YA Lit:: 999 Reading Challenge Part Sept

Earlier this year, I took on this 999 Reading Challenge. It basically means that I'm looking to read 9 books in 9 categories in 2009. Some of the categories have changed throughout the year. Just because. I feel like I'm on a pretty steady track. I'm still reading graphic novels and picture books even though technically those categories are finished.

As usual, new entries are in italics.

• 9 teen books with multicultural characters
  ~The Possibilities of Sainthood by Donna Freitas
  ~The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party, by M.T. Anderson
  ~Deep in the Heart of High School by Veronica Goldbach
  ~The Eternal Smile by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim
  ~Secret Keeper by Mitali Perkins
  ~The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 2: The Kingdom on the Waves, by M.T. Anderson
  
• 9 teen award-winners
  ~Japan Ai: A Tall Girl's Adventures in Japan by Aimee Major Steinberger
  [YALSA's 2009 Great Graphic Novels for Teens]
  ~Life Sucks by Jessica Abel
  [YALSA's 2009 Great Graphic Novels for Teens]
  ~Emiko Superstar by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Rolston
  [YALSA's 2009 Great Graphic Novels for Teens]
  ~Luna by Julie Anne Peters
  [National Book Award Finalist, 2004]
  ~Absolutely, Positively Not by David LaRochelle
  [Sid Fleischman Humor Award, 2006]
  
• 9 graphic novels (Category finished! 05.01.09)
  ~The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci
  ~Janes in Love by Cecil Castellucci
  ~Skim by Mariko Tamaki
  ~Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
  ~Watchmen by Alan Moore
  ~Awkward and Definition by Ariel Schrag
  ~Abandon the Old in Tokyo by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
  ~American Widow by Alissa Torres
  ~Blankets by Craig Thompson
  
• 9 blogs & podcasts
  ~YALSA blog
  ~The YA YA YAs
  ~Stuff You Should Know podcast
  ~Stuff You Missed in History Class podcast
  ~Book Lust with Nancy Pearl podcast
  ~Sound of Young America podcast
  
• 9 webcomics
  ~Unshelved
  ~Cyanide and Happiness
  ~Achewood
  
• 9 Overdrive audiobooks
  ~Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
  ~Something Rotten by Alan M. Gratz
  ~The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
  ~True Story by Bill Maher
  ~A Brief Chapter in my Impossible Life by Dana Reinhardt
  ~Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr
  
• 9 picture books (Category finished! 04.08.09)
  ~Dad Runs Away with the Circus by Etgar Keret
  ~Chester by Melanie Watt
  ~Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt
  ~A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker
  ~Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel
  ~The Cat's Tale by Doris Orgel
  ~When Randolph Turned Rotten by Charise Mericle Harper
  ~Are You Ready to Play Outside? by Mo Willems
  ~Wink! The Ninja who Wanted to be Noticed by J.C. Phillips
  
• 9 non-fiction books
  ~Obama: The Historic Journey by The New York Times
  ~The Oxford Project by Peter Feldstein
  
• 9 titles I never thought I'd read
  ~The Coffee Trader by David Liss

I still feel like I need to change that last category. Maybe I need a Spanish language category, or a category for the books I read out loud with my husband. Hmmm...