Rosemeria's 1010 Challenge

I think my categories will easily cover everything I would like to read in 2010! I will now wait for a good rainy day to forage through my bookshelves and select out the books to go under each category. Suggestions are welcomed.

1) Books selected by my favorite LT group - "Group Reads - Literature"
2) Russian literary works
3) French literary works
4) Asian literary works
5) From my TBR list
6) American literary works
7) Atwood and other must read women authors
8) Historical fiction & nonfiction
9) Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs & Critical Writings on Writers & Artists
10) more Fyodor Dostoevsky

Books completed will be checked-off with a nice red .

1) Books selected by my favorite LT group - "Group Reads - Literature"

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (July 2010)
* The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
* Life and Fate by Vasili Grossman
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

2) Russian literary works

* Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy
* The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
* Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
* Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

3) French literary works
Madame Bovery by Gustave Flaubert (sept 2010)
* Germinal by Emile Zola
* The Red and the Black by Stendhal
* The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhals
The Women's War by Alexandre Dumas (aug 2010)
* Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
* Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
* Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

4) Asian/Eastern literary works

* Kim by Rudyard Kipling
* Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
* Three cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
* My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
* The Bhagavad Gita
* The Heart of the World - A Journey to the Last Secret Place (w/Intro by Dalai Lama) by Ian Baker
* Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang
* Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
* The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

5) From my TBR List

* Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
* House of liars by Elsa Morate
* History: A Novel by Elsa Morante

6) American literary works

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
* The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
* The Novel by James A. Michener
* The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
* A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
* Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
* The Spiritual Teachings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Richard Geldard
* Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
* Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

7) Atwood and other must read women authors

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (3/20/2010)
* The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans)
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
* ? by Virginia Woolf
* The mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
* Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt

8) Historical fiction & nonfiction

Fiction:
* Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
* Falls the Shadow by Sharon Kay Penman
* The Reckoning by Sharon Kay Penman
* Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
* Katherine by Anya Seton
* Let the Great World Spin: A Novel by Colum McCann
Nonfiction:
* Lincoln: A Novel by Gore Vidal
* The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, from the Revolution to the First World War by Graham Robb
* 1627951::The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome by Susan Wise Bauer
* Napoleon: A Biography by Frank McLynn
* Beyond Civilization: The World's Four Great Streams of Civilization by Keith Chandler
* The Histories by Herodotus

9) Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs & Critical Writings on writers & artists

* Balzac by Stefan Zweig
*Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman by Stefan Zweig
* I Shock Myself: The Autobiography of Beatrice Wood by Beatrice Wood
* Lust for Life by Irving Stone
* A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life by Arnold Weinstein
* The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts by Milan Kundera
* Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin
* Virginia Woolf: The Will to Create as a Woman by Ruth Gruber

10) more Fyodor Dostoevsky

Books by Fyodor Dostoevsky I have not read yet:

The Insulted and Humiliated - (Published 1861)
The House of the Dead - (Published 1862)
Notes from Underground - (Published 1864)
The Idiot - (Published 1869)
The Possessed - (Published 1872)
The Raw Youth or The Adolescent - (Published 1875)

Welcome on board. I will be interested in what you will read in the Dostoevsky category (although a few more of the categories also sound interesting)

The pictures really add flavor to the categories.

Hi Annie,
Thanks for the welcome, I have made a list of all Dostoevsky's book I have not read. I am hoping to read all of these over the next year. So far The Brothers Karamazov is my favorite, it took two readings to discover the beauty of this novel. A life changing book. Hey, that would make a good category!
unread:
The Insulted and Humiliated - (Published 1861)
The House of the Dead - (Published 1862)
Notes from Underground - (Published 1864)
The Idiot - (Published 1869)
The Possessed - (Published 1872)
The Raw Youth - (Published 1875)

Ok, I have started! First book to mark off is Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray.

A wonderful Holiday read. Five stars for story, four stars for the quality of writing, four stars for historical content and five stars for character development. I'll have to look into other Thackeray novels.

Lots of great books on your list. I'm particularly fond of The Great Gatsby, which I would name as the finest American writing.
I'll be reading Antonia Fraser's bio of Marie Antoinette this year.

WOW, what a Great Book! I started "Atwood in April" early - with The Handmaid's Tale. I love this book, one of the best contemporary novels I have read of late. But, I must admit that I usually have my head hanging over a French, British or Russian literary classic (I didn't do much reading in college and have lots of catching up to do).
I am all set to try another by Atwood - which one should I read next?