My 999 book list ~ a work in progress!

9 books in 9 categories for 2009.

I first saw this idea here in 2008, last summer, and never got around to putting my list together. This year I am more prepared. I am still missing quite a few but I think it is a good start anyway. The list is for the entire year, and mostly for me, besides the one category called "read aloud". I let the kids pick those books, straight from our shelves.

I added the initials of the book clubs next to the selection related to them (SM is for Sound Mind, Sound Mom Club; WRL for the Well-Read Ladies, NC for Next Chapter).

Here are my selections so far:

Life/Family

• 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families by Covey (SM)
• For Women Only by Feldhahn (SM)
• Last Child in the Woods by (SM)
• The Creative Family (SM)
• Playful Parenting by Cohen (SM)
• Above All, Be Kind by Weil (SM)
• Your Money or Your Life by Dominguez (SM)
• It's All Too Much by Walsh (SM)

Food/Earth

• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
• 100 Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating by Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew

Creativity

• Bend the Rules Sewing by Amy Karol
• 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women by Gail Meekin (NC)
• Taking Flight: Inspiration And Techniques To Give Your Creative Spirit Wings by Kelly Rae
• Patchwork + Quilted Gifts by Joelle Hoverson
• Amy Butler's In Stitches: More Than 25 Simple and Stylish Sewing Projects
• Doodle Stitching: Fresh & Fun Embroidery for Beginners by Aimee Ray
• Amy Butler's Midwest Modern: A Fresh Design Spirit for the Modern Lifestyle
  

Classics

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Biographies/History

• Dewey by V. Myron
• Lust for Life by Irving Stone
• The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (WRL)

Novels

• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky
• Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• something by Jodi Picoult (any suggestions?)
• First Light by C. Baxter
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (WRL)

Read Aloud

• One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
• The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Peter and the Shadow Thieves by Dave Barry
• The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green
• The People of Sparks By Jeanne Duprau

Youth Novels

• Eldest
• Brisingr

??? (I haven't decided what other category to pick)