2013 Category Challenge

Challenge Summary: The idea is to read books from different categories. Tradition dictates that it should be 13 categories this year, but that is in no way a requirement (hence the group name change). They can be any categories you want and you can read as many books as you want from each category. Or you can do something completely different - the parameters are intentionally very wide.

Hosted by/Link: LibraryThing Group - 2013 Category Challenge 
My Challenge Progress

Challenge Start and Ends Dates: January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2013

My Progress: 40/131

My List:

The Categories

1) MREs (Books from my list must read everything authors) (10 Books)
2) The Awards (10 Books)
3) Short Stories Addict (10 Books)
4) O Canada (New to me Canadian Authors) (10 Books)
5) Seriously Speculative (Speculative Fiction from a Series) (10 Books)
6) Colour Your Library Library (Collection of books exclusive to Indigo/Chapters) (5 - 10 Books)
7) Read My Name - Bookworm Jules (13 Books)
8) Asian/Middle Eastern/African Lit (10 Books)
9) Mysteries and Thrillers (10 Books)
10) The List (Pre Selected TBR on shelf, that I keep meaning to read, but never get to) (10 Books)
11) Children and YA Lit (10 Books)
12) Wheel of Time (13 Books)
13) Mental Health Awareness (10 Books)

1) MREs (4/10)

Authors include: Margaret Atwood, Maeve Binchy, Timothy Findley, Penelope Fitzgerald, Marian Keyes, Alice Munro, Irene Nemirvosky, Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, Jane Urquhart, Virginia Woolf (and any other authors who might get added to the list)

1) Maeve Binchy - Whitethorn Woods
2) Penelope Fitzgerald - The Beginning of Spring
3) Virginia Woolf - Between the Acts
4) Margaret Atwood - Lady Oracle
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2) The Awards (3/10)

1) Governor's General Award - Two Solitudes - Hugh MacLennan
2) Irish Times Irish Literature Prize First Book Award - The South - Colm Tóibín
3) Stephen Leacock Award for Humour - King Leary - Paul Quarrington 
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3) Short Stories Addict (4/10)

1) The Sometimes Lake - Sandy Bonny
2) Dane of the Happy Shades - Alice Munro 
3) Tales From Firozsha Baag - Rohinton Mistry
4) Winter Well: Speculative Novellas About Older Women - Edited by Kay T. Holt
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4) O Canada - New to Me Canadian Authors - 5/10

1) Lisa Moore - February 
2) Richard Wagamese Indian Horse
3) Chris Gudgeon - Song of Kosovo
4) Lola Lemire Tostevin - The Other Sister
5) Pascale Quiviger - The Perfect Circle
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5) Seriously Speculative (Speculative Fiction from a Series) - 5/10

1) Time and Again - Jack Finney
2) The Broken Kingdoms - N.K. Jemisin
3) Club Dead - Charlaine Harris
4) Insurgent - Veronica Roth
5) Four Dragons (SG-1 16) - Diana Dru Botsford
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6) Colour Your Library Library (Collection of books exclusive to Indigo/Chapters) 

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7) Read My Name 5/10

1) B - Binchy, Maeve (Quentins) 
2) O
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4) K - Kearsley, Susanna (Sophia's Secret)
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7) R
8) M - McEwan, Ian (On Chesil Beach)
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10) U - Urquhart, Jane (Away)
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13) S - Spalding, Linda - The Purchase 


8) Asian/Middle Eastern/African Lit (5/10)

1) Nigeria - Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
2) Macau - The Color of Tea - Hannah Tunnicliffe
3) China - River of Stars - Guy Gavriel Kay
4) China - Gold Mountain Blues - Ling Zhang
5) North Korea - Forgotten Country - Catherine Chung
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9) Mysteries and Thrillers - 3/10

1) The City & the city - China Mieville
2) Heat Wave - Richard Castle 
3) The Informationist: A Thriller - Taylor Stevens
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10) Children and YA Lit (2/10)

1) Our for Blood - Alyxandra Harvey
2) Divergent - Veronica Roth 
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11) The List 

1) Mists of Avalon
2) The Vicomte de Bragelonne
3) Emma
4) Anna Karenia
5) Sophie's Choice
6) The Hunchback of Notre Dame
7) The Blind Assassin 
8) The Outlander
9) If On a Winters Night a Traveler
10) The Forgotten Garden


12) Wheel of Time 

1) The Eye of the World
2) The Great Hunt
3) The Dragon Reborn
4) The Shadow Rising
5) The Fires of Heaven
6) Lords of Chaos
7) A Crown of Swords
8) The Path of Daggers
9) Winters Heat
10) Crossroads of Twilight
11) Knife of Dreams
12) The Gathering Storm
13) Towers of Midnight


13) Mental Health Awareness 4/10

1) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
2) Lolita - Vladmir Nabokov
3) The Age of Hope - David Bergen 
4) The Earth Hums in B Flat - Mari Strachan 
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