I participated in a lot of time restricted reading challenges in 2008 – and completed many of them – but, in 2009 I want to make a bigger dent in my perpetual reading challenge lists…especially those involving the award winners. To help me keep organized, I’ve decided to make a list of books I currently have on my TBR mountain AND those which I hope to purchase in 2009 which fit these challenges. Clicking on the “button” or Title for each challenge will take you to my master list.
- One More Year: Stories, by Sana Krasikov
- The Boat, by Nam Le
- Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, by ZZ Packer
- The Known World, by Edward P. Jones (winner 2004)
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz (winner 2008)
- Empire Falls, by Richard Russo (winner 2002)
- Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri (winner 2000)
- American Pastoral, by Philip Roth (winner 1998)
- The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields (winner 1995)
- A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley (winner 1992)
- Breathing Lessons, by Anne Tyler (winner 1989)
- Beloved, by Toni Morrison (winner 1988)
- The Optimist’s Daughter, by Eudora Welty (winner 1973)
- All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren (winner 1947)
- The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington (winner 1919)
- The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga (winner 2008)
- Amsterdam, by Ian McEwan (winner 1998)
- Sacred Hunger, by Barry Unsworth (winner 1992)
- True History of the Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey (winner 2001)
- The Ghost Road, by Pat Barker (winner 1995)
- Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie (winner 1981)
- The Road Home, by Rose Tremain (winner 2008)
- Fault Lines, by Nancy Huston (short list 2008)
- The Septembers of Shiraz, by Dalia Sofer (long list 2008)
- The Monsters of Templeton, by Lauren Groff (New Writers short list 2008)
- Digging to America, Anne Tyler (short list 2007)
- What Was Lost, by Catherine O’Flynn (long list 2007)
- The Lizard Cage, by Karen Connelly (New Writers winner 2007)
- On Beauty, by Zadie Smith (winner 2006)
- Minaret, by Leila Aboulela (long list 2006)
- We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver (winner 2005)
- The Mammoth Cheese, by Sheri Holman (short list 2005)
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, by Marina Lewycka (short list 2005)
- Case Histories, by Kate Atkinson (long list 2005)
- Small Island, by Andrea Levy (winner 2004)
- Ice Road, by Gillian Slovo (short list 2004)
- The Amateur Marriage, by Anne Tyler (long list 2004)
- What I Loved, by Siri Hustvedt (long list 2003)
- In The Forest, by Edna O’Brien (long list 2003)
- Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold (long list 2003)
- Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett (winner 2002)
- Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters (short list 2002)
- Five Quarters of an Orange, by Joanne Harris (long list 2002)
- The Idea of Perfection, by Kate Grenville (winner 2001)
- Amy and Isabelle, by Elizabeth Strout (short list 2000)
- Fugitive Pieces, by Anne Michaels (winner 1997)
- A Spell of Winter, by Helen Dunmore (winner 1996)
- Ghost Road, by Pat Barker (long list 1996)
- What Was Lost, by Catherine O’Flynn (First Novel winner 2007)
- Small Island, by Andrea Levy (Novel Award winner 2004)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon (Novel Award winner 2003)
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum, by Kate Atkinson (First Novel winner 1995)
- The Queen of the Tambourine, by Jane Gardam (Novel Award winner 1991)
- Fieldwork, by Mischa Berlinski (short list 2007)
- Drop City, by T.C. Boyle (short list 2003)
- The Known World, by Edward P. Jones (short list 2003)
- Three Junes, by Julia Glass (winner 2002)
- The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen (winner 2001)
- House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus III (short list 1999)
- Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier (winner 1997)
- Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat (short list 1995)
- Breathing Lessons, by Anne Tyler (short list 1988)
- Beloved, by Toni Morrison (short list 1987)
- The Spectator Bird, by Wallace Stegner (winner 1977)
- The Optimist’s Daughter, by Eudora Welty (short list 1973)
- Them, by Joyce Carol Oates (winner 1970)
I have books by the following authors (who I have not yet read) on my shelf:
- Doris Lessing (2007)
- Orhan Pamuk (winner 2006)
- V. S. Naipaul (winner 2001)
- Jose Saramago (winner 1998)
- Naguib Mahfouz (winner 1988)
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (winner 1982)
- William Faulkner (winner 1949)
- Hermann Hesse (winner 1946)
- Sigrid Undset (winner 1928)
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I’m no good at challenges because I get so guilty if I don’t complete them that it spoils my reading. However, this coming year I do want to read books by authors whose work I’ve admired in the one or two books I’ve already read, but who have a much larger output that I can still explore. I’m starting with Le Carre, Lively and Piercy but I would like to include Lessing and Pamuk as well.
Wow! This is some list. You will be quite a well read person when you make your way through it. 😉
*smiles*
Kim
What a great year of reading you have ahead of you! I can vouch for The Amateur Marriage and Case Histories. I read both of them in 2008, and Anne Tyler & Kate Atkinson are now two of my new favorites. Hope you enjoy them when you get around to reading them!
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Ann: I love challenges – but I really enjoy the perpetual ones the most (no pressure!). I’ve not read any books by the authors you mention…but I will look forward to your thoughts on them.
Kim: I was a bit aghast at how many books I actually own on these lists *laughs* I hope to make a good dent in the list in 2009.
Megan: I am excited about ALL these books! I also love Tyler’s work…I’ve yet to read Atkinson, but have heard such good things about her work.