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
- Oliver Twist
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Fahrenheit 451
- The Clockwork Orange
- 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 - Les Miserables
- Lord of the Flies
- Catch 22
- A Wrinkle in Time
- Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger – finished NOV 7, 10
- Ulysses
- Slaughterhouse Five
- Lolita
- Brokeback Mountain
- Atonement by Ian McEwan – finished JUNE 1, 09
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier – finished JUNE 20, 09
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens – finished NOVEMBER 21, 2010
- Emma – finished NOVEMBER 23, 09
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen – finished APRIL 27, 09
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen – finished DEC 20, 10
- Giants in the Earth
- I, Claudius
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden – finished AUG 23, 09
- The Bell Jar
- The Blind Assassin
- The Divine Comedy (Paradiso & Purgatorio)
- Utopia
- A Farewell to Arms
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote – finished OCT 10, 10
- Sons and Lovers
- Animal Farm
- The Canterbury Tales
- The Color Purple
- Crime and Punishment
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte – finished DEC 31, 10
- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell – finished DEC 31, 09
- Schindler’s List
- The Fountainhead
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver – finished DEC 20, 09
- The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama – finished JAN 14, 10
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence – finished SEPT 28, 09
- A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams – finished NOV 5, 11
- Atlas Shrugged
- It
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham – finished APR 20, 11
- Charlotte’s Web
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien – finished FEB 20, 10
- Life of Pi
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote – finished OCT 8, 10
- The Graduate
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy – finished MAY27, 10
- Villette
- Bleak House
- The Three Musketeers
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Mrs. Dalloway
- The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje – finished OCT 25, 09
- Into the Wild
- The Iliad
- The Odyssey
- Rebecca
- Three Cups of tea
- Carrie
- Blonde
- The Book Thief
- Spook by Mary Roach – finished OCT 12, 11
- Bonk
- Brando
- A Mighty Heart
- Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice – finished DEC 31, 11
- House of Mirth
- Fried Green Tomatoes by Fannie Flagg – finished MAY 27, 09
- Four Past Midnight by Stephen King – finished AUGUST 13, 2011
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Thank You For Smoking by Christopher Buckley – finished JUNE 20, 2010
- The Eyre Affair
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- The Secret Garden
- The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike – finished DEC 21, 2010
- Where the Red Fern Grows
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert – finished AUG 28, 09
- Chocolat
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Darkly Dreaming Dexter
- Freedom Writer’s Diary
- Marley and Me by John Grogan – finished JULY 25, 09
- Stardust
- The Children of Men
- The Lace Reader
- The Other Boleyn Girl
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
- Love in the Time of Cholera
- A Million Little Pieces
- Vinegar Hill
- Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons- finished APRIL 18, 09
- Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
- Brothers Karamazov
- Le Divorce