Long Term Reading Projects

1. The Pulitzer Project


Host:3M
When: No time limit
Books Read so far:

• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
• The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
  
• The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Juanot Díaz
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
• Ironweed by William Kennedy
• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
• March by Geraldine Brooks
  

Before the Project:

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
  
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Hours by Michael Cunningham
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  

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3. The Printz Project


Host: Suey and Jessica
When: No time limit
Books Read so far:

• Nation by Terry Pratchett
• Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
• An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• how i live now by Meg Rosoff
• Skellig by David Almond
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
• the first part last by Angela Johnson
• Black Juice by Margo Lanagan
• Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
• A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
  
• The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
• Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers

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4. The Carnegie Medal Project

Host: None
When: No time limit
Books Read so far:

• The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
• Skellig by David Almond
• River Boy by Tim Bowler
• Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
• Wolf by Gillian Cross
• The Haunting by Margaret Mahy
• The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• The Owl Service by Alan Garner
• Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
• Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeves
• A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly
• Just In Case by Meg Rosoff
• The Changeover by Margaret Mahy
• Tamar by Mal Peet
• Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
• Whispers in the Graveyard by Theresa Breslin
• Stone Cold by Robert Swindells
• Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
  
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
• Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers
• The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo

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5. A Year of Feminist Classics I

1. January: A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollestonecraft - Amy
2. February: The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill - Ana
3. March: A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen - Emily
4. April: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Iris
5. May: A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf - Ana
6. June: God Dies by the Nile by Nawal Saadawi - Amy
7. July: The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir - Iris
8. August: The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston - Emily
9. September: The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf - Amy
10. October: Ain’t I a Woman? by bell hooks - Iris
11. November: Gender Trouble by Judith Butler - Ana
12. December: Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde - Emily

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6. Children's Classics Project

Host: None
When: No time limit
Book To Read:

• Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
  
• Just William by Richmal Crompton
  
• Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
  
• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
  
• Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  
• The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston
• Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield
• The Borrowers by Mary Norton