Progress! ...Sort Of.

books I own but haven't read
1984--George Orwell


[Main Street--Sinclair Lewis]
[The Three Musketeers--Alexander Dumas]
[Villette--Charlotte Bronte]
[Jude the Obscure or The Return of the Native--Thomas Hardy]
[Billy Budd, Sailor--Herman Melville]
[The Bonesetter's Daughter--Amy Tan]
[Jane Eyre--Charlotte Bronte]


recommended by others
Abarat--Clive Barker (Joseph)
Running with the Demon--Terry Brooks (Mike)
The Alchemyst--Michael Scott (Nathalie)
Wicked--Gregory Maguire (Talia)

[Same Kind of Different as Me--Ron Hall and Denver Moore] (Lori)
[Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close--Jonathan Safran Foer] (Megan)
[A Thousand Splendid Suns--Khaled Hosseini] (Meredith)
[Mistborn--Brandon Sanderson] (Mike)
[The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake--Aimee Bender] (Lori)


adult fiction
The Gathering Storm--Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson
The Lacuna--Barbara Kingsolver
Prodigal Summer--Barbara Kingsolver
City of Dragons--Kelli Stanley
Shanghai Girls--Lisa See


[Bel Canto--Ann Patchett]
[The Elegance of the Hedgehog--Muriel Barbery]

books adapted to movies 
(this category is allowed to overlap other categories)
[V for Vendetta--Alan Moore]
[Jane Eyre--Charlotte Bronte]

foreign
Say You're One of Them--Uwem Akpan
Pandora in the Congo--Albert Sanchez Pinol


[Rooftops of Tehran--Mahbod Seraji]
[Absurdistan--Gary Shteyngart]
[Mendelssohn is on the Roof--Jiri Weil]



authors I've never read
The Road--Cormac McCarthy
The Handmaid's Tale--Margaret Atwood
Mrs. Dalloway--Virginia Woolf


[The Naked and the Dead--Norman Mailer]
[The Catcher in the Rye--J.D. Salinger]
[After Dark--Haruki Murakami

award-winners
March--Geraldine Brooks
The Good Earth--Pearl S. Buck
The Bridge of San Luis Rey--Thornton Wilder


[Interpreter of Maladies--Jhumpa Lahiri]
[The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay--Michael Chabon]

Megan/Lindsey/Miri
The Enchantress of Florence--Salman Rushdie
The Book Borrower--Alice Mattison (Miri)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower--Stephen Chbosky (Miri)


[Franny and Zooey--J.D. Salinger] (Lindsey)

nonfiction
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle--Barbara Kingsolver
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children--Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
Dreams from My Father--Barack Obama
Going Rogue--Sarah Palin
Fast Food Nation--Eric Schlosser 
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Ranch Culture--Ariel Levy
The Omnivore's Dilemma--Michael Pollan


[Lies My Teacher Told Me--James W. Loewen]
[Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions--Gloria Steinem]

miscellaneous
Mockingjay--Suzanne Collins
Inferior--Peadar O Guilin




As you can see, I still have quite a ways to go. I've been getting a teensy bit carried away with "extras"... as in, I've read 70 books so far this year and only 22 of them were for the challenge. Yeah... It's time to buckle down. 


I'm in the middle of three books right now, one that will finish up the Michael Scott series, one Nonfiction, and one for the Recommended section. Once I finish one of these three I'll be picking up The Road, and then I think I'll get started on the Books as Movies category with The Mists of Avalon... which is, of course, really long. Hoo boy.


Okay, also, one more thing. Any more thoughts about the MML category? So far I've picked one... That leaves three for Lindsey and Megan to choose, and two for me. Plus we have to actually read them. :) Let's find some good ones to pick!

Reading List: Updated

Okay. First of all, technically one of the rules of this challenge is that you are allowed to overlap between categories (I think the rule was up to 9 books may overlap, which for our purposes would be adapted to 10). I mention this because some of the books I own but haven't read also fit into the books I can't believe I've never read category; in the interest of making this challenge actually a challenge, I'm not going to let myself do any overlaps (if you'll remember, one of my original concerns about this was that the total number of books comes to 100, which is fewer than I read this year). All right. End of disclaimer, on to lists.

Books I own but haven't read:

1. Villette, Charlotte Bronte
2. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
3. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
4. The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf
5. The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
6. Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
7. The Winds of War, Herman Wouk
8. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
9. Howard's End, E.M. Forster

Adult fiction:

1. *The Gathering Storm, Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson
2. possibly one of the Dresden files, by Jim Butcher
3. The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
4. Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury
5. Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
6. The Alchemist, Paolo Coelho
7. Serena, Ron Rash
8. The Postmistress, Sarah Blake

Recommended

1. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer (Megan)
2. Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson (Mike)
3. *Abarat, Clive Barker (Joseph)
4. *The Alchemyst, Michael Scott (Nathalie)
5. The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown (Dan)

I can't believe I've never read this...

1. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
2. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
3. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred C. Taylor
4. The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
5. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
6. The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
7. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
8. A Separate Peace, John Knowles

Unfinished Business

1. The Glass Castle, Jeanette Wells
2. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. The Rise of Silas Lapham, William Dean Howells

Authors I've never read

1. Neil Gaiman
2. Norman Mailer
3. Cormac McCarthy
4. Ken Follett
5. John Milton

Award Winners

1. The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
2. March, Geraldine Brooks
3. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
4. Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
5. Ironweed, William Kennedy
6. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole

Foreign

1. The Bonesetter's Daughter, Amy Tan
2. Pandora in the Congo, Albert Sanchez Pinol
   
3. Arrow of God, Chinua Achebe
4. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
   

Self-Improvement

1. *Forced to be Family, Cheryl Dellasega
2. Feelings Buried Alive Never Die, Karol Truman
3. The Four Agreements Companion, Miquel Ruiz

10/10/10 Challenge

For my New Year's "resolution" I decided to complete the 10/10/10 challenge--ten books in ten different genres in 2010--and I am really excited to do it. Megan and Lindsey read my post and have expressed an interest in it as well, and we've been discussing possible categories with each other. For right now, here is my tentative list.

--books I own but haven't read yet
--recommended by others
--adult fiction
--nonfiction
--self-improvement
--foreign
--authors I've never read (this is one that I just remembered was on that list online)
--genres I don't usually read
--Megan/Lindsey/Miri category (a predetermined list of ten books that all three of us will read)
--award-winners (?)
or, books adapted to movies?

I am deciding between the last two categories, since one of them will take me over ten. I like the idea of books that have been adapted to movies (which came from Lindsey) because it adds the extra element of watching those movies and comparing them with the books, and I'm sure that would be interesting; however, that also means I have to find the movies, and that isn't always easy.