Wahoo!! I'm done!!

I met my goal of reading 12 notable books this year. Because I joined in June or July I set the bar low and I chose several "lighter" fiction books to finish off the last part of the year. My reviews (and other posts) are here.

I'll see a lot of you on the other blog. I also expect to be reading more of the 2006 notable books in between the 2007 books (and my usual airplane fare) because many of these reviews have interested me. It's great to be part of a group that reads good books.

Wendy's Preliminary List

Books completed are highlighted in red. This is my preliminary list (subject to change of course!):

Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Completed January 7, 2007. Rated 5/5)
Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky (Completed February 17, 2007. Rated 5/5)
The Translator, by Leila Aboulela (Completed March 23, 2007. Rated 4.5/5)
Only Revolutions, by Mark Z. Danielewski (DNF - horrible book)
The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai (Completed March 16, 2007. Rated 4.25/5)
Old Filth, by Jane Gardam (Completed May 29, 2007. Rated 3.75/5)
Beasts of No Nation, by Uzodinma Iweala (Completed March 5, 2007. Rated 3.75/5)
All Aunt Hagar's Children, by Edward P. Jones
Gate of the Sun, by Elias Khoury
Lisey's Story, by Stephen King
The Inhabited World, by David Long
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (Completed May 17, 2007. Rated 5/5)
The Emperor's Children, by Claire Messud (Completed December 12, 2007. Rated 4/5)
Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell (Completed March 26, 2007. Rated 5/5)
Eat the Document, by Dana Spiotta (Completed May 22, 2007. Rated 3.5/5)
Digging to America, by Anne Tyler
A Woman in Jerusalem, by A.B. Yehoshua
Alentjo Blue, by Monica Ali (Completed February 22, 2008. Rated 4.5/5)
One Good Turn, by Kate Atkinson
The Echo Maker, by Richard Powers (Completed September 6, 2007. Rated 4.5/5)
Arthur and George, by Julian Barnes (Completed April 30, 2007. Rated 4/5)

Intro Post by raidergirl3

I've been reading over here for quite a while and I thought it was time to introduce myself. I'm raidergirl3, a teacher and mom who likes to read more than clean or cook. Luckily, I have a husband who likes to eat and recognizes that he needs to cook to accomplish that. I wasn't going to join here, just gleam good suggestions, but you have made so many good reviews, my list of books to read is growing exponentially. I may as well join you since I am now reading books you have raved about. I see me reading at least 6 titles and perhaps more but I'm only committing to 6. My little list includes:

• Half of a Yellow Sun - Aldichie (already read; review at my site)
• The Echo Maker - Powers
• The Translator - Aboulela
• Arthur and George - Barnes
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Pesel
• The Road - McCarthy

Some other possible books would be Black Swan Green by Mitchell and A Woman in Jerusalem by Yehoshua. So many of these great books fit in my own personal reading across borders challenge.

Vasilly's list

Just like Dewey I'm joining late, but I think this is such a great challenge.I'm only joining to do about three of the many books I'm picking since I've signed up for so many other challenges.

After this. By Alice McDermott
Arthur and George. By Julian Barnes
Everyman. By Philip Roth
Forgetfulness. By Ward Just
Gate of the Sun. By Elias Khoury

One Good Turn. By Kate Atkinson
The Road. By Cormac McCarthy. (Let's hope I can stomach this one.)
The Translator. By Leila Aboulela
Suite Francaise. By Irene Nemirovsky
The Afterlife. By Donald Antrim. (I know I'm going to read this one. I read such a great review about this book in Poets and Writers.)

Eat, Pray, Love. By Elizabeth Gilbert. (This is one of my favorite books ever. It made me so happy. It's also very truthful about life and very funny.)
The Lost: A search for six of six million. By Daniel Mendelsohn
The Places in Between. By Rory Stewart
Reading like a writer: A guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them.
By Francine Prose (I started reading this one. Already I feel myself paying more attention to what I am reading.)

Dewey's list

Hi Everyone!

I know I'm joining really late, but so many of these books are already in my TBR pile or on my bookmooch wishlist, so I decided my list would just be everything I'm already planning to read.

1. After This by Alice McDermott
2. Digging to America by Anne Tyler
3. Everyman by Phillip Roth
4. Lisey's Story by Stephen King
5. Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski
6. The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq
7. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
8. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
9. Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
10. Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
11. The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
12. The Road by Cormac Mccarthy

My blog is The Hidden Side of a Leaf.

The List

**Updated 3/14/2007 to include one missed book by Roberto Bolano!!

For the 2007 challenge, participants should choose from the NYT Most Notable Fiction list for 2006, which include (alphabetical by author):

Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Translater, by Leila Aboulela
Alentjo Blue, by Monica Ali
One Good Turn, by Kate Atkinson
Arthur and George, by Julian Barnes
Brookland, by Emily Barton
Last Evenings on Earth, by Roberto Bolano
Only Revolutions, by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai
The Dead Fish Museum, by Charles D'Ambrosio
The Keep, by Jennifer Eagan
Twilight of the Superheroes, by Deborah Eisenberg
The Lay of the Land, by Richard Ford
The Dissident, by Nell Freudenberger
Skinner's Drift, by Lisa Fugard
Old Filth, by Jane Gardam
Golden Country, by Jennifer Gilmore
Intuition, by Allegra Goodman
The Stories of Mary Gordon, by Mary Gordon
The Dream Life of Sukhanov, by Olga Grushin
The Possibility of an Island, by Michel Houellebecq
Beasts of No Nation, by Uzodinma Iweala
All Aunt Hagar's Children, by Edward P. Jones
The Uses of Enchantment, by Heidi Julavits
Forgetfulness, by Ward Just
Gate of the Sun, by Elias Khoury
Lisey's Story, by Stephen King
The Inhabited World, by David Long
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
After This, by Alice McDermott
Gallatin Canyon: Stories, by Thomas McGuane
The Emperor's Children, by Claire Messud
Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell
Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky
High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories, by Joyce Carol Oates
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl
The Echo Maker, by Richard Powers
Against the Day, by Thomas Pynchon
Everyman, by Phillip Roth
Absurditan, by Gary Shteyngart
Eat the Document, by Dana Spiotta
Digging to America, by Anne Tyler
Terrorist, by John Updike
Apex Hides the Hurt, by Colson Whitehead
A Woman in Jerusalem, by A.B. Yehoshua

PLEASE let me know if I've missed any!!!!

Stephanie's GRAND List of Books!

Hey! Thanks for having me along for this challenge!! I actually joined up last week, but have been busy caring for my 4-year with Strep....Yuk! Anyway, one day at work last year when they announced the 2006 list, I was bored (but don't tell my boss!! I was trying to look busy!). So I printed off the last 10 years lists, with the book summaries. Now, I have so many check-marked, I don't know what to do! So I picked out about 17 fiction and 6 non-fiction. Not sure I will be able to read them ALL, but I figure I might as well try!! Here goes nothing:


FICTION:

• Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
• Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali
• Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
• Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
• Digging to America by Anne Tyler (I'm not sure about this one...I wasn't impressed with the other Anne Tyler book I read)
• The Dissident by Nell Freudenberger
• Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Inhabited World by David Long
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
• The Keep by Jennifer Egan
• Lisey's Story by Stephen King
• One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
• Terrorist by John Updike
• The Uses of Enchantment by Heidi Julavits

NON-FICTION:

• Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir by Danielle Trussoni
• Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
• Flaubert: A Biography by Frederick Brown
• Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again by Norah Vincent
• State of Denial by Bob Woodward
• Sweet and Low: A Family Story by Rich Cohen

Seems like a pretty good mix. I love looking at all the lists to see what books all have in common....and what books are unique!!

Later!

Loose Baggy Monster's list o'books

Today I give you my updated list o'books for the NYT Notable Books of 2006 challenge. I have both fiction and non-fiction selections, but because I really want to use this challenge to read books I normally would pass by (or read only the reviews of) I'm trying to stick with more fiction than non. I have 20 fiction books on my list and 5 or 6 non-fiction--the idea is that if I feel the need, I can substitute a non-fiction book at any time. Also, I'm going to be easy on myself--I recognize that I am the world's greatest procrastinator, so I'm not saying I have to read ALL of the books--this is just what I have culled from the list based on what appealed to me most at the time. So....drum roll please.....Here they are!

FICTION:

• Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart (he's coming to speak at my U so I get to go to the reading!)
• Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
• Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead
• Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
• Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
• Brookland by Emily Barton
• The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin
• The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
• Forgetfulness by Ward Just
• Golden Country by Jennifer Gilmore
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Keep by Jennifer Egan
• The Inhabited World by David Long
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
• Old Filth by Jane Gardam
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Skinner's Drift by Lisa Fugard
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
• Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
• A Woman in Jerusalem by A.B. Yehoshua

NON-FICTION:

• The Courtier and the Heretic: Liebniz, Spinoza, and the Fat of God in the Modern World by Matthew Stewart
• Flaubert: A Biography by Frederick Brown
• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
  
• Lee Miller: A Life by Carolyn Burke
• The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
• Sweet and Low: A Family Story by Rich Cohen

Overly ambitious, and perhaps more than a little delusional, but I'm really looking forward to seeing what everyone has to say about their books!

Sally906's Initial list

G'day All

Thank-you for letting me join in :)

I am keeping my list small to start (5) with as I am in a few challenges - hoping to combine most of them :)

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic -- and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

If, as we talk about them, I think I will be interested in some of the others then I will add to my list :)

Hoo Roo

3M's List

I am totally nuts--insane, bonkers, crazy, etc. Why am I doing another challenge? Because I'm really enjoying the literary blogosphere. Because I'm "meeting" fellow bookaholics. Because I love to read. (And because a lot of the books were on my list, anyway!)

I am only reading 10. That's wimpy compared to others, but that's all I can do!!

*Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
*Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski
*The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
*Lisey's Story by Stephen King
*The Road by Cormac McCarthy
*Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
*The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

Edit: I am adding some more possibilities. The ones with the asterix above are definites. I can still commit to only 10, but after doing some more research, the following titles are interesting as well:

The Translator, by Leila Aboulela
The Dead Fish Museum, by Charles D'Ambrosio
Twilight of the Superheroes, by Deborah Eisenberg
Old Filth, by Jane Gardam
Golden Country, by Jennifer Gilmore
Intuition, by Allegra Goodman
The Stories of Mary Gordon, by Mary Gordon
The Dream Life of Sukhanov, by Olga Grushin
All Aunt Hagar's Children, by Edward P. Jones
Gate of the Sun, by Elias Khoury
The Inhabited World, by David Long
Gallatin Canyon: Stories, by Thomas McGuane
Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell
Everyman, by Phillip Roth
A Woman in Jerusalem, by A.B. Yehoshua
Eat, Pray, Love By Elizabeth Gilbert
The Omnivore's Dilemma By Michael Pollan
Reading Like a Writer By Francine Prose

Literary Feline's List of Potentials

Wendy (Caribousmom) twisted my arm, and here I am. At least, she is just my excuse for letting myself be swept into another irresistable challenge. For the long version of the story, stop by my personal blog, Musings of a Bookish Kitty.

In order to make the NYT Challenge work for me, I am going to allow myself a lot of freedom. I will not be setting a specific number of books to read from the list (although I would like to read them all!). I have jotted down a few titles that appeal to me, and my choices will come from that list (subject to change based on other books that catch my fancy or recommedations by others).

Without further ado . . .

Fiction:
Forgetfulness by Ward Just (read 12/2006)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
The Inhabited World by David Long (read 06/2007)
Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Absurditan by Gary Shteyngart
Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta
Digging to America by Anne Tyler

Nonfiction:
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

SleepyReader's List

Hi Everyone! Despite thinking I am crazy for joining another challenge, I am really excited to participate. So far the challenges have really motivated me to accomplish my reading goals and this one in particular has motivated me to stretch my reading choices.

Here are my choices:

1. The Inhabited World - Long
2. Golden Country - Gilmore
3. Lisey's Story - King
4. One Good Turn - Atkinson
5. The Road - McCarthy
6. The Keep - Egan
7. The Inheritance of Loss - Desai
8. The Echo Maker - Powers
9. Eat the Document - Spiotta
10. The Uses of Enchantment - Julavits
11. Falling Through the Earth - Trussoni
12. The Ghost Map - Johnson
13. The Great Deluge - Brinkley
14. The Omnivore's Dilemma - Pollan
15. The Worst Hard Time - Egan

***Edited to Add: I missed the original discussion about choosing a minimum of 10 fiction. I got excited and stopped reading too soon! I will choose 5 more fiction to follow the challenge guidelines.

Good luck everyone and Happy Reading!

Joy's Challenge Choices

1. Half of a Yellow Sun (Adichie)

2. One Good Turn (Atkinson)

*3. Eat, Pray, Love (Gilbert)
Finished on 1-15-07

*4. The Inhabited World (Long)

Finished 3-25-07

*5.The Road (McCarthy)
Finished 4-03-07

6. Black Swan Green (Mitchell)
Shelved for another day.

7. Suite Francaise (Nemirovsky)
Shelved for another day.

*8.Beasts of No Nation (Iweala)
Finished 3-29-07

9. The Echo Maker (Powers)

*10. Reading Like a Writer (Prose)
Finished on 11-5-06

*11.Everyman (Roth)
Finished on 5-22-07

*12. Digging to America (Tyler)

Finished on 09-7-06

*Click on a title will link you to "Thoughts of Joy..."

Kim's List....

Hello there! I am excited to join the challenge with you all :0) I just thought I would pop in and post my list of what I am going to read for the challenge...there are definitely some great books to choose from, but the following books were the ones that caught my eye! I am looking forward to discussing these book with everyone!

The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
High Lonesome by Joyce Carol Oates
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
The Uses of Enchantment by Heidi Julavits
Golden Country by Jennifer Gilmore
Skinner's Drift by Lisa Fugard
The Dissident by Nell Freudenberger
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
The Keep by Jennifer Egan
The Dead Fish Museum by Charles D'Ambrosio
Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali
The Translator by Leila Aboulela
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
The Inhabited World by David Long
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiren Desai
Lisey's Story by Steven King
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson

I have already started to read "The Emperor's Children"...happy reading everyone!

The New York Times on the NYT Notable Book List 2006

Here is the original article outlining the New York Times' list of notable books for 2006 (and giving short descriptions of each work).

Included in this list are the Non-fiction "Notable Books" selections. I put it to the group: are these viable candidates for our challenge, or should we limit the challenge to the fiction selections?

The following is a list of the Non-fiction selections:

• THE AFTERLIFE. By Donald Antrim
• AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy. By Francis Fukuyama
• ANDREW CARNEGIE. By David Nasaw
• AT CANAAN'S EDGE: America in the King Years, 1965-68. By Taylor Branch
• AVA GARDNER: ''Love Is Nothing.'' By Lee Server
• THE BLIND SIDE: Evolution of a Game. By Michael Lewis
• BLOOD AND THUNDER: An Epic of the American West. By Hampton Sides
• BLUE ARABESQUE: A Search for the Sublime. By Patricia Hampl
• CLEMENTE: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero. By David Maraniss
• CONSIDER THE LOBSTER: And Other Essays. By David Foster Wallace
• THE COURTIER AND THE HERETIC: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World. By Matthew Stewart
• THE DISCOMFORT ZONE: A Personal History. By Jonathan Franzen
• EAT, PRAY, LOVE: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia. By Elizabeth Gilbert
• FALLING THROUGH THE EARTH: A Memoir. By Danielle Trussoni
• FIASCO: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. By Thomas E. Ricks
• FIELD NOTES FROM A CATASTROPHE: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. By Elizabeth Kolbert
• FLAUBERT: A Biography. By Frederick Brown
• FUN HOME: A Family Tragicomic. By Alison Bechdel
• THE GHOST MAP: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic -- and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World. By Steven Johnson
• THE GREAT DELUGE: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. By Douglas Brinkley
• THE GREATEST STORY EVER SOLD: The Decline and Fall of Truth From 9/11 to Katrina
• HAPPINESS: A History. By Darrin M. McMahon
• HEAT: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. By Bill Buford
• IRAN AWAKENING: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope. By Shirin Ebadi with Azadeh Moaveni
• JAMES TIPTREE, JR.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon. By Julie Phillips
• JANE GOODALL: The Woman Who Redefined Man. By Dale Peterson
• KATE: The Woman Who Was Hepburn. By William J. Mann
• LEE MILLER: A LIFE. By Carolyn Burke
• THE LOOMING TOWER: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. By Lawrence Wright
• THE LOST: A Search for Six of Six Million. By Daniel Mendelsohn
• MAYFLOWER: A Story of Courage, Community, and War. By Nathaniel Philbrick
• THE MOST FAMOUS MAN IN AMERICA: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
• THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA: A Natural History of Four Meals. By Michael Pollan
• ORACLE BONES: A Journey Between China's Past and Present. By Peter Hessler
• THE PLACES IN BETWEEN. By Rory Stewart
• PRISONERS: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide
• PROGRAMMING THE UNIVERSE: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos. By Seth Lloyd
• QUEEN OF FASHION: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution. By Caroline Weber
• READING LIKE A WRITER: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them. By Francine Prose
• REDEMPTION: The Last Battle of the Civil War. By Nicholas Lemann
• SELF-MADE MAN: One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again. By Norah Vincent
• STATE OF DENIAL. By Bob Woodward
• STRANGE PIECE OF PARADISE. By Terri Jentz
• SWEET AND LOW: A Family Story. By Rich Cohen
• TEMPTATIONS OF THE WEST: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond. By Pankaj Mishra
• THINGS I DIDN'T KNOW: A Memoir. By Robert Hughes
• UNCOMMON CARRIERS. By John McPhee
• THE UNITED STATES OF ARUGULA: How We Became a Gourmet Nation. By David Kamp
• THE WAR OF THE WORLD: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West. By Niall Ferguson
• THE WORST HARD TIME: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. By Timothy Egan

I must admit that if democratic sentiment ran towards including these non-fiction works among the possibilities for the challenge, I might be tempted to expand my list of twelve to include three books that are already on my shelf: The Looming Tower, Oracle Bones and The Worst Hard Time. Other pressingly intriguing candidates are At Canaan's Edge (or should I attempt the earlier volumes in the series first?), Field Notes from a Catastrophe, James Tiptree, Jr., and The Omnivore's Dilemma.

Pour of Tor's Provisional To Do List

There are a couple of ways to approach this challenge (at least). The first involves setting a number of "Notable Books" you would like to make your way through before the end of 2007, and then allowing yourself the freedom to choose which books will make up that number as you progress through the list. The second (and the one, obsessive planner that I am, that I chose) involves outlining a list of specific works that you would like to cover over a twelve month period. Here is my list:


Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones
Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
**Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky** - finished!
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Digging to America by Anne Tyler


Will this list change over the course of the year, as some books don't take and others seduce me away from my plans? Probably. If I finish all twelve (ha!), will I move on to others on the list? Perhaps. Will the reviews posted by other participants influence what I want to read? Definitely.

At any rate, I am currently at work on two works for the challenge, both of them none too jolly: Beasts of No Nation and The Road. Iweala's book was so massively, shatteringly grim that I had to take a break in the middle (it is not long, but it is densely, evocatively written). Why, despite all warnings about the unrelenting darkness of the McCarthy, I chose it to leaven my depression, is a mystery to me.

[Update from Saturday, Feb. 24: I wanted to add a few books from the NYT Non-fiction list to my goal, bringing the provisional goal to 15 books in 2007. The additions are:

THE WORST HARD TIME: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. By Timothy Egan

ORACLE BONES: A Journey Between China's Past and Present. By Peter Hessler

THE LOOMING TOWER: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. By Lawrence Wright]

The List (Part II)

Thanks for posting the list, Wendy! Hopefully by the end of the year we will be able to compile some kind of a master list involving all the reviews of all books read by all participants. My bibliophile heart thrills at the very thought!

I wonder if, between us, we will cover the whole list, or whether we will tend to overlap on the more prominent authors and leave some books unread. It will be interesting to see.

In other news, the LibraryThing widget at the right of the blog also lists all the potential books for the challenge. If you click on the title or author links, it will take to you LibraryThing entries, with the abundance of interesting information to be gleaned from their data. Clicking on the covers will take you to Amazon.