Are you ready for week eleven of our Read More Books challenge?
Read HERE to learn about it. It’s not too late to join in for the fun of it.
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 WEEK NINE WEEK TEN
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.
Here is week eleven’s list of 52 books:
520. Double Act — by Jacqueline Wilson 521. James and the Giant Peach — by Roald Dahl 522. The Bottle Factory Outing — by Beryl Bainbridge 523. Cloud Atlas — by David Mitchell 524. The Tunnel — by William H. Gass 525. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood — by Howard Pyle 526. The Twits — by Roald Dahl 527. The General of the Dead Army — by Ismail Kadare 528. Omensetter’s Luck — by William H. Gass 529. The Razor’s Edge — by W. Somerset Maugham 530. I Capture the Castle — by Dodie Smith 531. Oblomov — by Ivan Goncharov 532. O Pioneers! — by Willa Cather 533. Delia Smith’s Complete Cookery Course — by Delia Smith 534. Romancero Gitano — by Federico García Lorca 535. Holes — by Louis Sachar 536. Under the Net — by Iris Murdoch 537. Darconville’s Cat — by Alexander Theroux 538.Waverley — by Walter Scott 539. Maigret and the Enigmatic Letter — by Georges Simenon 540. The Death of the Heart — by Elizabeth Bowen 541. An Evil Cradling — by Brian Keenan 542. Our Lady of the Flowers — by Jean Genet 543. Up — by Ronald Sukenick 544. A Fine Balance — by Rohinton Mistry 545. The Interpretation of Dreams — by Sigmund Freud 546. Down and out in Paris and London — by George Orwell 547. Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down — by Ishmael Reed 548. Lanark — by Alasdair Gray 549. Vicky Angel — by Jacqueline Wilson 550. Nine Stories — by J. D. Salinger 551. Fureur Et Mystere — by René Char 552. The Bostonians — by Henry James 553. The Old Wives’ Tale — by Arnold Bennett 554. Drown — by Junot Diaz 555. The Education of Henry Adams — by Henry Adams 556. The Betrothed — by Alessandro Manzoni 557. The Last of the Mohicans — by James Fenimore Cooper 558. The Five People You Meet in Heaven — by Mitch Albom 559. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung — by Mao Tse-Tung 560. Eugene Onegin — by Alexander Pushkin 561. You Bright & Risen Angels — by William Vollmann 562. The Alienist — by Caleb Carr 563. Uncle Tom’s Cabin — by Harriet Beecher Stowe 564. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 565. The Periodic Table — by Primo Levi 566. Magician — by Raymond E. Feist 567. Talk Before Sleep — by Elizabeth Berg 568. Loving — by Henry Green 569. No Orchids for Miss Blandish — by James Hadley Chase 570. The Varieties of Religious Experience — by William James 571. The Secret of the Swordfish — by Edgar P. JacobsNext week is the final installment of this list.
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 The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, and possibly James and the Giant Peach (though I can’t remember the story). I am currently in the middle of Vanity Fair. Happy reading in 2014!
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Good for you, Faith. I read James and the Giant Peach, and Holes (which was made into a movie). I did finally finish reading The Catcher in the Rye, from the first week’s list.
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What a great list. I have read 10 on this list. Holes is excellent as is A Fine Balance (one f the best books ever), O Pioneers!, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, and The Razor’s Edge I want to read Under the Net — by Iris Murdoch and Waverley — by Walter Scott
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I think I would like to see your book shelf, Darlene. 🙂
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Oh-oh, only 2 for me. Time to get reading!!
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Same for me, Sue!
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I haven’t read 521 and 535 (but have 535). I HAVE read 525, 526, and I am reading 564. So, I have read about 1/2 of the kid’s books. 🙂
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That’s great, Erik!
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