Sycorax Pine is hosting this challenge once again. The first challenge was great, and I’m looking forward to the 2008/9 Unread Authors Challenge as well.
Lasts from August 1, 2008 through January 31, 2009
The rules:
- Read at least SIX books by an author whose work you have never read before.
- You may choose six different “unread” authors to introduce yourself to, or you may choose just one or two and explore their work in greater depth.
- Authors may be drawn from any genre of literature. The only requirement is that they be authors whose work you substantially regret not having read yet.
- Your choices may overlap with other challenges you have underway.
My choices:
- Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
- Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White
- Children of Men by P.D. James
- Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Anne-Marie MacDonald
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
- Breath by Tim Winton
- Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
- Sky Burial by Xinran
- Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
In addition, I also had these new author discoveries:
- Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore
- Blankets by Craig Thompson
- The Borden Tragedy by Rick Geary
- The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- Darkness Visible by William Styron
- The Pigman by Paul Zindel
- The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- Breath by Tim Winton
- Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
- The Pets by Bragi Olafsson
- Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
- Goldengrove by Francine Prose
- X-Kai by Asami Tohjoh
- Vampire Hunter D by Hideyuki Kikuchi
- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
- Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman
- Somebody Else’s Daughter by Elizabeth Brundage
- The Tomato Girl by Jayne Pupek
- Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
- The Book of Murder by Guillermo Martinez
- Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love by Lara Vapnyar
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