Let's read: 2019 Reading Challenges

Thursday, 26 March 2020

2019 Reading Challenges - Wrap-Up

I took part in four "new" reading challenges (20 Classic And Important Books, The Classics Club, Reading Challenge - Chunky Books 2019, The "Piggybank"Challenge 2019, TBR Pile Reading Challenge 2019), joined a new Book Club, and added books to several other lists.

For the old challenges, I only added the number of books read in brackets, otherwise I comment.

100 Books by the BBC (2)
Burnett, Frances Hodgson "The Secret Garden" (Der geheime Garten) - 1911
Melville, Herman "Moby Dick or The Whale" (Moby Dick oder der Wal) - 1851

101 Best Selling Books of All Times (1)
Achebe, Chinua "Things Fall Apart" (The African Trilogy #1) (Okonkwo oder Das Alte stürzt/Alles zerfällt) - 1958

The 100 Greatest Fiction Books as Chosen by The Guardian (4)
Achebe, Chinua "Things Fall Apart" (The African Trilogy #1) (Okonkwo oder Das Alte stürzt/Alles zerfällt) - 1958
Fielding, Henry "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" (Tom Jones: Die Geschichte eines Findelkindes) - 1749
Hawthorne, Nathaniel "The Scarlet Letter" (Der scharlachrote Buchstabe) - 1850
Melville, Herman "Moby Dick or The Whale" (Moby Dick oder der Wal) - 1851

13 Ways of Looking at the Novel (2)
Fielding, Henry "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" (Tom Jones: Die Geschichte eines Findelkindes) - 1749
Melville, Herman "Moby Dick or The Whale" (Moby Dick oder der Wal) - 1851

20 Classic And Important Books That Will Make You Feel Well-Read, Even If They're The Only Ones You Read (1)
Melville, Herman "Moby Dick or The Whale" (Moby Dick oder der Wal) - 1851

Best European Literature (3)
Burnett, Frances Hodgson "The Secret Garden" (Der geheime Garten) - 1911
Beckett, Samuel "Waiting for Godot" (En attendant Godot/Warten auf Godot) - 1952
Alighieri, Dante "The Divine Comedy" (Divina Commedia/Die Göttliche Komödie) - 1308-20

Bildungsroman (2)
Fielding, Henry "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" (Tom Jones: Die Geschichte eines Findelkindes) - 1749
Ondaatje, Michael "Warlight" (Kriegslicht) - 2018

A Century of Books (1)
Burnett, Frances Hodgson "The Secret Garden" (Der geheime Garten) - 1911

Children's Books (1)

Burnett, Frances Hodgson "The Secret Garden" (Der geheime Garten) - 1911
Wilding, Valerie "Top Ten Dickens Stories" - 2000

The Classics Club (14)

These are the classics I read last year:
Achebe, Chinua "Things Fall Apart" (The African Trilogy #1) (Okonkwo oder Das Alte stürzt/Alles zerfällt) - 1958
Alighieri, Dante "The Divine Comedy" (Divina Commedia/Die Göttliche Komödie) - 1308-20
Beckett, Samuel "Waiting for Godot" (En attendant Godot/Warten auf Godot) - 1952
Burnett, Frances Hodgson "The Secret Garden" (Der geheime Garten) - 1911
Dostojewsky, Fjodor "The Brothers Karamazov" (Братья Карамазовы/Brat'ya Karamazovy/Die Brüder Karamasow) - 1879-80
Fielding, Henry "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" (Tom Jones: Die Geschichte eines Findelkindes) - 1749
Gárdonyi, Géza "The Invisible Man" aka "Slave of the Huns" (A láthatatlan ember/La nevidebla homo/Wer bist du/Ich war den Hunnen untertan) - 1901
Grass, Günter "Cat and Mouse" (Katz und Maus) - 1961
Hawthorne, Nathaniel "The Scarlet Letter" (Der scharlachrote Buchstabe) - 1850
Hüsch, Hanns Dieter "Frieda auf Erden" [Frieda/Peace on Earth] - 1959
James, Henry "Daisy Miller" -1879
Melville, Herman "Moby Dick or The Whale" (Moby Dick oder der Wal) - 1851
Wells, H. G. "The Time Machine" (Die Zeitmaschine) - 1895
Zweig, Stefan "The World of Yesterday" (Die Welt von Gestern. Erinnerungen eines Europäers) - 1942

Dutch and French Books (1 French book)

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French
Beckett, Samuel "Waiting for Godot" (En attendant Godot/Warten auf Godot) - 1952

German Books (14)

Since German is my native language and I can easily obtain books in it, I read 14.

Ahmad, Aeham "The Pianist from Syria" (aka The Pianist of Yarmouk) (German: Und die Vögel werden singen. Ich, der Pianist aus den Trümmern) - 2017
Erfmeyer, Klaus "Karrieresprung" [Career Leap/Career Jump] - 2006
Eschbach, Andreas "One Trillion Dollars" (Eine Billion Dollar) - 2001
Finkbeiner, Bernhard, Brekle, Hans-Jörg "Frag Mutti" [Ask Mum] - 2006
Gesthuysen, Anne "Wir sind doch Schwestern" [But we're sisters] - 2012
Grass, Günter "Cat and Mouse" (Katz und Maus) - 1961
Hüsch, Hanns Dieter "Frieda auf Erden" [Frieda/Peace on Earth] - 1959
Kaminer, Wladimir "Meine Mutter, ihre Katze und der Staubsauger: Ein Unruhestand in 33 Geschichten" [My Mother, her Cat and her Vacuum Cleaner] - 2016
Montasser, Thomas "Monsieur Jean und sein Gespür für Glück" [Monsieur Jean and his sense of luck] - 2015
Nast, Michael "#EGOLAND" [ego-land] - 2018
Noack, Barbara "Auf einmal sind sie keine Kinder mehr" [All of a sudden, they're not children anymore] - 1978
Orth, Stephan "Couchsurfing in China. Durch die Wohnzimmer der neuen Supermacht" (Couchsurfing in China: Encounters and Escapades Beyond the Great Wall aka High Tech and Hot Pot: Revealing Encounters Inside the Real China) - 2019
Schnoy, Sebastian "Das bisschen Frieden: Eine heitere Geschichte Europas in drei Revolutionen und einem Geistesblitz" [That Little Bit of Peace] - 2019
Zweig, Stefan "The World of Yesterday" (Die Welt von Gestern. Erinnerungen eines Europäers) - 1942

Le Monde - The 100 Books of the Century (1)
Beckett, Samuel "Waiting for Godot" (En attendant Godot/Warten auf Godot) - 1952

Migraine Books
and Links 2011, 2014, 2016

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I started a new list in 2016. You can find all the links here.

My Favourite Books Ever (18)

Every year I find some more books I can add to my list of favourite books. 10 this year.

Ahmad, Aeham "The Pianist from Syria" (aka The Pianist of Yarmouk) (German: Und die Vögel werden singen. Ich, der Pianist aus den Trümmern) - 2017
Aitken, Ben "Dear Bill Bryson: Footnotes from a Small Island" - 2015
Bythell, Shaun "The Diary of a Bookseller" - 2017
Dostojewsky, Fjodor "The Brothers Karamazov" (Братья Карамазовы/Brat'ya Karamazovy/Die Brüder Karamasow) - 1879-80
Harari, Yuval Noah "Sapiens. A Brief History of Mankind" (Hebrew: קיצור תולדות האנושות/Ḳizur Toldot Ha-Enoshut/ Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschheit) - 2014
Morton, Kate "The Clockmaker's Daughter" (Die Tochter des Uhrmachers) - 2018
Obama, Michelle "Becoming" (Becoming - Meine Geschichte) - 2018
Palma, Félix J. "The Map of Chaos" (Spanish: El mapa del caos/Die Landkarte des Chaos) - 2014
Pamuk, Orhan "The Red-Haired Woman" (Turkish: Kırmızı Saçlı Kadın/Die rothaarige Frau) - 2016
Weir, Alison "Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour" - 2018

Nobel Prize Winners and Their Books (8)

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Beckett, Samuel "Waiting for Godot" (En attendant Godot/Warten auf Godot) - 1952
Coetzee, J.M. "The Childhood of Jesus" (Die Kindheit Jesu) - 2013
Gordimer, Nadine "Burger's Daughter" (Burgers Tochter) - 1979
Grass, Günter "Cat and Mouse" (Katz und Maus) - 1961
Pamuk, Orhan "The New Life" (Yeni Hyat/Das neue Leben) - 1994
Pamuk, Orhan "The Red-Haired Woman" (Turkish: Kırmızı Saçlı Kadın/Die rothaarige Frau) - 2016
Saramago, José "Blindness" (O Ensaio sobre a Cegueira/Die Stadt der Blinden) - 1995
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander (Солженицын, Александр Исаевич) "August 1914" ["The Red Wheel" cycle] (Узел I - «Август Четырнадцатого», Красное колесо/August Vierzehn, aus dem Zyklus "Das Rote Rad") - 1971

Oscar Winning Books (4)
Dostojewsky, Fjodor "The Brothers Karamazov" (Братья Карамазовы/Brat'ya Karamazovy/Die Brüder Karamasow) - 1879-80
Fielding, Henry "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" (Tom Jones: Die Geschichte eines Findelkindes) - 1749 (1963)
Weir, Andy "The Martian" (Der Marsianer) - 2011 (2015)
Woodward, Bob; Bernstein, Carl "All the President’s Men" (Die Watergate-Affäre) - 1974 (1976)
(The year they received the Academy Award in brackets)

Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (4)
(German: Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels)

Achebe, Chinua "Things Fall Apart" (The African Trilogy #1) (Okonkwo oder Das Alte stürzt/Alles zerfällt) - 1958
Atwood, Margaret "Hag-Seed. The Tempest Retold" (Hexensaat) - 2016
Atwood, Margaret "Oryx and Crake" (Oryx und Crake) - 2003
Pamuk, Orhan "The New Life" (Yeni Hyat/Das neue Leben) - 1994
Pamuk, Orhan "The Red-Haired Woman" (Turkish: Kırmızı Saçlı Kadın/Die rothaarige Frau) - 2016

The "Piggybank"Challenge (82)

This challenge isn't officialy running anymore but I always find it fun to do. The 82 books I read this year resulted in €164 to spend on something nice.

Reading Challenge - Chunky Books 2019 (19/7 chunksters)

TBR Pile Reading Challenge (23)

23 books that you can find here.

Top Ten Tuesday (7)

I managed to put together nine lists in this fun challenge.
Top Ten Tuesday ~ Top Book Titles with Numbers In Them
Top Ten Tuesday ~ Cover Redesigns I Loved/Hated
Top Ten Tuesday ~ First Ten Books I Reviewed
Top Ten Tuesday ~ Top Ten Settings I’d Like to See More Of
Top Ten Tuesday ~ Top Ten Auto-Buy Authors
Top Ten Tuesday ~ Top Ten Books From My Favourite Genre
Top Ten Tuesday ~ Favourite Books Released In the Last Ten Years
Top Ten Tuesday ~ Top Ten Books I wish I read as a kid
Top Ten Tuesday ~ Top Ten Childhood Favourites

And I added seven more books to some of the older ones I created earlier.
Ahmad, Aeham "The Pianist from Syria" (aka The Pianist of Yarmouk) (German: Und die Vögel werden singen. Ich, der Pianist aus den Trümmern) - 2017
Burnett, Frances Hodgson "The Secret Garden" (Der geheime Garten) - 1911
Harari, Yuval Noah "Sapiens. A Brief History of Mankind" (Hebrew: קיצור תולדות האנושות/Ḳizur Toldot Ha-Enoshut/ Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschheit) - 2014
Obama, Michelle "Becoming" (Becoming - Meine Geschichte) - 2018
Palma, Félix J. "The Map of Chaos" (Spanish: El mapa del caos/Die Landkarte des Chaos) - 2014
Weir, Alison "Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour. The Haunted Queen" - 2018
Yu, Hua (余華/Yú Huá) "China in Ten Words" (Chinese: 十個詞彙裡的中國/Shi ge cihui li de Zhongguo) - 2012

Travel the World Through Books (3)

After reading the book "Die Ländersammlerin" [The collector of Countries] by Nina Sedano, I thought it would be great to read a book from every country in the world. I managed 85 until now, added three more this year: Indonesia, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia. I'm sure it's also harder for real travellers to add more countries to their list but I will try to add some more this year. If you have a good suggestion for those countries I haven't "visited", yet, please let me know.

Indonesia:
Hirata, Andrea "The Rainbow Troops" (Lasykar Pelangi/Die Regenbogentruppe) - 2005

Nigeria:
Achebe, Chinua "Things Fall Apart" (The African Trilogy #1) (Okonkwo oder Das Alte stürzt/Alles zerfällt) - 1958

Saudi Arabia:
Alsanea, Rajaa "Girls of Riyadh" (بنات الرياض‎ Banāt al-Riyāḍ/Die Girls von Riyad) - 2005

What's in a Name Reading Challenge