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[noodles_morgyn]

Okay, so I got sucked in to the reading challenge madness.

Decades '08 challenge (link)
Read one book from each decade of the past 200 years.

• 1790's: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798)
• 1800's: Faust - Goethe (1808)
• 1810's: Swiss Family Robinson - J. D. Wyss (1812)
• 1820's: Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas De Quincey (1821)
• 1830's: The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo (1831)
• 1840's: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë (1848)
• 1850's: Moby-Dick - Herman Melville (1851)
• 1860's: Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (1861)
• 1870's: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
• 1880's: The Princess and Curdie - George MacDonald (1882)
• 1890's: The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling (1894)
• 1900's: The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (1908)
• 1910's: The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka (1915)
• 1920's: The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran (1923)
• 1930's: Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder (1935)
• 1940's: The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1945)
• 1950's: Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
• 1960's: A Zoo in My Luggage - Gerald Durrell (1960)
• 1970's: Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson (1977)
• 1980's: The Mezzanine - Nicholas Baker (1988)
• 1990's: A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin (1996)

Seconds challenge
Read twelve books by authors you've only read one other book by.

• Francesca Lia Block (already read Rose and the Beast)
• Susanna Clarke (already read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell)
• Victoria Clayton (already read Clouds Among the Stars)
• Dave Eggers (already read A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius)
• Jeffrey Eugenides (already read The Virgin Suicides)
• Pete Hamill (already read Forever)
• Pete Hautman (already read Sweetblood)
• Melina Marchetta (already read Looking for Alibrandi)
• Arthur Miller (already read The Crucible)
• Michael Ondaatje (already read In the Skin of a Lion)
• Jodi Picoult (already read The Pact)

Bibliography challenge
Read six books about books.

• The Neverending Story - Michael Ende
• the Thursday Next series - Jasper Fforde
• Inkspell - Cornelia Funke
• The Camel Bookmobile - Masha Hamilton
• The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
• The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler

What's In A Name challenge
Read a book with each of the following in the title.

• a colour: A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
• an animal: Friend Monkey - P. L. Travers
• a first name: Heidi - Johanna Spyri
• a place: Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
• a weather event: The Last Rainbow - Godwin Parke
• a plant: Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco

I also meant to work through my one-book-you-must-read list this year. Whoops. Guess I'll be doing that next year as well...