Sunday, February 20, 2011

2011 Global Reading Challenge

And why not? Find out more here.

I'm going for Medium this year:

The Medium Challenge

Read two novels from each of these continents in the course of 2011:

Africa:
1. Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
2. The Boy who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba

Asia:
1. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
2. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

Australasia:
1. Genesis by Bernard Beckett - DONE
2. Lilian's Story by Kate Grenville

Europe:
1. The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk - DONE
2. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

North America:
1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger - DONE
2. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maude Montgomery - DONE

South America/Central America:
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The Seventh Continent ( either choose Antarctica or your own ´seventh´ setting, eg the sea, the space, a supernatural/paranormal world, history, the future – you name it).

From your own continent: try to find a country, state or author that is new to you.


Try to find novels from fourteen different countries or states.