‘Read More Books’ Challenge: Week 1: 1-52 of the list of 623 of the best books ever!
Posted on October 3, 2013 | 21 Comments
Are you ready for the challenge?
Thanks to Erik of This Kid Reviews Books, my challenge now has a name: Read More Books Challenge.
Please go to THIS SHORT POST first if you don’t know what I’m talking about.
Because I know you love to read – or read and write – I have decided to give you the list I found, and I got permission to do so. (Thank you, Stuart!) You could go HERE for the list of “623 of the best books ever written” and see them all at once for yourself, and/or you can follow the list here a few at a time.
The reason I thought you might enjoy the list in sections is so that you can see which ones you have already read – a few at a time – and then —
MY CHALLENGE
… you will have a week to buy or borrow the ones you want to read before my next installment of more of the list. I was going to divide it between six posts, but changed that to twelve posts because the shorter lists are easier to work with if you want to shop for a book each week. How’s that for a little incentive for those of us who can find time to read more often? Besides, it might be fun! 🙂 And who doesn’t appreciate an excuse to book shop?
Each Thursday I will post another portion of the list of “623 of the best books ever written” until we get to the end of twelve posts. NOTE: On the fourth Thursday of each month it will not be posted because we have Sue Harrison’s writers workshop that day – and I don’t want to mess with a good thing!
Here are the first 52 books of “623 of the best books ever written” as compiled and listed on a list of books website.
The Great Gatsby — by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Grapes of Wrath — by John Steinbeck
Nineteen Eighty-Four — by George Orwell
Ulysses — by James Joyce
Lolita — by Vladimir Nabokov
Catch-22 — by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye — by J. D. Salinger
Beloved — by Toni Morrison
The Sound and the Fury — by William Faulkner
To Kill a Mockingbird — by Harper Lee
The Lord of the Rings — by J. R. R. Tolkien
One Hundred Years of Solitude — by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
Brave New World — by Aldous Huxley
To The Lighthouse — by Virginia Woolf
Invisible Man — by Ralph Ellison
Gone With The Wind — by Margaret Mitchell
Jane Eyre — by Charlotte Brontë
On The Road — by Jack Kerouac
Pride and Prejudice — by Jane Austen
Lord of the Flies — by William Golding
Middle March — by George Eliot
Anna Karenina — by Leo Tolstoy
Animal Farm — by George Orwell
A Passage to India — by E. M. Forster
In Search of Lost Time — by Marcel Proust
Wuthering Heights — by Emily Brontë
The Chronicles of Narnia — by C. S. Lewis
The Color Purple — by Alice Walker
Midnight’s Children — by Salman Rushdie
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — by James Joyce
Winnie-the-Pooh — by A. A. Milne
Heart of Darkness — by Joseph Conrad
Mrs Dalloway — by Virginia Woolf
Slaughterhouse-Five — by Kurt Vonnegut
War and Peace — by Leo Tolstoy
Of Mice and Men — by John Steinbeck
Moby-Dick — by Herman Melville
Little Women — by Louisa Mae Alcott
Native Son — by Richard Wright
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — by Douglas Adams
Great Expectations — by Charles Dickens
The Sun Also Rises — by Ernest Hemingway
Rebecca — by Daphne du Maurier
The Stranger — by Albert Camus
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass — by Lewis Carroll
For Whom the Bell Tolls — by Ernest Hemingway
The Hobbit — by J. R. R. Tolkien
Madame Bovary — by Gustave Flaubert
The Wind in the Willows — by Kenneth Grahame
The Handmaid’s Tale — by Margaret Atwood
Tess of the D’Urbervilles — by Thomas Hardy
Their Eyes Were Watching God — by Zora Neale Hurston
Which books have you read?
Which books do you want to read?
Which books are you going to obtain this week?(Even if you are not taking the challenge I would love to hear about your reading.)
I want to read the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (is that for kids? If not, I’ll wait a year or so to read it), To Kill a Mockingbird, and Gone With the Wind, I’ve read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (and Through the Looking Glass), The Wind in The Willows, Moby-Dick & Pride and Prejudice (both abridged), Winnie~the~Pooh, and the complete Chronicles of Narnia. *Whew!*
Great idea, Erik, and I did think about some way to signify which are suitable for young readers. The problem is it will take me so much longer since I would have to take the time to check out each one since I’m not familiar with all of them. I will think more about it again, though.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is one to wait to read later. You have read some great books, some of which I plan to read.
Thanks for your input. 🙂