Sanddancer Second Category Challenge (a smaller one)

Since I've nearly finished my original challenge http://www.librarything.com/topic/72358#1477413 and I'm reading books outside of it already, I thought I'd start another category challenge to see me to the end of the year.

This one will be a smaller one with each numbered category having that number of books in it. Some of the categories are the same as in my previous challenge, but most are new.

1 Big One
2 Crime - DONE
3 Booker Longlist 2010 - DONE with 1 overlap
4 Book Club Reads - DONE with 1 overlap
5 Orange Prize Longlist (any year)
6 Telegraph's British 20 under 40 List DONE
7 New Yorker 20 under 40 List DONE
8 Non-Fiction
9 Favourite Authors - DONE
10 Books by Woman - DONE

1. Big One

Jonathan Norell and Mr Strange by Susanna Clarke

2. Crime

1 The Point of Rescue by Sophie Hannah - read in October
2 A Room Swept White by Sophie Hannah - read in December

3. Booker Prize 2010 Longlist

1 The Slap by Chrstos Tsiolkas - read in October
2 Room by Emma Donaghue - read in November
3 C by Tom McCarthy - read in November

4. Book Club Reads

1 Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier - read in September
2 Snow by Orhan Pamuk - read in October
3 The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas - read in October
4 The Screwtape Letters by C S Lewis - read in November

5. Orange Prize Longlists from any year
1 The Room of Lost Things by Stella Duffy - read in August
2 What was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn - read in September
3 The Dissident by Nell Freudenberger - read in September
4. The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser - read in December
5 The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

6 Telegraph's British 20 under 40 List

1 The Little White Car by Danuta de Rhodes (aka Dan Rhodes) - read in July
2 An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray - read in August
3 Dead Clever by Scarlett Thomas - read in August
4 Jerusalem http://www.librarything.com/work/8672958/book/63889051 by Patrick Neate - read in August
5 Little Hands Clapping by Dan Rhodes - read in November
6 In Your Face by Scarlett Thomas - read in December

7 New Yorker 20 under 40 List

1 Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Well Tower - read in July
2 Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer - read in July
3 Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon - read in August
4 The Dissident by Nell Freudenberger - read in September
5. St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell - read in October
6 Then We Came to an End by Joshua Ferris - read in October
7 The History of Love by Nicole Krauss - read in December

8. Non-Fiction

1 Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman - read in August
2 Angry Island by AA Gill - read in September
3 False Friends Faux Amis by Ellie Malet Spradbery - read in October
4 Ipod Therefore I am by Dylan Jones - read in October
5 Estates by Lynsey Hanley - read in November
6 1960s: Decades of the 20th Century by Nick Yapp - read in November
7 Just My Type by Simon Garfield - read in December
8 Shopping Seduction & Mr Selfridge by Lindy Woodhead - read in December

9. Favourite Authors

1.The Seymour Tapes by Tim Lott - read in August
2. Northline by Willy Vlautin - read in August
3. The Waterproof Bible by Andrew Kaufman - read in August
4.Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor - read in August
5. Dream Angus by Alexander McCall Smith - read in September
6 Little Face by Sophie Hannah - read in October
7. Ten Sorry Tales by Mick Jackson - read in November
8. Ask the Dust by John Fante - read in November
9. Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster - read in November

10. Books by woman (that don't fit into the other categories)
Because male authors tend to dominate my reading.

1 Blacklands by Belinda Bauer - read in August
2 The Rapture by Liz Jensen - read in August
3. Mr Rosenblum's List by Natasha Solomons - read in September
4 The News where you are by Catherine O'Flynn - read in September
5 Rape a Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates - read in September
6 Push by Precious - read in September
7 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer - read in September
8 Hawkes Harbor by S E Hinton - read in September
9 No and Me by Delphine de Vigan - read in September
10 Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt - read in October

Good to see your Challenge continues! I will shortly be setting up a second one to last thru the year as well.

Congratulations on your second challenge sanddancer.

You can check out any time you want, but you can never leave.

Mini reviews of the books I've read can be found on my 75 challenge thread number 2 http://www.librarything.com/topic/93273

I've re-jigged my categories a bit since I started this and I think I stand a good chance of finishing this mini challenge now with a couple of overlaps. I've recently joined a book club so have 4 books for that which will take me to the end of the year. I have swapped Non-Fiction and Orange Longlist mainly because I need to read a few history of photography type books for a course I'm doing so will incorporate those into the challenge

Completed one category Woman Authors which is the largest category. Not at all sure I'll complete this by the end of the year, even allowing for some overlaps, but I'll keep on with it.

Two categories completed, although with one overlap between them: Booker Prize Longlist 2010 and Book Club Reads.

Of the Booker Prize books, I loved Room, was pretty indifferent to C and disliked The Slap and couldn't understand how it made even the longlist. However, it produce one of the better book club discussions as it polarised opinions and contained plenty of "issues".

The other Book Club choices, I haven't particularly enjoyed either, although came to appreciate them more after the discussions and was pleased to read things I wouldn't normally. We haven't had the meeting yet for the the final one this year The Screwtape Letters and I'm slightly apprehensive about this since it is about religion.

More categories completed, and I think I should finish the challenge, with a few overlaps by the end of the year.

Crime - I ended up reading two Sophie Hannah thrillers here. Not life changing literature, but good reads.

Telegraph UK 20 under 40 - I was already a fan of Scarlett Thomas and Dan Rhodes, wasn't that impressed by Patrick Neate, but loved the Paul Murray book/

New Yorker 20 under 40 - on the whole, this has been a great category. The 3 short story collections restored my interest this form and The History of Love was a truly beautiful brilliant novel.

Favourite Authors - all pretty good, but the standouts were Northline and Brooklyn Follies.

Books by Women - my favourites were Mr Chartwell, The Guernsey Literary Potato Pie Society and The News Where You Are . I'll definitely read more by Catherine O'Flynn and Rebecca Hunt, when they write more.