The idea behind this challenge is to read 100 books in five years that are books that I've been meaning to read, feel that I should read, want to read, or--in my case--that my kids and friends have suggested. So, I have until December 17, 2015 to read these 100 books. This is the blog where I got the idea, and I went ahead and signed up there, too.
Note from Sept 2013: I've been at this challenge for two years and nine months now and have fallen a bit behind, having only read 47 of my 100 books. I have decided that I am going to take the liberty of swapping out up to five books, two for books that I have attempted and decided that I am just not interested in, plus up to three others. I subbed a book once before, when I decided that Three Cups of Tea needed to go because of the dishonesty in the book.
- Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (11/18/2013)
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (2/13/2012)
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- North and South by Gaskell
- Dune by Frank Herbert (3/19/2011)
- The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (9/21/2014)
- A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
- Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis (1/26/2014)
- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (3/16/2012)
- Law and Gospel by CFW Walther
- Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (3/17/2013)
- Beach Music by Pat Conroy (3/22/2012)
- The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- Peace Like a River by Leif Enger (4/2015)
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
- The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (12/5/2011)
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (2/21/2012)
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (3/2014)
- The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling (1/27/2012)
- The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov (2/5/2013)
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (4/29/2011)
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (10/30/2014)
- Churchill by Paul Johnson
The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar, subbing The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius- Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
- The Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (11/4/2012)
- Summerland by Michael Chabon (6/25/2012)
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (5/16/2014)
- The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis (10/10/2014)
- The House on the Strand by Daphne DuMaurier (5/19/2011)
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (6/28/2012)
- I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (3/24/2014)
- A Canticle for Leibowitz, Miller (2/9/2011)
- In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson 12/10/2013)
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1/18/2014)
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (4/12/2011)
- A Life Worth Living by John Holt (1/15/2014)
- Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536 by Reston (10/9/2014)
- Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois (12/13/2012)
- Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple (3/20/2011)
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (1/7/2011)
- Desolation Road by Ian McDonald (7/10/2012)
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (9/25/2012)
- All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (4/3/2012)
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- Faust by Goethe
- Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (5/29/2013)
- Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington (4/7/2013)
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (4/24/2012)
- Redwall by Brian Jacques (11/22/2014)
The Guns of August by Barabara Tuchman(just can't get into the military history), subbing Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut- Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
Life of Pi by Yann Mertel,subbing Lord of the Flies by William Golding- Aeneid by Virgil
- The Complete Poetry of John Donne
- Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, T.S. Eliot (4/23/2012)
- Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
- My Antonia by Willa Cather (1/15/2013)
- Dead Souls by Gogol
- The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (9/28/2011)
- East Lynne by Ellen Wood (6/18/2011)
- Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle
- Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery (1/6/2012)
- The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
- The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald (12/26/2010)
- Robinson Crusoe (9/9/2013)
- The Once and Future King by T.H. White
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (7/18/2011)
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (4/30/2015)
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (3/25/2013)
- Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton, subbing Middlemarch by George Eliot (12/13/13)- Introducing Father Brown by GK Chesterton (10/6/2011)
- Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (5/2/11)
- The Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (5/6/2013)
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (7/2/2012)
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1/20/2013)
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (10/4/2014)
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov (3/6/2011)
- The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes (12/30/2012)
- The Warden by Anthony Trollope (1/28/2013)
- Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin,(I have read other works by LeGuin this year) subbing The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
- The Histories by Herodotus
Hi Jane, Glad to see The Book Thief and The Shadow of the Wind made your list, they are two of my (and my son's) recent favorites. I just finished The Solace of Leaving Early from another of your lists and I loved it--intellectual and a great story. I am definitely going to add a few more of these to my list. I started the Master and Margarita last year but I am putting it back on to finish along with Anna Karenina.
ReplyDeleteDo you ever get into a book that you hate and do you keep going? Does 100 in 5 years leave time for new releases or is this all you will have time for?
Carol
I am reading about 110 books a year, so it leaves me time, if I keep up that pace.
ReplyDeleteIf I get into a book that I hate I will usually either stop or put it aside. If it's a good quality book, I assume the fault is in me and will give it some time and try it again.
But, like some people, some books are just never going to be our friends. :)