I'm finding this quite an interesting exercise in that the challenge encourages me to read specific books that I wouldn't ordinarily consider-not only when it comes to the actual choice of writer and type of book, but even the subject matter, and as a consequence of my freedom of choice being taken out of my hands, there has been some genuinely happy discoveries. Best books so far? The heart is a lonely hunter, Revolutionary Road, Ubik, American pastoral & White noise.



One other motivating factor is that as I've read each book on my reading list I've been regularly updating my profile on the listchallenges.com website and have been steadily moving up the list. Currently, I'm ranked no.194 of 27,749 readers that have also filled in their own completed books on the All-TIME 100 Best Novels (TIME Magazine) page, which now puts me in the top 1%. :-)



1st March, 2015 'Death comes for the Archbishop.'

5th March, 2015 'The heart is a lonely hunter.'

9th March, 2015 'To kill a mockingbird.'

10th March, 2015 'Are you there God? It's me Margaret.'

14th March, 2015 'Fiesta: The sun also rises.'

15th March, 2015 'Watchmen.'

17th March, 2015 'The big sleep.'

23rd March, 2015 'The spy who came in from the cold.'

29th March, 2015 'Under the net.'

4th April, 2015 'The bridge of San Louis Rey.'

7th April, 2015 'Rabbit Run.'

9th April, 2015 'A handful of dust.'

12th April, 2015 'Neuromancer,' and 'The prime of Miss Jean Brodie.'

15th April, 2015 'Wide Sargasso Sea.'

27th April, 2015 'Revolution Road.

3rd May, 2015 'Light in August.'

5th May, 2015 'Their eyes were watching God.'

10th May, 2015 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest.'

27th May, 2015 'Catch 22.'

10th June, 2015? 'Lucky Jim.'

21st June, 2015 'White Teeth.'

24th June, 2015 'Atonement.'

26th June, 2015 'The day of the locust.'

11th July, 2015 'American Pastoral.'

14th July, 2015 'I, Claudius.'

17th July, 2015 'The heart of the matter.'

20th July, 2015 'The crying of Lot 49.'

25th July, 2015 'The French Lieutenant's Woman.'

1st September, 2015 'Housekeeping.'

20th September, 2015 'Death in the family.'

22nd September, 2015 'Deliverance.'

4th October, 2015 'Appointment in Samarra.'

24th November, 2015 'Brideshead Revisited.'

27th November, 2015 'Lolita.'

30th November, 2015 'Lord of the flies.'

5th December, 2015 'The Power and the Glory.'

8th December, 2015 'White noise.'

24th December, 2015 'A Clockwork Orange.'

24th January, 2016 'Mrs Dalloway.'

17th March, 2016 'Money.'

12th November, 2016 'Confessions of Nat Turner.'

4th February, 2017 'Things Fall Apart.'

7th May, 2017 'Portnoy's Complaint.'



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