I've decided to start small, and go with the "Trying" Challenge Level, where I will read 15 books off my shelf this year. I hope to read more books than I read last year (30) but I have book club and other books that I'd like to read that don't qualify for this challenge.
I've already started, and here are some of the books that I can choose from off of my shelf:
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams (I'm reading this one now)
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, by Douglas Adams
- Life, the Universe, and Everything, by Douglas Adams
- So Long and Thanks For All the Fish, by Douglas Adams
- Mostly Harmless, by Douglas Adams
- Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
- The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
- To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- Eragon, by Christopher Paolini
- Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust
- The Lightning Theif, by Rick Riordan
- The Oedipus Cycle, by Sophocles
- The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
- The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Two Towers, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Return of the King, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
- Candide, by Voltaire
- Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Night, by Elie Wiesel
- Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
- The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
So, my few followers, which books do you think I should read for this challenge?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams (I'm reading this one now)
ReplyDeleteThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe, by Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe, and Everything, by Douglas Adams
So Long and Thanks For All the Fish, by Douglas Adams
Mostly Harmless, by Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Eragon, by Christopher Paolini
The Lightning Theif, by Rick Riordan
The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks
Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
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ReplyDeleteFind a good mix of quick reads and more demanding reads. I admire your challenge chutzpa, you have some seriously formidable books on your list.
ReplyDeleteHitchhiker's Guide would have made the list even if you weren't already reading it.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Little Women
To Kill a Mockingbird
Walden
Lord of the Rings
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Lightning Theif
Ethan Frome
The Great Gatsby
Those are my suggestions, for what they're worth. I think that's 13, if you count LoTR as three books.
first of all this morning when I was blog hopping I found one called Quick Quotes Quills and it is a blog all about HP and one of the posts showed different kinds of HP bookends and they were really cool so of course I thought of you. here is the address
ReplyDeletehttp://quickquotesquills.blogspot.com/
anyway, that list is made up of some pretty heavy stuff! I wouldn't sell yourself short and only focus on the quick reads but don't get too caught up in books like Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy. I can't believe 15 books is only considered as "trying"!!!
Good Luck
I liked Anna Karenina. It has one of my favorite first lines. But it is sad. And long.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is To Kill A Mockingbird. But I say, mix it up. Read a fantasy, then historical, then mainstream.