(Another) 1% Well-Read Challenge

The rules for this go-around of the challenge have evolved. Since the editors of the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die have dropped some titles and added others, challenge participants can now choose 1 of the following 3 options:

1. Read 10 titles from the original list from March 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009.

2.Read 10 titles from the new list from March 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009.

3. Read 13 titles from the combined list (of almost 1300 titles) from March 1, 2009 through March 31, 2010. In other words, “What were they thinking dropping titles from Dostoevsky and Jane Austen?”

I'm sticking with option 1. My choices are:

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne -- completed 3/21/09; review here

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell -- completed 6/7/09; review here

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley -- completed 9/1/09; review here

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle -- completed 3/15/09; review here

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte -- completed 4/29/09; review here

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie -- completed 4/18/09; review here

Nana by Emile Zola -- completed 10/11/09; review

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen -- completed 7/21/09; review here

Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald -- completed 11/8/2009

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells -- completed 4/21/09; review here