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3M's List
Monday, March 31, 2008

I decided NOT to have any overlaps.

8 Award Winners

1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (Whitbread)
2. Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee (Booker)
3. The Gathering by Enright (Booker)
4. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Nobel)
5. American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Pulitzer)
6. Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (Booker)
7. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz (Newbery)
8. Kaddish for an Unborn Child by Kertesz (Nobel)

8 New-to-me authors

1. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
2. After Dark by Haruki Murakami
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
4. Anthem by Ayn Rand
5. Transformations by Anne Sexton
6. The Only Road North by Erik Mirandette
7. Maus I by Art Spiegelman

8 ZUQX (Hard to find letters of the alphabet)

1. I Am the Messenger by Zusak
2. Zenzele by ?
3. Unless by Carol Shields
4. Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife by Sigrid Undset
5. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
6. Blessings by Anna Quindlen
7. X Stands for Unknown by Asimov
8. Sky Burial by Xinran

8 diferent languages in translation

1. Independent People by Halldor Laxness (Icelandic)
2. Solaris by Lem (Polish)
3. Sophie’s World by Jostein Gardner (Norwegian)
4. Silence by Shusaku Endo (Japanese)
5. If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino (Italian)
6. The Castle by Franz Kafka (German)
7. Lolita (Russian)
8. Embers by Sandor Marai (Hungarian)

8 different countries (Around the World)

1. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (Mexico)
2. Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene (Cuba)
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini (Afghanistan)
4. Things Fall Apart by Achebe (Nigeria)
5. The Translator by Daoud Hari (Sudan)
6. Strangers by Taichi Yamada (Japan)
7. -

8 different Canadian authors

1. Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
2. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
3. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
4. The Collected Stories of Carol Shields
5. Swamp Angel by Ethel Wilson
6. The Road Past Altamont by Gabrielle Roy
7. Kanada by Eva Wiseman
8. Sitting Practice by Caroline Adderson

8 newly published in 2008

1. The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
2. Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
3. Winter Haven by Athol Dickson
4. Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos
5. The Sister by Poppy Adams
   
6. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
7. -
8. -
   

8 Fantasy

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
8. -

This way when a challenge comes up, I'll be able to see if it fits with what I'm already planning on reading. Obsessive, I know. :-)

Posted by 1morechapter at 3/31/2008 08:43:00 AM  

Labels: 1800s, 3M, Around the World, Award Winners, Canadian authors, Fantasy, In Translation, Published in 2008, ZUQX

5 comments:

Becky said... August 31, 2007 at 10:15 AM  

I don't have my 8 categories, or my 8 titles for those 8 categories, but I know I want to play come January :)

Becky
Becky's Book Reviews
http://blbooks.blogspot.com

KC said... August 31, 2007 at 12:12 PM  

I'm definitely in for this challenge. I'm working on my categories and lists. I hope to have them complete soon.

Karen

alisonwonderland said... September 12, 2007 at 7:22 PM  

3M: i'm wondering if you've never read the Harry Potter books before.

1morechapter said... September 12, 2007 at 10:22 PM  

No, I haven't yet!!!! Just haven't gotten around to it, but 2008 is the time.

Nicely said... February 4, 2008 at 9:19 PM  

i would love to join but i'm still in search for more good books. thanks for dropping by my blog.

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