Reading Challenge
Inspired by protodisco's similar 50 book challenge, I'll be attempting (and in all likelihood failing) to read 52 books in as many weeks. I'll be starting September 20th, 2009 and updating this entry as I proceed.
Here's my tentative list... any suggestions or replacements appreciated:
(bolded authors = the first time reading that particular author)
(italicized titles = books stolen from protodisco's list)
(underlined titles = selections that were added to replace earlier titles, for various reasons)
Auster, Paul:
1. The New York Trilogy (6/29/10-7/1/10)
Bangs, John Kendrick:
2. A House-Boat on the River Styx (7/16/10)
Barth, John:
3. The Sot-Weed Factor (9/20/9-9/29/9)
Bellos, David:
4. Georges Perec: A Life in Words (12/16/9-1/6/10)
Bulgakov, Mikhail:
5. The Master and Margarita (Burgin/O'Connor translation) (7/16/10-7/26/10)
Burton, Richard (translator):
6. Vikram and the Vampire (11/20/9-11/25/9)
Campbell, Joseph:
7. The Hero with a Thousand Faces (6/22/10-6/28/10)
Caro, Robert:
8. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power (10/16/9-10/26/9)
9. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent (10/26/9-10/30/9)
10. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate (10/30/9-11/20/9)
Chabon, Michael:
11. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (8/4/10-8/11/10)
Eliot, T.S.:
12. The Wasteland and Other Poems (9/15/10-9/16/10)
Ellmann, Richard:
13. James Joyce (4/13/10-5/11/10)
Faulkner, William:
14. The Sound and the Fury (6/11/10-6/16/10)
Gaddis, William:
15. Agape Agape (4/7/10)
Gass, William:
16. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (8/3/10-8/15/10)
17. Omensetter's Luck (4/8/10-4/15/10)
Hemingway, Ernest:
18. A Farewell to Arms (8/19/10-8/23/10)
Herodotus:
19. The Histories (Greene translation) (6/16/10-7/16/10)
Homer:
20. The Odyssey (Lawrence translation) (5/11/10-6/4/10)
Joyce, James:
21. Dubliners (4/26/10-4/28/10)
22. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (5/1/10-5/5/10)
23. Ulysses (5/11/10-6/11/10)
Kundera, Milan:
24. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (7/26/10-7/28/10)
Lansing, Alfred:
25. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (10/9/9-10/12/9)
Le Couteur, Penny and Burreson, Jay:
26. Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History (8/23/10-9/3/10)
Markson, David:
27. Wittgenstein's Mistress (9/12/10-9/14/10)
Mathews, Harry:
28. Tlooth (8/2/10-8/16/10)
Maugham, Somerset:
29. The Razor's Edge (7/28/10-8/2/10)
Melville, Herman:
30. Moby Dick (9/30/9-10/8/9)
Nabokov, Vladimir:
31. Lolita (1/10/10-1/15/10)
32. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (6/27/10-7/12/10)
Niffenegger, Audrey:
33. The Time Traveler's Wife (12/14/9-12/16/9)
O'Connor, Flannery:
34. The Complete Stories (9/19/10-9/27/10)
Ovid:
35. Metamorposes (Garth translation) (11/25/9-12/8/9)
Pears, Iain:
36. Stone's Fall (3/31/10-4/6/10)
Pynchon, Thomas:
37. V (8/24/10-9/19/10)
Selby, Hubert:
38. Last Exit to Brooklyn (1/6/10-1/8/10)
Shakespeare, William:
39. Complete Sonnets (1/8/10-1/10/10)
40. Othello (12/8/9)
Simmons, Dan:
41. The Terror (10/12/9-10/16/9)
Swift, Johnathan:
42. Gulliver's Travels (8/11/10-8/18/10)
Vatsayana:
43. Kama Sutra of Vatsayana (Burton translation) (12/11/9-12/14/9)
Vollmann, William:
44. Rising Up and Rising Down, moral calculus (3/12/10-3/13/10)
45. Rising Up and Rising Down, volume I (1/15/10-1/21/10)
46. Rising Up and Rising Down, volume II (1/21/10-2/16/10)
47. Rising Up and Rising Down, volume III (2/17/10-3/4/10)
48. Rising Up and Rising Down, volume IV (3/4/10-3/11/10)
49. Rising Up and Rising Down, volume V (3/13/10-3/23/10)
50. Rising Up and Rising Down, volume VI (3/23/10-3/31/10)
Walter, Eugene:
51. Hints & Pinches: A Concise Compendium of Aromatics, Chutneys, Herbs, Relishes, Spices, and Other Such Concerns (9/7/10-9/28/10)
Wilde, Oscar:
52.The Portrait of Dorian Gray (12/9/9-12/11/9)
Here's my tentative list... any suggestions or replacements appreciated:
(bolded authors = the first time reading that particular author)
(italicized titles = books stolen from protodisco's list)
(underlined titles = selections that were added to replace earlier titles, for various reasons)
Auster, Paul:
1. The New York Trilogy (6/29/10-7/1/10)
Bangs, John Kendrick:
2. A House-Boat on the River Styx (7/16/10)
Barth, John:
3. The Sot-Weed Factor (9/20/9-9/29/9)
Bellos, David:
4. Georges Perec: A Life in Words (12/16/9-1/6/10)
Bulgakov, Mikhail:
5. The Master and Margarita (Burgin/O'Connor translation) (7/16/10-7/26/10)
Burton, Richard (translator):
6. Vikram and the Vampire (11/20/9-11/25/9)
Campbell, Joseph:
7. The Hero with a Thousand Faces (6/22/10-6/28/10)
Caro, Robert:
8. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power (10/16/9-10/26/9)
9. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent (10/26/9-10/30/9)
10. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate (10/30/9-11/20/9)
Chabon, Michael:
11. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (8/4/10-8/11/10)
Eliot, T.S.:
12. The Wasteland and Other Poems (9/15/10-9/16/10)
Ellmann, Richard:
13. James Joyce (4/13/10-5/11/10)
Faulkner, William:
14. The Sound and the Fury (6/11/10-6/16/10)
Gaddis, William:
15. Agape Agape (4/7/10)
Gass, William:
16. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (8/3/10-8/15/10)
17. Omensetter's Luck (4/8/10-4/15/10)
Hemingway, Ernest:
18. A Farewell to Arms (8/19/10-8/23/10)
Herodotus:
19. The Histories (Greene translation) (6/16/10-7/16/10)
Homer:
20. The Odyssey (Lawrence translation) (5/11/10-6/4/10)
Joyce, James:
21. Dubliners (4/26/10-4/28/10)
22. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (5/1/10-5/5/10)
23. Ulysses (5/11/10-6/11/10)
Kundera, Milan:
24. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (7/26/10-7/28/10)
Lansing, Alfred:
25. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (10/9/9-10/12/9)
Le Couteur, Penny and Burreson, Jay:
26. Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History (8/23/10-9/3/10)
Markson, David:
27. Wittgenstein's Mistress (9/12/10-9/14/10)
Mathews, Harry:
28. Tlooth (8/2/10-8/16/10)
Maugham, Somerset:
29. The Razor's Edge (7/28/10-8/2/10)
Melville, Herman:
30. Moby Dick (9/30/9-10/8/9)
Nabokov, Vladimir:
31. Lolita (1/10/10-1/15/10)
32. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (6/27/10-7/12/10)
Niffenegger, Audrey:
33. The Time Traveler's Wife (12/14/9-12/16/9)
O'Connor, Flannery:
34. The Complete Stories (9/19/10-9/27/10)
Ovid:
35. Metamorposes (Garth translation) (11/25/9-12/8/9)
Pears, Iain:
36. Stone's Fall (3/31/10-4/6/10)
Pynchon, Thomas:
37. V (8/24/10-9/19/10)
Selby, Hubert:
38. Last Exit to Brooklyn (1/6/10-1/8/10)
Shakespeare, William:
39. Complete Sonnets (1/8/10-1/10/10)
40. Othello (12/8/9)
Simmons, Dan:
41. The Terror (10/12/9-10/16/9)
Swift, Johnathan:
42. Gulliver's Travels (8/11/10-8/18/10)
Vatsayana:
43. Kama Sutra of Vatsayana (Burton translation) (12/11/9-12/14/9)
Vollmann, William:
44. Rising Up and Rising Down, moral calculus (3/12/10-3/13/10)
45. Rising Up and Rising Down, volume I (1/15/10-1/21/10)
46. Rising Up and Rising Down, volume II (1/21/10-2/16/10)
47. Rising Up and Rising Down, volume III (2/17/10-3/4/10)
48. Rising Up and Rising Down, volume IV (3/4/10-3/11/10)
49. Rising Up and Rising Down, volume V (3/13/10-3/23/10)
50. Rising Up and Rising Down, volume VI (3/23/10-3/31/10)
Walter, Eugene:
51. Hints & Pinches: A Concise Compendium of Aromatics, Chutneys, Herbs, Relishes, Spices, and Other Such Concerns (9/7/10-9/28/10)
Wilde, Oscar:
52.The Portrait of Dorian Gray (12/9/9-12/11/9)