Autumn IV: Let the Games Begin

i need a project. i've got all the time in the world and no particular commitment except an attempted commitment to the gym, which seems to fail at every given chance. so, here's an idea. 26 books, 15 months. not your everyday new york times best selling list, or booker prize nominees. not that i have anything against those.. but usually i find that such books can be read on the side while the rest of life happens. the books i'm talking about are the ones we hear about as the classics, the ones everyone knows are the greats and we all use for some reference or the other and some point or the other, the ones that some people pretend to have read, few actually have and most people (comme moi) aspire to read. and so, here's the list...

1.  Living to Tell the Tale - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2.  Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

3.  Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

4.  War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

5.  The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

6.  Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

7.  Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer

8.  Ulysses - James Joyce

9.  Hamlet - William Shakespeare

10. King Solomon's Mines - Sir H. Rider Haggard

11. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

12. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell

14. Midnights's Children - Salman Rushdie

15. Lolita - Vladamir Nabokov

16. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo

17. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

18. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

19. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

20. On the Road - Jack Kerouac

21. Moby Dick - Herman Melville

22. East of Eden - John Steinback

23. The Divine Comedy (all three parts) - Dante Alighieri

24. Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins

25. Walden - Henry David Thoreau

26. Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac

its quite a mixed bag this list. but here it is... and so... let the games begin.