Challenges

My Current Reading Challenges:

TBR Challenge-my personal challenge to read as many of the books I already own as possible.  I'm putting 10 on this list to start, and will add more as the year goes on and I finish more books.
1. Sepulchre by Kate Mosse
2. The House of Velvet and Glass by Katherine Howe
3. Midnight on Julia Street by Ciji Ware
4. House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
5. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
6. L'amant by Marguerite Duras
7. Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
8. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
9. The Night Cicrus by Erin Morgenstern
10. Enchantments by Kathryn Harrison
11. Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones
12. Le deuxieme sex by Simone de Beauvoir
13. After the Snow by S.D. Crockett
14. A Secret Kept by Tatiana de Rosnay
15. The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
16. The Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende


PAST READING CHALLENGES:

2011 South Asian Challenge:
1. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
2. Leaving India by Minal Hajratwala
3. The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
4. The Music Room by Namita Devidayal
5. Suits: Woman on Wall Street by Nina Godiwalla

2011 Vintage Mystery Reading Challenge:
1. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
2. The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
3. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. Footsteps in the Dark by Georgette Heyer
5. Detection Unlimited by Georgette Heyer
6. A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

2011 First in a Series Challenge: COMPLETE!!
1. The House on Tradd Street by Karen White
2. The Book of Illumination by Mary Ann Winkowski
3. Silent in the Grave (Lady Julia Grey) by Deanna Raybourn
12 Books from TBR List in 2011:
1. Bride of Pendorric by Victoria Holt
2. Lord of the Far Island by Victoria Holt
3. The Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
4. The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox
5. Seizing the Enigma by David Kahn
6. The Pope's Daughter by Caroline P. Murphy
7. Biographie de la faim by Amelie Nothomb
8. Reves amers by Maryse Conde
9. Les Combustibles by Amelie Nothomb
10. La traversee by Philippe Labro
11. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
12. What Is Left the Daughter by Howard Norman

12 Books From the TBR Stack in 2010:  COMPLETE!!
1. The Crow: The 3rd Book of Pellinor by Alison Croggon
2. The Singing: The 4th Book of Pellinor by Alison Croggon
3. Je suis le dernier Juif by Chil Rajchman
4. The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
5. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
6. The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
7. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
8. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
9. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
10. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
11. The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
12. Waiting for Columbus by Thomas Trofimuk


50 Authors from 50 Different Countries (First 25 will be listed first) (No End Date):
1. Afghanistan-The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2. Australia-The Book Thief by Mark Zusak
3. Germany
4. Haiti-Compère général Soleil by Jacques-Stephen Alexis
5. Mexico
6. Russia
7. Sweden-The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
8. Turkey
9. Brazil
10. Canada
11. France
12. Italy
13. Spain-The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
14. Peru-The Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
15. Poland-House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk
16. United Kingdom
17. Vietnam
18. India
19. Ireland
20. Ethiopia-How to Read the Air by Denaw Mengestu
21. Hungary
22. China
23. Greece
24. Senegal
25. Portugal


My Native American Literature Challenge:
1. House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
2. The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
3. Love Medecine by Louise Erdrich
4. Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich
5. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
6. Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit by Leslie Marmon Silko
7. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
8. Flight: A Novel by Sherman Alexie
9. Voices from the Other Side by Harvest moon eyes
10. Apprenticed to Justice by Kimberly M. Blaeser