My 2021 Reading Projects and challenges.
Updated: 12/28/21
I.
On-going challenge: Read the current Pulitzer Prize winner for literature. Read previous books that interest me.
Year
|
Title
|
Author
|
Read
|
| 2021 |
The Night Watchman |
Erdrich, Louise |
Sept. '21 |
2020
|
The Dutch House (finalist)
|
Patchett, Ann
|
Nov. '19
|
2020
|
Whitehead, Colson
|
Sep. '19
|
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2019
|
Powers, Richard
|
Aug. ‘19
|
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2019
|
There There (finalist)
|
Orange, Tommy
|
Feb. ‘19
|
2019
|
The Great Believers (finalist)
|
Makkai, Rebecca
|
Apr. ‘19
|
2018
|
Greer, Andrew
|
Mar ‘18
|
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2017
|
Whitehead, Colson
|
Jul ‘17
|
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2016
|
Nyugen, Viet
|
Sep. ‘16
|
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2015
|
Doerr, Anthony
|
Aug '15
|
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2014
|
The Goldfinch
|
Tartt, Donna
|
Dec '14
|
2013
|
Orphan Master's Son
|
Johnson, Adam
|
|
2013
|
The Snow Child (Finalist)
|
Ivey, Eowyn
|
May ‘12
|
2011
|
A Visit from the Goon Squad
|
Egan, Jennifer
|
Sept '21 |
2010
|
Harding, Paul
|
Aug '20 | |
2009
|
Olive Kitteridge
|
Strout, Elizabeth
|
Mar '10
|
2008
|
Diaz, Junot
|
Jan ‘16
|
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2007
|
The Road
|
McCarthy, Cormac
|
Jan. '23 |
2006
|
March
|
Brooks, Geraldine
|
Apr '08
|
2005
|
Robinson, Marianne
|
Apr ‘19
|
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2004
|
The Known World
|
Jones, Edward
|
|
2004
|
Evidence of Things Unseen (Finalist)
|
Wiggins, Marianne
|
Mar ‘11
|
2003
|
Middlesex
|
Eugenides, Jeffrey
|
Oct '06
|
2002
|
Empire Falls
|
Russo, Richard
|
Apr '05
|
2001
|
The Amazing Kavalier and Clay
|
Charbon, Micahel
|
|
2000
|
Interpreter of Maladies
|
Lahiri, Jhumpa
|
Aug '21 |
2000
|
Close Range: Wyoming Stories (Finalist)
|
Proulx, E. Annie
|
June '15
|
1999
|
The Hours
|
Cunningham, Michael
|
Sept '21 |
1999
|
The Poisonwood Bible (Finalist)
|
Kingsolver, Barbara
|
1999
|
1995
|
Stone Diaries
|
Shields, Carol
|
1995
|
1994
|
Shipping News
|
Proulx, Annie
|
1997
|
1992
|
A Thousand Acres
|
Smiley, Jane
|
1993
|
1991
|
The Things They Carried (Finalist)
|
O’Brien, Tim
|
2009
|
1989
|
Breathing Lessons
|
Tyler, Anne
|
July 2021 |
1988
|
Morrison, Toni
|
2010
|
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1986
|
McMurty, Larry
|
Apr 2020
|
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1983
|
The Color Purple
|
Walker, Alice
|
2009
|
1981
|
Toole, John Kennedy
|
2013
|
|
1977
|
Roots (Special Pulitzer)
|
Haley, Alex
|
1977
|
1973
|
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1972
|
Angle of Repose
|
Stegner, Wallace
|
1995
|
1961
|
Lee, Harper
|
2008
|
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1953
|
The Old Man and the Sea
|
Hemingway, Ernest
|
1972
|
1948
|
Michener, James
|
May ‘17
|
|
1940
|
The Grapes of Wrath
|
Steinbeck, John
|
Aug. '22 |
1939
|
Rawles, Marjorie K.
|
Jan ‘16
|
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1937
|
Gone with the Wind
|
Mitchell, Margaret
|
1974
|
1932
|
The Good Earth
|
Buck, Pearl S.
|
1973
|
1925
|
So Big
|
Ferber, Edna
|
May '20 |
1923
|
One of Ours
|
Cather, Willa
|
Aug '21 |
1921
|
Wharton, Edith
|
Apr ‘16
|
II.
My National Book Award Challenge (click hyperlink)
My goal is to read two books for each award year
III.
Michael L. Printz Award (Best YA literature of the year) 2021
Read the Printz Award and honor books each year
Highlighted titles=READ
2021 Awards go to:
Highlighted titles=READ
2021 Awards go to:
Winner: “Everything Sad Is Untrue (a true story),” by Daniel Nayeri.
Honor books:
“Apple (Skin to the Core),” by Eric Gansworth
“Dragon Hoops,” created by Gene Luen Yang
“Every Body Looking,” by Candice Iloh
“We Are Not Free,” by Traci Chee
IV.
2021 Audiobook Challenge
1. Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean, read by Angus King
2. Walk Toward the Rising Sun by Ger Duany, read by the author
3. The Cat I Never Named by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, read by Leila Buck
4. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman, read by Marin Ireland
5. Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo, read by the author and Melanie-Luisa Marte
6. Moloka'i by Alan Brennert, read by Anne Noelani Miyamoto
7. Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline, read by Wil Wheaton
8. Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie, read by Robin Eller, Siho Ellsmore, Kathrine Lee McEwan, Jeena Yi, Sarah Skaer, and Louis Ozawa
9. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green, read by Oliver Wyman, Hillary Huber, Gabra Zackman, Robert Petkoff, Kevin Free, PJ Ochlan, Kristen Sieh, Hoe Hempel, Nicole Lewis, Angelo diLoreto, Hank Green, Jesse Vilinsky
10. Light For the World to See by Kwame Alexander, read by the author
11. A Promised Land by Barack Obama, read by the author
12. Dune by Frank Herbert, read by Scott Brick, Simon Vance, Orlaugh Cassidy, Ilyana Kadushin, Euan Morton
13. The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare, read by Adjoa Andoh
14. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, read by Carrie Mulligan
15. The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline, read by Caroline Lee
16. End of Watch by Stephen King, read by Will Patton
17. The Arthropocene Reviewed by John Green, read by the author
18. Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford, read by Emily Woo Zeller
19. The Four Winds by Kristen Hannah, read by Julia Whelan
20. We Are Not Free by Traci Chee, read by Terry Kitagawa, Christopher Naoki Lee, Scott Keiji Takeda, Ryan Potter, Erika Aishii, Andrew Kishino, Sophie Oda, Kurt Sanchez Kanazawa, Brittany Ishibashi, Ali Fumiko, Grace Rolek, Dan Woren
21. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy, read by the author
22. This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger, read by Scott Brick
23. The Cold Millions by Jess Walters, read by Gary Farmer, Marin Ireland, Cassandra Campbell, MacLeod Andrews, Tim Gerard Reynolds, Mike Ortega, Rex Anderson, Charlie Thurston, and Frankie Corzo
24. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, read by Ray Porter
25. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris, read by Richard Armitage
26. The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich, read by the author
27. A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, read by Roxana Ortega
28. We Begin Again by Chris Whitaker, read by George Newbern
29. The Souvenir Museum by Elizabeth McCracken, read by Kate Reading
30. The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz, read by Kirby Heyborne
31. The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett, read by Nicollete McKenzie
32. The Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz, read by Samantha Bond and Allan Corduner
33. The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley, read by Anna Cordell
34. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, read by Jasper Britton
35. Transcription by Kate Atkinson, read by Fenella Woolgar
36. Hell of a Book by Jason Mott, read by JD Jackson and Ronald Peet
37. Matrix by Lauren Groff, read by Adjoa Andoh
38. Terciel and Elinor by Gath Nix, read by Billie Fulford-Brown
39. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, read by Marin Ireland
40. Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu, read by Joel de la Fuente
41. Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson, read by Marin Ireland
42. I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O'Farrell, read by Daisy Donovan
43. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner, read by the author
V. One Big Reading Challenge-Yearly
2020---Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
2021---Dune by Frank Herbert
V1. 20-Books of Summer Reading Challenge
1. The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
2. End of Watch by Stephen King
3. Everything Sad Is Untrue (A True Story) by Daniel Nayeri
4. The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
5. The 100 Best Loved Poems of All Time edited by Leslie Pickell
6. Why Storms Are Named After People and Bullets Remain Nameless by Tanaya Winder
7. Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford
8. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
9. We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
10. Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
11. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
12. This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
13. Stitches by Anne Lamott
14. Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck
15. The Cold Millions by Jess Walters
16. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
17. One of Ours by Willa Cather
18. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
19. It Began With a Page by Kyo Maclear
20. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy by Tony Medina
21. The Tale of Kitty in Boots by Beatrix Potter
22. The Creator's Canvas by Steven Payne
23. The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
24. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
25. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
26. The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
27. Wade in the Waters: Poems by Tracy K. Smith
VII. Big Book Summer Reading Challenge
1. End of Watch by Stephen King, 448 pages
2. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah, 464 pages
3. We Are Not Free by Traci Chee, 400 pages
4. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy, 467 pages
5. This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger, 465 pages
6. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, 496 pages
7. One of Ours by Willa Cather, 459 pages
8. The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich, 464 pages
When I see all these challenges I want to do more of them :) I had no idea there was so many out there!!
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