THE BOOK PROJECT

OK - for those who have been weighing in on The Book List... the votes are in, and I've weighed several factors (not the least of which was page count, I'm afraid!) HA! Weightiness of the topic, my interest in said topic, etc.

A few books made my list -- even without anyone else's votes -- simply because I was interested in the story (Suite Francaise) or because I am desperate to read somethin...

g by the author (Nausea, by Sartre).

Here are the books - in their "intended" reading order, subject to change on a whim - or availability at the public library. :)

1. The Great Gatsby (currently on Chapter 3 - loving it.)
2. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

3. The Sun Also Rises by Ernie Hemingway
4. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
5. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
7. Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
8. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
9. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
10. The Stranger by Albert Camus
BONUS: Nausea, by Jean-Paul Sartre

Kind of feeling like the order is wrong - bad to end up on Nausea, but... was trying to build some early momentum with some short, easy wins on books I REALLY want to read...