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� 60+ Book Challenge

83/60










CHALLENGE COMPLETE

� 12+ Classics Challenge

15/12



CHALLENGE COMPLETE

� 5+ Translated Fiction Challenge

9/5

(French, Japanese, German, Spanish [Latin America], Swedish, Russian, Czech, French, Swedish)

CHALLENGE COMPLETE

� 6+ Nonfiction Challenge

8/6


CHALLENGE COMPLETE

� 20+ ReadWomen Challenge

34/20

1. Margaret Atwood - The Year of the Flood - MaddAddam - The Penelopiad
2. *George Sand - Mauprat
3. Catherynne M. Valente - The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
4. *Anita Anand - Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary (NF)
5. George Eliot - Daniel Deronda
6. *Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun - Americanah
7. *Emily St. John Mandel - Station Eleven
8. *Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen
9. *Ã…sne Seierstad - The Bookseller of Kabul (NF)
10. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter: The Complete Series (reread)
11. *Becky Chambers - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
12. *Leslie Parry - Church of Marvels
13. Naomi Novik - Crucible of Gold - Blood of Tyrants - League of Dragons
14. *Laura Barnett - The Versions of Us
15. *Isabel Allende - Eva Luna
16. *Laline Paull - The Bees
17. *Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
18. *Rebecca West - The Return of the Soldier
19. Angela Carter - The Magic Toyshop
20. *Marie Arana - Bolivar: The Epic Life of the Man Who Liberated South America
21. *Lisa McInerney - The Glorious Heresies
22. *Jennifer Bell - The Crooked Sixpence
23. *Rene Denfeld - The EnchantedShame
24. *Zen Cho - Sorcerer to the Crown
25. *Amy Stewart - Girl Waits With Gun
26. *Melanie Finn - Shame
27. *Genevieve Cogman - The Invisible Library
28. *Idra Novey - Ways to Disappear
29. *Kirsty Logan - The Gracekeepers
30. *Natasha Pulley - The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
31. *Katherine Rundell - The Wolf Wilder
32. *Kit de Waal - My Name is Leon
33. *Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (NF)
34. *Rachel Cusk - Outline

* Also part of New Authors Challenge

CHALLENGE COMPLETE

Around the World in 80 Books Challenge (Fiction only 2012-?)

35 Countries Visited

--------------------------------2012-------------------------------
1. England: Kraken by China Miéville
2. India: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry read 2016
3. USA: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
4. Denmark: We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen
5. *Wales: The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart (English)
6. *Italy: The Undrowned Child by Michelle Lovric (British, living in Italy)
7. Czech Republic: War With the Newts by Karel ÄŒapek (Czech - pre division of Czechoslovakia)
8. Scotland: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
9. France: Les Misérables by Victor Hugo read 2013
10. Russia: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
11. Greece: Seven Lives and One Great Love, Memories of a Cat by Lena Divani read 2014
--------------------------------2013-------------------------------
12. China: Death Of A Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong
13. *Germany: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Australian)
14. Sweden: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
--------------------------------2014-------------------------------
15. *Iceland: Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (Australian)
16. Faroe Islands: The Old Man and His Sons by Heðin Brú
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17. South Korea: The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi Hwang
18. New Zealand: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
19. Nigeria: Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor (Nigerian American)
20. Algeria: The Plague by Albert Camus
21. Poland: Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna Krall
22. Taiwan: The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi
23. Australia: The Hunter by Julia Leigh
24. Ukraine: A Matter Of Death And Life by Andrey Kurkov
25. Iraq: The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon
26. *Spain: All Men Are Liars by Alberto Manguel (Argentine-Canadian)
27. Finland: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
28. *The Netherlands: The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas (French)
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29. *†Malaysia: A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute (English-Australian) - Joint setting of Malaya (pre establishment of Malaysia) and Australia
30. Japan: Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
31. †Dominica: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys - joint setting Dominica and Jamaica
32. Ireland: The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
33. *†Tanzania: Shame by Melanie Finn (Kenyan/American) - joint setting of Switzerland
34. *†Egypt: Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar (Libyan) - set partly in Switzerland/UK
35. *Brazil: Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey (American - lived in Brazil)

* Author does not come from said country. May later be replaced by author who does.
� Only half of book set in said country. May later be replaced by book set entirely there.

20 + Bookshelf Challenge (books owned prior to 2016)


17/20

1. The Year of the Flood (Purchased 2015)
2. The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt (Christmas 2015)
3. MaddAddam (Purchased 2015)
4. Daniel Deronda (Purchased 2014)
5. Where Do Camels Belong (Purchased 2015)
6. The Yellow Birds (Purchased 2014)
7. Rites of Passage (Purchased 2014)
8. Kitchen (Purchased 2015)
9. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Purchased 2012)
10. The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse (Purchased before 2012)
11. The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story (Purchased 2015)
12. Petersburg Tales (Purchased 2014)
13. No Name (Given 2015)
14. Bolivar: The Epic Life of the Man Who Liberated South America (Purchased 2015)
15. Americanah (Purchased 2015)
16. Brave New World (Purchased 2013)
17. The Long Ships (Purchased 2014)


Currently Reading:
Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe (Purchased 2012)
Ocean of Life (Purchased 2015)

� 30 + New Authors Challenge


53/30

1. Gene Kritsky - The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt (NF)
2. * George Sand - Mauprat
3. Nevil Shute - A Town Like Alice
4. *Anita Anand - Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary (NF)
5. *Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun
6. Ken Thompson - Where Do Camels Belong (NF)
7. Glenn Meade - The Romanov Conspiracy: A Thriller
8. Kevin Powers - The Yellow Birds
9. William Golding - Rites of Passage
10. *Emily St. John Mandel - Station Eleven
11. *Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen
12. *Ã…sne Seierstad - The Bookseller of Kabul (NF)
13. Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
14. *Becky Chambers - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
15. *Leslie Parry - Church of Marvels
16. Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
17. *Laura Barnett - The Versions of Us
18. Hermann Hesse - The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse
19. *Isabel Allende - Eva Luna
20. Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story
21. *Laline Paull - The Bees
22. *Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
23. *Rebecca West - The Return of the Soldier
24. Nikolai Gogol - Petersburg Tales
25. *Marie Arana - Bolivar: The Epic Life of the Man Who Liberated South America
26. Patrick deWitt - Undermajordomo Minor
27. R.S. Belcher - The Six-Gun Tarot
28. *Lisa McInerney - The Glorious Heresies
29. Jiří Weil - Mendelssohn Is On The Roof
30. *Jennifer Bell - The Crooked Sixpence
31. Daniel O'Malley - The Rook
32. *Rene Denfeld - The Enchanted
33. *Zen Cho - Sorcerer to the Crown
34. Frédéric Dard - The Wicked Go To Hell
35. *Amy Stewart - Girl Waits With Gun
36. *Melanie Finn - Shame
37. *Genevieve Cogman - The Invisible Library
38. Hisham Matar - Anatomy of a Disappearance
39. Brian Catling - The Vorrh
40. *Idra Novey - Ways to Disappear
41. Peter Ackroyd - London Under (NF)
42. M.R. Carey - The Girl with All the Gifts
43. *Kirsty Logan - The Gracekeepers
44. *Natasha Pulley - The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
45. *Katherine Rundell - The Wolf Wilder
46. *Kit de Waal - My Name is Leon
47. John Sutherland - Jumbo: The Unauthorised Biography of a Victorian Sensation (NF)
48. Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance
49. *Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
50. *Rachel Cusk - Outline
51. Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
52. Andy Weir - The Martian
53. Frans G. Bengtsson - The Long Ships

* Also part of Read Women Challenge

CHALLENGE COMPLETE

Around the World in 80 Books - Non-Fiction Edition! (2016-?)



1. Egypt: The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt by Gene Kritsky
2. United Kingdom: Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand
3. Afghanistan: The Bookseller of Kabul by Ã…sne Seierstad
4. Venezuela: Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
5. USA: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Boring Stats!

New Books/Rereads: 76/7*
*Harry Potter books 1-7

New Authors/Previously Read: 53/14*
*Margaret Atwood, Catherynne M. Valente, George Eliot, Rick Riordan, Rod Duncan, J.K. Rowling, Naomi Novik, China Miéville, Jonas Jonasson, Wilkie Collins, Angela Carter, P.G. Wodehouse, Brian K. Vaughan, Ben Aaronovitch

Fiction/Non-Fiction: 75/8

Standalone/Series (Fiction): 45/30*
*(view spoiler)[MaddAddam(2)
Fairyland
Magnus Chase(2)
Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire
To the Ends of the Earth
Harry Potter(7)
Kane Chronicles
Wayfarers
Temeraire(3)
The Trials of Apollo
Percy Jackson's Greek ____
Jeeves and Wooster
Saga
Golgotha
The Uncommoners
The Checquy Files
Sorcerer Royal
The Kopp Sisters
The Invisible Library
Rivers of London (hide spoiler)]

Female Authored Books/Male Authored Books: 45/38
Female Authors/Male Authors (Fiction): 30/29
Female Authors/Male Authors (Non-Fiction): 4/4
New Female Authors/New Male Authors: 28/25


Most Read Authors:
J.K. Rowling (7)
Rick Riordan (5)
Margaret Atwood (3)
Naomi Novik (3)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2)
Patrick deWitt (2)

New Series Started: 10
Magnus Chase
To the Ends of the Earth
Kane Chronicles
Wayfarers
The Trials of Apollo
Golgotha
The Uncommoners
The Chequay Files
Sorcerer Royal
The Kopp Sisters
The Invisible Library
Series Finished: 3
MaddAddam
Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire(?)
Temeraire
Series I probably won't be continuing: 2
The Invisible Library
To The Ends of the Earth (?)

And big target of 60 books has now been met. As have most of my littler targets. Just need to crack on with reading more of the backlog already on my bookshelf, and read a bit more non-fiction and I'll have smashed it.

Yay for long daily commutes on public transport, I guess!