999 Challenge

999 Challenge

When: 2009
What: Read 9 books each in 9 categories. Up to 9 books can overlap. If you're really ambitious, finish by September 9, 2009.

Here's my list:

I. Fiction:

1. Chuck Palahniuk. Invisible Monsters -- finished 2/17/2009
   
2. Jim Crace. The Gift of Stones -- finished 3/19/2009
3. Lalita Tademy. Cane River
4. Michael Koepf. Fisherman's Son
5. Melissa Bank. The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing
6. Bea Gonzales. The Mapmaker's Opera
7. Roger Hubank. North
8. Ana Castillo. Peel My Love Like an Onion
9. Jincy Willett. Winner of the National Book Award

II. Fantasy:

1. Alexander Irvine. The Narrows -- finished 1/16/2009
2. Alice Hoffman. Practical Magic -- finished 3/1/2009
3. Robin McKinley. Spindle's End -- finished 4/11/2009
4. Kristen Britain. Green Rider -- finished 9/7/2009
5. Graham Joyce. Dreamside -- finished 11/6/2009
6. Will Shetterly. Elsewhere
7. Esther Friesner. Here Be Demons
8. John M. Ford. The Last Hot Time
9. Robert C. Fleet. Last Mountain
   

III. Science Fiction:

1. Sheri Tepper. Six Moon Dance -- finished 3/23/2009
2. Robert A. Metzger. Picoverse -- finished 8/9/2009
3. Robert Heinlein. Have Space Suit - Will Travel -- finished 8/20/2009
4. Charles Stross. Accelerando
5. Jack McDevitt. Engines of God
6. Iain Banks. Excession
   
7. Kate Mosse. Labyrinth
8. Michael Kurland. Psi Hunt
9. Edmund Cooper. Seahorse in the Sky
   

IV. Mystery:

1. Jefferson Bass. Carved in Bone -- finished 4/2/2009
2. Keith Ablow. Denial -- finished 9/4/2009
3. Carol O'Connell. Find Me -- finished 11/4/2009
4. Agatha Christie. Murder at Hazelmoor -- finished 11/11/2009
5. Javier Sierra. The Secret Supper
   
6. Robert Tine. Desperate Measures
7. Boris Akunin. The Winter Queen
8. Robert Goldsborough. Murder in E Minor
9. Trish Skillman. Someone to Watch Over

V. Thriller:

1. Charles Atkins. The Cadaver's Ball -- finished 2/10/2009
2. Mark Nykanen. Hush -- finished 2/20/2009
   
3. Chris Mooney. Deviant Ways -- finished 3/11/2009
4. Jennifer Lee Carrell. Interred With Their Bones -- finished 4/12/2009
   
5. Stan Pottinger. Final Procedure
6. Greg Iles. Footprints of God
7. Sophie Hannah. Hurting Distance
8. Ron Cutler. Ice Man
9. Mo Hayder. Pig Island

VI. Nonfiction

1. Diane Ackerman. A Natural History of the Senses -- finished 2/11/2009
2. Howard Norman. In Fond Remembrance of Me: A Memoir of Myth and Uncommon Friendship in the Arctic -- finished 2/14/2009
   
3. Ann Rule. The Stranger Beside Me -- finished 5/10/2009
4. Sir Francis Chichester. Gipsy Moth Circles the World -- finished 7/7/ 2009
5. Jack Olsen. The Climb Up to Hell -- finished 7/10/2009
6. Fred Rosen. Body Dump -- finished 9/19/2009
7. Jon Krakauer. Into the Wild -- finished 10/1/2009
8. Gary Kinder. Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
9. Glyn Williams. Voyages of Delusion

VII. Anthologies:

1. James Alan Gardner. Gravity Wells -- finished 2/2/2009
2. The Transition of H.P. Lovecraft:The Road to Madness -- finished 12/19/2009
3. Stephen King. Everything's Eventual
4. Robert Heinlein. Green Hills of Earth
5. Holidays are Hell
6. Matilda at the Speed of Light
7. Museum of Horrors
8. No Rest for the Witches

VIII. First in a Series:

1. Jonathan Stroud. The Amulet of Samarkand -- finished 1/30/2009
   
2. Jefferson Bass. Carved in Bone -- finished 4/2/2009
   
3. Anne McCaffrey. Acorna: The Unicorn Girl -- finished 5/9/2009
   
4. Keith Ablow. Denial -- finished 9/4/2009
5. Glenn Cook. The Black Company
6. Matthew Cook. Blood Magic
7. J. Calvin Pierce. The Door to Ambermere
8. Robert Jordan. Eye of the World
9. C.J. Cherryh. Foreigner

IX. Not First in a Series:

1. Raymond Feist. The King's Buccaneer -- finished 1/20/2009
   
2. Eoin Colfer. Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident -- finished 6/5/2009
3. Carol O'Connell. Find Me -- finished 11/4/2009
4. Mark Anthony. Blood of Mystery
5. C.J. Cherryh. Brothers of Earth
6. Simon R. Green. Deathstalker War
7. Sara Paretsky. Hard Time
8. Fredrik Pohl. Heechee Rendezvous
9. Pamela Dean. The Hidden Land