The lists of books I read for any challenges will be updated on this page with links to my reviews. Newer challenges at the top, older at the bottom so I anticipate this page will grow indefinitely.
Goal: Read all 17 finalists (hopefully, by end of March 2014, but I’ll take the end of the year)
Progress: 2/17
- At Night We Walk in Circles by Daniel Alarcón
- The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
- The Tuner of Silences by Mia Couto
- The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
- How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
- The Dinner by Herman Koch
- The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Long Division by Kiese Laymon
- The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
- Hill William by Scott McClanahan
- The Son by Philipp Meyer
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (review)
- Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell (review)
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
- Pre-Tournament Playoff Round
- Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
- Woke Up Lonely by Fiona Maazel
Goal: read 120 books
Completed: 167 (whee!)
Goal: read 110 books
Completed: 191 (boo-yah)
Goal: read 100 books
Completed: 102 (huzzah!)
“Winner’s Circle” level (read six Booker Prize-winning novels):
I tried….not hard enough.
Troubles by JG Farrell
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Room by Emma Donoghue
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
A Jury of Her Peers
A Bookshelf of Our Own
Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Girls to the Front (bonus read)
The Invention of Air
Roseanna
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
The Other
The Film Club
The Best American Science Writing 2009
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Harry Potter’s Bookshelf
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
The Best American Essays 2009
The Post-American World
The Best American Essays 2008
And Then There Were None
A Beautiful Blue Death
Books that didn’t count toward the challenge percent:
The Children’s Book
Wolf Hall
Hush, Hush
The Mill on the Floss
17 out of 21 is 80.95%.
Intended Challenge Books:
The Satanic Verses
The Naked and the Dead
American Psycho
Finished Challenge Books:
American Psycho