What an Animal Reading Challenge

Kristi of Passion For the Page is hosting the What An Animal Challenge challenge, which encourages participates to read six books that:

• have an animal in the title of the book, OR
• an animal on the cover of the book, OR
• an animal that plays a major role in the book, OR
• a main character that is or turns into an animal

The challenge lasts from July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009.

I’ll choose from the following:

1. The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle
2. The Pigman by Paul Zindel (pig on the cover)
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
4. The White Tiger by Adiga
5. The Pets by Bragi Olafsson
6. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
7. Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife by Sigrid Undset (horse on the cover)

• Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
• Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
• Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell
• The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
• The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
• Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile by Verlyn Klinkenborg
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
• Lonesome Dove byLarry McMurtry
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• The Complete Tales of Winnie-the Pooh by A. A. Milne
• The Sign of the Beaver by Speare
• Shiloh, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Sounder, by William H. Armstrong
• Shadow of a Bull, by Maia Wojciechowska
• It’s Like This, Cat, by Emily Neville
• The Cat Who Went to Heaven, by Elizabeth Coatsworth
• Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon, by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
• Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James
• The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, by Hugh Lofting
• Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George
• Rabbit Hill, by Robert Lawson

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