The 1010 Challenge Category Compiler

I've been thinking about my categories lately - well, since this group went up actually. I'm keeping eight from my 999 so I need two more. I had three I was considering but chose to do one for short stories and drop the other two. So I still need one more category.

I seem to recall that the 999 Challenge had a category list thread and even though I'm reading each new thread that goes up here with a bit of addiction, seeing lots of categories in one place would help me mull them over.

So here is the category thread. As you firm up your categories, please list them here. If the names aren't self-explanatory, please include your descriptions.

Since I'm starting the thread, I'll even volunteer to do most common categories total towards the year's end. I remember one on the 999 category thread and it was an interesting statistics bit.

Woot! I can't wait to see everyone's categories! Here are mine:

LDS Books
Self-Improvement
New Authors, Male
New Authors, Female
Old Authors, New Books
America
Love
Death
War
Just Because (or I may switch it to Book Club books)

Because I've done a music/YouTube Video overall theme for my challenges they are a little different than usual. Basically my catagories are as follows:

Wildfire (horses)
My Vampire Heart (Vampires)
What's Your Name? (Books with names in the titles)
Dragons Rule the World (Dragons)
Let It Snow (wintery by theme or title)
Tell Me (books recommended by LTers, with one rec from a co-worker)
Water Logged (Books that take place in or around water)
Time After Time (sequels in series)
Science Fiction and Fantasy
I Want It All (other books I want to read that didn't fit in a catagory)

Here's my list of categories:

Nosebreaker (big format books, named for accidents waiting to happen when dropped on the face falling asleep in bed)
Re-reads
Nobel prize winners
African/Asian/South American authors
The moldy ones (unread books bought over ten years ago)
Huh? What hype?? (Books I didn't read when everybody else did...)
What I did for my summer holidays (Books about travel)
Thrown my way (Books I need to read for work, and recommendations)
Sci-Fi&Fantasy
The rest

Mine are so boring.. but they do seem to work well for me.

1. Contemporary Fiction
2. Series Continuation
3. New Series
4. USA
5. British Isles
6. World View
7. Myth, Legend, and Fairy Tales
8. Lucy Maud Montgomery
9. Women Authors of Children's Books
10. Children / YA

1. Having a Butcher’s – Jim Butcher and related
2. Classic SF&F – Why haven’t I read this yet?
3. Watching the Detectives - Detective, Mystery & Thriller
4. Book Watch – Associated to Film or TV Show
5. Continuations - Next book(s) in series
6. Impulse Buys and Recommends
7. New in SF&F – Released in the last year or so
8. Wolf in Me – Wolf in the title or book about wolves
9. Lost in Translation – Originally written in a language other than English
10. Tickling the funny Bone – Tagged as Humour or of that ilk

1. Virago Modern Classics
2. Crimes/Mysteries
3. Authors from new-to-me countries
4. Non-fiction
5. Published in 2010
6. Poetry, Plays, or Picture Books
7. Books in a language other than English
8. Books I've owned since 2007 or earlier
9. Group Reads
10. Debut books

1. Agatha Christie
2.Made Into a Movie
3.Where In The World? (books set in various locations)
4.Noir
5.1001 List
6.And The Winner Is (Pulitzer, Booker etc)
7.Unread in a Series
8.That's Life (Biographies)
9.From My TBR
10.Miscellaneous (Library finds, ARC's etc.)

Here are mine, though I may well tweak and/or change a bit, particularly later in the list, such as 8, 9, or 10.

1. Cozy Mysteries
2. Health Medicine
3. Baseball Books
4. Books About Chicago
5. American Presidents
6. Books About Disasters
7. General Nonfiction
8. Books by Anne Perry
9. Days and Nights
10. Biographies and Memoirs
Bonus Category: Next in the Series

Here's mine:

1. 'Oranges are not the only fruit' - Orange prizelisted
2. 'Roses are read' - Books with rose in the title.
3. 'Sweet lovers love the Spring' - Stories of love
4. 'Beloved Virago' - Virago Modern Classics
5. 'Travelling 1st Class' - Classic Travel Stories
6. 'What a life!' - Biographies - fact and fiction
7. 'LOL' - Wodehouse
8. 'With criminal intent' - Agatha Christie
9. 'Small is beautiful' - Short Story Collections
10. 'Serendipity' - Whatever I fancy reading.

Mine:

10 Thrilling mysteries - includes mysteries, spy novels, legal thrillers, police procedurals, etc.
9 New-ish authors - new-to-me authors.
8 Different state sites - for the 50 state challenge, books set in 8 different states.
7 Days-gone-by tales - historical fiction or nonfiction, set more than 100 years ago.
6 Fearless leaders - presidential biographies for the US Presidents challenge, or other American history nonfiction.
5 Books of truth - nonfiction for the Dewey Decimal Challenge - each in a different category.
4 Forty-niners - fiction or nonfiction about any of the gold rush phenomenons.
3 Sequels - next in the series.
2 Ancient tomes - books that were first published before I was born.
and a Big fat Russian novel - or other non-American book translated into English.

Categories so far. Thinking of Nobel prize winners for #1, in common with GingerbreadMan. Sharing the free category, #10, with englishrose, Ginger, Jenson and cmbohn.

Thanks chrine. Always interesting to check out the common ground.

1. Prize winners (book or author)
2. Recommended on LT
3. Crime
4. Favourite writers
5. Last ten years
6. More than 40 years ago.
7. On the tbr pile too long
8. Australia and the Pacific
9. Mooched from Bookmooch
10. Books that don't fit into the other nine categories

typos

Here's Mine!! (Of Course, I reserve the right to change my mind up until 1/1/10!)

Cuddle up with a good cozy mystery (repeat from 999)
Honest Abe
The War between the States
Miss Austen and Her Relations (P&P sequels)
Surprise - Books I find and want to read (repeat from 999)
CRAFTS AND HOBBIES (repeat from 999X2) (books with crafts and hobbies as background)
I HEARD THEM (repeat from 999X2) (Audiobooks)
Who/What/When/Where/How/Why? - Bios/history (Repeat from 999)
Books found on the Internet/thru LT/at the library/in a bookstore (repeat from 999)
A FULL COURSE MEAL - Specific foods in the titles
NIAGARA FALLS (Overflow - repeat from 999X2) BONUS 20 CATEGORY

Is it a bad sign if I had to look at my thread to remember what my categories are? Hehe.

Here are my tentative categories:
Dewey Decimal Challenge
Ancient World
Math/Science
Foreign Language
Children's/YA Fiction
Fairy Tales, Legends, and Folklore
Speculative Fiction
Education and Intelligence
New York/United States (TBD)
Just Because

My thread is here.

>8 lsh63: jonesli - Have you read Chasing Shadows Across the World? It is a motorcycle travelog written by two actors, Ewan McGregor and Charles something-that-begins-with-B. I don't read a lot of non-fiction, but this one really intrigued me. They rode their motorcycles all the way around the world.

1. Story of Their Lives :: biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs
2. Once Upon a Time :: fairy tales, myths, and legends
3. The Twentieth Century :: classics of the last century
4. I Spy :: secret agents, intelligencers, and master spies
5. Law and Order :: books on law and government
6. Discworld :: swimming through space on the back of a giant turtle
7. The Play's the Thing :: famous plays
8. The Austen Marathon :: Austen-related books
9. On the Shelf :: books I own but haven't read yet
10. Gallimaufry :: whatever I want!

My thread is here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/70787.

I'd welcome any suggestions for a good biography of William Wilberforce, Alexander Hamilton, and/or Queen Elizabeth I!

Here are mine, so far...

1. Because I Said So - Books my Mom recommends
2. And You'll Never Guess What Happened Next - Series books
3. Miss Austen and Her Relations - Books by Jane, about Jane, sequels to her books, etc...
4. Get Off Of My Lawn! - Children & YA
5. Anywhere But Here - Travel Lit and travel guides purchased "on-site" while travelling.
6. Contemplate a Classic - books read by my classics bookgroup

The only repeat categories are the classics, and the children/YA lit. It's only the middle of August, so we'll see what pans out in the next few months. I have lots of ideas for categories and this thread is both helping and not helping. Well, isn't LT the same way, actually? I'm desperate to read more of the books I own and yet my rec list from here is pages and pages long!

Here is a cut and paste of the ideas for categories so far; as I have not done this before things will probably change! It is starting as the 1-2-3 challenge with the option of upgrading numbers read in each category.

Categories
1-religion (non-fiction)
2- I didn't know how to do that- New Stuff (non-fiction)
3-books translated into English (fact or fiction)
4-other countries (fact or fiction)
5-ancient history (non-fiction)
6-mysteries (fact or fiction)
7-I want to know more-books inspired by reading fiction (non-fiction or (if stuck) fiction-sequel)
8-myth and legend (fact or fiction)
9-historical fiction
10-SF&F

Seems like a bunch of us are doing Austen related books next year. I wonder if we will do any of the same ones or all different authors.

Mine are not terribly imaginative. I get such a bang out of the people who build humor and whimsy into their category names.

1. 1001 Books
2. A.S. Byatt
3. On Books and Reading
4. Classic Who-dunnits (the golden age)
5. Dewey Decimal TBRs
6. Fantasy Masterworks (from the Orion list)
7. Fiction TBRs
8. Peter Matthiessen
9. Alaska (fiction and non-fiction)
10. SF Masterworks (from the Orion list)

Edited for typos. Always typos.

This is my favorite part of this challenge - seeing everybody's categories!!!

Here are mine as they stand right now:
1. Israeli writers
2. Orbis Terrarum Challenge 2010
3. Books that have no reviews on LT yet
4. Non-fiction
5. YA novels
6. Graphic novels
7. Prize winners
8. Nordic writers (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, or Icelandic)
9. Books about books
10. "Whatevers" found in my bookshelves

Categories Compiled #1

Books on one topic – 12
Mysteries – 12
Books about specific places – 11
The catch all category – 11
Misc. Categories – 10
Challenges – 9
Books by a specific author – 8
Categories defined by a timeframe – 8
Series – 8
Sci-fi & Fantasy – 7
Books containing a certain theme – 5
Book with a certain word in the title - 5
Prize Winners - 5
Recommendations – 5
Biographies, Autobiographies, & Memoirs – 4
Fairy Tales, Legends, Myths, etc. - 4
Young Adult & Children’s Books – 4
Non-fiction – 4
Dewey Decimal Challenge – 3
First time reading an author – 3
History, non-fiction - 3
Jane Austin & Co. - 3
Reducing the TBR- 3
Reading around the world – 3
Travel Books - 3
1,001 Books to Read Challenge – 2
Books about books – 2
Classics – 2
Historical Fiction – 2
Lengthy Books - 2
Movies & TV - 2
Plays – 2
Reading in another language - 2
Religion – 2
Translations - 2
US Presidents Challenge - 2
Virago Modern Classics - 2
Audiobooks – 1
Bookmooch – 1
Favorite Authors – 1
First book by an author – 1
Graphic Novels – 1
Group Reads – 1
Poetry - 1
Rereads – 1
Short Stories – 1

And the more detailed list -

Books on one topic – 12
Zoe (2 – Math/Science & Education and Intelligence), christina_reads (2 - secret agents, intelligencers, and master spies & law and government), Jenson_AKA_DL (4 – Horses, Vampires, Dragons, & containing a body of water), AHS-Wolfy (Wolf), lindapanzo (4 – Baseball, American Presidents, Disasters, & Science and Nature), sjmccreary (the Gold Rush), cyderry (the Civil War)

Mysteries – 12
AHS-Wolfy (Detective, Mystery & Thriller), christiguc (Crimes/Mysteries), jonesli (2 - women authors & Noir), lindapanzo (2 – Cozy & Vintage), Sjmccreary (Thrilling mysteries), pamelad (Crime), cyderry (2 - mysteries & cozy mysteries), calm, NeverStopTrying (The Golden Age)

Books about specific places – 11
Cmbohn (America), GingerbreadMan (African, Asian, & South American authors), Ivyd (2 – USA & British Isles), lindapanzo (2 – Chicago & the Mississippi River), Sjmccreary (US States), pamelad (Australia and the Pacific), Zoe (New York or US –TBD), bookoholic13 (2 - Israeli authors & Nordic writers), NeverStopTrying (Alaska)

The catch all category – 11
Cmbohn, Jenson_AKA_DL, GingerbreadMan, englishrose60, pamelad, cyderry (2), AHS-Wolfy, Zoe, christina_reads, bookoholic13

Misc. Categories – 10
bookoholic13 (no review on LT), Zoe (speculative fiction), calm (2 - learning how to & inspired by fiction reads), cmbohn (2 – self-improvement & old authors, new books), GingerbreadMan (2 – books not read when popular & work-related reading), ivyd (world view), AHS-Wolfy (humour)

Challenges – 9
Sjmccreary (3 - 50 State, US Presidents, & Dewey Decimal), jonesli (1,001 List), Zoe (Dewey Decimal), bookoholic13 (Orbis Terrarum), NeverStopTrying (2 - 1,001 List & Dewey Decimal), cyderry (US Presidents)

Books by a specific author – 8
NeverStopTrying (2 - A.S. Byatt & Peter Matthiessen), christina_reads (Discworld), ivyd (L.M. Montgomery), AHS-Wolfy (Jim Butcher & related), lindapanzo (Anne Perry), englishrose60 (2 – Agatha Christie & Wodehouse)

Categories defined by a timeframe – 8
Zoe (Ancient World), GingerbreadMan, (unread books bought over ten years ago), ivyd (Contemporary Fiction), christiguc (2 - Published in 2010 & Books I've owned since 2007 or earlier), sjmccreary (books that were first published before I was born), pamelad (2 - Last ten years & More than 40 years ago)

Series – 8
Jenson_AKA_DL, Ivyd (2 – starting & continuing), AHS-Wolfy, jonesli, lindapanzo, Sjmccreary, LauraBrook

Sci-fi & Fantasy – 7
Jenson_AKA_DL, GingerbreadMan, AHS-Wolfy (2 – Classic & New), calm, NeverStopTrying (2 – fantasy from the Orion List & sci-fi from the Orion List)

Books containing a certain theme – 5
cmbohn (3 – love, war, & death), Jenson_AKA_D (winter), englishrose60 (love)

Book with a certain word in the title - 5
Jenson_AKA_DL (2 – names & wintery titles), AHS-Wolfy (wolf), englishrose60 (rose), cyderry (specific foods)

Prize Winners - 5
GingerbreadMan (Noble), jonesli, englishrose60 (Orange), pamelad (Noble), bookoholic13

Recommendations – 5
Jenson_AKA_DL, GingerbreadMan, AHS-Wolfy, pamelad (LT), LauraBrook (mom)

Biographies, Autobiographies, & Memoirs – 4
englishrose60 (bios), Sjmccreary (presidential bios), cyderry (bios), christina_reads

Fairy Tales, Legends, Myths, etc. - 4
Zoe, christina_reads, ivyd, calm

Young Adult & Children’s Books – 4
Ivyd (2 – YA & Children’s, & Women authors of children’s), Zoe (fiction), LauraBrook, bookoholic13 (YA), christiguc (picture books)

Non-fiction – 4
Christiguc, lindapanzo, Sjmccreary, bookoholic13

Dewey Decimal Challenge – 3
sjmccreary, Zoe, NeverStopTrying

First time reading an author – 3
Cmbohn (2 – male & female), Sjmccreary

History, non-fiction - 3
Sjmccreary (2 – more than 100 years ago & American), cyderry, calm (Ancient)

Jane Austin & Co. - 3
christina_reads, LauraBrook, cyderry

Reducing the TBR- 3
christina_reads, pamelad, NeverStopTrying (fiction)

Reading around the world – 3
christiguc (Authors from new-to-me countries), jonesli (books set in various locations around the world), calm

Travel Books - 3
GingerbreadMan (books about travel), englishrose60 (Classic Travel Stories), LauraBrook (literature & guides)

1,001 Books to Read Challenge – 2
jonesli, NeverStopTrying

Books about books – 2
bookoholic13, NeverStopTrying (& Reading)

Classics – 2
LauraBrook, christina_reads (20th Century)

Historical Fiction – 2
Sjmccreary (more than 100 years ago), calm

Lengthy Books - 2
GingerbreadMan (Nosebreakers), Sjmccreary (a big fat “Russian” novel),

Movies & TV - 2
AHS-Wolfy (Associated to Film or TV Show), jonesli (books made into movies)

Plays – 2
christina_reads, christiguc

Reading in another language - 2
Zoe, christiguc

Religion – 2
calm (non-fiction), cmbohn (LDS Books)

Translations - 2
AHS-Wolfy, calm

US Presidents Challenge - 2
sjmccreary, cyderry

Virago Modern Classics - 2
Christiguc, englishrose60

Audiobooks – 1
cyderry

Bookmooch – 1
pamelad

Favorite Authors – 1
pamelad

First book by an author – 1
christiguc

Graphic Novels – 1
bookoholic13

Group Reads – 1
christiguc, LauraBrook (classics)

Poetry - 1
christiguc

Rereads – 1
GingerbreadMan

Short Stories – 1
englishrose60

About the detailed list:

Some categories could go in more than one place, so I put them in each place. The purpose, I figured, was to be able to see who is reading like books as you, as well as what categories/types of categories are common. Some of the categories with just a single person in them are ones I think will have multiple people as more people join.

If you think I've put one of your categories in the wrong place, let me know.

If you can think of a better title for some of the clunkier ones or better organization structure for some of the broad categories, let me know. I am open to ideas.

You Did a Great Job,Chrine!

Here's my suggestions,

Couldn't First books by an author, First time reading an author, Jane Austin & Co., Favorite Authors and Books by a specific author all be categorized as "Author specific Categories"?

And how about Biographies, Autobiographies, & Memoirs and
History, non-fiction and Non-ficition being put together as historical Non-ficition? Isn't all non-fiction really history in some form or other? And biographies are simply the history of one person.

My "Honest Abe" Category is for the US Presidents Challenge.
My Craft & Hobby category is Cozy Mysteries with a theme.
I have 2 catch-all categories - Surprise and found on LT/INTERENET. etc.

But again, great job!

Great job, chrine!!!

So many fun categories, I may have to start my 2011 plans... :)

Thanks Cyderry & Bookoholic.

Cyderry, I've moved your categories to the correct places.

Books by a specific author is someone reading all books in that category by one author.

Jane Austen got separated out of that because several people are reading her books, fiction using her characters, and related books. I expect more will turn up as 2010 approaches.

First time reading an author is someone trying an author they've never read before.

First books by an author is someone reading the first book written by an author for 10 authors.

I know I didn't do the best job making the names of categories clear but I tried. I suspect categories will evolve as I add people's in.

chrine, you've done an excellent job and these posts make really interesting reading. Thanks for putting it all together.

Chrine, Just like to add my thanks for a job well done.

Thanks chrine. You've done a great job.

Thanks, chrine. There are a lot of ideas there.

I am not planning any major changes to the types of category (just more tweaks to the order and number of books I read on each subject). I think doing the stepped version is a constant - a minimum target to aim for. That leaves plenty of room for books outside the challenge and the opportunity to grow within the challenge itself.

And me too! Wow, this looks like a fun place to hang out in 2010.

Thanks chrine, this is very interesting!

Another thanks for the work you did. The second listing where you show who has which categories was very interesting.

Wow, thank you for taking the time to do this!

Thanks for the work, chrine. It will be interesting to follow this as it continues and see how things change.

chrine, thanks for all your hard work compiling! I'll enjoy watching as more categories/people get added.

I haven't decided yet how many books I'll attempt in each category but here they are (mostly likely NOT changing, even though it's early):

1. "Library" books - stories involving libraries, librarians, etc.
2. Keep it Short - short story collections
3. Elves, Dragons, and Princes, oh my! - fantasy
4. Too Young for Me? - children's and YA
5. Out of the Box Fiction - genreblending
6. But they MADE me read it - LT/RL Recommendations, LTER, etc.
7. Dewey Decimal Challenge - nonfiction for any Dewey number I haven't yet read this year
8. Author Revisits - books I haven't read by authors I have
9. 8-9-10 - books published in 2008, 2009, or 2010
10. The Everything Drawer - overflow, whims, and just about anything else that doesn't otherwise fit

Edited a description for clarity

Wonderful summaries, chrine. What a lot of work that must have been. I like that you took the time to list personal categories into more than one classification - these things are never clear cut and I appreciate that you didn't try to make it so.

I appreciate it even more as I "interwove" my categories to allow for how I read now- while still stretching enough for it to be a challenge (and fun!)

It is also good to know where interests intersect (poor ever expanding wishlist! and TBR pile!)

You're welcome ya'll! It's personally interesting to me to see, plus I like stats and lists and whatnot. I figured since I had made it already, I might as well share it.

I should say that I've only used categories by people who have posted theirs in this thread, but I plan to go look at the thread and collect the rest (so long as they look fairly definite) while the group is still small. Then I can add the couple of people who join each week as we go. I will keep updating the list above for now. After so much time or so many new people joining the challenge, I will make a new posting. And while I'm currently reading all the threads in this group and will make changes as I see them, if you change or add a category could you please post in here so I can change it on the list. Thanks for all the data so I can geekly compile!

So, on to a personal matter, I've been thinking about my challenge and I'm not sure what to do. I will not read 100 books in one year, I will not read 81 books this year. But I don't want to do a step challenge. This year, so far, I have read much more in some categories than others. But I also don't want to have low minimums of 3 or 4 per category. I thought about 10 categories and capping them as completed once they reach 10 books but just allowing myself to read a set number of books for the challenge (30, 40, 50, perhaps raising it as I go) in whatever categories they may fall in. I've also thought about just setting it up like I'm planning on reading 100 and not finishing it, which doesn't both me since I like the organization, having a goal, and chatting among the group. But I am also releasing it to all the creative minds here to see if anyone has any other ideas.

edited b/c I was missing a period!

I've also thought about just setting it up like I'm planning on reading 100 and not finishing it, which doesn't both me since I like the organization, having a goal, and chatting among the group.

This is what I'm planning to do. Not creative, but it works :)

I haven't posted my categories yet, and I'm not sure I will be able to read 100 books either. So I'm going to go for 10 books in 10 categories, and it won't bother me if I don't make it. I'll just try to read books in every category, and as many books as possible. I'm also planning to make my categories fairly broad, so I don't feel constrained or get bored with what I'm reading. (In other words, I'll be able to fit any book I read into one of my categories. :)).

And thanks chrine--this was a lot of work.

@40 :: You could always just pick a random number of books per category, say 6 or 7. That would leave you with 60 or 70 books in 2010, which would be more manageable than 100. Or, just read as many (or as few) as you want and call it a day. It's your challenge, after all! :)

I am not going to complete all my 999 books this year either, so I have to some extent revamped my 2010 challenge to become 2 step challenges. All my selected books over the 55 required by the 10-9-8- ... step challenge will become bonus books. I will start my 1st step challenge headed down my list and iffnwhen I complete that, I will start a 2nd step challenge, headed bottom to top. I almost certainly won't finish the 2nd set, but it will be worth a try. Any books, this year and next, that I don't get to will be rolled forward into future years since they will now be TBRs. Nice, tidy and obsessive. Another option might be dice - Roll for category then roll for book.

#40 - These are my categories for the challenge. Most of them are listed in your compilation, but some may not be. I'm impressed with all the different categories we have chosen!

"The Way We Were" (biography/autobiography)
"Teach Your Children Well" (children's/YA books)
"Jesus, Take the Wheel" (Christian fiction)
"Honolulu City Lights" (set in cities)
"My Favorite Things" (classics or short stories)
"Eve of Destruction" (disasters)
"Lost in the Fifties Tonight" (written in the '50's or written over 50 years ago)
"1,2,3, Red Light" (number or color in title)
"I've Been Waiting for a Girl Like You" (TBR list too long!)
"Happy Together" (whatever I want to read)

This year I started with a list of categories, and have added to them as it seemed fitting. Next year I think I'll just start reading.I'll create categories as my reading starts to form patterns, and split the categories that overfill.

I'll try for 10 of 10 in both fiction and non-fiction.

I made a main category list, but looking through this thread makes me want to possibly change or add to it.
What great ideas people have - I am sticking with the boring basic for now but that is not to say it won't change drastically by the middle of 2010. Thanks for all the wonderful ideas everyone and for the listing by chrine (messages 22 & 23) Wow that's a job - thanks!

1. Owned but unread
2. Re-reads
3. Library Books
4. Early Review / Reviewer group
5. Mooched and/or Swaped books
6. Series
7. Anthologies
8. Young Adult
9. Childrens
10. Everything else

@#44 That sounds very complicated. Complicated is good :) I have a good friend who often says: "Why do it the easy way when it's usually much easier to just stomp down the hard way?".

I'm also pondering on how to find a middle road between 100 books (which I surely won't do) and the stepped 55 that seem a little on the low side. At the moment I'm pondering a bonus category of "Further reading", books inspired by books read within the challenge, that will consist of twelve books. One book extra a month, so to speak. A total of 67 is a bit of a challenge for me, but a possible one.

Chrine - I just wanted to say you did a great job putting everything together. Very interesting!

I'm currently lending towards setting it up like I'm going to read 100 and filling it in as I go. I might let it evolve itself into a step challenge, instead of matching the categories to the numbers ahead of time. 55 book is much more realistically closer to what I could read in a year, but I probably wouldn't make that either.

Thanks Onyx and Jenson.

I finally came up with my final category title, so here they are:

One for the Old World (books set in Europe)
Two for the New (books set in North America)
Three for the Things We Know (non-fiction)
Four for the Winds that Blow (books set elsewhere than Europe or N. America, one book per country)
Five for my Favorites (new books by favorite authors or rereads)
Six for a Celebration (books shortlisted for or winning literary prizes)
Seven for a Secret (mystery novels)
Eight for the OAPs (books that have been on the TBR pile for a year or more)
Nine for One (books with one word titles)
Together for Ten (group or tandem reads, ER books or books recommended here)

My 1010 challenge is a high school theme in homage to the late John Hughes:

1. Party at my Place (tandem/group reads)
2. Extra Credit for Mr. Woertendyke's Class (literature)
3. Misfits (spontaneous reads/catchall)
4. The Loner (books by David Goodis)
5. The Clique (Bronte, Alcott, Austen and Montgomery)
6. Team Tryouts (new authors)
7. Honor Roll (rereads of favorites)
8. Goths (or The Return of the Monster Mash)
9. Upper Classmen (books by authors already in my library)
10. The Science Geeks (speculative fiction)

bonus category:
Study Hall (NaNoWriMo research)

Here are my categories:
1.Plays
2.1001 books
3.YA
4.Crime/Mystery
5.From the library
6.Recommendations
7.Writers that are new to me
8.Published in 2010(in Finland)
9.Romantic/Chicklit
10.Miscellaneous

> #48 - I am definitely going to remember the "challenge read follow-up bonus read" category for another year. That's a good one. Right now though, I am kind of taken with the dice idea.

> #52 - Great categories.

> #53 - I look forward to following your category 8 reads especially.

at the moment, i'm kicking around a decades idea. something about it being 2010 has me thinking about time periods. so my categories are

Books Written In:
2000-2010
1990-2000
1980-1990
1970-1980
1960-1970
1950-1960
1940-1950
1930-1940
1920-1930
before 1920

My Categories are:

1. World Tour (Written by authors from 10 different countries, not including the US, Canada and Great Britain).
2. From the 1001 List
3. The Oldies--Books I've Owned for More Than 5 Years
4. Nonfiction
5. Books Written Pre-1900
6. Books Written Between 1900 and 1950
7. Books Written Between 1950 and 2000
8. Books Written Between 2000 and 2010
9. ABC's--The Alpha--(The last name of each author begins with one of the first 10 letters of the alphabet, A-J, with no duplication of letters).
10. ABC's--The Omega--(The last name of each author begins with one of the last 10 letters of the alphabet, Q-Z, with no duplication of letters.

Here are mine:
1. Science Fiction Novels originally published in 2010
2. Fantasy Novels originally published in 2010
3. Literary journals with cover date in 2010 (including Asimov's, EQMM and the similar)
4. Non-fiction
5. Crime Fiction, Mystery and Thriller Novels originally published in 2010
6. Leftover Novels from 2009 (published in 2009 but either arrived too late or did not have time to read them in 2009)
7. Anthologies and collections published in 2010
8. European novels (written by authors from or living in different European countries).
9. African novels (written by authors from or living in different African countries; or with the story set mainly in Africa).
10. South American novels (written by authors from or living in different South American countries; or with the story set mainly in South America).

Edit: The two alphabet categories get moved to a separate challenge - http://www.librarything.com/groups/alphabetchallenges

So changing 9 and 10.

Edit: Some changes to add a category for older books (some more explanations in post 138). The list looks like this now:

1. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Speculative Fiction Novels originally published in 2010
2. Crime Fiction, Mystery and Thriller Novels originally published in 2010
3. Anthologies and collections published in 2010
4. Literary journals with cover date in 2010 (including Asimov's, EQMM and the similar)
5. Novels, collections and anthologies published between 2000 and 2008
6. Leftover Novels from 2009 (published in 2009 but either arrived too late or did not have time to read them in 2009)
7. Non-fiction
8. The older books - anything published before 1.1.2000
9. African novels (written by authors from or living in different African countries; or with the story set mainly in Africa).
10. South American novels (written by authors from or living in different South American countries; or with the story set mainly in South America).

My 101010 categories

1. TBR
2. 19th Century Presidents
3. Classics Old and New
4. Science
5. Mysteries/Suspense
6. Introduced by the Kindle
7. Prize Winners
8. Library Discoveries
9. Fiction
10. Sci Fi

>16 christina_reads:
Queen Elizabeth I - it really depends on what kind of historical books you like to read but one of these should work for you (Amazon probably have a few pages from each online so you can check which one you would like):

Elizabeth I by Anne Somerset
The First Elizabeth by Carolly Erickson
The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir
Queen Elizabeth I by J. E. Neale
Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne by David Starkey
Alison Plowden's books

I like Neale's although it is quite old. Weir's is in her usual style - I like it but I she has her strange moments.. mainly leaps in logic that just make my head spin. Starkey is stable as always, Carolly Erickson is solid although now and then she also leaps in strange directions; Somerset knows her stuff although I am not sure I like her style. The same applies to Alison Plowden.

I know I did not help much but wanted to throw some titles for consideration:)

And if you are not looking strictly at a biography, there are also a lot of other Elizabeth related books.

#57 AnnieMod, I'm planning to do a follow-up to my 999 challenge which I hope to complete by 9/9. I plan to read in the same 9 categories, books by 26 different authors, each with a name beginning with a different letter, in alphabetical order - 3 books in each category except one.

>60 sjmccreary:
Sounds good... I am wondering if it won't be a good idea to open a new group for the "Alphabet challenge" and see who else might join and with what rules...

My 101010 Categories are:

1. All The World's A Stage- Plays
2. You Suck- Vampire Novels
3. Austen, Austen, Austen- Anything and Everything Jane Austen
4. Now Playing- Books That Became Movies
5. It's All About Me, Me, Me- Biographies and Memoirs
6. My Guilty Pleasure- Historical Romances
7. Who Killed Who- Murder Mysteries
8. "Men Love to Wonder"- Science and Nature
9. What Magic is This?- Characters Who Travel Through Time
10. Couldn't Help Myself- Impulse Novels and Favorite Re-reads

Lurking here, deciding whether I can join in.

>52 VictoriaPL:, VictoriaPL, I adore the inspiration/names for your categories.

There are a lot of great original names here #52 shouldn't that be Who Killed Whom-Murder Mysteries.

I just love all of the very original names people came up with they are very creative.Anyway the names of your categories are terrific and so is everyone else's too. I wish that I had come up with some more original titles for my categories.

Beatles1964

@59 :: Thanks so much for your many suggestions! I don't read much biography in general and have never read a bio of Elizabeth I, so I really had no idea where to start!

I've updated a few more categories (specifically 7, 8, & 9).

1. Because I Said So - Books my Mom recommends
2. And You'll Never Guess What Happened Next - Series books
3. Miss Austen and Her Relations - Books by Jane, about Jane, sequels to her books, etc...
4. Get Off Of My Lawn! - Children & YA
5. Anywhere But Here - Travel Lit and travel guides purchased "on-site" while travelling.
6. Contemplate a Classic - books read by my classics bookgroup
7. All the Cool Kids are Doing It - book I "have to" read courtesy of LT & PBS
8. Your Royal Highness - Books about royalty in general and in particular
9. K'mon k'mon k'mon - K authors

Only one left for me to obsess about. This will keep my brain swimming in thoughts of books for weeks. Well, between this and the 2 other groups I joined here tonight. Is there some kind of book psych ward? Yeesh....

@57 AnnieMod, Seems there could be enough interest for an Alphabet challenge group being started. Both yourself and aruba (#56) have included similar categories and a couple of comments have also been made on aruba's thread as well.

"If you build it, they will come" as the saying goes.

>67 AHS-Wolfy:
Yeah, looks like this. I'll get the group started today and post back... and then need to decide on two new categories. And it won't be tied to the year (unless someone wants) so kinda better than keeping it back here.

>65 christina_reads:
You are welcome. If you are interested in anything else Tudor, let me know :)

OKey - http://www.librarything.com/groups/alphabetchallenges - The Alphabet Challenges Group.

Anyone is more than welcome to join; no time constraints; no order constraints - anyone makes up their own rules, it just need to have something to do with the alphabet.

And my last 2 categories change to:
9. African novels (written by authors from or living in different African countries; or with the story set mainly in Africa).
10. South American novels (written by authors from or living in different South American countries; or with the story set mainly in South America).
(edited the list above)

Oh yay! I'm heading over to join. No time constraints, no order constraints, and a finite end. Sounds like my kind of challenge.

And you always can make a second one if you feel like it :D

This is my first time doing a challenge like this so my categories aren't very innovative, I'm afraid.

Historical Fiction
Non-fiction (specifically history)
Science-fiction
Books Turned Into Movies, Shows, Miniseries, And Etcetra
Award Winners
Asian Authors (and novels set in Asia)
Transgressive Fiction
Retellings of Myths, Legends, Fairy Tales, And Etcetera
Books With The Word 'Owl' In The Title
Modern Library's Top 100
Anything Goes (bonus category)

I'm with you remusly, I'm really just trying to find a way to tackle my TBR pile and semi-limit my book buying ;-)

Australian Authors
Bookcrossing books
Non-Fiction
Viagaros (women writers)
1001 books
Prizes (recent)
Prizes (older)
Books that have been in my TBR pile for more than 12 months
New books- spontaneous reading
Historical Fiction

Here is my list:

1. Mystery
2. Sci-fi / fantasy
3. New Canadian books (published in 2009 or 2010)
4. New young adult books (published in 2009 or 2010)
5. Nonfiction
6. Classic
7. Recommended books
8. Agatha Christie
9. Russian authors
10. Asian authors

Here's my list:

I: Christian Books - Christian fiction, theology, spirituality…
II: Non-fiction Books
III: Old Books - books bought second-hand
IV: Victorian Books - Trollope, Dickens, Hardy, the Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell and others: any fiction by British authors first published between 1837 and 1901.
V: 1001 Books - any books from the 1001 Books to read before you die list(s) by Peter Boxall.
VI: Funny Books - fiction with an element of humour
VII: Overseas Books - books by non-British authors
VIII: Romantic Books - "My name is Caty and I am a romance-novel-aholic…"
IX: Puzzling Books - crime, thriller, mystery…
X: Just Books - because there are more types of book than there are categories.

After tinkering a bit, here's my list. I'll be doing 7 books in each category with a bonus category of 5 books if I manage to finish all 70 in enough time. If so, then I can make the 75 book challenge

1. 1001 Books to Read Before You Die
2. Historical Fiction
3. The Young-uns -Books I'll read to my kids or Y/A books I'll read for myself
4. Armchair Travel -Fiction, memoir or nonfiction about specific place/places
5. Tea, Pajamas and Slippers - Comfort books, chick-lit, humor, favorites, etc.
6. Roald Dahl - Rereading some and reading others for the first time
7. Harry Potter - all seven books
8. Favorite Authors
9. Inspirational - Could be spiritual, self-improvement, memoirs, etc.
10. Random/Tandem - Books that just "come up," either of my own selection or with fellow LT-ers, group reads or RL book groups
11. Bonus Category - Five books to equal 75 total if I make it!

Here are my categories:

1. One Huge Classic
2. Two Jane Austen Novels
3. Three Books Just-For-Fun
4. Four Global Reads
5. Five American Classics
6. Six Books Set in Ireland
7. Seven Cormac McCarthy Novels
8. Eight Margaret Atwood Titles
9. Nine Books By/About L. M. Montgomery
10. Ten Books from the Booker Longlist

Here are my categories! (Eclectic, like my reading tastes...)

1. America's Civil War
2. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
3. Art History
4. Basque Culture
5. Gothic Novel
6. Jane Austen
7. Middle East
8. Movie Star Memoir
9. Steampunk
10. TBR

Lots of Jane Austen this time. Welcome to the challenge!

I made one big switch in my categories - removed Civil War, renamed Honest Abe to be Civil War and its leaders and added a Romance category.

I was looking at the challenge in general and realized that I had nowhere to put romances other than general categories and I knew that I could not manage all those histories, so made a cut to Lincoln from 10 to 5 and same for the Civil War and combine them together.

Sorry Chrine to make so much trouble.

Hola Cheli. No problem at all. I'm just going to leave you in the US Presidents Challenge category (for Abe) and the Civil War category. I also added you to the romance category.

I have been splitting categories into two categories if they fit in both (ex. reading an author from a certain country in a certain time period or the general challenges category and the category for that specific challenge). Some people will be listed in more than 10 categories on the compiled list. I decided this based on the aim to be able to find people reading the same/similar categories as you.

I changed my Science and Nature category to Not My Usual. I read a lot of mysteries and a lot of nonfiction so I envision this category for trying new things. Science fiction, short stories, literature in translation. Maybe even some poetry.

I really liked my short story category this year. It gave me a chance to find a few new authors I liked.

So I decided to change a category! *blush* Instead of Discworld, I'm going to do an All Aboard category, which will include books set on a ship or boat and books about pirates. I wanted to do a pirate category all on its own, but it didn't seem practical at the time. However, if I can find 10 awesome pirate books, I might change again! :)

1. A big fat Neal Stephenson Novel
2. Two 19th Century nose-breakers
3. Three Global fiction works
4. Four historical fiction novels
5. Five new-to-me authors
6. Six random nonfiction works
7. Seven Morland saga books
8. Eight Orange Prize books
9. Nine Travel books
10. Ten mystery novels

1. A big fat Neal Stephenson Novel
2. Two 19th Century nose-breakers
3. Three Global fiction works
4. Four historical fiction novels
5. Five new-to-me authors
6. Six random nonfiction works
7. Seven Morland saga books
8. Eight Orange Prize books
9. Nine Travel books
10. Ten mystery novels

Christina ~~ The change has been made on the compiler document.

Miela ~~ Your categories have been added to the compiler.

Thanks guys!

chrine,

You still adding the categories in the compiler?

Annie ~~ I am added each person's categories to the compiled list as I receive them. The compiled list is saved on my computer. I intend to post an updated list about once a month so I don't have to keep updating the post as well. (I have the list alphabetical for ease of compiling, I will order it numerically before I post it.) I did (and will) edit the version that I posted for incorrectly place categories from people already included in the compiled list. I'm sorry, I just realized this was not posted anywhere clearly in the thread. But the list posted is not an up-to-date list to today, it was up-to-date for the day it was posted.

:) Sorry if it sounded bad :) I was about to start doing the same starting from where you left off, that's all.

OK then - great work :)

Just decided to join, hello! (Can you tell I haven't eaten dinner yet?)

1. Melting Pot - Reading Globally picks.
2. Comfort Food - Classics. Rather loosely defined as "older than me and well-regarded."
3. Heirloom Tomatoes - History. Might include school books, but also unrelated topics that pique my interest.
4. Chicken Tikka Masala - Indian literature.
5. Mystery Meat - Mysteries, just for fun! (I'd love suggestions!)
6. Assorted Fruit Snacks - Collections of short stories.
7. Water for Chocolate - Magical realism.
8. Oysters Rockefeller - Books about the Gilded Age. Anything written between 1874-1900, or about that period.
9. Second Helpings - Favorite authors or topics.
10. Stir-Fry - Whatever sounds good!

Annie ~~ Not at all. I can easily see why you thought that. Thankfully you asked since I have it all done already and there is no sense in two of us doing the work. I'm going to put it in numerical order tomorrow (or the next day, if I get too busy to get online) and post it. A lot of people have been added since the last posted one.

moneybeets ~~ Great name. You've been added into the compiler. Love the category names.

This is a great idea.

My Categories are:
1. All Things Canadian
2. Chick-lit
3. Children's Fiction
4. Comic Fantasy
5. Cozy Mysteries
6. Hockey & Sports-Related
7. Science Fiction
8. Vamps & Things That Bite
9. Witches & Warlocks
10.Young Adult Fantasy

Not terribly original, but brought enough that I know I will be able to complete the challenge.

Here are mine: I'm taking the stepladder approach.

1 book: Reviews! - from Go Review that Book!, ER, tossed on Mt TBR from LT review, etc.

2 books: Wheat from Chaff - National Book Award, or other prizewinners/runners up

3 books: Audacious Audiobooks - books I listen to that have made a splash due to bold/controversial content

4 books: Diamonds Are Forever - about money, economics, commodity histories, etc.

5 books: I Think Therefore I Am - philosophy, religion, scientific thought/insight/breakthroughs

6 books: A Rose By Any Other Name - names in the title

7 books: POTUS Power! - US Prez bios

8 books: Indefinite Articles - titles start with "The"

9 books: Oh The Places You'll Go! - location names in the title

10 books: I've got your number - Dewey Decimal Challenge

8 books: Indefinite Articles - titles start with "The" - isn't this the definite article? :)

woops! yes, of course you're right. I missed the parenthesis and the last bit of the description! Thanks for pointing that out!

Should be: 8 books: (In)definite Articles - titles start with "The" or "A"

Thanks bfertig. You've been added to the compiler.

Here, tentatively, are my categories:

01. Parenting
02. Harry Potter
03. Science
04. History
05. Maths
06. Shakespeare
07. Historical Fiction
08. Classical Literature
09. Hemingway
10. Books having characters whose names are those of my children: Constance,
Victoria, Elysebeth, George, Alexander, Donald, Hermione, Penelope, Anastasia

Categories Compiled #2

Misc. Categories – 33
The catch all category – 31
Challenges – 28
Mysteries – 26
Books by a specific author – 22
Young Adult & Children’s Books – 22
Books on topics – 21
Fantasy – 21
Books set in (or written by authors from) specific places – 20
Non-fiction – 17
Sci-fi – 17
Biographies, Autobiographies, & Memoirs – 15
Prize Winners - 15
Series – 15
1,001 Books You Must Read Challenge – 14
Classics – 14
Categories defined by a timeframe – 13
Recently published books – 13
By Decades - 12
Historical Fiction – 12
Reducing the TBR - 12
Religion – 12
History - 11
Recommendations – 11
Book with a certain word in the title - 10
“New to me” authors – 8
Romance – 8
Short Stories – 8
Books containing a certain theme – 7
Cozy Mysteries – 7
Fairy Tales, Legends, Myths, etc. - 7
Jane Austin & Co. - 7
Dewey Decimal Challenge – 6
Favorite Authors – 6
Group Reads – 6
Lengthy Books - 6
Plays – 6
Science – 6
Travel Books - 6
America, Books set in or Authors from – 5
Chick Lit – 5
Library Books - 5
Movies & TV - 5
New books, Old Authors (for me) – 5
Rereads – 5
US Presidents Challenge – 5
Vampires – 5
Crime – 4
Early Reviewers Books – 4
Horror – 4
Thrillers – 4
Translations - 4
United Kingdom, Books set in or Authors from – 4
Virago Modern Classics - 4
Africa, Books set in or Authors from - 3
Alphabet Categories – 3
Anthologies – 3
Asia, Books set in or Authors from - 3
Categories defined by a timeframe, in relation to the reader – 3
The U.S. Civil War – 3
Humour – 3
L.M. Montgomery – 3
Not from here – 3
Poetry - 3
Audiobooks – 2
Bookcrossing – 2
Bookmooch – 2
Books about books – 2
Books spurred by fiction reads – 2
Disasters – 2
DIY/How to – 2
Fiction – 2
Foods – 2
Harry Potter – 2
Libraries, Books about – 2
Love – 2
Math – 2
Noble Prize – 2
Orange Prize – 2
Paranormal – 2
Reading in another language - 2
Speculative Fiction – 2
Time Travel – 2
Title-Related Challenges – 2
War – 2
Bookswapped – 1
First book by an author – 1
Graphic Novels – 1
Persephones – 1
Terry Pratchett - 1
Used Books – 1

And the more detailed list -

Misc. Categories – 33
bookoholic13 (No review on LT), cmbohn (Self-Improvement), GingerbreadMan (2 – Books not read when popular & Work-related Reading), bell7 (Genreblending), eetzel (The Big Read – UK), auntmarge64 (Introduced by the Kindle), mihess (2 - Gothic Novels & Steampunk), ladygata (2 - Masterpiece Theatre & Little Leather Library), mathgirl40 (Obscure), remusly (2 – Transgressive Fiction & Modern Library’s Top 100), clfisha (New Female Authors, Another by a Female Author, & Dead Female Authors), lindapanzo (book genres not usually read), sanddancer (fictionalized accounts of real events), AnnieMod (Literary Journals with a Cover Date in 2010), moneybeets (2 – Magic Realism & Favorite Topics), bfertig (Go Review that Book), VictoriaPL (2 - Literature & Nanowrimo), jhedlund (Spirituality & Self Exploration), jmfonz52 (Set in cities), jmccarro (2 – Parenting & Books having characters whose names are those of my children), beatles1964 (Women's Studies/Feminism), LauraBrook (K Authors), readeron (2 - Literary Fiction & Romantic Comedy), katrinasreads (Searching out the unusual), HannahJo (Authors I've heard at Writer's Festivals)

The catch all category – 31
cmbohn, Jenson_AKA_DL, GingerbreadMan, englishrose60, pamelad, cyderry (2), AHS-Wolfy, Zoe, christina_reads, bookoholic13, bell7, CatyM, Retrogirl85, ladygata, Cait86, remusly, Amy-Sue, clfisha, channywax, laura_88, moneybeets, KimB, leahsimone, busy91, VictoriaPL, jhedlund, jmfonz52, SqueakyChu, deep220, onyx95

Challenges – 28
sjmccreary (3 - 50 State, US Presidents, & Dewey Decimal), jonesli (1,001 List), Zoe (Dewey Decimal), bookoholic13 (Orbis Terrarum), NeverStopTrying (2 - 1,001 List & Dewey Decimal), cyderry (US Presidents), bell7 (Dewey Decimal), CatyM (1,001 List), eetzel (1,001 List), Amy-Sue (2 – 2006 1,001 List & 2008 1,001 List), auntmarge64 (US Presidents - 19th Century), lindapanzo (US Presidents), sanddancer (1,001 List), mistique0130 (1,001 List), arubabookwoman (1,001 List), laura_88 (1,001 List), KimB (1,001 List), leahsimone (1,001 List), busy91 (Dewey Decimal), bfertig (2 - US Presidents & Dewey Decimal), jhedlund (1,001 List), HannahJo (2 - 1,001 List & Notable Books)

Mysteries – 26
AHS-Wolfy (& Detective), christiguc, jonesli (2 - Women Authors & Noir), lindapanzo (Vintage), sjmccreary, calm, NeverStopTrying (The Golden Age), CatyM, eetzel (Classic), Retrogirl85, koalamom, auntmarge64 (& Suspense), mathgirl40, Amy-Sue, Miela, channywax, AnnieMod (Originally published in 2010), laura_88, moneybeets, RidgewayGirl (Noirish), nannybebette, deep220 (Murder Mysteries), readeron (3 - Private Investigators, Amateur Sleuths, & Police Procedurals)

Books by a specific author – 22
NeverStopTrying (2 - A.S. Byatt & Peter Matthiessen), AHS-Wolfy (Jim Butcher & related), lindapanzo (Anne Perry), englishrose60 (2 – Agatha Christie & Wodehouse), eetzel (Thomas Hardy), mihess (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry), ladygata (2 - Dickens vs. Trollope & Alexander McCall Smith), Cait86 (2 – Cormac McCarthy & Margaret Atwood), Miela (Neal Stephenson), mistique0130 (Anne Rice), busy91 (Stephen King), VictoriaPL (2 - David Goodis & Bronte and Alcott), jhedlund (Roald Dahl), jmccarro (2 - Shakespeare & Hemingway), nannybebette (Steinbeck & about him), HannahJo (Dickens & related)

Young Adult & Children’s Books – 22
Ivyd (2 – & Women Authors of Children’s), Zoe (fiction), LauraBrook, bookoholic13 (YA), christiguc (Picture Books), bell7, Retrogirl85, koalamom, mathgirl40 (Published 2009/2010), channywax, mistique0130 (Fiction), laura_88, bella_lee (2 - Children’s Fiction & YA Fantasy), jhedlund, jmfonz52, nannybebette, VirginiaGill, onyx95 (2 – YA & Children’s), readeron

Books on topics – 21
Zoe (Education and Intelligence), christina_reads (2 - Secret Agents, Intelligencers, and Master Spies & Law and Government), Jenson_AKA_DL (2 – Horses & Contains a body of water), AHS-Wolfy (Wolves), lindapanzo (Baseball), sjmccreary (the Gold Rush), eetzel (crafts), Retrogirl85 (Seductive Women), mihess (2 - Art History & Basque Culture), Cait86 (King Arthur), sanddancer (Cinema, Actors, & Hollywood), christina_reads (Boats, Ships, & Pirates), bella_lee (Hockey & Sports-related), bfertig (2 - Money, Economics, Commodity Histories, etc. & Philosophy), SqueakyChu (Contains an animal), LauraBrook (Royality), katrinasreads (Language)

Fantasy – 21
Jenson_AKA_DL, GingerbreadMan, AHS-Wolfy (2 – Classic & New), calm, NeverStopTrying (From the Orion List), bell7, eetzel (Non-Discworld), Retrogirl85, koalamom, mathgirl40, channywax, mistique0130, AnnieMod (Published in 2010), leahsimone, bella_lee (Comic), bella_lee (YA), Jenson_AKA_DL (Dragons), channywax (Fairies & More), beatles1964, readeron

Books set in (or written by authors from) specific places – 20
GingerbreadMan (South American Authors), lindapanzo (2 – Chicago & the Mississippi River), pamelad (Australia and the Pacific), Zoe (New York or US), bookoholic13 (2 - Israeli Authors & Nordic Writers), NeverStopTrying (Alaska), mihess (The Middle East), mathgirl40 (2 – Russian Authors & Canadian published in 2009 or 2010), AnnieMod (2 - European & South American Novels), laura_88 (Finland published in 2010), moneybeets (Indian Literature), KimB (Australian Authors), bella_lee (Canada), RidgewayGirl (2 – Set in Europe & Set in North America), HannahJo (Israel & Palestine)

Non-fiction – 17
Christiguc, lindapanzo, Sjmccreary, bookoholic13, CatyM, koalamom, mathgirl40, Miela, sanddancer, AnnieMod, arubabookwoman, KimB, RidgewayGirl, nannybebette (2 - & Mysteries), readeron, HannahJo

Sci-fi – 17
Jenson_AKA_DL, GingerbreadMan, AHS-Wolfy (2 – Classic & New), calm, NeverStopTrying (From the Orion List), bell7, koalamom, auntmarge64, mathgirl40, remusly, channywax, AnnieMod (Published in 2010), bella_lee, beatles1964 (2 - & Feminist), readeron

Biographies, Autobiographies, & Memoirs – 15
englishrose60 (bios), cyderry (bios), christina_reads, Retrogirl85 (bios & memoirs), koalamom (bios), mihess (Movie Star Memoirs), ladygata (bios & memoirs), Amy-Sue (bios & memoirs), busy91 (2 – Celebrities & Non-Celebrities), jmfonz52 (bios & autobios), nannybebette (bios), SqueakyChu (bios & memoirs), deep220 (bios & memoirs), HannahJo (bios & memoirs)

Prize Winners - 15
GingerbreadMan (Noble), jonesli, englishrose60 (Orange), pamelad (Noble), bookoholic13, auntmarge64, Cait86 (Booker longlist), remusly, Miela (Orange), KimB (2 – Recent Winners & Older Winners), leahsimone (Pulitzer), RidgewayGirl (& Shortlisted), bfertig (including runners up & the National Book Award), HannahJo (Booker winners & shortlisted)

Series – 15
Jenson_AKA_DL, Ivyd (2 – Starting & Continuing), AHS-Wolfy, jonesli, lindapanzo, Sjmccreary, LauraBrook, Miela (Morland Saga), channywax, leahsimone, nannybebette, VirginiaGill, onyx95, readeron

1,001 Books You Must Read Challenge – 14
jonesli, NeverStopTrying, CatyM, eetzel, Amy-Sue (2 – 2006 list & 2008 list), sanddancer, mistique0130, arubabookwoman, laura_88, KimB, leahsimone, jhedlund, HannahJo

Classics – 14
LauraBrook, christina_reads (20th Century), auntmarge64, Cait86 (2 - & American), mathgirl40, moneybeets, leahsimone (2 - & children’s), jmfonz52, jmccarro, beatles1964, VirginiaGill, katrinasreads

Categories defined by a timeframe – 13
Zoe (Ancient World), ivyd (Contemporary Fiction), sjmccreary (books that were first published before I was born), pamelad (More than 40 years ago), CatyM (Victorian Books: any fiction by British authors first published between 1837 and 1901), atlargeintheworld (Prior to 1920), koalamom (Nineteenth Century Authors), Miela (19th Century Nose-Breakers), arubabookwoman (3 – Pre-1900, 1900-1950, & 1950-2000), moneybeets (the Gilded Age: 1874-1900), jmfonz52 (written in the 50s or over 50 years ago)

Recently published books – 13
christiguc (2010), bell7 (2008, 2009, or 2010), mathgirl40 (2 – Canadian 2009 or 2010 & YA 2009 or 2010), Amy-Sue (2009 or 2010), AnnieMod (6 - Sci-fi 2010; Fantasy 2010; Literary Journals - Cover Date 2010; Crime Fiction, Mysteries, & Thrillers – originally 2010; Leftover Novels 2009; Anthologies & Collections 2010), laura_88 (Finland 2010), AHS-Wolfy (New Sci-Fi and Fantasy)

By Decades - 12
clfisha (10 books for 10 decades), atlargeintheworld (9 - each decade from 1920 to 2010), arubabookwoman (2000-2010), pamelad (Last 10 years)

Historical Fiction – 12
sjmccreary (more than 100 years ago), calm, Retrogirl85, ladygata, remusly, Amy-Sue, Miela, mistique0130, KimB, busy91, jhedlund, jmccarro

Reducing the TBR - 12
christina_reads, pamelad, NeverStopTrying (fiction), auntmarge64, mihess, Amy-Sue, KimB (Acquired over one year ago), RidgewayGirl (Unread for over a year), jmfonz52, VirginiaGill, onyx95, katrinasreads

Religion – 12
calm (Non-Fction), cmbohn (LDS Books), CatyM (Christian Books), channywax (LDS Books), busy91 (Christian Fiction & Non-Fiction), bfertig, jmfonz52 (Christian Fiction), nannybebette (Christianity), SqueakyChu (Of Jewish Interest), beatles1964 (2 – Wiccan & Pagan), VirginiaGill (Christian)

Around the world – 11
christiguc (Authors from new-to-me countries), jonesli (Books set in
various locations around the world), calm, ivyd (World View), Miela
(Global Fiction Works), clfisha (The Continents), arubabookwoman (World
Tour: Authors from 10 different countries, not including the US, Canada
and Great Britain), moneybeets (Reading Globally picks), RidgewayGirl
(Each book set in a different country, not Europe or North America), SqueakyChu (Globally Reading Themed), VirginiaGill (Authors from other countries)

History - 11
sjmccreary (2 – more than 100 years ago & American), cyderry, calm (Ancient), eetzel (Texas), remusly, Amy-Sue, moneybeets, jmccarro, VirginiaGill, katrinasreads

Recommendations – 11
Jenson_AKA_DL, GingerbreadMan, AHS-Wolfy, pamelad (LT), LauraBrook (mom), bell7, clfisha (LT), laura_88, RidgewayGirl (LT), bfertig (LT), nannybebette (LT), LauraBrook (LT & PBS)

Book with a certain word in the title - 10
Jenson_AKA_DL (2 – Names & Wintery Titles), AHS-Wolfy (Wolf), englishrose60 (Rose), cyderry (Specific Foods), remusly (Owl), sanddancer (Animals or Colours), bfertig (2 – Names & Location Names), jmfonz52 (Number or Color)

“New to me” authors – 8
Cmbohn (2 – male & female), Sjmccreary, Miela, sanddancer, laura_88, VictoriaPL, SqueakyChu

Romance – 8
CatyM, cyderry, Amy-Sue, channywax, mistique0130, laura_88, beatles1964 (Gothic), deep220 (Historical)

Short Stories – 8
englishrose60, bell7, sanddancer, moneybeets, jmfonz52, nannybebette, SqueakyChu, readeron

Books containing a certain theme – 7
cmbohn (death), Jenson_AKA_D (winter), clfisha (5 - Good & Evil, Japanese Elements, The Senses, The Colours of Magic, Inspired by the Muses)

Cozy Mysteries – 7
mistique0130 (3 – With Dogs, Cat, & Sweets), cyderry (2 – & With Hobbies or Crafts), lindapanzo, bella_lee

Fairy Tales, Legends, Myths, etc. - 7
Zoe, christina_reads, ivyd, calm, remusly, channywax, katrinasreads (Fairytales)

Jane Austin & Co. - 7
christina_reads, LauraBrook, cyderry, mihess, Cait86, VictoriaPL, deep220

Dewey Decimal Challenge – 6
sjmccreary, Zoe, NeverStopTrying, bell7, busy91, bfertig

Favorite Authors – 6
Pamelad, moneybeets, leahsimone, RidgewayGirl, jhedlund, VirginiaGill

Group Reads – 6
christiguc, LauraBrook (classics), channywax, RidgewayGirl, VictoriaPL, VirginiaGill

Lengthy Books - 6
GingerbreadMan (Nosebreakers), sjmccreary (a big fat “Russian” novel), Retrogirl85 (Doorstoppers – 500+ pages), Miela (19th Century Nose-Breakers) , leahsimone (600+ pages), katrinasreads

Plays – 6
christina_reads, christiguc, sanddancer, laura_88, busy91, deep220

Science – 6
Jmccarro, bfertig, Zoe, auntmarge64, deep220 (& Nature), HannahJo (& Nature)

Travel Books - 6
GingerbreadMan (Books about travel), englishrose60 (Classic Travel Stories), LauraBrook (Literature & Guides), ladygata (Armchair Traveling), Miela, jhedlund (Armchair Travel), VirginiaGill (Essays)

America, Books set in or Authors from – 5
cmbohn, ivyd, sjmccreary, koalamom (Classic American Authors), Cait86 (American Classics)

Chick Lit – 5
bella_lee, Amy-Sue, channywax, jhedlund, readeron

Library Books - 5
onyx95, busy91 (New), laura_88, mathgirl40, auntmarge64

Movies & TV - 5
AHS-Wolfy (Associated to Film or TV Show), jonesli (Books made into movies), Retrogirl85 (Books to Movies), remusly (Books to Movies & TV), deep220 (Books to Movies)

New books, Old Authors (for me) – 5
bell7, cmbohn, sanddancer, VictoriaPL, HannahJo

Rereads – 5
GingerbreadMan, RidgewayGirl, VictoriaPL, jhedlund, onyx95

US Presidents Challenge – 5
sjmccreary, cyderry, auntmarge64 (19th Century Presidents), lindapanzo, bfertig

Vampires – 5
Retrogirl85, Jenson_AKA_DL, channywax, bella_lee, deep220

Crime – 4
christiguc, pamelad, AnnieMod (Fiction originally published in 2010), laura_88

Early Reviewers Books – 4
RidgewayGirl, bfertig, SqueakyChu, onyx95

Horror – 4
beatles1964, mistique0130, readeron, VictoriaPL (The Monster Mash)

Thrillers – 4
AHS-Wolfy, sjmccreary, Retrogirl85, AnnieMod (Originally published in 2010)

Translations - 4
AHS-Wolfy, calm, ladygata, SqueakyChu

United Kingdom, Books set in or Authors from – 4
Ivyd, clfisha, CatyM (Victorian Books: Any fiction by British authors first published between 1837 and 1901), Cait86 (Set in Ireland)

Virago Modern Classics - 4
Christiguc, englishrose60, KimB, nannybebette

Africa, Books set in or Authors from - 3
GingerbreadMan (Authors), AnnieMod (Novels), katrinasreads

Alphabet Categories – 3
Arubabookwoman (2 - last name of each author begins with one of the first 10 letters of the alphabet, A-J & last name of each author begins with one of the last 10 letters of the alphabet, Q-Z), Amy-Sue (Authors A-Z)

Anthologies – 3
leahsimone, AnnieMod (& Collections published in 2010), onyx95

Asia, Books set in or Authors from - 3
GingerbreadMan (Authors), mathgirl40 (Authors), remusly

Categories defined by a timeframe, in relation to the reader – 3
GingerbreadMan (Unread books bought over ten years ago), christiguc (Books I've owned since 2007 or earlier), arubabookwoman (Books I’ve owned more than 5 years)

The U.S. Civil War – 3
Koalamom, cyderry, mihess

Humour – 3
AHS-Wolfy, CatyM, jhedlund

L.M. Montgomery – 3
Ivyd, Cait86 (By & About), VictoriaPL

Not from here – 3
Sanddancer (Books set outside of the UK/USA), koalamom (Non-American Authors), CatyM (Books by non-British authors)

Poetry - 3
Christiguc, sanddancer, VirginiaGill

Audiobooks – 2
cyderry, bfertig (With bold/controversial content)

Bookcrossing – 2
KimB, katrinasreads (non-bookring)

Bookmooch – 2
Pamelad, onyx95

Books about books – 2
bookoholic13, NeverStopTrying (& Reading)

Books spurred by fiction reads – 2
calm, eetzel

Disasters – 2
jmfonz52, lindapanzo

DIY/How to – 2
calm, eetzel

Fiction – 2
auntmarge64, koalamom

Foods – 2
ladygata (Including tea), SqueakyChu

Harry Potter – 2
jmccarro, jhedlund

Libraries, Books about – 2
beatles1964, bell7

Love – 2
cmbohn, englishrose60

Math – 2
jmccarro, Zoe

Noble Prize – 2
GingerbreadMan, pamelad

Orange Prize – 2
englishrose60, Miela

Paranormal – 2
channywax (Werewolves & More), bella_lee (Witches & Warlocks)

Reading in another language - 2
Zoe, christiguc

Speculative Fiction – 2
VictoriaPL, Zoe

Time Travel – 2
deep220 (Characters who), sanddancer

Title-Related Challenges – 2
bfertig (Starts with The or A), RidgewayGirl (One Word Titles)

War – 2
nannybebette (& Wartime), cmbohn

Bookswapped – 1
onyx95

First book by an author – 1
christiguc

Graphic Novels – 1
bookoholic13

Persephones – 1
nannybebette

Terry Pratchett - 1
eetzel (Non-Discworld)

Used Books – 1
CatyM

It is possible to be listed in more than 10 categories in the compiled lists even if you only have 10 categories. An example would be YA Vampires would be in both YA and Vampires.

Please let me know if I've put one of your categories in the wrong place.

The best way to see where your categories have been placed in the detailed list is to use the find function on your browser to highlight your user name then scroll down to the detailed list and see where you are.

It can be done two ways. One is to press "Ctrl+F". The other is to go under Edit and select Find. Then type your user name into the box and select Highlight all. Scroll to where the detailed list is and your user name will be highlighted and easy to find. Be sure to use your exact user name. I think the only one I didn't do this with is Zoe, who is Zoe without the underlines.

This is also an easy way to see what any of your friend's categories are without having to find and/or open their threads. And say while you were checking out who was also reading your categories, you noticed someone who was in several of your categories with you. If you wanted to see what other categories they had, you could use this method.

chrine, would just like to say thank you for your time and labour in providing this information for us. *****

Aww, you're welcome Valerie. Did I just get five stars??!! SWEET!

You deserve them!

chrine,

I have three set in categories - African & European & South American Novels - categories 8, 9 and 10. Or is it just Africa counted separately?

Great work again chrine. Thanks v.much for doing this.

Would my category New in SF&F not also qualify for the Recently published books?

wow. great job, great list!

what is the difference between things like 'used books', 'bookswap', 'bookmooch' etc?

@107 bfertig, I think bookswap and bookmooch are specific online communities designed for the passing on of unwanted books. Used books are just books obtained second-hand.

Another great job - thanks chrine!

That's great work chrine- thankyou. :)

I have decided to go the 10/10/10 route with a bonus category.

My categories are as follows:

1. Y.A.
2. All things Steinbeck (just can't leave him out)
3. Non-fiction & Bios
4. Christianity & religion
5. Series books
6. Virago
7. Mysteries
8. War & Wartime
9. L.T. recx
10. Short Stories

11. Bonus category: Africa

I hope everyone enjoys their challenges in 2010. I know I am looking forward to mine as I enjoy this free choice time right now.
belva

Wow, chrine, what an amazingly detailed list! I love being able to see at a glance who is reading other categories similar to mine and getting a sense of the wide variety of books we're planning for this challenge.

A few notes on my categories - I'm listed in science fiction, but don't have a category for it (just fantasy). Also, I'm including Early Reviewer books in my "Recommendations" category, kind of an overlap with miscellaneous/books I "have" to read, but that's probably getting nitpicky as any book I get in the program would most likely find its way into my LT Recommendations...

Thanks so much for all your hard work!

My list:

1) 1001 books you must read before you die
2) Writers Festival (books by authors I hear speak in writers festivals)
3) Notable Books (as listed on this website http://notablebooks.blogspot.com/search/...)
4) Science and Nature
5) Biography/memoir
6) Dickens and Dickens-inspired
7) Non-fiction
8) Israel/Palestine
9) Man-Booker Prize (winning and short-listed books)
10) Hello again (writers I enjoyed last year that I want to explore more)

Thank you again for taking the time to compile this list!

Chrine--thank you for all your hard work. It is much appreciated.

Hola Annie. Three people are reading Africa books so I've pulled it out and counted it separately, instead of in the specific places category where your set in European and South American remain. I suspect South American books will be separated out as well as more people join the challenge and I add them in.

Hola Dave. Yes, yes it would. And I've added it in there.

I did not put anyone's use of new in that one because I did not know what they meant by new. It could be used as opposed to old/classic books of a genre to mean anything relatively recent. The Recently Published Books category is for books only three, maybe four, years old. So I only placed people's categories which had specific years stated in it.

I do not mind knowing if anyone's new certain type of books means in recent years only and adding them to that category. I deciphered as I could and certainly don't mind changing things so that they are correct because I am also anal like that. lol

Hola bfertig. Dave is correct in the message below yours.

Hola Belva. Your categories are already in the compiler.

I went and collected them from anyone who had a thread and a seemly definite list of categories last night and added them in before I posted the current list. As members join the Challenge, I've been adding their user names to a list at the end of the compiler doc. When they list their categories here, I take them off the list and compile their categories. I looked at the remaining threads for those on that list last night and added those in who had categories.

Hola HannahJo. I've added you to the compiler above.

just a minor tweak - my category on thinking, that is philosophy/religion/science will probably try to focus on big issues, relations between the three as well as with society in general. i will specifically try to gain a variety of perspectives - e.g. many religions, areas of science, philosophies, rather than focusing on any one (e.g. Judaism, Christianity, etc). but i definitely won't be bothering with fiction regarding any of them.

Just stopping by to tip my hat. Thank you so much chrine!

Hola bfertig. I've got your philosophy/religion/science category compiled in this way. Religion under the religion category, science under the science category, and philosophy under the books on a topic category. None of these are solely fiction categories, though someone might included a fiction book in them. Is there a category you think yours might go better under? Would you like it under Misc. Categories? Thank you.

Thanks for all of your hard work! It is very convenient to have a list of everyone's categories rather than going to each separate thread. (:

Here are mine:

Group 1: 1001 Books
Group 2: Books related to Spain and the Spanish speaking world (new)
Group 3: British Writers
Group 4: Books not written in English (new)
Group 5: Travel
Group 6: History (fact or fiction)
Group 7: Myths and Legends (new)
Group 8: Classics I should have already read (new)
Group 9: Olympic Challenge (Bookcrossing) (new)
Group 10: Asia (new)

Hola chrine,
Yup, I see that I'm under all three. Just when looking under the Religion category, if I read it correctly, I'm listed with jmfonz52 as reading Christian Fiction. Such a minor thing though.. sorry for nitpicking!

Religion – 12
calm (Non-Fction), cmbohn (LDS Books), CatyM (Christian Books), channywax (LDS Books), busy91 (Christian Fiction & Non-Fiction), bfertig, jmfonz52 (Christian Fiction), nannybebette (Christianity), SqueakyChu (Of Jewish Interest), beatles1964 (2 – Wiccan & Pagan), VirginiaGill (Christian)

Chrine, you deserve a big pat on the back for all your hard work. Thanks.

Here's my categories:

1. Agatha Christie
2. Crime and Thrillers
3. Next In Line (series)
4. Historical Fiction
5. American West
6. YA/Children's Lit
7. Fantasy
8. War & The Homefront
9. Pretty In Pink (Girly Books)
10. Random Recs - suggestions from others

Hola bfertig. Rest easy, you've miss read it. There is nothing in parenthesis after your name so you're reading just Religion in general. The people with parenthesis have their reading further clarified within them and those without parenthesis are just reading the category in general. Check, for examples, either the classics category or the mystery category to see what I mean.

Hola Soffitta & Judy. Your categories have been added to the compiler. They will be included in the next update, as will everyone else who joins after this. I have the compiler on my computer alphabetically which makes it easy to add new people into categories and then just rank numerically before posting it.

An interesting tidbit that I decided to track last time I added people to the compiler is that we have 63 people with categories selected towards the challenge next year or a thread opened intending to join the challenge next year.

>128 chrine: - Cool beans, Thanks for explaining. Mea culpa. Cheers!

Impressive, Chrine. I have just spent some very pleasurable minutes reading the compiled categories.

Thank you Chrine for all the work you've done. Here are my categories:

I should have read this by now
Look, something shiny - anything that catches my fancy
On the road - books with settings from around the world
Very British - British authors
En français - French authors
Books by women - women authors
On love, hate and everything in between - books with an emotion in the title
Outside the box - new-to-me authors or genre
Know-it-all - Non-fiction
Science-fiction and fantasy

Cheers

1) 16th - 18th Century Lit (Books must be written/author lived during this time period)
2) Historical Fiction
3) Around the World - Africa and Asia (Takes Place/Author From)
4) 2 Years Old or Less (Book published 2008 or Later)
5) R - Z Authors
6) I Rescued that Book in '10 (Books bought from a Used Bookstore)
7) Mystery/Thriller/Suspense
8) I Like Fat Books (Books with 550 pages or more)
9) Before I was a Movie (Books that now have a movie version)
10) Hodgepodge O’ Books (Any book can go here)

This will for sure make sure I finish any 100+ Reading Challenges :)

I was reading over the list again (I love it!) and thinking about how one category can be listed in multiple places. So, I think my Ancient World category should be listed under both Historical Fiction and History, since it's a combination of those two categories.

Thank you again for doing this!

I've been thinking about my categories and plan to drop my Mississippi River category for one called Days and Nights, books with either or both of these words in the title, such as Friday Night Lights.

That's whats fun about planning so far ahead--we can (theoretically) get all the alterations and adjustments out of our systems before we begin. Theoretically.

I like the Days and Nights category and will be keeping an eye on it.

Some changes for me (mainly because of the TBR piles...):

- The SF and Fantasy novels published in 2010 go in the same category now (together with Horror and Speculative fiction -- I have trouble separating some of them anyway)
- Removing the European Novels as a category- I am already doing the European Challenge (and i needed one more empty slot anyway). I am leaving the other two continental categories - already picked the books anyway.

And in the two newly opened slots adding:
- 5. Novels, collections and anthologies published between 2000 and 2008
- 8. The older books - anything published before 1.1.2000
Add some shifting to get all the new books at the beginning of the list and my list look like this now:

1. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Speculative Fiction Novels originally published in 2010
2. Crime Fiction, Mystery and Thriller Novels originally published in 2010
3. Anthologies and collections published in 2010
4. Literary journals with cover date in 2010 (including Asimov's, EQMM and the similar)
5. Novels, collections and anthologies published between 2000 and 2008
6. Leftover Novels from 2009 (published in 2009 but either arrived too late or did not have time to read them in 2009)
7. Non-fiction
8. The older books - anything published before 1.1.2000
9. African novels (written by authors from or living in different African countries; or with the story set mainly in Africa).
10. South American novels (written by authors from or living in different South American countries; or with the story set mainly in South America).

My first year doing this type of challenge and it looks like fun! Choosing the categories was hard enough...now to choose the books!

1. Published in ‘10
2. Blind Buys (used bookstore, unheard of books without looking at LT or other reviews)
3. Hail to the King (My quest to finish all of Stephen King's bibliography)
4. Dusty Shelves (TBR pile)
5, Dracula Approves (Bram Stoker Award Winners and Nominations)
6. Cotillion (new author debuts)
7. Now a Major Motion Picture (books made into movies)
8. Murder 101 (related to my job - forensics, true crime, science in general)
9. Tea Cosy (Agatha Christie mysteries)
10. Around the World in 365 Days (novels originally published in a foreign language)

And for a bonus, I'm going to try and read 5 self-published books!

paruline, bookwormjules, & SlySionnach ~~ I've added your categories to the compiler. They will be included in the next update I post.

Zoe, lindapanzo, & AnnieMod ~~ I've made the changes you posted about. Thanks!

We now have 70 people with threads and/or category lists planning on doing the 1010 Challenge next year!

Make that 72.

I've changed my Library Discoveries category to read Library and Library Thing Discoveries, in case it makes a difference in the compilation.

Well I just joined but I haven't even started working on my categories. I have been looking for this group since the end of July beginning of August when I was really thinking of my categories. Well now I can't remember anything I was thinking at that time. I know I will have at least a category for my TBR pile, I just don't think I will have such a catchy name as some of you do for your categories. So far my categories are:

1. Mount TBR

Hola Marge. Your Library and LibraryThing Discoveries category has been compiled into both the Library Books and the Recommendations (LT) categories. Thanks!

Hola Monica. Welcome to the 1010 Challenge!

After looking at my mounds of books, I added:

From My TBR
Miscellaneous
Biographies

I also changed my Women of Mystery category to all Agatha Christie.

Hi! I just joined today. I plan to start reading 10/10, rather than waiting until January. I've tentatively set my categories as the following (though I am already second-guessing myself):

1. "Blue vs. Gray" (US Civil War non-fiction)
2. "Whodunit?" (mystery/suspense fiction)
3. "Strange but True?" (paranormal non-fiction: folklore of the supernatural, parapsychology, paranormal investigations, etc.)
4. "Kid Stuff" (Juvenile / YA fiction)
5. "Destroyed in Seconds" (disasters, non-fiction)
6. "A Matter of Faith" (Christianity/ world religions non-fiction)
7. "Start Your Engines!" (motor sports, cars)
8. "My America pre-Y2K" (US history 1950-1999, non-fiction)
9. "Interesting People" (biography/autobiography/memoir)
10."Scary Fiction" (horror/gothic/ghost stories)

I plan to start on 10-10-2009 so far my categories are:
1. Plays-5 Shakespeare, 5 Modern
2. Books to movies- 5 Classic, 5 Modern
3. Mysteries- 5 Male Detectives, 5 Female Detectives
4. Sci-fi/Fantasy- 5 Robots, 5 Dragons
5. Bio's-5 Composers, 5 Artist
6. Audio Books-
7. Recommendations- 5 Family, 5 Friends
8. Catholic Writers- 5 Doctors of the Church, 5 Saints
9. Holidays- 3 Halloween, 3 Christmas, 1 New Year, 3 Easter
10. Just Because-

Edited to update Categories

I think my list will easily cover everything I would would like to read in 2010! I look forward to join group reads and I will need help, inspirations and expertise from this group in filling in my categories with books selections.

1) Books selected by my favorite LT group - "Group Reads - Literature"
2) Russian literary works
3) French literary works
4) Asian literary works
5) Italian literary works
6) American literary works
7) Atwood and other must read women authors
8) Historical fiction & nonfiction
9) Biographies, Autobiographies, & Memoirs on writers & artists
10) more Fyodor Dostoevsky

My categories, and I am planning to do 5 in each category:

C-1) Medieval History
C-2) Other non-fiction
C-3) Historical fiction
C-4) Science fiction
C-5) Rereads
C-6) Winners
C-7) Classics
C-8) Dutch language
C-9) TBR (bought in 2007 before and unread)
C-10) Catchall

>78 RosyLibrarian:, I love that you've got a Basque-themed category. Have you read Kurlansky's book on the Basques?

I've still not committed formally or set up a thread, but I am thinking of the following:

#1 - "Things Could Be Worse" - Dystopias, Alternate Histories
#2 - "Imagined Worlds" - Fairy Tales, Mythology, Fantasy, Supernatural
#3 - "I Should Be Able to Read This in the Original" - Fiction Originally Written in a Language I've Studied (French, German, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic)
#4 - "Authors I Hope I'll Love" - New (To Me) Fiction
#5 - "So Much To Discover" - Non-Fiction on Any Topic
#6 - "Conquering Continent TBR" - Anything, As Long as I Already Own It
#7 – "A Literature of Their Own" - British Women's Literature and Lit Crit
#8 – "Shorter is Better" - Short Stories, Essays
#9 – Shakespeare Project - Shakespeare's Plays, Criticism, Maybe Some History (I'll also be seeing plays or film versions of what I read)
#10 – "Freebies"- Open for ER books, Belletrista reads, group reads, etc.

I know this will mean shooting for 100 books, but I am considering doing no overlaps.

Oooh, I like the "Things could be worse". When you make a topic, I'll be sure to see what you fill that up with!

>151 fannyprice: Will you be including apocalyptic fiction?

>153 auntmarge64:, auntmarge, I'm not ruling it out. I welcome all and any suggestions on my profile page!

Oki Doki....I've decided to jump in on this challenge. I sorted through my TBR pile and through my booksfree queue and picked out the books I plan to read over the next year...and sorted them into ten categories.

I'm not going to read a set number of books in each category. I plan to read 150 books over the next 14 months (we'll see if that ACTUALLY happens lol). I currently have a list of the exact books, but I'm sure I'll end up straying...

Here are my categories. I'll start a thread soon with the lists of books chosen at this point. I hope you enjoy my song lyric topics!

1. I like big books and I cannot lie- Books 600+ pages long
2. It's the end of the world as we know it- Dystopias, alternate futures, disasters, etc…
3. Girl's just want to have fun- Chicklit, romance, etc.
4. Stop pressuring me- Reccomendations and gifts
5. It's easy as 1, 2, 3- Series reading
6. Short, don't ever mean small- Short stories, plays, and graphic novels
7. Cause we are the chapions- Award winning books and award winning authors
8. I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up- Children's and YA lit
9. She's a big star and she eats caviar- Books-to-movies
10. I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a lover- Miscellaneous

There were so many other categories I wanted to include as well, but this is what I narrowed it down to.

1. Lost in Translation - books originally written in a language other than English
2. Digging My Own Grave - books from the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list
3. Things Could Be Worse - dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction
4. Book'em Danno! - Booker Prize shortlisted novels
5. Cheese's Wall of Literary Shame - classic Japanese novels I've never read, despite having a degree in Japanese culture
6. Children of Herodotus - non-fiction history books, any topic
7. Land of the Rising Sun - non-fiction books about Japan
8. They Did What?!?!? - books turned into movies or TV series
9. Dusty Tomes - books written before 1900
10. How Novel! - books published between now and Dec 2010 (not necessarily fiction)

so my categories are:

Top 10 = 10 books from any top 10 lists
10 from 10 = 10 pieces of writing from 10 different authors
10 years = 10 books written between 2000 and 2010
10 times 10 = 10 pieces of writing from the last 100 years
10 minus 1 = 9 Lives (9 biographies)
10th month = 10 pieces of horror writing
10 to 10 = 10 recommendations from 10 friends
10 down to 1 and blast off = 10 pieces of writing about space travel
10 commandments = 10 books from the 1001 books to read before you die
10 feet = 10 pieces of travel writing

Hi! I changed one of my categories from US history 1950-1999 to a general 20th Century US history. I think that's the only substantive change in my categories, other than minor tweaks to titles/descriptions.

Well I have most of my categories chosen. Here they are:

1. Books to Screen
2. Recommendations from friends, LT and other places
3. Required reading (books my children have had to read for school)
4. 1001 books to read ??
5. What have I been missing?!? (authors new to me)
6. Johanna Lindsey books
7. From when I was a youngin' (YA/Children)
8. It's been in the mountain for too long... (Books from my TBR pile for years.)
9. Books from the Library (Goal is to borrow more books instead of buying them right away)
10. Books from series...

#4 category is one that I am still contemplating do to the fact that I don't own the book 1001 books to read before you die. I hope to buy the book and to then start choosing books to read. # 10 is still one I am not sure of yet. I don't want to make it misc. I will let you know when I do decide on that category.

You can get the 1001 title list at the publisher's website: http://1001beforeyoudie.com.

Thanks for the link auntmarge!! Now if I could just print the whole list that would be great.

I put a post up with a full description of my 2010 categories. (See http://www.librarything.com/topic/75009)

Here's a brief list of what those categories are:

1) New Authors
2) Closing out an Author
3) Horror Novels
4) Thriller Novels
5) Political Intrigue Novels
6) True Crime Novels
7) Standalones
8) The "ThrillerFan 500"
9) Overflow
10) Wild Card

>161 crazy4reading:
There's a person who posted it to a website when it first came out. I didn't compare the two lists to be sure it was 100% correct, but it's printable: http://www.listology.com/list/1001-books-you-must-read-you-die

Thanks again Auntmarge. It is very long.... I will print it and then compare it to the book. :) Thanks for all your help!!

What I find really handy for the 1001 list is that a lot of people use 1001 as a tag, so if you do a tag search on that, you get a list with the little green checks for the ones already in your library.

theres also a spreadsheet for the 1001 book (both versions) at http://johnandsheena.co.uk/books/?page_id=730 so you can track your progress :-)

and it has links to wikipedia & googlebooks too :-)

Thank you so much for the link psutto. Thanks kristenn for that info about searching for the books with the tag. I am going to try that now. The link I will try later on my pc cause it didn't work since I am on the IMac I think I will be able to do the 1001 category now. Thanks all for your wonderful information and help!!

Happy Reading!!

Monic'a

Another tip: 1001 books is listed as an award in the common knowledge. The link is:
http://www.librarything.com/bookaward/1001+Books+You+Must+Read+Before+You+Die
It has 1265 works, so that's probably all books from all editions. It is probably a bit more accurate than tags, but the combination of both should be golden!

Here's mine for now...no clever names for me, too lazy :)

1. Rescues from Mt. TBR
2. Books I want to have read (i.e., classics)
3. Re-reads from forever ago
4. Books in their original language (French or Spanish)
5. Sf/fantasy
6. By recommendation
7. Science
8. American history
9. Non-American history
10. Whatever else catches my fancy

>168 divinenanny:
On the award list it is saying which edition the book had been into. :)

And unless if you have some other strange awards, 1001 Books is the top award here:
http://www.librarything.com/profile/MEMBERNAME/stats/awards

I finally thought of my last category. I added it above it is:

10. Books from series...

I changed my Category Four from King Arthur to Global Reads.

Sorry chrine, I have also changed a category. Out goes New in SF&F and in its place goes Epic Fantasy. For your compiler I think you'll need to change the name only in the Fantasy group but delete my second entry in the Sci-Fi group and remove from Recently Published group.

Technically not an added category, so you can choose whether to add this or not - I've decided to have an 11th "overlap" category (I'm planning one book from each of the original 10) of Global/translated reads.

NOTE A CHANGE BEING MADE!!!

The 2nd category was a little too confusing and difficult to fulfill (especially if a book was to be published late last year, then I'd have no time to read it to fulfill the requirement). Therefore, I have changed the second category to "One Word Titles".

The rest remain as is. I will be doing my year as November 2009 thru October 2010, as we are traveling for Christmas this year, and will have a hectic time setting up for Christmas next year as we will be playing host with a large number of family members coming for our child's (due April 2010) first Christmas. Won't have much time to read Nov/Dec 2010, and should then be ready for whatever the 2011 challenge is at the start of 2011.

I put a post up with a full description of my 2010 categories. (See http://www.librarything.com/topic/75009)

Here's a brief list of what those categories are:

1) New Authors
2) One Word Titles
3) Horror Novels
4) Thriller Novels
5) Political Intrigue Novels
6) True Crime Novels
7) Standalones
8) The "ThrillerFan 500"
9) Overflow
10) Wild Card

Hey ThrillerFan,

I found a ton of books with just one word in the title:

1. SHE by H. Rider Haggard
2. IT by Stephen King
3. Hawaii by James Michener
4. Sayonara by James Michener
5. Caravans by James Michener
6. Iberia by James Michener
7.Centennial by James Michener
8.Cheaapeake by James Michener
9.Space by James Michener
10. Poland by James Michener
11.Texas by James Michener
12. Legacy by James Michener
13. Alaska by James Michener
14. Journey by James Michener
15. Caribbean by James Michener
16. Mexico by James Michener
17. Pandora by Anne Rice
18. Dracula by Bram Stoker
19. Eragon by Christopher Paolini
20. Emma by Jane Austen
21. Persuasion by Jane Austen
22. Alien by Alan Dean Foster
23. Aliens by Alan Dean Foster
24. The Wagons West Series by Dana Fuller Ross has 24 volumes in it so far like, Texas! Oklahoma! Independence!
25. Embers by Sandor Marai
26. Rhinegold by Stephan Grundy
27. Soulless by Christopher Golden
28. Ragtime by E.L. Doctrow
29. Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
30. Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey
31.Dragondrums by Anne McCaffrey

And this isn't even the tip of the Iceberg, yet. I know there's still a ton of books out there with only one word in the title. Of course, these are only some suggestions I hope that will help you in your quest to read books with one word in the title.

Beatles1964

#176

Actually, it's probably my easiest category aside from "Wild Card". Don't know for sure which ones will fall under that category vs a different category, but here are some one-word titles I'm looking at (some of which are already in my to-read stack, or my wish list and just haven't purchased yet):

1) Event by David Lynn Goleman (This will be among my new author reads)
2) Nathaniel by John Saul
3) Dispatch by Bentley Little
4) Relic by Preston and Child (This will be among my new author reads)
5) If I like either or both authors, Goleman and/or Preston/Child, in both cases, I believe their second book in the series for each are 1-word titles.

Of yours listed, already read 2 of them:

Dracula (teen-age years, early 90s')
It (about 2 years ago)

I'd say the biggest challenges are the 3rd book in the "New Authors" category (the other 2 I already planned on reading the first novel of, and was thinking maybe Brad Thor) and the "ThrillerFan 500". If Goleman and Preston/Child end up taking up the New Author and One Word slots, then James Rollins I have to figure out whether to put under Thriller or "ThrillerFan 500", and same with Vince Flynn, some of his will be under 500 pages (easily Political Intrigue category), but those over 500, have to figure out which category is in more need. The "Overflow" will likely be One Word Titles, Horror, Thriller, or Standalones, or some mix of that.

I'm changing my category VIII from Romance to Recommended Books: Books other people have told me I ought to read. I've been reading far too much romance this year, and I need a bit of a break from it. (I expect a few romances will creep in to the catch-all category, though.)

CatyM,

Depending on what Genre you are looking for recommendations in, here are a few books I'd highly recommend reading if you are into the Genre that precedes each:

Horror - Terminal by Brian Keene - It's about a man who is told at the very beginning that he has terminal cancer. He lives in a low to lower-middle class family, and doesn't want his wife or kids to suffer financially, so he gets involved in a bank robbery. The real horror is the situation he gets in at the end. There is no real "gore" in this book, so the perfect book to introduce someone to horror without grossing them out.

Political Intrigue/Espionage - Term Limits by Vince Flynn - The president is trying to pass a bill, and you have those that support the bill, and those that oppose it. A few get killed in order to try to skew the vote, and everyone's trying to figure out who plotted the murders.

Action/Adventure - Subterranean or Deep Fathom by James Rollins - Personally, I recommend all 5 of his "standalone" novels, and I have read his first Sigma Force novel...still have to read the others, great author. In Subterranean, a group explores the underground in the antarctic to try to find what happened to a previous group that went on a similar mission. In Deep Fathom, it's 2 groups trying to go on a deep sea mission, and let's just say that one seems to think the other is "in their way", and tries to use force to solve the problem.

True Crime - Perfect Poison: A Serial Killer's Deadly Medicine by M. William Phelps - This is about a woman named Kristen Gilbert (her profile is on Wikipedia) who used epinephrine to force people's hearts to give out so she could make code calls in order to cause the security guard (who had to monitor codes, and who was her partner in an affair) to be closer to her more often and it caused patients to die in a Veterans Hospital.

Here are my categories, pretty simple. Maybe next year I'll get more creative. My TBR Mountain, European and 50 States challenges are prominent in my mind though.

Books that I moved overseas and still haven't touched
Vacation Destinations 2010 - Fiction
New England
US States I have visited
European Countries I have visited
Reading Globally's Theme reads
Friend Recommendations
LT'ers Recommendations
Next in the Series
Books borrowed or gifted from others

I just changed another category. *looks sheepish* I'm scrapping "Law and Order" (books on law and government) and adding "The Butler Did It" (mysteries).

I've finally made a decision about my category formerly called "New York or USA". I think there are plenty of books about New York alone, so I'll restrict myself to that.

Here is my List of catagories:

1. A Little Hocus Pocus (Witches/Wizards)
2. I Can Change My Ways (Shapeshifters)
3. I Promise I won't Bite (Vampires)
4. I See Dead People (Ghosts)
5. Isn't that Fantastic (Urban Fantasy)
6. Do I Really Have To Go Back There (Time-Travel)
7. What? I Don't Know Who Did It? (Mysteries)
8. I Am So Reading Your Mind Right Now! (Psychics)
9. Does Anyone Else Smell Sulfur? (Demons)
10. I Can Read Whatever I Want! (Miscellaneous)

I love all things Paranormal as you can probably tell.....lol!

Here is my list of categories:

1.Women Unbound category
2.Margaret Storm Jameson category
3.Books from my parents’ bookcases
4.Frost In May Quartet category
5.Votes For Women Category
6.Spiritual
7. Radio 7 audio books category
8.Global reads category
9.Women and War category
10. Highly Recommended category

I like your categories juliette07 especially the Women Unbound, Margaret Storm Jameson, Frost In May Quartet, Votes For Women, Spritual & Women and War. I think they all sound very interesting and can't wait to see your lists. I own a copy of Liberty For Women Freedom and Feminism in the 21st Century by Wendy McElroy which might fit
in either your Votes For Women or Women Unbound categories.

Beatles1964

Totally enjoying seeing everyone's categories. I think I'm ready. Too lazy to make 'em cute! Also, my goal is one book per category and then I'll just add them as I read them. I put too much pressure on myself with the 999 Challenge and then didn't enjoy reading the books I "had" to. I am also going to try the ABC challenge.

My list:
1. Mystery, Thriller
2. Non-fiction
3.Prize winners
4.YA
5.New to me author
6. Next book in series
7.Looked good @ library/bookstore
8.From TBR pile
9.Found it/recommended on LT
10. Everything else

I changed by tenth category from I Just Coun't Help Myself- Impulse Novels to Once Upon a Time in a Land Far Far Away- Science Fiction / Fantasy Novels. I have such a long to be read pile it has become a to be read book shelve. I am going to try to read exclusively from by TBR pile next year. It's going to be so hard...

My 101010 Categories are:

1. All The World's A Stage- Plays
2. You Suck- Vampire Novels
3. Austen, Austen, Austen- Anything and Everything Jane Austen
4. Now Playing- Books That Became Movies
5. It's All About Me, Me, Me- Biographies and Memoirs
6. My Guilty Pleasure- Historical Romances
7. Who Killed Who- Murder Mysteries
8. "Men Love to Wonder"- Science and Nature
9. What Magic is This?- Characters Who Travel Through Time
10. Once Upon a Time in a Land Far Far Away- Science Fiction/ Fantasy Novels

I have taken the plunge and joined the challenge. Here are my categories (thanks in part to the great ideas already posted in this thread):

1. A TransCanada Odessey: - Canadian authors from coast to coast
2. I Don't Remember THAT From History Class: - historical fiction (pre - 1945)
3. This Will Just Take a Minute... or Two: - short stories
4. Follow Thy Author: - more books by authors I have recently discovered
5. What a Debut!: - author debut novels
6. They Made a Movie From That...?: - books adapted for movies
7. Bloody Victorian England: - Victorian murder mysteries
8. The Envelope Please...: - shortlisted for Giller, Orange or Booker prizes
9. Lost in Translation: - foreign language novels translated into English
10. Out of the Mouths of Babes: - books with pre-teens as the primary characters/ narrators

I set these categories down a few weeks back and can't see them changing. Fairly unimaginative headings but I didn't want to get too specific. I have 4 bonus or substitute categories as well, but won't list them here.

1) 1001 children's books you must read before you grow up.
2) Israeli fiction
3) New Zealand fiction
4) Science Fiction
5) Fantasy
6) LT Recommendations
7) Historical and Epic
8) My TBR
9) YA fiction
10) Nonfiction

I haven't fiddled around with my 1010 categories in a long time but realized how much I've enjoyed my biographies/autobiographies category in my 999 x 2 challenge.

I am changing my Vintage Mysteries category in 1010 to Biographies/Autobiographies. These won't necessarily be bios of famous people but they will be about peoples' lives.

As 999 x 2 winds down, I will probably tinker more with 1010.

English Literature Eras
American Literature
Fairy Tales
Thrillers
Science Fiction
Science
History
Something to Ponder
Autobiographies/Biographies
Award Winners

Some small changes in my categories (+ some change in numbering to get all the 2010 ones together):

1. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Speculative Fiction Novels originally published in 2010
2. Crime Fiction, Mystery,Thriller and Contemporary Novels originally published in 2010
3. Anthologies and collections published in 2010
4. Literary journals with cover date in 2010 (including Asimov's, EQMM and the similar)
5. Leftover books and magazines from 2009 (published in 2009 but either arrived too late or did not have time to read them in 2009)
6. Novels, collections, anthologies and magazines published between 2000 and 2008
7. The older fiction books and magazines - anything published before 1.1.2000
8. Non-fiction
9. African novels (written by authors from or living in different African countries; or with the story set mainly in Africa).
10. South and Central American novels (written by authors from or living in different South and Central American countries; or with the story set mainly in South and Central America).

PS: The changes are in bold.

Here is my list as it stands so far.

1-Elizabethan London/Shakespeare
2-Classics
3-History (mainly Medici/Elizabethan)
4-Science of Doctor Who - mostly time travel but really anything to do with science
5-Sci-Fi/Fantasy/alternate history
6-Autobiography/biography
7-Read the book/see the movie - www.misfit.org has a list that helped with this one
8-mixed bag - anything I bloody want to read
9-Language/writing/linguistics
10-Romance/mystery

Hopefully I have a good mix of fast reads and some more meaty subjects. I already have some good books, including The Science of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Shakespearean ciphers examined

DS
(Bruce's evil twin :-))

There are a lot of really good categories listed, looks like I too will be making plans for 2011 ;-)

It's been so long since I abandoned my 999 that I haven't been here in a while so I started my own personal 10-10-10 with the following categories:

1. Review Books - I have more than 10 but need an extra reminder to get them read

2. Young Adult Books - 12+

3. about or published during the 60's - my birth decade

4. Christian fiction - I have a huge pile of fiction written specifically for the LDS market as well as several others

5. non-fiction - '09 was the first year I got into non-fiction and I'm loving it. I want to read at least 6 next year but am hoping for 10.

6. romance - this one is a walk-in-the-park

7. perpetual challenge books - how else will I remember about them?

8. fantasy/sci-fi - this one is a walk-in-the-park

9. mystery/thriller/suspense - cozies too

10. dusty or forgotten from my shelves - I need to stop buying books and tend to my own overwhelming TBR pile.

I did terribly at tracking my books for the 999 so I am going to start afresh with the 2010 challenge.
These are my categories.
1) Recommendations (books recommended by others)
2) Trying Genres- try and read genres that I don’t visit often
3) Reading Around the World
4) Non-fiction
5) Old TBR- books that have been on my TBR shelves for ages
6) Classics
7) Surprise!- Books that grab me
8) Books about books
9) Children’s Books
10) Published in 2010

I haven't decided how I am going to do the challenge yet so I am off to look at some threads for some inspiration!

This is my first challenge. I am terribly excited and can't wait for January!!

Here are my categories

C-1) It's Not Just For Kids Anymore AKA Young Adult Fiction (0/10)
C-2) Their Bite is Definitely Worse Than Their Bark AKA Books about Vampires/Werewolves (0/10)
C-3) Who Did What To Who When AKA Historical fiction (0/10)
C-4) Take me to your Leader/Evil Scientist/King/Wicked Witch AKA Science fiction/Fantasy Books (0/10)
C-5) Hey! Why So Many Pseudonyms, Lady? AKA Books by Jean Plaidy/Victoria Holt/Philippa Carr (0/10)
C-6) In The Now AKA Contemporary Fiction (0/10)
C-7) Happily Ever After...Maybe AKA Fairy Tales/Fairy Tale Retellings (0/10)
C-8) Off With Their Heads! AKA Books about the French Revolution (0/10)
C-9) If They Jumped Off Of A Bridge, Would You? AKA Recommendations from Friends (0/10)
C-10) Falling off the Wagon AKA I can't keep myself from going to the library (0/10)

I have changed my Category 4 from Virago books to Charles Dickens.

I had to drop my art/learning category (I've got carpal tunnel syndrome and have had to stop drawing for now). I've replaced it with LT inspired/ Group reads (any books that don't fit into my other categories basically). I also rearranged the order of the other categories slightly. The numbers are for a minimum stepped challenge.

New category list

1-religion (non-fiction)
2-LT inspired or Group reads
3-F&SF
4-books translated into English (fact or fiction)
5-ancient history/early civilizations (non-fiction)
6-mysteries (fact or fiction)
7-I want to know more-books inspired by reading fiction (non-fiction or (if stuck) fiction -sequel)
8- myth and legend (fact or fiction)
9- historical fiction
10-other countries (around the world)

As it was originally posted near the beginning of this thread here is a copy of my original list (hope this helps with the compiling!)

1-religion (non-fiction)
2- I didn't know how to do that- New Stuff (non-fiction)
3-books translated into English (fact or fiction)
4-other countries (fact or fiction)
5-ancient history (non-fiction)
6-mysteries (fact or fiction)
7-I want to know more-books inspired by reading fiction (non-fiction or (if stuck) fiction-sequel)
8-myth and legend (fact or fiction)
9-historical fiction
10-SF&F

I'm sorry, chrine, but I'm changing a couple of categories.

Children's/YA fiction is being eliminated and replaced with Dystopias: Fact and Fiction.

Also, I think I had a category called Speculative Fiction. Since I don't like that term, I'm changing it to Fantasy and Supernatural. (I may have mentioned this change already.)

I came up with my categories in October, but wanted to sit on them a bit. Sure enough, I changed one. They're firm now though. I think. My rule for the 1010 challenge this year is that all the books have to come from Mnt TBR as it sits, Dec 31, 2009 (except for category #10)

1. Oldest Books in My Closet (third year for this category--it's my best tool for doing something with all those old books I have)
2. 1001 List (Books from the 2006 edition of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die)
3. More 1001 Books (I've been averaging about 25 a year, so this category is a must)
4. Big, Fat & Ugly (Big = books that take up too much room in the bookcase because I have a large edition--usually hard covers; fat=chunksters, say 500 + words; and ugly = editions that are unattractive--small font, lack of white space, yellowed pages, unattractive cover art . . . I love a beautiful book, and I need room on my shelves, so these ones have to go!)
5. Children & YA: I collected these books a few years ago, but lost interest and haven't read them. Time to move them out.
6. Non-fiction
7. Magic Realism (I've loved this genre for years, but haven't read all that much. Time to explore!)
8. CanLit (continuing my journey through Canadian literature for the third year--so much yet to explore)
9. Award winners (focus on Giller, Orange, Booker, but any recognized award will count)
10. Books Other People Want Me to Read (these may be in Mnt TBR, but not necessarily. Books for university, ER programs, Belletrista reviews, gifts, books people lend me, etc.)

I only now saw this thread -- so great to see everyone's categories in one place. Here are mine:

1) Genealogy/history
2) Neil Gaiman
3) Charlaine Harris
4) Nonfiction
5) Mysteries not by Charlaine Harris
6) Audiobooks
7) Owned but unread
8) Authors I've never read before
9) Recommended reading
10) Non-US setting

I'm not sure if I'll complete this or not, but here are my categories as of now:

1. Women
2. Fiction
3. Biography
4. Ancient World/Classical Studies
5. History
6. Civil War
7. Miscellaneous
8. Asia
9. From the Library
10. Classics

I've completely scrapped my old categories. Here are the new ones.

1. Literary fiction from the last 25 years
2. Classics
3. Re-reads (some I read too long ago or too young, some just perennial favorites)
4. Post-apocalyptic (loosely defined and not necessarily fiction)
5. Science fiction
6. Science
7. Neuroscience/Cognitive science/Psychology
8. Books on books
9. Essays/anthologies
10. The inevitable catchall

I have a list of books, too, for the first 9 categories (and already have several to go in the catchall category, and the year hasn't even started yet...this is kind of driving home the fact that I'll never live long enough to read everything I want to. Depressing.)

I am changing one of my categories. I haven't read any books yet in the one I'm removing (Horror Novels), and with what I got for Christmas this year, I doubt I'll read more than 1 or 2 horror novels this year, and if I do, they can easily fit in the "Standalones" category, or the "Wild Card" category.

Therefore, my new list is:

1) New Authors
2) One Word Titles
3) It's a War Out There!
4) Thriller Novels
5) Political Intrigue Novels
6) True Crime Novels
7) Standalones
8) The "ThrillerFan 500"
9) Overflow
10) Wild Card

Just a little clarification, category 3 is fictional books whose plot involves war (i.e. Stephen Coonts, a couple of Clancy's novels would fit here, like "Red Storm Rising", etc.)

Any horror novels I read this year will either go under Standalones or Wild Card.

My year is still November 2009 to October 2010, 3 books in each category.

Current count: 4 books done, 26 books to go.

Completed 1 book in each of categories 1, 2, 5, and 7.

Currently reading Memorial Day by Vince Flynn, which is in Category 8 (book is 574 pages in length).

Everyone has such great categories, I've finally made up my mind on all of mine, here they are:

1. I Will Slay Your Monster - Classic Horror Novels
2. Truer Than Fiction - Non Fiction
3. On My Word - All Austen, All the Time
4. Another One Bites The Dust - Books Made into Movies/TV Shows
5. Here's Your Orange Sherbert Sir - Popular Penguins
6. Picture This - Graphic Novels
7. Dearly Departed - Random titles from our discards table
8. Nut Up or Shut Up! - Zombies, Zombies, Zombies!
9. A Loving Heart is the Truest Wisdom - Charles Dickens
10. Heaving Bosoms - Romance Novels Of Various Flavour

I'm looking forward to starting the challenge, bring on Jan I say!

I changed my self improvement category to information (which will be non-fiction/cookbooks, etc.) and my just because category to surprise (which will mostly be finds at the library).

Here are my categories. Many repeat from 999 but tried to give myself more fiction space.
1) World Literature - translated
2) English/American Literature
3) American History
4) World History
5) Travel Books
6) Science
7) Memoir
8) Writing/Creativity/Art
9) Poetry
10) Serendipidy

KAzevedo’s 1010 Challenge

This is my first book challenge, and I have decided to attempt 100 books; 10 books in each of 10 categories, and to go from 1/1/2010 to 12/31/2010. My categories are pretty set and at least five reflect my desire to stretch myself and read more than my comfortable SF, Fantasy, and Mystery/Thriller novels. I haven’t chosen most of the books yet and would love any suggestions, or any comments in general.

Categories - y = yes I have it, n= no, not yet

1. Mothers and Daughters - F or NF; exploring M/D relationships
2. Life Stories – NF; Biographies/Autobiographies/ Memoirs
3. Nature/Conservation/Environment – F or NF
4. Prize Winners - F or NF
5. 1001 Book List
6. Horses - F or NF
7. Contemporary Fiction - Not SF/F/Myst/Thrill
8. Fantasy - Have to have some
9. Classic SF - Ditto; Can be a re-read, or new, from at least 20 years ago
10. Mystery/ Thriller etc - Again, can’t go without

Hi. Here are my (rather unoriginal) categories.

1.Thriller/Crime Fiction
2.Travel Writing
3.History
4.Ancient World Classics (Fiction or Non-Fiction)
5.Classic Literature
6.Books In A Foreign Language
7.Books Translated into English
8.Language/Linguistics
9.The Modern World (Current Affairs/Politics/Journalism)
10.Audiobooks

Just added mine in - not as creative as many, but hopefully will keep my busy this year :)

1. Thinking about the self (autobiography/memoir)
2. Narratives in short story
3. About women
4. The importance of a meal
5. Lost in translation (borrowed the category from a fellow librarything member - thanks!)
6. Books about books
7. About the past
8. About kids
9. Novels from the "Best of 2009 lists"
10. About the world (science)

I need to read a bit more in Bulgarian so a separate challenge for it:

1. The Bulgarian classics
2. Contemporary Bulgarian authors
3. Non-fiction related to Bulgaria
4. Contemporary World fiction
5. General Non-fiction
6. The classics
7. The Russians - old and new
8. Poetry
9. The Mysteries in the East (Japanese, Chinese, Egypt and so on related mysteries - fiction)
10. La Comédie humaine (read the 10 volume "Selected Balzac writings" set that I have and just look at from ages)

A small change Contemporary European fiction to Contemporary World fiction

I am changing my Category 10 from 'Serendipity' to 'Student Days'. This new category will be made up of books I need to read in preparation for an OU Course which starts in October 2010.

Never having joined a challenge before, I decided to take on two this year, so here are my very broad categories:

1. Diaries, Journals, Correspondence
2. Short Story Collections
3. Women's Studies
4. Ancient History
5. Classics
6. Myths, Legends, Fairy Tales
7. YA, Children's Fiction
8. Fantasy
9. Contemporary Fiction
10. Off the Shelf Challenge

Welcome to the challenge, Tanglewood!

1. The Living Dead (0/10 Completed)
Mostly zombies, but may also include vampires.

2. Books About Books and Writing (0/10 Completed)
Fairly self-explanatory, though it could include either fiction or nonfiction.

3. Fairy Tales/Folklore (0/10 Completed)
Includes nonfiction criticism, retellings, as well as the original tales themselves.

4. Edwidge Danticat and Haiti (0/10 Completed)
Books written by the fabulous Edwige Danticat (I may reread the two I've got), as well as separate books about Haiti as supplementary material.

5. About Women/Feminism (0/10 Completed)
Works can be either fiction or nonfiction that feature strong women and/or feminist slants.

6. Pop Culture Phenomenon (0/10 Completed)
Mostly nonfiction works discussing pop culture, though fiction books that are heavy in pop culture references will also be included (if you have recommendations for these, I would love to hear).

7. Arm Chair Travels (0/10 Completed)
Travel narratives in fiction or memoirs.

8. From My Bookshelf (0/10 Completed)
I have a tendency to jump at the new and shiny in bookstores and the library, rather than reading the stacks already on my shelves. This is meant to rectify that.

9. From the Modern Library's 100 Best Books (0/10 Completed)
There are actually 200 books, since there is also the publicly voted list (with some overlaps). I'm working off the list from 2009, which is posted on my blog.

10. Miscellany (0/10 Completed)
The catch-all category, which will probably be the first to be filled.

My thread is here

In setting my categories, it looks like I'm not alone in trying to stretch myself a bit. I've borrowed some categories from some of you - thanks.

1. The Classics
2. Memoir, Biography and Autobiography
3. History and Politics
4. The Books Gathering Dust on my Bedside Table
5. Short Stories and Plays
6. Mysteries
7. World Current Events, Non-Fiction
8. Newbery Award Winners
9. Cookbooks and Craft Books (trust me, there are some really good ones)
10. Books I Haven't Read by Favorite Authors

I've begun filling out my categories, but I'm having trouble with commitment - what if I don't want to read it later? So, the list of books in each category may be subject to change. Just saying that made me feel better. Phew!

1. Australian and New Zealand Lit
2. Books in translation
3. Women writers
4. Group reads
5. Chunksters
6. 1001 lit
7. 19th Century lit
8. 20th Century lit
9. 21st Century lit
10. Non-fiction

My thread is here

I'm done changing my categories. And I've held off posting in this thread until now, for that reason.

1. Indiespensable
2. Historical fiction (set pre-1900)
3. First Edition Library
4. Social studies
5. Memoir
6. Graphic novels
7. Poetry
8. Published in 2009
9. Published in 2010
10. Back for more (authors I've already read)

> 216 Nittnut, you made me laugh with your committment anxieties. I feel your pain. I hope there are no rules as I plan to switch books that I can't get through without massive effort (some effort is good), even though my goal is also to stretch myself. Torture is not on my agenda.

#219

I think I may have just moved into that category of torture. I started my challenge 11/1, and going through 10/31. In the Calendar year of 2009, I read around 24 or 25 books, so figured 30 would be a stretch but not torture. Well, in 2009, most of the books I read were in the 300-500 page range. As I look at what is in my list of books for this year, let's just say that a LOT of them are over 700 pages, and at the moment, 2 months in, I'm at 5 of 30 (basically right on pace) and just over 100 pages into my 6th novel (Red Storm Rising, which is 725 pages, by the way).

"Likely" books for 2010 include (not a complete list by any stretch):

Consent to Kill by Vince Flynn
The Unlikely Spy by Daniel Silva
Without Remorse by Tom Clancy
Hawke by Ted Bell
The Camel Club by David Baldacci
The Lions of Lucerne by Brad Thor
Flight of the Intruder by Stephen Coonts

Now go to your local bookstore (or Amazon.com) and check for yourself the length of these books. I'm starting to think that 30 books in a year for me is going to be torture!

220 Yes, but are they GOOD!. I remember being mesmerized by Red Storm Rising many years ago. As long as it keeps my interest, it's not torture for me. Torture is trying and trying to read something I "should" read even though I could care less.

Loved but didn't complete the 2009 challenge, here I am back for more punishment. :)

1. Bill’s Books: Titles my husband recommends.
2. Juvenile Authors I Haven’t Read Yet
3. 2010 Youth Literature Award Winners
4. Newbery 2011: At the end of the year, reading books with lots of award buzz.
5. YA Fiction
6. Dewey 000-999: One book from each Dewey 100s.
7. Classic Readers' Advisory: Books I Should Have Read Already
8. New Readers' Advisory: Books with Buzz in 2010
9. Next In Series: I love my series fiction!
10. Genre Fiction: Looking for new authors in different genres.

My challenge is here.

I've decided to go for the 1010 challenge this year - I'm aiming to read up to 10 books in my categories but have no firm plan - I'll just enjoy the ride.

My categories are similar to last year's and aimed at getting as much of my TBR collection read as possible as well as allowing a little meandering off the path:

1. Virago Modern Classics
2. Persephone Books
3. 1001 Books You Should Read Before You Die
4. UK Crime Fiction
5. North American Crime Fiction
6. Crime fiction from the rest of the World (I know, I know, but 100 books is a lot to aim for and crime is my favourite genre)
7. The Arts (books on music, film, painting and literature)
8. What a kind thought! (Books I have received as gifts)
9. Ideas (philosophy, politics, social concerns)
10. Serendipity (because the year won't go by without something that doesn't fit into any of the categories above catching my eye)

As I start the challenge, I have changed my categories. They now are:

1. Contemporary Fiction
2. Series Continuation
3. New Series
4. Literary Giants
5. USA
6. History
7. Myth, Legend, and Fairy Tales
8. Fantasy
9. Lucy Maud Montgomery
10. Children / YA

The changes since I first posted my list are the addition of Literary Giants, History and Fantasy, and the elimination of British Isles, World View and Women Authors of Children's Books (which are still included in my sub-categories, but are not main categories any more).

I've changed my "Not My Usual" category to "Biographies and Memoirs" and have changed my Health/Medicine category to "Lawyers and the Law." Earlier, I changed "Vintage Mysteries" to "Health and Medicine."

I think that should be it for awhile now.

My categories are:

1. Cozy Mysteries
2. Lawyers and the Law
3. Baseball Books
4. Books About Chicago
5. American Presidents
6. Books About Disasters
7. General Nonfiction
8. Books by Anne Perry
9. Days and Nights
10. Award-Winning Books

I am tentatively sticking my toe in these waters. As I did not meet my 75 book challenge last year I am not sure why I think I'll get 10 books in 10 categories read but I do want to think about what I am reading and this seems like a good vehicle.

1. Fiction, general
2. Science fiction, fantasy fiction
3. Biography/Autobiography
4. Dragons
5. Hobbies: photography, paper crafts, dogs
6. Book group reads
7. It's About Time (books I've owned for too long to still be not read)
8. Young Adult reads
9. Childrens'
10. History - very broadly defined.

Maggie, you don't have to get to 10 in each category. Several of us are doing a half-challenge with only 5 in each, and other people are aiming for different numbers like 6 or 7 in each. Good luck either way!

I'm doing the "10" part of the challenge that has me list 10 categories. I'm not trying for 100 books. Even with liberal cross-listing between my categories, I'm not expecting to end up with 10 books under each. Still, I hope having the categories will encourage me to read a wide variety of works.

My categories are:

A. Poetry
B. Drama
C. Books in Translation
D. Early Reviewers
E. "Classics" (broadly defined)
F. Contemporary Fiction
G. U.S. Civil War
H. Christianity, Religion, & Spirituality
I. Teaching
J. None of the above (for books that don't fit into the other 9)

Here are my categories:

I. Children's/YA Fiction
II. Mysteries
III. Fantasy
IV. Romance
V. Vampires, Werewolves, and Fairies OH MY!!! (Paranormal Fiction/Urban Fantasy)
VI. Nonfiction
VII. Short Stories
VII. Discworld
IX. Books by Non-US Authors
X. Miscellaneous Novels

10 books in each of 10 categories to be read in 2010:

1. Inspirational Nonfiction
2. Fiction Series
3. Fantasy (or Science Fiction)
4. Nonfiction, mostly Memoir and Humor
5. Award Winners
6. 20th Century Literature
7. Health + Fitness
8. Nonfiction, mostly Essay Collections
9. Historical Fiction
10. Big Classics

10 works in 10 categories.

Right now the categories are

1. Young at heart - YA and possibly some for even younger children here.

2. Whodunits - Mystery and Suspense

3. Comfort reads - from favorite authors in any genre.

4. Next in Line - for those unread books from a series that I've already started.

5. Howling at the Moon - Paranormal with a touch of romance allowed.

6. Anything Goes - can be either fiction or nonfiction on any subject. For those books that don't quite fit anywhere else.

7. The Inner Life - A mix of religion (1), philosophy (3), mythology (5), and a substantial portion of the KJV Bible

8. Short Stuff - essays, short stories, plays, poetry, and excerpts of at least 50 pages from longer works

9. A Scientific Bent - Science, technology, math and history of same

10. Language and the Past - History (5), Biography/Memoir (2), Language (3)

I'm excited to try the challenge this year. I'll be aiming for 10 books in each category.

1. Fantasy
2. Science Fiction
3. Historical Fiction
4. Mystery
5. Non Fiction
6. 1001 Books to Read
7. Next in a series
8. Francophone
9. Sounds Familiar/Rereads
10. Blindness/Vision

so whats the tally these days?

I've committed to reading three in each category, but right now I'm feeling cocky so I think I may be able to do more. My categories reflect a lot of my to reads. I've already changed one category and may change another. Here's what I have as of today:

1. Off the Shelf - Books that I own that have been sitting on the shelf and need to be read
2. On the List - I've been building a to read list for 8 - 9 years--time to move some off that list
3. The Middle Kingdom, Fiction - Fiction set in China
4. The Middle Kingdom, Nonfiction - Nonfiction set in China
5. Adoption - Any books about adoption whether fiction or non-fiction
6. What-Ever! - So I can read whatever I feel like reading
7. Parenthood - Books about parenting that can be either fiction or non-fiction (this is the one that may change)
8. Race - Any book that discusses race or racial issues
9. Travelers - Books about traveling anywhere in the world.
10. 1001 Children's Books - Books that are in the 2009 version of 1001 Children's Books You Must Read before You Grow Up

Oh! Must have had my eyes in a book. Completely missed this thread until now.

My 1010 Challenge - To read at least 5 books in each of the following 10 (fairly self-explanatory) categories in 2010:

1. American Civil War
2. World War I
3. World War II
4. Korean War
5. First & Second Indochina Wars
6. Wars in Iraq & Afghanistan
7. Other Wars
8. POW
9. Men and Women at War
10. War in Fiction

#233

Not sure what you mean by the Tally, but here's mine:

GOAL: 3 books in each category

1) New Authors (1 down, 2 to go)
2) One Word Titles (1 down, 2 to go)
3) It's a War Out There! (Reading my 1st, 2 to go)
4) Thriller Novels (0 down, 3 to go)
5) Political Intrigue Novels (1 down, 2 to go)
6) True Crime Novels (0 down, 3 to go)
7) Standalones (1 down, 2 to go)
8) The "ThrillerFan 500" (1 down, 2 to go)
9) Overflow (0 down, 3 to go)
10) Wild Card (0 down, 3 to go)

Span: Nov '09 - Oct '10

Currently on #6 of 30.

Hi ladies and gents! I just joined up, but this looks great. Here's my list of Categories:

1. Canadian Fiction
2. Books from the Feminista "top 100 novels by women" list
3. I's true! (Non-fiction)
4. "All will be reveled" (Mystery, Scandal and Secrecy)
5. Award Winners
6. Books on my bookshelf I have been meaning to read
7. Children's/YA
8. Mythology
9. "I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, traveling" (Journeys)
10. Magpie reads (oh oh, shiny!)

I'm going for at least eight in each category.

Oh, I love the "Magpie reads" category!

I just can't get my 10th category right. I've now changed Biographies and Memoirs to Award-Winning Books and reflected that in my list at #225.

There are a lot of different mystery awards given out every year but some might be for other types of awards.

this thread is great to go back to and very helpful for message management!

>237 glammonkey:, Magpie! love that, think I'll make that my bonus category.

>235 petermc:, Wow, Peter, that sounds so grim. Surely you'll read something happier this year also?

#241

KAzevedo, I'm just going to take a stab in the dark and say that war is his thing.

Oddly enough, I'm just finishing up a book about a hypothetical World War III (Red Storm Rising). I must say though, while I also enjoy war novels (though I'd say I read Spy Novels over War Novels 2 to 1), Clancy seems to be a little TOO detailed. I'm in the upper-600's out of 725. You could cut about 200 pages from the book, and still get the point across. Probably going to give it 3 stars.

I have decided to change one of my categories from Classic books to Made into Film. I was just getting put off by the term Classic.

These are the categories I am using.

The numbers in parentheses are the minimum numbers I'd like to read in each category in 2010, with one catch: Books can double (or even triple) count if they qualify for multiple categories. It's a bit of cheatery, but it's the only way I'll achieve these (ambitious-for-me) goals based on my past annual reading performance, and it may help to direct some interesting combo reading choices.

A. College Prep English (15) Books from the 1001 books lists, because I've read a woefully low number.
B. Something Different (7) - Things outside of my normal reading comfort zone. Such as Fantasy, sci-fi, short story collections, plays, graphic novels, YA lit, Children's lit, maybe even poetry.
C. Something New (7) - Books that are First in a series
D. Group Reads (5) Group Reads here on LT, or reads for the book clubs that I'm not exactly a member of
E. Classic Mysteries (5)
F. Global Reads (5)
G. Dewey/LOC Challenge (5)
H. Learning Is Fun (5) Non-fiction
I. Contemporary Fiction (10)
J. Doorstoppers (3) To avoid only reading short books for challenges. I like a good epic novel.

Made some changes to the categories and switched the order for others. I'll leave the original categories as the OP. Am thinking of making Oh The Places You'll Go more specific, e.g. water bodies, or deserts, or places I'd like to go, or something, but I already am on the board there, so we'll see.

1) Coffee Table Book - I look at them, may as well read one.
2) Stewart/Colbert '08! - as promoted on tv
3) Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee - Native Americans, pre-Columbus western hemisphere
4) 5 stars or 2 thumbs - just renamed the reviews category
5) I think therefore I am - same
6) Diamonds are forever - new location
7) Awesome Audiobooks - not necessarily controversial...
8) POTUS Power! - new location
9) Oh the places You'll Go! - subject to change
10) I've got your number - same

Here are my categories. I'm planning for the modest goal of at least 5 books in each category, which should keep my reading varied:
1. Fantastical Creatures
2. Older Than Me
3. Authors New to Me
4. Anthologies
5. Non-fiction
6. Coffee Table Books
7. Biographies
8. Gifts and Other Books I Didn't Buy (ARCs, member giveaways)
9. Books Acquired no Later than 2008 (to work on the TBR pile)
10. Square Peg (doesn't fit anywhere else)

I am changing a category in my list (the only category without at least 1 book already listed for this year).

That's my Category #6. I am changing it from "True Crime" to "Some Like it Hard". The category pertains to Science Fiction. It's "hard sci-fi", meaning more science, physics, space, mathematics, etc. None of the "fantasy" or "soft sci-fi".

I know I'm probably a little late adding to this list but my categories are
1. 1001 Books to Read Before You Die
2. 1001 Children's Books to Read Before You Grow Up
3. Classic Mysteries
4. Oprah's Book Club
5. Rereads
6. New to me Authors
7. Dead Things - Vampires, zombies, maybe even dinosaurs
8. Titles containing the word 'Green'
9. The 10 Decades of the 1900's (one from each decade)
10. From my Bookshelf

I am trying to read 10 from each category but have picked categories which may overlap - I read a lot at the moment but I am a University student with a baby on the way, so my time may soon run out.