2009: Challenges – Countdown Challenge 2010

I had a lot of fun with the Countdown Challenge 2009, so I’m in it for another year.  Here’s the skinny:

1. The goal of this challenge is to read the number of books first published in a given year that corresponds to the last digit of each year in the 2000s — 10 books from 2010, 9 books from 2009, 8 books from 2008, etc. The total number of books required, therefore, is 55.
2. This challenge lasts from 9/9/09 through 10/10/10.
3. Crossovers with other challenges are allowed and your lists may change at any time.
4. Sign up using Mr. Linky.
5. Have fun reading!

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Here’s my list – last update 9/12/10

2010

1. The First Rule – Robert Crais 
2. The Kitchen House – Kathleen Grissom
3. What Do We Do Now? – Keith Malley & Chemda
4. So Much For That – Lionel Shriver 
5. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest – Stieg Larsson 
6. Horns – Joe Hill 
7. Worst Case – James Patterson 
8. Possessed – Kate Cann 
9. Dead in the Family – Charlaine Harris 
10. The Anniversary Man – R.J. Ellory 

2009

1. Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
2. The Girl Who Played With Fire – Stieg Larsson
3. Cleopatra’s Daughter – Michelle Moran
4. The Spire – Richard North Patterson
5. The Fury – Jason Pinter
6. How to Say Goodbye in Robot – Natalie Standiford
7. The Maze Runner – James Dashner
8. True Blue – David Baldacci
9. Forbidden Falls – Robyn Carr 

2008

1. Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout
2. The Outlaw Demon Wails – Kim Harrison 
3. No One You Know – Michelle Richmond 
4. Gossip of the Starlings – Nina de Gramont 
5. The Beach House – Jane Green 
6. From Dead to Worse – Charlaine Harris 
7. Smoke Screen – Sandra Brown 
8. Heat Lightning – John Sandford 

2007

1. Virgin River – Robyn Carr
2. Last Rituals – Yrsa Sigurdardottir
3. Tongue in Chic – Christina Dodd 
4. Kitty Takes a Holiday – Carrie Vaughn 
5. Black Seconds – Karin Fossum 
6. Shelter Mountain – Robyn Carr 
7. All Together Dead – Charlaine Harris 

2006

1. Glass Houses – Rachel Caine
2. Kitty Goes to Washington – Carrie Vaughn
3. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak 
4. The Boleyn Inheritance – Philippa Gregory
5. Definitely Dead – Charlaine Harris 
6. Voices – Arnaldur Indridason 

2005

1. Silence of the Grave – Arnaldur Indridason
2. Full Bloom – Janet Evanovich
3. Dead as a Doornail – Charlaine Harris
4. The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
5. Undead and Unreturnable – MaryJanice Davidson

2004

1. Hunter’s Moon – C.T. Adams & Cathy Clamp
2. Seize the Night – Sherrilyn Kenyon
3. Little Children – Tom Perrotta 
4. London Bridges – James Patterson 

2003

1. Stiff – Mary Roach
2. Death Masks – Jim Butcher
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2002

1. Lamb – Christopher Moore 
2. Chasing the Dime – Michael Connelly 

2001

1. Strawberry Shortcake Murder – Joanne Fluke