Getting sick didn't help. But here's the list:


MY BOOK CHALLENGE FOR 2009: I MUST READ THE FOLLOWING BOOKS

*The Decameron ~ Boccaccio (completed 08/02/2009)
The Divine Comedy ~ Dante Alighieri (NOT completed. Alas.)
*Don Quixote de la Mancha ~ Miguel de Cervantes (completed 05/06/2009)
*Paradise Lost ~ John Milton (NOT completed. Alas.)
The Fairie Queene ~ Edmund Spenser (NOT completed. Alas.)
*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ~ Mark Haddon (completed 12/03/2009)
*Life of Pi ~ Yann Martel (completed 10/04/2009)
*On the Origin of Species ~ Charles Darwin (completed 27/09/2009)
*The Qur'an (completed 11/10/2009)
*The Pilgrim’s Progress ~ John Bunyan (completed 19/06/2009)
*Metamorphoses ~ Ovid (completed 16/08/2009)
*The Red and the Black ~ Stendhal (completed 10/06/2009)
*Life Class ~ Pat Barker (completed 16/10/2009)
*My Name is Red ~ Orhan Pamuk (completed 17/11/2009)
*The Reluctant Fundamentalist ~ Mohsin Hamid (completed 03/03/2009)
*Blood River ~ Tim Butcher (completed 01/08/2009)
A Long Long Way ~ Sebastian Barry (completed 18/12/2009)
*Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion ~ Charles Townshend (completed 27/03/2009)
The State of Africa ~ Martin Meredith (NOT completed. Alas.)
*Shadow of the Silk Road ~ Colin Thubron (completed 27/11/2009)
*Robinson Crusoe ~ Daniel Defoe (completed 13/01/2009)
*Gulliver's Travels ~ Jonathan Swift (completed 07/05/2009)
*Catch-22 ~ Joseph Heller (completed 15/02/2009)
*The Giver ~ Lois Lowry (read 30/09/2009)
Pillars of the Earth ~ Ken Follett (completed 21/12/2009)
*The Wives of Henry VIII ~ Alison Weir (completed 02/07/2009)
*The Age of Innocence ~ Edith Wharton (completed 05/04/2009)
*A Brief History of Time ~ Stephen Hawking (completed 10/03/2009)
*In Search of Lost Time - Volume 1: The Way By Swann's ~ Marcel Proust (completed 13/12/2009)
*A Short History of Nearly Everything ~ Bill Bryson (completed 21/04/2009)
Lord of the Flies ~ William Golding (completed 14/06/2009)
*The Solitude of Emperors ~ David Davidar (completed 01/09/2009)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ~ John Boyne (read 13/09/2009)
The Outsider ~ Albert Camus (read 28/11/2009)
*A Canticle For Leibowitz ~ Walter Miller (completed 12/07/2009)
The Aeneid ~ Virgil (completed 11/11/2009)
*The Sparrow ~ Mary Doria Russell (completed 20/02/2009)
*Cancer Ward ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (completed 30/04/2009)
*The Gormenghast Trilogy ~ Mervyn Peake (First book of the trilogy read 11/04/2009. Second book completed 11/05/2009. Final book completed 18/05/2009.)
The Last Samurai ~ Helen DeWitt (completed 22/07/2009)

*These are the ones we actually own, so I'll also be buying a whole pile of books!


ALSO READS:

A Grief Observed ~ CS Lewis (completed 06/01/2009)
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters ~ GW Dahlquist (completed 21/01/2009)
These Old Shades ~ Georgette Heyer (completed 22/02/2009)
Watchmen ~ Alan Moore (completed 26/02/2009)
Run For Your Life ~ James Patterson and another man although he pretends that he wrote it by himself (completed 15/03/2009)
Last Tango In Aberystwyth ~ Malcolm Pryce (completed 29/03/2009)
The Dresden Files: Turn Coat ~ Jim Butcher (completed 08/05/2009)
The Masqueraders ~ Georgette Heyer (completed 12/06/2009)
A Thousand Splendid Suns ~ Khaled Hosseini (read 26/07/2009)
The Picture of Dorian Gray ~ Oscar Wilde (completed 07/09/2009)
The Book Thief ~ Markus Zusak (read 10/09/2009)
Pretty Monsters ~ Kelly Link (completed 09/10/2009)
The Name of the Wind ~ Patrick Rothfuss (completed 29/10/2009)