1% Well-Read Rules & Sign-Up
The goal of this challenge is to read 10 books in 10 months from the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list. For you non-math people, 10 out of 1001 is approximately 1%, hence the title. The challenge will run from May 1, 2008 through February 28, 2009.
You may change your list at any time and cross-posting to other challenges is permitted. The only requirement is that your ten book choices must be on the ‘1001 List‘. Another helpful tool is an Excel spreadsheet by Arukiyomi that is found here.
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This looks like a great challenge. Now, I just have to select my books. I’ll be sure to post a list later today or tomorrow.
My list is up, and the post can be found here:
http://thatsthebook.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/another-challenge-1-well-read-challenge/
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How cool is this! I’d already made a list of some of these books to read in the coming months. My following list is based upon the book being available on CD or CT at my favorite library.
1. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
2. Memento Mori - Muriel Spark
3. Underworld - Don DeLillo
4. The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
5. The God of Small Things - Roy Arundhati
6. The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Sesey
8. The Nin Taylors - Dorothy Sayers
9. The Plague - Albert Camus
10. Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
I will post my list later tonight. Thanks for the info!
What an inspiring challenge. I’ve been meaning to buy the book 1,001 Books To Read Before You Die. I bet anything I have more than 10 from this list waiting on my shelves to be read. I’ll have to tell my friends about this too.
I’ll get back to your with my list.
Of course this 1% rate shows I won’t be able to read all of these books before I die. If I live another 30 years and die at 96, I’ll need to read 3% per year.
Now this is more like it! I had no interest in committing myself to 1001 books even for an indefinite amount of time but 10 I can handle. I’ll think over my list and post next week.
OK, count me in. I’ve never done a reading challenge before (unless my BA counts), but what the heck. Still, there’s no way I’m going to read the 30 books a year to finish the list before I die. There’s too many other books I want to read.
And I still think Walter J. Miller and Chaim Potok should have been on that list! And Malraux. And Schiller. And Robertson Davies… OK, I’ll stop now.
What a wonderful challenge! I’m definitely in on this one. My list can be found here.
Great idea! I’ll figure out my list and post it soon!
Love the challenge. Great fun! I already downloaded the spreadsheet, what an easy way to keep track. thanks.
what a great idea! And going through the list, I was relieved to see I have already read some (though not alot)……so, add me in. Thanks for hosting this challenge! I’ll send my list shortly, have to go choose it now.
Great idea. I was already making my way through the list, so this is one of the easiest challenges for me to join. WIll post my list sometime in the next few days (just need to check my bookshelves to see which books I have) Just out of interest, how many of the books on the list have you (and anyone else) read? I’m up to 91/1001.. according to that spreadsheet I need to read another 17 titles per year to finish them all. This challenge will certainly help towards that!
Thanks for this great challenge! My page can be found here:
http://restlessreader.com/?p=828
Enjoy,
Restless Reader
Goodness, I’m ambitious. My post is here and I hope it’s OK to veer off my chosens because I just blindly picked a few.
Oh silly me: the link: http://bkclubcare.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/whoops-i-did-it-again/
Great challenge!
My list is here :
http://bookwormwhitbookchallenge.blogspot.com/2008/05/1-well-read.html
Here’s my list: http://casual-dread.blogspot.com/2008/05/1-well-read-challenge.html. I am really excited about this challenge. I’ve never participated in one of these before, but a lot of the books on that list dovetail nicely with a BookCrossing release challenge I’m also participating in.
I bought 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die and started studying it, thinking about all my choices for the 10 books to read. Then I realized that I might already have at least 10 books waiting to be read in my audio book archive. I checked and quickly found 14 that I haven’t listened to that are on the list.
Crying of Lot 49
Death in Venice
Drop City
Ethan Frome
Everything is Illuminated
Lady Chatterly’s Lover
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
Tender is the Night
The Things They Carried
To Have and Have Not
Maltese Falcon
Blind Assassin
Atonement
Possession
I also created a blog entry about the challenge at:
http://jameswharris.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/1001-books-you-must-read-before-you-die/
Jim
I’m breathless with excitement. What a great excuse to read!
I’m definitely in Michelle! I’d already been working on reading the 1001 books, so this is a great challenge for me. I’ll try to have my list up as soon as I can. I know my first one will be Villette by Charlotte Bronte.
What a great idea! There are SO many to choose from, I’m sure I’ll change up my list at least once. I’m looking forward to reading some of the books that have been on my TBR list for a long time.
Not going to post a list for this one. I am working on the 1k1 list in general and with the ones i’ve added for other challenges i shouldn’t have a problem hitting the 10. Great idea!!
Yaay! I finally have my list chosen! As you can see, I had problems narrowing it down…..
http://susanflynn.blogspot.com/2008/05/1challenge-or-how-to-become-well-read.html
thanks again for hosting this challenge, Michelle! I’m glad to see how many people have signed up for it, too.
OK, I’ve entered the challenge. I’ve made my list. Here ’tis:
Atonement
The Story of Lucy Gault
American Psycho
Get Shorty
At the Mountain of Madness
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Blonde
The Virgin Suicides
High Rise
Y’all might find my choices a little dark, and I guess they are. Looking forward to getting started.
I’m a retired book editor who loves sewing, quilting, crochet, knitting, and books books books. Looking forward to the challenge.
Susan C.
http://blackberrycreek.typepad.com
Hi!
I couldn’t resist another Challenge…especially since I found 24 books off the list in my TBR stacks (I have stacks….too many to be a pile!)
My list is here:
http://hikaruthedragon.livejournal.com/7040.html
Cheers!
Quenby/hikaruthedragon in Tokyo
Sign me up! I love to read just as much as I love to sew. I will post my list of 10 later today or tomorrow.
I have looked at the list many times and was discouraged that I only had read so few. This challenge will help me busy making some selections and getting at least that one more percent!
THanks for such a good idea.
Flusi the Library Cat
Great idea!. This is my first reading challenge. I will make my final decisions for reading soon and post on my blog
http://redheadramble.wordpress.com/
What a wonderful challenge! I have read several of the books on this list.
Here is my list (I haven’t read anyof them, except a few that I started but not finished).
Cryotonomicon
Underworld
Discovery of heaven
Count of Monte-Cristo
Red and the black
David Copperfield
Hard times
IdIdiot
War and peace
Possession
This is my first challenge! Yay!
i have read just over 50. which was surprisingly low, given i’m a literary snob.
but whatever, here are the books i’m going to read (my only rule was i can’t read anything by an author i’ve already read)
White Noise Don DeLillo
Nineteen seventy seven, David Peace
American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis
Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
Eva Trout - Elizabeth Bowen
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
Amerika - Franz Kafka
Middlemarch - George Elliot
I just entered all the 1001 Books I have read into my LibraryThing account and I am at 110!
The 10 I am choosing are all in my TBR pile anyway:
1. Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
2. Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
3. The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
4. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
5. Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
6. Elementary Particles - Michael Hollenbecq
7. What I Loved - Siri hustvedt
8. Silk - Alessandro Baricco
9. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
10. Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy Sayers
Alternates:
The Judge and his Hangman - Friedrich Duerrenmatt (In German no less!)
How the Dead Live - Will Self
100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
After looking at the list and realizing there are many waiting to be read on my shelves, I’ve signed up. I’ll check back later with my list. Looking forward to this.
I’m in!! My first book this month is going to be Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton…
I’m excited about this! I’ve read only a few on the list and just needed an excuse to get to the others. I’m working on my list and will post it on my blog shortly. If you’d like to check it out, visit me here and click on the 1,001 Books List label.
My list is here.
It will be a good chance to catch up on some books I’ve been meaning to read for years and also discover some new ones. Thanks.
Thanks for a chance to read some great stuff.
excellent challenge! a well-needed kick in the …nightstand to get me to read some excellent titles.
Hi all, I wanted to let everyone know that I have started a new blog called The Mystery Bookshelf, published with blogspot. I will be posting my reviews from this challenge on that blog instead of my quilting blog. Since I read a lot I thought that a new blog was in order. I primarily read murder mysteries so that will be the focus of the new blog. I haven’t added any sidebars yet and probably won’t get to it until next weekend.
Since I’m already planning to read several books from the list this year, I thought this would be a great way to make sure I do it.
The books I intend to read are:
1. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
2. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
3. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
4. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
5. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
6. Possession by A.S. Byatt
7. Middlemarch by George Eliot
8. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
9. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
10. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
This list may change as the challenge progresses, with the exception of Middlemarch and The End of the Affair, which I’ve already begun.
My first challenge!
My list is up on my site! Wooo
Here’s the link to my list: http://plays-with-needles.blogspot.com/2008/05/whats-on-my-ipod-books-of-course.html
Thank-you for this challenge, it allows me to read some books I had totaly forgotten.
Here is my list of 10 books:
GABRIEL’S GIFT by Hanif Kureishi
FURY by Salman Rushdie
AFTER THE QUAKE, by haruki Murakami
ON LOVE by Alain de Botton
WILD SWANS by Jung Chang
THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA by Hanif Kureishi
THE PIGEON by David Suskind
THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED by Primo Levi
LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
THE PIANO TEACHER by Elfriede Jelinek
I accidentally did the linky above with my BOB AND BLACKIE link by mistake, but check my book website for future updates on this challenge. I haven’t chosen my books yet but will do so soon…
marie
i’m sorry.. i clickd on the linky twice!!!
please delete the 2nd link if possible
Hi! Wasn’t sure who to direct this to: My name is listed twice. I had entered my website incorrectly on one. Sorry!!
This is a great idea for a challenge. I’m all for anything that will get people to read…especially me. There’s a stack of books on my bedside table I was hoping to get through this summer and several happen to be on the list.
Also, I intend to post brief reviews/summaries on my blog at some point. Please visit
Hum…I’m planning to read a lot more than 10! But maybe that’s too ambitious?
I discovered the 1001 list recently and now I’ve started a blog for reviews. They’ll be short : I’m limiting myself to 101 words to review each book.
So far, I’ve just finished Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris (Paul Gallico) which was probably one of the shortest books on the list. It’s a really fast read (in case you’re bogged down in a thick book and you’re looking to take a break). It’s enjoyable too.
I’m very excited for this challenge! Thanks!
I’m really excited about this challenge! I’ll be choosing my books and posting my list soon!
Exciting!
My list is here!
Thanks!
I have been looking at this challenge for a while and have tried to stay away but it hasn’t worked - I’m in!
so thankful for your link to my spreadsheet. Just a little request though… just a little one… could you edit the original post and change my name from Arukiyoma to Arukiyomi…
nice to be part of helping people get well-read even in a small way…
Sorry about that, Arukiyomi!! I’ve changed it.
Updates will be posted on my site…
In no real order..
Middlesex
Gravity’s Rainbow
*The Golden Notebook
The Once and Future King
Lolita
The Magic Mountain
Middlemarch
Walden
Pride and Prejudice
Émile; or, On Education
* means I’m working on it now…
Well I just went through all 1001 books to find that I have only read 80 books on the list, and even the ones I have read this list only reminded me how I want to re-read them (well some of them….). List of 10 to follow after some more research.
Argh! I just posted one of my July/Aug reviews under the original signup list! Anyway to go back and delete it?
I already have a summer reading list, but can easily add another book a month. I doubt if I have any of these on my list. I will add my list later. I’m looking forward to seeing how many I’ve already read.
OK. This is my initial list. Subject to change!
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster (I’ve already started reading)
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Cocaine Nights by JG Ballard
I know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Ok, I’m a little late to the game, but here is my list:
http://web.mac.com/cymraeg_ddewines/Welsh_Witch/Scriptorium/Entries/2008/7/8_1_Well-Read_Challenge.html
This is my first book challenge, but I am all in.. I will post my list tomorrow…..
What fun! I’ll post my list tomorrow!
I’m totally in
Nice list–I’ve read about 130 of these already, and over 20 are on my TBR shelves now, so this looks like a good challenge for me!
Here’s what I plan to read:
1. The Double by Jose Saramago (Okay, I read this one already, but I just finished it last week, so it’s within the time frame.)
2. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
3. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
4. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
5. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
6. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
7. Kim – Rudyard Kipling
8. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
9. Neuromancer – William Gibson
10. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
Alternates: Catch-22 – Joseph Heller, Under the Skin - Michael Faber, Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides, Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. , The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene, White Teeth – Zadie Smith, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë, The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler, The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende, Rabbit, Run – John Updike, A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess, Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham, Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
Better late than never, right? I haven’t decided on my ten books yet, but I will soon!
Here’s my list. I’m listing older works because I’m using this as an excuse to read a bunch of stuff I’ve either always meant to read or at least meant to finish. I DO like the modern selections though. I just read “Saturday” by Ian McEwan and I highly recommend it.
Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe 1700s
A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift Pre-1700
The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
Metamorphoses – Ovid
Sounds like fun!!
I found out about it a bit late (September) but it works out great because I’ve read 4 books off the list in the last 4 months. So I’m all caught up…
This is my first book challenge and it sounds great! Thanks for starting it.
I’ll have no problem reading 10 of the books before the deadline but I must ask, is it a condition of the challenge that we write reviews for all of them? Or is reading them acceptable? I am committed to ARC reviews for some months and couldn’t comfortably fit in 10 extra reviews. Thank you.
I finished the challenge and my wrap-up post is here
Thanks for organising it, I had fun! Hope you do it again!
Excited about this …. I am looking forward to my reading !!!
I m signing in for this challenge!
The link will take you to directly to the challenges post which i will be updating
I have not decided which books I will be reading except for 2!
-God of small things
-Memoirs of Geisha
Thanks
I am starting a little late, but looking forward to participating. I’ll post my booklist later this week.
Thanks
Well, since I’m joining this challenge so late, I hope it’s okay to count books from 1001 that I’ve already read?
I am now officially really late for this challenge
But I still want to give it a try
I have read 2 books, and have to read 8 more in 2 months. Don’t think it will happen, but then I will join early nxt year
Thanks!
Can you do another 1% challenge next year?? I’d love to be well-read (my parents actually own the 1001 book) …. and I’d love to join the challenge!!
Monica, yes I plan on continuing with another one after this one is over!
I hope it isn’t too late to sign up. I’ve been reading a lot lately, so I think I’ll be able to finish on time, and I picked some pretty short books.
What a great challenge!
I read three books on this list this year *before* the May deadline, and four after… if only I’d known! Anyway, I know I can finish six books in two months. I’m on #395 for 2008 already.
I’ve read:
White Teeth 5/15/08
Everything is Illuminated 8/11/08
Diary of a Nobody 8/13/08
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater 10/27/08