12 in 12 Category Reading Challenge

I’ve begun (as of 12/12/11 to end on 12/12/12) a 12 in 12 category challenge on Library Thing.  There is no way, no how I’ll manage 12 books in each category, but I can certainly read a few in each.  Below are my categories and selected books that are possibilities for each category.

 

1. Fairytales Retold: 

                             Hogfather-Terry Pratchett  currently reading

                             Stardust – Neil Gaiman

                             Thomas the Rhymer – Ellen Kushner

                             The Looking Glass Wars – Frank Beddor

  2. Ancient Rites  - stories about lost civilizations or those that never were

                                Bridge of Birds – Barry Hughart

                                Under Heaven – Guy Gavriel Kay

                                The Thief – Megan Whalen Turner

                                Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco

3. What If?  - alternate histories

                                The Map of Time – Felix J Palma

                                Against a Tide of Years – S. M. Stirling

                                Unatural History: Pax Britannia – Jonathan Green

4. Beyond a Sea of Stars - science fiction and space opera

                                Spin – Robert Charles Wilson

                                The Black Lung Captain – Chris Wooding

                                Leviathan Wakes – James S. A. Corey

5. Clankers- (steampunk!

                                Court of the Air – Stephen Hunt

                                The Difference Engine – Sterling/Gibson

                                Perdido Street Station: China Mieville

6. Darwinists - bioengineering, genetics etc

                                 Darwin’s Radio – Greg Bear

                                 Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood

                                 The Doomsday Book – Connie Willis

                                 Old Man’s War – John Scalzi

7. Warm/Cozy/Bloody  - Murder and Mayhem

                                  Still Life – Louise Penny

                                  The Invisible Ones – Stef Penny

                                  The House of Silk – Anthony Horowitz

8. Who Dat??  - authors new to me

                                   The Fallen Blade – Jon Courtenay Grimswood

                                   The Horns of Ruin – Tim Akers

                                   Progeny – R.T. Kaelin

                                   Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs

9.  High Tea with the Queen – Victorian/ Edwardian etc

                                    The Alienist – Caleb Carr

                                    The Mysterious Lady Law – Robert Appleton

                                    Silent in the Grave – Deanna Raybourn

10. Brave New Worlds – extensive and impressive world-building

                                     Midnight Tides – Steven Erikson

                                     Eye of the World – Robert Jordan

11. Foreign Climes - worlds impressively alien to me

                                      River of Gods – Ian McDonald (Read Dec 2011)

                                      Faceless Killers – Henning Markell

                                      Iago: a Novel – David Snodin

12. Where are the Unicorns? – gritty and realistic fantasy

                                       Before They Are Hanged – Joe Abercrombie

                                       Thunderer – Felix Gilman

                                       City of Bones – Cassandra Clare

                                       The Edge of the World – Kevin J Anderson

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