stories of Human Trafficking and Resistance by Louisa Waugh

Classics
1. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
2. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
3. Four Faultless Felons by G.K. Chesterton
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5. The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
6. The 39 Steps by John Buchan
7. Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
8. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Realistic Contemporary Fiction
1. Get Well Soon by Julie Halpern
2. Sold by Patricia McCormick
3. The She by Carol Plum-Ucci
4. Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
5. Looks by Madeleine George
6. Picture Perfect by D. Anne Love
7. The Night My Sister Went Missing by Carol Plum-Ucci
8. Silent to the Bone by E. L. Konigsburg
9. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Award Winners
1. Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr
2. Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
3. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
4. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
5. The Year Without Michael by Susan Beth Pfeffer
6. I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
7. The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
8. Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman
9. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Crime: Organized or Unorganized
1. Streams of Babel by Carol Plum-Ucci
2. First Shot by Walter Sorrells
3. Genesis Alpha by Rune Michaels
4. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
5. Human Trafficking in Ohio: Markets, Responses, and Considerations by Jeremy M. Wilson et al.
6. Jude by Kate Morgenroth
7. The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore by Joan Lowery Nixon

Humor
1. Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
2. Thursday Next: First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
3. Once On A Time by A.A. Milne
4. Leave It to Psmith by P. G. Wodehouse
5. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
6. No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
7. The Mark of Conte by Sonia Levitin
8. The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex

Fantasy/Sci-Fi
1. The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
2. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
3. Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
4. Specials by Scott Westerfeld
5. The Reminder by Rune Michaels
6. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
7. Graceling by Kristin Cashore
8. Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett

Miscellaneous
1. Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things by Lenore Look
2. Emmy and the Home for Troubled Girls by Lynne Jonell
3. The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
4. Creating a Cooperative Learning Center: An Idea Book for Homeschooling Families by Katharine Houk
5. Fade by Robert Cormier
6. The Arrival by Shaun Tan

I am curious - how do you qualify a book as Realistic Contemporary Fiction?

How did you like The Adoration of Jenna Fox, it has been on several best of 2008 bloglists for YA fiction and I still haven't read it.

Well, I'm saying a book fits into that category when it is set in the past 30 years or so, and has a storyline that could actually happen. The ones I am reading for this category are primarily in YA Fiction--or based on a true story.

I really enjoyed The Adoration of Jenna Fox! One note: It is not a very fast paced or intense book, but absorbing and very good for that reason.

Al Capone Does My Shirts was a fun read and set during the 1940s on Alcatraz. But it's YA / Children's so not too crime-y.

Oh, I own that book--it is good. Do you recommend any similar books? I would love to read something for this list set around that time, perhaps with Chicago as the location. Or something about the prohibtion era, which I think is just so interesting.

I am finally to the Book 20 mark! Huzzah!