Welcome to the first 10-10-10ers!

Here are a few people who are joining the 10-10-10 Reading Challenge, and their categories....WELCOME!

LAUREN STROHECKER (@lkstrohecker)

Non-fiction
Poetry/Novels in Verse
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Mystery/Crime/Thriller
Too Long TBR
Graphic Novels
Philadelphia Fiction
As-Yet-Unread Classics
Twitter Authors
Twitter Recommendations

KEIRA SOLEORE (@KeiraSoleore)
Food as Central Theme
Biographies, Memoirs
Mystery, Crime, Thriller
Elevating Snobby Fiction
Epistolatory
Travel
Mythological Fairytales
In French
Writing Craft
Spiritual and Organizational

SARAH RETTGER (@sarahrettger)
Shakespeare-related
Poetry
Biography
Contemporary young adult
Children's non-fiction
Science fiction
History
Mystery
Written before 1900
Pulitzer winners

LAURA BROWN (@3under5mom)
Short Story Collections
History Books (Non-Fiction)
Guilty Pleasure
Spiritual Growth
Classics
Sports
Biographies / Memoirs
Historical Fiction
Work-Related
Young Adult

ANDREA KOETZ (@akoetz)
Mystery
Authors that are new to me
Young Adult (Chapter) books I can read to my daughter
Guilty Pleasures
Books Recommended on Social Media (Twitter/Facebook)
Books published in 2010
Non-Fiction
Award Winners
NY Times Bestsellers List
Short Stories

DEANA GLASS
children’s literature
historical fiction
professional books
realistic fiction
series books
memoirs
mystery
new york bestsellers
recommended books (either by a friend or website)
books that are the first written by a particular author

Welcome to the 10-10-10 Challenge!

Greetings, intrepid bookish friends! I am Melissa, and I'm happy you've decided to come check out the 10-10-10 Reading Challenge. This was introduced to me via Twitter, which has developed a fantastic community of book people--authors, readers, publishers, editors and agents. Kalen Landow, (@kalenski on Twitter) introduced us to this link from Library Thing (http://www.librarything.com/groups/1010challenge). She upped the ante a little by suggesting 10 books in 10 genres/categories by October 10. Although this is a very audacious goal, I know I feel excited about ratcheting up my reading by an order of magnitude. I, like many, tend to gravitate toward one or two categories of books (for me, mysteries and literary fiction)--so to branch out will be a great goal on its own; to read 100 books by Oct 10 will be a very challenging benchmark.

Here are the basic "rules"--which are free to be modified in any manner that works for you. To me, this challenge is about branching out in reading, not a checklist of do and don't.
1. Choose 10 different categories or genres.
2. Start reading books from these categories, with a goal to read 10 books of each by 10/10/10.
2. 10 books may count as multiple categories: i.e., if I choose "mystery" and "authors I've never read" and read a book by Joseph Wambaugh, that may count as two categories.
3. Catalog your progress by emailing me at 101010reading@gmail.com. I will add your categories/genres and books read as I receive them.
If 10 books is too audacious of a goal, make a goal that is reasonable for you--perhaps one book in each of 10 genres, or 5. The point again is to branch out.

I look forward to "meeting" everyone and challenging each other to read widely and well in 2010!