My Year of Reading Dangerously Challenge:

CHALLENGE COMPLETE!!!!!

My Year of Reading Dangerously...seriously, what a title!? Who wouldn't want to join with that one! This one is for those of us who have been intimidates (scared) of reading certain books, authors, genres, and so on. There is an official list of books that you can read, or you can make up your own scary list! I joined this one, it looked like too much fun. There are 12 picks for this one...so it is a longer list of books. I chose many off of the actual list, because it is always more fun to read with others, and there are many that I am interested on the official list.

1*Franny and Zooey- JD Salinger (Philosophical!)
2*Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy (LONG)
3*Confessions of a Shopaholic- Sophie Kinsella (chick lit!)
4*Moving Parts- Magdalena Tulli (on parts of speech)
5*I'jaam: an Iraqi Rhapsody- Sinan Antoon (Iraq, during Saddam regime)
6*Animal, Vegetable, Miracle- Barbra Kingsolver
7*Voice of Glass/ Voix de Glace- Alta Ifland (poetry, deep poetry)
8*187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border- Juan Felipe Herrera (Mexican relations)
9*The Writing Circle - Rozena Maart (rape, incest and recovery)
10*Two Brothers: One North, One South- David H. Jones (civil war historical fiction)
11*Invasion of the Bible Thumpers- Skookum Maguire ( loggers, life and the Pacific Northwest)
12*Persepolis and Persepolis 2 - Marjane Satrapi ( graphic novels!!)

NOTE: Completed books in ORANGE.