999 Challenge

It was this challenge last year (888 at the time) that first introduced me to book challenges. It's backed by Library Thing, which I've sort of ignored since I started this blog. If ou're not acquainted with Library Thing, check it out, it's pretty cool if you're a book lover.
The website: http://www.librarything.com/groups/999challenge

The 999 Challenge:

1. Pick 9 categories
2. Read 9 books in each of those categories
3. Complete them in 2009.
4. To make it easier ---
The 888 challenge allowed an overlap of 8 books which would fit into more than one category. So for this challenge, you could overlap 9 books, but that's up to you.
5. To make it harder ---
Complete all your books by 9/9/09.

My categories:
1. Anthologies/Collections CHANGED 11-5-09 to EARLY SERIES titles
2. FINISHED 7/09 New Books (2009)
3. Books with an Arizona setting
4. FINISHED 7/09Titles By an Author I've Already Read
5. FINISHED 7/09 Mystery/Thriller
6. FINISHED 7/09 YA Titles
7. Books Related to My Literature Class Curriculum
8. Novels That Take a Contemporary Twist on Mysteries in History (Knights Templar, the real Shakespeare, lost books, maps, manuscripts...)
9. FINISHED Just for the Fun of Reading It

Early Series Titles
1. Ivy & Bean (Barrows) #1
2. Stink (McDonald) #1
3. Miss Daisy is Crazy (Gutman) #1
4. Judy Moody (McDonald) #1
5. Junie B. Jones (Park) #1
6. Mercy Watson (DiCamillo)

New Books (2009)
1. 11 Birthdays (Mass)
2. The Year the Swallows Came Early (Fitzmaurice) 2009
3. Dying to Meet You (43 Cemetery Road) (Klise) 2009
4. Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow (Rollins) 2009
5. Emeline and the Bunny (Hannigan)
6. Tales from Outer Suburbia (Tan)
7. If I Stay (Forman)
8. When You Reach Me (Stead)
9. Wild Things (Carmichael)
FINISHED

Books with an Arizona Setting
1. Mission to Sonora (Cramer)
2. Cowboy Rides Away (Thornton)
3. High Lonesome Road (Thornton)

Titles By an Author I've Already Read
1. Blood Work (Connelly)
2. Mexican Hat (McGarrity)
3. 3 Willows (Brashares)
4. What Happened to Cass McBride (Giles)
5, Loud Silence of Francine Green (Cushman)
6. Every Soul a Star (Mass)
7. Betrayed (Cast & Cast)
8. Rough Weather (Parker)
9. Lawn Boy (Paulsen)
FINISHED

Mystery/Thriller
1. Tularosa (McGarrity)
2. Indigo Slam (Crais)
3. The Watchman (Crais)
4. Say Goodbye (Gardner)
5. Chasing the Dime (Connelly)
6. Case of the Missing Marquess (Springer)
7. Death Assemblage (Miller)
8. Whiskey Sour (Konrath)
9. Gray Ghost (Tapply)
FINISHED

YA Titles
1. My Lost and Found Life (Bowsher)
2. Hurricane Song (Volponi)
3. Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature (Brande)
4. What My Mother Doesn't Know (Sones)
5. What Would Emma Do? (Cook)
6. Bones of Faerie (Simner)
7. Marked (Cast & Cast)
8. Rule of Won (Petrucha)
9. Marcelo in the Real World (Stork)
FINISHED

Books Related to My Literature Class Curriculum
1. Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
2. The Iliad
3. The Most Beautiful Place in the World (Cameron)
4. The Corn Grows Ripe (Rhoads)

Novels That Take a Contemporary Twist on Mysteries in History (Knights Templar, the real Shakespeare, lost books, maps, manuscripts...)
1. People of the Book (Brooks)
2. The Book of Lies (Meltzer)
Unf. Venetian Betrayal (Berry)
Unf. Rule of Four (Caldwell/Thompson)
Unf. The Eight (Neville)
3. Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (Howe)
4. Book of Air and Shadows (Gruber)

Just For the Fun of Reading It
1. The Lace Reader (Barry)
2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Shaffer & Barrows)
3. The Rug Merchant (Mullins)
4. Austenland (Hale)
5. Sworn to Silence (Castillo)
6. Confetti Girl (Lopez)
7. Shiver (Stievater)
8. Jane Austen Ruined My Life (Pattillo)
9. Escape Under the Forever Sky (Yohalem)
FINISHED


Repetitions (Can only have 9!)
None yet! ! !