Challenges

Literary Fiction Challenge

1. The Tiger’s Wife – Tea O’Breht
2. Big Fish – Daniel Wallace
3. Room – Emma Donoghue
4. Dream House – Alice Habens
5. Eunoia – Christian Bok
6. The Secrets of Jin Shei – Alma Alexander
7. A Lion Amongst Men – Gregory Maguire
8. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell – Susanna Clarke
9. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
10. Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
11. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

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Global Reading Challenge

1. The Palm Leaf Fan – Kwai-Yun Li
   2. Mr. Muo’s Traveling Couch – Dai Sijie
   3. My Name is Red – Orhan Pamuk
   4. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
   5. Please Look After Mom – Kyung-Sook Shin
   6. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larrson
   7. 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth – Xiao Lu Guo
   8. Brida – Paula Coelho
   9. The Cave – Jose Saramago
   10. Real World – Natsuo Kirino
   11. House of Sleeping Beauties – Yasunari Kawabata
   12. Blue Bamboo – Osamu Dazai
   

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Haruki Murakami (Personal) Challenge

1. Norwegian Wood
2. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (own)
3. A Wild Sheep Chase
4. Dance Dance Dance (own)
5. The Elephant Vanishes (own)
6. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle (own)
7. South of the Border, West of the Sun (own)
8. Underground
9. Sputnik Sweetheart
10. After the Quake
11. After Dark
12. Kafka on the Shore (own)
13. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
14. What I Talk About When Running
15. IQ84 (own)

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Titles Read

1. The Boy Recession – Flynn Meaney
2. My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece – Annabel Pitcher
3. The Night She Disappeared – April Henry
4. The Fault in our Stars – John Green
5. Chasing Boys – Karen Tayleur
6. If I Tell – Janet Gurtler
7. Dead to You – Lisa McMann
8.  Purity – Jackson Pearce
9. A Midsummer’s Nightmare – Kody Keplinger
10.  All These Lives – Sarah Wylie
11.  The Fine Art of Truth or Dare – Melissa Jensen
12. My Life in Black and White – Natasha Friend

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1. Lies, Knives and Girls in Red Dresses – Ron Koertge
2. The Palm Leaf Fan and Other Stories – Kwai Yun Li
3. House of Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories – Yasunari Kawabata
4. Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy – Osamu Dazai
5. Freud’s Alphabet – Jonathan Tel
6. Lunar Follies – Gilbert Sorrentino
7. Mogador – Alberto Ruy Sanchez