Challenge Completed: Lost In Translation 2009

The Lost In Translation Challenge is another reading challenge that ended with December, even though I'm just getting around to writing a wrap-up post. It was hosted by Nonsuchbook, and asked participants to read six books in translation during the year.

This was another fun challenge. I read several books that were outside my normal "comfort zone," and a couple that had been on my "must read" list for several years. I also discovered several authors who were new to me.

Here's the list of books I read, with links to reviews. I'm still missing a couple of those reviews, but I'm hoping to remedy that later in the week.

My List:

1. Solaris. Stanislaw Lem
2. The Book of God and Physics. Enrique Joven
3. The Unit. Ninni Holmqvist
   
4. The Angel's Game. Carlos Ruiz Zafon [review to come]
   
5. The Friend of Madame Maigret. Georges Simenon
   
6. The Lover. Marguerite Duras [review to come]
   

I'd like to thank Nonsuchbooks for hosting this challenge - it was certainly one of my favorites. Oh, and one more thing - isn't that one of the greatest buttons ever?

Lost In Translation Reading Challenge

And here's another one I just couldn't pass up. The Lost in Translation Challenge is being hosted by Frances of Nonsuch Book, and runs all year, from January 1 to December 31, 2009. You can read all about it on the challenge announcement page, but the basic idea is just to read six books in translation over the course of the challenge.

I've got quite a few translated books on my TBR list already, so I thought this challenge might fit nicely with the Read Your Own Books Challenge I've also signed up for. No list of books is required, but since I'm a confirmed list-maker, here's my prelim:

Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem
If on a winter's night a traveler, by Italo Calvino
Something by Arturo Perez-Reverte (probably The Nautical Chart)
Something by Haruki Murakami (probably After Dark or The Wind-up Bird Chronicle)
Something by Milan Kundera (probably Ignorance)
Something by Jose Saramago (probably The Double)