September 28, 2010

The cutting room floor

I have 2 days left before the experiment begins. The list is currently at 59; it needs to be narrowed down to 52. Let me know if you think something has to stay, or if something really can go.

I also decided I'm starting the project with One Hundred Demons, but I still haven't decided on a final book. Part of me wants to end with On the Road.

1. An American Childhood
2. Catch-22
3. Ender's Game
4. How to Win Friends and Influence People
5. Angela's Ashes
6. Going After Cacciato
7. The Polar Express
8. The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh
9. Wide Sargasso Sea
10. The Great Gilly Hopkins
11. Water for Elephants
12. Nineteen Minutes
13. Waiting for Godot
14. The Handmaid's Tale
15. Caucasia
16. The Alchemist
17. One Hundred Demons
18. Wolf at the Table
19. On the Road
20. Stitches: A Memoir
21. Bastard out of Carolina
22. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
23. Lucky
24. Grendel
25. The Hours
26. Crime and Punishment
27. The Historian
28. The Grapes of Wrath
29. Sophie's Choice
30. Blankets
31. The Old Man and the Sea
32. Almost a Woman
33. The Unbearable Lightness of being
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray
35. The Naked Lunch
36. The God of Small Things
37. The Crying of Lot 49
38. Rabbit, Run
39. Midnight's Children
40. Underworld
41. One Hundred Years of Solitude
42. The Indian in the Cupboard
43. The Watsons go to Birmingham
44. Uglies
45. The Perks of being a Wallflower
46. Watership Down
47. Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
48. Memoirs of a Geisha
49. The Screwtape Letters
50. The Joy Luck Club
51. A Prayer for Owen Meany
52. Atlas Shrugged
53. Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
54. The Corrections
55. A People's History of the United States
56. Animal Dreams
57. Storm of the Century
58. Disgrace
59. Insomnia

2 comments:

  1. The Grapes of Wrath is a pain but I totally fell for Dorian Gray... Good luck beautiful!

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  2. I may be in the minority on this, but I think The Alchemist can go. I was very meh about it. The Screwtape Letters, however, MUST stay.

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