2013 Reading Challenge: First-Reads

First Reads Its January and its raining reading challenges!

While hosting reading challenges is fun, nothing like joining one and completing it successfully. The exhilaration is simply un-matchable. I am going to miss South Asian Challenge not being hosted this year but that has given me an opportunity to join a reading challenge hosted by a friend and fellow book blogger – Debdatta Dasgupta Sahay of B00k R3vi3ws. She calls it 2013 Reading Challenge: First-Reads.

The deal is simple. Under this reading challenge, I will be reading authors that I have never attempted before and I choose the highest challenge level: Fanatic Level, which means I will be reading 25 books by authors I have never read before.

Ambitious uh? Well, living up the voracious reader tag this year when the millennium turns a teenager (lousy excuse, I know but all’s fair in love…love for reads).

The titles and their authors to be part of this reading challenge:

1. Alchemy: The Tranquebar Book of erotic Stories II edited by Sheba Karim

2. Beaten by Bhagath by S.V. Divvaakar

3. Chasing Maya by Rohan Gogoi

4. Jack Patel’s Dubai Dreams by P.G. Bhaskar

5.Lucky For Some 13, by Prem Rao

6. Luwan of Brida by Sarang Mahajan

7. Return of a King by William Dalrymple

8. Roll of Honour by Amandeep Sandhu

9. The Anza Deception by P.R. Ganapathy

10. The Stopover by Ram Prakash & Deepa Pinto

11. When The Snow Melts by Vinod Joseph