I saw this book challenge on the There’s Something About KM blog and thought I would give it a go as it looked like fun.

If you want to try it yourself, these are the rules:
–   Find a book on your bookshelves that contains (either on the cover or in the title) an example for each of twenty categories.
–  You must have a separate book each category – get as creative as you want and do it within five minutes (or longer if you have too many books on too many overcrowded shelves!).

I took far longer than five minutes because I kept getting distracted by the books I had forgotten I had. I have read all the books listed here and recommend them all.

1 – Food
Poor Man’s Orange by Ruth Park

2 – Transportation
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

3 – Weapon
The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier

4 – Animal
To Lie with Lions by Dorothy Dunnett

5 – Number
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

6 – Something you read
Asta’s Book by Barbara Vine

7 – Body of water
The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

8 – Product of fire
Ash Road by Ivan Southall

9 – Royalty
The Once and Future King by T. H. White

10 – Architecture
In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden

11 – Item of clothing
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam

12 – Family member
The Children’s Book by A. S. Byatt

13 – Time of day
I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett

14 – Music
The Chimes by Anna Smail

15 – Paranormal being
The Devil’s Advocate by Morris West

16 – Occupation
The Drowner by Robert Drewe

17 – Season
A Death in Summer by Benjamin Black

18 – Colour
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker

19 – Celestial body
The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon K Penman

20 – Something that grows
The Heaven Tree by Edith Pargeter