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A Chapter A Week, For A Year

Doorstops broken into portions. I did four of these over four years and would recommend the method to anyone who has given up on themselves.

a list by Marta7 books

  1. War and Peace

    Three hundred and sixty-one chapters. Do the arithmetic and start in January.

    Leo Tolstoy

    1
  2. 2
  3. Middlemarch

    Eight books, eight weeks if you are brisk. I was not brisk.

    George Eliot

    3
  4. Don Quixote

    The only funny one on the list.

    Miguel de Cervantes

    4
  5. Moby-Dick

    The whaling chapters are the point of the method.

    Herman Melville

    5
  6. Bleak House

    Charles Dickens

    6
  7. Ulysses

    I am on year two of this one and not embarrassed about it.

    James Joyce

    7