I have fallen severely behind in my reading and in the spirit of self improvement, I decided to try to read 52 books in a year, that’s roughly a book a week. I contemplated creating my own unique list but decided to fall back on a template provided by Susan Wise Bauer. Susan wrote The Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had. It is similar to Mortimer J. Alder’s How to Read and it is an OK book if you are into this sort of stuff. She gives rather long list from each genre spanning the 1600s to the 1900s. Instead of reading every book she assigns for each genre. I decided to break these genres into fives for the fist twenty five books. The genres include Fiction(novels), Autobiography and Memoir, History, Drama(plays) and Poets and their poems. First we will start with fiction and the fist fiction book shall be Don Quixote. Don Quixote will be followed by Pilgrims Paradise, Gulliver’s Travels, Pride and Prejudice, and Oliver Twist.
Hopefully I can get a few suckers people to join me in this journey towards literacy.
Why not. I’ve suckered me.
Well my man, we have one participant and we can start whenever you are ready.