I was so concentrated on getting the info out about the new 1% Well-Read Challenge that I didn’t post my own choices! I’m going with the 13 book option, and here is my list, subject to change at any time:
- The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
- The Optimists Daughter by Eudora Welty
- Unless by Carol Shields
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
- Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
- Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Remains of the Day by Ishiguro
- Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
- Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
- On Beauty by Zadie Smith
- What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
- Kafka on the Shore by Murakami
- Possession by A.S. Byatt
- Watchmen by Alan Moore
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
- Ficciones by Borges
- Labyrinths by Borges
- Doctor Zhivago by Pasternak
