Becky is hosting the Celebrate the Author Challenge, in which she asks us to read 12 books - 1 per month by an author whose birthday falls in that month. The challenge runs from 1 January to 31 December 2009. For the details, visit the challenge blog.
Completed: 11/12 as of 30 November 2009
Here are my possibilities:
January: E.M. Forster (01/01), J.R.R. Tolkien (03/01), Philippa Gregory (09/01), Edgar Allan Poe (19/01), Virginia Woolf (25/01), Shannon Hale (26/01), Lewis Carroll (27/01)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
February: James Michener (03/02), Paul Auster (03/02), Laura Ingalls Wilder (07/02), Kate Chopin (08/02), Susan Beth Pfeffer (17/02), John Steinbeck (27/02)
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
March: John Irving (02/03), Gabriel Garcia Marquez (06/03), Kenneth Grahame (08/03), Jeffrey Eugenides (08/03), Keri Hulme (09/03), Pearl Buck (17/03), Penelope Lively (17/03), Philip Roth (19/03), Lois Lowry (20/03), Tenessee Williams (26/09), Jennifer Weiner (28/03), John Fowles (31/03)
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
April: Maya Angelou (04/04), Barbara Kingsolver (08/04), Beverly Cleary (12/04), Henry James (15/04), Charlotte Bronte (21/04), Sue Grafton (24/04)
A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
May: Peter carey (07/05), Daphne du Mauruer (13/05), Jodi Picoult (19/05), Susan Cooper (23/05)
Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult
June: Harriet Beecher Stowe (14/06), Amy Bloom (18/06), Salman Rushdie (19/06), George Orwell (26/06), Pearl S. Buck (26/06), Antoine de Saint-Exupery (29/06)
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
July: Robert A. Heinlein (07/07), Dean Koontz (09/07), Alice Munro (10/07), Cormac McCarthy (20/07), Beatrix Potter (28/07), Emily Bronte (30/07)
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
August: MaryJanice Davidson, Isabel Allende (02/08), Mary Shelley (24/08), E. Annie Proulx (22/08)
Undead and Unemployed by MaryJanice Davidson
September: Roald Dahl (13/09), James Fennimore Cooper (15/09), Agatha Christie (15/09), H.G. Wells (21/09), Laura Esquivel (30/09)
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
October: Anne Rice (04/10), Oscar Wilde (16/10), Ursula Le Guin (21/10), NOra Roberts (30)
Morrigan's Cross by Nora Roberts
November: Bram Stoker (08/11), Margaret Atwood (18/11), Frances H. Burnett (24/11), Louisa May Alcott (29/11), L.M. Montgomery (30/11)
Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
December: Elizabeth Berg (02/12), Joseph Conrad (02/12), Shirley Jackson (14/12), Jane Austen (16/12), Douglas Coupland (30/12)
2 comments:
I'm doing this one too next year. Great list, I'll have to come by and see who you are reading for each month.
I'm pretty sure I'll start with Shannon Hale, and knock off a YA book at the same time.
Yeah, the only way to do it is to double up. I like the author birthday idea - I don't pay enough attention to the authors of the books I'm reading.
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