Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

"Off the Shelf" Reading Challenge

So I've decided to try a reading challenge this year.  I thought the best one for me would be one that challenged me to read some of the books that are already on my bookshelf, but that I have yet to crack open the pages.  And I found this challenge that sounds great:


Off The Shelf!



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?