Mission Impossible
Mission Impossible is a community-driven reading challenge where we tackle some of the most challenging books ever written. Designed to encourage readers to step out of their comfort zones, this program fosters a love for literature, promotes critical thinking, and creates a shared experience around thought-provoking, often complex texts.
The 2026-2027 author is Olga Tokarczuk. The writings that we will read and discuss include:
- The Books of Jacob, translated by Jennifer Croft
- "The Tender Narrator" Nobel Prize Lecture, translated by Jennifer Croft and Antonia Lloyd-Jones
- Additional works to be determined
Discussions begin in October 2026 and end in June 2027.
Discussion Groups
Reading Schedule
Discussion Prompts
Extra Resources
Discussion Groups
Discussion group options coming soon.
Reading Schedules
Reading schedules coming soon.
Discussion Prompts
Discussion prompts coming in September.
Supplemental Information
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These are the books that we have read over the years:
- 2026-2027 - The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
- 2025-2026 - Death in Venice and Other Tales and The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- 2024-2025 - The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
- 2023-2024 - Midnight's Children & The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
- 2022-2023 - The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, & Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz
- 2021-2022 - No One Writes to the Colonel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, & Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
- 2020-2021 - Mrs. Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, & Orlando by Virginia Woolf
- 2019-2020 - Go Tell It On The Mountain, Giovanni's Room, & Another Country by James Baldwin
- 2018-2019 - As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, & Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
- 2017-2018 - The Brothers Karamazov & Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 2016-2017 - Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- 2015-2016 - Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- 2014-2015 - Middlemarch by George Eliot
- 2013-2014 - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
- 2012-2013 - The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
- 2011-2012 - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- 2010-2011 - Ulysses by James Joyce