Movies and Books

I watch lots of tv and read lots of books. However I seem to have missed many of the classics along the way. Now I could just ignore this, as the generation behind me has also not read these books. But rather giving in to ignorance I prefer to make this into an interesting challenge. So for the next twelve months I have selected 12 movies and 24 books. If I miss one because I am busy. No big deal I will just move to the next months books. There is the little problem of November being busy for me so if possible I may try to read those books early. However, as you will see in a minute. My book selections are all very challenging so fitting a third in to a month may be hard. But we will see.

A couple years ago I saw a blog about people trying to read books that Rory Gilmore read on Gilmore Girls. I don't know about you but I loved that show! I looked over the list and there were many books I saw on the list that were classics that people make reference to but I had not read. So for two years I have wanted to read some of those books. I think I may have even blogged about my intentions last year to read some of the books. Either way it didn't get done but it is where I got many of the books from the list. A few, toward the bottom, are not on her list but I still wanted to read them so they are staying.

I pasted my lists below.

	Movie	Book 1	Book 2
January	Gone with the Wind	Gone with the Wind	Wizard of Oz
February	Sound of Music	Emma	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
March	Joe vs Volcano, When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Moveable Feast
April	Hitch Hikers guide to the galaxy	Catch-22	One Hundred Years of Solitude
May	Shawshank Redemption	Grimm Brothers	David Cooperfield
June	Godfather I, II, III	The Shining	Great Expectations
July	A clockwork Orange	Moby Dick	Joy Luck Club
August	Grease & Saturday Night Fever	A Tale of Two Cities	Oliver Twist
September	Pulp Fiction	1984	Little Women
October	Grapes of Wrath	Fahrenheit 451	The Secret life of Bees
November	The Silence of the Lambs	Devil in the White City	Wicked
December	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	Night	A Christmas Carol

For a few months a have more than one movie listed. They went together so I just stuck them together. For March I have the whole Meg Ryan movie thing going on so I even moved Moveable Feast to that month, her character in City of Angels read it.

What do you think of my list? Do you agree? Should I add something? Remove something?