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I really love challenges! I selected several categories and a certain amount of books for each of them. I'm a moody reader so I will decide about the books as they come. I'll update this list then. Each book only counts once even if it fits under several categories.

A. Read 20 books from the 1001 books list:
1. The 13 Clocks (read 01/01/13)
2. Siddhartha (read 03/01/13)
3. Veronika Decides to Die (read 04/01/13)
4. The Reluctant Fundamentalist (read 11/01/13)
5. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (read 16/01/13)
6. The Old Man and the Sea (19/01/13)
7. Dracula (read 22/01/13)
8. Wide Sargasso Sea (read 25/01/13)
9. Embers (read 26/01/13)
10. Cloud Atlas (read 03/02/13)
11. The Summer Book (read 03/04/13)
12. The Scarlet Letter (read 09/04/13)
13. 1984 (read 16/04/13)
14. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (read 18/04/13)
15. Caim (read 13/05/13)
16. Mit Staunen und Zittern (read 21/05/13)
17. Summer in Baden-Baden (read 08/07/13)
18. The Sorrows of Young Werther (read 23/07/13)
19. Chess Story (read 23/07/13)
20. The Virgin Suicides (read 28/07/13)

B. Read 10 books from SZ Bibliothek and/or SZ Bibliothek Metropolen and/or SZ Krimibibliothek:
1. Schloß Gripsholm (read 05/01/13)
2. Las Noches de Flores (read 05/09/13)
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C. Read 14 books that were published in the 14 years of this millenium (I'll count the year the book was originally published, not the year the edition I read was published):
1. 2000: Tears of the Giraffe (read 12/01/13)
2. 2001: Aldabra, The Tortoise Who Loved Shakespeare (read 10/01/13)
3. 2002: The Scream (read 24/05/13)
4. 2003
5. 2004: Le potentiel érotique de ma femme (read 26/01/13)
6. 2005: Looking for Alaska (read 25/03/13)
7. 2006: Das Washington-Dekret (read 18/03/13)
8. 2007: City of Bones (read 30/04/13)
9. 2008: Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World (read 21/05/13)
10. 2009: Der Hundertjährige, der aus dem Fenster stieg und verschwand (read 19/01/13)
11. 2010: Before I Fall (read 05/02/13)
12. 2011: Delirium (read 30/03/13)
13. 2012: Er ist wieder da (read 06/01/13)
14. 2013: Wedding Night (read 01/06/13)

D. Read 10 books that won either the Booker Prize and/or the Pulitzer and/or the Nobel Prize:
1. The Sense of an Ending (read 06/01/13)
2. A Visit from the Goon Squad (read 10/04/13)
3. The Gathering (read 20/06/13)
4. The Color Purple (read 26/06/13)
5. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (12/07/13)
6. Disgrace (read 14/07/13)
7. Death in Venice (read 02/08/13)
8. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (read 11/08/13)
9. Platero y yo (read 25/10/13)
10. Caim (read 13/05/13)


E. Read 6 non-fiction books:
1. The Ultimate Teen Book Guide (read 22/01/13)
2. The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Ultimate Reading List (read 22/01/13)
3. The Ultimate Book Guide: Over 600 Great Books For 8 12s (read 28/01/13)
4. DuMont Reisehandbuch Mexiko (read 11/03/13)
5. Der perfekte Hochzeitsplaner (read 12/05/13)
6. Die Zeit-Bibliothek Der 100 Bücher (read 30/06/13)


F. Read 10 mysteries/thrillers:
1. ·¡¾±²õ±ð²õ°ìä±ô³Ù±ð (read 05/01/13)
2. °Â¾±²Ô³Ù±ð°ù°ì²¹°ù³Ù´Ç´Ú´Ú±ð±ô°ì²Ôö»å±ð±ô (read 03/05/13)
3. Sweet Tooth (read 12/05/13)
4. Femme Fatale: Der fünfte Fall für Bruno, Chef de Police (read 21/05/13)
5. The Golden Egg (read 01/06/13)
6. Inferno (read 13/06/13)
7. Sworn to Silence (read 19/06/13)
8. The St. Zita Society (read 23/07/13)
9. Sharp Objects (read 06/08/13)
10. Norwegian by Night (read 16/08/13)


G. Read 10 Young Adult novels:
1. Number the Stars (read 03/01/13)
2. The Graveyard Book (read 25/01/13)
3. Journey to the River Sea (read 10/02/13)
4. The Golem's Eye (read 15/03/13)
5. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (read 22/03/13)
6. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (read 02/04/13)
7. An Abundance of Katherines (read 03/04/13)
8. So was macht die Liebe (read 03/04/13)
9. Ruby Red (read 06/04/13)
10. The Fault in Our Stars (read 10/04/13)

H. NEW: Start 01/08/13 Read 20 books from any SZ Junge Bibliothek series (Junge Bibliothek/Fantasy/Literaturpreis/Abenteuer)
1. The Zigzag Kid (read 10/08/13)
2. A Hand Full of Stars (read 11/08/13)
3. Liebkind im Vogelnest (read 11/08/13)
4. Die Mitte der Welt (read 20/09/13)
5. Brüder Wie Freunde (read 22/09/13)
6. Remote Man (read 26/09/13)
7. Svenja Hat's Erwischt. (read 27/09/13)
8. Was Ich Vergessen Habe (read 27/09/13)
9. Saids Geschichte (read 05/10/13)
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I just have 13 books left and we're only in the middle of August. I might add a few more categories!

Really an impressive work Ellinor!

Very impressive Ellinor.

Thank you! I've now also added a new category, maybe I'll add another one. I'll see how fast I can make progress.

Wow, you've ploughed through your lists already! I like the idea of reading 14 books for each year of this millennium. Modern books are the ones I struggle the most to read, so I might adopt this myself at a later date :)

Pink wrote: "...I like the idea of reading 14 books for each year of this millennium. Modern books are the ones I struggle the most to read, so I might adopt this m..."

Me too!

I've now completed the mystery/thriller section: Norwegian by Night was my final book here.

I finally finished my second book for section B: I read Las Noches de Flores. It was entirely different from what I expected.

I finished two more books for section H, both very enjoyable reads even thought they often treated sad tpoics.

Ellinor - you are making amazing progress with your challenges! :)

What did you think of An Abundance of Katherines?

Alannah wrote: "What did you think of An Abundance of Katherines?"

I enjoyed it pretty much. It was very interesting to read a book told from the perspective of a highly intelligent person.

Ellinor wrote: "Alannah wrote: "What did you think of An Abundance of Katherines?"

I enjoyed it pretty much. It was very interesting to read a book told from the perspective of a highly intelligent person."

I will make sure to check it out, think I will put it in my 2014 challenges.

I don't know how you can read so much!

Holly wrote: "I don't know how you can read so much!"

I know Holly, I am in awe of how much some of our members manage to read!!