A-Z Challenge Complete

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