and the list goes on!

i have decided to start a project. this project is to read all of the books on the following list, of which there are supposed to be 100 (but there are really more than 100 because some of the 'books' on the list are series). this list was put out by people in Britain and i got it from Trent, off of facebook. lol

here is the list:
[ ] A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
[ ] A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
[ ] A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
[ ] A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
[ ] A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
[ ] A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
[ ] A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
[ ] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
[ ] Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
[ ] Animal Farm - George Orwell
[ ] Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
[ ] Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
[ ] Atonement - Ian McEwan
[ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
[ ] Bleak House - Charles Dickens
[ ] Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
[ ] Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
[ ] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
[ ] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
[ ] Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
[ ] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
[ ] Charlotte’s Web - EB White
[ ] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
[ ] Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
[ ] Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
[ ] Complete Works of Shakespeare
[ ] Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
[ ] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
[ ] David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
[ ] Dracula - Bram Stoker
[ ] Dune - Frank Herbert
[ ] Emma - Jane Austen
[ ] Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
[ ] Germinal - Emile Zola
[ ] Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
[ ] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
[ ] Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
[ ] Hamlet - William Shakespeare
[ ] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
[ ] Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
[ ] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
[ ] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
[ ] Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
[ ] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
[ ] Life of Pi - Yann Martel
[ ] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
[ ] Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
[ ] Lord of the Flies - William Golding
[ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
[ ] Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
[ ] Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
[ ] Middlemarch - George Eliot
[ ] Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
[ ] Moby Dick - Herman Melville
[ ] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
[ ] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
[ ] Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
[ ] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
[ ] On The Road - Jack Kerouac
[ ] One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
[ ] Persuasion - Jane Austen
[ ] Possession - AS Byatt
[ ] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
[ ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
[ ] Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
[ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
[ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
[ ] The Bible
[ ] The Color Purple - Alice Walker
[ ] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
[ ] The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
[ ] The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
[ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
[ ] The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
[ ] The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
[ ] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
[ ] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
[ ] The Inferno – Dante
[ ] The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
[ ] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
[ ] The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
[ ] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
[ ] The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
[ ] The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
[ ] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
[ ] The Secret History - Donna Tartt
[ ] The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
[ ] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
[ ] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
[ ] The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
[ ] The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
[ ] The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
[ ] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
[ ] Ulysses - James Joyce
[ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
[ ] War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
[ ] Watership Down - Richard Adams
[ ] Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
[ ] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte


some of these are actually repeats, but i didnt write the list, so... but anyways, i will be calling this project Project: Library Card. why? i dont know... just feel like it. and i'll probably have to use my library card a lot throughout the duration of this project...

so. i have completed a book:
[X] The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

i had read it before, but not all the way through, it's a good book. it has several similarities to Orwell's 1984 (which i will be rereading, of course. Handmaids Tale was all about extreme religion and politics as well as the basic human instinct to survive and its incredible ability to adapt. i would definitely suggest reading it.
(note: it might be a bit difficult for guys, maybe)



more on the way. i will repost the list, with the books i have read crossed off, periodically. the list here is in alphabetical order, but i do not intend to follow the order of the list, i am just going to choose books from the list regardless of their position on the list. :) fun times and happy travels!

--as always