Challenge Startup 2009

OK – Here we go -  I’m over-committed but let’s see how it all pans out.  These are my initial intentions.  I reserve the right to change my reading lists according to any whim which may come my way!

Titles in bold = I’ve read it!  Hyperlinks to my reviews on Lizzy’s Literary Life.

Countdown Challenge (View status on separate post).

Books Awards Challenge II Objective: 10 prizewinners in 10 months August 2008 – June 2009
1.  Lorraine Connection – Dominque Manotti (Duncan Laurie International Dagger)
2. The Book of Chameleons (Independent Foreign Fiction Prize)
3. Late Nights on Air (Giller Prize)

4. The Remains of the Day (Booker Prize)
5. Catholics (W H Smith Novel of the Year)
6. Helpless (Trillium English Novel Book Award)
7. The White Tiger (Booker Prize)
8. The Chocolate War (New York Times Notable Book of the Year)
9. I’m Not Scared (Viareggio Award)

10. The Crossroads (Premio Strega)
11. What A Carve Up! (John Rhys Llewellyn Prize)
12. Royal Highness (Nobel Laureate)
13. The Road Home (Orange Prize)

14. The Outlander (Hammett Prize for Crime Writing)

15. Midnight’s Children (Booker Prize, Booker of Bookers)

16. The Sweetness at The Bottom of the Pie (Debut Dagger)

17. Home (Los Angeles Times Fiction Award 2008, Orange Prize 2009)

18. The Secret Scripture (Costa Book of the Year 2009)

Objective: 10 titles from 1001 Books to Read Before You Die
May 2008 – Feb 2009

1. The Lost Honour of Katherina Blum 2. The Remains of the Day 3. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest 4. The Radetzky March 5. Amok 6. The Turn of the Screw

Out of time – 0.06% well-read is better than nothing I suppose.

7. The Third Policeman 8-10 Written by Edith Wharton

13 Canadian books
July 2008 – June 2009
1. Late Nights on Air 2. Helpless 3. The Emperor of Ice Cream 4.  The Outlander 5. Catholics 6. The Sweetness at the Bottom of The Pie 7. All My Friends are Superheroes

The Well-Seasoned Challenge
3 books Jan-March 2009

1) The Big Over Easy 2) Shakespeare on Toast 3) The Emperor of Ice-Cream

The Latin American Challenge
4 books Jan-April 2009

1) Child’s Play (Uruguay)

Out of time but I’m going to finish the challenge anyway!

2) Chronicle of A Death Foretold (Colombia) 3) A Quiet Flame (Argentina) 4) The Comedians (Haiti)

German Literature Challenge
6 books Jan-Dec 2009

1) The Jew’s Beech 2) A Village Romeo and Juliet 3) The Murder Farm 4) Me and Kamiski 5) The Blind Side of the Heart 6) Royal Highness

Lost In Translation
6 books in translation (in addition to the Latin-American and German challenges listed above!) Jan-Dec 2009
1) Beyond Sleep (Dutch) 2) The Blue Fox (Icelandic) 3) No Word From Gurb (Spanish) 4) Berlin Tales (German) 5) Fists (Italian)  6) Soldiers of Salamis 7) The Camel and the Golden Hump Steal You Away

The Art History Challenge

6 books Jan- Dec 2009

1) The Vaughan Bequest 2) Summer in February 3) Me and Kaminski 4)Lizzie Siddal – Tragedy of a PreRaphaelite Supermodel 5) Friedrich 6) Stealing the Scream 7) The Lost Painting I Was Vermeer

What’s In A Name
Jan-Dec 2008
Time of the Day:  Midnight’s Children
Body Parts: The Blind Side of the Heart
Medical Condition: Fever Crumb
Relative: My Cousin Rachel
Building: Castle In The Clouds
Profession: Royal Highness

Decades 09 9 books 9 Consecutive Decades

1909 Royal Highness
1910
1922 The Enchanted April
1930
1940
1952 The Tiger In The Smoke
1964 Two Faces of January
1979 The Mangan Inheritance
1981 Midnight’s Children
1994 What A Carve Up!

5 books Jan-August 2009

1) The Two Faces of January 2) 98 Reasons for Being 3) Number9Dream 4) Three Bags Full 5) One City

Orbis Terrarum
9 books 9 countries March-Dec 2009

1) The Blind Side of the Heart (Germany)

2) The Blue Fox (Iceland)

3) No Word from Gurb (Spain)

4) Fists (Italy)

5) Midnight’s Children (India)

6) Burnt Shadows (Pakistan)

7) Home (USA)

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Canada)

9) The Earth Hums in B-Flat (Wales)