Themed Read Challenge 2009

I had such fun with My Feathered Friends last year, that I’ve must rejoin the challenge in 2009.

Not sure what my theme will be - with a physical TBR of 600+ books, I have plenty of scope.

Current contenders are

a) A tribute to H2O – water in its various guises (Ice, Rain, Sleet, Hail, Snow, Lakes, Rivers, Seas etc)

or

b) Dutch Masters (Dutch novels in translation)

or

c) Celestial bodies be they suns, moons, stars or planets.

Either way I’m signing up for the first option – 4 titles.

EDIT:  Changed my mind about all of the above.  My theme is 2009: A Year In Books and I’m creating option D.  12 books – one theme, which becomes obvious when you see the following list.

Two Faces of January – Patricia Highsmith / Summertime in February – Jonathan Smith / March Violets – Phillip Kerr or The March – E L Doctorow or March – Geraldine Brooks / Broken April – Ismail Kadare / May contain Nuts – John O’Farrell / May Week was in June – Clive James / Winter in July – Doris Lessing / LIght in August - William Faulkner / The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen / October – Richard B Wright / November – Gustave Flaubert / A Wedding In December – Anita Shreve

Should manage four of those in the challenge timeframe with no problem.  The rest will keep me occupied right into 2010.