50 books in a year ...? Challenge accepted.

[a_neverending]

Helly everyone.

So, I found this community with the most intriguing name „50 books challenge“. Anyone who knows me is probably aware of the fact, that I never leave home without a book and a biro in my bag, and seeing that I’m a most addicted reader, this challenge sounds like it is made for me.
I always wondered just how much books I’ve read in my life, and how many books I read in a year. This challenge wants me to read and finish 50 books in one year. I think that’s quite manageable. A year has 52 weeks, which means that I should read one book per week. It’s quite a challenge, isn’t it? To make things easier I will start at the first of September so I can keep better track of the time left. Also I think I’m gonna write a list with books I’ll read an a short template according to the Group 50bookchallenge.
Name of the Book (Name of the Series):
Name of the Author:
Genre:
Pages:
Short description:
Own Statement:

I might tweak amazon descriptions here, most of the time their fairly well done, though I often feel a bit spoilerd by them. If I think that they have spoilers I’ll take them out of the description. Just so you know.

And here is a list of books that I think I’ll attack in this 12 month. Yes, that’s more than 50 books, but I won’t buy all of these books, I’ll get most of them from the library, and I’ll have to make do with what they have at hand. So just to make sure that I’ll have enough books I wrote down 71 books. They’re in alphabetical order, but I won’t read them like that for sure. I’ll just take what’s nearest.

1. A Dance with Dragons, George R.R. Martin
2. A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin
3. All the Weyrs of Pern, Anne McCaffrey
4. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
5. And the Ass Saw the Angel, Nick Cave
6. Animal Farm, George Orwell
7. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
8. Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne
9. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
10. Asylum, Patrick McGrath
11. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
12. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
13. Cocaine Nights, J. G. Ballard
14. Dragondrums, Anne McCaffrey
15. Emma, Jane Austen
16. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
17. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
18. Hagakure I, Tsunemoto Yamamoto
19. Hagakure II, Tsunemoto Yamamoto
20. Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton
21. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
22. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
23. Hearts in Atlantis, Stephen King
24. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
25. Kokoro, Natsume Sōseki
26. L’Élégance du hérisson, Muriel Barbery
27. Lady Susan, Jane Austen
28. Life: A User’s Manual, Georges Perec
29. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
30. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
31. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
32. Momo, Michael Ende
33. Mort, Terry Pratchett
34. Myths of old Japan, Nelly Naumann
35. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
36. No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai.
37. Northanger Abby, Jane Austen
38. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
39. Novells of Death, Edgar Allan Poe*
40. Paradise Lost, John Milton
41. Persuasion, Jane Austen
42. Remnant Population, Elizabeth Moon
43. Symbol, Dan Brown
44. Tales of Dunk and Egg, George RR Martin
45. The Bell jar, Sylvia Plath
46. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
47. The Chivalry of Crime, Desmond Barry
48. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
49. The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce
50. The Dolphins of Pern, Anne McCaffrey
51. The Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
52. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
53. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
54. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
55. The Hound of Baskerville, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
56. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
57. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving
58. The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
59. The Outsider, Albert Camus
60. The Picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde
61. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
62. The Stand, Stephen King
63. The Time Traveller's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
64. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
65. The Virgin Suicides, Jeffery Eugenides
66. The World According to Garp, John Irving
67. Thirst for Love, Yukio Mishima
68. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
69. Ulysses, James Joyce
70. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
71. Watership Down, Richard Adams

 (* this includes: The Fall of the House of Usher, A Descent into the Maelström, The Masque of the Red Death, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Man of the Crowd, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar)

I tried to put as many different books as possible on there. From classics to fantasy to fun to horror. Some are rather long and others a bit short, but I think that I’ve found a good balance to not get tired of it too quick. Some of those books make me so darn excited - for example George R.R. Martin, I’m so in love with his books right now - that I’d wish I could start right now. But since I can’t I’ll just have to try and decide with what novel I wish to start. If anyone of you thinks that I might be missing out on some good book or that a specific book on the list is plain bullshit, please do tell me so, I’m always curious what other people might be reading or thinking of those books, and I’m always interested in something new.

So, I think that’s it for today. See you on 1.9., mayhaps.

Sirrah