1010 Challenge - 1/3 down

Having the Christmas holiday has helped me get ahead with this challenge (as well as some very good reads!). Disappointingly, I still have one category untouched, but hopefully not for long. This year, I have more books in my sweaty hands already, unlike last year when I had to wait for books to arrive here in Portugal.

Group 1: 1001 Books 4/10

1. The Piano Teacher
2. The Tin Drum
3. The Successor
4. The Shining



Group 2: Spain and the Spanish speaking world 9/10
Great progress with this category, have got the 10th book ready to read.

1. Paradise Travel
2. Captain Alatriste
3. Purity of Blood
4. The Old Man and the Sea ** 1001 Book
5. The Scarlet Cloak
6. The Return
7. The Queen's Sorrow
8. The Book of Murder
9. Our house in the Last World



Group 3: British Writers 4/10

1. Sexing the Cherry ** 1001 Book
2. Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner ** 1001 Book
3. The Book lovers' Appreciation Society
4. The Riddle of the Sands ** 1001 Book



Group 4: Books not written in English 1/10

1. D. Maria II read



Group 5: Travel 2/10

1. Attention. Deficit. Disorder
2. In the Heart of the Sea



Group 6: History 3/10

1. Castle Rackrent ** 1001 Book
2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
3. The Alienist



Group 7: Myths and Legends 4/10

1. The Lusiads
2. Politically Correct Holiday Stories
3. The Snow Cow
4. Stardust (this is the audiobook read by the author)



Group 9: Olympic Challenge 3/10

1. Homo novus - valik hüperboole Estonia
2. The Eye of the Leopard Sweden / Zambia
3. This Body Guyana



Group 10: Asia 4/10

1. Sacred Games
2. Inheritance
3. River Town
4. Tale of a certain Orient