1% Well-Read Challenge

When I first started book blogging there was a challenge called the 1% Well-Read Challenge.  The goal was to read 1% of the books on the 1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list.  I don't know if this challenge is still going on officially but still try to do it annually.  I use the list from 2008 version of 1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.

2015 List

1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
2. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
3. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
4. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
5. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
6. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bonte
7. Jane Erye by Charlotte Bonte
8. Native Son by Richard Wright
9. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
10. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desia

Pulitzer Project 2015

One of the perpetual challenges that I participate in is The Pulitzer Project. Basically my goal is to read all the books that have won a Pulitzer Prize in fiction.  My goal is to read 4 Pulitzer Prize winning books a year.

2015 List:

1. March by Geraldine Brooks
2. His Family by Ernest Poole
3. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
4. Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

The Pulitzer Project

This is another sticky post to track my journey through the Pulitzer Prize winning ficition books.

Books that I have read and reviewed will be linked

List (Copied From The Pulitzer Project)

2009 - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2007 - The Road (McCarthy)
2006 - March (Brooks)
2005 - Gilead (Robinson)
2004 - The Known World (Jones)
2003 - Middlesex (Eugenides)
2002 - Empire Falls (Russo)
2001 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Chabon)
2000 - Interpreter of Maladies (Lahiri)
1999 - The Hours (Cunningham)
1998 - American Pastoral (Roth)
1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Millhauser)
1996 - Independence Day (Ford)
1995 - The Stone Diaries (Shields)
1994 - The Shipping News (Proulx)
1993 - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Butler)
1992 - A Thousand Acres (Smiley)
1991 - Rabbit at Rest (Updike)
1990 - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Hijuelos)
1989 - Breathing Lessons (Tyler)
1988 - Beloved (Morrison)
1987 - A Summons to Memphis (Taylor)
1986 - Lonesome Dove (McMurtry)
1985 - Foreign Affairs (Lurie)
1984 - Ironweed (Kennedy)
1983 - The Color Purple (Walker)
1982 - Rabbit is Rich (Updike)
1981 - A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole)
1980 - The Executioner’s Song (Mailer)
1979 - The Stories of John Cheever (Cheever)
1978 - Elbow Room (McPherson)
1977 - None given
1976 - Humboldt’s Gift (Bellow)
1975 - The Killer Angels (Shaara)
1974 - None given
1973 - The Optimist’s Daughter (Welty)
1972 - Angle of Repose (Stegner)
1971 - None given
1970 - Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (Stafford)
1969 - House Made of Dawn (Momaday)
1968 - The Confessions of Nat Turner (Styron)
1967 - The Fixer (Malamud)
1966 - Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Porter)
1965 - The Keepers Of the House (Grau)
1964 - None given
1963 - The Reivers (Faulkner)
1962 - The Edge of Sadness (Edwin O’Connor)
1961 - To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)
1960 - Advise and Consent (Drury)
1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (Taylor)
1958 - A Death in the Family (Agee)
1957 - None
1956 - Andersonville (Kantor)
1955 - A Fable (Faulkner)
1954 - None
1953 - The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)
1952 - The Caine Mutiny (Wouk)
1951 - The Town (Richter)
1950 - The Way West (Guthrie)
1949 - Guard of Honor (Cozzens)
1948 - Tales of the South Pacific (Michener)
1947 - All the King’s Men (Warren)
1946 - None
1945 - Bell for Adano (Hersey)
1944 - Journey in the Dark (Flavin)
1943 - Dragon’s Teeth I (Sinclair)
1942 - In This Our Life (Glasgow)
1941 - None
1940 - The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)
1939 - The Yearling (Rawlings)
1938 - The Late George Apley (Marquand)
1937 - Gone with the Wind (Mitchell)
1936 - Honey in the Horn (Davis)
1935 - Now in November (Johnson)
1934 - Lamb in His Bosom (Miller)
1933 - The Store (Stribling)
1932 - The Good Earth (Buck)
1931 - Years of Grace (Barnes)
1930 - Laughing Boy (Lafarge)
1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary (Peterkin)
1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Wilder)
1927 - Early Autumn (Bromfield)
1926 - Arrowsmith (Lewis)
1925 - So Big (Ferber)
1924 - The Able McLauglins (Wilson)
1923 - One of Ours (Cather)
1922 - Alice Adams (Tarkington)
1921 - The Age of Innocence (Wharton)
1920 - None
1919 - The Magnificent Ambersons (Tarkington)
1918 - His Family (Poole)

1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

This is a sticky post to track my process in reading books from the 1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list. I will just post the list of books that I have read, the number they are on the list, and links (if reviewed on this blog).

I am using the 2008 version of the list.

List:

#29) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

#43) Life of Pi by Yann Martle

#162) Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

#167) Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

#199) Beloved by Toni Morrison

#447) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

#454) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

#513) Lord of the Flies by William Golding

#537) The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

#606) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

#615) Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

#622) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

#733) The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

#781) The Call of the Wild by Jack London

#811) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

#829) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

#869) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

#903) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas