Pulitzer Reading Challenge

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Originally Posted by PabloQ

Scher,
Lonesome Dove is a Western, but it is a very good one. It's about a couple of old Texas Rangers who decide to drive a bunch of cattle from the Rio Grande River to Montana, but first they have to steal the cattle. It's comical, it's romantic, and it's extremely well-written. Definitely worth it once you get to it.

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It is sitting on my bedside table. I might start reading after American Pastoral.

Thanks for the reply! :)

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Originally Posted by Sapphire

Wow... You plan 6 years into the future - I have trouble planning tomorrow already!

I do think it's a wonderful idea though. I wish everybody who's gonna do this all the luck to make it through. I think it will be quite the achievement! And I do hope everybody will enjoy it :D

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Thanks :)

I made a list of what I have read and it's very short.

2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)
2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)
1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)
1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)

Bailey and I were talking about working on the list, but there are some I'm just not interested. We were also looking at the Newberry books.

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Originally Posted by motherhubbard

Bailey and I were talking about working on the list, but there are some I'm just not interested. We were also looking at the Newberry books.

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Newberry books?

"This award is presented annually by the Association for Library Service for Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children."

http://lib.mansfield.edu/newbery.cfm

Oh, thanks :)

I have just finished reading William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner (1968 winner).

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

I have started reading American Pastoral,

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Hey, let me know what you think. One of my favourite novels

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Originally Posted by mortalterror

I'm doing something similar but I'm on a drama kick. I made a list of all the Pulitzer, Tony, and Olivier winners. Since the beginning of February I've gotten:

1.A Delicate Balance
2.Luther
3.Doubt: A Parable
4.The History Boys
5.Broken Glass
6.The Teahouse of the August Moon
7.M. Butterfly
8.Proof
11.Wit
12.The Heidi Chronicles
13.I'm Not Rappaport
14.The Desperate Hours
15.Sunday in the Park With George
16.Death of a Salesman
17.Three Tall Women

As well as a few things by Lope De Vega, Eugene O'Neill, and Gorky. Sometimes I get a little sick of the twentieth century novel and I want something different.

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I read 2 of the Pulitzer Prize novels but probably more of the drama ones :)

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Originally Posted by bouquin

I have just finished reading William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner (1968 winner).

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Would you like to post a review?

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Originally Posted by sixsmith

Hey, let me know what you think. One of my favourite novels

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Will probably post a review. I am half-way through. So far I have mixed feelings because reading about American history (20th century) is beginning to bore me a little.

However, Roth's writing style is very good.

Starting from next month, I am hoping to read all the Pulitzer winners (fiction) by 2015 (yes, yes... 6 whole years).
If anyone would like to join me, they are more than welcome.

I'm a pretty prolific (and fast) reader, but this project is too mammoth even for me! Seeing all of the Pulitzer Prize Winners may inspire me to read some of them, especially The Magnificent Ambersons, The Color Purple & others that were made into movies I like. I'm also interested in checking out the works of well-known & respected writers I'm unfamiliar or barely familiar with such as Cheever, Mailer & Updike.
I'm kinda curious Scheherazade - will you force yourself to read EVERY single book, even the ones you can't stand? I'm asking because I tried reading the 2001 winner on a friend's advice & couldn't get through it. It's hard for me to imagine anyone liking every single book on this list!
Anyways, good luck and thanks for posting a very interesting booklist!

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Originally Posted by Don Quixote Jr

I'm kinda curious Scheherazade - will you force yourself to read EVERY single book, even the ones you can't stand? I'm asking because I tried reading the 2001 winner on a friend's advice & couldn't get through it. It's hard for me to imagine anyone liking every single book on this list!
Anyways, good luck and thanks for posting a very interesting booklist!

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Probably I will try to read every book on the list... I very rarely give up on a book... I don't expect to like every single book in the list but how do I know whether I like them or not unless I have read them?

;)

I will give it a go... Let's see.

Inspired by your dedication, Scher, and, like you, feeling a certain lack of reading experience in American authors, I thought I would also begin reading titles from the list. I had already read eight titles and now have just finished The Colour Purple and The Age of Innocence - enjoyed both immensely and will be returning to the list from time to time. Thanks for the pointer.

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Originally Posted by kasie

Inspired by your dedication, Scher, and, like you, feeling a certain lack of reading experience in American authors, I thought I would also begin reading titles from the list. I had already read eight titles and now have just finished The Colour Purple and The Age of Innocence - enjoyed both immensely and will be returning to the list from time to time. Thanks for the pointer.

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I really enjoyed those two books as well, Kasie.

You might find this thread interesting as well :)

http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=43502

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

Probably I will try to read every book on the list... I very rarely give up on a book... I don't expect to like every single book in the list but how do I know whether I like them or not unless I have read them? ;) I will give it a go... Let's see.

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Well, to be more specific, I meant would you continue to read a book after totally hating it (or lets say being totally bored by it) after 100-200pp?

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Originally Posted by Don Quixote Jr

Well, to be more specific, I meant would you continue to read a book after totally hating it (or lets say being totally bored by it) after 100-200pp?

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Yes, I probably would. I usually do read and finish a book even though I am bored with it (though there are couple of exceptions in my reading past).

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Originally Posted by Don Quixote Jr

I'm asking because I tried reading the 2001 winner on a friend's advice & couldn't get through it.

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I was wondering when someone would talk about Kavalier and Clay and amazed it wasn't positive. I urge everyone to give this book a chance. It's fantastic!

Scherherazade - thanks for the link - I'm not much of a one for awarding grades, too much like returning to a Past Life and marking homework! But I notice high gradings for The Hours - can't remember being that impressed by it but it is still downstairs on the Maybe I'll Read This Again shelf, so I will give it another go and remind myself of it.

Uberzensch - I have Kavalier and Clay on the To Be Read shelf, so will make a start on it and answer your comment later, if I may?

An update on my list:

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)


Don't forget to visit the Rating thread! :)

http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=43502

I am about a third of the way through Kavalier and Clay and am enjoying it so far, though have not had a lot of time for reading lately. I like the fast pace of the narrative, the way it reflects the comic book subject, then the contrast when one of the characters becomes introspective and style becomes slower and convoluted, as his thoughts evolve and meander.

Please post a review when you are done, Kasie, because I have no idea that book is about. I read American Pastoral, towards which I have some confused feelings. Mostly I found it a drag but the last 100 pages might have just saved it for me.

Now, I am onto The Stone Diaries but I have less than one month to hand in my assignments for this term so I will have to put my pleasure reading aside for a while :-/

I think I've only read four:
The brief and wondrous life of Oscar Wao
The Road
The Hours
The Old Man and the Sea

I liked them all, but The Hours is my least favorite of the group.

Hmm...I have actually seen more of the film adaptations of these than read the books.

My list is probably embarassingly short, but I have read some of these. I guess I will rate them in the other thread.

There are a lot of these that I have wanted to read. So I suppose now is as good a time as any to start some of those. :)

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Originally Posted by PoeknowsProse

I liked them all, but The Hours is my least favorite of the group.

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I really loved reading The Hours!

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Originally Posted by LadyWentworth

There are a lot of these that I have wanted to read. So I suppose now is as good a time as any to start some of those. :)

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Great! The more, the merrier! :)

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

I really loved reading The Hours!

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Oooh I picked that up in a second-hand bookshop a couple of years ago but haven't had chance to read it. Good to hear something positive about it, though, makes me more keen to read it.

I've only read three of the books on this list! That's even worse than on the Lit Net top 100. I've read The Age of Innocence, Gone With the Wind, and To Kill a Mockingbird.

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2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

You're doing well, Scher! (Stands back and gasps in admiration! :nod:) I looked back and your list was nine titles long at the start and now it's nineteen - dedication!

I'd rather forgotten the enterprise, having got waylaid by Somerset Maughan and the Summer Reading Challenge (What Summer Reading Challenge? I hear you ask....) but here's my updated list:

2006 March

2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

1999 The Hours

1994 The Shipping News

1983 The Color Purple

1967 The Fixer

1961 To Kill a Mockingbird

1953 The Old Man and the Sea

1940 The Grapes of Wrath

1932 The Good Earth

1921 The Age of Innocence

Now I remember why I bought Beloved ; I bought My Antonia - should have plumped for One of Ours instead.

Kasie, I am so glad that you are doing this as well. :)

I am mostly a regular reader; don't get to read lots and lots but I read a little every day so it helps me keep going. Also, I place my library requests on the internet so when I get there, I do not get distracted and pick up only those books that are in my list.

I have nominated Beloved for our October reading so maybe we can read it then :D

While looking that my own list, I realised that I have not done much reading from 1950s 1960s and 1970s. I am hoping to remedy that soon. The trouble is that the library doesn't seem to keep most of those books.

At the moment, I am reading Foreign Affairs, though.

An update:

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

Now that the assignments are out of the way, I am hoping to go back to my regular reading.

So, an update:

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

I am having a hard time finding some of these titles :-/

I have neglected this long enough so I will try to concentrate on the list again. At the moment:

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

I've read a bunch of those.

Reading Junot Diaz right now..I really like it..the style is a good fit for me for my times of lesser concentration. Oscar Hijuelos is coming up next for me on there. (Mr. Ives' Christmas is one of the best books I've ever read, so I'm excited to see how Mambo Kings stacks up)

Are you going to start from the beginning, reverse, or jump around?

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Are you going to start from the beginning, reverse, or jump around?

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Jumping around. I was hoping to read them in chronological order but some of the books are rather hard to find so I started skipping and ended up reading randomly.

I especially love the books up to the WWII. I think I should have lived then (might be already doing so in some ways).

Update on the progress:

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)

1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar)

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)

An update:

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)

1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar)

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)


Done about 1/3, I think.

I've read 4 so far:

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

An update:

2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)

2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)

2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)

2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)

2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)

1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)

1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)

1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)

1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)

1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar)

1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)

1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)

1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)

1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)

1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)

1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a
posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)

1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)

1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)

1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday)

1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)

1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)

1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)

1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)

1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)

1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)

1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)

1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)

1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)

1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)

1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)


Need to read more books from the third quarter of the 20th century.

Have you always been able to get through books so quickly? Or do you just devote most of your spare time to reading? I am in awe :D

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Have you always been able to get through books so quickly? Or do you just devote most of your spare time to reading?

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The latter. I have no life. :D

And I have managed to read about 25 books in 3 years so not doing so well actually. It looks unlikely that I will manage to complete the challenge by 2015.

One can still try, right?