Murakami Challenge - January 1st, 2011 - December 31st, 2011
-Toru Level (read any three Haruki Murakami books)
1) Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World
2) The Elephant Vanishes
3) Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
4) 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (Book One, Book Two, Book Three)
Aussie Author Challenge - January 1st, 2011 - December 31st, 2011
- True Blue Level (read twelve books by nine different Australian writers)
1) The Art of the Engine Driver by Steven Carroll
2) An Open Swimmer by Tim Winton
3) Monkey Grip by Helen Garner
4) The Gift of Speed by Steven Carroll
5) 1988 by Andrew McGahan
6) The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow by Thea Astley
7) The Spare Room by Helen Garner
8) The Time We Have Taken by Steven Carroll
9) Praise by Andrew McGahan
10) Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor
11) The Reasons I Won't Be Coming by Elliot Perlman
12) The Children's Bach by Helen Garner
12a) The Lost Life by Steven Carrol
2) An Open Swimmer by Tim Winton
3) Monkey Grip by Helen Garner
4) The Gift of Speed by Steven Carroll
5) 1988 by Andrew McGahan
6) The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow by Thea Astley
7) The Spare Room by Helen Garner
8) The Time We Have Taken by Steven Carroll
9) Praise by Andrew McGahan
10) Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor
11) The Reasons I Won't Be Coming by Elliot Perlman
12) The Children's Bach by Helen Garner
12a) The Lost Life by Steven Carrol
15) Spirit of Progress by Steven Carroll
16) Violin Lessons by Arnold Zable
17) The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
18) That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott
19) All That I Am by Anna Funder
20) The Fix by Nick Earls
16) Violin Lessons by Arnold Zable
17) The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
18) That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott
19) All That I Am by Anna Funder
20) The Fix by Nick Earls
Victorian Literature Challenge - January 1st, 2011 - December 31st, 2011
- Desperate Remedies Level (read fifteen works from the Victorian era)
1) An Autobiography by Anthony Trollope
2) The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope
3) Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
4) Plays and Petersburg Tales by Nikolai Gogol
6) Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome
8) Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. Jerome
9) Rudin by Igor Turgenev
10) Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
12) Unwiederbringlich by Theodor Fontane
12a) Felix Holt: The Radical by George Eliot
14) Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
15) Adam Bede by George Eliot
16) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
17) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
18) North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
19) Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
20) The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
21) Der Schimmelreiter by Theodor Storm
22) Die Leute von Seldwyla (Band 1) by Gottfried Keller
23) Die Judenbuche by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
24) Frau Jenny Treibel by Theodor Fontane
25) Leutnant Gustl by Arthur Schitzler
26) Die Glücksritter by Joseph von Eichendorff
27) Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
28) Bahnwärter Thiel & Der Apostel by Gerhart Hauptman
29) Der Schuß von der Kanzel by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
30) Die schwarze Spinne by Jeremias Gotthelf
31) Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
32) The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
12a) Felix Holt: The Radical by George Eliot
14) Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
15) Adam Bede by George Eliot
16) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
17) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
18) North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
19) Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
20) The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
21) Der Schimmelreiter by Theodor Storm
22) Die Leute von Seldwyla (Band 1) by Gottfried Keller
23) Die Judenbuche by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
24) Frau Jenny Treibel by Theodor Fontane
25) Leutnant Gustl by Arthur Schitzler
26) Die Glücksritter by Joseph von Eichendorff
27) Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
28) Bahnwärter Thiel & Der Apostel by Gerhart Hauptman
29) Der Schuß von der Kanzel by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
30) Die schwarze Spinne by Jeremias Gotthelf
31) Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
32) The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
Japanese Literature Challenge 5 - June 1st, 2011 - January 31st, 2012
- Read one work of Japanese literature
2) Silence by Shusaku Endo 3) Sorekara (And Then) by Natsume Soseki
4) Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
5) Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata
6) A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
7) 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (Book One, Book Two, Book Three)
8) Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
9) The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto
10) Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa
***Mission Completion*** ;)
