I had such a large response to this challenge in my initial post that I went ahead and made a separate blog for it here. Originally, this was something I wanted to do just for me, ahead of time, to make sure I get to read most of the books I want to next year. I still plan on joining a few group challenges in 2008, but I felt I needed to make these lists for myself to keep my own reading priorities straight.
What is the Triple 8 Challenge? Basically, it entails reading 8 books in each of 8 different categories in 2008. That’s 64 books. I am allowing 8 overlaps, which means 56 separate titles need to be read for this challenge.
My partial list, subject to change, is here:
I decided NOT to have any overlaps.
8 Award Winners
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
by Mark Haddon (Whitbread) - Life & Times of Michael K
by J. M. Coetzee (Booker) - The Gathering by Anne Enright (Booker)
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Nobel)
- Beloved by Toni Morrison (Pulitzer, Nobel)
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Booker)
- Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz (Newbery)
- Detective Story
by Imre Kertesz (Nobel)
8 debut authors
- The Mayor’s Tongue
by Nathaniel Rich - The Sister by Poppy Adams
- The Undiscovered Country by Lin Enger
- The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle
- The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
- Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- The Pets by Bragi Olafsson
- Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
8 graphic novels
- Maus I
by Art Spiegelman - Maus II by Art Spiegelman
- American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
- The Arrival by Shaun Tan
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
- Persepolis I by Satrapi
- Blankets by Craig Thompson
- The Borden Tragedy by Rick Geary
- X-Kai by by Asami Tohjoh
8 different languages in translation
- Independent People by Halldor Laxness (Icelandic)
- Silence by Shusaku Endo (Japanese)
- The Castle by Franz Kafka (German)
- Kaddish for a Child not Born by Imre Kertesz (Hungarian)
- Snow by Maxence Fermine (French)
- Silk by Alessandro Baricco (Italian)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Swedish)
- Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (Norwegian)
8 different countries (Around the World)
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
- The Translator by Daoud Hari (Sudan)
- Strangers by Taichi Yamada (Japan)
- Embers by Sandor Marai (Hungary)
- Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood (Canada)
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (former Yugoslavia)
- The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (Ireland)
- Breath
by Tim Winton (Australia)
8 different female Canadian authors
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
- The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- The Road Past Altamont by Gabrielle Roy
- Kanada by Eva Wiseman
- Sitting Practice by Caroline Adderson
- Bear
by Marian Engel - Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Anne-Marie MacDonald
8 newly published in 2008
- The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
- Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
- Winter Haven by Athol Dickson
- Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos
- The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber
- Keeper and Kid by Edward Hardy
- The Story of a Marriage
by Andrew Sean Greer - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
8 Fantasy
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
- Vampire Hunter D by Hideyuki Kikuchi
This way when a challenge comes up, I’ll be able to see if it fits with what I’m already planning on reading. Obsessive, I know. 
