Another Challenge I Just Couldn't Pass Up

Okay, so I know I'm getting in over my head with the challenges, but I simply can't resist. Here's another one that I'm really excited about: it's the Triple 8 Challenge hosted by 3M. All the details are on the challenge blog, but basically you choose 8 books to read in 8 different categories. Some overlap is allowed, so it's not as overwhelming as it sounds! It runs from January 1 to December 31, 2008. I'm so excited! Here's my list:

Jane Austen

• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
• Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
• Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
• Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
• Austenland - Shannon Hale
• The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler
• Becoming Jane - Jon Spence
• Me and Mr. Darcy - Alexandra Potter

Classics I Need to Read or Re-read

• Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
• Emma - Jane Austen
• Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
• In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
• Last of the Mohicans - James Fennimore Cooper
• Little Men - Louisa May Alcott
• Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
• A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Books by LDS Authors

• The Yearbook - Allyson Braithwaite Condie
• I Am A Mother - Jane Clayson Johnson
• Running With Angels - Pamela H. Hansen
• Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card (also reading for Cardathon Challenge)
• Rachel and Leah - Orson Scott Card (also reading for Cardathon Challenge)
• Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling - Richard Lyman Bushman (also reading for Unread Authors Challenge)
• Alone, Together - Jack Weyland
• No Doubt About It - Sheri Dew

Biography/Memoir

• Lemony Snicket: The Unofficial Autobiography - Lemony Snicket
• The Lives and Loves of Violet and Daisy Hilton - Dean Jensen (also reading for In Their Shoes Challenge)
• The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom (also reading for In Their Shoes Challenge)
• Color Me Butterfly - L.Y. Marlow
• Fat Girl - Judith Moore
• The Wounded Spirit - Frank Peretti
• Porch Tales - Jewell Parker Rhodes
• A Girl Named Zippy - Haven Kimmel (also reading for In Their Shoes Challenge)

First In A Series

• Uglies - Scott Westerfield (also reading for Fall Into Reading Challenge)
• The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
• The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan (also reading for Fall Into Reading Challenge)
• Flamingo Fatale - Jimmie Ruth Evans
• On What Grounds - Cleo Coyle (overlap book/books about food)
• Catering to Nobody - Diane Mott Davidson (overlap book/books about food)
• To the Edge - Cindy Gerard
• Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay

Neil Gaiman

• American Gods - Neil Gaiman
• Coraline - Neil Gaiman
• M Is For Magic - Neil Gaiman
• Interworld - Neil Gaiman
• Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
• Smoke & Mirrors - Neil Gaiman
• Good Omens - Neil Gaiman
• The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish - Neil Gaiman

Random Picks From My (Never-Ending) TBR Pile

• Empire Falls - Richard Russo
• Whistling in the Dark - Lesley Kegan
• I Am the Messenger - Markus Zusak
• Saving Fish From Drowning - Amy Tan
• Peony in Love - Lisa See
• Summer Reading - Hilma Wolitzer
• Midnight Sea - Colleen Coble
• Gilead - Marilynne Robinson

Books About Food

• Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
• Something From the Oven - Laura Shapiro
• Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen - Julie Powell
• Cooking With My Sisters: One Hundred Years of Family Recipes, From Bari to Big Stone Gap - Adriana Trigiani
• Murder on the Rocks - Karen McInerny
• Dead and Berried - Karen McInerny
• On What Grounds - Cleo Coyle (overlap book/First In A Series)
• Catering to Nobody - Diane Mott Davidson (overlap book/First in A Series)