Reading Projects


2012 Challenges

The Big Read of the year


Middle East Reading Challenge

PIE list (5 titles)
  1. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
  3. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  4. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Titles from home - acquired before 2012 (10 titles)
  1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

One Short Story a Week
  1. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  2. Hell-Heaven by Jhumpa Lahiri
  3. A Moment of Wrong Thinking by Lawrence Block
  4. The Shawl by Louise Erdrich
  5. Bohemia by V.S. Naipaul
  6. In the South by Salman Rushdie
  7. A Village After Dark by Kazuo Ishiguro
  8. In the Bed Department by Anne Enright
  9. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Must-Visit Authors (5 authors)
  1. Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake

Must-Revisit Authors (5 authors)
  1. Julie Otsuka
  2. José Saramago
  3. Ann Patchett
  4. Dennis Lehane
  5. Michael Crichton
  6. Haruki Murakami
  7. Elie Wiesel
  8. Meg Waite Clayton
  9. George Rabasa
  10. Alix Strauss
  11. Bernice McFadden
  12. Emily St. John Mandel
  13. Lisa See
  14. Julia Alvarez
  15. Bernhard Schlink

Perpectual Reading Projects

Orange Prize Reading
  1. 2011, longlist: The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin
  2. 2002, winner: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Booker Prize Reading


Check out previous years challenges here.
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