Challenge: Countdown 2010

One more challenge. This one is for 55 books (!) and runs from 09/09/09 to 10/10/10. Hosted by Michelle at 1morechapter.com. My husband and daughter are also doing this one but unofficially.

The goal of this 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.

I'm sure that the pools of potential books will change over the year. I'm also sure that they will all be books by Canadian authors.

Status, as of 30 July 2010

Read: 43/55

2010 - Done!

Finished

1. Red Snow by Michael Slade
2. Spin by Catherine McKenzie
3. Toby: A Man by Todd Babiak
4. The Middle Ground by Zoe Whittall
5. Folly by Marthe Jocelyn
6. Edith's War by Andrew Smith
7. The Truth About Delilah Blue by Tish Cohen
8. Love You to Death by Gail Bowen
9. The Spider Bites by Medora Sale
10. The Barrio Kings by William Kowalski

2009 - Done!

Finished

1. The Hunchback Assignments by Arthur Slade
2. The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan
3. The Uninvited by Tim Wynne-Jones
4. Old City Hall by Robert Rotenberg
5. Underground by June Hutton
6. Bitter, Sweet by Laura Best
7. Amphibian by Carla Gunn
8. The World More Full of Weeping by Robert J. Wiersema
9. Waiting for Columbus by Thomas Trofimuk

2008 - Done!

Finished

1. Barrington Street Blues by Anne Emery
2. Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott
3. Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner (French version 2005, English translation 2008)
4. Dooley Takes the Fall by Norah McClintock
5. The Country Nurse by Jeff Lemire
6. Chester's Back! by Melanie Watt
7. Scaredy Squirrel at the Beach by Melanie Watt
8. Burning Down the House by Russell Wangersky

2007 - Done!

Finished

1. Obit by Anne Emery
2. Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer
3. Shelf Monkey by Corey Redekop
4. The Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys
5. Queen's Court by Edward O. Phillips
6. Tales from the Farm by Jeff Lemire
7. Ghost Stories by Jeff Lemire

2006

Finished

1. Last Stop Sunnyside by Pat Capponi
2. Johnny Kellock Died Today by Hadley Dyer
3. The Garneau Block by Todd Babiak
4. Home Schooling by Carol Windley
5. Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt
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Pool

• African Ice by Jeff Buick
• Consumption by Kevin Patterson
• The Fetch by Chris Humphreys
• Gargoyles by Bill Gaston
• Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates by Sean Cullen
• The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens
• Rex Zero and the End of the World by Tim Wynne-Jones
• The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro
• You Can Run by Norah McClintock

2005

Finished

1. A Perfect Night to Go to China by David Gilmour
2. Afterlands by Steven Heighton
3. Still Life by Louise Penny
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5.  

Pool

• All Shook Up by Mike Harrison
• Me Funny by Drew Hayden Taylor
• The Time in Between by David Bergen
• The Wreckage by Michael Crummey

2004

Finished

1. Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1) by Bryan Lee O'Malley
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Pool

• After Sylvia by Alan Cumyn
• Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
• Dark Places by Jon Evans
• The Magyar Venus by Lyn Hamilton
• The Memory Artists by Jeffrey Moore
• Midnight at the Dragon Cafe by Judy Fong Bates
• Riding Lessons by Sara Gruen
• Slightly Sinful by Mary Balogh
• Smoke and Mirrors by Lesley Choyce
• Sweep Lotus by Mark Zuehlke

2003

Finished

Pool

• An Adoration by Nancy Huston
• Dead Water Creek by Alex Brett
• The Devil's Paintbrush by Andre Brochu, trans. by Alison Newall
• Distance by Jack Hodgins
• Garbo Laughs by Elizabeth Hay
• I Was a Killer for the Hell's Angels by Pierre Martineau, trans. by Jean-Paul Murray
• Toronto: The Unknown City by Howard Akler and Sarah B. Hood

2002

Finished

Pool

• Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
• Firewing by Kenneth Oppel
• The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe
• The Secret Life of Owen Skye by Alan Cumyn
• True Confessions of a Heartless Girl by Martha Brooks

2001

Finished

Pool

• The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock
• Born with a Tooth by Joseph Boyden
• Dagmar's Daughter by Kim Echlin
• Death of a Hired Man by Eric Wright
• Spadework by Timothy Findley
• Three of a Kind by John Moore