I finally finished the 1% Well-Read Challenge.The challenge was to read 10 books on the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list in 10 months. I completed the challenge in just a little over two months. Yay!
You can check out my list of the books I chose to read below and they are linked to my reviews of the books.
Amanda's 1% Well-Read List
1. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood (Finished May 20, 2008)
2. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy (Finished May 22, 2008)
3. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (Finished May 30, 2008)
4. The Light of Day - Graham Swift (Finished June 01, 2008)
5. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (Finished June 10, 2008)
6. The Colour - Rose Tremain (Finished June 20, 2008)
7. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks (Finished July 09, 2008)
8. Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson (Finished July 12, 2008)
9. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston (Finished July 15, 2008)
10. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (Finished July 24, 2008)
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11. Summer - Edith Wharton (Finished July 31, 2008)
12. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (Finished August 5, 2008)
13. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje (Finished August 21, 2008)
14. Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel (Finished September 14, 2008)
15. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (Finished September 19, 2008)
16. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James (Finished October 06, 2008)
17. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (Finished October 21, 2008)
18. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut (Finished February 06, 2009)
19. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote (Finished March 04, 2009)
20. Rabbit, Run - John Updike (Finished March 12, 2009)
21. If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino (Finished March 25, 2009)
22. 1984 - George Orwell (Finished April 15, 2009)
23. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (Finished June 07, 2009)
24. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Finished October 11, 2009)
25. The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens (Finished October 20, 2009)
26. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys (Finished October 23, 2009)
27. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (Finished October 30, 2009)
28. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (Finished December 4, 2009)
29. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (Finished December 10, 2009)
30. Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll (Finished December 22, 2009)
31. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Path (Finished December 23, 2009)
32. Persuasion - Jane Austen (Finished December 28, 2009)
33. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac (Finished December 31, 2009)
34. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf (Finished February 08, 2010)
35. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (re-read) (Finshed February 17, 2010)
35. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (re-read) (Finshed February 17, 2010)
