Devlin's Reading Challenge for 2013

[Devlin]

A GR friend of mine challenged herself to reading 14 difficult (but good) books this year. I've been reading them along with her and have discovered quite a few wonderful new titles.

I took a look at my mountainous, to-be-read pile burying the little table next to my desk and decided I needed a challenge of my own. So...I chose 15 of the most difficult titles from the stack and, this year, will read them.


1) Ulysses by James Joyce ****


2) The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch *****

3) Three Plays by Ayn Rand *****

4) Kafka’s Greatest Stories by Franz Kafka (This collection contains; Metamorphosis, A Hunger Artist, The Country Doctor, and In the Penal Colony.) *****

5) Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw *****

6) Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

7) The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

8) The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

9) Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

10) The Notebooks of Andre Walter by Andre Gide

11) Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

12) Silas Marner by George Eliot


13) Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (I read this years ago but I want to revisit this year.)

14) The Seven Plays of Sophocles by Sophocles


15) The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald