A Century of Reading from Mt. TBR 1919-2019

Night and Day

The Storm of Steel

Joanna Godden

The Enormous Room

The Able McLaughlins

A Passage to India

Bread Givers

The Good Soldier Švejk

Early Autumn

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Grand Hotel

Cakes and Ale

Fortnight in September

The Radetzky March

The Oppermanns

Tender is the Night

England Made Me

South Riding

Their Eyes Were Watching God

U.S.A.

The Grapes of Wrath

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Sapphira and the Slave Girl

Embers

The Little Prince

Transit

Loving

Mister Roberts read 3/31/19

All the King's Men

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

The Case of Comrade Tulayev

A Town Like Alice

Caine Mutiny

The Old Man and the Sea

The Go-Between

No Time for Sergeants

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Peyton Place

On the Beach read 5/16/19

Things Fall Apart

The Tin Drum

To Kill a Mockingbird

Sunlight on a Broken Column

Pale Fire

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

The Americanization of Emily read 4/21/19

Closely Watched Trains

The Master and Margarita

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

In this House of Brede

Troubles

The Book of Daniel

Angle of Repose

The Siege of Krishnapur

The Bottle Factory Outing

Heat and Dust

A Fringe of Leaves

Staying On

The Singapore Grip

If On a Winter's Night a Traveler

The Name of the Rose

Midnight's Children

Schindler's Ark

Waterland

Neuromancer

Cousin Rosamund

An Artist of the Floating World

Chatterton

Oscar and Lucinda

The Russia House

The Things They Carried

A Thousand Acres

Indigo

A Suitable Boy

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

The Reader

Alias Grace

Jack Maggs

Travels of Lidie Newton

Affinity

True History of the Kelly Gang

Atonement

Fingersmith

The Great Fire

Suite Francaise

Europe Central

Against the Day

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

The Invention of Everything Else

The Little Stranger

Parrot and Olivier in America

The Stranger's Child

Bring Up the Bodies

The Goldfinch

The Paying Guests

Go Set a Watchman

The Sport of Kings

The Idiot

The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

Drive your Plow over the bones of the dead

Filling the Gaps Challenge



title author

1 villette bronte
2 shirley bronte
3 eustace diamonds trollope
4 phineas redux trollope
5 prime minister trollope
6 duke's children trollope
7 tale of genji vols 1 and 2 murasaki
8 pamela richardson
9 clarissa richardson
10 tristram shandy sterne
11 tom jones fielding
12 joseph andrews/shamela fielding
13 humphrey clinker smollett
14 evelina burney
15 frankenstein shelley
16 moby dick melville
17 felix holt, radical eliot
18 romola eliot
19 anna karenina tolstoy
20 old wives tale bennett
21 henry esmond thackeray
22 pendennis thackeray
23 the virginians thackeray
24 the newcomes thackeray
25 barry lyndon thackeray
26 Our mutual friend dickens
27 david copperfield dickens
28 oliver twist dickens
29 barchester towers trollope
30 the warden trollope
31 last chronicle of barset trollope
32 framley parsonage trollope
33 dr. thorne trollope
34 robinson crusoe defoe
35 moll flanders defoe
36 pepys diary vol 1 pepys
37 the antiquary scott
38 the heart of midlothian scott
39 ivanhoe scott
40 lorna doone blackmore
41 mayor of casterbridge hardy
42 far from the madding crowd hardy
43 return of the native hardy
44 jude the obscure hardy
45 waverly scott
46 mansfield park austen
47 the ambassadors james
48 wings of the dove james
49 portrait of a lady james
50 women in love lawrence
51 armadale collins
52 no-name collins
53 east lynne wood
54 the wide wide world warner
55 leaves of grass whitman
56 walden thoreau
57 three musketeers dumas
58 twenty years after dumas
59 count of monte cristo dumas
60 man in the iron mask dumas
61 charterhouse of parma stendhal
62 the red and the black stendhal
63 passage to india forster
64 the virginian wister
65 lost time vol 1 swanns way proust tr. Lydia davis
66 rise of silas lapham howells
67 a hazard of new fortunes howells
68 indian summer howells
69 a modern instance howells
70 chance conrad
71 victory conrad
72 under western eyes conrad
73 nostromo conrad
74 lord jim conrad
74 a secret agent conrad
75 maggie crane
76 red badge of courage crane
77 typee melville
78 billy budd melville
79 night and day woolf
80 a month in the country carr
81 tender is the night fitzgerald
82 grapes of wrath steinbeck
83 for whom the bell tolls hemingway
84 princess cassamassima james
86 kidnapped stevenson
87 treasure island stevenson
88 captains courageous kipling
89 mme. Bovary flaubert tr. Mauldon
90 north and south gaskell
91 mary barton gaskell
92 story of an african farm schreiner
93 the way we live now trollope
94 new grub street gissing
95 buddenbrooks mann
96 great expectations dickens
97 the magnificent ambersons tarkington
98 USA Trilogy Dos Passos
99 The odd women gissing
100 The mill on the floss eliot
101 mystery of edwin drood dickens
102 main street lewis
103 of human bondage maugham
104 An american tragedy dreiser
105 anne of green gables montgomery
106 sunshine sketches of a little town leacock
107 sister carrie dreiser
108 war of the worlds wells


These are books that if read, in the time frame allowed by the challenge, will certainly fill in the gaps. Books already read are not included. By their absence you will know them.

Classics Challenge 2009.

Lets try it again and see if I can actually do something this year. I failed miserably last year so here we go!

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. Catcher in the Rye COMPLETED 3/22/09!!!!!!!!!
3. One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
4. David Copperfield
5. Anne of Green Gables

Future Classic: Atonement

I have been trying to read Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, but the atmosphere is so depressing. Its awful to know how they both end, and I just cant make myself do it. Yet. Perhaps one day, I will wake up in the morning and think today is the day. I dont know. Maybe... I'd kind of like to revisit the Crying of Lot 49 after all these years. Thats a future classic in my opinion!

I am now participating in the Read Your Own Books Challenge 2009. All the books listed below are on my shelves, its time to get on with it.

http://readingwise.wordpress.com/ryob-2009/#comment-163

Another year is imminent, lets try again!

Classics I have yet to read but intend to in 2009
To Kill a Mockingbird
Catcher in the Rye
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
Moby Dick
David Copperfield
Madame Bovary
Anna Karenina
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Frankenstein
Villette

Future classic
Atonement

The Big Kahuna – to attempt again, to perhaps succeed this time
Ulysses

Now known as The Day of the License Plate!!!!!!

Last Friday we cancelled our two charity license tags, took the tag off a vehicle in storage, and paid the money saved on a home store account that charges high interest on the revolving balance. From now on, any purchases that dont qualify for the interest deferred for a year plan must be paid for in cash. Goal: Obliterate the revolving balance on this card by 1/1/09. Actual completion date: 3/15/09.

Words to live by in the upcoming years (especially with the holiday season so close):

Re-use, Re-gift, Re-home, and Remodel.

Just joined up with the Classics Challenge! Must read Five Classics and One Bonus Classic-to-Be by December. My Five and One are:

madame bovary
david copperfield
moby dick
villette
main street

atonement

I have been trying to read three of these for some time (see thursday thirteen post below in 2007). Its time to just do it!

Finished Winesburg, Ohio yesterday evening. A respected professor had recommended this book to me many years ago and I failed to see anything in it then. I see quite a bit in it now. Must look at some other Anderson work now. And look at other works from the same time to see it in its context as a work of art and cultural commentary. Am thinking Lewis Main Street and Sister Carrie would be good choices.