my current reading challenge.(2023)

• Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
• Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
• Chetna Maroo, Western Lane
• Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
• Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
• Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow, All the Little Bird-Hearts
• Siân Hughes, Pearl
• Paul Harding, This Other Eden
• Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
• Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
• Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
• Sebastian Barry, Old God’s Time
• Ayobami Adebayo, A Spell of Good Things

So I didn't do that. But it's also like, I'm in college! what do you want me to do? So here's my newest reading challenge. 12 books in 2025! Here are some i am anticipating..

• Jan 7: Homeseeking, by Karissa Chen
• Jan 14: Water Moon, by Samantha Sotto Yambao
• Jan 14: Lightfall, by Ed Crocker
• Jan 28: Black in Blues, by Imani Perry
• Feb 4: Memorial Days: A Memoir, by Geraldine Brooks
• Feb 11: Three Days in June, by Anne Tyler
• March 4: Dream Count, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• March 18: Everything is Tuberculosis, by John Green
• April 22: The Bright Years, by Sarah Damoff
• May 6: The Names, by Florence Knapp
• June 3: The Emperor of Gladness, by Ocean Vuong
• June 10: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, by V.E Schwab
• August 28: Katabasis, by R.F Kuang

And others from 2024 that i want to read

• Grief is For People
• (Pulitzer Prize Winner!!) Night Watch, Jayne Anne Phillips
• (Pulitzer Finalist) Wednesday's Child, Yiyun Li
• (Intl Booker Winner) Kairos, Jenny Erpenbeck, tr. from German by Michael Hofmann
• (Intl Booker Shortlist) Not a River, Selva Almada, tr. from Spanish by Annie McDermott
• (Intl Booker Shortlist) The Details, Ia Genberg, tr. from Swedish by Kira Josefsson
• (Intl Booker Shortlist) Mater 2-10, Hwang Sok-yong, tr. from Korean by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae
• (Intl Booker Shortlist) What I'd Rather Not Think About, Jente Posthuma, tr. from Dutch by Sarah Timmer Harvey
• (Women's Prize for Fiction Winner) Brotherless Night, V.V Ganeshananthan
• (Women's Prize for Fiction Finalist) The Wren, The Wren, Anne Enright
• (Women's Prize for Fiction Finalist) Restless Dolly Maunder, Kate Grenville
• (Women's Prize for Fiction Finalist) Soldier Sailor, Claire Kilroy
• (Women's Prize for Fiction Finalist) River East, River West, Aube Rey Lescure
• Brother of the More Famous Jack, Barbara Trapido
• My Search for Warren Harding, Robert Plunket
• Parallel Lives, Phyllis Rose
• Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World, Mike Davis

Okay so lowkey I should stop there. But this got me excited!