read at least 43 of the World's 100 Greatest Books

A Connecticut Yankee in King Aurthur’s Court by Mark Twain
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Meditations by Rene Descartes

Nature and Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson have been knocked off the list.

Just finished reading The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.

Just read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge which went fast as it is a short story sized narrative poem. I also realized that I also forgot to list Gulliver’s Travels in the entry of the books that I read before starting this goal like I did on List of Bests so now the numbers match up of 27 books read and 1 book attempted but found not to be worth reading.

Just finished Silas Marner and had previously read and forgot to record Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey when they were read earlier.

I finished reading Treasure Island a few days ago and will be starting to read Silas Marner next. Although more likely than not it is not a book that I will be starting to read right away from a few other more important things that I want to get in first.

I finished reading The Republic by Plato yesterday and today I started reading Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.

My new total is 21 books read and 1 book attempted but found not to be worth reading.

“Studies show that 45 percent of Americans say they never read a book. Worse than that, the National Commission on Excellence in Education reported in 1983 that the average college graduate does not read one serious book in the course of a year. You have too much to lose by not reading, and too much to gain by disciplined reading. Discipline yourself to learn by reading, and choose your books well. You will be able to read relatively few books in your lifetime, so read the best books. … Don’t waste your time on books you’ll regret reading when you look back upon them from the perspective of eternity. I believe in recreational reading. I don’t maintain that every volume you read should be didactic or even theological. There are books to be read for relaxation and refreshment. But even these should be edifying and help you in some sense to love God with your mind.”
~Spiritual Disciplines For The Christian Life by Donald S. Whitney page 232

Therefore I resolve to stop reading any book on this list if I determine that it is not worth reading instead of forcing myself to finish it and mark it of as not worth reading on List of Bests. Also I resolve to not waste my time rereading books that I read in school and remember what it is about unless it is one that I find worth reading more than once.

My revised read list under the new standards now includes:

Paradise Lost by John Milton
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shew by William Shakespeare
Othello by William Shakespeare
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Death of a Salesman by Author Miller

finished reading Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain and The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain goes on the not worth it list as a fifth of the way in I am finding it too much not to my liking to carry on.

My new total is 20 books read and 1 book attempted but found not to be worth reading.

I decided that the next books that I will be working on from the list will be Mark Twain’s collection starting with Tom Saywer and after that I plan on reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court before moving on to other authors.

I just came across a slightly worn and clearly read copy of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer on one of my bookshelves so it looks like I can mark this one as done too bringing the total up to 10 read so far.