WK 51: Sunday's Book Babble - 10 x 10 Challenge Completed

 

Books, books, and more books. I set a goal this year of completing a 10 x 10 reading challenge, ten books in ten categories.  Happy to say I met the goal although I did have to change a couple categories. The Nuns category didn't work out and it turned into First in the series. And Magic changed into Paranormal. Officially I'm calling it at 100, although I read a lot of series for the Nora Roberts Revisit but only counted each series as one.  I'll follow up with stats in another post. I think I lost track of which were ebooks and which were physical, but I'm pretty sure the majority are ebooks as  my physical stacks didn't diminish by much. In fact, I think they had babies because I seem to have more than I started with at the beginning of the year.   

The 10 x 10 Categories are: 

• AR - Alternate realities 

• DRAGONS - Dragons and other fantastical beasts  (Dragons)

• FINES - Fines and Misdemeanors (Crimes in libraries, bookstores, and elsewhere)

• FL - Fictional Librarians 

• HEART  - Be still my heart  (romance, romantic suspense,  etc)

• NEXT in the series

• PARANORMAL – Paranormal and urban fantasy

• PAST - Into the past (historical fiction)

• REVISIT - Nora Roberts

• WORLD  - Around the world (exploring other cultures, translated books, etc)

Alternate Realities

1. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars - Christopher Paolini ( 856)

2. Stars Uncharted  (#1 Stars uncharted) - S.K. Dunstall (Space opera)

3. Midnight Library - Matt Haig (AR, TIME TRAVEL, Librarian)

4. Wheel of Light (#14 WOT) - Robert Jordan (900+  MAGIC)

5. The Mortal Word (#6 IL) - Genevieve Cogman 

6. The Last Watch (#1 Divide) - J.S. Dewes (Space opera)

7. The Exiled Fleet (#2 Divide) - J.S. Dewes (Space opera)

8. The Starless Sea – Erin Morgenstern

9. Dark Archive (#7 Invisible Library) - Genevieve Cogman

Dragons 

1. Baking Bad (#1 Beaufort Scales)- Kim M Watt  (England: Leeds, Skipton)

2. Dragons of Dorcastle (#1 Pillars of Reality)- Jack Campbell  

3. Dirty Deeds: Urban Fantasy Collection - Faith Hunter, et al)    

4. Dragons in the Earth - Judith Tar (Arizona)

5. Tea with a Black Dragon - R.A. MacAvoy 

6. Elder Races series (1 - 8)  - Thea Harrison 

7. The Becoming (#2 Awakening) 

FINES 

1. A Borrowing of Bones (#1 Mercy Carr) - Paula Munier 

2. The Madness of Crowds (#17 Armand Gamache) - Louise Penny 

3. Deadly Deception (#3 O'Halleran Security International series - T.J. Logan 

4. Deadly Secret (#1 O'Halleran) - T.J. Logan

5. A Cold Dark Place (#1 Cold Justice)- Toni Anderson 

6. Secret Chapter (#6 Invisible Library) - Genevieve Cogman 

7. Dark Archive (#7 Invisible Library) - Genevieve Cogman

8. Phantom Evil (#1 Krewe of the Hunters) - Heather Graham 

9. A Bad Day for Sunshine #1 Sunshine Vicram) - Darynda Jones 

10. Faithless in Death (#52 In death) – J.D. Robb

11. Forgotten in Death (#53 In Death) – J.D. Robb

FL – Fictional Librarians 

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling

2. Real Murders (#1 Aurora Teagarden)- Charlaine Harris  

3. The Colour of Magic (#1 Discworld)  - Terry Pratchett 

4. Lost Plot (#4 Invisible Library) - Genevieve Cogman 

5. A Hidden Fire (#1 Elemental Mystery) - Elizabeth Hunter 

6. Eyre Affaire (#1 Thursday Next) - Jasper Fford 

7. Case of the Missing Books (#1 Mobile Library) - Ian Sansom 

8. Ink and Bone (#1 Great Library) – Rachel Caine 

9. Books can be Deceiving (#1 Library Lovers) - Jen McKinley 

10. Library at the Edge of the World (#1 Finfarran Peninsula) - Felicity Hayes McCoy 

11. Murder at the 42nd Street Library – Con Lehane

12. Book Charmer (#1 Dove Pond) - Karen Hawkins 

HEARTS

1. Last Chance Matinee (#1 Hudson Sisters) - Mariah Stewart

2. Spoiler Alert - Olivia Wade

3. Driven to Distraction (#1 Road to Love) - Lori Foster 

4. Brighten Honeymoon (#2 Weaver)- Sheri Cobb Smith 

5. Peculiar Pink Toes of Lady Flora - Jayne Fresina 

6. Hush - Cherry Adair (Reread)

7. Invisible Husband of Frick Island - Colleen Oakley

8. Troublemaker - Linda Howard 

9. The Woman Left Behind - Linda Howard

10. Love in the Afternoon (prequel Dove Pond) - Karen Hawkins

11. A Cup of Silver Linings (#2 Dove Pond) - Karen Hawkins

12. Legacy – Nora Roberts 

Next in the Series – Completed 

1. A Good Day for Chardonnay (#2 Sunshine) - Darynda Jones 

2. Bridgerton series (#1 - 8) - Julia Quinn 

3. Hexing with a Chance of Tornados (#2 Grimm Cove) - Mandy Roth 

4. Last Guard (#5  psychangeling trinity) - Nalini Singh 

5. Lover Unveiled (#19 BDB) - J.R. Ward 

6. Spellcasting with a Chance of Spirits (#3 Grimm Cove) - Mandy Roth 

7. Sugar House Blues (#2 Hudson Sisters)

8. The Goodbye Cafe (#3 Hudson Sisters)

9. When Sorrows Come (#14 October Daye) - Seanan McGuire 

10. Wild Sign (#6 Alpha and Omega) -  Patricia Briggs 

Nora Roberts Revisit 

1. Ardmore Series (Ireland)

2. Born In Trilogy (Ireland)

3. Bride Quartet 

4. Calhouns: Catherine, Amanda, and Lila

5. Calhouns:  Suzanna and Megan 

6. Carnal Innocence 

7. Chesapeake Bay Series (1 -4)

8. Cousin's O'Dwyer Trilogy (Ireland)

9. Garden Trilogy - #1 Blue Dahlia, #2 Black Rose, #3 Red Lily 

10. Inn Boonsboro Trilogy - Nora Roberts 

11. Key Series 

12. O'Hurley Born Anthology (The Last Honest Woman and Dance to the Piper)

13. O'Hurley's Return Anthology (Skin Deep and Without a Trace)

14. Sanctuary 

15. Three Fates Trilogy

16. Three Sisters Island series 

PAST

1. Brighten Honeymoon (#2 Weaver)- Sheri Cobb Smith 

2. Peculiar Pink Toes of Lady Flora - Jayne Fresina

3. Bridgerton series (#1 - 8) - Julia Quinn

 

Paranormal or Urban Fantasy - completed

1. Archangels Light (#14 Guild Hunter) - Nalini Singh 

2. Book of Secrets (#1 Oracle) - Melissa McShane 

3. Claimed (#1 Wolven) - J.R. Ward 

4. Cloudy with a Chance of Witchcraft (#1 Grimm Cove) - Mandy Roth 

5. Fireborn (#1 Souls of Fire) - Keri Arthur (REREAD)

6. First Grave on the Right 1 -13 (#1 Grim Reaper) - Summoned to the Thirteenth Grave (#13) Charley Davidson Grim Reaper series by Darynda Jones.

7. Halfway to the Grave (#1) - Jeaniene Frost 

8. Kingdom of Shadow and Light (#11 Fever)  - Karen Marie Moning  

9. True Dead (Jane Yellowrock) - Faith Hunter 

World - Completed

1. And Then There Were Nuns - Jane Christmas (Non Fiction) England - Isle of Wight, Whitby)

2. Bear and the Nightingale - Katherine Arden  (Russia) 

3. Cousin’s O’Dwyer series – Nora Roberts (Ireland)

4. Library at the Edge of the World (#1 Finfarran Peninsula) - Felicity Hayes McCoy (Ireland)

5. Little Paris Bookshop - Nina George (France)

6. My Christmas Number One - Leonie Mack  (London/South America, e)

7. Peculiar Pink Toes of Lady Flora - Jayne Fresina (United Kingdom)

8. Sworn Virgin - Kristopher Dukes (Albania)

9. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V.E. Schwab (France, 1700's to Present)

10. The Riviera House - Natasha Lester  (France)