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ŷ Personal Reading ChallengeI'll be tracking this overarching goal for the year and star ratings in the Personal Challenge folder:
20 + 20 = 40 � L.O.D.'s 40 books for 2020.
The Modern Mrs. Darcy Reading ChallengeMore info
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� 1. A book published the decade you were born�1980s�: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
� 2. A debut novel: Flames by Robbie Arnott
� 3. A book recommended by a source you trust【�: Lanny by Max Porter
� 4. A book by a local author: The Secret Vineyard by Loretta Hill
� 5. A book outside your (genre) comfort zone【Memoir & Autobiography�: Educated by Tara Westover
� 6. A book in translation: Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi, translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright
� 7. A book nominated for an award in 2020: L'Anomalie by Hervé Le Tellier
� 8. A re-read: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
� �9. A classic you didn’t read in school: Le Dernier jour d'un condamné (The Last Day of a Condemned Man) by Victor Hugo
� �10. Three books by the same author�Patrick Ness�:
� ✔️ The Crane Wife
� ✔️ The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking #2)
� ✔️ Burn
L.O.D.'s Personal Reading Goals[11/...]
� A Stephen King novel:
� 1. Pet Sematary
📚 Library books I regretted having to return without getting the chance to read them:
� 1. His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae by Graeme Macrae Burnet
� 2. Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi, translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright
� 3. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
� 5. ...
📚 All books from one author (Patrick Ness):
� 1. The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking #2)
� 2. Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking #3)
� 3. The Crane Wife
� 4. The Rest of Us Just Live Here
� 5. Release
� 6. Topics About Which I Know Nothing
� 7. The Crash of Hennington
� 8. Burn
� 9. The Wide, Wide Sea
📚 Russian classics:
� 1. The Night Before Christmas by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Anna Summers
� 2. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H.T. Willetts
📚 Japanese literature:
� 1. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
� 2. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder
� 3. Silence by Shūsaku Endō, translated by William Johnston
� 4. The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino, translated by Alexander O. Smith
2025 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
The Wide, Wide Sea (other topics)L'Anomalie (other topics)
Burn (other topics)
The Housekeeper and the Professor (other topics)
Frankenstein in Baghdad (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Hervé Le Tellier (other topics)Yōko Ogawa (other topics)
Stephen Snyder (other topics)
Jonathan Wright (other topics)
Ahmed Saadawi (other topics)
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� The Modern Mrs. Darcy Reading Challenge [12/12]
� L.O.D.'s Personal Reading Goals [11/...]