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For 2022, I am continuing to target the books on the Penguin Top 100 Classic 'Must-Read' booklist that I have not yet read - this is a total of 41 books (having only read 17 of my target of 19 in 2021!) and I am aiming to complete half of those outstanding (21) during 2022.
The link to the current list is on Goodreads at the link shown below although some titles are different from the original list which I was working from, which is now apparently not available on the Penguin website!: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Completed:- 21/21

Books to Read:-
Another Country by James Baldwin -
- FINISHED 23/1/22 - 3* (6.5/10)
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie -
- FINISHED 8/2/22 - 3* (7/10)
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen (L)
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov -
- FINISHED 28/2/22 - 4* (9/10)
Alice in Wonderland by Jane Carruth (O)
My Ántonia by Willa Cather -
- FINISHED 8/1/22 - 4* (8/10)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad -
FINISHED 24/12/22 - 2* (3.5/10)
Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac (K)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (K)
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot -
- FINISHED 24/8/22 - 3* (7/10)
Silas Marner by George Eliot (L)
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy (O)
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell -
- FINISHED 25/3/22 - 4* (7.5/10)
The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith -
- FINISHED 29/12/22 - 4* (8/10)
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (L)
The Iliad by Homer (O)
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (K)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce -
- FINISHED 28/8/22 - 2* (4/10)
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni (L)
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham (O)
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham -
- FINISHED 5/7/22 - 3* (6.5/10)
Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville -
- FINISHED 25/11/22 - 3* (5/10)
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller -
- FINISHED 8/3/22 - 2* (4.5/10)
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch (L)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig -
- FINISHED 24/2/22 - 2* (3/10)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (K)
Staying On by Paul Scott (L)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (L)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck -
- FINISHED 16/9/22 - 5* (9.5/10)
The Art of War by Sun Tzu -
- FINISHED 13/1/22 - 3* (7/10)
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (O)
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson (L)
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole -
- FINISHED 28/9/22 - 4* (8.5/10)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain -
- FINISHED 27/12/22 - 4* (8.5/10)
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (K)
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh -
- FINISHED 22/2/22 - 4* (9/10)
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells -
- FINISHED 10/7/22 - 4* (8.5/10)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (L)
Orlando by Virginia Woolf -
- FINISHED 17/10/22 - 3* (6.5/10)
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham -
- FINISHED 3/3/22 - 4* (9/10)

A very worthy challenge, Kim! Best of luck with your reading in 2022.

Finished my 1st of this Challenge with:-

My Ántonia by Willa Cather

Rated this one as 4* (8/10). Review done but can't copy and paste on this device - currently left behind the UK's freezing temperatures for the 20-25 degree centigrade warmth of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands where we will be sunning ourselves for the next ten days! - and reading lots of books too I hope!! Review now available here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Nice Kim!!! Have a lovely relaxing time :)

Finished my 2nd of this Challenge with:-

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

Rated this one as 3* (7/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished my 3rd of this Challenge with:-

Another Country by James Baldwin

Rated this one as 3* (6.5/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished my 4th and 5th of this Challenge in February with:-

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Rated this one as 4* (9/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

Rated this as 3* (7/10).

Completed my 6th of this Challenge with:-

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

Rated this book as 2* (3/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished my 7th of this Challenge with:-

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Rated this as 4* (9/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished my 8th of this Challenge with:-

The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

Rated this one as 4* (9/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished my 9th of this Challenge with:-

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

Rated this one as 2* (4.5/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished my 10th of my Personal Challenge with:-

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

Rated this one as 4* (7.5/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished my 11th of this Personal Challenge with:-

The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

Rated this one as 3* (6.5/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished my 12th of this Personal Challenge with:-

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

Rated this Sci-fi classic as 4* (8.5/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished my 13th & 14th of this Challenge with:-

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Rated this one as 3* (7/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Rated this one as 2* (4/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished my 15th of this Challenge with:-

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Rated this one as 5* (9.5/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished my 16th of this Challenge with:-

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Rated this one as 4* (8.5/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished my 17th of this Challenge with:-

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Rated this one as 3* (6.5/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished my 18th of this Challenge with:-

Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville

Rated this one as 3* (5/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished my 19th and 20th of this Challenge with:-

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Rated this one as 2* (3.5/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Rated this one as 4* (8.5/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished my 21st and thus completed my Personal Challenge for this year with:-

The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith

Rated this one as 4* (8/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Now for the next 20 books in 2023 to complete the overall Challenge of the Penguin Top 100 Books!

Well done Kim!

Brenda wrote: "Well done Kim!"

Thanks Brenda. Been worth it overall as I have found some really good books that I probably would never have read otherwise!
Although a couple left me doubting my sanity - and that of the panel that selected the Top 100!!

Haha! Yes, I agree. The awards they do each year, even the GR choices at the end of the year! Who on earth chooses them! Certainly not your everyday people like you and me!