kidzdoc's 1010 Challenge

I had meant to join this group early this year, as I've been attempting to read 10 books in 10 categories since January. These are my categories:

1. 2009-10 Archipelago Books
2. 2010 Booker Prize longlist and previous winners
3. 2010 Orange Prize longlist and longlisted books from previous years
4. Medicine, public health and science
5. African-American/African poetry & literature
6. 2010 Author Theme Reads
7. Southern US literature (William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, etc.)
8. Asian/Asian-American poetry & literature
9. Biographies and Memoirs
10. Latin-American & Caribbean literature

I'll post reviews to the books I've read as hyperlinks over the next week.

A. 2009-10 Archipelago Books (books published by Archipelago Books, a Brooklyn based publisher which specializes in translated literature; as part of my subscription I receive every book that Archipelago publishes):

1. Moscardino by Enrico Pea
2. Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer by Ernst Weiss
3. White Masks by Elias Khoury
4. Tranquility by Attila Bartis
5. To Mervas by Elisabeth Rynell
6. Wonder by Hugo Claus
7. A River Dies of Thirst: Journals by Mahmoud Darwish
8. The Salt Smugglers by Gérard de Nerval
9. My Kind of Girl by Buddhadeva Bose

Currently reading:
A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

B. 2010 Booker Prize longlist and previous winners

1. The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell (1973)
2. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle (1993)
3. Troubles by J.G. Farrell (1970/Lost Man Booker Prize)
4. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (2010 longlist)
5. In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut (2010 shortlist)
6. The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (2010 winner)
7. The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas (2010 longlist)
8. Trespass by Rose Tremain (2010 longlist)
9. Room by Emma Donoghue (2010 shortlist)
10. C by Tom McCarthy (2010 shortlist)
11. Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (2010 shortlist)

C. 2010 Orange Prize longlist and longlisted books from previous years

1. Small Island by Andrea Levy (2004 winner)
2. The Long Song by Andrea Levy (2010 longlist)
3. The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey (2010 shortlist)
4. Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed (2010 shortlist)
5. The Boy Next Door by Irene Sabatini (2010 winner, Orange Award for New Writers)
6. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (2010 winner, Orange Prize for Fiction)
7. The White Family by Maggie Gee (2002 shortlist)
8. Blonde Roots by Bernadine Evaristo
9. The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
10. The Translator by Leila Aboulela

D. Medicine, public health and science (including books longlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize or the Royal Society Prize for Science Books)

1. Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives by Brian Dillon
2. The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria by Randall M. Packard
3. The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care by John Dittmer
4. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
5. A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor by John Berger
6. Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients by Danielle Ofri
7. Quacks: Fakers & Charlatans in Medicine by Roy Porter
8. Closing the Chart: A Dying Physician Examines Family, Faith and Medicine by Steven D. Hsi, MD
9. Grace Williams Says it Loud by Emma Henderson
10. White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine by Carl Elliot
11. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddharta Mukherjee

E. African-American/African poetry & literature

1. Matigari by Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Kenya)
2. Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste (Ethiopia)
3. Black Feeling Black Talk by Nikki Giovanni (US)
4. Black Judgement by Nikki Giovanni
5. Re: Creation by Nikki Giovanni
6. An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah (Zimbabwe)
7. The Women and the Men by Nikki Giovanni
8. Morning Haiku by Sonia Sanchez
9. Bicycles: Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni
10. Dread: Poems by Ai
11. My House by Nikki Giovanni
12. News from Home by Sefi Atta
13. Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote by Ahmadou Kourouma
14. The Water Cure by Percival Everett
15. The Little Peul by Mariama Barry
16. Bellocq's Ophelia: Poems by Natasha Trethewey
17. Street Smarts: Poems by Devorah Major

F. 2010 Author Theme Reads (books read for the Author Theme Reads group on LT: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, Junichiro Tanizaki, Cormac McCarthy)

1. Amok and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig
2. Wondrak and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig
3. Selected Stories by Stefan Zweig
4. Three Novellas by Joseph Roth
5. Twilight & Moonbeam Alley by Stefan Zweig
6. Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki
7. Fear by Stefan Zweig
8. Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki
9. The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
10. Job by Joseph Roth

G. Southern US literature (Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, etc.)

1. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
2. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
3. Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
4. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
5. The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
6. The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O'Connor
7. Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
8. Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers
9. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
10. Them by Nathan McCall

H. Asian/Asian-American literature

1. The Word Book by Kanai Mieko (Japan)
2. A Life Apart by Neel Mukherjee
3. The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee (South Korea)
4. Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi (Afghanistan)
5. The Vagrants by Yiyun Li (China)
6. Chef by Jaspreet Singh (India)
7. Touch by Adania Shibli (Palestine)
8. Wild Grass by Lu Xun (Japan)
9. The Flood by Chiwan Choi (Korean-American)
10. I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita
11. Ignatz by Monica Youn

I. Biographies and Memoirs

1. Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin D.G. Kelley
2. The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuscinski
3. Albert Camus: A Life by Olivier Todd
4. Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
5. The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul by Patrick French
6. Change by Mo Yan
7. A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton by John McPhee
8. Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan by Donald Keene
9. My Ear at His Heart: Reading My Father by Hanif Kureishi
10. The Words by Jean-Paul Sartre
11. We Are a Muslim, Please by Zaiba Malik
12. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

J. Latin-American & Caribbean literature

1. Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano (Chile)
2. Ashes of the Amazon by Milton Hatoum (Brazil)
3. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
4. School Days by Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique)
5. Street of Lost Footsteps by Lyonel Trouillot (Haiti)
6. Season of Ash by Jorge Volpi (Mexico)
7. The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes (Mexico)
8. The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Colombia)
9. The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (Brasil)
10. The Literary Conference by Cesar Aira (Mexico)
11. The Company of Heaven: Stories from Haiti by Marilene Phipps-Kettlewell (Haiti)
12. The Sickness by Alberto Barrera Tyszka (Venezuela)
13. The Private Life of Trees by Alejandro Zambra (Chile)
14. Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)

I have nearly completed my 1010 challenge, as I've read at least 10 books in eight categories, and nine books in the remaining two categories. I'll finish Them: A Novel by Nathan McCall for my Southern US literature category tomorrow, and A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar for my Archipelago Books category sometime next week.

Perfect timing!