BeastieMom's 999 Challenge

Hi All!

This is sounds like so much fun & it's my first challenge. Thank you Jacey25 for the invite!

I've come up with my 9 categories, but am going to have to fill them in as I do a little more research. I've got stacks and stacks of books sitting around me and on my Kindle that I haven't gotten to and more coming. With the suggestions here I know I'll get my list completed pretty quickly.

Here are my categories and a few books to get me started:

Vampires
1) Midnight's Daughter (Dorina Basarab, Dhampir, Book 1), Karen Chance
2) Already Dead, Charlie Huston ***READ 1/1/09***
3) At Grave's End, Jeaniene Frost ***READ 1/10/09***
4) Dhampir: A Novel of the Noble Dead, Barb & J.C. Hendee
5) Destined for an Early Grave, Jeanine Frost ***READ 07/09***
6) The Strain, Chuck Hogan & Guillermo Del Toro ***READ 08/09***
7) Dead and Gone, Charlaine Harris ***READ 05/09***
8) 30 Days of Night: Rumors of the Undead, Jeff Mariotte & Steve Niles ***READ 03/09***
9) 30 Days of Night: Immortal Remains, Jeff Mariotte & Steve Niles ***READ 04/09***

Werewolves
1) Moonbane, Al Sarrantonio
2) The Wereling: Wounded, Stephen Cole
3) The Black Wolf, Galad Elflandsson
4) Bestial Werewolf Apocalypse, William D. Carl
5) Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand (Kitty Norville, Book 5 ***READ 02/07/09***
6) Kitty Raises Hell (Kitty Norville, Book 6 (due out 2/24/09) ***READ 02/09***
7) Wilderness, Dennis Danvers
8) Wolfsbane and Mistletoe, Charlaine Harris, et al ***READ 02-04-09***
9) Alpha and Omega: Hunting Ground, Patricia Briggs ***READ 08-09***

Zombies
1) Blood of the Dead: Book One of the Undead World Trilogy, A.P. Fuchs
2) Dead Earth: The Green Dawn, Mark Justice
3) Patient Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel, Jonathan Maberry (due out 3/3/09)
4) Rise and Walk, Gregory Solis ***READ 07/09***
5) As the World Dies: Fighting to Survive, Rhiannon Frater ***READ 05/09***
6) Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry For Your...Brains, Ryan Mecum ***READ 04/09***

Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic
1) The Taking, Dean Koontz ***READ 01/05/09***
2) Way of the Wolf: Book One of The Vampire Earth, E.E. Knight
3) Angel Dust Apocalypse, Jeremy Robert Johnson

Other Weres & Shifters
1) Secrets, F.M. McPherson
2) Bone Crossed (Mercy Thompson, Book 4) ***READ 02/12/09***

Hot & Steamy
1) Succubus Blues, Richelle Mead
2) Nymphos of Rocky Flats, Mario Acevedo
3) X-Rated Bloodsuckers, Mario Acevedo
4) The Undead Kama Sutra, Mario Acevedo

Collections/Anthologies
1) Thirteen Specimens, Jeffrey Thomas
2) The Living Dead, John Joseph Adams (Editor)
3) Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, John Joseph Adams (Editor)

Fae
1) Swallowing Darkness (Meredith Gentry, Book 7)
2) Thorn Queen (Richelle Mead) ***READ 09/09***

Sup du Jour
1) White Witch, Black Curse (The Hollows, Book 7) (due out 2/24/09) ***READ 02/09***
2) 30 Days of Night: Eternal Damnation, Jeff Mariotte & Steve Niles ***READ 04/09***
3) Happy Hour of the Damned, Mark Henry ***READ 05/09***
4) Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Prodigal Son, Dean Koontz ***READ 03/09***
5) Far Dark Fields, Gary Braunbeck ***READ 08/09***
6) Urban Gothic, Brian Keene ***READ 08/09***
7) Bestial, Ray Garton ***READ 03/09***

All suggestions are appreciated - Thank you!

Fun! I was oging to do a hot and steamy type of category. haha! :) Do you like Mario Acevedo? I might have to check that out...

Shifters or Vampires - The charlaine harris books (sookie stackhouse) have a ot of shifters and vampires :) you might've read them already though...

FOr Fae...Wicked Lovely is a YA book. Also, i saw this on LT: http://www.librarything.com/tag/Fae

That might help :) Jmoullane's challenge also has some fae titles.

If you check out mine, I was recommended Yasmine Galenorn's series Sister's of the Moon.

Good luck! welcome!

#1 You're welcome for the invite- I must confess to selfish reasons; i.e. I wanted to stalk your book pics :)