So today my boyfriend linked me to http://1morechapter.com/1percent/ and we have decided to undertake the challenge. Except that! I have read 26 of the 1001 books in the free (I am too poor to fork out for the huger list) excel spreadsheet downloadable here. 26 is 2% of the total 1294 books to read before you die (or whatever) so I have decided to undertake a new challenge.

We have decided to read 5% of the full 1294 "books to read before you die". That is 65 books in total. So I pledge to have read the remaining 40 books before April 2011. Should be a fun year... My boyfriend has his corresponding blog post and book list here and will be reviewing books as he goes along.

Anyways. The list of books I shall read is as follows:

• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• A Farewell to Arms
• American Psycho
• Atonement
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin
• Cold Comfort Farm
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
• Doctor Faustus
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Far From the Madding Crowd
• Frankenstein
• Gone With the Wind
• The Bell Jar
• Great Expectations
• Gulliver's Travels
• Life of Pi
• Lord of the Flies
• Love in the time of Cholera
• Middlemarch
• Oliver Twist
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Tarzan
• The 39 steps
• The Cider House Rules
• The Count of Monte-Cristo
• The English Patient
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• The Handmaid's Tale
• The Maltese Falcon
• The Reader
• The Satanic Verses
• The Shining
• The Talented Mr. Ripley
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
• The Thousand and One Nights
• The Three Musketeers
• The Time Machine
• The Wasp Factory
• Wild Swans

These are from a cut down list of roughly 80 and included books that I've heard of, been told I ought to read, know I ought to read, know I ought to have read and plain old books that are already on my bookshelf.

Wish me luck. I reckon I ought to be reading a book every two weeks to finish by next April and I shall endeavour to review each book before starting the next.

Tarrah xx

P.S. Due to being poor I'm only reading books on the 1001 book list, not the 1294 one ;)