The 1% Well-Read Challenge

Dates: 1 March 2009-31 March 2010

Hosted by: Michelle of 1 More Chapter

All selections are to come from the lists in the book, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (Peter Boxall, ed.). Participants can use either the original edition of the book, or the new revised edition.

Guidelines:

• Read 10 titles from the original list from March 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009.
• Read 10 titles from the new list from March 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009.
• 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.

See my original post about the challenge here.

See the challenge announcement page here.

READING LIST (subject to change):

1. The Ambassadors. Henry James
2. An Artist of the Floating World. Kazuo Ishiguro
3. Atonement. Ian McEwan
4. The Black Dahlia. James Ellroy
5. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick
6. The Double. Jose Saramago
7. The Hours. Michael Cunningham
   
8. Ignorance. Milan Kundera
9. The Moonstone. Wilkie Collins
10. Northanger Abbey. Jane Austen
11. Play It As It Lays. Joan Didion
12. Rabbit Is Rich. John Updike [see review]
    
13. The Reader. Bernhard Schlink
14. The Secret History. Donna Tartt
15. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Haruki Murakami