Celebrate the Author Challenge

Becky's Book Reviews is hosting this cool challenge.

This is a twelve month challenge (January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008).

I'm going to try to choose books that have already have. I really need to quit mooching books faster than I can read them. Then there's all those books I've bought and still need to read, not to mention the ones from the library.

• January: Shannon Hale (Austenland or Book of a Thousand Days)
  alternatives: Jasper Fforde, Wilkie Collins, Isaac Asimov, Philippa Gregory, Diana Gabladon
  
  
• February: Patricia McKillip (Book of Atrix Wolfe)
  alternatives: Elaine Konigsburg


• March: Lois Lowry (Gossamer)
  alternatives: Patricia MacLachlon (Sarah, Plain and Tall), Dr. Seuss, Carl Hiassen, John Irving


• April: Jacqueline Winspear (Messenger of Truth)
  alternatives: Terry Pratchett, Barbara Kingsolver


• May: Arthur Conan Doyle
  alternative: Jodi Picoult


• June: Pearl S. Buck (The Good Earth)
  alternative: Helen Keller


• July: Dean Koontz (The Darkest Evening of the Year)
  alternatives: Robert Parker (Family Honor), Joanne Harris, Anna Quindlen


• August: Orson Scott Card,
  alternative: Sharon Kay Penman (The Queen's Man)


• September: Taylor Caldwell (Grandmother & the Priest)
  alternatives: James Hilton (Random Harvest), Elizabeth Peters, H.G. Wells


• October: Lynn Flewelling (The Bone Doll's Twin)
  alernatives: Geraldine Brooks (Year of Wonders), Anne Perry, Joan Clark, Wendy Corsi Staub,


• November: L.M.Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea
  alternatives: Margaret Atwood, C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, Neil Gaiman


• December: Charles de Lint (Yarrow)
  alternatives: Anne Patchett, Jane Austin, Avi, Kipling