Hello all,

I hope everyone is busily reading. :) We are two months into the year, and we have 51 reviews posted so far. So I'm guessing we may fall short of 1001 reviews in one year, though maybe lots of people will be able to read and review more later this year.

Email problems
For some reason, my email notifications from LiveJournal have stopped ( Read more... )

So, as I mentioned in the community info, I used Peter Boxall's list of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die more or less arbitrarily. Boxall compiled the list in consultation with a team of literary critics:

For discerning bibliophiles and readers who enjoy unforgettable classic literature, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is a trove of ( Read more... )

ETA: Do not sign up here! Sign up in the most recent sign-up thread. (See Challenge sign-up thread in the Links list.)

This is the thread to post your intention to join the challenge. If you post here, I will give you a book from those yet to be assigned and add your name to the list next to your assigned book.

Also, don't forget to join this ( Read more... )

The Books

2000s
1. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Saturday - Ian McEwan
3. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
4. Slow Man - J.M. Coetzee
5. Adjunct: An Undigest - Peter Manson
6. The Sea - John Banville (inverarity 7. The Red Queen - Margaret Drabble ( Read more... )