For the past two years I've been participating in the Birth Year Reading Challenge hosted by Hotchpot Cafe. Each year, she changes it up so that we can jump out of our birth year. I'm especially glad because finding books from that year was so hard. I went forward in the time Machine last year to 1953 but that didn't help a whole lot. The lists of books published are long; the list of books available are not. So, this year we get to honor someone by choosing their birth year, hence the name: BYRC Honors.
I have chosen to honor Amy Winehouse who was born in 1983. She had a wonderful voice in the tradition of Billie Holiday and Janis Joplin. Great, mad talent and gone far too soon.
The list of books published that year is long. I have not read very many of them and I'm not too sure why. Maybe I was too busy trying to catch up on everything before that year. In any case, I know I won't get to all these before the end of the year either. But I have a better chance of finding these, I think. Click on the link above if you want to join in or just find out more. Here's my list:
- Isaac Asimov - The Robots of Dawn
- Greg Bear - The Wind from a Burning Woman
- Samuel Beckett - Worstward Ho
- Thomas Berger - The Feud
- Thomas Bernhard - The Loser
- Jorge Luis Borges - Shakespeare's Memory
- Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Mists of Avalon
- Morley Callaghan - A Time for Judas
- Raymond Carver - Cathedral
- Hugo Claus - Het verdriet van België
- J. M. Coetzee - Life and Times of Michael K
- Jackie Collins - Hollywood Wives
- Basil Copper - The House of the Wolf
- Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Sword and Sharpe's Enemy
- Bernard & Judy Cornwell (as Susannah Kells) - A Crowning Glory
- Roald Dahl - The Witches
- L. Sprague de Camp - The Reluctant King and The Unbeheaded King
- Jim Dodge - Fup
- Allan W. Eckert - The Dark Green Tunnel
- Ernest J. Gaines - A Gathering of Old Men
- John Gardner - Icebreaker
- Gery Greer and Bob Ruddick - Max and Me and the Time Machine
- Mark Helprin - Winter's Tale
- Elfriede Jelinek - The Piano Teacher
- William Kennedy -Ironweed
- Stephen King - Christine
- Dean R. Koontz - Phantoms
- Mary Mackey - The Last Warrior Queen
- Norman Mailer - Ancient Evenings
- James A. Michener - Poland
- Anita Brian Moore - Cold Heaven
- R. K. Narayan - A Tiger for Malgudi
- Robert B. Parker - The Widening Gyre
- Tim Powers - The Anubis Gates
- Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic
- Salman Rushdie - Shame
- Joanna Russ - The Zanzibar Cat
- Walter Tevis - The Queen's Gambit
- A. N. Wilson - Scandal
- Robert Anton Wilson - Prometheus Rising
- Roger Zelazny - Unicorn Variations
- Grace Nichols - i is a long memoried woman
- Paul Durcan - Jumping the Train Tracks with Angela
Oh, and don't forget to enter yourself for my giveaway. Just click on the 'Celebrating...' post in my sidebar - look way down - and leave a comment.
