SlySionnach's 1010 Challenge

Alright! I posted to the compiler thread first and then realized I hadn't posted here. 100 books in a year...with how often I'll be taking the train, I hope this is easy!

Categories:
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 works)
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)
Bonus: Self-Pubbed (5)

Books will be added as I find them/change them/decide on them.

Published in '10

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Blind Buys

1. Heartwood by Barbara Campbell
2. In the Name of the Vampire by Mary Ann Mitchell
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Hail to the King

1. Duma Key
2. Bag of Bones
3. The Shining
4. Cujo
5. Insomnia
6. Needful Things
7. Lisey's Story
8. Misery
9. Danse Macabre
10. The Stand

Dusty Shelves

1. The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by H. P. Lovecraft
2. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
3. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
4. Hood by Stephen R. Lawhead
5. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
6. Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry
7. Invasive Procedures by Orson Scott Card
8. Ilse Witch by Terry Brooks
9. Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
10. The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

Dracula Approves

1. Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
2. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
3. The Missing by Sarah Langan
4. Mr. X by Peter Straub
5. Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
6. Creepers by David Morrell
7. The Reach by Nate Kenyon
8. Prodigal Blues by Gary A. Braunbeck
9. A Choir of Ill Children by Tom Piccirilli
10. The Church of Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns

Cotillion

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Now a Major Motion Picture

1. The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
2. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
3. Oil! by Upton Sinclar
4. Zodiac by Robert Graysmith
5. Blood and Chocolate by Annette Cutis Klause
6. The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson
7. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
8. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
9. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
10. The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury

Murder 101

1. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
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Tea Cosy

1. The Murder on the Links - Review: http://www.librarything.com/review/52160533
2. Poirot Investigates
3. The Murder of Roger Ackryod
4. The Big Four
5. The Mystery of the Blue Train
6. Peril at End House
7. Lord Edgware Dies
8. Murder on the Orient Express
9. Three Act Tragedy
10. Death in the Clouds

Around the World in 365 Days

1. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Sweden)
2. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Russia)
3. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (France)
4. Black Ice by Hans Werner Kettenbach (Germany)
5. Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (Austria)
6. The Exception by Christian Jungersen (Denmark)
7. Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo (Finland)
8. The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte (Spain)
9. Focault’s Pendulum by Umerto Eco (Italy)
10. In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami (Japan)

Bonus! Self-Pubbed

1. Morphine Kisses by Erin Foster
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Welcome to the group. We share a couple of categories so I'll be interested to see how you fill them up. Good luck with your challenge.

Great category names! We have a few books in common for the 1010, so I'll be checking back!! Hopefully, they'll turn out to be good ones. :)

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Awesome! I'll have to keep checking on you too. I hope they're good ones, because life's too short to read bad books.

Saw your reply on my thread. Very cool that you're doing Agatha Christie too! I'll be interested in what you're choosing for Murder 101 too, and I find it intriguing that this is related to your work.

Love your categories. Sounds like you have some fun reading ahead.

And I loved Heart-shaped Box, by the way. It was fantastic.

@16: I'll be taking a job as a DNA Analyst come November (with luck), and my boss is someone I've worked with before. I'm going to pick his brain for good recommendations!

@17: Thank you! And that's great to hear! I've heard only praise for it and have forgotten to get it every time I go to the library/bookstore. Now I have it written down so I won't forget!

It will be interesting to see how the blind buys category goes. I found last year that the least satisfying books were those impulsively pulled from the library's new books section. I want to know if it's just that I'm a poor judge or if that holds for others!

@19: I'm usually pretty good at blind buys, I've found. I go to the used bookstore and pick a few. Of course, I've had some pretty bad ones in the past but I think the majority have been ones I enjoyed.

Hi SlySionnach, You have some cool choices there. I really liked all the the other books in the Anno Dracula series but I have yet to read that one! Be interested to see how it holds up.

I love that you have an Agatha Christie category. I love her mysteries but I always seem to pass them over for more modern works saying I will get back to them later. I'm interested to see what you have to say about the ones that you have picked.

Welcome! A lot of books I really liked in your "Around the world in 365 days" category, will be very interested to see how you like them.

Oh, and to be a picky Scandinavian: Troll: a love story is from Finland. "Scandinavia" is our end of Europe so to speak (Sweden, Norway and Finland - Denmark is often included too). I'll be taking the finger out of my nose now...

@21: Good to hear! I have a compulsion to read series in order so I'm starting with the first. If I like it, I just have a bunch more in the TBR pile =)

@22: I read my first one today (finished really quickly). I started with The Mysterious Affair at Styles. I really enjoyed it. Here's a link to the review: http://www.librarything.com/review/51362974

@23: Thank you! Don't worry about being picky - I like being much more precise! I'm really looking forward to the "Around the World" category because I realized I read mostly British/American/Irish authors and want to expand desperately.

What is going in the Cotillion category? Romance? I'm also reading Assassin's Apprentice next year for my New Author Female category.

@25: I am so sorry. Work ate me for the end of the year! Cotillion is debut authors =)

I hope you enjoy Assassin's Apprentice! I hope we both do, actually =)

Welcome to the challenge! I'm also reading I, Robot this year. There are quite a few people reading Foucault's Pendulum; I noticed that you haven't posted in the group read so I thought I'd let you know that it's going on, if you haven't seen it yet. Here's a link to the discussion thread: http://www.librarything.com/topic/79032

Oh Blind buys! Such a fun category! I've discovered some great authors through blind buys last year (Joanna Russ and Tricia Sullivan come to mind immediately). Also most of the books I get from the local public library are also er, blind loans? I take more risk in the library than in used bookstores, though... and some of those books end up being really awful.

@27: Thanks for linking me! I'm usually no good with keeping up with reading groups, but I think I'll try this year! June is a good month - no school to teach or assist!

@28: I think I'll be counting blind loans in with blind buys. My used bookstore usually has the second and third books in series, or books that I just don't seem interested in. So library loans are definitely on the list!