If I was to take part in a reading challenge, I would attempt this one. I made it because it pushes me to read way beyond my known borders. And while I thought I was a wide roaming reader of sorts, it turns out that I’m not. I have also not yet found titles for the whole list.
Reading across from the top right-hand corner:
- A manga title –
- History book by a woman writer – Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
- Translated from Japanese –
- An Indian writer – The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- A Virago title – South Riding by Winifred Holtby
- Ancient Greek literature – The Birds by Aristophanes
- A New York Review Classic – The Invention of Morel by Aldopho Bioy Casares
- Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Jeremy Fisher
- Book 1 of a Science Fiction Series – Wool by Hugh Howey
- An Australian Indigenous writer – Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
- A children’s picture book -The Wonder Thing by Libby Hathorn
- Middle East Book Award –
- An epistolary novel –
- Short stories written by a woman – The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
- A book written in the 1700s –
- A Science fiction classic – Dune by Frank Herbert
- A book that feature vampires – The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
- A book over 1000 pages – Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- A banned book – Forever Amber by Kathleen Windsor (Banned in fourteen states in the US, and by Australia in 1945 as: a collection of bawdiness, amounting to sex obsession)
- An Australian play – Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler
- A book of poetry, single poet – The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
- Any translated book into English – My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
- Any Shakespeare play – Othello
- A fantasy stand alone novel – The Princess Bride by William Goldman
- Fiction translated from Chinese – The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan