Because I am a big, old nerd, I have been inspired to starting blogging by the 1% Well-Read Challenge. Basically the challenge is to read 10 books off of the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list in the next 10 months.
I spent a very enjoyable afternoon reviewing the list and came up with the following list of books to read in the next 10 months:
1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
2. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
3. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
4. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
5. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
6. Something by Jane Austen – The options on the list are:
–Northhanger Abbey
-Persuasion
-Emma
-Mansfield Park
-Pride and Prejudice
-Sense and Sensibility
7. Something by James Joyce
-Finnegans Wake
–Ulysses
-Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
8. Something by Doris Lessing
-The Diary of Jane Somers
-Shikasta
-The Golden Notebook
-The Grass is Singing
9. Something by Flannery O’Connor
-Everything that Rises Must Converge
-The Violent Bear It Away
-Wise Blood
10. Something by Salman Rushdie
-Fury
-The Ground Beneath Her Feet
-The Moor’s Last Sigh
-The Satanic Verses
-Shame
-Midnight’s Children
-Grimus
I know we have copies of The Corrections, The Hours, and The Sound and the Fury in the house, so that’s easy. And I settled on Northhanger Abbey and Ulysses as my Austen and Joyce picks because both of those books are available on DailyLit.
We’ll see how it goes. Should be fun.
