10*10*10

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After talking with some friends about the 10*10*10 reading project (in short: read and blog about 10 books in 10 categories in the year 2010), I’ve decided on the following 10 topic areas for my reading:

1. Works by authors who participate in the Cafe-Blue mailing list

2. Works by authors who participate in the NewPoetry mailing list

3. Shakespeare plays
   Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
   Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)

4. Hard-SciFi and space opera
   Bloom (Wil McCarthy)
   Matter (Iain M. Banks)

5. International mysteries
   Roseanna (Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö)
   The Oxford Murders (Guillermo Martínez)
   No Happy Ending (Paco Ignacio Taibo II)
   The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson)
   The Redbreast (Jo Nesbø)

6. Young Adult novels
   The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian (Sherman Alexie)

7. Ancient drama
   Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)
   Hippolytus (Euripides)
   Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
   Antigone (Sophocles)
   Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles)

8. Philosophy & Aesthetics
   The Infinity of Lists (Umberto Eco)

9. Poetry collections by authors new(ish) to me

10. Fiction in Translation
    Every Man Dies Alone (Hans Fallada)
    Usurper of the Sun (Housuke Nojiri)

The rules are pretty relaxed:

• Read the books
• Blog about each book, one way or another
• A single book can fill in multiple categories according to my whim
• All definitions (such as what: young adult, international, creative nonfiction, philosophy, aesthetics, and being "new to me" mean) are determined by me and subject to change without notice
• Regardless of the above rules I can do what I want

I’ll update this page with links to each book as I go, or you can browse the 10*10*10 Challenge tag…