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The first 12 books are leftovers from the 2018 TBR challenge.All 24 books are books I actually own.
Some of them are books I am really keen to read, I just somehow never get around to it. Others I know I will never get around to unless someone tells me, "Here, you are reading this next". A couple of them are long enough to make me nervous.
Your reasoning is exactly what I'm thinking! I have Love in the Time of Cholera on my list as well. For some reason, I'm really intimated by this, and will probably never get to it unless it gets chosen this year, lol. Good luck :)
Hilde wrote: "Your reasoning is exactly what I'm thinking! I have Love in the Time of Cholera on my list as well. For some reason, I'm really intimated by this, and will probably never get to it unle..."I had that on a different challenge two years ago, and didn't get around to reading it. :P I kept postponing it and then I ran out of year. But with the TBR challenge it's like "This is the month, punk! Read it! Now!" So that might work. lol
Lol, exactly! Maybe I should just go ahead and add all those I’m dreading (looking at you, Ulysses) 😉
I’ve been reading Ulysses all year. I wouldn’t recommend trying to do it in just one month.
No, I was just kidding. I will probably never get through it, or if I do, understand it. I applaud those of you who do.
Made a change to the list. A Clockwork Orange fell out of the book shelf, reminding me that I have it. And I don't really want to read another D. H. Lawrence anytime soon.I think I'm happy with the list now.
January book - The French Lieutenant's Woman. Read.
March - Half of a Yellow Sun. Read. Five stars. Great book!Now for the dreaded Love in the Time of Cholera.
Forgotten to update here. April book read, hated it, although the prose was lovely.
May book read -
Pretty strange and disturbing stuff, but I liked it.
June swap aroundI'm still happy with my list so I'm only swapping out one book: Wise Children will be BOTM in July, so I'm swapping it out with a book I've acquired since the year started: The Artamonov Business
June book read - Sartre's Nausea. It seems fitting that I now have Simone de Beauvoir for July.
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The New York Trilogy (other topics)Cloud Atlas (other topics)
Love in the Time of Cholera (other topics)
The Mandarins (other topics)
Nausea (other topics)
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✓1. Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory****
2. Pauline Réage: Story of O
✓3. Sartre: Nausea***
✓4. Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi: Half of a Yellow Sun*****
5. Vladimir Nabokov: Pnin
6. Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities
✓7: John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman****
8: Paul Auster: The New York Trilogy
9: J.G. Ballard: The Drowned World
10: David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas
11: Thomas Keneally: Schindler's Ark
12: Angela Carter: Nights at the Circus
13: Maxim Gorky: The Artamonov Business
14: Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye
✓15: William Beckford: Vathek***
16: Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
17: Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
✓18: Gabriel Garzia Márquez: Love in the Time of Cholera**
19: Saul Bellow: Herzog
20: Siri Hustvedt: What I Loved
21: Robert Louis Stevenson: Master of Ballantrae
22: Irène Némirovsky Suite Française
23: Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook
24: Simone de Beauvoir: The Mandarins