Reading Challenge 2021
I have received a challenge to read books that satisfy certain criteria. I hope this post helps me track my progress in meeting that challenge.
By a female author of colour: Rania Abouzeid's “No turning back”.
By a Singaporean author: Crispin Rodrigues's “The Nomad Principle”.
By a South-east Asian author: Minfong Ho's “Sing to the dawn”.
A book in translation: Kafka's “The metamorphosis”. Translated by Ian Johnston.
A graphic novel: Naoki Urasawa's “Mujirishi: The sign of dreams”.
A book of essays: Donatella Di Cesare's “Immunodemocracy”.
A book of short stories: Jennani Durai's “Regrettable things that happened yesterday”.
Over 400 pages: Rabindranath Tagore's “Gora”.+
Published in 2021: Tahereh Mafi's “An emotion of great delight”.^
Published before you were born: Eric Linklater's “Poet's pub”.
A book you've read before: E.B. White's “Charlotte's Web”.
A book about changing the world: Azra Raza's “The first cell”.^
A book about changing your self: Eckhart Tolle's “The power of now”.^
A book you judged by its cover: Jerome K. Jerome's “Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog!)”.
A book you suspect you won't enjoy: Dr Mike Goldsmith's “Horribly famous: Inventors and their bright ideas”.^
An author's debut: Heather Morris's “The tattooist of Auschwitz”.
With the word “moon” in its title: Mark Andrew Poe's “The amazing adventures of Harry Moon”.
A well-known book you never got around to reading: Kurt Vonnegut's “Slaughterhouse five”.
A book that's been adapted to a movie or TV show: Yossi Ghinsberg's “Jungle”.
Borrowed from a friend: H.G. Wells's “War of the worlds”.
^: I've only read it in part.
+: I've not read it yet. (As of 17 July 2021).
I saw such a reading challenge, on a piece of paper, at a book-store called The Moon, on the island of Singapore.