2010: Challenges – Challenges Wrap-Up

I’m running out of days in December, so I’m going to summarize the rest of my challenges here!  Unfortunately, there are only 2 more that I completed — the rest are the challenges that were not meant to be…

2010 100+ Reading Challenge – 108 books

This one is technically completed, but it wasn’t completed based on my personal goal.  I was aiming for 144 books this year, but didn’t *quite* make it.  My final book list is here.

2010 Reading From My Shelves Challenge – 30/30 books (100%)

1. Shogun – James Clavell 
2. Lamb – Christopher Moore
3. Night Fire – Catherine Coulter 
4. Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott 
5. Little Children – Tom Perrotta 
6. Pacific Vortex! – Clive Cussler 
7. Eat This, Not That – David Zinczenko 
8. London Bridges – James Patterson 
9. The Seventh Commandment – Lawrence Sanders 
10. Shakespeare’s Landlord – Charlaine Harris 
11. A Stab in the Dark – Lawrence Block 
12. A Lesson Before Dying – Ernest J. Gaines 
13. Dark Entries – Ian Rankin 
14. Beneath a Blood Red Moon – Shannon Drake 
15. Murder at Monticello – Rita Mae Brown 
16. Stalking the Angel – Robert Crais 
17. Chasing the Dime – Michael Connelly
18. See Jane Write – Sarah Mlynowski & Farrin Jacobs 
19. Metro Girl – Janet Evanovich 
20. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – Lisa See 
21. Banker – Dick Francis 
22. Baltimore Blues – Laura Lippman 
23. The Clinic – Jonathan Kellerman 
24. The Sands of Time – Sidney Sheldon 
25. Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
26. The Eye of the Needle – Ken Follett 
27. Morrigan’s Cross – Nora Roberts 
28. Abandon – Carla Neggers 
29. All He Ever Wanted – Anita Shreve 
30. Gone, Baby, Gone – Dennis Lehane

ARC Reading Challenge 2010 – 22/25 books (88%)

1. The First Rule – Robert Crais
2. Forbidden Falls – Robyn Carr 
3. No One You Know – Michelle Richmond
4. Ivory Tower Cop – George Kirkham & Leonard Territo
5. Gossip of the Starlings – Nina de Gramont 
6. In Ecstasy – Kate McCaffrey
7. So Much For That – Lionel Shriver
8. A Reliable Wife – Robert Goolrick
9. Horns – Joe Hill
10. Voices – Arnaldur Indridason 
11. Chenxi and the Foreigner – Sally Rippin
12. Possessed – Kate Cann
13. The Anniversary Man – R.J. Ellory
14. Broken – Karin Slaughter
15. The Secret of Ka –
    Christopher Pike
16. Broken – Karin Fossum
17. Saving Max – Antoinette van Heugten
18. Without Mercy – Lisa Jackson
19. Tapestry of Love – Rosy Thornton
20. Lake Magic – Kimberly Fisk
21. Hollywood is Like High School With Money – Zoey Dean
22. Reckless – Andrew Gross

2010 Young Adult Reading Challenge – 6/12 books (50%)

1. Hit and Run Holiday – Carolyn Keene
2. In Ecstasy – Kate McCaffrey
3. Chenxi and the Foreigner – Sally Rippin
4. Possessed – Kate Cann
5. The Secret of Ka – Christopher Pike
6. Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins

2nd Reading Challenge – 14/20 books (70%)

1. Tongue in Chic – Christina Dodd   
2. Forbidden Falls – Robyn Carr   
3. Already Dead – Charlie Huston 
4. The Seventh Commandment – Lawrence Sanders   
5. Rest in Pieces – Rita Mae Brown 
6. So Much For That – Lionel Shriver
7. Strawberry Shortcake Murder – Joanne Fluke 
8. Horns – Joe Hill
9. The Anniversary Man – R.J. Ellory
10. The Black Ice – Michael Connelly 
11. Heat Lightning – John Sandford   
12. Abandon – Carla Neggers 
13. Don’t Look Down – Jennifer Crusie & Bob Mayer  
14. You Suck – Christopher Moore 

Audiobook Challenge – 16/20 books (80%)

1. Tongue in Chic – Christina Dodd   
2. Black Seconds – Karin Fossum
3. The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove – Christopher Moore 
4. White Witch, Black Curse – Kim Harrison 
5. Inner Harbor – Nora Roberts 
6. A Reliable Wife – Robert Goolrick 
7. The Beach House – Jane Green   
8. Undertow – Sydney Bauer 
9. Fool – Christopher Moore 
10. Smoke Screen – Sandra Brown   
11. Stalking Susan – Julie Kramer 
12. Baltimore Blues – Laura Lippman 
13. Black Hills – Nora Roberts 
14. Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures – Vincent Lam 
15. Don’t Look Down – Jennifer Crusie & Bob Mayer  
16. At Home: A Short History of Private Life – Bill Bryson
17. You Suck – Christopher Moore 

Contemporary Romance Reading Challenge 2010 – 8/10 books (80%)

1. Tongue in Chic – Christina Dodd   
2. Forbidden Falls – Robyn Carr   
3. Inner Harbor – Nora Roberts 
4. Shelter Mountain – Robyn Carr   
5. Back to the Bedroom – Janet Evanovich 
6. Just Before Sunrise – Carla Neggers 
7. Time Was – Nora Roberts 
8. Lake Magic – Kimberly Fisk 

Historical Fiction Reading Challenge – 7/12 books (58%)

1. Shogun – James Clavell 
2. The Kitchen House – Kathleen Grissom  
3. A Reliable Wife – Robert Goolrick 
4. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – Lisa See 
5. The Eye of the Needle – Ken Follett   
6. All He Ever Wanted – Anita Shreve 
7. The Help – Kathryn Stockett 

Pages Read Challenge Season 2 – 31,475 / 40,000 pages (79%)

What’s in a Name? 3 Challenge – 4/6 books (67%)

• Body of Water: Pacific Vortex! – Clive Cussler
• Title: Shogun – James Clavell
• Plant: Strawberry Shortcake Murder – Joanne Fluke
• Place Name: London Bridges – James Patterson