Thanks, Joy, for hosting this challenge. I’m glad I finally read Xinran and some other authors I’ve been meaning to get to.
I cut it close, and I still have to write some reviews, but I finally finished this challenge with the completion of Zenzele. I was also successful in this as a personal challenge in 2007, so I’m not sure if I’ll do it again in 2009. I might actually attempt it one more time because I have a good handle on the books I would want to use for the most difficult letters. If I do, though, three years in a row will definitely be enough!
Here are my titles:
Authors:
A – Atwood, Cat’s Eye
B – Baricco, Silk
C – Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
D – Dickson, Winter Haven
E – Endo, Silence
F – Fermine, Snow
G – Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
H – Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
I – Ireland, A Certain Mr. Takahashi
J – James, Children of Men
K – Kertesz, Kaddish for a Child not Born
L – Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth
M – Morton, The House at Riverton
N – Nabokov, Lolita
O – O’Flynn, What Was Lost
P – Plath, The Bell Jar
Q – Quindlen, Blessings
R – Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
S – Schlitz, Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
T – Thompson, Blankets
U – Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife
V – Vapnyar, Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love
W – Eva Wiseman, Kanada
X – Xinran, Sky Burial
Y – Yamada, Strangers
Z – Zindel, The Pigman
Titles:
A – After Dark by Murakami
B – The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
C – The Cloud of Unknowing by Thomas H. Cook
D – Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
E – Embers by Sandor Marai
F – The Forgery of Venus by Gruber
G – The Gathering by Enright
H – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
I – Independent People by Laxness
J – Jacob Two-Two’s First Spy Case by Mordecai Richler
K – Keeper and Kid by Edward Hardy
L – Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
M – Maus by Art Spiegelman
N – Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
O – The Only Road North by Mirandette
P – The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
Q – Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White
R – The Road Past Altamont by Gabrielle Roy
S – Sitting Practice by Caroline Adderson
T – The Translator by Daoud Hari
U – Undiscovered Country by Lin Enger
V – Vampire Hunter D by Hideyuki Kikuchi
W – Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
X – X-Kai by Asami Tohjoh
Y – A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Z – Zenzele by J. Nozipo Maraire
