In 2008, I'm determined to read more books that are on the "Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century" list. I already have several in the house because my husband was a literature minor in school and kept the books he read throughout his undergraduate years. I'll update the list below with books I'm reading and note the ones from the Top 100 list with some asterisks (***).
Here is a link to an ALA page with the Radcliffe list (incidently, the ones in bold are banned or challenged books... interesting!): http://www.ala.org/ala/pio/piopresskits/bbbwpresskit/bannedchallenged.htm
UPDATE 5/27/08 - nearly midpoint of the year, and I've read 3 of my "goal" books (as you can see below + one I read in Dec 07)... but, as we are heading into the summer reading season, I find that I want to read some lighter material. So, I am currently reading some more recent and less weighty books than from the Radcliffe list. Had to reread Prince Caspian so that I was ready to see the new movie (very good BTW). I think I might delve into some Hemingway this summer tho... we'll see.
Books read in 2008:
The Art of Happiness by Howard Cutler and the Dalai Lama, Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles, Audicity of Hope by Barack Obama, Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis, Mind Race by Patrick Jamieson, On the Road*** by Jack Kerouac, 1984*** by George Orwell, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris, Their Eyes were Watching God*** by Zora Neale Hurston, The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, Good Grief, The Story of Charles M. Schulz by Rita Grimsley Johnson, Home Buying for Dummies by Tyson and Brown, The Art of Happiness at Work by Howard Cutler and the Dalai Lama, Teacher Man by Frank McCourt, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis, Nine Steps to Financial Freedom by Suze Orman, My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult, Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory, Pompeii by Robert Harris, Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man*** by James Joyce, 8 Weeks to Optimum Health by Andrew Weil, MD, A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, The Giver by Lois Lowry....
