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Read at least 6 unread authors.
September 2007 through February 2008
I finished this challenge with 6 books of new-to-me authors. I’ll continue to post reviews here, though, of new unread authors until the end of December.
1. Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset FINISHED
2. Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather by Gao Xingjian FINISHED
3. Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini FINISHED
4. History of Love by Nicole Krauss
5. Ishmael by Daniel Quinn FINISHED
6. Mr. Ives’ Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos FINISHED
Alternates/Extras:
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller FINISHED
Bud, not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis FINISHED
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad FINISHED
Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright FINISHED
Middlesex–Eugenides FINISHED
Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichie FINISHED
Never Let Me Go–Ishiguro FINISHED
The Hours by Michael Cunningham FINISHED
Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol Vol. 1 FINISHED
Mad Shadows by Marie-Claire Blais FINISHED
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett FINISHED
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith FINISHED
The Xanadu Adventure by Lloyd Alexander FINISHED
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells FINISHED
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf FINISHED
Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolano FINISHED
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx FINISHED
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini FINISHED
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky FINISHED
Well done Michelle! Like you, I’ve found that I read more new to me authors than I realized. I am doing fine with the challenge but each month most of my other reads would also qualify.