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The Big Read 2012

A slight change to this year’s reading challenge. The target is back to 50 books (compared to 100 of 2011, but of course, there’s nothing to stop me from reading more if I wish to) with 15 of them allocated to French books. A tad crazy – perhaps. Then again, how else can I improve my French if I don’t read more in the language?

En français
001 | Ce Crétin de Prince Charmant – Agathe Hochberg
002 | Les Tribulations d’Une Caissière – Anna Sam
003 | Dessine-Moi un Parisien – Olivier Magny
004 | Le Théorème de Cupidon – Agnès Abécassis
005 | La Dernière Leçon – Mitch Albom
006 | La Sorcière de la rue Mouffetard – Pierre Gripari
007 | Les Cinq Personnes que J’ai Rencontrées Là-haut – Mitch Albom
008 | Le Petit Nicolas et les Copains – Sempé/Goscinny
009 | Le Horla et Autres Contes – Guy de Maupassant
010 | La Méchanique du Cœur – Mathias Malzieu
011 | Le Blé en Herbe – Colette
012 | Le Petit Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
013 | Quand J’avais Cinq Ans Je M’ai Tué – Howard Buten
014 | Parfum de Glace – Yoko Ogawa
015 | Pour Un Jour De Plus – Mitch Albom

In English
001 | Black Orchirds – Gillian Slovo
002 | The Cupid Effect – Dorothy Koomson
003 | Anna and the French Kiss – Stephanie Perkins
004 | At First Sight – Nicholas Sparks
005 | Live Wire – Harlan Coben
006 | Down and Out in Paris and London – George Orwell
007 | In Defense of Food – Michael Pollan
008 | The Memory Stones – Kate O’Riordan
009 | The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
010 | La’s Orchestra Saves the World – Alexander McCall Smith
011 | The Night of the Miraj – Zoe Ferraris
012 | Leaving the World – Douglas Kennedy
013 | Long Lost – Harlan Coben
014 | Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
015 | Nation – Terry Pratchett
016 | Lunch in Paris – Elizabeth Bard
017 | Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow – Faïza Guène
018 | The Story of a Marriage – Andrew Sean Greer
019 | Love Over Scotland – Alexander McCall Smith
020 | The World According to Bertie – Alexander McCall Smith
021 | The End of Innocence – Moni Mohsin
022 | Life’s Like That – Lydia Teh
023 | A Date in Your Diary – Jules Stanbridge
024 | Talk of the Town – Suzanne Macpherson
025 | Cocktails for Three – Madeleine Wickham
026 | The Happiness Project – Gretchen Rubin
027 | The Unbearable Lightness of Scones – Alexander McCall Smith
028 | A Disobedient Girl – Ru Freeman
029 | The September of Shiraz – Dalia Sofer
030 | The Importance of Being Seven – Alexander McCall Smith
031 | The Sealed Letter – Emma Donoghue
032 | The Bookseller of Kabul – Åsne Seierstad
033 | Fire in the Blood – Irène Némirovsky
034 | Still Here – Linda Grant
035 | The Folded Earth – Anuradha Roy
036 | Touchy Subjects – Emma Donoghue
037 | The Secret Life of France – Lucy Wadham
038 | Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
039 | Almost French – Sarah Turnbull
040 | An Unexpected Guest – Anne Korkeakivi
041 | Frozen Heat – Richard Castle
042 | Is that a Fish in Your Ear? – David Bellos
043 | Stardust – Neil Gaiman
044 | The Visit of the Royal Physician – Per Olov Enquist
045 | Simple Gifts – Jude Deveraux & Judith McNaught
046 | State of Wonder – Ann Patchett
047 | The Savage Garden – Mark Mills

Note on 30.12.2012 – It has been a good year for reading, even if I struggled somewhat with reading material in French. Each book took me twice as long as I would with an English book of comparable size. Nonetheless, I got to my target number and enjoyed the process too. As the French says, youpi!

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