Devourer of Books

The 999 Challenge is a group challenge on LibraryThing (see the group here).  The goal is to read 9 books in 9 different categories in 2009 (for an added challenge, you can try to read them all by 9/9/09).

Below are my categories.  I have already started listing ideas of books in many of the categories, but they are subject to change.  You will know what they are finished because they will include a link to my review.

Here’s my ticker so you can see how I’m doing:

(Note: I’m trying to pretend that the wallet is a book, then the ticker is a book worm…)
ARCs/ERs/Review Copies
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Authors New to Me
1. Jane Boleyn by Julia Fox
2. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
3. Stiff or Bonk by Mary Roach
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Re-Reads
1. East of Eden by John Steinbeck (the ONE book on all these lists that will NOT change)
2. The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis
3. I, Rigoberta Menchu by Rigoberta Menchu
4. The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
5. The Little Prince/Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (French and English)
6. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
7. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
8. Native Son by Richard Wright
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Historical Fiction
1. Mary, Queen of Scots and the Isles by Margaret George
2. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
3. Mozart’s Sister by Nancy Moser
4. The Traitor’s Wife by Susan Higginbotham
5. A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
6. Company of Liars by Karen Maitland
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Memoirs
1. S.: A Novel about the Balkans by Slavenka Drakulic
2. The Unheard by Josh Swiller
3. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
4. Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
5. Even the Stars Look Lonesome by Maya Angelou
6. My Name is Iran by Davar Ardalan
7. Escape by Carolyn Jessop
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Series
1. The Eight by Katherine Neville
2. The Fire by Katherine Neville
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Pregnancy/Baby Books
1. What to Expect When You’re Expecting
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Nonfiction
1. A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger
2. Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams by Lynne Withey
3. Justinian’s Flea by William Rosen
4. King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild
5. Organic, Inc by Samuel Fromartz
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Because I WANT to Read It
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This challenge does allow some overlap.  Nine books may be used twice so, for reference:

Books Being Used in More than One Category:
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