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This is a favorite challenge of mine, all about reading books you already own. (FWIW, I’m bolstering my list with a couple of my parents’ books. We share with each other!) It’s crazy, but I’m also choosing a steep challenge this year: 24 books. Don’t know how far I’ll get, but I’m pretty excited with the list!
Here it is, in no particular order (and subject to change):
Fiction:
- ✓ Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
- ✓ The Professor – Charlotte Bronte
- Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Light in August – William Faulkner
- The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
- All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
- The Red and the Black – Stendhal
- The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
- Moby-Dick (reread) – Herman Melville
- Jane Eyre (reread) – Charlotte Bronte
- Pilgrim’s Progress (reread) – John Bunyan
- ✓ The Time Machine (reread) – H. G. Wells
- Bonus: Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
- Bonus: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Bronte
- Bonus: Bleak House by Charles Dickens
If I read The Professor and Tenant, I will have finally read all of the Bronte sisters’ novels. The completist in me is eager for that milestone!
Non-Fiction:
- The Lost City of Z – David Grann
- The Emperor’s Sea Eagle: A Memoir of the Attack on Pearl Harbor and the War in the Pacific – Abe Zenji
- Recollections of Japan – Hendrik Doeff
- The Boy in the Mask: The Hidden World of Lawrence of Arabia – Dick Benson-Gyles
- To Begin the World Over Again: Lawrence of Arabia from Damascus to Baghdad – John Hulsman
- Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy – Eric Metaxas
- Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age – W. Bernard Carlson
- ✓ AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order – Kai-Fu Lee
- ✓ Fear No Evil – Natan Sharansky
- Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook – Jane Maxwell
- The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition – Caroline Alexander
- Shackleton – Roland Huntford
There are a LOT of chunksters here, particularly the biographies. We’ll see how that goes…
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