Giving up genre lit for serious lit fic?!

So, this British guy decides to forego his usual diet of genre fiction, video games & surfing on the 'net to read the long list of this year's Booker Prize. What's the Man Booker Prize? Check HERE. Said Brit will be keeping a blog at the BBC news site.

This has sown a few seeds in my fertile little brain. Emphasis on little. Could I do the same & write dumb little ditties about my saga here? Could my straining book budget handle it? Could I say, read the entire Newbery list for this year or maybe the entire National Book Critic's List for young adults? The excuse being that our kids could then read them...