CHALLENGE: Themed Reading Challenge

Wendy, over at caribousmom, while not busy keeping everyone organized at A Novel Challenge, is coming up with interesting challenges as well. She has designed the Themed Reading Challenge, and everyone gets to make up their own theme. I am going with a decidedly nonimaginative theme of books. This one last for the first half of the year, and asks for at least four books. I have a big list of books that fit this theme that I might read, including:

• The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
• The Case of the Missing Books by Iam Sansom
• Housekeeping vs the Dirt by Nick Hornby
• 84 Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff
• Booked to Die by John Dunning
• The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
• Reading Lolita in Tehran
• The Bookseller of Kabul
• Literary Murder: A Critical Case by Batya Gur
• The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
• Ex-Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
• The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

This seems more ambitious than it actually is. Most of these books are from the Something About Me challenge list; not surprising that so many readers picked books about books to describe themselves. And several of these books are on other challenges I've signed up for. I thought I had written this all up months ago, because I already ordered a few books form amazon, and in my mind, the month of January will be devoted to reading these. I'm really looking forward to these books, especially The Book Thief. I find I like to read a challenge all at once, focus on one challenge for a month or so.

Wrap up for challenge is here