My Reading Challenge

Like you'd expect from any self-acclaimed bookworm, I have a bookshelf filled with books. However some of these are yet to be read - or even finished! I think it's a shame to just let these books collect dust  over time, as upon purchase these books obviously captured my imagination and made me want to read them. With this in mind, I have selected some of the book and made a list consisting of 13 books which I have challenged myself to read within 8 weeks:

1.The Piano Tuner // Daniel Mason

2.The 5th Wave // Rick Yancey

3.The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul // Deborah Rodriguez 

4.The Goldfinch // Donna Tartt (B)

5.The Da Vinci Code // Dan Brown

6.I Am Pilgrim // Terry Hayes (B)

7.Divergent // Veronica Roth

8.The Hobbit // J. R. R Tolkien 

9.The Knife of Never Letting Go // Patrick Ness

10.A Girl is a Hal-formed Thing // Eimear McBride

11.The Shock to the Fall // Nathan Filer

12.Paper Towns // John Green

13.Even the Dogs // Jon McGregor 

The books which have (B) after them are bulky and I am therefore allowing myself a week to read them. I wish to read the others in half a week - and so two in an entire week. The reason I have set myself such a tight deadlines is because I hope to study English Literature at university and some of the courses read upto 100 books a year. This is a capacity that I am not used to - I'm a rather slow reader! So I thought that whilst I have enough time to do so, I shall practice read a lot a books and hopefully I will increase my reading speed whilst still absorbing the books. This will also allow me to broaden my individual reading resumé. 

Please stay tuned for reviews of these books in the upcoming weeks (this is also testing my organisational and motivational skills!) here on this blog!

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