Laura's 2008 Goals and Progress

Like The Complete Booker and The Pulitzer Project, Read the Nobels is an opportunity to read award-winning authors. I read 3 Nobel winners in 2007, which is pretty pathetic progress. In 2008 I’d like to read another 8-10, several of which will also count for my personal Reading Across Borders challenge. These include:

• 2006 - Orhan Pamuk - My Name is Red (DNF 2/23/2008 - review)
• 2004 - Elfriede Jelinek - The Piano Teacher (DNF 2/23/2008 - review)
• 2002 - Imre Kertész - Kaddish for a Child not Born (completed 10/24/2008 - review)
• 2001 - V.S. Naipaul - In a Free State (completed 4/23/2008 - review)
• 1998 - Jose Saramago - Baltasar and Blimunda (DNF 8/2/2008 - review)
• 1991 - Nadine Gordimer- The Conservationist (completed 11/25/2008 - review)
• 1955 - Halldor Laxness - Independent People (completed 8/29/2008 - review)
• 1954 - Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea (completed 8/9/2008 - review)
• 1938 - Pearl S. Buck - The Good Earth (completed 10/23/2008 - review)

Complete List of Nobels Read (with links to reviews where available):

2007 - Doris Lessing - Love, Again
2006 - Orhan Pamuk - My Name is Red (review)

2004 - Elfriede Jelinek - The Piano Teacher (review)

2003 - J. M. Coetzee - Elizabeth Costello

2002 - Imre Kertész - Kaddish for a Child not Born (review)

2001 - V.S. Naipaul - In a Free State (review)

1998 - Jose Saramago - Baltasar and Blimunda (review)

1993 - Toni Morrison - Song of Solomon, Beloved, Paradise, Love

1991 - Nadine Gordimer- The Conservationist (review)

1983 - William Golding - Lord of the Flies

1982 - Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude (review)

1962 - John Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath (review), East of Eden (review)

1955 - Halldor Laxness - Independent People (review)

1954 - Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea (review)

1938 - Pearl S. Buck - The Good Earth (review)