“100 unread books on the shelf, 100 unread books, read one through and pass it around, 99 unread books on the shelf . . .” You get the gist. That’s right I’m taking and throwing down the gauntlet for the 100 book challenge. I’m going to read and blog about 100 books this next year, all kinds of books. The only criteria I have about the books I’ll be reading and blogging about is they must be ones I’ve never read before. Here are the forty-eight I’ve pulled from the shelf thus far (check out their descriptions under “Books” in the Category section on the right).
50. Elizabeth Kelly Apologize, Apologize!
51. Laura Hildenbrand Unbroken
51. Andrew Holleran Grief
52. Muriel Spark Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography
53. Ursula Hegi The Vision of Emma Blau
54. Sue Miller The Lake Shore Limited
55. Markus Zusak The Book Thief
56. Julie Klam You Had Me at Woof
57. Sue Miller The Lakeshore Limited
58. Kristin Hannah True Colors
59. Kent Haruf Plainsong
60. Larry Watson Montana 1948
61. Kevin Canty Everything
62. Jhumpa Lahiri The Namesake
63. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun
64. Tatiana de Rosnay Sarah’s Key
65. Jeanette Walls Half Broken Horses
66. Jay Parini The Last Station
67. Pam Houston The Sight Hound
68. D.H. Lawrence The Lovely Lady
69. Marilynne Robinson Housekeeping
70. Beth Hoffman Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
71. Cathleen Schine The Three Weissmanns of Westport
72. Richard Russo That Old Cape Magic
73. Jack London The Call of the Wild
74. Willa Cather My Antonia
75. Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer
76. Jeffrey ZaslowThe Girls From Ames
77. Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall
78. Marie Louise Bruce The Making of Henry VIII
79. Willa Cather A Lonely Lady
80. Kate Christensen Trouble
81. Jane Hamilton Disobedience
82. Kelly Corrigan The Middle Place
83. Wendy Burden Dead End Gene Pool
84. Jane Hamilton When Madeline Was Young
85. Jane Hamilton Laura Rider’s Masterpiece
86. Chris Cleave Little Bee
87. Muriel Barbery The Elegance of the Hedgehog
88. Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
89. Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
90. Nancy Milford Savage Beauty
91. Lynn Barber An Education
92. Dani Shapiro Devotion
93. Katherine Weber The Music Lesson
94. Kate Christensen The Epicure’s Lament
95. Julie Powell Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession
96. Kate Christensen Jeremy Thrane
97. Hyatt Batt The Embers
98. Dan Chaon’s Await Your Reply
99. Arthur Phillips’ The Song Is You
100. Stewart O’Nan’s A Prayer for the Dying
