readeron's 1010

Here are my categories:

1. Literary Fiction
2. Non-fiction
3. Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror
4. Random TBR
5. Romantic Comedy/Chick Lit
6. Short Story Collections
7. YA novels/Children's Books
8. Private Investigator Mysteries
9. Amateur Sleuths, Cozy Mysteries
10. More Crimes and Mysteries

Welcome! Can't wait to see what you're reading.

Thanks for the welcome:) Me too. I don't think that I should make a more detailed plan here because last year on the 50 book challenge I noticed that I'm absolutely unable to stick to any plans when it comes to reading... The same thing happened to my 888 and 999 challenges. So I guess this year I'll just wait and categorize what I read when I'm reading them.

I'm quite excited about the challenge, though.:) Loved to pick the categories and the temptation was hard to resist to make the 10 lists with the books as well. Only one thing is sure: my TBR piles will be attacked first.

Welcome! Short stories is definitely on my list of categories for 2011. And yay for shrinking TBR piles!

Thanks!:) My TBR piles and boxes are really pathetic, so any challlenge that helps reducing them gets three cheers here.:)

Hi Readeron, we have a lot of categories in common. I too don't want to list what I plan on reading cause I never stick to the plan. I have gone through my TBR piles and marked ones that would fit the different categories and then can choose as my mood dictates. Looking forward to seeing what you fill your categories with.

Hi, DeltaQueen50!

I've decided to fill my categories mostly with books from my unfinished 888 and 999 challenges. I think both the categories and the titles may change as time goes by (and as my mood dictates, too!:). I've already changed 2 categories.

1. Literary Fiction

1. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
2 The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
3. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
4. Everyman by Philip Roth
5. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
6. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
7. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
8. Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
9. Coming Up for Air by George Orwell
10 Saturday by Ian McEwan

2. Non-fiction

1. The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
2. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
3. Do One Thing Different by Bill O'Hanlon
4. On Writing by Stephen King
5. Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
6. Danse Macabre by Stephen King
7. The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thornstein Veblen
8. Beginnings, Middles and Ends by Nancy Kress
9. Myths to Live By by Joseph Campbell
10 Myth of Sanity by Martha Stout

3. Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror

1. Joe Hill: Heart-Shaped Box
2. Clive Barker: The Thief of Always
3. Richard Matheson: Hell House
4. China Mieville: Perdido Street Station
5. Ira Levin: Rosemary's Baby
6. Chuch Palahniuk: Diary
7. Cory Doctorow: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
8. Chuck Palahniuk: Haunted
9. Nancy Kress: Beggars in Spain
10. Dean Koontz: Watchers

4. Random TBR

1. Christmas Train
2. The Blind Assassin
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
4. The Princess Bride
5. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
6. Good Omens
7. Odd Thomas
8. The Colorado Kid
9. Duma Key
10.Intensity

5. Romantic Comedy/Chick Lit

1. Welcome to Temptation
2. Faking It
3. Bet Me
4. Crazy for You
5. Strange Bedpersons
6. Tell Me Lies
7. Getting Rid of Bradley
8. Remember Me?
9. Watermelon
10. In Her Shoes

6. Short Story Collections

1. Margaret Atwood: Dancing Girls and Other Stories
2. Isaac Asimov: Tales of the Black Widowers
3. Saki: Beasts and Superbeasts
4. W. Somerset Maugham: The Trembling of a Leaf
5. Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles
6. Stephen King: Skeleton Crew
7. Ralph Adams Cram: Black Spirits and White
8. Katherine Mansfield: The Garden Party: And Other Stories
9. Katherine Mansfield: In a German Pension
10. L M Montgomery: The Chronicles of Avonlea

7. YA novels/Children's Books

1. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn
3. The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
4. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
5. Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
6. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
7. Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
8. The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
9. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
10. Matilda by Roald Dahl

8. Private Investigator Mysteries

1. Laura Lippman: Charm City
2. Douglas Adams: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
3. Agatha Christie: Five Little Pigs
4. Sue Grafton: A is for Alibi
5. Raymond Chandler: The High Window
6. Laura Lippman: No Good Deeds
7. Rex Stout: Black Orchids
8. Robert Crais: The Monkey's Raincoat
9. Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair
10. Douglas Adams: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

9. Amateur Sleuths, Cozy Mysteries

1. Jennifer Sturman: The Hunt
2. Agatha Christie: The Murder at the Vicarage
3. Donna Andrews: Murder with Peacocks
4. Charlain Harris: Real Murders
5. Jill Churchill: A Groom with a View
6. Lilian Jackson Braun: The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
7. Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity, Vampire Hunter
8. Agatha Christie: At Bertram's Hotel
9. Alice Kimberly: The Ghost and Mrs McClure
10. Kate Collins: Acts of Violets

10. More Crimes and Mysteries

1. John Sandford: Shadow Prey
2. Jonathan Kellerman: Therapy
3. J. D. Robb: Naked in Death
4. Lee Child: Die Trying
5. Michael Connelly: The Black Echo
6. J.D. Robb: Glory in Death
7. John Sandford: Eyes of Prey
8. Jonathan Kellerman: Monster
9. Carolyn Haines: Them Bones
10. Lee Child: Tripwire

Some good books on here!

Thanks!:)

How did you like The Reader? I read that late last year. How about Heart Shaped Box and Duma Key - they are on mt. tbr at home, maybe I ought to bump them up?

Hi LisaMorr!

I must admit that I found Reader a fast but forgettable read. I felt a bit disappointed by it.

I gave 4 stars for both Duma Key and Heart-Shaped Box. They are real page turners with interesting characters and well-built suspense, but somehow I didn't find them frightening at all (the only horror stories I've got actually scared by so far were Insomnia and The Tommyknockers). I think, they're both worth a read! Hope you'll enjoy them!

You have a very interesting list here. I look forward to watching you progress through all these books.