Challenges

Literary Fiction Challenge

1. The Tiger’s Wife – Tea O’Breht
2. Room – Emma Donoghue
3. The Secrets of Jin Shei – Alma Alexander (Not sure how literary this is but whatever.)
4. A Lion Among Men – Gregory Maguire
5. Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
6. The Sweet Girl – Annabel Lyon
7. Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
8. Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
9. Tell the Wolves I’m Home – Carol Rifka Brunt
10. When We Were Executioners – J. M. McDermott
11. The Girl with the Glass Feet – Ali Shaw
12. Chocolat – Joanne Harris

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Global Reading Challenge

1. Please Look After Mom – Kyung-Sook Shin
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larrson
3. My Name is Red – Orhan Pamuk
4. Baba Yaga Laid an Egg – Dubravka Ugresic
5. The Hurricane Party – Klas Ostegren
6. The Goddess Chronicle – Natsuo Kirino
7. Twinkle Twinkle – Kaori Ekuni
8. The Bastard of Istanbul – Eli Shafak
9. The Fox Window and Other Stories – Awa Naoko
10. The Summer of Ubume – Natsuhiko Kyogoku
11. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
12. School Girl – 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 (own)
9. Sputnik Sweetheart
10. After the Quake
11. After Dark
12. Kafka on the Shore (own)
13. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (own)
14. What I Talk About When Running (own)
15. IQ84 (own)

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Classics

1. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
2. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
3. Pinnochio – Carlo Colladi
4. The Metamorphoses – Ovid
5. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

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Non-Fiction

1. Mother Tongue – Bill Bryson
2. The Butterfly Mosque – G. Willow Wilson
3. A Literate Passion – Anais Nin
4. The Horologican – Mark Forsyth
5. Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism – Alison Waller

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Verse Novels

1. God Went to Beauty School – Cynthia Rylant
2. Keesha’s House – Helen Frost
3. Pieces of Georgia – Jennifer Fisher Bryant