The Guardian 1000 Novels Challenge

Dates: 1 February 2009 - 1 February 2010
Hosted by: Jennie of Biblio File
Guidelines:

• The British paper, The Guardian, has come up with a list of 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read Before They Die. The challenge is to read and review 10 books off the list (that's 1%) between February 1st of 2009 and February 1st of 2010.
• Of these 10, you must read 1 from each category and, if possible, 1 should be a book you have never heard of until you saw it on this list.

See my original post about the challenge here.
See the challenge announcement page here.
See reviews for February 2009 here.
See reviews for March 2009 here.
See reviews for April 2009 here.

READING LIST

1. Cover Her Face, by P.D. James (Category: Crime) [see review]
   
2. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton (Category: Love) [see review]
   
3. Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem (Category: Science Fiction and Fantasy) [see review]
   
4. The Uncommon Reader. Alan Bennett (Category: Comedy) [review to come]
   
5. The Murder at the Vicarage. Agatha Christie (Category: Crime) [reading now]
   
6. The Lover. Marguerite Duras Category: Love) [reading now]
   

OTHER POSSIBLE CHOICES:

Afternoon Men. Anthony Powell (State of the Nation)
The Ambassadors. Henry James (Family/Self)
Animal Farm. George Orwell (State of the Nation)
Invitation to the Waltz. Rosamond Lehmann (Family/Self)
The Island of Dr. Moreau. H.G. Wells (War/Travel)
Lake Wobegon Days. Garrison Keillor (Comedy)
Men At Arms. Evelyn Waugh (War/Travel)
Play It As It Lays. Joan Didion (State of the Nation)
Put Out More Flags. Evelyn Waugh (War/Travel)
The Wapshot Chronicle. John Cheever (Family/Self)