Personal Challenge

I want to make it crystal clear before I even start that I do not expect to complete this challenge in 2008. I just took a look at the amount of owned unread books I have and said to myself "I have to do something about this!". So by mixing the 888-challenge and the TBR-challenge I've come up with this personal challenge.

No time-frame, just some sort of structure to my to-read shelf so I have an idea of where to start and where to end. I've structured it similar to the 888 challenge by having 8 categories of 8 books. The numbers are totally arbitrary, I just figured I'd give my self a bit of lee-way by 'only' using 64 of the 96 books I have. I want to get through at least half of these this year, but we'll see how it goes. It's not a 'proper' challenge, so it won't be listed in its entirety in the sidebars.

1. Chick-lit
1. Monday's Child - Louise Bagshawe
   
2. When She Was Bad - Louise Bagshawe
   
3. Where Rainbows End - Cecelia Ahern
   
4. Hollywood Husbands - Jackie Collins
   
5. Last Chance Saloon - Marian Keyes
   
6. Little Earthquakes - Jennifer Weiner
   
7. Goodnight Nobody - Jennifer Weiner
   
8. Behaving Badly - Isabel Wolff
   
2. Christian fiction
   
1. Toward Home - Aasen
   
2. Patterns of Love - Hatcher
   
3. A Rush of Wings - Heitzmann
   
4. Twilight - Heitzmann
   
5. Love One Another - Valerie Hansen
   
6. Matched Pearls - Grace Livingstone Hill
   
7. Puritans - Jack Cavanaugh
   
8. Waterfalls - Robin Gunn
   
3. Pilcher / Binchy
   
1. Light A Penny Candle - Maeve Binchy
   
2. Whitethorn Woods - Maeve Binchy
   
3. September - Rosamunde Pilcher
   
4. Flowers in the Rain - Rosamunde Pilcher
   
5. Snow in April - Rosamunde Pilcher
   
6. The Empty House - Rosamunde Pilcher
   
7. Voices in Summer - Rosamunde Pilcher
   
8. The End of Summer - Rosamunde Pilcher
   
9. Wild Mountain Thyme - Rosamunde Pilcher
   
4. Sagas etc.
   
1. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
   
2. Looking Forward - Marcia Willett
   
3. Holding On - Marcia Willett
   
4. Winning Through - Marcia Willett
   
5. Invitation to Live - Lloyd Douglas
   
6. Green Light - Lloyd Douglas
   
7. The Godfather - Puzo
   
8. Battle Surgeon - Frank Slaughter
   
5. Sci-fi/Fantasy/Suspense
   
1. Xenocide - Orson Scott Card
   
2. Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
   
3. Dragonflight - Anne McCaffrey
   
4. Deception Point - Dan Brown
   
5. Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
   
6. Whiteout - Ken Follett
   
7. The Web - Kellerman
   
8. Bitten - Kelley Armstrong
   
6. Classics
   
1. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
   
2. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
   
3. The Deerslayer - Cooper
   
4. Robin Hood - Howard Pyle
   
5. Ivanhoe - Scott
   
6. Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne
   
7. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
   
8. Ben Hur - Wallace
   
7. Historical
   
1. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
   
2. Stolen Lives - Malika Oufkir
   
3. Wild Swans - Jung Chang
   
4. People of the Fire - Kathleen Gear
   
5. Pompeii - Robert Harris
   
6. Seven for a Secret - Victoria Holt
   
7. Reunion - Frank Uhlman
   
8. The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
   
8. Books I Just Want To Read But Fit Into No Other Category
   
1. Kramer vs. Kramer - Corman
   
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
   
3. The Primrose Way - Koller
   
4. The Pilot's Wife - Anita Shrever
   
5. Atonement - Ian McEwan
   
6. Perfect Match - Jodi Picoult
   
7. Avalon - Seton
   
8. Kirstens breve - Susan Moody