[22] Read at least one ‘non college related’ book for each month
22. Read at least one ‘non college related’ book for each month [7/33]
To get closer to completing this goal, in particular as I’m lagging behind, I’m compiling a list of books that I would like to read over the next year and 8 months. Amongst them I wanted to include some of those gems that have shaped the books after them, something with a bit more substance than the juicy Candice Bushnell I have been reading recently. These will be added to my list, alongside some satisfying romance and fantasy. According to Daniel S. Burt’s The Novel 100: A Ranking of Greatest Novels All Time the Top 10 of the literary novel genre written are:
1 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes
2 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
3 Ulysses James Joyce
4 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust
5 The Brothers Karamazov Feodor Dostoevsky
6 Moby-Dick Herman Melville
7 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
8 Middlemarch George Eliot
9 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann
10 The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu
Have I read any of them yet? No, I’m clearly undercultured :S Now, to leave back my overdue library books and pay some fines. War and Peace and Ulysses may be a lot to take on, I’ve started both before, but I’ll be happy if I at least give them a bit of time and then give them a proper read when I’m finished with my phd.
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