You can find the info on her blog (linked above), but for simplicity, here's the gist of the challenge along with my own participatory info below:
Deb from the A Novel Challenge yahoo group posted a link to this list of Entertainment Weekly's list of new classics, what they call the best reads from 1983 to 2008. I loved the list - many of my recent favorites are on it so I'm intrigued to see what some of the ones I haven't read yet will be like.
So the challenge rules are:
- Copy the list (which I have pasted here, just in case that link ever disappears) and bold the titles that you have already read.
- Choose at least 6 other books from the list , read and review them between 1 August 2008 and 31 January 2009.
- Come back here and post links to your reviews.
- In January 2009, cast your vote for which one of the 100 books on the list is your favorite (and write a post on why). The winning book will be sent to a lucky winner chosen by the scientific method favored here in the blogosphere, i.e. names in a hat. Other contests are very probable too, I have some ideas, but they need planning.
- Have fun! :-)
THE LIST
- The Road , Cormac McCarthy (2006)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (2000)
- Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987)
- The Liars' Club, Mary Karr (1995)
- American Pastoral, Philip Roth (1997)
- Mystic River, Dennis Lehane (2001)
- Maus, Art Spiegelman (1986/1991)
- Selected Stories, Alice Munro (1996)
- Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (1997)
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (1997)
- Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer (1997)
- Blindness, José Saramago (1998)
- Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986-87)
- Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates (1992)
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers (2000)
- The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood (1986)
- Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez (1988)
- Rabbit at Rest, John Updike (1990)
- On Beauty, Zadie Smith (2005)
- Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding (1998)
- On Writing, Stephen King (2000)
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz (2007)
- The Ghost Road, Pat Barker (1996)
- Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry (1985)
- The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan (1989)
- Neuromancer, William Gibson (1984)
- Possession, A.S. Byatt (1990)
- Naked, David Sedaris (1997)
- Bel Canto, Anne Patchett (2001)
- Case Histories, Kate Atkinson (2004)
- The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien (1990)
- Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch (1988)
- The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (2005)
- The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (2002)
- The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
- Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt (1996)
- Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (2003)
- Birds of America, Lorrie Moore (1998)
- Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)
- His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (1995-2000)
- The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (1984)
- LaBrava, Elmore Leonard (1983)
- Borrowed Time, Paul Monette (1988)
- Praying for Sheetrock, Melissa Fay Greene (1991)
- Eva Luna, Isabel Allende (1988)
- Sandman, Neil Gaiman (1988-1996)
- World's Fair, E.L. Doctorow (1985)
- The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
- Clockers, Richard Price (1992)
- The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (2001)
- The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcom (1990)
- Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan (1992)
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (2000)
- Jimmy Corrigan, Chris Ware (2000)
- The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls (2006)
- The Night Manager, John le Carré (1993)
- The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe (1987)
- Drop City, TC Boyle (2003)
- Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat (1995)
- Nickel & Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)
- Money, Martin Amis (1985)
- Last Train To Memphis, Peter Guralnick (1994)
- Pastoralia, George Saunders (2000)
- Underworld, Don DeLillo (1997)
- The Giver, Lois Lowry (1993)
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace (1997)
- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003)
- Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (2006)
- Secret History, Donna Tartt (1992)
- Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2004)
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Ann Fadiman (1997)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon (2003)
- A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (1989)
- Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger (1990)
- Cathedral, Raymond Carver (1983)
- A Sight for Sore Eyes, Ruth Rendell (1998)
- The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
- Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (2006)
- The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
- Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney (1984)
- Backlash, Susan Faludi (1991)
- Atonement, Ian McEwan (2002)
- The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields (1994)
- Holes, Louis Sachar (1998)
- Gilead, Marilynne Robinson (2004)
- And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts (1987)
- Ruins, Scott Smith (2006)
- High Fidelity, Nick Hornby (1995)
- Close Range, Annie Proulx (1999)
- Comfort Me With Apples, Ruth Reichl (2001)
- Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (2003)
- Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow (1987)
- A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley (1991)
- Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (2001)
- Kaaterskill Falls, Allegra Goodman (1998)
- The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (2003)
- Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson (1992)
- The Predators' Ball, Connie Bruck (1988)
- Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (1995)
- America (the Book), Jon Stewart/Daily Show (2004)
The 6 books I've added to my reading list for between now and the end of January 2009 are:
- The Giver, Lois Lowry (1993)
- Holes, Louis Sachar (1998)
- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003)
- Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986-87)
- His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (1995-2000)
- Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987)
This is a pretty intriguing list and I'm going to have to do some searching to find out more about the other books on there. In the meantime, I need to finish the other books I'm currently reading so I can move on to this challenge. :)
2 comments:
For your next list of books, I would suggest you read Siddhartha by Herman Hesse and the Speaker for the Dead series by Orson Scott Card. I've learned a lot from these books, especially Card's, who I feel justified to say, have greatly changed my life for the better
Some of the books that are listed I have read and others I have heard the titles of either from the novel or movie version. The familiar titles that I do see on here are really good. It's good to see someone else to have the interest of reading. Also, thanks for being a a new follower of my blog!
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