Julie’s 2013 Personal Reading Challenge

My 2012 book challenge was so rewarding, making me pick up books I would just keep skipping over in favor of lighter reading. I’m doing it again this year. Some books are carried over from last year and some I dropped because they just didn’t look interesting to me right now. But you can see I have plenty of others to fill in the gaps.

1. Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens
2. Middlemarch* – Eliot
3. Belly of Paris* (Emile Zola)
4. Wuthering Heights* – Charlotte Bronte (began this in 2012, finishing it in 2013)

1. Momento Mori – Muriel Spark
2. Last Call* – Tim Powers (not a true classic, I know … but still a “challenging” read which is what all these are for me)
3. Galactic Pot Healer – Philip K. Dick (I wanted to try a novel instead of short stories and this was recommended as being one of the most complete stories told in a novel.)
4. Journal of the Gun Years – Richard Matheson (I’m so curious to see what sort of Western Matheson writes since he was such a science fiction award winner)

1. Introduction to the Devout Life* – St. Francis de Sales (began this in 2012, finishing it in 2013)
2. The Way of Perfection* – St. Teresa of Avila
3. A Song for Nagasaki – Glynn
4. The Scarlet and the Black – Gallagher

1. The Sand Pebbles*
2. Nine Princes in Amber – Zelazny

1. Tolkien’s Letters
2. The Inklings – Humphrey Carpenter
3. H.V. Morton travel book
4. King Peggy

* Carried over from the 2012 Book Challenge.