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RadicalTranslation
Jan 26, 2021

Name: RadicalTranslation
Personal Challenge: 75 books
Booklord 2021? Sure

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RadicalTranslation
Jan 26, 2021

RadicalTranslation posted:

Name: RadicalTranslation
Personal Challenge: 75 books
Booklord 2021? Sure

5. Read books whose titles include all the colours of the rainbow. (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet)

I'll try my best on these; adding a (b) to books I need to buy

The Color Purple by Alice Walker (b)
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (substituting this out for Indigo lol)
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (b)
Ultramarine by Malcolm Lowry
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (b)
Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown

6. Read something recommended to you by a friend or loved one.


The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish (gifted to me by my mum)

7. Ask someone in this thread for a Wildcard, and read it.

Anyone wanna recommend me something that is in line with what I have listed?

8. Read something that's out of print.

Men of Good Will by Jules Romains (only the first volume, since it's the longest novel ever written!)

9. Read something in translation.

The Iliad by Homer (which I will definitely finish this year... maybe)

10. Read some poetry.

Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

11. Read some short stories.


I'll read Kate Chopin's short stories along with The Awakening

12. Read something about a monster.

The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton (this counts right?)

13. Read an essay collection.

Don't need this since my degree requires doing this every week :/

14. Read something historical about a place you've never visited.

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

15. Read something set in the recent past.

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

16. Read something from a non-human perspective.

God I have no idea where to even begin with this; any suggestions (again in line with what I've listed?)

17. Read something about the ocean.


The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

18. Read a collaboration between two or more authors.

The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Beaumont & Fletcher

19. Read something about games.


The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse

20. Read a bestseller from the week/month you were born.

Ravelstein by Saul Bellow (b)

21. Read something by a writer who spent time incarcerated.

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

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