klagregory's Book Challenge

I'm hoping public posting will keep me honest in my reading and I won't slide off as the weather warms, as I usually do.

Read thus far:

1. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
2. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
3. The Good Solider by Ford Maddox Ford
4. A Certain Justice by P.D. James
5. Siddartha by Herman Hesse
6. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
7. The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
8. Shroud for a Nightingale by P.D. James
9. The Black Tower by P.D. James
10. The Emporer of Ocean Park by Stephen Carter
11. Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides
12. Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
13. An Unsuitable Job for a Lady by P.D. James
14. Death of an Expert Witness by P.D. James
15. Fat Land by Greg Critser
16. Innocent Blood by P.D. James

My downfall is the category Books I've Started But Can't Quite Finish:

1. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
2. Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
4. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
6. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
7. A World Lit Only By Fire by William Manchester
8. I, Claudius: From the autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified 54 A.D. by Robert Graves

Finished this last month:

17.Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck
18.Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
19.Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
20.Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
21.Fat Land by Greg Critser
22.A Taste for Death by P.D. James
23.How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
24.Original Sin by P.D. James

Yay! I'm ahead of schedule.

25. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
26. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Over the halfway hump!

And bonus points, since I got to cross off three books off my 'classic must-reads'! Only about eleventy-billion more to go!

27. The Stranger by Albert Camus

Fantastic read. Much better than I expected.

Currently reading:

Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester

28. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
29. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Ordinary People was amazing. Maybe one of the best novels I've ever read.

30. Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy

Enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.

Now reading:

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson and the Manchester history, still.

31. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Currently Reading:

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Up Next:

The Double Helix by Dr. James D. Watson
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton

32. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton

This was altogether a different novel than what I expected. However, I enjoyed it immensely.

33. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
34. The Double Helix by Dr. James D. Watson

Still slogging through Anna Karenina and the Manchester history. Having difficulty reading this week and so I am concentrating on my other passion, movies.

I'm not managing much progress in my reading so I'm moving on to another novel.

Now working on

The Sun Also Rises
Anna Karenina
A World Lit Only By Fire
A Brief History of Time

35. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

36. The Sun Also Rises

37. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
38. Candide by Voltaire

Working on:

The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Persuasion by Jane Austen
A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy