2013 Category Challenge

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Welcome to the 2013 Category Challenge!

The idea is to read books from different categories. Tradition dictates that it should be 13 categories this year, but that is in no way a requirement (hence the group name change). They can be any categories you want and you can read as many books as you want from each category. Or you can do something completely different - the parameters are intentionally very wide.

The challenge officially begins on January 1, 2013, but starting early or late is welcomed.

If you want to participate in the Sandman Group Read, click here. It is in a separate group since all the threads needed would inundate the 13-in-13.

Since many of our members are also in the 75-group, there is a Wiki-page for our combined group reads over here: Group Reads of 2013

Link to Awards CAT - General Thread
Link to Awards CAT - Wikipage
Link to AlphaCAT - Organizational Thread
Link to AlphaCAT - Wikipage
Link to Random CAT - General Thread
Link to Random CAT - Wikipage

Most importantly, have FUN!

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Group reads:

January
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Karen Russell - Swamplandia
Sharon Kay Penman - When Christ and His Saints Slept
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (January through to whenever done...)

February
Fowles in February
Lauren Beukes - Zoo City

March
Mark Twain - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front
Alexandre Dumas pere - The Count of Monte Cristo

April
Elizabeth von Arnim - Enchanted April
Sharon Kay Penman - Time and Chance
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
Alexandre Dumas pere - The Count of Monte Cristo (cont.)

May
Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca
Michael Chabon - Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Alexandre Dumas pere - The Count of Monte Cristo (cont.)

June
Madeline Miller - The Song of Achilles
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Women Author Month Warm-Up Thread Main Thread

July
Mary Stewart - Nine Coaches Waiting
Henry James - The Portrait of a Lady
Frans G. Bengtsson - The Long Ships
Mervyn Peake - Gormenghast Trilogy - Titus Groan
Women Author Month(s) - Continued from June

August
Barbara W. Tuchman - The Guns of August
Sharon Kay Penman - Devil's Brood
Carson McCullers - The Heart is A Lonely Hunter
Mervyn Peake - Gormenghast Trilogy - Gormenghast

September
Laura by Vera Caspary
Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe
Mervyn Peake - Gormenghast Trilogy - Titus Alone

October
David McCullough - The Path Between the Seas
Sharon Kay Penman - Lionheart

November
Zane Grey November
Richard Castle - Frozen Heat
Roger Di Silvestro - In The Shadow of Wounded Knee
Steampunk! (Derigibles, Goggles and Cool Hats!) Group Read

December
China Mieville - Un Lun Dun
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale

Year-long
Sandman Group Read
Anne Perry Group Read-Part 1
Song of Fire and Ice Series

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