2010: Challenges – Countdown Challenge 2011

This is not an official challenge, because I can’t find anyone hosting it! The original challenge is one of my favorites, so I’m going to go ahead and do it on my own.  If I felt a little more dedicated, I’d actually host it myself — but I’d feel a little funny usurping someone else’s challenge idea.  So for now, it’s just me, but if you want to join me, feel free!

If you’re not familiar, the idea is that you read 11 books published in 2011, 10 books published in 2010, 9 books published in 2009, etc, until you get to 2001.  The challenge runs from 10/10/10 to 11/11/11, so I’m going to be adding the books I’ve posted about since 10/10.

last updated 9/11/11

2011

1. Senseless – Mary Burton 
2. The Cypress House – Michael Koryta 
3. Diavolino – Steve Emmett 
4. The Raising – Laura Kasischke 
5. Merciless – Mary Burton 
6. The Woman He Married – Julie N. Ford 
7. Heads You Lose – Lisa Lutz & David Hayward 
8. Pale Demon – Kim Harrison 
9. A Drop of the Hard Stuff – Lawrence Block 
10. Dead Reckoning – Charlaine Harris 
11. Fallen – Karin Slaughter 

2010

1. Saving Max – Antoinette van Heugten
2. Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
3. Sizzling Sixteen – Janet Evanovich
4. Without Mercy – Lisa Jackson
5. Tapestry of Love – Rosy Thornton  
6. Lake Magic – Kimberly Fisk 
7. At Home: A Short History of Private Life – Bill Bryson 
8. Reckless – Andrew Gross 
9. Star Island – Carl Hiaasen 
10. Bite Me – Christopher Moore 

2009

1. Black Hills – Nora Roberts
2. Revenge of the Spellmans – Lisa Lutz 
3. The Strain – Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan 
4. Hollywood is Like High School With Money – Zoey Dean 
5. The Help – Kathryn Stockett 
6. Labor Day – Joyce Maynard 
7. The Silent Hour – Michael Koryta 
8. Rocket Surgery Made Easy – Steve Krug 
9. Love in Infant Monkeys – Lydia Millet 

2008

1. Charley’s Web – Joy Fielding
2. The Likeness – Tana French 
3. Madapple – Christina Meldrum 
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2007

1. Abandon – Carla Neggers 
2. You Suck – Christopher Moore 
3. I Love You, Beth Cooper – Larry Doyle 
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2006

1. Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures – Vincent Lam
2. Morrigan’s Cross – Nora Roberts
3. Don’t Look Down – Jennifer Crusie & Bob Mayer  
4. Ricochet – Sandra Brown 
5. Moon Called – Patricia Briggs 
6. Motor Mouth – Janet Evanovich 

2005

1. Bloody Mary – J.A. Konrath 
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2004

1. Crazy Hot – Tara Janzen 
2. Blood Rites – J
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2003

1. How to Write Killer Fiction – Carolyn Wheat 
2. All He Ever Wanted – Anita Shreve 
3. The Devil in the White City – Erik Larson 

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2001

1. The Pickup – Nadine Gordimer