Hello and happy Sunday. I feel like it’s time to check on the reading challenges I said I would continue taking on this year. For this, I’ll copy and paste the titles I’d listed in a previous post, and update the information.
Read/DNFed
Fire With Fire
Sunkissed
In Waiting
Any Way the Wind Blows
Scattered Showers
TBR
Wishlist
The Unsinkable Greta James
Field Notes on Love
The Comeback Season
Borrow My Heart
Moment of Truth
Listen to Your Heart
Maybe this Time
Places We’ve Never Been
Pumpkinheads
The Firefly Summer
Promchanted
Take Me Home Tonight
Save the Date
The Unexpected Everything
Read/DNFed
La hondonada- Jhumpa Lahiri
Salvo mi corazón, todo está bien- Héctor Abad Faciolince
Qué locura enamorarme yo de ti- Gabriela Wiener
My Soul to Take- Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
TBR
El huésped- Guadalupe Nettel
Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy
Wishlist
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits- Laila Lalami
Mis últimos 10 minutos y 38 segundos en este mundo- Elif Shafak
Last Night at the Telegraph Club- Malinda Lo
The Hypnotist’s Love Story- Liane Moriarty
The Rainbow Troops- Andrea Hirata
One Day I Will Write About This Place- Binyavanga Wainaina
Amnesia Colectiva- Koleka Putuma
Tesis sobre una domesticación- Camila Sosa Villada
Crow Blue- Adriana Lisboa
Wishlist
Ryan and Avery
Answers in the Pages
Take Me With You When You Go
The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S
19 Love Songs
The Yearbook
Pretending
100 Must Reads
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
1984 – George Orwell
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
The Iliad – Homer
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
Blindness – José Saramago
Season of Migration to the North – Tayeb Salih
Snow – Orhan Pamuk
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl
The Republic – Plato
The Art of War – Sun Tzu
The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli
Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
The Denial of Death – Ernest Becker
The Myth of Sisyphus – Albert Camus
Civilization and Its Discontents – Sigmund Freud
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
The Double Helix – James D. Watson
Silent Spring – Rachel Carson
The Sixth Extinction – Elizabeth Kolbert
Guns, Germs, and Steel – Jared Diamond
Cosmos – Carl Sagan
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
Why We Sleep – Matthew Walker
Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Art of Happiness – Dalai Lama & Howard Cutler
The Book of Joy – Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu
The Sabbath – Abraham Joshua Heschel
Ethics of the Fathers (Pirkei Avot) – Mishnah
Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke
The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran
Waking Up – Sam Harris
The Tao of Pooh – Benjamin Hoff
Anatomy of the Spirit – Caroline Myss
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Educated – Tara Westover
Becoming – Michelle Obama
The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
Night – Elie Wiesel
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
Born a Crime – Trevor Noah
The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls
The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvoir
The Feminine Mystique – Betty Friedan
The Souls of Black Folk – W.E.B. Du Bois
The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
No Logo – Naomi Klein
The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn
Orientalism – Edward Said
Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich
The Warmth of Other Suns – Isabel Wilkerson
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
Dune – Frank Herbert
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
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