The 2010 Bibliophilic Books Challenge

**Challenge completed. See my wrap-up post here.**

Dates: 1 January to 31 December 2010
Hosted by: Lesley of A Life in Books

Guidelines:

• Read a set number of books that focus on books or reading.
• Books can be fiction or nonfiction.
• Only books read during the challenge will count.
• Re-reads and crossovers with other challenges are allowed.
• No need to make a list of books to read.
• You can change your mind on any particular book selection throughout the challenge.

Levels of Participation:

• Bookworm: Read three books
• Litlover: Read six books
• Bibliomaniac: Read twelve books

See my original post about the challenge here.
See my wrap-up post here.
See the challenge announcement page here.
See the list of reviews here.

I'm signing up at the Bookworm level (three books), but hope to do better than that.

MY READING LIST:

1. The Anthologist. Nicholson Baker [See Review]
2. People of the Book. Geraldine Brooks [Review to come]
3. The Forgotten Garden. Kate Morton [See Review]
   
4. The Egypt Game. Zilpha Keatley Snyder [See Review]
5. The Inheritance. Simon Tolkien [See Review]
   

OTHER POSSIBLE CHOICES:

• Fiction:
  The Book of Air and Shadows. Michael Gruber
  The Book of Lost Things. John Connolly
  The Bookwoman's Last Fling. John Dunning
  The Dante Club. Matthew Pearl
  Ex-Libris. Ross King
  The Geographer's Library. Jon Fasman
  Inkheart. Cornelia Funke
  The Last Dickens. Matthew Pearl
  The Secret of Lost Things. Sheridan Hay
  Sign of the Book. John Dunning
  
  
• Nonfiction:
  A Gentle Madness. Nicholas A. Basbanes
  A Passion for Books. Harold Rabinowitz
  Book Row. Marvin Mondlin
  Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader. Anne Fadiman
  Library: An Unquiet History. Matthew Battles
  The Library at Night. Alberto Manguel
  Old and Rare: Thirty Years in the Book Business. Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine B. Stern
  Old Books, Rare Friends. Madeleine B. Stern and Leona Rostenberg
  Sisters of the Sinai. Janet Martin Soskice
  Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Booklore. Lawrence Goldstone
  The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop. Lewis Buzbee