11 in 11 Challenge Wrap-Up
Well, yesterday (on Jane Austen's birthday, no less!) I finished my 11 in 11 challenge over at LibraryThing. I picked 11 categories of books and read 11 books in each category, for a grand total of 121 books.
I. Livin’ on a Prayer (theology, religion, and church history)
1. Jennifer A. Marshall - Now and Not Yet: Making Sense of Single Life in the 21st Century
2. Frederick Buechner - Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale
3. Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI - Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration
4. Aidan Nichols, O.P. - Christendom Awake: On Reenergizing the Church in Culture
5. Frank Sheed - Theology and Sanity
6. Martin Buber - I and Thou
7. C. S. Lewis - Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
8. C. FitzSimons Allison - The Cruelty of Heresy: An Affirmation of Christian Orthodoxy
9. Jacques Philippe - Time for God
10. Alice von Hildebrand - The Privilege of Being a Woman
11. Robert P. George - The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis
II. Other Worlds (sci fi and fantasy set in an original universe)
1. N. K. Jemisin - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
2. Rachel Aaron - The Spirit Thief
3. Alexandra Bracken - Brightly Woven
4. Sharon Shinn - Mystic and Rider
5. Rachel Aaron - The Spirit Rebellion
6. Rachel Aaron - The Spirit Eater
7. Sharon Shinn - The Thirteenth House
8. Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora
9. Carol Berg - Breath and Bone
10. Megan Whalen Turner - A Conspiracy of Kings
11. Shannon Hale - Forest Born
III. Classics
1. Willa Cather - Death Comes for the Archbishop
2. William Golding - Lord of the Flies
3. Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Les Liaisons Dangereuses
4. Henry James - The American
5. Kate Chopin - The Awakening
6. John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
7. William Faulkner - Light in August
8. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
9. Bram Stoker - Dracula
10. D. H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover
11. Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground
IV. In Brief (short stories)
1. Anna Gavalda - I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
2. Nadine Gordimer - “Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black” and Other Stories
3. Sharon Shinn, Rebecca York, Carol Berg, and Jean Johnson - Elemental Magic
4. Agatha Christie - “Double Sin” and Other Stories
5. Neil Gaiman - Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions
6. Tracy Winn - Mrs. Somebody Somebody
7. Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson - Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits
8. Selected Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Thorndike Large Print Edition
9. Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo & David Malki !, eds. - Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die
10. Connie Willis - Impossible Things
11. Thomas Godfrey, ed. - Murder for Christmas
V. Hot off the Presses (books published in 2011)
1. Lauren Willig - The Orchid Affair
2. Seanan McGuire - Late Eclipses
3. Julie James - A Lot Like Love
4. Sarah Addison Allen - The Peach Keeper
5. Margaret Leroy - The Soldier’s Wife
6. Katherine Webb - The Legacy
7. Marina Fiorato - The Daughter of Siena
8. Stephanie Perkins - Lola and the Boy Next Door
9. Jennifer Echols - Love Story
10. Jasper Fforde - One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
11. Seanan McGuire - One Salt Sea
VI. Ye Olde Historical Fiction (historical fiction)
1. Roberta Gellis - Roselynde
2. Laura Kinsale - Lessons in French
3. Rebecca Dean - Palace Circle
4. Anna Godbersen - Envy
5. Mary Gentle - A Sundial in a Grave: 1610
6. Mary Balogh - A Matter of Class
7. Tessa Dare - Goddess of the Hunt
8. Loretta Chase - Mr. Impossible
9. Tracy Grant - Beneath a Silent Moon
10. Charles Finch - A Stranger in Mayfair
11. Nikki Poppen - The Madcap
VII. The Butler Did It (mysteries, thrillers, true crime)
1. Georgette Heyer - Footsteps in the Dark
2. Luis Fernando Verissimo - Borges and the Eternal Orangutans
3. Friedrich Dürrenmatt - The Pledge
4. M. M. Kaye - Death in Berlin
5. Robin Adair - Death and the Running Patterer
6. Friedrich Dürrenmatt - The Judge and His Hangman
7. Erin Hart - False Mermaid
8. Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö - The Laughing Policeman
9. M. M. Kaye - Death in Cyprus
10. Ellis Peters - The Pilgrim of Hate
11. Susanne Alleyn - Game of Patience
VIII. Pomegranate Seeds, Anyone? (Persephone books)
1. Monica Dickens - Mariana
2. Jocelyn Playfair - A House in the Country
3. Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Making of a Marchioness
4. D. E. Stevenson - Miss Buncle’s Book
5. Noel Streatfeild - Saplings
6. D. E. Stevenson - Miss Buncle Married
7. Virginia Graham - Consider the Years
8. Mollie Panter-Downes - Good Evening, Mrs. Craven
9. Dorothy Whipple - The Priory
10. Frances Towers - Tea with Mr. Rochester
11. Denis Mackail - Greenery Street
IX. Time Is out of Joint (time travel, steampunk, and alternate history)
1. M. K. Hobson - The Native Star
2. Gail Carriger - Changeless
3. Gail Carriger - Blameless
4. Kate Elliott - Cold Magic
5. Scott Westerfeld - Leviathan
6. Scott Westerfeld - Behemoth
7. Scott Westerfeld - Goliath
8. Kady Cross - The Girl in the Steel Corset
9. Gail Carriger - Heartless
10. M. K. Hobson - The Hidden Goddess
11. Patricia C. Wrede - Thirteenth Child
X. On the Shelf (books I’ve owned as of 12.31.2010 but haven’t read yet)
1. Helen Simonson - Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
2. Ilona Andrews - On the Edge
3. Faith Hunter - Skinwalker
4. Sophie Kinsella - Twenties Girl
5. Emma Bull - War for the Oaks
6. Juliet Marillier - The Dark Mirror
7. Susane Colasanti - When It Happens
8. Ava Gray - Skin Game
9. Wendy Webb - The Tale of Halcyon Crane
10. Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
11. Kate Ross - A Broken Vessel
XI. Gallimaufry (anything goes!)
1. Rachel Cohn and David Levithan - Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares
2. Nora Roberts - Happy Ever After
3. Mary Robinette Kowal - Shades of Milk and Honey
4. Simone Elkeles - Perfect Chemistry
5. L. Jagi Lamplighter - Prospero Lost
6. Stephanie Perkins - Anna and the French Kiss
7. Jennifer Echols - The Boys Next Door
8. Jennifer Echols - Endless Summer
9. Kristina Springer - The Espressologist
10. Ilona Andrews - Bayou Moon
11. Muriel Spark - Not to Disturb
As you can imagine, this was a very involving challenge, and it took me all year to complete! So I won't give my "best and worst" recap now; I'll just wait until the end of 2011 and do a recap for the entire year.
The best part of all this is that I have officially completed all my 2011 challenges! That's right -- I have two glorious weeks of completely unstructured, non-challenge reading ahead of me!
I. Livin’ on a Prayer (theology, religion, and church history)
1. Jennifer A. Marshall - Now and Not Yet: Making Sense of Single Life in the 21st Century
2. Frederick Buechner - Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale
3. Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI - Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration
4. Aidan Nichols, O.P. - Christendom Awake: On Reenergizing the Church in Culture
5. Frank Sheed - Theology and Sanity
6. Martin Buber - I and Thou
7. C. S. Lewis - Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
8. C. FitzSimons Allison - The Cruelty of Heresy: An Affirmation of Christian Orthodoxy
9. Jacques Philippe - Time for God
10. Alice von Hildebrand - The Privilege of Being a Woman
11. Robert P. George - The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis
II. Other Worlds (sci fi and fantasy set in an original universe)
1. N. K. Jemisin - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
2. Rachel Aaron - The Spirit Thief
3. Alexandra Bracken - Brightly Woven
4. Sharon Shinn - Mystic and Rider
5. Rachel Aaron - The Spirit Rebellion
6. Rachel Aaron - The Spirit Eater
7. Sharon Shinn - The Thirteenth House
8. Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora
9. Carol Berg - Breath and Bone
10. Megan Whalen Turner - A Conspiracy of Kings
11. Shannon Hale - Forest Born
III. Classics
1. Willa Cather - Death Comes for the Archbishop
2. William Golding - Lord of the Flies
3. Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Les Liaisons Dangereuses
4. Henry James - The American
5. Kate Chopin - The Awakening
6. John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
7. William Faulkner - Light in August
8. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
9. Bram Stoker - Dracula
10. D. H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover
11. Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground
IV. In Brief (short stories)
1. Anna Gavalda - I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
2. Nadine Gordimer - “Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black” and Other Stories
3. Sharon Shinn, Rebecca York, Carol Berg, and Jean Johnson - Elemental Magic
4. Agatha Christie - “Double Sin” and Other Stories
5. Neil Gaiman - Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions
6. Tracy Winn - Mrs. Somebody Somebody
7. Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson - Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits
8. Selected Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Thorndike Large Print Edition
9. Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo & David Malki !, eds. - Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die
10. Connie Willis - Impossible Things
11. Thomas Godfrey, ed. - Murder for Christmas
V. Hot off the Presses (books published in 2011)
1. Lauren Willig - The Orchid Affair
2. Seanan McGuire - Late Eclipses
3. Julie James - A Lot Like Love
4. Sarah Addison Allen - The Peach Keeper
5. Margaret Leroy - The Soldier’s Wife
6. Katherine Webb - The Legacy
7. Marina Fiorato - The Daughter of Siena
8. Stephanie Perkins - Lola and the Boy Next Door
9. Jennifer Echols - Love Story
10. Jasper Fforde - One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
11. Seanan McGuire - One Salt Sea
VI. Ye Olde Historical Fiction (historical fiction)
1. Roberta Gellis - Roselynde
2. Laura Kinsale - Lessons in French
3. Rebecca Dean - Palace Circle
4. Anna Godbersen - Envy
5. Mary Gentle - A Sundial in a Grave: 1610
6. Mary Balogh - A Matter of Class
7. Tessa Dare - Goddess of the Hunt
8. Loretta Chase - Mr. Impossible
9. Tracy Grant - Beneath a Silent Moon
10. Charles Finch - A Stranger in Mayfair
11. Nikki Poppen - The Madcap
VII. The Butler Did It (mysteries, thrillers, true crime)
1. Georgette Heyer - Footsteps in the Dark
2. Luis Fernando Verissimo - Borges and the Eternal Orangutans
3. Friedrich Dürrenmatt - The Pledge
4. M. M. Kaye - Death in Berlin
5. Robin Adair - Death and the Running Patterer
6. Friedrich Dürrenmatt - The Judge and His Hangman
7. Erin Hart - False Mermaid
8. Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö - The Laughing Policeman
9. M. M. Kaye - Death in Cyprus
10. Ellis Peters - The Pilgrim of Hate
11. Susanne Alleyn - Game of Patience
VIII. Pomegranate Seeds, Anyone? (Persephone books)
1. Monica Dickens - Mariana
2. Jocelyn Playfair - A House in the Country
3. Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Making of a Marchioness
4. D. E. Stevenson - Miss Buncle’s Book
5. Noel Streatfeild - Saplings
6. D. E. Stevenson - Miss Buncle Married
7. Virginia Graham - Consider the Years
8. Mollie Panter-Downes - Good Evening, Mrs. Craven
9. Dorothy Whipple - The Priory
10. Frances Towers - Tea with Mr. Rochester
11. Denis Mackail - Greenery Street
IX. Time Is out of Joint (time travel, steampunk, and alternate history)
1. M. K. Hobson - The Native Star
2. Gail Carriger - Changeless
3. Gail Carriger - Blameless
4. Kate Elliott - Cold Magic
5. Scott Westerfeld - Leviathan
6. Scott Westerfeld - Behemoth
7. Scott Westerfeld - Goliath
8. Kady Cross - The Girl in the Steel Corset
9. Gail Carriger - Heartless
10. M. K. Hobson - The Hidden Goddess
11. Patricia C. Wrede - Thirteenth Child
X. On the Shelf (books I’ve owned as of 12.31.2010 but haven’t read yet)
1. Helen Simonson - Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
2. Ilona Andrews - On the Edge
3. Faith Hunter - Skinwalker
4. Sophie Kinsella - Twenties Girl
5. Emma Bull - War for the Oaks
6. Juliet Marillier - The Dark Mirror
7. Susane Colasanti - When It Happens
8. Ava Gray - Skin Game
9. Wendy Webb - The Tale of Halcyon Crane
10. Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
11. Kate Ross - A Broken Vessel
XI. Gallimaufry (anything goes!)
1. Rachel Cohn and David Levithan - Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares
2. Nora Roberts - Happy Ever After
3. Mary Robinette Kowal - Shades of Milk and Honey
4. Simone Elkeles - Perfect Chemistry
5. L. Jagi Lamplighter - Prospero Lost
6. Stephanie Perkins - Anna and the French Kiss
7. Jennifer Echols - The Boys Next Door
8. Jennifer Echols - Endless Summer
9. Kristina Springer - The Espressologist
10. Ilona Andrews - Bayou Moon
11. Muriel Spark - Not to Disturb
As you can imagine, this was a very involving challenge, and it took me all year to complete! So I won't give my "best and worst" recap now; I'll just wait until the end of 2011 and do a recap for the entire year.
The best part of all this is that I have officially completed all my 2011 challenges! That's right -- I have two glorious weeks of completely unstructured, non-challenge reading ahead of me!