We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
– Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)

Big Books Challenge 2014 reading list

There were some books in Nicola’s to-read pile that she’d been putting off reading for years because they are over 400 pages long. So one of the reading resolutions she set herself for 2014 was to choose six of them to read that year (one every 2 months). And she did it; she cracked their spines and finished them all! The 6 books were:

“I Am A Cat” by Soseki Natsume (Japan) – 470 pages
“Wizard of the Crow” by Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Kenya) – 766 pages
“One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia) – 422 pages
“Three Day Road” by Joseph Boyden (Canada) – 432 pages
“No Man’s Land” by Duong Thu Huong (Vietnam) – 450 pages
“A Fine Balance” by Rohinton Mistry (India) – 614 pages

In italics, Nicola’s Coup de Cœur