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(Another) 1% Well-Read Challenge: March - December, 2009

  • Feb. 28th, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Michelle at 1morechapter.com is back with another 1% Well-Read Challenge.  Yea!  A new edition of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die was published last year, so Michelle has given us three options for this challenge:
  1. Read 10 titles from the original list from March 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009.
  2. Read 10 titles from the new list from March 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009.
  3. 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?”
I've been tracking my progress on the old & new lists for a while now (here's my handy-dandy spreadsheet), and I've gotten over my outrage over the removal of Persuasion in the new edition.  So I'm going with option 2 and will overlap considerably with The Complete Booker.  Here's my list (with links to reviews):
  1. The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro (review)
  2. Schindler's Ark, by Thomas Kenneally (review)
  3. The Siege of Krishnapur, by J.G. Farrell (review)
  4. The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton (review)
  5. Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons (review)
  6. Vernon God Little, by D.B.C. Pierre (review)
  7. The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler (review)
  8. Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee (review)
  9. To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf (review)
  10. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, by Marina Lewycka (review)

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[info]raidergirl3 wrote:
Mar. 1st, 2009 02:46 am (UTC)
thanks for the spread sheet! I love google docs, and all the work you've done to set that up makes them so easy.
I copied it and then entered my data. I do a lot of colouring in of boxes so I can see quickly lists within lists.

I'll probably join this again, even though I just didn't finish this challenge last year. I read 7 out of ten, but I have more planned, so why not?
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[info]laura0218 wrote:
Mar. 1st, 2009 10:40 am (UTC)
I'm glad the spreadsheet was useful. I wanted one that I could access from anywhere -- hence GoogleDocs. I started with the spreadsheet Michelle mentioned in the challenge post, which is Excel-based. So the credit is really due to Arukiyomi, who created the original and revised it for the new edition!
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(Anonymous) wrote:
Mar. 1st, 2009 07:51 am (UTC)
!%
I plan to have read all the books in your list very soon! They are all in my TBR pile!

Jackie http://www.farmlanebooks.co.uk
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