Awesome Author Challenge 2010

This challenge is being run by Alyce from At Home With Books.  The idea behind this challenge is to read works by authors who have been recommended to you time and again, but you haven't gotten around to reading them yet. These are the authors that everyone else tells you are awesome, thus the "Awesome Author Challenge" title.

The Rules:
1. The challenge starts January 1, 2010 and ends December 31, 2010.
2. Crossover from other challenges is allowed.
3. Choose the level at which you would like to participate, post about it and sign up here
4. Titles and authors do not have to be predetermined, and can change at any time.
5. Books can come from any genre or reading level, the only requirement is that you have heard great things about the author, but haven't yet read any of their works.

The Levels:
Easy: Choose three authors and read at least one title from each author.
Moderate: Choose six authors and read at least one title from each author.
Challenging: Choose ten authors and read at least one title from each author.
Over-Achieving: Anything over ten authors.

I'm actually going to aim for the Over-Achieving level as there are so many great authors that have been recommended to me & I want to try to start reading some of their books.  I'm going to aim for 20 books but may change this later in the year depending on how I get on!  I'll post links to my reviews below.

Jan / Feb (for reviews by other participants click here)

1. Hush, Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick
2. Tall, Dark & Dead - Tate Hallaway
3. Succubus Blues - Richelle Mead
4. Beautiful Dead book 1 Jonas - Eden Maguire
5. A Girl's Guide to Vampires - Katie MacAlister
6. Bitten - Kelley Armstrong
7. Heavenly - Jennifer Laurens
8. Kitty and the Midnight Hour - Carrie Vaughn
9. Nearly Departed - Rook Hastings
10. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
11. Dancing with the Devil - Keri Arthur
12. Stray - Rachel Vincent
13. The Devil Inside - Jenna Black

Mar / Apr (for reviews by other participants click here)

1. Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean - Justin Somper
2. Perfect Chemistry - Simone Elkeles
3. Rising Shadows - Jacquelyn Wheeler
4. Lex Trent versus the Gods - Alex Bell
5. Dark Life - Kat Falls
6. Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater
7. Hex Hall - Rachel Hawkins
8. The Demon's Lexicon - Sarah Rees Brennan
9. Pleasure Unbound - Larissa Ione
10. Generation Dead - Daniel Waters
11. Need - Carrie Jones
12. The Rest Falls Away - Colleen Gleason
13. The Prophecy - Gill James
14. Hand of Fate - Lis Wiehl with April Henry
15. Viola in Reel Life - Adriana Trigiani
16. His Darkest Hunger - Juliana Stone
17. Mistress by Mistake - Maggie Robinson
18. The Iron Hunt - Marjorie M. Liu
19. Strange Angels - Lilith Saintcrow

May / Jun (for reviews from other participants click here)

1. Hard Magic - Laura Anne Gilman
2. Blue Diablo - Ann Aguirre
3. Shadow Game - Christine Feehan
4. When I Was Joe - Keren David
5. Moon Called - Patricia Briggs
6. Forget You - Jennifer Echols
7. A Hunger Like No Other - Kresley Cole
8. Guardian of the Dead - Karen Healey
9. Nina Jones and the Temple of Gloom - Julie Cohen
10. Dido - Adele Geras
11. Low Red Moon - Ivy Devlin
12. Blood Lust (Kept, Claimed & Mated) - Zoe Winters
13. Halfway to the Grave - Jeaniene Frost
14. Lonestar Calling - Colleen Coble
15. Comfort Food - Kitty Thomas
16. Siren's Call - Devyn Quinn
17. I Married A Demon - Beverly Rae
18. Sing Me To Sleep - Angela Morrison
19. Wild Card - Lora Leigh
20. Impossible - Nancy Werlin
21. My Name is Memory - Ann Brashares

July / August (for reviews from other participants click here)

1. Fallen - Lauren Kate
2. Restoring Harmony - Joelle Anthony
3. Dear Dylan - Siobhan Curham
4. Best Friends Forever - Jennifer Weiner
5. Chasing Brooklyn - Lisa Schroeder
6. The Chosen One - Carol Lynch Williams
7. Claire de Lune - Christine Johnson
8. The Alchemyst - Michael Scott
9. Forbidden - Tabitha Suzuma
10. Shadow of the Vampire - Meagan Hatfield
11. Trash - Andy Mulligan
12. Kiss Me If You Can - Carly Phillips
13. Texas Tangle - Leah Braemel
14. Shade - Jeri Smith-Ready

September / October

1. Raised by Wolves - Jennifer Lynn Barnes
2. Forget-Her-Nots - Amy Brecount White
3. Immortalis Carpe Noctem - Katie Salidas
4. Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
5. Noah Barleywater Runs Away - John Boyne
6. Angel - L.A. Weatherly
7. Shadows - Amy Meredith
8. Cattitude - Edie Ramer
9. Boys Don't Cry - Malorie Blackman
10. The Trouble with Spells - Lacey Weatherford
11. Demon Hunts - C.E. Murphy
12. The Crescent - Jordan Deen
13. The Fallen Volume 1 - Thomas E Sniegoski

November / December

1. The Body Finder - Kimberly Derting
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
3. Witchfinder Dawn of the Demontide - William Hussey
4. The Long Weekend - Savita Kalhan
5. Some Girls Bite - Chloe Neill
6. Abela: The Girl Who Saw Lions - Berlie Doherty
7. You Against Me - Jenny Downham
8. Soul Love - Lynda Waterhouse
9. Playing with Fire - Henning Mankell
10. Crux - Moira Rogers
11. The Eternal Ones - Kirsten Miller
12. Awakened - Ednah Walters
13. Black Swan Rising - Lee Carroll
14. Monster High - Lisi Harrison
15. Once Bitten, Twice Shy - Jennifer Rardin
16. Nightshade - Andrea Cremer
17. Secret Lives - Gabriella Poole (Review coming soon)
18. Half Brother - Kenneth Oppel (Review coming soon)

I actually completed this challenge on 19th March but I'm going to continue adding to the list so I can see how many new authors I try in 2010