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In light of the approaching New Year, I've decided to attempt - and propose - a reading challenge to everyone who reads this blog. It's something I've been thinking about for a while now, and I've decided to take on the challenge, as well as open it up to everyone who is willing to take it on. Here are the guidelines of the challenge:
a. Pick ten books that were published in the year of your birth. They may belong to any genre; the only qualifier is that they were first published in the year of your birth. If the book has been translated, you may choose to make your choice based on the year of the book's publication in its original language, or the year of its first publication in translation. If the text was expanded from another, shorter text, then you may choose to make the choice based on the publication date of the source text, or the publication date of the longer text.
b. Finish the list within the year.
There is obviously no prize or any such thing for accomplishing this, except perhaps the satisfaction of having finished the list, and of course the opportunity for discovery of new writers one many not have read before, or reading new texts from writers one already knows. I'm doing this mostly for my own personal enjoyment as a personal challenge, and I thought it would be fun to share it with everyone else so they may try it for themselves.
At any rate, here are my ten selections for the challenge, to be read in no particular order:
a. Song of Kali - Dan Simmons
b. Here Be Dragons - Sharon Kay Penman
c. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
d. The Damnation Game - Clive Barker
e. Neverness - David Zindell
f. Angel with the Sword - C.J. Cherryh
g. Emergence - David Palmer
h. Blood Music - Greg Bear
i. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
j. Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth - Naguib Mahfouz
Feel free to share yours in the comments or on your journal, or not at all, if you choose. Just have fun with it, if you do choose to take it up. You never know what gems you might find that were published in the year you were born.
a. Pick ten books that were published in the year of your birth. They may belong to any genre; the only qualifier is that they were first published in the year of your birth. If the book has been translated, you may choose to make your choice based on the year of the book's publication in its original language, or the year of its first publication in translation. If the text was expanded from another, shorter text, then you may choose to make the choice based on the publication date of the source text, or the publication date of the longer text.
b. Finish the list within the year.
There is obviously no prize or any such thing for accomplishing this, except perhaps the satisfaction of having finished the list, and of course the opportunity for discovery of new writers one many not have read before, or reading new texts from writers one already knows. I'm doing this mostly for my own personal enjoyment as a personal challenge, and I thought it would be fun to share it with everyone else so they may try it for themselves.
At any rate, here are my ten selections for the challenge, to be read in no particular order:
a. Song of Kali - Dan Simmons
b. Here Be Dragons - Sharon Kay Penman
c. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
d. The Damnation Game - Clive Barker
e. Neverness - David Zindell
f. Angel with the Sword - C.J. Cherryh
g. Emergence - David Palmer
h. Blood Music - Greg Bear
i. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
j. Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth - Naguib Mahfouz
Feel free to share yours in the comments or on your journal, or not at all, if you choose. Just have fun with it, if you do choose to take it up. You never know what gems you might find that were published in the year you were born.
