Here it is – my 2010 ABC Author Challenge list. As with my 2009 Challenge, I reserve the right to switch out a letter or two. My no audios rule remains in effect, however.
Atwood, Margaret – The Handmaid’s Tale
Blume, Judy – Summer Sisters
Collins, Suzanne – Catching Fire
Diamant, Anita – The Red Tent
Evans, Richard Paul – The Gift
Follet, Ken – World Without End
Gabaldon, Diana – Outlander
Horan, Nancy - Loving Frank
Inness-Brown, Elizabeth – Burning Marguerite
James, Syrie – The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte
Kent, Kathleen – The Heretic’s Daughter
Lipinski, Maureen - A Bump in the Road
Miles, Jonathan - Dear American Airlines: A Novel
Niffenegger, Audrey - Her Fearful Symmetry
Ogawa, Yoko - The Housekeeper and the Professor
Picoult, Jodi – Nineteen Minutes
Qamar, Amjed – Beneath My Mother’s Feet
Rosnay, Tatiana de – Sarah’s Key
Sapphire – Push
Tolkien, JRR – The Fellowship of the Ring
Updike, John – The Witches of Eastwick
Vonnegut, Laureen – Oasis: A Novel
Whitehouse, Lucie - The House at Midnight
Saint-Exupery, Antione de – Wind, Sand, and Stars
Yates, Richard – Revolutionary Road
Zusak, Mark – The Book Thief
As usual with my book lists, it’s a pretty mixed bag. Some of these I’m terribly excited for as they’ve been on my list for what seems like forever, such as The Book Thief, Loving Frank, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Others, such as Revolutionary Road and Push (Precious) have been creeping up my Netflix queue and I want to give the books a shot first. A few are much anticipated sequels, like Catching Fire and World Without End. I’m also giving the Lord of the Rings trilogy a second change, as I failed miserably trying to read The Hobbit some years ago. And still others are born of necessity for a certain letter of author’s last name.
Most importantly, I know some surprises await.
