19.Mar.2009 (Another) 1% Well-Read Challenge
Michelle from 1morechapter is hosting another 1% well-read challenge. I didn’t join last year, because at the same time I had my own 1001 books related reading challenge: 10 out of 100 out of 1001 Books. I’m thinking not to continue my challenge, because it felt too restrictive, but I still have my personal goal to read more books from the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. So this year I’m joining 1% well-read challenge because it coincides nicely with my perpetual challenge.
Rules
- 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?”
I’m going with option 1, because I’ve been following the original list for some time, and keeping track of the 2nd list too would just be a pain for now.
I may not be able to complete this challenge, but I’d die trying. (You know that’s just a figure of speech right?) I promise myself that this is the last challenge I’m joining for this year!
I’d keep track of the books I read here.
1) The Color Purple by Alice Walker (no. 272, finished 04/09, 
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2) Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (no. 77, finished 06/09, )
3) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (no. 301, finished 07/09, )
4) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (no. 33, finished 08/09, 
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5) Silk by Alessandro Baricco (no. 101, finished 09/09, 
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6) Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote (no. 467, finished 09/09, )
7) A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (no. 913, finished 09/09, 
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8) Dracula by Bram Stoker (no. 784, finished 10/09, 
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9) If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino (no. 300, finished 11/09, )
10) The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (no. 880, finished 12/09, )
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