Are you ready for week eight of our Read More Books challenge?
Read HERE to learn about it. It’s never too late to join in.
Check the ones you may have missed or want to review:
WEEK ONE WEEK TWO WEEK THREE WEEK FOUR WEEK FIVE WEEK SIX WEEK SEVEN
How did you do with your reading? Even if you didn’t finish the book you selected, it counts if you select one for this week to add to your TBR pile.
364. Father and Sons — by Ivan Turgenev365. A Wild Sheep Chase — by Haruki Murakami 366. Point Counter Point — by Aldous Huxley 367. Babbitt — by Sinclair Lewis 368. The Souls of Black Folk — by W. E. B. Du Bois 369. The Thirty-Nine Steps — by John Buchan 370. The Jungle — by Upton Sinclair 371. Under Satan’s Sun — by Georges Bernanos 372. The Voyeur — by Alain Robbe-Grillet 373. The Secret Agent — by Joseph Conrad 374. All Quiet on the Western Front — by Erich Maria Remarque 375. Double or Nothing — by Rayond Federman 376. The Bonfire of the Vanities — by Tom Wolfe
377. The Phantom Tollbooth — by Norton Juster 378. Amers/Oiseaux/Poesie — by Saint-John Perse 379. The House of the Spirits — by Isabel Allende 380. Paradise Lost — by John Milton 381. The Joke — by Milan Kundera 382. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — by L. Frank Baum 383. At Swim-Two-Birds — by Flann O’Brien 384. Contempt — by Alberto Moravia 385. Dealing with Dragons — by Patricia C. Wrede 386. Blood Meridian — by Cormac McCarthy 387. The Home and the World — by Rabindranath Tagore 388. 2001: A Space Odyssey — by Arthur C. Clarke 389. American Pastoral — by Philip Roth 390. The Cannibal — by John Hawkes 391.Matilda — by Roald Dahl 392.The Thornbirds — Colleen McCullough 393. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd — Agatha Christie 394.Good Night, Mr. Tom — Michelle Magorian 395. Nadja — André Breton 396.King Lear — William Shakespeare 397. The Magnificent Ambersons — Booth Tarkington 398.Othello — William Shakespeare 399. Aurélien — Louis Aragon 400.Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World — Haruki Murakami 401.The Color of Water — James McBride 402.Soulier De Satin — Paul Claudel 403. Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman 404. The Sonnets — William Shakespeare 405.American Psycho — Bret Easton Ellis 406. The Bean Trees — Barbara Kingsolver 407. Nightwood —by Djuna Barnes 408. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction — by J. D. Salinger 409. High Fidelity — Nick Hornby 410. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — Hunter S. Thompson 411. Kane and Abel — Jeffrey Archer 412. Franny and Zooey — J. D. Salinger 413. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui —by Bertolt Brecht 414. Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen 415.The Faraway Tree Stories — Enid Blyton I love to hear from you! From the above list:
- Which books have you read?
- Which books do you want to read?
- Which books are you going to obtain this week?(Even if you are not officially taking the Read More Books challenge I would love to hear about your reading.)
Note: I got permission to share this list on my blog. (Thank you, Stuart!) You could go HERE for the list of “623 of the best books ever written” and see them all at once for yourself, and/or you can follow the list here a few at a time.
Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings! 
Polilla Writes 
Hmmm, I have read King Lear and part of Paradise Lost. I am in the middle of A Room With a View. Good thing my pension won’t depend on this!!
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Your pension??
You are getting more reading done than I am. Good for you.
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I’ve read 7 on this list. My favourites are Sense and Sensibility, The House of Spirits and The Bean Trees. Three of my favourite authors. I own The Bonfire of the Vanities but haven’t read it yet.
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You are making these books even more interesting to me. Thanks, Darlene.
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oh-oh only 4 in this list. Love these lists, Lynn! Thank you!
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Even so, you are doing better than I am! I am almost embarrassed to say … I have read none on this list. Of course, I have watched the movie The Wizard of Oz, but I definitely need to read more! Thanks, Sue.
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I’ve read #s 377 & 391. I’ve seen The Wizard of Oz movie, but I haven’t read the book – yet. 🙂
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Good for you, Erik!
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