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The goal of this challenge is to read 10 books in 10 months from the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list. For you non-math people, 10 out of 1001 is approximately 1%, hence the title. The challenge will run from May 1, 2008 through February 28, 2009.

You may change your list at any time and cross-posting to other challenges is permitted. The only requirement is that your ten book choices must be on the ‘1001 List‘. Another helpful tool is an Excel spreadsheet by Arukiyoma that is found here.

I’ve set up a separate site for sign-ups and reviews. Go HERE to sign-up using Mr. Linky.

I’ll choose 10 from the following:

1. Silk by Alessandro Baricco
2. The Castle by Franz Kafka
3. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
4. Lolita by Nabokov
5. Dracula by Bram Stoker
6. Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb
7. Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
8. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (from the new list)
9. So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba (from the new list)
10. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

• Unless by Carol Shields
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Dr. Zhivago by Pasternak
• Ficciones by Borges
• Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth
• Remains of the Day by Ishiguro
• If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Calvino
• The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
• Possession by A.S. Byatt
• What I Loved by Suri Hustvedt
• The Devil and Miss Prym by Coelho
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Golden
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Kundera
• Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

I’ve been meaning to put together a post for this challenge idea by Twiga for ages. Basically, it’s just what the title says. Choose 101 books to read in 1001 days. The ‘catch’ for me, though, is that I’m not going to allow ANY substitutes to my list. If it goes on, it stays on! I did allow my list to start on April 1 so that it could wrap up on December 28, 2010. I think I have a good mix of heavy and light reading.

I’ve started with 75 titles and will add more later:

1. Kaddish for a Child not Born by Imre Kertesz (1990, 95 pp., Nobel laureate, 4/08)
2. Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987, 275 pp., Nobel laureate, 4/08)
3. Maus I by Art Spiegelman (1986, 161 pp., Pulitzer, 4/08)
4. Maus II by Art Spiegelman (1991, 127 pp., Pulitzer, 4/08)
5. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958, 209 pp., 4/08)
6. Silk by Alessandro Baricco
7. On Chesil Beach by McEwan
8. The Castle by Franz Kafka
9. The Gathering by Anne Enright (Booker)
10. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
12. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
13. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
14. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
15. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
16. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (2006, 350 pp.)
17. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
18. Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
19. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (2008, 333 pp.)
20. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood (2005, 198 pp.)
21. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
22. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
23. Persepolis II by Marjane Satrapi
24. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
25. Dracula by Bram Stoker
26. The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (2008, 300 pp.)
27. Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen (2008, 240 pp.)
28. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (2008, 276 pp.)
29. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
30. Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
    
31. Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
32. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
33. Sky Burial by Xinran
    
34. Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
35. Purple Hibiscus by Adichie
36. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
37. Kristin Lavransdatter 2: The Wife by Sigrid Undset
38. Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb
39. Fugitive Pieces by Ann Michaels
40. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto 
41. The Reader by Bernard Schlink
42. Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
43. So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba
44. The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith
45. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
46. Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors
47. The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
48. Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Newbery)
49. A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (Newbery)
50. Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Newbery)
51. The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
52. Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (Newbery)
53. Call It Courage (Newbery)
54. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Smith
55. Lost in a Good Book by Fforde
56. Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
    
57. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Smith
58. The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Smith
59. Intuition by Allegra Goodman
60. Unless by Carol Shields
61. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
62. The Good Earth by Buck (Pulitzer)
63. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
64. Remains of the Day by Ishiguro (Booker)
65. Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross by Undset
66. Criss Cross by Lynn Rae Perkins (Newbery)
67. Middlemarch by George Eliot
68. Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
69. Ficciones by Borges
70. The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
71. War and Peace by Tolstoy
72. Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
73. Dr. Zhivago by Pasternak
74. Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Vol. 2
75. The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
76. American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Pulitzer)
77. If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
78. The Secret Lives of People in Love by Simon Van Booy
79. Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
80. The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
81. Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
82. Periodic Table by Primo Levi
83. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
84. Out of the Silent Planet by CS Lewis
85. Perelandra by CS Lewis
86. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
87. Possession by A.S. Byatt (Booker)
88. History of Love by Krauss
89. Memoirs of a Geisha by Golden
90. The Well of Lost Plots by Fforde
91. Something Rotten by Fforde
92. First Among Sequels by Fforde
93. What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
94. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Kundera
95. Breathing Lessons – Anne Tyler (Pulitzer)
96. A Thousand Acres – Jane Smiley (Pulitzer)
97. Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (Pulitzer)
98. So Big by Ferber  (Pulitzer)
99. The Character of Rain by Nothomb
100. Sulphuric Acid by Nothomb
101. Kafka on the Shore by Murakami