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Listopia - 2021

The LIST:
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
19/50 - Falling Man by Don DeLillo - 06/25/2021

The LIST:
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
20/50 - Choke by Chuck Palahniuk - 06/28/2021

1001 Books To Read Before You Die - Progress: 17/36
This month:
1881 Brazil: The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
1905 US: The House of Mirth
1907 England: The Secret Agent

Did some trimming on my lists. I'll get to the ones I trimmed out next year!
Progress: 15/25
Thanks Trisha! :)

The LIST:
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
21/50 - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - 07/02/21
22/50 - Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor - 07/08/21

The LIST:
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
23/50 - In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust - 07/18/21

Progress: 23/36 1001 books to read before you die
Read in July:
1778 England: Evelina
1818 England: Northanger Abbey
1914 Japan: Kokoro txl from Japanese
1934 Myanmar/Burma: Burmese Days
1988 Vietnam: Paradise of the Blind txl from Vietnamese
2001 Spain: The Soldiers of Salamis txl from Spanish

The LIST:
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
24/50 - Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey - 07/25/21
25/50 - Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys - 07/29/21
26/50 - Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel - 7/31/21

12/30 completed
List One- Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
3. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J K Rowling

The LIST:
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
27/50 - Dispatches by Michael Herr - 08/08/21

The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

10/10 Challenge Completed! Now to finish up my TBR Challenge and my overall reading goal!

14/30 completed
List Three- Books White People Need to Read
2. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
3. Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
by Beverly Daniel Tatum

The LIST:
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
28/50 - The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin - 8/13/21
29/50 - Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson - 8/16/21

30/50
The LIST:
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
30/50 - I, Robot by Isaac Asimov - 8/19/21

17/30 completed
List One- Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
5. Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton ✔️
List Four- Female Leads From Around the World
2. Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok ✔️
List Six- Great Foodie Fiction
3. Chocolat - Joanne Harris ✔️

Progress: 27/36 1001 books to read before you die
Read in August:
1939 US-CA: The Big Sleep
1949 Austria: The Third Man
1981 India: Midnight's Children
1995 India: A Fine Balance

The LIST:
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
31/50 - A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz - 8/29/21

19/30 completed
List Two - First Book of a Cozy Mystery Series
3. The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
List Five- Anticipated 2020 Books
3. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

Lists: 4/4
Books: 23/23
Completed
Decided to go ahead and call this one finished. That will leave me more to read next year.
It's been fun!
Thanks Trisha!
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