Are you ready for week nine 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 WEEK EIGHT
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.
416. Petersburg — by Andrei Bely 417. City of Glass — by Paul Auster 418. Watchmen — by Alan Moore 419. The Satanic Verses — by Salman Rushdie 420. Libra — by Don DeLillo 421. Friday, or, The Other Island — by Michel Tournier 422. The Shadow of the Wind — by Carlos Ruiz Zafón 423. Parade’s End — by Ford Madox Ford 424. The Pursuit of Love — by Nancy Mitford 425. Always Coming Home — by Ursula K. Le Guin 426. The Princesse de Cleves — by Madame de La Fayette 427. Naked Lunch — by William S. Burroughs 428. Black Beauty — by Anna Sewell 429. The Savage Detectives — by Roberto Bolaño 430. London Fields — by Martin Amis 431. Infinite Jest — by David Foster Wallace 432. Artemis Fowl — by Eoin Colfer 433. Les Vrilles de La Vigne — by Colette 434. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time — by Mark Haddon 435. Zuleika Dobson — by Max Beerbohm 436. Testament of Youth — by Vera Brittain 437. Capital of Pain — by Paul Eluard 438. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn — by Betty Smith 439. Half of a Yellow Sun — by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 440. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories — by Flannery O’Connor 441. Martin Eden — by Jack London 442. Red Harvest — by Dashiell Hammett 443. Noughts & Crosses — by Malorie Blackman 444. The Leopard — by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa 445. The Alexandria Quartet — by Lawrence Durrell 446. The Ballad of the Salt Sea — by Hugo Pratt 447. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love — by Raymond Carver 448. Haroun and the Sea of Stories — by Salman Rushdie 449. Writing Degree Zero — by Roland Barthes 450. Cane — by Jean Toomer 451. The Lovely Bones — by Alice Sebold 452. Tales of the City — by Armistead Maupin 453. The Joy Luck Club — by Amy Tan 454. Mort — by Terry Pratchett 455. The Opposing Shore — by Julien Gracq 456. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences — by Michel Foucault 457. Riddley Walker — by Russell Hoban 458. Of Human Bondage — by W. Somerset Maugham 459. Go in beauty — by William Eastlake 460. A Separate Peace — by John Knowles 461. The Quiet American — by Graham Greene 462. Dracula — by Bram Stoker 463. The Franchiser — by Stanley Elkin 464. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance — by Robert M. Pirsig 465. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute — by Grace Paley 466. Guards! Guards! — by Terry Pratchett 467. Ellen Foster — by Kaye Gibbons 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 
Oh dear! I have read Black Beauty. I have stalled in my progress, but am 2/3 through A Room with a View. Honestly, I have never heard of most of these books!!
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You are still doing better than I am. I haven’t yet finished reading Catcher in the Rye – too many interruptions lately.
I have read Black Beauty and Dracula. Most titles on this list I hadn’t heard of either.
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I’ve read 6 on this list. Black Beauty being an all time childhood favourite which I use when I teach ESL classes. I also loved The Princesse de Cleves, The Joy Luck Club and a Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Some on the list I have no desire to read. Another great list though.
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I think A Tree Grows in Brooklyn might be a book I should read. I really have to get at it!
Thanks, Darlene. 🙂
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Wow…. I just LOVE this idea! I’m new to your blog so I haven’t seen the other related posts yet but I’ll be sure to check them out soon. Right now I’m challenging myself to read more Newberry Award Books….so I may not add these on yet, but I might just start keeping a list for the New Year! From the above, I haven’t read that many…. Lovely Bones, A Seperate Peace and ATree Grows In Brooklyn.
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I am so glad this appeals to you. I’m sure there will be many on these lists you will want to add to your TBR pile. 🙂
Thanks for your visits.
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Loving these posts, Lynn. Only 4 for me on this one!
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Still more than I have read on there, Sue. 🙂
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I want to read Artemis Fowl and Dracula. 🙂
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I think you will enjoy them both, Erik. Artemis Fowl first, though, Dracula maybe later on. 🙂
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I know. But I like classics, and Dracula IS on the list…
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I’m sure you will like Dracula, I did, even though I couldn’t read it late in the evening because it freaked me out a little. 🙂
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Just remember that it’s impossible. You can’t drain a body’s blood just by piercing the neck… And it’s impossible that Dracula moves. 🙂
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Well, that’s not the point. It’s a spooky story, and I love Bram Stoker’s amazing style of writing and how he used the language. Once you read the book, Erik, you will see what I mean.
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