I’m 6-8% Well Read
Just recently, I found out about the book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
I swore off lists several years ago, because I’m someone who can’t let them go. When I moved into my condo, I still had my reading lists from high school.
Give me a list like this, and I just have to sit, go through it, and cross things off. Movies, places to visit, books, etc. The subject matter doesn’t really make a difference.
But now, this list must have found me at just the right time. You may know about the 25 book challenge that many high schools around the country are doing. (Just look up “high school 25 book challenge.”) Also, one of my friends started a book club. I love book clubs, but they are so hard to keep up. I hope this one lasts.
In any case, I had intended to read more this year because I felt like I had fallen off of this activity—an activity that I used to love so much and consumed a lot of my time.
To help keep me on track, I signed up for the 1% Well-Read Challenge. This is a challenge where you try to read 10 of the top 1001 books in next 10 months. This year’s challenge kicked off two days ago.
Luckily, the next book for the book club is one of the 1001.
Do you want to see how you stack up? Here’s a copy of the original list. I crossed off 77 on that list.
Then, Boxall et al. went and updated the list last year. Now I’m only at 68. Grrr.
To make things easier to track, some folks online have put everything into Excel spreadsheets. As far as I know, the original version resides at Arukiyomi. The latest spreadsheets there are causing some problems, and I couldn’t use it with my older version of Excel so I pulled the one from turtlebutt.net. This one seems to be working fine for me.
I’m reading Their Eyes Were Watching God