My Challenges (timed)


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My Challenges (perpetual)

100 SHOTS OF SHORT
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CHECKIN’ OFF THE CHEKHOV
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THE COMPLETE BOOKER
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MARTEL-HARPER CHALLENGE
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MODERN LIBRARY'S 100 BEST NOVELS

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
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THE PULITZER PROJECT
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TAMMY'S BEYOND BOOKS CHALLENGE

New York Times Book Review: 6/40
New Yorker: 0/36
New York Review of Books: 0/20
Vogue: 1/16
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Thursday, April 2, 2009

Modern Library's 100 Best Novels ongoing list

The goal of this challenge is to read all the books contained on the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels list. This is a perpetual challenge. Click on the picture or click here to go to the challenge's webpage. This post will list the books that I've read so far. The books included were picked by the Board of the Modern Library; there is also a Reader's list and a "rival" list composed by the Radcliffe Publishing Course at the request of the Modern Library. You can view the lists here. My list may contain books from all 3 lists -- I will indicate in which of the lists a particular book is included, along with the ranking. Click on the book titles to read my reviews.

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Board #58, Radcliffe #42)
Animal Farm by George Orwell (Board #31, Readers #20, Radcliffe #17)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Readers #1, Radcliffe #92)
The Awakening by Kate Chopin (Radcliffe #50)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (Readers #31, Radcliffe #7)
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul (Board #83)
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (Radcliffe #65)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Board #5, Readers #18, Radcliffe #16)
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (Board #80, Readers #88, Radcliffe #74)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (Board #7, Readers #12, Radcliffe #15)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Board #64, Readers #19, Radcliffe #2)
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (Radcliffe #60)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Readers #77)
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Board #74, Readers #91, Radcliffe #20)
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Readers #24, Radcliffe #26)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor (Radcliffe #61)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Board #10, Readers #22, Radcliffe #3)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Board #2, Readers #13, Radcliffe #1)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Readers #53)
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (Board #69)
Howards End by E.M. Forster (Board #38, Radcliffe #52)
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (Radcliffe #53)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Board #19, Readers #69, Radcliffe #24)
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (Radcliffe #45)
Kim by Rudyard Kipling (Board #78, Radcliffe #95)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Board #4, Readers #34, Radcliffe #11)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Board #41, Readers #25, Radcliffe #8)
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Board #100)
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (Board #90, Radcliffe #100)
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (Board #13, Readers #6, Radcliffe #9)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (Radcliffe #12)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (Readers #90, Radcliffe #28)
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster (Board #25, Radcliffe #59)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (Radcliffe #71)
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (Board #18, Readers #23, Radcliffe #29)
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence (Board #9, Radcliffe #64)
Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Board #28, Radcliffe #62)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Readers #5, Radcliffe #4)
The World According to Garp by John Irving (Readers #64, Radcliffe #37)

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