Thursday 9 April 2009

1000 Must-Read Novels - Q2

Back in January of this year, the Guardian published a list of "1000 Must-Read Novels", split over seven categories. The Science Fiction & Fantasy list went around the blogosphere, with bloggers marking off those books they'd read and those books they owned but had yet to read. I decided at the time that there were several books mentioned - in all of the categories - that I wouldn't mind reading.

So I've been picking them up and reading in amongst my normal reading. And tracking my progress. As below.

"tbr" is those books I own but have not read. The figures are from the beginning of each quarter - Q1 on publication of the list, Q2 1 April, Q3 1 July, and Q4 1 October. If I restricted my reading to books on the list, I'm sure I'd have made more of a dent - but I didn't want to do that.



Q1 2009 Q2 2009

read tbr read tbr
comedy 12 1 13 2
crime 28 0 28 1
family & self 7 2 7 5
love 13 5 14 4
nation 7 1 7 1
sf & fantasy 63 10 65 13
war & travel 16 1 16 3

146 20 150 29

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