2010: Challenges – Countdown Challenge 2010 Completed

Oh, so close!

I was one book short of completing the Countdown Challenge 2010 on time.  One book! I missed a book from 2003. Here’s my final list:

2010

1. The First Rule – Robert Crais
2. The Kitchen House – Kathleen Grissom
3. What Do We Do Now? – Keith Malley & Chemda
4. So Much For That – Lionel Shriver
5. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest – Stieg Larsson
6. Horns – Joe Hill
7. Worst Case – James Patterson
8. Possessed – Kate Cann
9. Dead in the Family – Charlaine Harris
10. The Anniversary Man – R.J. Ellory

2009

1. Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
2. The Girl Who Played With Fire – Stieg Larsson
3. Cleopatra’s Daughter – Michelle Moran
4. The Spire – Richard North Patterson
5. The Fury – Jason Pinter
6. How to Say Goodbye in Robot – Natalie Standiford
7. The Maze Runner – James Dashner
8. True Blue – David Baldacci
9. Forbidden Falls – Robyn Carr 

2008

1. Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout
2. The Outlaw Demon Wails – Kim Harrison 
3. No One You Know – Michelle Richmond 
4. Gossip of the Starlings – Nina de Gramont 
5. The Beach House – Jane Green 
6. From Dead to Worse – Charlaine Harris 
7. Smoke Screen – Sandra Brown 
8. Heat Lightning – John Sandford 

2007

1. Virgin River – Robyn Carr
2. Last Rituals – Yrsa Sigurdardottir
3. Tongue in Chic – Christina Dodd 
4. Kitty Takes a Holiday – Carrie Vaughn 
5. Black Seconds – Karin Fossum 
6. Shelter Mountain – Robyn Carr 
7. All Together Dead – Charlaine Harris 

2006

1. Glass Houses – Rachel Caine
2. Kitty Goes to Washington – Carrie Vaughn
3. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak 
4. The Boleyn Inheritance – Philippa Gregory
5. Definitely Dead – Charlaine Harris 
6. Voices – Arnaldur Indridason 

2005

1. Silence of the Grave – Arnaldur Indridason
2. Full Bloom – Janet Evanovich
3. Dead as a Doornail – Charlaine Harris
4. The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
5. Undead and Unreturnable – MaryJanice Davidson

2004

1. Hunter’s Moon – C.T. Adams & Cathy Clamp
2. Seize the Night – Sherrilyn Kenyon
3. Little Children – Tom Perrotta 
4. London Bridges – James Patterson 

2003

1. Stiff – Mary Roach
2. Death Masks – Jim Butcher

2002

1. Lamb – Christopher Moore
2. Chasing the Dime – Michael Connelly

2001

1. Strawberry Shortcake Murder – Joanne Fluke

I hope this challenge will be repeated in 2011!