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Reading Challenge 2021

I have received a challenge to read books that satisfy certain criteria. I hope this post helps me track my progress in meeting that challenge.

By a female author of colour:
Rania Abouzeid's “No turning back”.

By a Singaporean author:
Crispin Rodrigues's “The Nomad Principle”.

By a South-east Asian author:
Minfong Ho's “Sing to the dawn”.

A book in translation:
Kafka's “The metamorphosis”. Translated by Ian Johnston.

A graphic novel:
Naoki Urasawa's “Mujirishi: The sign of dreams”.

A book of essays:
Donatella Di Cesare's “Immunodemocracy”.

A book of short stories:
Jennani Durai's “Regrettable things that happened yesterday”.

Over 400 pages:
Rabindranath Tagore's “Gora”.+

Published in 2021:
Tahereh Mafi's “An emotion of great delight”.^

Published before you were born:
Eric Linklater's “Poet's pub”.

A book you've read before:
E.B. White's “Charlotte's Web”.

A book about changing the world:
Azra Raza's “The first cell”.^

A book about changing your self:
Eckhart Tolle's “The power of now”.^

A book you judged by its cover:
Jerome K. Jerome's “Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog!)”.

A book you suspect you won't enjoy:
Dr Mike Goldsmith's “Horribly famous: Inventors and their bright ideas”.^

An author's debut:
Heather Morris's “The tattooist of Auschwitz”.

With the word “moon” in its title:
Mark Andrew Poe's “The amazing adventures of Harry Moon”.

A well-known book you never got around to reading:
Kurt Vonnegut's “Slaughterhouse five”.

A book that's been adapted to a movie or TV show:
Yossi Ghinsberg's “Jungle”.

Borrowed from a friend:
H.G. Wells's “War of the worlds”.

^: I've only read it in part.

+: I've not read it yet. (As of 17 July 2021).

I saw such a reading challenge, on a piece of paper, at a book-store called The Moon, on the island of Singapore.

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