Completed 12/31/10
This challenge has three options:
- Authors — Read alphabetically by author. Commit to 26 books.
- Titles — Read alphabetically by title. Commit to 26 books.
- Authors & Titles — Commit to reading 52 books
I’m going the authors route. I’ll start by plugging in the authors I already have on my to-read list for the year. Once I have completed a letter, I’ll cross it out:
A: Chloe Aridjis – Book of Clouds [review]
B: Georges Bataille – Story of the Eye [review]
C: Chris Cleave – Little Bee [review]
D: Junot Díaz - Drown [review]
E: José Maria Eça de Queirós – The Crime of Father Amaro [review]
F: Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections [review]
G: William Golding – Lord of the Flies [review]
H: bell hooks – Teaching to Transgress [review]
I: Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go [review]
J: Elfriede Jelinek - The Piano Teacher
K: Jean Kwok – Girl in Translation [review]
L: Jhumpa Lahiri – The Namesake [review]
M: Ian McEwan – On Chesil Beach [review]
N: David Nicholls - One Day [review]
O: Joyce Carol Oates – Beasts
P: Charlotte Perkins Gilman – Herland [review]
Q: Raymond Queneau –
R: Salman Rushdie – The Satanic Verses [review]
S: Ntozake Shange – For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf [review]
T: Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
U: Luis Alberto Urrea - Into the Beautiful North
V: David Vann – Caribou Island
W: John Wray – Lowboy [review]
X: Xinran – Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet [review]
Y: Richard Yates – Revolutionary Road
Z: Markus Zusak – The Book Thief
