BOOKS AND MOVIES

The Countdown Challenge is being hosted by 1 More Chapter.
“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.”

Here’s my (tentative) list for this challenge:

2010
1. The Passage – Justin Cronin – completed 5/9/2010
2. The Lotus Eaters – Tatjana Soli – completed 3/30/2010
3. Letter to My Daughter – George Bishop – completed 5/10/2010
4. Love in a Time of Homeschooling – Laura Brodie – completed 4/15/2010
5. The Summer We Fell Apart – Robin Antalek – completed 1/25/2010
6. The World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer – completed 1/14/2010
7. We the Children: Keepers of the School, Book 1 by Andrew Clements – completed 3/15/2010
8. The Creation of Eve by Lynn Cullen – completed 2/27/2010
9. An Irish Country Girl by Patrick Taylor – completed 3/8/2010
10. If You Follow Me by Malena Watrous – completed 3/14/2010

2009
1. Wait Until Twilight – Sang Pak – completed 12/7/2009
2. The Twelve – William Gladstone – completed 9/14/2009
3. No Time to Wave Goodbye – Jacquelyn Mitchard – completed 11/22/2009
4. The Purloined Boy – Mortimus Clay – completed 9/19/2009
5. Fire – Kristin Cashore – completed 10/19/2009
6. Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins – completed 10/3/2009
7. Hush, Hush – Becca Fitzpatrick – completed 10/31/2009
8. Going Bovine – Libba Bray – completed 3/4/2010
9. Dragon House – John Shors – completed 1/18/2010

2008
1. Plum Lucky – Janet Evanovich – completed 10/17/2009
2. The Geography of Love – Glenda Burgess – completed 11/7/2009
3. Things That Make Us [Sic] – Martha Brockenbrough – completed 1/5/2010
4. City of Ashes – Cassandra Clare – completed 12/30/2009
5. Beside a Burning Sea – John Shors – completed 11/19/2009
6. Paper Towns – John Green – completed 1/9/2010
7. Wounded: A Love Story – Claudia Mair Burney – completed 2/4/2010
8. The Knife of Never Letting Go – Patrick Ness – completed 12/27/2009

2007
1. City of Bones – Cassandra Clare – completed 12/11/2009
2. The Intellectual Devotiona: American History Edition – David Kidder & Noah Oppenheim – completed 12/6/2009
3. Plum Lovin’ – Janet Evanovich – completed 11/6/2009
4. At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays – Anne Fadiman – completed 2/14/2010
5. Beastly – Alex Flinn – completed 3/9/2010
6. Delights and Shadows: Poems – Ted Kooser – completed 3/12/2010
7. Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 – David Petersen – completed 3/30/2010

2006
1. Whitethorn Woods – Maeve Binchy – completed 5/12/2010
2. Wicked Lovely – Melissa Marr – completed 10/24/2009
3. The Last Town on Earth – Thomas Mullen – completed 3/24/2010
4. Life As We Knew It – Susan Beth Pfeffer – completed 11/28/2009
5. An Abundance of Katherines – John Green – completed 2/1/2010
6. Twelve Sharp – Janet Evanovich – completed 9/28/2009

2005
1. Eleven on Top – Janet Evanovich – completed 9/24/2009
2. The Diary of Pelly D – L.J. Adlington – completed 2/27/2010
3. Looking for Alaska – John Green – completed 1/21/2010
4. The Year of Pleasures – Elizabeth Berg – completed 02/28/2010
5. Eldest – Christopher Paolini – completed 1/23/2010

2004
1. The Polysyllabic Spree – Nick Hornby – completed 2/7/2010
2. Kira-Kira – Cynthia Kadohata – completed 10/4/2009
3. King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography – Chris Crutcher – completed 2/15/2010
4. The Game – Laurie R. King – completed 3/5/2010

2003
1. No Graves As Yet – Anne Perry
2. Questions About Angels: Poems – Billy Collins – completed 1/4/2010
3. A Breath of Snow and Ashes – Diana Gabaldon – completed 1/28/2010

2002
1. Nine Horses: Poems – Billy Collins – completed 2/28/2010
2. Visions of Sugar Plums – Janet Evanovich – completed 11/28/2009

2001
1. Forever in Blue – Ann Brashares – completed 9/21/2009

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