Thank you Exibris for your recent post about the 1% well read challenge based on the book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. This challenge is really keen; I've wondered more than once what would serve as a literature canon and this seems like a decent shot at it. I question a few of the left off book - e.g., who is Joyce's Ulysses included but not Homer's? But overall, with the exception of Shikasta, the books I've read from this list have been really wonderful.
. This challenge is really keen; I've wondered more than once what would serve as a literature canon and this seems like a decent shot at it. I question a few of the left off book - e.g., who is Joyce's Ulysses included but not Homer's? But overall, with the exception of I'm hiding from challenges for the nonce (heck, if I finished the titles listed below that I'd already tagged for other challenges, I'd be another 1% along), but thought it was interesting to evaluate my reading against the list using a handy spreadsheet from Arukiyoma My score: 3.70% based on having read the following list. So, I have 96.30% of my reading life yet ahead of me.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Neuromancer by William Gibson
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Shikasta by Doris Lessing
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Françoise Rabelais
Aesop’s Fables by Aesopus
I'm updating my Shelfari page with this info too.
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Ugh. Total time-suck, reading through all those titles and bolding the ones I've read. 116 of 'em. Not for nothing was I a Comparative Literature (English & French literatures) major in college! Of course, it made me realize how poorly read I have been of late. Time to get back into that habit.
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