The Whitcoulls Challenge

I’m on a roll! Signing up for reading challenge # 2 for the next year – the Whitcoulls Challenge. This one runs from Nov 1, 2007 – Nov 1, 2008. I’m doing the ‘book-a-month’ challenge, starting this Nov. Here is my list of 12 books (Books in Red are crosslisted with the other reading challenge, but I’m being good by not listing more than 4 books that I’m reading for the other challenge):

1) The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (Whitcoulls List – 2006)

2) The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel (Whitcoulls List – 2006)

3) The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Whitcoulls List – 2006)

4) The Red Tent by Anita Diamant ( Whitcoulls List – 2006)

5) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (Whitcoulls List – 2002)

6) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Whitcoulls List – 2002)

7) The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillippa Gregory (Whitcoulls List – 2002)

8 ) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Whitcoulls List – 2002)

9) Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding (Whitcoulls List – 1998)

10) 1984 by George Orwell (Whitcoulls List – 2006)

11) Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Whitcoulls List – 2006)

12) Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Whitcoulls List – 2006)

My First Reading Challenge

And I’m just thrilled. I was in ‘book mode’ today and ran across this website and thought it would be neat to complete something like this. So, I’m signing up for the Decades Challenge 2008, and here is my list.

1900’s: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

1910’s: Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

1920’s: The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham

1930’s: The Good Earth by Pearl Buck

1940’s: 1984 by George Orwell

1950’s: The Day of the Triffids by Wyndham

1960’s: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

1970’s: If on a Winter’s Night, A Traveler by Italo Calvino

1980’s: The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel

1990’s: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

I’m not going to commit to more than 9 books right now what with all the changes we have happening next year. But I’ll certainly add to the list if I’m making good progress. Yippee!