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Read the Nobels

  • Oct. 8th, 2007 at 8:34 PM


Aloi from Aloi Reads is hosting the Read the Nobels challenge which, like my very own Complete Booker, has no time limit.  I love reading prize-winning authors, and this complements The Complete Booker and The Pulitzer Project nicely.  I also enjoy "reading across borders" (books by authors from outside the US), and a number of the Nobel winners represent countries I haven't "read" yet.

In fact, I've read pathetically few of the Nobel authors. I've included links to reviews where I have them. 

  • Love, Again

2003 - J. M. Coetzee

  • Elizabeth Costello (but I didn't finish it! Is that cheating?)
1993 - Toni Morrison
  • Song of Solomon
  • Beloved
  • Paradise
  • Love
1983 - William Golding
  • Lord of the Flies

1982 - Gabriel García Márquez

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude - completed 4/6/2007 (review)
1962 - John Steinbeck
  • Grapes of Wrath - completed 1/17/2007 (review)
  • East of Eden - completed 10/6/2007 (review)

Comments

[info]mrstreme wrote:
Oct. 10th, 2007 10:09 am (UTC)
I read Jose Saramago a few months ago, but I am sure if I stopped to list my Nobel reads, it would be very short!
[info]juliette_m_m wrote:
Oct. 12th, 2007 08:04 am (UTC)
I too have read very few and with the announcement yesterday of Doris Lessing I resolved to do something about it! I had looked at Aloi's challenge and pondered. The no time limit is very wise! I get concerend for our friends when they angst over completing challenges or not in 'time'! Having said that I may use this as a category in my 888 choices!

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