50 Novels by September Challenge..

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So, last October I set myself the challenge of getting through 50 substantial (though the word 'substantial' is used fairly dubiously in some cases) books by the time I leave for university.
The fact that I have the attention span of a flea these days makes the challenge slightly difficult, but I'm soldiering on. Ha.

1) Breakfast At Tiffany's- Truman Capote
2) Bonjour Tristesse- Francoise Sagan
3) Animal Farm- George Orwell
4) The Heart Of The Matter- Graham Greene
5) On Chesil Beach- Ian McEwan
6) Slumdog Millionaire- Vikas Swarup
7) The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
8) On The Road- Jack Kerouac
9) Perfume- Patrick Suskind
10) Life Of Pi- Yann Martel
11) On Beauty- Zadie Smith
12) A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess
13) Heart Of Darkness- Joseph Conrad
14) Ghost Girl- Helena McEwen
15) The Blind Assassin- Margaret Atwood
16) The Reader- Bernhard Schlink
17) The Color Purple- Alice Walker
18) Watership Down- Richard Adams
19) The Book Thief- Markus Zusak
20) The Virgin Suicides- Jeffrey Eugenides
21) Fatherland- Robert Harris
22) The Road- Cormac McCarthy
23) The Handmaid's Tale- Margaret Atwood
24) The Secret Life Of Bees- Sue Monk Kidd
25) The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson
26) One Day- David Nicholls
27) The Butcher Boy- Patrick McCabe
28) Revolutionary Road- Richard Yates
29) Nineteen Eighty-Four- George Orwell
30) The Pianist- Wladyslaw Spilzman
31) Rebecca- Daphne Du Maurier
32) Cat's Eye- Margaret Atwood
33) Cannery Row- John Steinbeck
34) Saturday- Ian McEwan
35) Casino Royale- Ian Fleming
36) East, West- Salman Rushdie

I'll add to it whenever I finish another one. Though it takes me bloody ages to get through them now. I'm beginning to think that my mission will most definitely not be completed by the deadline. Damn! :(