The Books

FANTASY
1. Slaughterhouse Five- Kurt Vonnegut

TRAVEL
1.Down Under- Bill Bryson
2.Me, Myself and Prague- Rachael Weiss

SCIENCE
1. Radical Evolution- Joel Garreau
2. The Elegant Universe- Briane Greene
3. The Blind Watchmaker...- Richard Dawkins

BOOKS I DIDN’T FINISH
1. Anna Karinina- Leo Tolstoy
2. Sophie’s World- Jostein Gaarder
3. East of Eden- John Steinbeck
4. David Copperfield- Charles Dickens

HISTORY/POLTICS/WAR
1. Arthur’s Britain- Leslie Alcock
2. The Black Death- Philip Ziegler
3. The History of the Devil- Gerald Messadie
4. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon- David Grann
5. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West- Dee Brown


BOOKS FROM ‘1001 BOOKS TO READ BEFORE YOU DIE’
1. Fingersmith- Sarah Waters
2. Atonement- Ian McEwan
3. Austerlitz- W. G. Sebald
4. A Prayer for Owen Meany- John Irving
5. The Cider House Rules- John Irving
6. Delta of Venus- Anais Nin

CLASSICS
1. Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
2. Lady Chatterly’s Lover- D. H. Lawrence
3. Frankenstein- Mary Shelly
4. The Castle of Otranto- Horace Walpole
5. The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
6. The Time Machine- H. G. Wells
7. A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess

POPULAR AUTHORS I HAVEN’T READ
1. Watership Down- Richard Adams
2. Vox- Nicholas Baker
3. So This is Depravity- Russel Baker
4. The Blind Assassin- Margaret Atwood
5. Dead Until Dark- Charlaine Harris
6. The Name of the Rose- Umberto Eco
7. The Color of Magic- Terry Pratchet
8. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle- Haruki Murakami

PRIZE WINNERS
1. The Bridges of Madison County- Robert James Waller
2. Snow Falling on Cedars- David Guterson
3. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood- Rebecca Wells
4. The Colour Purple- Alice Walker
5. Beloved- Toni Morrison
6. The Sea, The Sea- Iris Murdoch
7. Midnight’s Children- Salmon Rushdie
8. Old Devils- Kingsley Amis
9. Life of Pi- Yann Martel

BOOK CLUB BOOKS
1. Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck
2. Middlesex- Jeffrey Eugenides
3. The God Delusion- Richard Dawkins
4. The Rachel Papers- Martin Amis
5. Handle With Care- Jodi Picoult
6. A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway
7. A Thousand Splendid Suns- Khaled Hosseini
8. The Road- Cormac McCarthy
9. American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis
10. The Secret Life of Bees- Sue Monk Kidd

And the Categories Are...

As an avid reader and book lover I don't read nearly as much as I should, nor do I read as versatile as I should. One of the primary reasons for this is that I simply don't know what to read next. I put it down to too much choice. Therefore when I stumbled across the '1010 Category Challenge' on LibraryThing I jumped on it.

One of the main issues for this challenge was coming up with 10 different categories and the books to be classified in them. Instead of reaching for the wholly unattainable 10 books from 10 categories I have chosen instead to read 1 book from the first category, 2 from the second, 3 from the third, and so on.

The categories are:

1) Fantasy
2) Travel
3) Science
4) Books I Didn't Finish
5) History/Politics/War
6) Books From '1001 Books to Read Before You Die'
7) Classics
8) Popular Authors I Have Not Read
9) Prize Winners
10) Book Club Books


I will post the book contents of each category at later dates.