Zero's 2017 Categories

Having been many years since my last challenge, I am looking forward to more structured reading in 2017. Aiming for at least 10 books in the following categories:

® = Revisited
☼ = Best in category

Faulkneria

01. Soldiers’ Pay by William Faulkner
02. Mosquitoes by William Faulkner
03. Flags in the Dust by William Faulkner
04. ® The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
05. ® As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner ☼
06. ® Sanctuary by William Faulkner
07. ® Light in August by William Faulkner
08. Pylon by William Faulkner
09. ® Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
10. ® The Wild Palms by William Faulkner

Jamesbury

01. Greville Fane by Henry James
02. Confidence by Henry James
03. The Last of the Valerii by Henry James
04. An International Episode by Henry James
05. The Siege of London by Henry James
06. ® The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James ☼
07. ® Washington Square by Henry James
08. ® The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
09. The Bostonians by Henry James
10. The Sacred Fount by Henry James

American Fiction before the Great War

01. A Country Doctor by Sarah Orne Jewett
02. The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
03. Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rowson
04. Crucial Instances by Edith Wharton
05. Fidelity by Susan Glaspell
06. Palmetto Leaves by Harriet Beecher Stowe
07. The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
08. The Celebrity by Winston Churchill
09. Wieland: or, The Transformation by Charles Brockden Brown
10. The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic ☼

American Fiction between the Great War and the Civil Rights Act

01. In Love by Alfred Hayes ☼
02. The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
03. My Face for the World to See by Alfred Hayes
04. The Cannibal by John Hakwes
05. Lie Down in Darkness by William Styron
06. Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
07. Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
08. Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall
09. The Beetle Leg by John Hawkes
10. Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham

American Fiction between the Great Society and Iran-Contra

01. The Free-Lance Pallbearers by Ishmael Reed
02. Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
03. Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
04. Trout Fishing In America by Richard Brautigan
05. Dreams from Bunker Hill by John Fante
06. Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin
07. In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan ☼
08. The Grifters by Jim Thompson
09. Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton
10. Letters by John Barth

11. Americana by Don DeLillo

American Fiction in the Age of WrestleMania

01. Nobody’s Fool by Richard Russo
02. The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
03. Jazz by Toni Morrison
04. A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
05. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders ☼
06. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
07. Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram
08. The Brothers K by David James Duncan
09. That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx
10. Difficult Women by Roxane Gay

11. All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg
12. Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich

British Fiction before the Great Reform

01. The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe
02. Rosalynde; Or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Thomas Lodge
03. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus by Alexander Pope
04. Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
05. ® Persuasion by Jane Austen ☼
06. ® The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
07. ® Mary: A Fiction by Mary Wollstonecraft
08. The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott
09. The Black Dwarf by Sir Walter Scott
10. The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves by Tobias Smollett

British Fiction between the Great Reform and the Great War

01. Kept in the Dark by Anthony Trollope
02. An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad
03. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
04. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
05. He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope ☼
06. The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
07. The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer
08. Fraternity by John Galsworthy
09. A Laodicean by Thomas Hardy
10. Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley

British Fiction after the Great War

01. Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
02. The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
03. The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin
04. Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon ☼
05. Cloud Howe by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
06. Grey Granite by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
07. Tarr by Wyndham Lewis
08. Porno by Irvine Welsh
09. Don't Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford
10. About a Boy by Nick Hornby

Irish Fiction

01. The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch
02. Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
03. Zoli by Colum McCann
04. Stephen Hero by James Joyce
05. ® The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
06. Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
07. ® Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
08. ® The Bell by Iris Murdoch ☼
09. Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
10. Irene Iddesleigh by Amanda McKittrick Ros

Fiction from the Subcontinent

01. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
02. Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
03. Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh ☼
04. Rich Like Us by Nayantara Sahgal
05. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
06. Fury by Salman Rushdie
07. The Guide by R.K. Narayan
08. Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
09. The Ramayana by Vālmīki
10. Family Life by Akhil Sharma

Other Fiction from the Commonwealth

01. Moral Disorder and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood
02. Selected Stories by Alice Munro ☼
03. An Imaginary Life by David Malouf
04. July's People by Nadine Gordimer
05. Breadfruit by Célestine Hitiura Vaite
06. Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
07. Scenes from Provincial Life by J.M. Coetzee
08. The Bone People by Keri Hulme
09. Mr. Hogarth's Will by Catherine Helen Spence
10. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

11. Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell
12. A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips

German Fiction

01. Vertigo by W.G. Sebald
02. The Hothouse by Wolfgang Koeppen
03. Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann
04. Pictor's Metamorphoses and Other Fantasies by Hermann Hesse
05. Mephisto by Klaus Mann ☼
06. Peter Camenzind by Hermann Hesse
07. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
08. ® Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
09. ® Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun
10. Mozart's Journey to Prague by Eduard Mörike

Austrian (Empire) and Swiss Fiction

01. The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf
02. The Tanners by Robert Walser ☼
03. Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
04. The Thirtieth Year: Stories by Ingeborg Bachmann
05. Amok and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig
06. ® Amerika by Franz Kafka
07. On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House by Peter Handke
08. ® Greed by Elfriede Jelinek
09. Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
10. Madensky Square by Eva Ibbotson

French Fiction before the Great War

01. All Around the Moon by Jules Verne
02. Imaginary Lives by Marcel Schwob
03. Corinne, or Italy by Germaine de Staël
04. Hell by Henri Barbusse
05. Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier
06. The Adventures of Gil Blas by Alain-René Le Sage
07. Obermann by Étienne Pivert de Senancour
08. Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac
09. ® Là-Bas by Joris-Karl Huysmans ☼
10. The Gold Sickle by Eugène Sue

French Fiction after the Great War

01. Thérèse Desqueyroux by François Mauriac
02. The Death of Napoleon by Simon Leys
03. A Void by Georges Perec
04. Dirty Snow by Georges Simenon ☼
05. The Prospector by J. M. G. Le Clézio
06. Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau
07. The Last Man by Maurice Blanchot
08. The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
09. Henri Duchemin and His Shadows by Emmanuel Bove
10. Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille

Brève fiction féminine

01. The Slut of the Normandy Coast by Marguerite Duras
02. The Atlantic Man by Marguerite Duras
03. Gigi by Colette
04. Julie de Carneilhan by Colette
05. Chance Acquaintances by Colette
06. La Femme de Gilles by Madeleine Bourdouxhe ☼
07. My Mother's House by Colette
08. Sido by Colette
09. ® The Vagabond by Colette
10. The War by Marguerite Duras

Russian Fiction

01. A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev ☼
02. There Once Lived a Woman Who… by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
03. There Once Lived a Girl Who… by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
04. The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
05. Hard to Be a God by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
06. A Dream in Polar Fog by Yuri Rytkheu
07. Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
08. And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
09. Novel with Cocaine by M. Ageyev
10. White Walls: Collected Stories by Tatyana Tolstaya

11. Generations of Winter by Vasily Aksyonov
12. The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov

Scandinavian Fiction

01. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
02. The Royal Physician’s Visit by Per Olov Enquist
03. Fuglane (The Birds) by Tarjei Vesaas
04. World Light by Halldór Laxness
05. Giants in the Earth by O.E. Rølvaag
06. Unknown Soldiers by Väinö Linna
07. The Roman by Mika Waltari
08. ® Hunger by Knut Hamsun
09. Ronia, the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren
10. ® Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset ☼

Iberian Fiction

01. Pepita Jimenez by Juan Valera ☼
02. The Splendor of Portugal by António Lobo Antunes
03. Exemplary Stories by Miguel de Cervantes
04. The Lusiads by Luís de Camões
05. Seeing by José Saramago
06. Tirant Lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell
07. The Yellow Sofa by Eça de Queirós
08. ® Nada by Carmen Laforet
09. Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marías
10. The Elephant's Journey by José Saramago

11. The Conjurer and Other Azorean Tales by Darrell Kastin

Latin American Fiction

01. Blow-Up and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar
02. Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto
03. A Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector
04. Doña Barbara by Rómulo Gallegos ☼
05. Facundo by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
06. Birds Without a Nest by Clorinda Matto de Turner
07. The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier
08. Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue
09. The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas by Alberto Gerchunoff
10. Here's to You, Jesusa! by Elena Poniatowska

11. The Obscene Madame D by Hilda Hilst
12. One Day of Life by Manlio Argueta
13. Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado
14. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Japanese Fiction

01. Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki
02. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
03. The Changeling by Kenzaburō Ōe
04. Grass for My Pillow by Saiichi Maruya ☼
05. Masks by Fumiko Enchi
06. Botchan by Sōseki Natsume
07. Naomi by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
08. The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura
09. Hôjôki by Kamo no Chōmei
10. Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami

East Asian Fiction

01. Monkey: A Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en ☼
02. Smile As They Bow by Nu Nu Yi
03. Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin
04. Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong
05. The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
06. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
07. Paradise of the Blind by Dương Thu Hương
08. The Guru of Love by Samrat Upadhyay
09. Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie
10. The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

Mitteleuropan Fiction

01. The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Škvorecký ☼
02. The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov
03. High Tide by Inga Ābele
04. Seiobo There Below by László Krasznahorkai
05. Tranquility by Attila Bartis
06. Liquidation by Imre Kertész
07. Train to Trieste by Domnica Radulescu
08. Ignorance by Milan Kundera
09. The Children of the Sea by Joseph Conrad
10. The Joke by Milan Kundera

African Fiction

01. So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
02. Transit by Abdourahman A. Waberi
03. Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
04. A Question of Power by Bessie Head
05. Sundiata: An Epic Of Old Mali by Djibril Tamsir Niane
06. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
07. Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono ☼
08. Chaka by Thomas Mofolo
09. A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
10. The Lemon by Mohammed Mrabet

11. God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène

Other Foreign Language Fiction

01. This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
02. The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino
03. Pereira Declares: A Testimony by Antonio Tabucchi ☼
04. The Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter
05. And Dreams Are Dreams by Vassilis Vassilikos
06. The Assault by Harry Mulisch
07. The Lion of Flanders by Hendrik Conscience
08. Beirut, Beirut by Sonallah Ibrahim
09. An Ethiopian Romance by Heliodorus of Emesa
10. The Evenings by Gerard Reve

Speculative Fiction

01. Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
02. Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler
03. Imago by Octavia E. Butler
04. Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
05. The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem
06. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov ☼
07. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
08. The Inverted World by Christopher Priest
09. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
10. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

11. The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
12. The Gods of Pegana by Lord Dunsany
13. The Futurological Congress by Stanisław Lem

Genre Fiction

01. Boston Blackie by Jack Boyle
02. The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson ☼
03. The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
04. Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette
05. Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household
06. The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
07. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
08. It by Stephen King
09. Be Cool by Elmore Leonard
10. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

11. Hondo by Louis L'Amour
12. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

Plays

01. A Kiss For Cinderella by J.M. Barrie
02. The Bourgeois Gentleman by Molière
03. The Constant Couple by George Farquhar
04. Sir Harry Wildair by George Farquhar
05. The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Francis Beaumont ☼
06. The Magistrate by Arthur Wing Pinero
07. Trifles by Susan Glaspell
08. ® The Misanthrope by Molière
09. Largo Desolato by Václav Havel
10. El Cid by Pierre Corneille

11. Swan Song by Anton Chekhov
12. Bajazet by Jean Racine
13. Buried Child by Sam Shepard
14. Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
15. True West by Sam Shepard
16. 'night, Mother by Marsha Norman
17. Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
18. The Constant Wife by W. Somerset Maugham

Poetry

01. Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics by Bliss Carman
02. Mine and Thine by Florence Earle Coates
03. Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto
04. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth
05. Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings by Abolqasem Ferdowsi
06. The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine
07. The Song of the Wave by George Cabot Lodge
08. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman ☼
09. The Complete Poems by Catullus
10. Narrow Road to the Interior by Bashō Matsuo

11. Omeros by Derek Walcott

English Fiction ®evisited

01. ® Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
02. ® Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter
03. ® To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf ☼
04. ® Beloved by Toni Morrison
05. ® Herzog by Saul Bellow
06. ® Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
07. ® The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
08. ® Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
09. ® Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
10. ® Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake

Foreign Language Fiction ®evisited

01. ® Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
02. ® Les Misérables by Victor Hugo ☼
03. ® Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
04. ® Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
05. ® Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
06. ® The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
07. ® Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
08. ® The Captive by Marcel Proust
09. ® The Fugitive by Marcel Proust
10. ® Time Regained by Marcel Proust

Philosophy

01. New Science by Giambattista Vico
02. Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View by Immanuel Kant
03. Being and Time by Martin Heidegger ☼
04. The Archaeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault
05. Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida
06. Matter and Memory by Henri Bergson
07. The Grounding of Positive Philosophy by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
08. Logical Investigations by Edmund Husserl
09. ® The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
10. Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

11. Reason and Existenz by Karl Jaspers
12. Science of Knowledge by Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Politics and Economics

01. Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann ☼
02. On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simone Weil
03. A Vindication of the Rights of Men by Mary Wollstonecraft
04. The Discourses by Niccolò Machiavelli
05. Political Writings by Pierre Bayle
06. The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi
07. The Wal-Mart Effect by Charles Fishman
08. Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
09. Bad Samaritans by Ha-Joon Chang
10. Euclid's Window by Leonard Mlodinow

11. The Federalist Papers by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay

Science, Math and Psychology

01. Neurosis and Human Growth by Karen Horney
02. The Three Christs of Ypsilanti by Milton Rokeach
03. Conjectures and Refutations by Karl R. Popper ☼
04. An Introduction To Evolutionary Ethics by Scott M. James
05. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
06. Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
07. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
08. The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré
09. The Language Hoax by John McWhorter
10. What If? by Randall Munroe

11. The Statues that Walked by Terry Hunt, Carl Lipo

Essays and Aphorisms

01. Collected Maxims by François de La Rochefoucauld
02. The Art of Literature by Arthur Schopenhauer
03. The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence by Baltasar Gracián ☼
04. The Essays of Sir Francis Bacon
05. ® The Renaissance by Walter Pater
06. The Death of the Moth and Other Essays by Virginia Woolf
07. Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille
08. Mencius
09. On Being Blue by William H. Gass
10. The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

11. Thoughts on Art and Life by Leonardo da Vinci
12. The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch
13. Grammars of Creation by George Steiner

Religion and Theology

01. The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Teresa of Ávila
02. The Concept of Anxiety by Søren Kierkegaard
03. The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
04. The Essence of Human Freedom by F. W. J. Schelling
05. Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas
06. Waiting for God by Simone Weil
07. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
08. The Tibetan Book of the Dead by Padmasambhava ☼
09. The Guide of the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides
10. ® King James Bible

Biography

01. Orson Welles: A Biography by Barbara Leaming
02. Life of Viscount Palmerston by Lloyd Charles Sanders
03. Madame de Staël by Bella Duffy
04. Cicero by Anthony Everitt ☼
05. Margaret of Angouleme, Queen of Navarre by A. Mary F. Robinson
06. Simone de Beauvoir by Toril Moi
07. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
08. American Prometheus by Kai Bird
09. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
10. Gorbachev: His Life and Times by William Taubman

11. High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly by Donald Spoto

Memoirs

01. Memoirs of My Life by Edward Gibbon
02. The Periodic Table by Primo Levi ☼
03. Triangular Road: A Memoir by Paule Marshall
04. The Flame Trees of Thika by Elspeth Huxley
05. The Magic Lantern by Ingmar Bergman
06. A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar
07. The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon
08. H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
09. Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman
10. Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas

11. Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu
12. The Seychelles Affair by Mike Hoare

Travelogues

01. Travels and Adventures of an Orchid Hunter by Albert Millican
02. Madame Chrysantheme by Pierre Loti
03. Farthest North by Fridtjof Nansen
04. Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
05. A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
06. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing ☼
07. A Carpet Ride to Khiva by Christopher Aslan Alexander
08. A Soldier Of The Legion by George Manington
09. The Prophet's Camel Bell by Margaret Laurence
10. The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battuta

11. Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
12. The Valleys of the Assassins by Freya Stark
13. Special Magistrate John Anderson's Journal of St. Vincent During the Apprenticeship

History before the Great War

01. History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
02. Caesar: Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy
03. The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution by William Cooper Nell
04. Jassim the Leader: Founder of Qatar by Mohamed Althani
05. We Two: Victoria and Albert by Gillian Gill
06. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt ☼
07. The Rise of Rome by Anthony Everitt
08. Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa by Catherine Higgs
09. A Voice from Harper's Ferry by Osborne P. Anderson
10. The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen

11. A Concise History of Poland by Jerzy Lukowski
12. A Concise History of Italy by Christopher Duggan
13. Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr... by Thomas J. Fleming
14. A Commonwealth of Thieves by Thomas Keneally
15. The Age of Napoleon by Alistair Horne
16. Brethren by Nature by Margaret Ellen Newell
17. The Republic Of San Marino by James Theodore Bent
18. The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris

History after the Great War

01. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen
02. The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans ☼
03. The Third Reich in Power by Richard J. Evans
04. The Third Reich At War by Richard J. Evans
05. Hitler by Ian Kershaw
06. Battle: The Story of the Bulge by John Willard Toland
07. How Israel Was Won by Baylis Thomas
08. Out of Mao's Shadow by Philip P. Pan
09. Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer
10. South Pacific Destroyer by Russell Sydnor Crenshaw Jr.

11. Shooting Balibo by Tony Maniaty
12. Midway by Mitsuo Fuchida
13. The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich

Third Millennium Politics, Pablum, and Palaver

01. The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
02. The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen
03. Prayer Has Spoiled Everything by Adeline Masquelier
04. Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
05. Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
06. The Catholic Orangemen of Togo and other Conflicts I Have Known by Craig Murray
07. Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power by Steve Coll
08. A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth by Samantha Weinberg
09. The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
10. Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin

11. Straight Flush by Ben Mezrich
12. The Operators by Michael Hastings ☼

That's a very ambitious program for the year! I look forward to following your progress.

Great setup! Enjoy your challenge :)

Welcome to the Challenge!

Thanks :) I'll post new updates as I close out categories over the year.

Great challenge - I see a couple of my country-peeps on your list, so looking forward to hearing what you think of Astrid Lindgren (actually, if you don't like Lindgren, don't let me know...) and Per Olov Enquist.

I can't pretend to be the greatest authority on children's literature, but my experience of Pippi on the page was a vast improvement over the late 80's American adaptation that haunted the television sets of my childhood -- I will probably complete the series later this year. Selma Lagerlöf and Nils are still in the lead for me, but I'm looking forward to more Lindgren and Långstrump. As far as Per Olov Enquist is concerned, I'm afraid to report I wasn't exactly overwhelmed (but then I find good historical fiction hard to come by.) I'm not sure that I've read his best work so much as his one most Anglocentric one -- but so it goes sometimes in translation.

Pippi on the page is wonderful, as is the Swedish TV-series, although I have a childhood love for that one and it may be too dated for today's audience.
I read Enquist at Uni and enjoyed his writing, but the enjoyment may have been related to the discussions that surrounded the reading. I will have to give him a try again.
And, Selma is just about untouchable, so there's that. ;)

Q1 Update: After an aggressive opening to the reading year I've already begun to break down several of the original categories -- which does have the upside of pushing me in some unanticipated directions. Hopefully, I will restrain my intake a little for the rest of the year, downshift my American literature gear, and put some thought into the best directions to expand my historical survey.

Q2 Update: Much happier with my categories now that I've made a few changes to the fiction challenges. Less happy with my progress in my history reading but I am otherwise satisfied with the way my non-fiction reading for the year is proceeding.

It appears I skipped my Q3 update but, as of the 10th, I've closed out all my categories for the year :) There are still 20 odd books left to reach 500 for 2017 but I am happy that the direction of my reading has been quietly guided by this challenge (the first couple months before I joined were a bit unwieldy and Americentric.)

Regular poetry and travel reading has been on the slim side for me in the past so the added emphasis this year was probably my best move. Also, focusing on rereading some favorites proved to be a big plus this year -- dug me out of a few rough patches. I'm still not thrilled with the breadth of my history reading but 2018 is just around the corner.

I certainly plan to read less in the future (although I've threatened this before) but I hope to come back with fewer but well-considered categories next year.

Congrats on completing your challenge!

Congratulations! That's a pretty impressive year of reading.

Congrats! I love skimming through all the books you've covered -- it seems like a fantastic year with a lot of excellent material, and the format is so clean to look at. (I love the revisited & best-in-category icons!)

Your British fiction category reminds me that I really need to get back to some of the Walter Scott I've been hoarding. I had intended to read Redgauntlet this year but never found the time.

Persuasion is hovering near the top of my "borrow from my parents" list -- glad to see it was your best in category!

Thanks, all :)

pammab: Had to keep things tidy just to keep track of everything ;) Without giving myself time for reviews I thought the least I can do is offer a few guiding ☼'s for the year.

rabbitprincess: There's a lot of Scott out there to hoard -- Redgauntlet hasn't even been even been on my radar (until now.) Persuasion is my favorite Austen, after Pride and Prejudice, and saved an otherwise thin category.