Triple 8 Challenge

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

1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (Whitbread)
2. Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee (Booker)
3. The Gathering by Anne Enright (Booker)
4. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Nobel)
5. Beloved by Toni Morrison (Pulitzer, Nobel)
6. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Booker)
7. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz (Newbery)
8. Detective Story by Imre Kertesz (Nobel)

8 debut authors

1. The Mayor’s Tongue by Nathaniel Rich
2. The Sister by Poppy Adams
3. The Undiscovered Country by Lin Enger
4. The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle
5. The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
6. Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
7. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
8. The Pets by Bragi Olafsson
9. Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

8 graphic novels

1. Maus I by Art Spiegelman
2. Maus II by Art Spiegelman
3. American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
4. The Arrival by Shaun Tan
5. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
6. Persepolis I by Satrapi
7. Blankets by Craig Thompson
8. The Borden Tragedy by Rick Geary
9. X-Kai by by Asami Tohjoh

8 different languages in translation

1. Independent People by Halldor Laxness (Icelandic)
2. Silence by Shusaku Endo (Japanese)
3. The Castle by Franz Kafka (German)
4. Kaddish for a Child not Born by Imre Kertesz (Hungarian)
5. Snow by Maxence Fermine (French)
6. Silk by Alessandro Baricco (Italian)
7. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Swedish)
8. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (Norwegian)

8 different countries (Around the World)

1. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
2. The Translator by Daoud Hari (Sudan)
3. Strangers by Taichi Yamada (Japan)
4. Embers by Sandor Marai (Hungary)
5. Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood (Canada)
6. The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (former Yugoslavia)
7. The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (Ireland)
8. Breath by Tim Winton (Australia)

8 different female Canadian authors

1. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
2. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
3. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
4. The Road Past Altamont by Gabrielle Roy
5. Kanada by Eva Wiseman
6. Sitting Practice by Caroline Adderson
7. Bear by Marian Engel
8. Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Anne-Marie MacDonald

8 newly published in 2008

1. The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
2. Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
3. Winter Haven by Athol Dickson
4. Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos
5. The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber
6. Keeper and Kid by Edward Hardy
7. The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
8. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

8 Fantasy

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
8. 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.