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Jessie
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19 December 2006 @ 10:15 am
anyone else up for the challenge?  
for 2007 i'm going to try and read 26 new authors, but the kicker is that each one's last name has to begin with a different letter of the alphabet.  you should join me!
 

HERE IS MY (tentative) LIST:

  • A -- The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
  • B -- TESTAMENT OF YVES GUNDRON by EMILY, BARTON
  • C -- Size 12 Is Not Fat: A Heather Wells Mystery by Meg Cabot
  • D -- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
  • E -- Travels With Lizbeth by Lars Eighner
  • F -- Curious Wine: A Novel by Katherine V. Forrest
  • G -- Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans by Jane Green
  • H -- Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge (P.S.) by Eleanor Herman
  • I -- The World According to Garp by John Irving OR Beasts of No Nation: A Novel by Uzodinma Iweala
  • J -- Normal Girl: A Novel by Molly Jong-Fast
  • K -- A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
  • L -- Family Planning by Elizabeth Letts
  • M -- The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm
  • N -- We Thought You Would Be Prettier: True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive by Laurie Notaro
  • O -- All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki
  • P -- Conversations with the Fat Girl by Liza Palmer
  • Q -- Black and Blue: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Anna Quindlen
  • R -- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  • S -- Eating Heaven by Jennie Shortridge
  • T -- Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood by Jennifer Traig
  • U -- Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family by Yoshiko Uchida
  • V -- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 
  • W -- Nursery Crimes (Mommy-Track Mysteries (Paperback)) by Ayelet Waldman
  • X -- Death of a Red Heroine (Soho Crime) by Qiu Xiaolong
  • Y --  Girl in a Cage by Jane Yolen or Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
  • Z -- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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    Claire[info]chief_85 on December 21st, 2006 05:55 am (UTC)
    Hmm interesting idea. I'm very tempted. So it's 26 books that you haven't read by authors who's books you've never read? Or can you do authors who's books you've read?
    Jessie[info]checkingmypulse on December 21st, 2006 02:21 pm (UTC)
    i'm doing 26 totally NEW to me authors
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