(Another) 1% Well-Read Challenge

So, after some pondering I figured I'd join this one.

The 1% Well-Read Challenge is hosted - again - by Michelle. To sign up, follow this link. I have both the lists of 2006 and 2008 on my computer anyway and constantly update them, so why shouldn't I join in on the challenge?

The editors of the book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die threw a kink into our challenge when they updated the books with new titles last year. So, I’ve got three options for you on this next challenge:

1. Read 10 titles from the original list from March 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009.
2. Read 10 titles from the new list from March 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009.
3. Read 13 titles from the combined list (of almost 1300 titles) from March 1, 2009 through March 31, 2010. In other words, “What were they thinking dropping titles from Dostoevsky and Jane Austen?”

For all options, overlaps with other challenges are allowed, and you may change your list at any time.

I have not yet made up my mind which list to choose, but I think I will make that decision this weekend.

As I mentioned, I already read a small number of books, so I will add those here, just so you can see what I read in the past. Below the first one I will add the list of books I read for the challenge.

Books read from the original list
19) Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
93) Arthur Golden: Memoirs Of A Geisha
109) Margaret Atwood: Alias Grace
143) Jeffrey Eugenides: The Virgin Suicides
275) Thomas Keneally: Schindler's Arc
456) Harper Lee: To Kill A Mockingbird
483) Max Frisch: Homo Faber
547) George Orwell: 1984
559) Albert Camus: The Plague
564) George Orwell: Animal Farm
608) John Steinbeck: Of Mice And Men
610) J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit
638) F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender Is The Night
649) Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
743) John Buchan: The Thirty-Nine Steps
781) Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound Of The Baskervilles
798) Theodor Fontane: Effi Briest
820) Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case Of Dr. Jeckyll And Mr. Hyde
825) Mark Twain: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
897) Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlett Letter
904) Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
906) Alexandre Dumas: The Count Of Monte Cristo
913) Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol
933) Jane Austen: Persuasion

Books read from the revised list
29) Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
87) Margaret Atwood: Alias Grace
118) Jeffrey Eugenides: The Virgin Suicides
258) Thomas Keneally: Schindler's Ark
454) Harper Lee: To Kill A Mockingbird
482) Max Frisch: Homo Faber
556) George Orwell: 1984
583) George Orwell: Animal Farm
588) Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstocking
621) John Steinbeck: Of Mice And Men
623) J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit
648) F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender Is The Night
662) Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
673) Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon
749) John Buchan: The Thirty-Nine Steps
786) Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound Of The Baskervilles
807) Theodor Fontane: Effi Briest
817) Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
829) Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case Of Dr. Jeckyll And Mr. Hyde
833) Mark Twain: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
855) Jules Vernes: Around The World In Eighty Days
897) Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
901) Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
903) Alexandre Dumas: The Count Of Monte Cristo

Books removed from the original list
59) Arthur Golden: Memoirs Of A Geisha
264) Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol
269) Jane Austen: Persuasion

Books read for this challenge