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This will be a good incentive to read more fiction – I’ve been reading a disproportionate amount of non-fiction. These are the ones I’ve read so far:

2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
9. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
24. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
28. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
30. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
31. Animal Farm by George Orwell
45. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
49. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
55. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
56. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
58. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
64. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
69. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
74. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
79. A Room With a View by E. M. Forster
98. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

I’m appalled at how many of the other books on this list I’ve started but not finished! Need more follow-through in my life…

What a challenge! I’m excited about it, though. Looking over the list of books I’ve completed this year, only 3 were fiction, the rest were non-fiction, so this is a good way to get me back to reading more fiction. These are the books I’ve already read:

1 The Great Gatsby
2 The Catcher In The Rye
4 To Kill A Mockingbird
13 Charlotte’s Web
14 A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
17 Animal Farm
18 The Sun Also Rises
20 A Farewell To Arms
22 Winnie-the-Pooh
26 Gone With The Wind
30 For Whom the Bell Tolls
31 On The Road
35 Portrait of a Lady
37 The World According To Garp
39 A Room With A View
42 The Age Of Innocence
46 Mrs. Dalloway
47 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
50 The Awakening
54 Franny and Zooey
62 Tender Is The Night
64 Sons And Lovers
72 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
75 Women In Love
83 O Pioneers!

Only 75 to go… At least I won’t have to buy many new books – I own a lot of these but hadn’t gotten around to ‘em so far. Whie Noise and My Antonia I’d planned to get to in the next few weeks anyway…