1010 Challenge: 2/3 Done!

I have had a bit of a reading spurt recently, and am trying to make the most of the slack time around Easter.  
I read Invisible  in January, but it didn't fit into my categories, but it was included in the 2010 edition.



Group 1: 1001 Books 7/10
1. The Grass is Singing
2. The Successor  ** Olympic
3. Embers ** Olympic
4. The Plot Against America
5. Blue of Noon
6. Invisible
7. The Red and the Black

Group 2: Spain and the Spanish speaking world 9/10
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 6/10
1. Sexing the Cherry  ** 1001 book
2. Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner ** 1001 book
3. The Book lovers' Appreciation Society 

4. Black Dogs  ** 1001 book
5. Vile Bodies ** 1001 Book
6. The Nine Tailors ** 1001 Book

Group 4: Books not written in English 2/10

1. D. Maria II
2. Praça de Londres
 

Group 5: Travel 3/10

1. Attention. Deficit. Disorder

2. River Town
3. In the Heart of the Sea

Group 6: History 9/10
1. Castle Rackrent  **1001 Book
2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society 

3. Very Interesting People Queen Victoria 

4. The Alienist 

5 The Lost Daughter of Happiness
6. The Lady Elizabeth
7. Mademoiselle Boleyn
8. The Concubine of Shanghai 
9. Vengeance Is Mine: A Novel of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, and Lady Rochford--the woman who helped destroy them both.

Group 7: Myths and Legends 5/10

1. The Lusiads   **1001 Book

2. Politically Correct Holiday Stories
3. The Snow Cow

4. Stardust (this is the audiobook read by the author)
5. Branca de Neve

Group 8 - Made into Film COMPLETE

1. A Kestrel for a Knave **1001 Book
2. The Midwich Cuckoos **1001 Book
3. The Shining **1001 Book
4. Watchmen **1001 Book
5. Riddle of the Sands **1001 Book
6. The Piano Teacher **1001 Book
7. The Tin Drum **1001 Book
8. Brideshead Revisited **1001 Book
9. The Cave of the Yellow Dog
10. Les Miserables **1001 Book

Group 9: Olympic Challenge 8/10

1. Homo novus - valik hüperboole Estonia 

2. The Eye of the Leopard Sweden / Zambia 

3. This Body Guyana

4. Kisses in the Nederends Tonga
5. Being Here: Modern Short Stories from Southern Africa
Swaziland, Botswana
6. Baking Cakes in Kigali Tanzania
7. Hungry Ghosts Greece
8. Children of the Revolution Ethiopia

Group 10: Asia 8/10
1. Sacred Games
2. Inheritance 

3. The Siege of Krishnapur ** 1001 Book 

4. Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos  ** Olympic

5. Tale of a certain Orient ** Olympic

6. Girls of Riyadh ** Olympic

7. Funny Boy

8. The Singapore Grip ** 1001 Book