The Book Challenge discussion

I plan on reading 52 books this year (one a week). My challenge started Feb 28, 2008. I think I must have inadvertenly deleted my original challenge, so I am re-posting. I will be reading from my own personal selections (PL) and from the modern library's top 100 list(both the critics' choice (CC) and the readers' choice(RC).) Each of those will have their corresponding # listed.

Since Feb. 28th I have read:
1: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (PL)
2: Little Children by Tom Perrotta(PL)
3:Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (CC 28)
4:The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (PL)
5:Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (RC 54)

6:A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (RC 28)

I loved this book. and it looks like I am really behind on my challenge, so I have to get those pages turning!

7: Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (PL)

This was interesting in that it is a historical fiction memoir about Frank Lloyd Wright's mistress and one great love. It made me curious about the architect and what was true/made-up in the novel.

8: The Postman Always Rings Twice by James Cain (CC 98)

9: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (CC 65/RC 55)

10: Native Son by Richard Wright (CC 20)

11: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (PL)

This was about as good as The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. If you liked that book, read this one. I, however, cared very little for both.

12:The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles (RC 30)

13: Rape:a Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates (PL)

Classic JCO I really enjoyed reading this while driving cross country. quick interesting read making a long drive fly by!

14: On Call in Hell By LCDR Richard Jadick (PL)

My husband and I listened to this together. a great story of courage and strength during the Battle of Fallujah!

15: The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories by Henry James (PL)

16: Cooked: From the Streets to the Stove, from Cocaine to Foie Gras by Jeff Henderson (PL)

17: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (RC 66)

18: The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough (PL)

19: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Sparks (CC 76)

20: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (RC 51)

Enjoyed listening to this. Witty and entertaining!

21: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (PL)

I just could not get through this. but I am counting it anyway as 800 of the 1050 were read.

22:My Sister's Keeper by Jodie Piccoult (PL)

23:The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art by Joyce Carol Oates(PL)

24:The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories edited by Tobias Wolff. (PL)

I started this about 5 years ago while taking a Writing Short Fiction class at the College of Charleston. and I picked it back up to finish the unread stories about a year ago. I have been slowly working my way through it. And I must say that some of the stories I read on my own out-shone the ones my professor assigned.

25: Skin Tight by Carl Hiaasen (PL)

26: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

27: A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore (PL)

28: Sophie's Choice by William Styron (CC 96)

29:Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (RC 59)

30: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (PL)

31: Atonement by Ian McEwan (PL)

32: Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (CC 61)

33: Pratical Magic by Alice Hoffman (PL)

34: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (PL)

35: Black Girl/White Girl by Joyce Carol Oates (PL)

should be at 40 by the end of the month. not going ot make it but slowly catching up.

36: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (PL)

37: The Big Bounce by Elmore Leonard (PL)

I could take this or leave it.

38: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (RC 53)

39: The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore (PL)

40: 1001 Book for Every Mood by Hallie Ephron (PL)

41: Deliverance by James Dickey (CC 42)

42: The Body Artist by Don DeLillo (PL)

43: Run by Ann Patchett (PL)

44: Big Boned by Meg Cabot (PL)

45: The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (PL)

46: The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman (PL)

47: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (PL)

48: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (RC 24)

49: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides (PL)

50: 1000 White Women by Jim Fergus (PL)