03.Jan.2010 (Another) 1% Well-Read Challenge Completed!
1% Well-Read challenge was going from 1 March to 31 December 2009 for the first option, which was to read 1% (10 books) out of the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. I chose to follow the original list published in 2006 (there was another updated list published in 2008, which total combined of both adds up to around 1300 books).
I read exactly 10 books:
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, )
I’m very happy that I completed this challenge, because I was very pessimistic about it at the beginning. In fact, I read 12 books from the list in 2009 (2 before the challenge started). That makes me 2.79% well-read so far :)
I loved many books from the above list as you can see my ratings, but my personal favorite is Middlesex, which became one of my top books of all time.
The third option of the challenge is still going on until 31 March 2010 (requires 13 books from combined list). I don’t know if 3m is going to host another one, but I’m going to continue reading from the list as a personal project. Thank you for hosting 3m!
mee 
