Complete my 888 list

Here is my final list for 2008.

http://diggingforice.blogspot.com/2008/08/updated-888-book-list.html

The categories are:
Books I really ought to have read by now,
Feminist works,
Fiction by women,
American fiction/drama,
Russian fiction/memoir,
French-related books to prepare me for studying in Paris,
and Nonfiction hodgepodge: atheism, physics, sociology, and history.

Books I have finished are in italics.

1. King Lear
2. Mrs. Dalloway* (also counts for fiction by women)
3. The Canterbury Tales
4. Inferno
5. The Aeneid
6. Gulliver’s Travels
7. Paradise Lost
8. The Iliad

1. The Second Sex
2. Sister Outsider
3. The Dialectic of Sex
4. Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
5. The Female Eunuch
6. Unbearable Weight
7. killing rage: Ending Racism
8. Toward a Feminist Theory of the State

1. Middlemarch* (also: gaping hole in my reading)
2. Mansfield Park
3. Villette
4. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
5. Frankenstein* (also: gaping hole in my reading)
6. Delta of Venus
7. Orlando: A Biography
8. Wide Sargasso Sea

1. Moby Dick* (also: gaping hole in my reading)
2. Johnny Got His Gun
3. Bend Sinister* (also: Russian)
4. The Crying of Lot 49
5. Wise Blood: A Novel
6. The Sound and the Fury
7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* (also: gaping hole in my reading)
8. A Raisin in the Sun
9. The Sun Also Rises (number nine! I’m cheating!)

1. Dead Souls
2. The Double
3. Notes From the Underground
4. Eugene Onegin
5. The Enchanter
6. Invitation to a Beheading
7. The Defense
8. Speak, Memory* (also: American)

1. French or Foe?
2. Paris: Biography of a City
3. Père Goriot
4. Sentimental Education
5. The Plague
6. The Stranger
7. Swann’s Way
8. Shakespeare Goes to Paris: How the Bard Conquered France* (also: nonfiction)

1. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
2. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
3. Why I Am Not a Christian
4. Six Easy Pieces
5. The Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America
6. Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity
7. Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
8. History Lessons: How Textbooks From Around the World Portray U.S. History

Taken from http://www.librarything.com/groups/888challenge & http://triple8challenge.blogspot.com (click on either link for the rules).

So far, I’m more than halfway through my 8 categories. I’ve definitely read more than what’s listed, so this seems to be a doable goal for me this year. (My previous goal of reading 100 books in 2008 didn’t pan out.)

My list: http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=31071 .

The list.

http://diggingforice.blogspot.com/2007/12/888.html