1001 BYMRBYD Challenge

Since this is a challenge that will probably take me a lifetime to complete, I thought it deserved its own page. Year by year I will be tracking the books I read on the list(s), making sure to mark down which list they are from. So far there are 3 lists: 2006, 2008 and 2010.

The lists are updated roughly every two years to include books that have been recently published.

Books Read in 2010:

A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
The Midwich Cuckoo’s – John Wyndham
The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
Push – Sapphire
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
The Quiet American – Graham Greene
The Book About Blanche and Marie – Per Olov Enquist
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami (2006 List)
The Sorrows of Young Werther – JW Goethe
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream – Hunter S. Thompson
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Disgrace – JM Coetzee
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle

Books Read in 2011

Aesop’s Fables – Aesop
Beloved – Toni Morrision
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
The Diary of a Nobody – George Grossmith
The English Patient – Michael Ondjaate
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
The Island of Dr. Moreau – HG Wells
Labyrinths – JL Borges
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – A. Solzhenitsyn
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories – Charlotte Perkins Gilman