Off-beat characters

The columnist is compiling a list of books that must be read in 2009. 

I’M still adding books to my 2009 reading challenge list. It’s something a group of us do: at the start of each year we decide on a book or a list of books that we must read. Last year, I decided that I should read any Charles Dickens novel and sometime in November I started and completed Bleak House. Success!