Library Thing's 1010 Category Challenge

Some of you may know of the "book community" called Library Thing. Although I am already a member over at GoodReads, I decided to join Library Thing as well, so that I could participate in the Early Reviewers program. (Get free books! Review them! Very cool...) Anyway, as 2010 began, I was feeling a little sad about my 100 Books List. I hadn't made very much progress, although I had been reading since May. So my solution was to make another Books List! (It is an obsessive-compulsive thing with me, I think.) I have incorporated all the books still left on my original 100 Books, and added a few, and instilled categories. So now I'm not only reading 100 books, I am reading 10 books in each of 10 categories in the year 2010. This is, on Library Thing, known as the 1010 Category Challenge. I am definitely up for the challenge for this new year. Bring on the books...

Inspirational Nonfiction

1. God is the Gospel
2. Get Out of That Pit
3. Jesus, the One and Only
4. The Myth of a Christian Nation
5. The Four Loves
6. Love Beyond Reason
7. How to Read the Bible For All Its Worth
8. Exclusion and Embrace
9. The Love Dare
10. 12 Steps for the Recovering Pharisee (Like Me)

Fiction Series

1. Out of the Silent Planet
2. Perelandra
3. That Hideous Strength
4. Peculiar Treasures
5. On a Whim
6. Coming Attractions
7. Last Light
8. Night Light
9. True Light
10. Dawn's Light

Fantasy (or Science Fiction)

1. American Gods
2. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
3. Mirror Mirror
4. The Sirens of Titan
5. The Witches
6. Fantastic Mr. Fox
7. The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
8. The Shack
9. Mountains of Spices
10. The Silver Chair

Nonfiction, mostly Memoir and Humor

1. The Know-It-All
2. A Walk in the Woods
3. Early Bird
4. It's Not News, It's Fark
5. Lucky Man
6. A Short History of Nearly Everything
7. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
8. The Perfect Thing
9. Driving Mr. Albert
10. The Fifth Book of Peace

Award Winners

1. Life of Pi (Booker Prize)
2. The Executioner's Song (Pulitzer Prize)
3. Middlesex (Pulitzer Prize)
4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Pulitzer Prize)
5. The Road (Pulitzer Prize)
6. Possession (Booker Prize)
7. The Confessions of Nat Turner (Pulitzer Prize)
8. The Echo Maker (National Book Award)
9. The Stone Diaries (Pulitzer Prize)
10. March (Pulitzer Prize)

20th Century Literature

1. Something Happened
2. The Bluest Eye
3. Prodigal Summer
4. Everything's Eventual
5. The 158-Pound Marriage
6. The Adventures of Augie March
7. Sappho's Leap
8. On The Road
9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
10. The Stranger

Miscellaneous

1. The Courage to Start
2. No Need for Speed
3. Fast Food Nation
4. How My Breasts Saved the World: Misadventures of a Nursing Mother
5. 90 Minutes in Heaven
6. Stumbling on Happiness
7. My So-Called Freelance Life
8. Notes to Myself
9. The Winged Seed
10. The World As I See It

Nonfiction, mostly Essay Collections

1. Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
2. Moneyball
3. How to Win Every Argument
4. Mel Gibson's Passion and Philosophy: The Cross, the Questions, the Controversy
5. The Emotions: Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction
6. Lies My Teacher Told Me
7. Written By Herself
8. Hopes and Impediments
9. Finding Battlestar Galactica
10. Predictably Irrational

Historical

1. Gates of Fire
2. Persuasion
3. Two Rivers
4. Memoirs of a Geisha
5. The Pillars of the Earth
6. High Fidelity
7. The Joy Luck Club
8. The Poisonwood Bible
9. The Devil in the White City
10. The Book Thief

Big Classics

1. Anna Karenina
2. Atlas Shrugged
3. For Whom the Bell Tolls
4. Hinds' Feet on High Places
5. The Maltese Falcon
6. Pilgrim's Progress
7. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
8. A Christmas Carol
9. Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings
10. Night