999 Challenge: Update End of January

Quite a good start to the year. I’ve read at least one book in each category plus I’ve even read a few things outside of challenge.

My reviews are can be read on the 999 Challenge blog by clicking on the titles below.


1001 Books to Read Before You Die
1. Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
2. Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien


Fiction Authors that are New to Me
1. Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann


Crime and Detectives around the world (each one from a different country)
1. Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg (Denmark and Greenland)
2. Real World by Natsuo Kirino (Japan)


Theme: Dystopia
1. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
2. The Declaration by Gemma Malley


Retro: Beats, Hippies, 1960s and Counter-Culture (fiction and non-fiction)
1. Retro Retro edited by Amy Prior
2. 1968: The Year that Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky


Around the World (fiction set outside of the UK and USA - each one from a different country)
1. Cloudstreet by Tim Winton (Australia)
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini (Afghanistan)
3. Distant Star by Roberto Bolano


Non-Fiction
1. Shakespeare by Bill Bryson


Complete Works of - T C Boyle
1. East is East by T C Boyle


Themed Titles - Animals (a different animal in each title)
1. The Boy Who Kicked Pigs by Tom Baker
2. White Tiger by Aravind Adiga