In case you are out of the loop and have not yet heard about this challenge, following are the pertinent details: pick 5 books in 5 categories and commit to reading them this year. This challenge was created to inspire a public that does not normally devote itself to reading to do so. On the surface this seems like an easy challenge, ok! I said, I will read books I have intended to read and commit to it, picking books and categories will be easy! This was certainly not the case. However, after much deliberation the list has been set (yes, there are many thing left off of it that I would like to include, but this is my story, and I'm sticking to it).
The Categories are...
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
1.
2.
3.The Phantom Tollbooth- Norton Juster
4.
5. The Tale of Desperaux- Katie DiCamillo
SCIENCE FICTION
1. Ender's Game- Orson Scott Card
2. Slaughterhouse Five- Kurt Vonnegut
3. Martian Chronicles- Ray Bradbury
4.
5.
CHRISTIAN CLASSICS
1.
2. Imitation of Christ- Thomas a Kempis
3. Dark Night of the Soul- St. John of the Cross
4. Confessions- St. Augustine
5. The Cost of Discipleship- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
HISTORICAL LITERATURE (NEW)
1.
2. Brooklyn- Colm Toibin
3. The Greater Journey- David McCullough
4. The Hour of Peril- David Stashower
5. To Marry an English Lord- Gail MacColl
BESTSELLERS/AWARD WINNERS
1. Skippy Dies- Paul Murray
2. Death Comes to Pemberly- P.D. James
3. The Fault in Our Stars- John Green
4. World War Z- Max Brooks
5. On Chesil Beach- Ian McEwan
And my added category that I plan to read along with these others for the challenge:
POETRY COLLECTIONS
1. Elizabeth Bishop
2. Rumi
3. Leaves of Grass- Walt Whitman
4. Rilke
5. W.H. Auden
we have one book in common in this challenge! :D We should read Wolf Hall at the same time! In case you're wondering, it's under my Man Booker category.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I love your list! Looks like a fun year of reading!
Let's do it!! We should definitely read it together so we can discuss it and such!
DeleteI recently saw Death Comes to Pemberly in my library and was curious. Now I am even more so. I am trying to check out the digital version though which has been tied up.
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