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I’ve seen quite a few people posting this lately and have been intrigued. Therefore, I’m up for the five year challenge. The group blog can be found HERE.

In essence, we each create our own list of 100 books we want to read over the course of 5 years. Mine is a combination of Banned Books, Award Winners, 1001 Books, and my own TBR list. Lots of fun ahead.

CHALLENGE ENDS: April 13, 2014

  1. Oliver Twist
  2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  3. Fahrenheit 451
  4. The Clockwork Orange
  5. The Lord of the Rings (series)
    The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R Tolkien – finished MAR 11, 10
    The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien – finished APR 3, 10
    The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien – finished APR 21, 10
  6. Les Miserables
  7. Lord of the Flies
  8. Catch 22
  9. A Wrinkle in Time
  10. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger – finished NOV 7, 10
  11. Ulysses
  12. Slaughterhouse Five
  13. Lolita
  14. Brokeback Mountain
  15. Atonement by Ian McEwan – finished JUNE 1, 09
  16. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier – finished JUNE 20, 09
  17. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens – finished NOVEMBER 21, 2010
  18. Emmafinished NOVEMBER 23, 09
  19. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen – finished APRIL 27, 09
  20. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen – finished DEC 20, 10
  21. Giants in the Earth
  22. I, Claudius
  23. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden – finished AUG 23, 09
  24. The Bell Jar
  25. The Blind Assassin
  26. The Divine Comedy (Paradiso & Purgatorio)
  27. Utopia
  28. A Farewell to Arms
  29. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote – finished OCT 10, 10
  30. Sons and Lovers
  31. Animal Farm
  32. The Canterbury Tales
  33. The Color Purple
  34. Crime and Punishment
  35. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte – finished DEC 31, 10
  36. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell – finished DEC 31, 09
  37. Schindler’s List
  38. The Fountainhead
  39. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver – finished DEC 20, 09
  40. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama – finished JAN 14, 10
  41. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence – finished SEPT 28, 09
  42. A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams – finished NOV 5, 11
  43. Atlas Shrugged
  44. It
  45. The Hours by Michael Cunningham – finished APR 20, 11
  46. Charlotte’s Web
  47. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien – finished FEB 20, 10
  48. Life of Pi
  49. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote – finished OCT 8, 10
  50. The Graduate
  51. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy – finished MAY27, 10
  52. Villette
  53. Bleak House
  54. The Three Musketeers
  55. The Count of Monte Cristo
  56. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  57. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  58. Mrs. Dalloway
  59. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje – finished OCT 25, 09
  60. Into the Wild
  61. The Iliad
  62. The Odyssey
  63. Rebecca
  64. Three Cups of tea
  65. Carrie
  66. Blonde
  67. The Book Thief
  68. Spook by Mary Roach – finished OCT 12, 11
  69. Bonk
  70. Brando
  71. A Mighty Heart
  72. Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice – finished DEC 31, 11
  73. House of Mirth
  74. Fried Green Tomatoes by Fannie Flagg – finished MAY 27, 09
  75. Four Past Midnight by Stephen King – finished AUGUST 13, 2011
  76. One Hundred Years of Solitude
  77. Thank You For Smoking by Christopher Buckley – finished JUNE 20, 2010
  78. The Eyre Affair
  79. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  80. The Secret Garden
  81. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike – finished DEC 21, 2010
  82. Where the Red Fern Grows
  83. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert – finished AUG 28, 09
  84. Chocolat
  85. A Thousand Splendid Suns
  86. Darkly Dreaming Dexter
  87. Freedom Writer’s Diary
  88. Marley and Me by John Grogan – finished JULY 25, 09
  89. Stardust
  90. The Children of Men
  91. The Lace Reader
  92. The Other Boleyn Girl
  93. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
  94. Love in the Time of Cholera
  95. A Million Little Pieces
  96. Vinegar Hill
  97. Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons- finished APRIL 18, 09
  98. Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
  99. Brothers Karamazov
  100. Le Divorce