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I have decided that for this challenge I am going to use only books that I have owned for over 6 months and have not yet read. Lasts for all of 2008. Click on the icon for more info.

1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – Rowling (no, I haven’t read it yet!)
2. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time – Haddon
3. The Bluest Eye – Morrison
4. Beloved – Morrison
5. Things Fall Apart – Achebe
6. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
7. Dr. Zhivago by Pasternak
8. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
9. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
10. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
11. Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie Barron
12. Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky

Alternates:
Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Possession by A.S. Byatt
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Beneath a Marble Sky – Shors
The Poisonwood Bible – Kingsolver
The Brothers K by Duncan
Cold Mountain
The Secret History – Tartt
Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
Memoirs of a Geisha by Golden
My Name is Asher Lev

I love Russian literature and am very much looking forward to this challenge. Lasts all of 2008. Click on the icon for more info.

My choices:

1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
2. Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love by Vapnyar
3. Sofia Petrovna by Lydia Chukovskaya
4. Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol

• War and Peace by Tolstoy
• Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
• Dr. Zhivago by Pasternak
• The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Vol. 2

Bonus/Alternates:
Natasha and Other Stories
The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Grushin
Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
Once upon the River Love by Makine
Dreams of My Russian Summers by Makine
Requiem for a Lost Empire by Makine
The Devil by Leo Tolstoy
My Life by Chekhov
The Eternal Husband by Dostoevsky
First Love by Turgenev
Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie

13 books from Canadian authors or about Canada
Now until June 30, 2008
Hosted by John at The Book Mine Set

My list of possibles. Titles in bold are likely. Do you have any opinions on any of them, or do you have any suggestions? Let me know! Especially if you’re from Canada. Some of the titles are a little obscure, but one reason I picked them is because they’re short. This won’t be an easy challenge to complete, so I need a little help somewhere! I won’t pick more than 2 books from a single author.

1. Mad Shadows by Marie-Claire Blais
2. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
3. Sitting Practice by Caroline Adderson
4. Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
5. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
6. Kanada by Eva Wiseman
7. The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
8. The Road Past Altamont by Gabrielle Roy
9. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
10. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
11. Jacob Two-Two’s First Spy Case by Mordecai Richler
12. Bear by Marian Engel
13. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Swamp Angel by Ethel Wilson
Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
Unless by Carol Shields
The Collected Stories of Carol Shields
Last of the Curlews by Fred Bodsworth (136pp)
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood – 208 pp.
Jest of God by Margaret Laurence – 218 pp.
Tent by Margaret Atwood – 176pp
Beggar Maid by Alice Munro – 224pp
Good Bones Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood – 176 pp
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson – 320 pp.
Wall of Light by Edeet Ravel – 272 pp.
Tin Box by Holly Kennedy
The Wheel Keeper by Robert Pepper-Smith
Tay John by Howard O’Hagan (272pp)
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock (200pp)
The Incomparable Atuk by Mordecai Richler (192pp)
As for Me and My House by Sinclair Ross (224pp)
The Book of Eve by Constance Beresford-Howe (191pp)
More Joy in Heaven by Morley Callaghan (200pp)
Still Life by Louise Penny (336pp)