J. Kaye is the new host for the 2009 2nds Challenge, and this time it lasts all year and has 12 selections. I’m looking forward to reading a second book by many authors, and I’ll choose from the list below:
- Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (1st: The Eyre Affair)
- The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (1st: The Shadow of the Wind)
- Shanghai Girls by Lisa See (1st: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan)
- A Short Guide to a Happy Life by Anna Quindlen (1st: Blessings)
- Unless by Carol Shields (1st: The Stone Diaries)
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (1st: Unaccustomed Earth)
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1st: Ethan Frome)
- New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (1st: Twilight)
- A Fatal Grace (aka Dead Cold) by Louise Penny (1st: Still Life)
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (1st: The Kite Runner)
- Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris (1st: Dead Until Dark)
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (1st: The Hunger Games)
- Guillermo Martinez
- Stieg Larsson
- Haruki Murakami
- Shusaku Endo
- Anne-Marie MacDonald
- Elizabeth Strout
- Sebastian Barry
- Paul Zindel
- Per Petterson
- Kent Haruf
- Xinran
- Leif Enger
- George Eliot
- Wilkie Collins
- Markus Zusak
- Cornelia Funke
- Jodi Picoult
- Anne Tyler
- Ishiguro
- E. Annie Proulx
- Roberto Bolano
- Irene Nemirovsky
