2026 Reading Challenge discussion

Thanks to my amazing children I have a paperwhite which makes reading so much easier. Thought about going for more but ancestry research will take some of my precious reading time.

JAN 2014 ... ^ means the book is done.

^1. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, 1/3/2014, 771pgs.
^2. Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino, 1/8/2014, 482 pgs.
^3. The Good Lord Bird by James McBride, 1/9/2014, 433 pgs.
^4. Before I Burn: A Novel by Gaute Heivoll, 1/12/2014, 336 pgs.
^5. The Execution of Noa P. Singleton by Elizabeth L. Silver, 1/13/2014, 352 pgs.
^6. Amidst the Shadows of Trees: A Holocaust Child's Survival in the Partisans by Miriam Brysk, 1/15/2014, 172 pgs.
^7. The World Without You by Joshua Henkin, 1/18/2014, 336 pgs.
^8. The Kept: A Novel by James Scott, 1/18/2014, 370 pgs.
^9. House of Bathory by Linda Lafferty, 1/20/2014, 486 pgs.
^10. The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe, 1/20/2014, 352 pgs.
^11. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo, 1/20/2014, 256 pgs.
^12. The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity by Nancy Gibbs, 1/20/2014, 641 pgs.
^13. Distant Shores by Kristin Hannah, 1/21/2014, 342 pgs.
^14. Falling Man by Don DeLillo, 1/23/2014, 272 pgs.
^15. The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt, 1/25/2014, 675 pgs.
^16. Ed King by David Guterson, 1/31/2014, 320 pgs.

I am doing a couple of other challenges along the way will check these as I read.

List #1 (10 books) - 1001 Books to Read Before You Die

1. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
3. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
4. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
5. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
6. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
7. White Noise by Don DeLillo
8. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
9. Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion
^10. Falling Man (see January)

FEB 2014. ... ^ means book is done.

^17. Interred with Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell, 2/1/2014, 405 pgs.
^18. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver, 2/2/2014, 508 pgs.
^19. The Fat Years by Chan Koonchung, 2/3/2014, 299 pgs.
^20. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, 2/3/2014, 848 pgs.
^21. The Butler's Guide to Running the Home and Other Graces by Stanley Ager, 2/26/2014, 280 pgs.
^22. Guests on Earth: A Novel by Lee Smith, 2/26/2014, 352 pgs.
^23. Motherland by Maria Hummel, 2/26/2014, 400 pgs.
24. On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee, 2/27/2014, 368 pgs.