Unruly Reader: Doing another reading challenge...

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Doing another reading challenge...

Babbette over at Babbette's Book Blog is hosting the 2010 Mixology Challenge, and I'm in!

Here are the guidelines:

1. List how many books total you want to read in 2010.
2. List no fewer than 4 categories for these books and determine how many you'll read in each category. Examples of categories:
by class: fiction / non-fiction / contemporary / classic / newly published / award winning (Booker, Pulitzer)
by genre: historical fiction, religious fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, dystopian literatur, memoir, biography, personal or professional growth
by class of author: female / male / Asian / Middle Eastern
other: TBR / review (ARC) books

3. These books can overlap with other challenges AND even fit more than one category within this challenge.

4. Audio books do count; re-reads do not.

Here are my 2010 Mixology goals:

75 books total

10 newly published

10 biographies

5 audiobooks

5 romance

the rest = anything at all

This page will be my home base for this challenge.

10 Newly Published

1. Eggsecutive Orders by Julie Hyzy

2. Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson by William Langewiesche

3. Government Girl: Young and Female in the White House by Stacy Parker Aab
4. The New Frugality: How to Consume Less, Save More, and Live Better by Chris Farrell
5. Slow Fire by Ken Mercer
6. A Night Too Dark by Dana Stabenow
7. Model Home by Eric Puchner
8. Drink the Tea by Thomas Kaufman
9. This Is Just Exactly Like You by Drew Perry

10.
FDR's Funeral Train: A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance by Robert Klara

10 Biographies

1. Lincoln's Other White House: The Untold Story of the Man and His Presidency by Elizabeth Smith Brownstein
2. The Day Lincoln Was Shot by Jim Bishop

5 Audiobooks

1. The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig (read by Kate Reading)

2. Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir by Christopher Buckley (read by the author)

5 Romance

1. Dreams of Stardust by Lynn Kurland

2. Dark Lover by J. R. Ward
3. On the Edge by Ilona Andrews

The full list of 75

1. A Great Day to Fight Fire: Mann Gulch, 1949 by Mark Matthews

2. The Kennedy Assassination--25 Hours After: Lyndon B. Johnson's Pivotal First Day as President by Steven M. Gillon
3. East of Peculiar by Suzann Ledbetter
4. The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig
5. Unclutter Your Life on One Week by Erin Rooney Doland
6. Eggsecutive Orders by Julie Hyzy
7. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
8. Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson by William Langewiesche
9. Dreams of Stardust by Lynn Kurland
10. Government Girl: Young and Female in the White House by Stacy Parker Aab
11. The Deception of the Emerald Ring by Lauren Willig
12. The New Frugality: How to Consume Less, Save More, and Live Better by Chris Farrell

13. Apollo: Race to the Moon by Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox

14. The Balance Thing by Margaret Dumas

15. Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir by Christopher Buckley

16. Lincoln's Other White House: The Untold Story of the Man and His Presidency by Elizabeth Smith Brownstein

17. They Dared Return: The True Story of Jewish Spies behind the Lines in Nazi Germany by Patrick K. O'Donnell

18. Slow Fire by Ken Mercer

19. Live a Little! Breaking the Rules Won't Break Your Health by Susan M. Love and Alice D. Domar

20. The Day Lincoln Was Shot by Jim Bishop

21. The Seduction of the Crimson Rose by Lauren Willig

22. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

23. Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck

24. Dark Lover by J. R. Ward
25. On the Edge by Ilona Andrews
26. A Night Too Dark by Dana Stabenow
27. Model Home by Eric Puchner
28. Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez
29. Drink the Tea by Thomas Kaufman
30. The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors by Hal Niedzviecki

31. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

32. FDR's Funeral Train: A Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the Balance by Robert Klara

33. This Is Just Exactly Like You by Drew Perry
34. The Camera Never Blinks: Adventures of a TV Journalist by Dan Rather
35. Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas
36. The Flyers: In Search of Wilbur & Orville Wright by Noah Adams
37. The Temptation of the Night Jasmine by Lauren Willig

1 comment:

Elisabeth said...: Welcome to Mixology & thanks for joining. I look forward to following your progress! I like your blog & that you ask your readers questions (ie, speed reading) - I've found some of my most interesting comments / discussions are on book & reading theory more so than book reviews. Anyway, nice to 'meet' you!; December 19, 2009 at 10:04 AM