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1% Well Read III

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I hope everyone had fun reading from the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list in the last challenge. Are you ready to try it again? This time, since the editors have a 2010 edition out and have added even more titles to the list, the challenge only has one option: read 13 books from the 1294 titles that have ever been on any list (2006, 2008, or 2010).

The challenge runs from April 1, 2010 through April 30, 2011.

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My pool of choices, with 1001 editions in parentheses:

  1. Small Island by Andrea Levy
  2. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
  3. Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
  4. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
  5. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
  • The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
  • This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Borowski
  • The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
  • Villette by Charlotte Bronte
  • The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Barbery (2010)
  • Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (2006)
  • Home by Marilynne Robinson (2010)
  • What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt (2006, 2008, 2010)
  • Kafka on the Shore by Murakami (2006, 2008, 2010)
  • Possession by A.S. Byatt (2006)
  • Watchmen by Alan Moore (2006, 2008, 2010)
  • A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (2006, 2008, 2010)
  • The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (2006, 2008, 2010)
  • Ficciones by Borges (2006)
  • Labyrinths by Borges (2006, 2008, 2010)
  • Doctor Zhivago by Pasternak (2006, 2008, 2010)
  • How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman (2006, 2008, 2010)
  • Deep River by Shusaku Endo (2008, 2010)
  • Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey (2006, 2008, 2010)
  • Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga (2006, 2008, 2010)
  • Love Medicine by Louise Erdich (2008, 2010)
  • Brave New World – Aldous Huxley (2006, 2008, 2010)
  • Some Prefer Nettles by Tanizaki (2008, 2010)
  • Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke (2006, 2008, 2010)
  • Kokoro – Natsume Soseki (2006, 2008, 2010)
  • Hunger – Knut Hamsun (2006, 2008, 2010)
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
  • A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens (2006)
  • I, Robot – Isaac Asimov (2006, 2008, 2010)
  • The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien (2006, 2008, 2010)

Mr. Linkys are working again!

Sorry, I didn’t realize that my Mr. Linkys weren’t working for the last week or so, but everything’s fixed now on the challenge blogs. Let me know if you find one that isn’t, though!