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Are you ready for the challenge?

Thanks to Erik of This Kid Reviews Books, my challenge now has a name: Read More Books Challenge.

Please go to THIS SHORT POST first if you don’t know what I’m talking about.

MY OFFER

Because I know you love to read – or read and write – I have decided to give you the list I found, and I got permission to do so. (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.

The reason I thought you might enjoy the list in sections is so that you can see which ones you have already read – a few at a time – and then —

MY CHALLENGE

… you will have a week to buy or borrow the ones you want to read before my next installment of more of the list. I was going to divide it between six posts, but changed that to twelve posts because the shorter lists are easier to work with if you want to shop for a book each week. How’s that for a little incentive for those of us who can find time to read more often? Besides, it might be fun! 🙂 And who doesn’t appreciate an excuse to book shop?

Each Thursday I will post another portion of the list of “623 of the best books ever written” until we get to the end of twelve posts. NOTE: On the fourth Thursday of each month it will not be posted because we have Sue Harrison’s writers workshop that day – and I don’t want to mess with a good thing!

Here are the first 52 books of “623 of the best books ever written” as compiled and listed on a list of books website.

1. The Great Gatsby — by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Grapes of Wrath — by John Steinbeck
3. Nineteen Eighty-Four — by George Orwell
4. Ulysses — by James Joyce
5. Lolita — by Vladimir Nabokov
6. Catch-22 — by Joseph Heller
7. The Catcher in the Rye — by J. D. Salinger
8. Beloved — by Toni Morrison
9. The Sound and the Fury — by William Faulkner
10. To Kill a Mockingbird — by Harper Lee
11. The Lord of the Rings — by J. R. R. Tolkien
12. One Hundred Years of Solitude — by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
13. Brave New World — by Aldous Huxley
14. To The Lighthouse — by Virginia Woolf
15. Invisible Man — by Ralph Ellison
16. Gone With The Wind — by Margaret Mitchell
17. Jane Eyre — by Charlotte Brontë
18. On The Road — by Jack Kerouac
19. Pride and Prejudice — by Jane Austen
20. Lord of the Flies — by William Golding
21. Middle March — by George Eliot
22. Anna Karenina — by Leo Tolstoy
23. Animal Farm — by George Orwell
24. A Passage to India — by E. M. Forster
25. In Search of Lost Time — by Marcel Proust
26. Wuthering Heights — by Emily Brontë
27. The Chronicles of Narnia — by C. S. Lewis
28. The Color Purple — by Alice Walker
29. Midnight’s Children — by Salman Rushdie
30. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — by James Joyce
31. Winnie-the-Pooh — by A. A. Milne
32. Heart of Darkness — by Joseph Conrad
33. Mrs Dalloway — by Virginia Woolf
34. Slaughterhouse-Five — by Kurt Vonnegut
35. War and Peace — by Leo Tolstoy
36. Of Mice and Men — by John Steinbeck
37. Moby-Dick — by Herman Melville
38. Little Women — by Louisa Mae Alcott
39. Native Son — by Richard Wright
40. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — by Douglas Adams
41. Great Expectations — by Charles Dickens
42. The Sun Also Rises — by Ernest Hemingway
43. Rebecca — by Daphne du Maurier
44. The Stranger — by Albert Camus
45. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass — by Lewis Carroll
46. For Whom the Bell Tolls — by Ernest Hemingway
47. The Hobbit — by J. R. R. Tolkien
48. Madame Bovary — by Gustave Flaubert
49. The Wind in the Willows — by Kenneth Grahame
50. The Handmaid’s Tale — by Margaret Atwood
51. Tess of the D’Urbervilles — by Thomas Hardy
52. Their Eyes Were Watching God — by Zora Neale Hurston

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 taking the challenge I would love to hear about your reading.)
  

Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings! 🙂