Allie's Readalongs

Title: Allie's Readalongs
Host: Allie
Timeframe: 1/month AND 1/two months for 2011

Below you'll find each of the 12 months of next year with two titles beneath it. A poll will go up 4 times during the year, and each poll will decide the fate of the three coming months. So, the books that will be battling each other during the year are as follows (remember, we're only reading one of these in each month, so vote for your favorite):

January: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins OR Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier

February: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens OR Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

March: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas OR Moby Dick by Herman Melville

April: Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence OR Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

May: The Iliad by Homer OR Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

June: Tom Jones by Henry Fielding OR Vanity Fair by William Thackeray

July: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens OR Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Burns

August: A Light in August by William Faulkner OR A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

September: Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell  OR Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

October: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson OR Hamlet by William Shakespeare

November: The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne OR Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

December: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen OR Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald


For each of the novels listed below, Allie will be hosting a two month long read-a-long (the above will only be during ONE month).

January and February: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

March and April: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

May and June: The Aenid by Virgil

July and August: Don Quixote by Miguel deCervantes

September and October: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

November and December: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

**Note on the picture: The veggie pic is not for Allie's readalongs; it just made sense to me. Eating your veggies is something you know you should do, and from time to time, they are quite wonderful. Exactly like readalong books.