Stumbling upon this reading challenge was just what I needed! I have been thinking lately that my reading over the last year was so disappointingly hit-and-miss…I read some wonderful books and then there were all the ho-hum books that I read just because they were there and easy to get. I knew I needed a plan. Then voila! I came upon the 888 reading challenge. (The short explanation is 8 categories of 8 books each with 8 books overlapping for a total of 56 books.) Who wants to join the fun?!?
Here is my list as it stands now.
8 History Books
1. Mistress of the Elgin Marbles
2. Walk Through the Bible
3. A Short History of Nearly Everything
4. The Odyssey **
5. Cat of Bubastes **
6. Desire of the Everlasting Hills
7. The Gifts of the Jews
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8 Novels
1. Washington Square
2. Persuasion
3. Cry, the Beloved Country
4. Lake Wobegon Days
5. Love in a Time of Cholera
6. The Silence
7. Middlemarch
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8 Mysteries
1. Maisie Dobbs
2. Murder on the Orient Express
3. Father Brown
4. The Name of the Rose
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8 School Related
1. Cat of Bubastes **
2. Voyage of the Dawn Treader
3. As You Like It
4. Till We Have Faces
5. The Odyssey **
6. The Tempest
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8 Non-Fiction
1. Shakespeare, by Bryson
2. Summer at Tiffany
3. Reading Like a Writer
4. Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog
5. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
6. How to Read a Book
7. Small is Beautiful
8. Conflict of Visions
8 Food Books
1. The Perfectionist, Life and Death in Haute Cuisine
2. The 64 Dollar Tomato
3. Blithe Tomato
4. My Life in France
5. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
6. Dining Out on Adventure
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8 Book Club Books
1. The Future and its Enemies
2. Stop Dating the Church
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8 Religious Books
1. Screwtape Letters
2. The Cost of Discipleship
3. Orthodoxy
4. Mere Christianity
5. Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance
6. Steering Through Chaos
7. For the Life of the World
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