Category: Reading Schedule

Here’s my 2009 reading schedule. It is not strict, just something that I need to keep in mind in order to keep on track with my challenges.

January

1. Night Sins by Tami Hoag (Celebrate; What’s in a Name)
2. Deal Breaker by Harlan Coben (1st in a Series)

February

1. Murder in the House by Margaret Truman (Celebrate; What’s in a Name)
2. Rules of Prey by John Sandford (1st in a Series)

March

1. Heartstopper by Joy Fielding (Celebrate; What’s in a Name)
2. Final Jeopardy by Linda Fairstein (1st in a Series)

1. Pandora’s Daughter by Iris Johansen (Celebrate; What’s in a Name)
2. Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell (1st in a Series)
3. A Tom Clancy, Greg Iles or Stephen King selection

May

1. The Coffin Dancer by Jeffery Deaver (Celebrate; What’s in a Name)
2. Undercurrents by Ridley Pearson (1st in a Series)

June

1. The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen (Celebrate; 1st in a Series)

July

1. Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin (1st in a Series)
2. Celebrate the Author selection

August

1. When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman (Celebrate; 1st in a Series)

September

1. Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson (1st in a Series)
2. Celebrate the Author selection

October

1. Killing Floor by Lee Child (1st in a Series)
2. Celebrate the Author selection

November

1. The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke (1st in a Series)
2. Celebrate the Author selection

December

1. No Lesser Plea by Robert Tanenbaum (1st in a Series)
2. Celebrate the Author selection

By May 31

• Carla Neggers, The Widow(Eponymous)
• Robin Cook, Marker (Celebrate the Author)

By June 30

• M.C. Beaton, The Deadly Game (Celebrate the Author)

By July 1

• Nora Roberts, Blood Brothers (Title Master)
• James Patterson, Mary Mary (Title Master)
• M.C. Beaton, The Deadly Dance (Title Master)
• Kathy Reichs, Deadly Decisions (Title Master)

By July 31

• Michael Connelly, The Black Echo (Celebrate the Author)

By August 31

• Nelson DeMille, Night Fall (Celebrate the Author; Triple 8)

By September 30

• Stephen King, The Shining (Celebrate the Author; 1% Well-Read)

By October 31

• Ann Rule (Celebrate the Author)

By November 30

• J.F. Freedman, The Disappearance (Initials Challenge)
• M.C. Beaton, The Deadly Dance (Initials Challenge)
• J.A. Jance, Name Withheld (Initials Challenge)
• P.J. Parrish, Thicker than Water (Series Season 2; Initials Challenge; Triple 8)
• P.J. Parrish, Island of Bones (Series Season 2)
• J.D. Robb, Glory in Death (Initials Challenge)
• Alex Kava, The Soul Catcher (Series Season 2)
• Alex Kava, A Necessary Evil (Series Season 2)
• P.J. Parrish, A Killing Rain (Series Season 2)
• P.J. Parrish, Unquiet Grave (Series Season 2)
• P.J. Parrish, A Thousand Bones (Series Season 2)
• Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (Celebrate the Author; 1% Well-Read)

By December 31

• David Lifton, Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (Back to History)
• Edward Steers, Jr., Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (Back to History)
• Jim Garrison, On the Trail of the Assassins (Back to History; Triple 8)
• Anthony Summers, Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover (Back to History; Triple 8)
• Don & Susie Van Ryn, Newell, Colleen & Whitney Cerak, Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope (Triple 8)
• Anne Robins, A Perfect Stranger (Historical Fiction) (Back to History)
• Charles Pellegrino, Her Name, Titanic (Back to History)
• Eleanor Herman, Sex with the Queen: Nine Hundred Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics (Back to History)
• John Dallek, Nixon and Kissinger (Back to History)
• Mary Higgins Clark (Celebrate the Author)
• Matt Dalton, Presumed Guilty: What the Jury Never Knew About Laci Peterson’s Murder and Why Scott Peterson Should Not Be on Death Row(Triple 8)
• Anne Bird, Blood Brother: 33 Reasons My Brother Scott Peterson is Guilty(Triple 8)
• Stephen Singular, Unholy Messenger: The Life and Crimes of the BTK Serial Killer (Triple 8)
• Max Allan Collins, American Gangster (Triple 8)
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Triple 8)
• Peter Harry Brown & Patte B. Barham, Marilyn: The Last Take (Triple 8)
• Andrew Morton, Diana: Her True Story (Triple 8)
• Michael Connelly, The Black Echo(Triple 8)
• Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector (Triple 8)
• Stephen King, Four Past Midnight (Triple 8)
• Greg Iles, Turning Angel (Triple 8)
• Dean Koontz, Strangers (Triple 8)

By Feb. 28, 2009

• Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (1% Well-Read)
• Ian McEwan, Atonement (1% Well-Read)
• Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace (1% Well-Read)
• James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia (1% Well-Read)
• Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (1% Well-Read)
• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein (1% Well-Read)