J.C.'s Update

I was inspired by Moonrat's post to take a moment and post about what's been going on with this challenge. (Thanks Moonrat!)

So far I've only read 13 books. Kinda pathetic, but I'm hoping to catch up a bit this year.

I've read 4 since the last update and they are:

010. Capote, Truman -- Breakfast at Tiffany’s
011. Atwood, Margaret -- The Handmaid’s Tale
012. Gaiman, Neil -- The Graveyard Book
013. Hemingway, Ernest -- The Old Man and the Sea

My favorite of the lot was The Graveyard Book. The surprise was Breakfast at Tiffany's. Classic case of seeing the movie first and then reading the book, which was very different. Still a great read.

This year, my goal is to read at least 10 from my list. The ones I'm looking forward to most are:

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
The Boy In The Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Hope all is going well with everyone else. Happy Reading!

The Biblio Brat's List

J.C. Montgomery's List
Cross-Posted on The Biblio Blogazine

To Be Read:

Allende, Isabel
-- Portrait In Sepia (Diversity)
-- Daughter of Fortune (Diversity)

Angelou, Maya
-- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (Banned/Challenged)

Atwood, Margaret
-- Alias Grace (1001 Book)
-- The Blind Assassin (Man Booker Prize 2000)
Ackerman, Diane

-- The Zookeeper’s Wife (Notable Book 2008)
Bellow, Saul
-- Humboldt’s Gift (Pulitzer Winner 1976)

Boyne, John
-- The Boy In the Striped Pajamas (Notable Book 2007)

Brookner, Anita
-- Hotel du Lac (Man Booker Prize 1984)

Buck, Pearl S.
-- The Good Earth (Pulitzer Winner 1932)
-- Pavilion of Women

Cather, Willa

-- My Antonia (Western Canon)
-- One of Ours (Pulitzer Winner 1923)

Cervantes, Miguel
-- Don Quixote (Classics)

Chabon, Michael
-- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Pulitzer Winner 2001)
-- The Yiddish Policeman’s Union (Notable Book 2008)

Chekhov, Anton
-- The Cherry Orchard (Literature I should read)

Chopin, Kate
-- The Awakening (1001 Book)

Coehlo, Paulo
-- The Devil and Miss Prym (1001 Book)

Cunningham, Michael
-- The Hours (Pulitzer Winner 1999)

Díaz, Junot
-- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Winner 2008)

Dillard, Annie
-- The Maytrees (Notable Book 2007)

Dreiser, Theodore
-- Sister Carrie (Literature I should read)

Egan, Jennifer

-- A Visit From The Goon Squad (Pulitzer 2011)

Erdrich, Louise
-- The Plague of Doves (Notable Book 2008)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott
-- The Great Gatsby (Western Canon)

Ford, Richard
-- Independence Day (Pulitzer Winner 1996)

Faulkner, William
-- As I Lay Dying (Banned/Challenged)
-- The Sound and the Fury

Frazier, Charles
-- Cold Mountain (National Book Award)

French, Tana
-- The Likeness (Notable Book 2008)

Gibbons, Kaye

-- Ellen Foster (Modern Classic)

Guterson, David
-- Snow Falling On Cedars (Banned/Challenged)

Paul Harding-- Tinkers (Pulitzer Winner, 2010)

Hemingway, Ernest
-- A Farewell To Arms (Banned/Challenged)
-- The Sun Also Rises (Banned/Challenged)

Hill, Joe
-- Heart-Shaped Box (Notable Book 2007)

Hosseini, Khaled
-- A Thousand Splendid Suns (Banned/Challenged)

Hurston, Zora Neale
-- Their Eyes Were Watching God (Banned/Challenged)

Ishiguro, Kazuo
-- The Remains of the Day (Man Booker Prize 1989)
-- The Unconsoled (1001 Book)
-- When We Were Orphans (Notable Book 2000)

Johnson, Denis
-- Tree of Smoke (National Book Award)

Jones, Edward P.
-- The Known World (Pulitzer Winner 2004)

Kafka, Franz
-- The Metamorphosis (Classic)

Kantor, MacKinlay
-- Andersonville (Pulitzer Winner 1956)

Kincaid, Jamaica
-- Annie John (1001 Book)

Kingsolver, Barbara
-- The Poisonwood Bible (1001 Book)

Lahiri, Jhumpa
-- The Namesake (1001 B00k)

Lawrence, D.H.
-- Women In Love (Banned/Challenged)

Lippman, Laura
-- What the Dead Know (Notable Book 2007)

Lurie, Alison
-- Foreign Affairs (Pulitzer Winner 1985)

Márquez, Gabriel García
-- One Hundred Years of Solitude (Banned/Challenged)
-- Love In the Time of Cholera (Banned/Challenged)

McCourt, Frank
-- Angela’s Ashes (Pulitzer for Biography)

McEwan, Ian
-- Atonement (1001 Book)

McMurtry, Larry
-- Lonesome Dove (Pulitzer Winner 1986)

Morrison, Toni
-- Beloved (Pulitzer Winner 1988)

Nabokov, Vladimir
-- Lolita (Banned/Challenged)

Oates, Joyce Carol
-- The Falls (Prix Femina Étranger Award 2005)
-- We Were The Mulvaneys (A Must Read Author)
-- The Gravedigger’s Daughter (A Must Read Author)

Patchett, Ann
-- Bel Canto (PEN/Faulkner 2002)
-- Run (Notable Book 2007)

Porter, Katherine Ann
-- Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Classic)
-- Ship of Fools (Classic)

Pratchett, Terry
-- Nation (Notable Book 2008)

Proulx, E. Annie
-- The Shipping News (Pulitzer Winner 1994)

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
-- The Yearling (Pulitzer Winner 1939)

Roth, Philip
-- American Pastoral (Notable Book 2007)
-- Exit Ghost (Pulitzer Winner 1998)
-- The Human Stain (1001 Book)

Russo, Richard
-- Empire Falls (Pulitzer Winner 2002)
-- Bridge of Sighs (Notable Book 2007)

Stout, Elizabeth
-- Olive Kitteridge (Pulitzer Winner 2009)

Styron, William
-- Sophie’s Choice (National Book Award)

Taylor, D.J.
-- Kept (Notable Book 2007)

Tinti, Hannah
-- The Good Thief (Notable Book 2008)

Ulinich, Anya
-- Petropolis (Notable Book 2007)

Updike, John
-- Rabbit, Run (1001 Book)

Walker, Alice
-- The Color Purple (Pulitzer Winner 1983)

Waugh, Evelyn
-- Brideshead Revisited (1001 Book)

Wharton, Edith
-- The Age of Innocence (1001 Book)

Wiggins, Marianne
-- The Shadow Catcher (Notable Book 2007)

Wroblewski, David
-- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (Notable Book 2008)

Xingjian, Gao
-- Soul Mountain (Nobel Winner 2000)

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Books Read:

001. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- Notes From the Underground
002. Shelley, Mary -- Frankenstein
003. Esquivel, Laura -- Like Water For Chocolate
004. Eugenides, Jeffrey -- Middlesex
005. Kesey, Ken -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
006. Bolano, Roberto -- The Savage Detectives
007. Bronte, Emily -- Wuthering Heights
008. McCullers, Carson -- The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (DNF)
009. Austen, Jane -- Pride and Prejudice

010. Capote, Truman -- Breakfast at Tiffany’s

011. Atwood, Margaret -- The Handmaid’s Tale 

012. Gaiman, Neil -- The Graveyard Book

013. Hemingway, Ernest -- The Old Man and the Sea