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.