My Challenges (timed)


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My Challenges (perpetual)

100 SHOTS OF SHORT
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CHECKIN’ OFF THE CHEKHOV
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THE COMPLETE BOOKER
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MARTEL-HARPER CHALLENGE
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MODERN LIBRARY'S 100 BEST NOVELS

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
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THE PULITZER PROJECT
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TAMMY'S BEYOND BOOKS CHALLENGE

New York Times Book Review: 6/40
New Yorker: 0/36
New York Review of Books: 0/20
Vogue: 1/16
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Freedom to Read Week and a New Challenge

For those of us who just can't get enough book challenges, check out:



Thanks to Christina for reminding me to check this out!

This one kicks off during Freedom to Read Week (February 24 through March 1). Set a goal for yourself to read as many banned or challenged books as you wish between February 25 and June 30, 2008. You can sign up at Pelham Public Library's Fahrenheit 451: Banned Book web log to record your goal and report on your progress. Don't know what to read? They've got lists (and you know how we love lists!) to make your choice easier.

Turns out that several of the books that I've picked for other challenges are on the banned lists, so I'll be able to kill two birds with one stone. The challenge only lasts 4 months, so I'm limiting my official goal to 5 books -- but I'm going to list the 12 I picked and see if I can't finish them all by next year's Freedom to Read Week. My list:

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

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