Friday, January 20, 2012

Reading Challenge

This year I have decided to participate in The Birth Year Reading Challenge.

Year:  1947
Books:
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Mrs. Mike by Benedict Freedman
Too Many Women by Rex Stout
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

I would also like to take part in the honors portion of the challenge by honoring my mother who loved her Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novels.

Year:  1920
Books:
Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence


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2 comments:

J.G. said...

Welcome, April! I'm so glad you decided to join the BYRC this year.

You have some great books and authors on your list! (I am partial to Wharton and Fitzgerald, myself.) I look forward to hearing what you have to say about them.

January 21, 2012 12:31 PM
Emma said...

Thats interesting. If i was born in 1999, is there a list of books for me?

January 22, 2012 2:58 PM

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Books Read 2012

1. Half-Blood Blues/Esi Edugyan(18/01/12) A gripping and heart wrenching story.

Books Read 2011

1. A Study in Scarlet /Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (04/01/11) - a Sherlock Holmes detective mystery set in London & Utah, 19th century.
2. Light Lifting/Alexander MacLeod (06/01/11) - seven wonderful stories.
3. Nature Girl/Carl Hiaasen (25/01/11) - a humorous tale set mainly in Florida.
4. Ines of My Soul/Isabel Allende (04/02/11) - 16th century South America.
5. The Sentimentalists/Johanna Skibsrud (08/02/11)
6. The Gardens of Kyoto/Kate Walbert (22/02/11)
7. The Razor's Edge/W. Somerset Maugham (13/04/11) - first person narrative.
8. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate/Alexander McCall Smith (18/04/11) - mystery featuring Isabel Dalhousie, 2nd book in a series.
9. What I Didn't See:Stories/Karen Joy Fowler (29/04/11) - I enjoyed these unusual stories.
10. The Uncommon Reader/Alan Bennett(07/05/11) - very entertaining.
11. The End of the Affair/Graham Greene(16/05/11)
12. The Hours/Michael Cunningham(30/05/11)
13. A Midsummer Night's Dream/William Shakespeare (08/06/11) - The New Folger Library edition, annotated. Great comedy.
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16. Fierce/Hannah Holborn (15/07/11) - 5th Annual Canadian Book Challenge
17. a Song for Nettie Johnson/Gloria Sawai (29/07/11) - 5th Annual Canadian Book Challenge
18. Taft/Ann Patchett (15/12/11)
19. A Wrinkle in Time/Madeleine L'Engle (31/12/11)