Christy Awards Challenge

Do you know what the Christy Awards are? I didn't either but they started to follow me on Twitter so I checked it out. All the rules and to sign up for the challenge can be found here.

Dates: Nov 1, 2009 to Dec 31, 2010

The levels run from "never read Christian Fiction" (read one from the list) to Hardcore: 7th Tier - Read all of the winners in every category to the perpetual challenge - "Read all of the books nominated and awarded the Christy challenge throughout the course of your lifetime".

One of my reading goals next year is to read 12 Christian fiction books and I've already got a pile for that so I'll be adding the Christy Awards but changing the challenge a bit. I'll read one book from each category - if the library has it. The Challenge site starts listing in 2000 so that's when I'll start my list also.

Christy Nominated and Awarded Books
2000

Contemporary

A New Song by Jan Karon – WINNER
By the Light of a Thousand Stars by Jamie Langston Turner
Romey's Place by James Calvin Schapp


Futuristic

By Dawn's Early Light by Grant R. Jeffrey and Angela Hunt – WINNER
Apollyn by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
Assasins by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins


International Historical

Out of the Red Shadow by Anne de Graaf - WINNER
The Power and the Glory by Clint Kelly
Triump of the Soul by Michael R. Joens


North American Historical

The Meeting Place by Janette Oke and Davis Bunn – WINNER
The Dark Also Rises by Denise Williamson
For Whom the Star Shines by Linda Chaikin


Romance

Whispers from Yesterday by Robin Lee Hatcher – WINNER
Blue Mist on the Danube by Doris Elaine Fell
Surrender of the Heart by Sally John


Suspense

Final Witness by James Scott Bell – WINNER
The Chairman by Harry Kraus
A Ship Possessed by Alton Gansky