2009 Completed Reading Challenges

It’s time for my first year end wrap up post. Since I only have one challenge pending, which ends in 2010, it’s time to recap the reading challenges I completed this year, and clean out my sidebar so I can start signing up for all the cool looking challenges going on next year.

• Daughter of Venice – Donna Jo Napoli – finished 11/12/2009
• The Chronicles of Chrestomanci Vol. 1 – Dianne Wynne Jones – finished 11/6/2009
• Mister Monday – Garth Nix – finished 9/23/09
• The Crow – Alison Croggon – finished 7/21/09
• The City of Ember – Jeanne DuPrau – finished 5/11/09
• Princess Academy – Shannon Hale – finished 3/27/09
• The Dreaming Place – Charles de Lint – finished 3/13/09
• The Birchbark House – Louise Erdrich – finished 2/2/09
• Bound – Donna Jo Napoli – finished 6/9/09
• Inkspell – Cornelia Funke – finished 2/23/09
• Slam – Nick Hornby – finished 10/28/09
• Sorcery & Cecilia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot – Patricia A. Wrede & Caroline Stevermer – finished 1/10/09

• Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell – finished 8/7/09
• The Nibelungunlied – finished 5/1/09
• Atonement – Ian McEwan – finished 3/10/09
• The Professor and the Madman – Simon Winchester – finished 9/2/09
• The Yiddish Policemen’s Union – Michael Chabon – finished 2/11/09
• The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse – Robert Rankin – finished 7/28/09

RIP IV Reading Challenge 9/1/2009 – 10/31/2009 – Finished 10/24/2009

• Dead as a Doornail – Charlaine Harris – finished 10/24/2009
• Mistress of the Art of Death – Ariana Franklin – finished 10/1/09
• Night Shift – Lilith Saintcrow – finished 9/15/09
• The Bloody Chamber – Angela Carter – finished 9/20/09
• Something Rich and Strange – Patricia A. McKillip – finished 9/6/09
• Tamsin – Peter Beagle – finished 10/16/2009
• Blood Pact – Tanya Huff – finished 10/21/2009

• Bound – Donna Jo Napoli – finished 6/9/09
• Spiral Hunt – Margaret Ronald – finished 5/7/09
• Reserved for the Cat – Mercedes Lackey – finished 4/2/09
• The Forgotten Beasts of Eld – Patricia A. McKillip – finished 4/18/09
• The Nibelungenlied – finished 5/1/09

• The Rest Falls Away – Colleen Gleason – finished 12/6/2009
• Blood Debt – Tanya Huff – finished 11/16/2009
• Dead as a Doornail – Charlaine Harris – finished 10/24/09
• Blood Pact – Tanya Huff – finished 10/21/09
• Dead to the World – Charlaine Harris – finished 8/28/09
• Blood Lines – Tanya Huff – finished 6/12/09
• Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer – finished 1/30/09
• Club Dead – Charlaine Harris – finished 1/20/09
• Eclipse – Stephenie Meyer – Finished 1/8/09
• The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova – finished 4/27/09

• Something Rich and Strange – finished 9/6/09
• Winter Rose – finished 8/11/09
• The Forgotten Beasts of Eld – finished 4/18/09
• The Riddle-Master of Hed – finished 1/15/09

• A Canticle for Leibowitz – Walter M. Miller Jr. – finished 6/25/09
• The City of Ember – Jeanne DuPrau – finished 5/11/09
• Earth Abides – George R. Stewart – finished 5/22/09
• Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse – John Joseph Adams, ed – finished 4/15/09

• Harlequin Valentine – finished 6/4/09 – Graphic Novel
• At Death’s Door – Jill Thompson – finished 1/17/09 – Neil-inspired
• Mirrormask Illustrated Script – Finished 11/19/2009 – Script
• Hanging out with the Dream King – Joseph McCabe – finished 10/25/2009 – Nonfiction
• M is for Magic – finished 7/18/09 – Short Stories
• Coraline (Book) – finished 8/13/09 – YA
• Coraline (Movie) – seen 2/28/09 – Movie

I’m already seeing a ton of interesting looking challenges out there for 2010. I’m going to try and make myself branch out a bit more from my typical fantasy reading. We’ll see how well I keep that promise when I do my wrap up next year.