2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion
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Tamara Agha-Jaffar
2025 Personal Challenge: 51-75
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Tamara's 55 Reads and Reviews
2/55. The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie LyonsMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
3/55. The Year of the Hare: A Novel by Arto Paasilinna.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
6/55. Enuma Elish: The Babylonian Epic of Creation; eds. Johannes Haubold, Sophus Helle, and others.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
7/55. Betty Boo by Claudia Piñeiro; translated by Miranda FranceMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
9/55. Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic; translated by Sophus Helle. A re-read.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
12/55. The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan; translated from the Ukrainian by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
13/55. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman; translated by Neil smith.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
14/55. The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion -- Surprising Observations of a Hidden World by Peter Wohlleben; translated by Jane Billinghurst.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
19/55. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
23/55. This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
24/55. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show....
26/55. Qur'an of the Oppressed: Liberation Theology and Gender Justice in Islam by Shadaab Rahemtulla.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
28/55. The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
30/55. The Discomfort of Evening by Lucas Rijneveld; translated from the Dutch by Michele Hutchinson.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
31/55. The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show....
34/55. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
35/55. The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller; translated by Michael HofmannMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Hi Tamara! I see you are making great progress toward your goal. I hope you are enjoying lots of terrific books along the way. Happy reading!
JennH wrote: "Hi Tamara! I see you are making great progress toward your goal. I hope you are enjoying lots of terrific books along the way. Happy reading!"Thanks for the encouragement. Yes, I'm enjoying it, although some reading months are better than others.
36/55. The Last Song of Penelope by Claire North.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show....
41/55. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman, translated by Henning Koch.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
42/55. Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem is Translated by Eliot Weinberger.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show....
45/55. The Orchards of Basra: Mansoura Ez-Eldin, translated by Paul G. Starkey.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
48/55. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa; translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge
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1/55. The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...