A to Z Challenge 2010

Everyone seems to be joining many lovely looking challenges and I've been trying to keep an eye out for when they start in order to get in on the 2010 challenge action but without much luck so far. I did however find one that is starting up which fits in perfectly with my goal: the A to Z Challenge. I am choosing the 26 book author-based option. In short, you read a book per letter where the author's name starts with (in most cases) the letter. Naturally the books that I've picked have come from the 1001 list. Here is a working copy of my list:

The House of the Spirits	Isabel	Allende
The Sea	John	Banville
Breakfast at Tiffany’s	Truman	Capote
The Mandarins	Simone	de Beauvoir
Like Water for Chocolate	Laura	Esquivel
The Magus	John	Fowles
Cold Comfort Farm	Stella	Gibbons
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time	Mark	Haddon
A Pale View of Hills	Kazuo	Ishiguro
The Storm of Steel	Ernst	Junger
The Fan Man	William	Kotzwinkle
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	John	Le Carré
Your Face Tomorrow	Javier	Marias
Suite Francaise	Irene	Nemirovsky
The English Patient	Michael	Ondaatje
Snow	Orhan	Pamuk
Exercises in Style	Raymond	Queneau
Jealousy	Alain	Robbe-Grillet
The Reader	Bernhard	Schlink
The Master	Colm	Tóibín
Rabbit, Run	John	Updike
Bartleby and Co.	Enrique	Vila-Matas
Brideshead Revisited	Evelyn	Waugh
Half of Man is Woman	Zhang	Xianliang
Kitchen	Banana	Yoshimoto
Nana	Émile	Zola

Some of my letters are coming from articles rather than the names- de Beauvoir for example- but I'm hoping no one will be too picky about that. It's about the reading, right?

I'm hoping that there will be a chunkster challenge this year. I think a few of these books are fairly large (some of them are nice and short as well). There is nothing quite so exciting as a chunky book. Roller-coasters are overrated- I get my thrills from long reads.