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Jun. 15th, 2008 10:04 amI am a shameless book addict.
Whenever I come across a good book that people have recommended to me, I can't help immediately wanting to go out and buy it. Whenever I see challenges to get you to read more, I jump at it. I've already joined the![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
50bookchallenge, which is already going quite well—I expect I'll have reached my goal by the end of the summer—but I'm always interested in taking up new challenges. So, when I came across this, I couldn't help jumping at the opportunity.
The rules for this challenge are really quite simple: All you have to do is read 10 books from the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list from May 1, 2008 to February 28, 2009. Those ten books are roughly 1% of the list, hence the name 1% Well-Read Challenge.
It's so hard to choose books from that list, because you know that if they're on the list of books you should read before you die, they're bound to be incredibly well-written. However, these are my first ten choices:
1. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - This is also one of the books I need to choose from for my summer reading list, so this is one book that I'm hopefully going to be able to read. I'm really looking forward to it, and expect this book to be amazing.
2. Vanishing Point by David Markson
3. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
4. Atonement by Ian McEwan
5. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
6. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
7. The Human Stain by Philip Roth
8. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
9. The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
10. Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
And here are my alternatives, in case my library doesn't have them or if I decide to drop them:
11. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
12. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
13. The Untouchable by John Banville
14. Silk by Alessandro Baricco
15. The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
16. Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
17. Amongst Women by John McGahern
18. Possession by A. S. Byatt
19. Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
20. The Afternoon of a Writer by Peter Handke
Of course, I could easily read every single one of these books and still want to read more of this list, or I could even drop all of my planned books to read and start from scratch. This is just a basic "outline" of the books I want to read. If I actually do read them is still to be determined, though...
Whenever I come across a good book that people have recommended to me, I can't help immediately wanting to go out and buy it. Whenever I see challenges to get you to read more, I jump at it. I've already joined the
50bookchallenge, which is already going quite well—I expect I'll have reached my goal by the end of the summer—but I'm always interested in taking up new challenges. So, when I came across this, I couldn't help jumping at the opportunity.The rules for this challenge are really quite simple: All you have to do is read 10 books from the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list from May 1, 2008 to February 28, 2009. Those ten books are roughly 1% of the list, hence the name 1% Well-Read Challenge.
It's so hard to choose books from that list, because you know that if they're on the list of books you should read before you die, they're bound to be incredibly well-written. However, these are my first ten choices:
1. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - This is also one of the books I need to choose from for my summer reading list, so this is one book that I'm hopefully going to be able to read. I'm really looking forward to it, and expect this book to be amazing.
2. Vanishing Point by David Markson
3. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
4. Atonement by Ian McEwan
5. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
6. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
7. The Human Stain by Philip Roth
8. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
9. The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
10. Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
And here are my alternatives, in case my library doesn't have them or if I decide to drop them:
11. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
12. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
13. The Untouchable by John Banville
14. Silk by Alessandro Baricco
15. The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
16. Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
17. Amongst Women by John McGahern
18. Possession by A. S. Byatt
19. Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
20. The Afternoon of a Writer by Peter Handke
Of course, I could easily read every single one of these books and still want to read more of this list, or I could even drop all of my planned books to read and start from scratch. This is just a basic "outline" of the books I want to read. If I actually do read them is still to be determined, though...
