Thanks for your support and interest Nina. At this point, commitment is only a goal. I’ll be able to judge how committed I am in several years. Check back then :-)

No, I didn’t coin the “Lifetime Reading Plan.” It’s a classic book written by Clifton Fadiman that has been around for forty years and gone through four revisions. I’ve decided to cover every book on the list by reading four to six of them per year. I will need lots of persistence and stamina to pull this off, but the rewards will be tremendous.

from the blurb on the cover…

“The Lifetime Reading Plan provides readers with brief, informative, entertaining, and persuasive introductions to more than 130 classics of world literature. Like the books’s earlier editions, all the great works of Western civilization are covered-everyone from Homer to Hawthorne, Plato to Pascal, and Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn-including epics, novels, and plays, as well as works of philosophy, psychology, politics, petry, history, and biography.

But unlike earlier editions, The New Lifetime Reading Plan goes beyond the traditional Western canon and covers works by many more women, such as Charlotte Bronte, Emily Dickinson, and Edith Wharton-as well as the works of many non-Western writers, including Confucius, Sun-Tzu, Basho, R.K. Narayan, and Chinua Achebe.

Beyond that, the inclusion of a new special section briefly covering 100 additional twentieth century authors, as well as a detailed bibliography, makes The New Lifetime Reading Plan a book that every lover of literature must have.”

It’s a fantastic book