Read 2/3.  Complete by January 31st, 2011.  Choose from:

• Wolf  Hall by Hilary Mantel
• The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kistova
• City Sister Silver by Jachym Topol
• The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Skvorecky
• Listening Now by Anjana Appachana
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiong’o

 

Rules. 6/6 Read. Completed by December 31, 2010. Read the following:

• Food in title: Sugar by Bernice McFadden
• Body of water in title: God Dies by the Nile by Nawal el Saadawi
• Place name in title: The Purple Violet of Oshaantu by Neshani Andreas
• Plant in the title: Flower Children by Maxine Swann
• Title in title: Counselor Ayres’ Memorial by Machado de Assis
• Music term in title:  Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal

Rules. 17/12 Read. Completed by December 31, 2010. Choose from:

• The Stone Virgins by Yvonne Vera (Zimbabwe)
• African Love Stories edited by Ama Ata Aidoo
• God Dies by The Nile by Nawal el Saadawi (Egypt)
• The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)
• The Cry of Winnie Mandela by Njabulo Ndebele (South Africa)
• Sugar by Bernice McFadden (US)
• Imagine This by Sade Adeniran (Nigeria)
• I Do Not Come To You By Chance by Adaobi Nwaubani (Nigeria)
  
• Tropical Fish: Tales From Entebbe by Doreen Baingana (Uganda)
  
• The Purple Violet of Oshaantu by Neshani Andreas (Namibia)
  
• Cloth Girl by Marilyn Heward-Mills (UK)
• Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Kenya)
• Lost in the City and other stories by  Edward P. Jones (US)
• Quicksand by Nella Larsen
• Passing by Nella Larsen
• The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives by Lola Shoneyin (Nigeria)
• So Long A Letter by Mariama Ba (Senegal)
• True Murder by Yaba Badoe (Ghana)
• In Dependence by Sarah Ladipo Manyika (Nigeria)
• Beyond the Horizon by Amma Darko (Ghana)
• The Healers by Ayi Kwei Armah (Ghana)
• The Other Crucifix by Benjamin Kwakye (Ghana)
• Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana)
• Broken Glass by Alain Mabankou (Congo)
• Damballah by John Edgar Wideman (US)

Rules. 8/8 Read. Completed by November 30,2010. Choose from:

• The Time of the Doves by Merce Rodoreda (Spain)
• House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk (Poland)
• The Wild Geese by Ogai Mori (Japan)
• Collected Stories by Patricia Grace (New Zealand)
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (UK)
• The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano (Italy)
  
• The Dwarf by Per Lagerkvist (Sweden)
• Counselor Ayres’ Memorial by Machado de Assis (Brazil)

Read 100 short stories by December 31, 2010. 100/100 read. Completed.

1. Seventy Thousand Assyrians by William Saroyan

12. The Laws of Evening by Mary Yukari Waters (collection with 11 stories)

24. The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

25.  The Nose by Nicolai Gogol

26. The Prefiguration of Lalo Cura by Roberto Bolano

47. African Love Stories edited by Ama Ata Aidoo

48. Mr. Beneset by Quim Monzò

49. Honesty by Quim Monzò

57. Tropical Fish:Tales From Entebbe by Doreen Baingana

69. Waiariki and Other Stories by Patricia Grace

81. The Dream Sleepers and Other Stories by Patricia Grace

87. Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann

100. Electric City and Other Stories by Patricia Grace