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I finished the What’s in a Name? 3 Challenge with a very different list than I anticipated at the beginning of the year.  Only one book remained the same, but changing it up during the year is fun, too!

Between January 1 and December 31, 2010, read one book in each of the following categories:

(Food) in the title: The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin by Josh Berk

(Body of water) The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson & the Olympians #2 by Rick Riordan

(Title, like queen, president) The Queen of Attolia (The Queen’s Thief #2) by Megan Whalen Turner

(Plant) Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas

(Place name, like city, country) Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba by Margarita Engle

(Music term) The Piano Lesson by August Wilson

I finished this reading challenge 3 months early!  The goal of the challenge is to read the number of books first published in a given year that corresponds to the last digit of each year in the 2000s — 10 books from 2010, 9 books from 2009, 8 books from 2008, etc. The total number of books required, therefore, is 55.  The challenge lasts from 9/9/09 through 10/10/10.

2010

• The Aloha Quilt, by Jennifer Chiaverini
• The Double Comfort Safari Club, by Alexander McCall Smith
• Miss Julia Renews Her Vows, by Ann B. Ross
• The Telling, by Beverly Lewis
• Calamity Jack, by Shannon and Dean Hale
• The Conspiracy of Kings, Megan Whalen Turner
• The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, Stephenie Meyer
• The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin, Josh Berk
• Falling In, Frances O’Roarke Dowell
• The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles #1), Rick Riordan

2009

• The Lost Quilter, by Jennifer Chiaverini
• A Quilter’s Holiday, by Jennifer Chiaverini
• The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown
• The Secret, by Beverly Lewis
• The Missing, by Beverly Lewis
• 92 Pacific Boulevard, by Debbie Macomber
• The Actor and the Housewife, by Shannon Hale
• When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead
• Jane Austen Ruined My Life, by Beth Pattillo

2008

• The Winding Ways Quilt, by Jennifer Chiaverini
• The Quilter’s Kitchen, by Jennifer Chiaverini
• The Miracle at Speedy Motors, by Alexander McCall Smith
• The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
• 8 Sandpiper Way, by Debbie Macomber
• The Adoration of Jenna Fox, by Mary E. Pearson
• The Heretic’s Daughter, by Kathleen Kent
• Rapunzel’s Revenge, by Shannon and Dean Hale

2007

• The New Years’ Quilt, by Jennifer Chiaverini
• The Good Husband of Zebra Drive, by Alexander McCall Smith
• A Cedar Cove Christmas, by Debbie Macomber
• 74 Seaside Avenue, by Debbie Macomber
• The Titan’s Curse, by Rick Riordan
• Tallgrass, Sandra Dallas
• The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel #1), Michael Scott

2006

• Circle of Quilters, by Jennifer Chiaverini
• Blue Shoes and Happiness, by Alexander McCall Smith
• The Alchemist’s Daughter, by Katharine McMahon
• Fairest, by Gail Carson Levine
• The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II, by Jeff Shaara
• Here Lies the Librarian, by Richard Peck

2005

• The Sugar Camp Quilt, by Jennifer Chiaverini
• The Christmas Quilt, by Jennifer Chiaverini
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, by Kim Edwards
• The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan
• Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese-American Internment Camps, Mary Matsude Gruenewald

2004

• The Master Quilter, by Jennifer Chiaverini
• In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, by Alexander McCall Smith
• Snakewater Affair, by Liz Adair
• The Teacher’s Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts, by Richard Peck

2003

• The Quilter’s Legacy, by Jennifer Chiaverini
• The Full Cupboard of Life, by Alexander McCall Smith
• A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly

2002

• The Runaway Quilt, Jennifer Chiaverini
• Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen, by Bob Greene

2001

• Morality for Beautiful Girls, by Alexander McCall Smith