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“My Year of Reading Dangerously: A Challenge” begins on January 1, 2008 and consist of some very simple rules. Namely, read authors or genres that intimidate us. The twelve official titles are below, but we are allowed to substitute some if we wish. My substitutions are in green.
The Twelve “Official” Novels by month with completed titles in bold:
January: Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens (Independent People by Halldor Laxness, an Icelandic Nobel laureate)
February: The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
March: Cat’s Eye, by Margaret Atwood
April: Transformations, by Anne Sexton
May: Other Voices, Other Rooms, by Truman Capote
June: Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
July: The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
August: Maus I and Maus II, by Art Spiegelman
September: The Secret Lives of People in Love, by Simon Van Booy
October: The Human Stain, by Philip Roth (American Pastoral by Philip Roth because I dislike Roth and this is a Pulitzer which I have to read for the Pulitzer Project anyway.)
November: A Month of Classic Short Stories, Various – watch for a list
December: The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck (I’ve already read this and East of Eden, so something else by Steinbeck, possibly The Wayward Bus or Cannery Row.)
