It is Finished

For three years I have been reading from the novel list in The Well Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer. This week I completed the list. I have read every word in 31 novels. Yeah! Yippy! Hurray for me!! Yes, I am pretty impressed with myself right now. But here is the part that you're really interested in:

Top 3 Favorite Books

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (of course!)
• The Return of the Native by Hardy
• The House of Mirth by Wharton

Most Hated

• Moby Dick

Authors I Plan to Read More Of

• Bunyan
• Austen (I've already read most of them)
• Bronte (and her sisters)
• Dickens
• Hardy
• Twain
• Wharton
• Orwell
• Morrison

And to think that I had only previously read one author before I started (I read 1984 a few years ago and my 7th grade teacher read Animal Farm aloud). But finishing this list is not the best part. Next I will be reading from the Poetry list. Wowzah! I can hardly wait.