The start date of the 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge is 12 Days Away!
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12 days to go until the start of the 50 in 52 Project Reading Challenge on June 1st! I have 2 sponsors and 15 page likes so far.
If you’re wondering what the 50 in 52 Project is all about and why I NEED YOUR HELP, all the info is below. You can also go to the 50 in 52 Project Facebook page or this blog. (Blog links are posted below the hash tag.)
I started a fundraiser called the 50 in 52 Project, a reading challenge, with all proceeds going to www.RAINN.org (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network), an organization that helps those whose voices are often silenced or ignored.
For the 50 in 52 Project, I made a list of 50 books and challenged myself to read them in one year, starting on June 1st, 2018.
Would you please sponsor me by pledging a $ amount per book that I read during the reading year? It works just like those reading drives many of us had in grade school. You could pledge $1 per book, $2, $5, whatever amount you like!
To pledge, just go here: http://bit.ly/50in52Project.
At the end of my reading year (June 1st, 2019), I’ll send you an invoice based on the number of books I’ve read.
If you have any questions, contact me at michael@50-in-52.org, through Facebook, or this web site.
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This is the 3rd 50 in 52 Project blog post.
Here are the links to the previou 50 in 52 Project posts:
1st post: https://www.michaelpatrickharrington.com/the-50-in-52-project/.
2nd post: https://www.michaelpatrickharrington.com/the-50-in-52-project-2/.
If you’re curious about my list of 50 books, I pasted it below.
It comes to around 18,274 pages!
Michael-Patrick’s List of Books for The 50 in 52 Project 2018
Rules of the List:
- Only modern fiction (from 1800 to present)
novels or novellas
short stories or short story collections
plays or screenplays
graphic novels - Only works written in English
- Only one work per author
1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
2. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1818)
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847)
4. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
5. 25 selected short stories by Edgar Allan Poe (1832-1849; the list of stories is posted at the bottom)
6. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)
7. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
8. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (1860)
9. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1861)
10. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)
11. Middlemarch by George Eliot (1872)
12. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (1881)
13. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
14. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1891)
15. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)
16. Howards End by E. M. Forester (1910)
17. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
18. My Ántonia by Willa Cather (1918)
19. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)
20. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
21. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)
22. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)
23. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by T. H. Lawrence (1928)
24. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930)
25. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
26. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
27. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (1947; a play)
28. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (1951)
29. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1951)
30. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952 – NOT the science-fiction novel)
31. The Crucible by Arthur Miller (1953; a play)
32. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
33. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (originally published in 3 volumes 1954-1955)
34. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
35. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
36. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (1966)
37. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
38. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977)
39. Sophie’s Choice by William Stryon (1979)
40. Where I’m Calling From by Raymond Carver (1988; short story collection)
41. Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons (1988; a graphic novel)
42. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1989)
43. The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992)
44. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon (1995)
45. Charming Billy by Alice McDermott (1997)
46. The Hours by Michael Cunningham (1998)
47. Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates (2000)
48. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (2003)
49. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
50. Room by Emma Donoghue (2010)
Edgar Allan Poe: 25 Selected Short Stories
1. “Metzengerstein”
2. “Ms. Found in a Bottle”
3. “Berenice”
4. “Morella”
5. “Ligeia”
6. “The Man that Was Used Up”
7. “The Fall of the House of Usher”
8. “William Wilson”
9. “The Man of the Crowd”
10. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
11. “A Descent into the Maelström”
12. “The Oval Portrait”
13. “The Masque of the Red Death”
14. “The Mystery of Marie Roget”
15. “The Pit and the Pendulum”
16. “The Tell-Tale Heart”
17. “The Gold-Bug”
18. “The Black Cat”
19. “The Premature Burial”
20. “The Purloined Letter”
21. “The Imp of the Perverse”
22. “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether”
23. “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”
24. “The Cask of Amontillado”
25. “Hop-Frog”