Bookcrossing: 1010 Challenge

3/4 down, and a good few more books read from my Mount TBR. I have now finished 2 categories, and am near to finishing another 2. Top books of this third quarter would have to include Baking Cakes in Kigali, a lighter but thought-provoking read; The Singapore Grip, another excellent book from J.G. Farrell; and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao , the story of a Dominican Republic boy in the U.S.

Group 1: 1001 Books 9/10
1. The Grass is Singing
2. The Successor ** Olympic: Albania
3. Embers ** Olympic: Hungary
4. The Plot Against America
5. Blue of Noon
6. Invisible
7. The Red and the Black
8. Professor's House
9. The Water-Babies

Group 2: Spain and the Spanish speaking world COMPLETE

1. Paradise Travel ** Olympic: Colombia

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
10. The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao ** 1001 Book

Group 3: British Writers 8/10

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
7. Love in a Cold Climate ** 1001 Book
8. Landlocked

Group 4: Books not written in English 4/10

1. D. Maria II
2. Praça de Londres
3. O Gato e o Escuro
4. O Maior Flor do Mundo

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