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There’s a nice reading challenge over at Roof Beam Reader involving twelve books we have had on our to-be-read  list for at least a year. Since I always have a ton of books on my list, I thought I’d try this out.

In no particular order, my twelve books are

• The Flanders Road, by Claude Simon
• The Maias, by Eca de Queiros
• Hercules, My Shipmate, by Robert Graves
• Unformed Landscape, by Peter Stamm
• The Book of the Fathers, by Miklos Vamos
• O Pioneers, by Willa Cather
• The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes
• Gargoyles, by Thomas Bernhard
• Second Harvest, by Jean Giono
• Max Havelaar, by Multatuli
• Professor Martens’ Departure, by Jaan Kross

Alternates:

• A Sportsman’s Notebook, by Ivan Turgenev
• Another Life/The House on the Embankment (one volume; two novellas), by Yuri Trifonov

To sign up for the challenge, you have to be able to provide a link to your website or blog. I assume a link to your Facebook page could also work as well. You must sign up by January 15, 2011, and there is a little prize for anyone who finishes the challenge.

Well, I have my pile together. The only one I need to obtain is The Brothers K.

This looks like fun; books I have been meaning to read which have gotten crowded out by other things. I notice that most of them are translations. I suspect other countries’ book gets crowded out by Americans’ and older books get crowded out by newer ones.

UPDATE 1/26/11: When I’ve completed a book, I will turn the title into a link which will take you to my review.

UPDATE 9/28/11: I started The Book of Fathers and it is dull. So that book is off the list.