Revised my list again (my living situation at present has made it difficult to get to some of the books that were on my list) and restarted (original challenge post).
My new start date: retroactive to May 1, 2019
My new start date: retroactive to May 1, 2019
Finish date goal: May 1, 2024
- Books in red are re-reads
- Read dates are linked to my star rating or review on Goodreads.
My list - 82 books
(I reserve the right to switch out titles and/or add/remove titles)
Maya Angelou
1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Margaret Atwood
2. The Handmaid's Tale Read in March 2017
3. Negotiating with the Dead
Jane Austen
Ray Bradbury
8.Something Wicked This Way Comes Read October 2018
9.The Martian Chronicles Read May 2019
10. Zen and the Art of WritingMargaret Atwood
2.
3. Negotiating with the Dead
Jane Austen
4. Emma
5. Mansfield Park
Ray Bradbury
8.
9.
Dorothea Brande
11. Becoming a Writer
Anne Bronte
Julia Cameron
Anne Bronte
12. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Charlotte Bronte
13. Jane Eyre
14. Villette
Emily Bronte
15. Wuthering Heights
16. The Vein of Gold
19. The Woman in White Read December 2020
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
27. The Brothers Karamazov
Lew Wallace
70. Ben-Hur
Evelyn Waugh
71. Brideshead Revisited
Edith Wharton
72. The Age of Innocence
73. Ethan Frome
74. The House of Mirth
75. The Writing of Fiction
Oscar Wilde
76. The Picture of Dorian Gray
77. Lady Windermere's Fan
78. A Woman of No Importance
79. An Ideal Husband
Virginia Woolf
80. Orlando
81. The Virginia Woolf reader
Truman Capote
17. In Cold Blood
Colette
18. Cheri (with The Last of Cheri)
Colette
18. Cheri (with The Last of Cheri)
Wilkie Collins
Daniel Defoe
20. Roxana
20. Roxana
Charles Dickens
21. David Copperfield
22. Great Expectations
23. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
24. Little Dorritt
25. A Tale of Two Cities
Annie Dillard
26. The Writing Life
26. The Writing Life
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
27. The Brothers Karamazov
Daphne du Maurier
28. My Cousin Rachel Read in April 2017
George Eliot
29. The Mill on the Floss
30. Silas Marner
T.S. Eliot
31. Murder in the Cathedral
T.S. Eliot
31. Murder in the Cathedral
Mary Hanford Ford
32. The Legends of Parsifal
32. The Legends of Parsifal
John Fowles
33. The Collector
34. The French Lieutenant's Woman
Anne Frank
35. The Diary of Anne Frank
(Changed from Updike's Rabbit, Run which was a DNF)
Bonnie Friedman
36. Writing Past Dark
Elizabeth Gaskell
Anne Frank
35. The Diary of Anne Frank
(Changed from Updike's Rabbit, Run which was a DNF)
Bonnie Friedman
36. Writing Past Dark
Elizabeth Gaskell
37. Cranford
38. North and South
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
39. The Sylph
John Gardner
40. The Art of Fiction
41. On Becoming a Novelist Read January 2021
42. On Writers and Writing
Natalie Goldberg
43. Thunder and Lightning Read in September 2019
44. Writing Down the Bones
Nathaniel Hawthorne
45. The Marble Faun
Victor Hugo
46. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
47. Les Miserables
Shirley Jackson
48. We Have Always Lived in the Castle Read September 2019
Henry James
49. The Portrait of a Lady
50. The Golden Bowl
51. The Turn of the Screw
52. Roderick Hudson
Ralph Keyes
53. The Courage to Write
Madame de Lafayette
54.The Princess of Cleves Read in February 2019
Harper Lee
55.To Kill a Mockingbird Read in July 2018
Sheridan Le Fanu
56. Uncle Silas
Gaston Leroux
57. The Phantom of the Opera
Ursula K. Le Guin
58. Steering the Craft
Betsy Lerner
59. The Forest for the Trees
Thomas Mann
60. Buddenbrooks
W. Somerset Maugham
61.The Painted Veil Read in February 2021
38. North and South
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
39. The Sylph
John Gardner
40. The Art of Fiction
42. On Writers and Writing
Natalie Goldberg
44. Writing Down the Bones
Nathaniel Hawthorne
45. The Marble Faun
Victor Hugo
46. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
47. Les Miserables
Shirley Jackson
Henry James
49. The Portrait of a Lady
50. The Golden Bowl
51. The Turn of the Screw
52. Roderick Hudson
Ralph Keyes
53. The Courage to Write
Madame de Lafayette
54.
Harper Lee
55.
Sheridan Le Fanu
56. Uncle Silas
Gaston Leroux
57. The Phantom of the Opera
Ursula K. Le Guin
58. Steering the Craft
Betsy Lerner
59. The Forest for the Trees
Thomas Mann
60. Buddenbrooks
W. Somerset Maugham
61.
Joyce Carol Oates
62. The Faith of a Writer
Sylvia Plath
63. The Bell Jar
Steven Pressfield
64. The War of Art
Ann Radcliffe
65. The Mysteries of Udolpho
Sir Walter Scott
66. Rob Roy
Mary Shelley
67.Frankenstein Read in February 2019
62. The Faith of a Writer
Sylvia Plath
63. The Bell Jar
Steven Pressfield
64. The War of Art
Ann Radcliffe
65. The Mysteries of Udolpho
Sir Walter Scott
66. Rob Roy
Mary Shelley
67.
Twyla Tharp
68. The Creative Habit
Brenda Ueland
69. If You Want to Write
68. The Creative Habit
Brenda Ueland
69. If You Want to Write
Lew Wallace
70. Ben-Hur
Evelyn Waugh
71. Brideshead Revisited
Edith Wharton
72. The Age of Innocence
73. Ethan Frome
74. The House of Mirth
75. The Writing of Fiction
Oscar Wilde
76. The Picture of Dorian Gray
77. Lady Windermere's Fan
78. A Woman of No Importance
79. An Ideal Husband
Virginia Woolf
80. Orlando
81. The Virginia Woolf reader
Jane Yolen
82. Take Joy
