Countdown Challenge 2010

Well, I am two books away from finishing my challenge for 2009. I have a feeling I will be finished by the end of September, so I have been looking for a NEW challenge. Well, I found one. And this one is a biggie!!!

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!!! Not sure if I will do this, but...it is always nice to dream big!

This challenge lasts from 9/9/09 through 10/10/10

*Crossovers with other challenges are allowed and your lists may change at any time.

If you would like to join the challenge, visit the sign up page at Michelle's blog.
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Listed below is my preliminary list of books to be read!!! Books completed are in bold. *Disclaimer: Book list may change at anytime!
2010:
1. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
2. Fly Away Home: Jennifer Wiener
3. I will Carry You: The sacred dance of grief and joy
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2009:
1. Best Friends Forever: Jennifer Weiner (completed 2/8/10)
2. Handle with Care: Jodi Picoult (completed 1/22/10)
3. Twenties Girl: Sophie Kinsella (completed 10/27/09)
4. The Help: Kathryn Stocket
5. Say your one of them: Uwem Akpan
6. LA Candy: Lauren Conrad
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2008:
1. Chasing Harry Winston: Lauren W.
2. Certain Girls: Jennifer Weiner (completed 10/3/09)
3. Sarah's Key: Tatiana de Rosnay
4. Love the one your with: Emily Giffin (Completed 2/5/10)
5. Belong to me: Marissa De Los Santos (completed 11/23/09)
6. Same Kind of Different as Me: Ron Hall and Denver Moore (Completed 2/3/10)
7. This side of heaven: Karen Kingsbury (Completed 10/10/10)
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2007:
1. 19 minutes: Jodi Picoult (Completed 11/28/09)
2. Body Surfing: Anita Shreve (Completed 2/25/10)
3. The Friday Night Knitting Club: Kate Jacobs
4. Sammy's House: Kristin Gore
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2006:
1. The Road: Cormac McCarthy
2. The Glass Castle: Jeanette Walls
3. Dear John: Nicholas Sparks (Completed 1/2/10)
4. For one more day: Mitch Albom
5. The Guy Not Taken: Jennifer Wiener (Completed 1/29/10)
6. Ever After: Karen Kingsbury (Completed 11/5/09)

2005:
1. Something Blue: Emily Giffin (Completed 9/23/09)
2. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith
3. Never Let Me Go: Kazuo Ishiguro (Completed 10/9/10)
4. Over her dead body: Kate White
5. The life all around me; Ellen Foster: by Kaye Gibbons

2004:
1. Something Borrowed: Emily Giffin (Completed 9/15/09)
2. Oceans Apart: Karen Kingsbury (Completed 2/17/10)
3. Til Death do us part: Kate White
4. Sammy's Hill: Kristin Gore

2003:
1. A body to die for: Kate White (Completed 10/2/09)
2. The Five People you meet in Heaven: Mitch Albom
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2002:
1. The Lovely Bones: Alice Sebold (Completed 10/25/09)
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2001:
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