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My husband bought me the book 501 Must-Read Books last Christmas. While cleaning up the house this year, well actually last year, I found it with a stack of other books just hiding out on a shelf in the dining room. While flipping through it I got really excited about all the books I could read. You see, I love books and I love to read, the problem is I never know what to read so I love recommendations. So here it was in front of me, 501 recommendations. Perfect.

A couple of days after I decided to read all 501 books, I got the great idea to document my progress in a blog. I was super excited about my “original” idea and did a search to find out if someone else had done the same thing. Of course someone had. Several someone’s. Oh well, nothings original anymore anyway, right?

So here I am, documenting my way through 501 Must-Read Books. I don’t really have a plan of attack. I’m starting with the books I already own, there aren’t very many. I’ve read several of the books on the list already, but the perfectionist in me has come out and I must re-read those books in order to complete the project.

I plan to check out most of the books from my local library or borrow them from friends and family when I can. But I know I will buy several of the books to add to my collection. There are just certain books or authors that I want to have. Jane Austin is a favorite of mine and I already have many of her books. Sense and Sensibility is on the list and I don’t have that one in my collection yet.

Here I go.

Here are the books I already own and will be reading first (in no particular order):

Jane Eyre
The Portrait of a Lady
Wuthering Heights
The Scarlett Letter
Howards End
Little Women
The Catcher in the Rye
Brave New World
Walden
Treasure Island
The Great Gatsby
The Old Man and the Sea