Eclectic Reader 2015

I enjoyed doing this challenge last year, so here I am again.  This year's categories are all new, so that's a good thing as that will take me out of my comfort zone once more (except for one category which I read a lot).

Here is this year's list, I'll add links to Goodreads as I go. 

1                    Retellings (of fairytale, legends or myth

The Crystal Cave (Arthurian Saga, #1)

Stewart, Mary

2          A book set in a country starting with the letter S (eg. Sweden, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Slovakia)

An Event in Autumn (Wallander #9.5)

Mankell, Henning

 3         PI Crime (fiction featuring a private investigator)

Hope to Die (Matthew Scudder, #15)

Block, Lawrence

4           A novel published before you were born

Captain Jim (Billabong, #6)

Bruce, Mary Grant

5          Contemporary romance

The Maxwell Sisters

Hill, Loretta

6          Fiction for foodies (fiction featuring food/food related business)

Heavenly Pleasures

Greenwood, Kerry

7          Microhistory (Non Fiction)

The Great Race

(1947), David Hill

8          Science Fiction set in space

Darkover Landfall (Darkover, #1)

Bradley, Marion Zimmer

9          Sports (Fiction or Non fiction)

Cricket as I See It

Border, Allan

Whitewash to Whitewash

Brettig, Daniel

10        Featuring diversity

Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League

Odell, Jonathan

11        Epistolary Fiction (fiction written in the format of letters/emails/diary entries)

I Capture the Castle

Smith, Dodie

12        Middle Grade/YA Adventure

Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

Collins, Suzanne

Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)

Collins, Suzanne