Reading Challenge

 I think I want to read 12 biographies this year. Here are the ones I am feeling:

*January - J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
February - Tall, Dark, and Gruesome by Christopher Lee
March - The Baroness of New Orleans by Christina Vella
April - Goddess and the Girl Next Door: Julie d'Aubigny and Her World by Olga Peters Hasty
May - Black Bart Roberts: The Greatest Pirate of Them All by Terry Breverton
June - Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist by Christopher Hollings, Ursula Martin, and Adrian Rice
July - My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir by Katherine Johnson
August -  Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea by Kathleen Broome Williams
September - Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
October - Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu
November - Lady Death: The memoirs of Stalin's Sniper by Lyudmila Pavlichenko
December - Madame Curie: A Biography by Eve Curie

I also want to read 12 banned books, mostly Classics:

*To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (across US, racism and profanity)
*The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Oklahoma, negative Dust Bowl depiction)
*Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Tulsa specifically, promotion of rebellion, sexual themes, profanity)
*1984 by George Orwell (across US, pro-communism)
*Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Across US, anti-authoritarian)
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (Edmond, profanity, sexual themes, anti-war themes)
*Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Oklahoma, profanity, violence)
*The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Edmond, profanity, sexual references, poverty and addiction)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Oklahoma, sexual violence, profanity, LGBTQ+ themes)
*Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (Oklahoma, racial slurs, profanity, violence)
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (Moore, Police brutality, profanity, criticism of Law Enforcement)

And 12 books about my tribe:
See the other post.

* Books on my shelf. All others will need finding.

Native Books to Find

A Sacred Path: The Way of the Muscogee Creeks - Jean and Joyce Chaudhuri Already Owned

Creek Indian Medicine Ways: The Enduring Power of Mvskoke Religion - David Lewis Jr. & Ann T. Jordan Ordered 7/14/25

Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity - Laura Harjo Ordered 3/18/25

Chief William McIntosh: Mvskoke Creek Warrior: 1777-1825 - Billie Jane McIntosh

Old Tallahassee Ceremonial Ground of the Creek Nation: Nene Mvskoke - Fus Fixico

The Bear is My Father: Indigenous Wisdom of a Muscogee Creek Caretaker of Sacred Ways - Reginah Waterspirit & Bear Heart Ordered 2/25/25

The Wind is My Mother: The Life and Teachings of a Native American Shaman - Bear Heart with Molly Larkin Ordered 2/25/25

Creek Religion & Medicine - John R. Swanton

Chinnubbie and the Owl: Muscogee (Creek) Stories, Orations, and Oral Traditions - Alexander Posey Ordered 6/27/25

The History & Material Culture of the Muscogee Creek in Alabama and Georgia - Lloyd E. Schroder Ordered 2/25/25

Lighting the Way: The Dawe Commission and the Creek Nation - James R. Scales & Danney Goble

The World of the Southern Indians - Laurella Owens & Virginia Pounds Brown Ordered 5/22/25

Southern Indian Myths and Legends - Laurella Owens & Virginia Pounds Brown Ordered 7/14/25

The Southeastern Indians - Charles Hudson Ordered 1/22/25

Muscogee (Creek) Nation History - Jon Sterba

The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763 - Steven C. Hahn

A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816 - Claudio Saunt Ordered 6/30/25

Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World, 1796-1816 - Robbie Ethridge

Rivers of Sand: Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, and Ethnic Cleansing in the American South - Chrostopher D. Haveman

Creek Indian History: A Historical Narrative of the Genealogy, Traditions and Downfall of the Ispocoga or Creek Indian Tribe of Indians - George Stiggins

A Promise Kept: The Muscogee (Creek) Nation and McGirt v. Oklahoma - Robert J Miller

The Fus Fixico Letters: A Creek Humorist in Early Oklahoma - Alexander Posey Ordered 6/30/25

Lost Creeks: Collected Journals - Alexander Posey

Drawing by Stealth: John Trumbull and the Creek Indians - Virigina Pounds Brown and Linda McNair Cohen Ordered 5/22/25

Wynema: A Child of the Forest - S. Alice Callahan Ordered 7/14/25