The Reading Challenge Group discussion

My personal reading challenges for this year are all about reading a set number of books across different categories and making progress on some 'best of' book lists I have been working on. I am allowing myself to double up on books across the different challenges.

Black Women Authors

The aim is to read a total of 12 books across four regions.

Europe
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Caribbean
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North America
1. Brit Bennett - The Vanishing Half (07/24)
2. Diane Oliver - Neighbors and Other Stories (08/24)
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Africa
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Women's Prize for Fiction

The aim is to read 8 books from the list of winners of the Women's Prize for fiction.

1. Naomi Alderman - The Power (02/24)
2. Kate Grenville - The Idea of Perfection (10/24)
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Short Stories COMPLETED

The aim is to read at least 10 short story collections throughout the year.

1.La princesse qui aimait les chenilles (01/24)
2. Miroslav Penkov - East of the West: A Country in Stories (01/24)
3. Mariana Enriquez - Things We Lost in the Fire (02/24)
4. Duanwad Pimwana - Arid Dreams (03/24)
5. Truman Capote - The Complete Stories (04/24)
6. Ryunosuke Akutagawa – Murder in the Age of Enlightenment: Essential Stories (05/24)
7. Tove Jansson - Fair Play (06/24)
8. Joanne Ella Parsons - Doomed Romances: Strange Tales of Uncanny Love (07/24)
9. Diane Oliver - Neighbors and Other Stories (08/24)
10. Tony Birch - Dark as Last Night (10/24)

Booker Prizes Winners

The aim is to read 5 books which have won the Booker Prize or the International Booker Prize.

1. Jenny Erpenbeck - Kairos
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Ancient TBR

The aim is to read at least five books from my ancient TBR, i.e. books which have been sitting on my physical bookshelves for 10 years or more.

1. Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen (06/24)
2. Arto Paasilinna - Le lièvre de Vatanen (09/24)
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Best crime fiction COMPLETED

The aim is to read at least 7 books from a list I compiled of the supposed best crime fiction, mysteries and thrillers. The list can be viewed on ListChallenges (https://www.listchallenges.com/the-ul...)

1. Belinda Bauer - Blacklands (01/24)
2. Minette Walters - The Breaker (03/24)
3. Chester Himes Cotton Comes to Harlem (05/24)
4. Herman Koch - Het diner (07/24)
5. Christianna Brand - Green for Danger (08/24)
6. Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon (09/24)
7. John Franklin Bardin - The Deadly Percheron (10/24)

European History

The aim is to read 5 books on European history from a list I compiled, also available on ListChallenges (https://www.listchallenges.com/readin...).

1. Simon Price and Peter Thonemann - The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine (10/24)
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Non-fiction women authors COMPLETED

The aim is to read two books by women authors across different non-fiction categories.

Political and social issues/
1. Julia Ebner - Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists (02/24)
2. Tania Branigan - Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution (06/24)

Memoir and Biography/
1. Tove Ditlevsen - Childhood (08/24)
2. Michelle Zauner - Crying in H Mart (09/24)

Science
1. Lucy Cooke - Bitch (04/24)
2. Katie Mack - The End of Everything: (07/24)

Nature Writing
1. Isabella Tree - Wilding (05/24)
2. Madeleine Bunting - Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey (09/24)

History
1. Alice Roberts - Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials (07/24)
2. Kassia St Clair - The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History (08/24)

Gender and Feminism
1. Angela Saini - The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality (03/24)
2. Sarah Clegg - Woman's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi (08/24)

Economics
1. Grace Blakeley - Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom (04/24)
2. Lizzie Collingham - The Hungry Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World (12/24)

Justice, Law and Human Rights
1. Hilda Bernstein - The World That Was Ours (07/24)
2. Carolyn J. Dean - The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide (11/24)