1% Well Read Challenge

Setting another goal to keep me reading this year... I'd run across this one a while back, but waited until their prior challenge end date came to see if they would start up a new one, and lo and behold! So I give you my list for the...

What is it?: The editors of the book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die threw a kink into our challenge when they updated the books with new titles last year. So, I’ve got three options for you on this next challenge:

1. Read 10 titles from the original list from March 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009.
2. Read 10 titles from the new list from March 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009.
3. Read 13 titles from the combined list (of almost 1300 titles) from March 1, 2009 through March 31, 2010. In other words, “What were they thinking dropping titles from Dostoevsky and Jane Austen?”

For all options, overlaps with other challenges are allowed, and you may change your list at any time.

Link to Challenge:1% Well Read Challenge

Challenge Start and End Dates: March 1 2009, March 31, 2010.

My Progress: 1/13 Books Read

My List: I'm going to go with Option #3 because there are books on the old list that I have in my to be read pile... Many of these are books I've been meaning to read, or merely finish, for years.

1. Never Let Me Go -- Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
3. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
4. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
5. Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates
6. Falling Man - Don DeLillo
7. Reasons to Live - Julie Hempel
8. Love in The Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
10. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
11. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
12. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
13. The Plot Against America - Philip Roth