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message 1: by Jess (new)

Jess (clustering-stars) 1. Writing Short Stories - Alisa Cox
2. Keep The Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell


message 2: by Jess (new)

Jess (clustering-stars) 3. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
4. Daisy Miller - Henry James
5. The Europeans - Henry James
6. Writing Down the Bones - Natalie Goldberg
7. Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins - Mark Twain


message 3: by Jess (new)

Jess (clustering-stars) 8. Goodbye To Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
9. The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. Du Bois


message 4: by Jess (new)

Jess (clustering-stars) 10. Collected Poems - Dylan Thomas
11. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh


message 5: by Jess (new)

Jess (clustering-stars) 12. McTeague - Frank Norris
13. The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
14. The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen


message 6: by Jess (new)

Jess (clustering-stars) 15. The Awakening And Other Stories - Kate Chopin
16. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
17. Look Back In Anger - John Osborne
18. Skins The Novel - Ali Cronin
19. Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
20. The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon

TWENTY! And it's only March. Go me.


message 7: by Jess (new)

Jess (clustering-stars) 21. Endgame - Samuel Beckett
22. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair


message 8: by Jess (new)

Jess (clustering-stars) 23. The Call of the Wild - Jack London
24. White Fang - Jack London
25. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark


message 9: by Jess (new)

Jess (clustering-stars) 26. On Writing - Stephen King


message 10: by Jess (new)

Jess (clustering-stars) 27. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood


message 11: by Jess (last edited Jul 02, 2010 04:06AM) (new)

Jess (clustering-stars) 28. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
29. Jodi Picoult - Handle With Care


message 12: by Jess (new)

Jess (clustering-stars) 30. Little Children - Tom Perrotta
31. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner - Stephenie Meyer
32. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster

Have Hemingway, Flaubert and Tolstoy on the go also. Hard going.


message 13: by Jess (new)

Jess (clustering-stars) 33. Nocturnes - Kazuo Ishiguro
34. White Teeth - Zadie Smith

33 and 34 are actually Eclipse and Breaking Dawn from the Twilight Saga but they don't count as part of the challenge...because they're not challenging.


message 14: by Jess (new)

Jess (clustering-stars) 35. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling (sob)
36. Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier


message 15: by Jess (new)

Jess (clustering-stars) 37. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
38. The Road - Cormac McCarthy


message 16: by Jess (new)

Jess (clustering-stars) 39. Crow - Ted Hughes
40. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley


message 17: by Jess (new)

Jess (clustering-stars) 41. Memoirs of a Survivor - Doris Lessing
42. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
43. North - Seamus Heaney
44. First Love, Last Rites - Ian McEwan


message 18: by Jess (last edited Jan 04, 2011 08:26AM) (new)

Jess (clustering-stars) 45. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
46. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
47. The Methuen Book of Drama: Plays of the 80's and 90's


message 19: by Jess (new)

Jess (clustering-stars) Failed this year by 3. Ha.


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