Year of Horrible Reading

 I've always liked reading plans.  For awhile I was reading an American fiction novel from each decade from 1880-2000 in a year.  Other times, I've trying to do a set number of classics, biographies, etc.

Learned from Kleon that Ted Gioia (one of my main new music suppliers with his annual 100 best albums of each year- all the way back to 2011) also has a series of reading projects, including his Year of Horrible Reading.  And that's just the beginning, there's a number of sister sites, like the New Canon, and here a link to dozens of extended reviews of novels.

Here's his write up of the project:

This is my year of horrible reading.I am reading the classics of horror fiction during the course of 2016, and each week willwrite about a significant work in the genre.You are invited to join me in my annus horribilis. By the close of the year—if we survive—we will have tackled zombies, serialkillers, ghosts, demons, vampires, andmonsters of all denominations.