I liked the focus participating in last year's 1% Well Read challenge gave to my reading, and I decided to have another go at it. I'm using the "old" list, not the one from the revised edition of the 1001 book. Here is my tentative list for this year's challenge:
Agnes Grey
Cranford
Walden (I read this a long,long time ago, but can't claim to remember much)
The Sound and the Fury
Cold Comfort Farm
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Brighton Rock
Oscar and Lucinda
The Reader (on my Kindle)
Amsterdam
White Teeth (on my nightstand)
The Corrections (on my bookshelf)
As of today, according to this list, I'm 16.28% well read. Not so great for a voracious reader, but there are a load of books that I think worthy of the list not on it. Ah, well, that's how these lists go.
I remember reading The Corrections and thinking, “Meh,” after I was done. I think it was so hyped at the time and it didn’t live up to it. Now The Sound and The Fury . . . 100% enjoyed.
Yes, I have been meaning to read Elizabeth Gaskell too. Have you seen the fantastic BBC production of North and South?
Cold Comfort Farm is one of the few instances where I liked the movie as much as the book.
I am doing this one too. I have The Reader and White Teeth waiting to be read by my bed too.