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A-Z Challenge
The Goal: Read 26 of them, Review 3 at minimum.




Austen, Jane - Emma
Blume, Judy - Summer Sisters
Carroll, Lewis - Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Dazai, Ozamu - No Longer Human
Eugenides, Jeffrey - Middlesex
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Gaardner, Jostein - Sophie's World
Golden, Arthur - Memoirs of A Geisha
Hemingway, Ernest - The Old Man And The Sea
Ishiguro, Kazuo - Nocturnes
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Kafka, Franz - Metamorphosis
Kipling, Rudyard - The Jungle Book, Kim
Lancaster, Jen - Such A Pretty Fat
Machacek, Rachel - The Science of Single
Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita
Orwell, George - 1984
Ozeki, Ruth - My Year of Meats
Parker, John L. - Once A Runner
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Ribon, Pamela - Why Girls Are Weird
Shteyngart, Gary - Super Sad True Love Story
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
Updike, John - Self-Consciousness
Vonnegut, Kurt - Slapstick
Wells, H. G. - The Time Machine
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
Williams, Katie - The Space Between Trees
Xu Xi - Chinese Walls/Daughters of Hui
Yoshimoto, Banana - Hardboiled & Hard Luck, Kitchen
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Chinese Literature Challenge (1 book min, 1 review)
The Goal: Read 1 of them, Review 1 at minimum.




1. Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching (translators: Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English)
2. Lu Xun - The True Story of Ah Q

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South Asian Literature Challenge
The Goal: Read 1 of them, Review 1 at minimum.




1. Anonymous - The Bhagavad Gita
2. Bharati Mukherjee - Jasmine

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South and Southeast Asian Literature Challenge
The Goal: Read 3 of them, Review 1 at minimum.



Indonesia: The Jakarta Globe Staff - My Jakarta: Stories of Life in the City
China/Burma: Amy Tan - Saving Fish From Drowning
Japan: Natsume Soseki - I Am A Cat
South Korea: Sung J. Woo - Everything Asian


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International Book Challenge 
The Goal: Read as many as you wish, Review 1 at minimum.


Europe
ITALY: Italo Calvino - If On A Winter's Night A Traveler
GERMANY: Franz Kafka - The Castle
ENGLAND: Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Asia
Middle East
TURKEY: Elif Shafak - The Saint of Incipient Insanities
LEBANON: Khalil Gibran - The Prophet
ARAB: Anonymous - One Thousand And One Arabian Nights

Southeast
CHINA: Lu Xun - Diary of A Madman
JAPAN: Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Americas
BRAZIL: Paulo Coelho: The Pilgrimage
UNITED STATES: Michael Crichton - State of Fear

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Read-a-thon Challenge
The Goal: Read the whole book in one day. Update reading progress by blogging about it throughout the day.

April: Napoleon Hill - Think And Grow Rich
October: Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist, Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull