Half Way Through

So after just over six months I am now halfway through my challenge. It has been tough going, and with Christmas coming up I am struggling to not go into Waterstone's and pick up the latest Matthew Reilly or John Grisham. I am also a little nervous knowing that at least two of the books I have to read are absolutely massive! 


It has however been pretty rewarding and I do feel a sense of achievement now having read a few others that I otherwise would never have bothered with. I have also discovered a couple of writers that I will come back to when this year is over (as well as a couple of writers I will never, ever look at again!!). 


Hopefully over Christmas I will get myself back ahead of the challenge, and also perhaps to finish writing up the two reports still waiting!

The books read:

1 Lucky Jim Amis

2 A Handmaid’s Tale Attwood

7 Murder on the Orient Express Christie

8 Alchemist Coelho

9 Disgrace Coetzee

10 The Hound of The Baskervilles Conan-Doyle*

11 Heart of Darkness Conrad*

17 Mr Midshipman Hornblower Forester

20 Confessions of a Justified Sinner Hogg

21 A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini

24 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce

25 All my friends are superheroes Kaufman

29 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Larrson

30 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Le Carre

32 Saturday McEwan

33 One Day Nicholls

34 Time Travellers Wife Niffenegger

35 Animal Farm Orwell

36 Gods Behaving Badly Phillips

38 Catcher in the Rye Salinger

39 The Great Gatsby Scott-Fitzgerald

40 The Lovely Bones Sebold

42 Frankenstein Shelley*

43 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn

45 Treasure Island Stevenson*