I went camping in France for the last few weeks of August and it was really wonderful. I took my Kindle and whirled through books the whole time I was there. It made me feel productive and pleased with myself to look back on the week and think I had used my free time to read two or three really great fiction books and this is something I don't want to stop.
Quick stop in the French and Spanish Pyrenees mountains
So, although this may seem a silly challenge as I am about to start a full time PhD, I have decided that by the end of the year I want to have read ALL of the 'novels' by two of the authors I claim to be my favourite. (As it seems a bit false to claim someone is your favourite author when you haven't even read all of their books.) After this maybe I will continue the list with their poems and short stories.
I will cross these off one by one, updating the list which will be hopefully complete by the end of December.
Margaret Atwood
The Edible Woman (1969)- Surfacing (1972)
Lady Oracle(1976) Read August 2012- Life Before Man (1979)
- Bodily Harm (1981)
The Handmaid's Tale(1985)- Cat's Eye (1988)
- The Robber Bride (1993)
- Alias Grace (1996)
The Blind Assassin(2000)- Oryx and Crake (2003) *currently reading*
- The Penelopiad (2005)
- The Year of the Flood (2009)
Haruki Murakami
- Hear the Wind Sing (1979)
- Pinball, 1973 (1980)
- A Wild Sheep Chase (1982)
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the Edge of the World (1985)
Norwegian Wood (1987)Read September 2012- Dance Dance Dance (1988)
South of the Border, West of the Sun(1992) Read August 2012- The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (1995)
Sputnik Sweetheart(1999) Read August 2012Kafka on the Shore(2002)- After Dark (2004)
1Q84(2009)What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Non Fiction)(2007)