Challenges
1% Well Read Challenge – due Feb. 28, 2009. Complete!
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
Diary of a Nobody – George and Weedon Grossmith
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Saturday – Ian McEwan
Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
Ulysses – James Joyce
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
The Complete Woman personal challenge – due Dec. 31, 2009:
The Confessions of St. Augustine
Abelard & Heloise
History of the Kings of Britain
The Mabinogion
The Consolation of Philosophy
In Praise of Folly
The Chronicle of the Cid
The Journals of Christopher Columbus
The Faerie Queene – READING
The Edda
World Citizen Challenge – due Dec. 31, 2009. Complete!
Politics: A Thousand Hills: Rwanda’s Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It - Stephen Kinzer
Economics: The End of Poverty or Deep Economy
History: Rome 1960 - David Maraniss
Culture/Anthropology/Sociology: The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Worldwide Issues: Freedom’s Battle or Disposable People
Memoirs: The Great Railway Bazaar or Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Too Big to Ignore Anymore Challenge - due November 15, 2009
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Guns, Germs, and Steel – Jared Diamond
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
Sophie’s Choice – William Styron
Bowling Alone – Robert D. Putnam too short unless notes are counted.
The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
Tristram Shandy – Thomas Pynchon
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
The Crimson Petal and the White – Michael Faber
The Recognitions – William Gaddis
Life of Johnson – James Boswell
The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
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