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  1. I've read 4 books, and I'm in the middle of 5th and 6th.
  2. Congratulations on reading 73 books last year, thus making 2018 the second best year for you so far! I hope you have a very satisfactory year of reading in 2019, as well!
  3. This talk makes me want to re-read The Graveyard Book. I liked it when I first read it, but I feel I didn't get the most out of it the first time. Happy reading in 2019, Ian!
  4. It's a massive novel, but very enjoyable! I personally couldn't put it down, which I found odd at the time because I'm not one for fantasy much... Enjoy! I hope you have a great reading year!
  5. Yay, the reading log is now set up! My log is pretty much the same as last year, minus the Round Robin challenge which I completely failed last year, as I couldn't get into it Sorry! And yet I've decided to take up another challenge The challenge is the annual Helmet reading challenge (Helmet being Helsinki Metropolitan libraries). I've heard about it before but this is the first year I've decided to get involved. I've only got myself to report to, and that suits me as I never know what mojo has planned for me. In case you're interested in what exactly the helmet reading challenge is, here's the English translation: Helmet reading challenge 2019 1. The book cover has a human face on it 2. Someone is looking for a missing person or an item in the book 3. A book from a genre you don’t usually read 4. The only book written by the author 5. The book has been a nominee for a book prize in your homeland 6. A romance novel 7. A book about a place you have visited 8. A book whose reading belongs to general knowledge in your opinion 9. A book recommended by someone under 18 years old 10. A book written by a person of colour 11. A book about women’s role in society 12. A book connected to Great Britain 13. A book for children or youth from your homeland 14. The authors last name starts with the same letter as yours 15. A taboo is dealt within the book A book about a taboo 16. A story that shifts between reality and unreality 17. There are twins in the book 18. A book written by a European writer 19. You don’t like the title of the book 20. The book deals with a culture that you are not familiar with 21. A book written by a celebrity 22. A book about climate change 23. The book title has a name of a country in it 24. Book chosen from a bookshelf with your eyes closed 25. A book from an author you have never read before 26. A book that you see someone you don’t know reading 27. The book is some way based on Nordic mythology 28. There is a moon on the book cover 29. Someone is dreaming in the book 30. The book cover has a city landscape on it 31. Someone travels by metro in the book 32. The book title has a profession in it 33. You have seen a movie based on the book 34. The book has writings by several writers in it 35. There is an entrepreneur or company in the book 36. Someone is alone in the book 37. A book published by a small publisher 38. A banned book 39. A book about the relationship between humans and animals 40. A book about mental health problems 41. A book about a time period you would like to live in 42. You like the name of the author 43. A book that follows the growth of a child to adulthood 44. A book about Berlin 45. The book title has a negative in it 46. The book has a trans or non-binary character in it 47. The book has less than 100 pages 48. The book has a hearing-impaired or visually impaired character in it 49. A book published in 2019 50. A book recommended by library personnel I'll try and find all suitable books in my bookcases, but I might have to resort to a few library loans. I've already done a lot of research on the subject and have found some titles. I will be updating the post above, with possible books and read books.
  6. Helmet Movie Challenge 2019 1. Elokuva pohjaa klassikkoromaaniin 2. Elokuvassa etsitään kadonnutta ihmistä tai esinettä - Tenacious D - The Pick of Destiny 3. Sellainen elokuva, jollaista et yleensä katso - Die Hard 4. Ohjaajan ainoa elokuva 5. Elokuva on ollut Jussi-ehdokkaana 6. Dokumenttielokuva 7. Elokuvan tapahtumat sijoittuvat paikkaan, jossa olet käynyt 8. Elokuva, jonka katsominen kuuluu mielestäsi yleissivistykseen 9. Yli 50-vuotiaan suosittelema elokuva 10. Rodullistetun ohjaajan elokuva 11. Elokuva käsittelee naisen asemaa yhteiskunnassa 12. Elokuva liittyy Tanskaan 13. Kotimainen lasten- tai nuortenelokuva 14. Elokuvan käsikirjoittajan sukunimi alkaa samalla kirjaimella kuin oma sukunimesi 15. Elokuvassa käsitellään jotain tabua 16. Elokuvassa liikutaan todellisen ja epätodellisen rajamailla 17. Elokuvassa on kaksoset 18. Aasialaisen ohjaajan elokuva 19. Et pidä elokuvan suomenkielisestä nimestä 20. Elokuva käsittelee sinulle entuudestaan vierasta kulttuuria 21. Tunnetun näyttelijän ohjaama elokuva 22. Mustavalkoinen elokuva 23. Sokkona hyllystä valittu elokuva 24. Elokuvassa on koira 25. Elokuvassa ollaan yksin 26. Usean ohjaajan episodielokuva 27. Riippumattomana tuotantona tehty indie-elokuva 28. Jossain päin maailmaa kielletty elokuva 29. Lyhytelokuva 30. Kirjaston henkilökunnan suosittelema elokuva 31. Mykkäelokuva 32. 1950-luvun Hollywood-elokuva 33. Supersankarielokuva 34. Yli kolme tuntia kestävä elokuva 35. Ranskan uuden aallon elokuva 36. Elokuvan julisteessa tai julkaisun kannessa on yli viisi henkilöä 37. Elokuva, joka on voittanut Oscar-palkinnon parhaasta elokuvasta 38. Elokuva, jonka IMDb-arvosana on alle 5 39. Kriitikoiden kehuma kauhuelokuva 40. Cannesin elokuvajuhlilla palkittu elokuva 41. Elokuvassa tutkitaan yliluonnollisia ilmiöitä 42. Fantasiamaailmaan sijoittuva elokuva 43. Vuonna 2019 julkaistu elokuva 44. Suosikkinäyttelijäsi tähdittämä elokuva 45. Espanjankielinen elokuva 46. 1980-luvulla tehty komedia - The Naked Gun 47. Alle 18-vuotiaan suosittelema elokuva 48. Elokuva, jossa ohjaaja näyttelee myös pääosan 49. Kahden tai useamman maan yhteistuotantoelokuva 50. Jouluelokuva - Jingle All the Way 4/50
  7. Helmet Reading Challenge 2019 (possible reads in pink, actual read books in blue) 1. The book cover has a human face on it - A Biography of a Face, Back Story by David Mitchell, 2. Someone is looking for a missing person or an item in the book - 3. A book from a genre you don’t usually read - Catch-22 4. The only book written by the author - Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak - 4/5 5. The book has been a nominee for a book prize in your homeland - Jää by Ulla-Lena Lundberg 6. A romance novel - A Suitable Boy 7. A book about a place you have visited - The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas - 4/5 8. A book whose reading belongs to general knowledge in your opinion - Sinuhe by Mika Waltari 9. A book recommended by someone under 18 years old - One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus 5/5 10. A book written by a person of colour - Becoming by Michelle Obama 11. A book about women’s role in society - Vapaa nainen törmää todellisuuteen 12. A book connected to Great Britain - A History of British Serial Killing 13. A book for children or youth from your homeland - Pese hampaat ennen kuin pussaat by Satu Kivinen - 3/5 14. The authors last name starts with the same letter as yours - Dark Half / Salem's Lot by Stephen King, Alastalon salissa by Volter Kilpi 15. A taboo is dealt within the book A book about a taboo - A Little Life by Hanya Yangihara 16. A story that shifts between reality and unreality - A Thursday Next novel by Jasper Fforde, Harjukaupungin käytävät by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen 17. There are twins in the book - East of Eden by John Steinbeck 18. A book written by a European writer - 19. You don’t like the title of the book - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler - 4/5 20. The book deals with a culture that you are not familiar with - Zorba the Greek 21. A book written by a celebrity - 22. A book about climate change - The Environment Equation by Alex Shimo-Barry - 2/5 23. The book title has a name of a country in it - 24. Book chosen from a bookshelf with your eyes closed - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier - 4/5 25. A book from an author you have never read before - 26. A book that you see someone you don’t know reading - Kafka on the Shore 27. The book is some way based on Nordic mythology - Koirien Kalevala by Mauri Kunnas - 2/5 28. There is a moon on the book cover - 29. Someone is dreaming in the book - 30. The book cover has a city landscape on it - Ääniä rappukäytävässä by Jukka-Pekka Palviainen 5/5 31. Someone travels by metro in the book - 32. The book title has a profession in it - 33. You have seen a movie based on the book - 34. The book has writings by several writers in it - 35. There is an entrepreneur or company in the book - 36. Someone is alone in the book - 37. A book published by a small publisher - Väkivaltatoimisto Sofiankatu 4A - väkivaltatutkijan muistelmia by Ilpo Keiski 4/5 38. A banned book - 39. A book about the relationship between humans and animals - Karhumies by Vesa Tuominen & Esa Silander 4/5 40. A book about mental health problems - 41. A book about a time period you would like to live in - 42. You like the name of the author - 43. A book that follows the growth of a child to adulthood - 44. A book about Berlin - 45. The book title has a negative in it - 46. The book has a trans or non-binary character in it - 47. The book has less than 100 pages - 48. The book has a hearing-impaired or visually impaired character in it - Star Gazing by Linda Gillard 2/5 49. A book published in 2019 - 50. A book recommended by library personnel - 12/50 read Where to put? We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin Mee - 2/5 - 12, 18, 25, 35, 39 The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty - 4/5 - 2, 15, 35 Harkinta-aika by Jukka-Pekka Palviainen - 3/5 - 29, 36, Three Wishes by Linda Moriarty - 4/5 - 6, 17, 29, 35 Andy Rock 'n' Roll Star by Lamppu Laamanen - 4/5 - 1, 25, 32 Siirtolainen by Ella Laurikkala - 4/5 - 2 People Like Us by Dana Mele - 2/5 - 25, 36 A Noise Downstairs by Linwood Barclay - 3/5 - 29, 40 Am I Normal Yet? by Holly Bourne - 4/5 - 11, 15, 40 Aihe vapaa Vauva.fi by Paula Mononen - 3/5 - The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney - 4/5 - The Class by Jenny Colgan - 3/5 - 2,12,18, 36
  8. These are ~ top read ~ challenge lists by certain members off the forum: Here's the link to the 2012 reading log post where I posted about this initially. 29.1.2012 Kylie: KYLIE'S TOP 40 FICTION Jane Austen: Emma read Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice read John Banville: The Book of Evidence Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 read Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre read Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange read Italo Calvino: If on a Winter's Night a Traveller TBR John Connolly: The Book of Lost Things TBR Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol read Charles Dickens: Great Expectations Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities read Alexandre Dumas: Count of Monte Christo TBR Mark Dunn: Ella Minnow Pea Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex read Michel Faber: The Crimson Petal and White read F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby read Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything is Illuminated read George Grossmith: Diary of a Nobody read Joseph Heller: Catch-22 TBR Susan Hill: The Woman in Black read Jack Kerouac: On the Road read Jack Kerouac: The Town and the City Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest read Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon read Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo read Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird read Erich Maria Marquez: All Quiet on the Western Front Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind read Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita read George Orwell: Animal Farm read Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged TBR Mary Shelley: Frankenstein read John Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath read John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men read Bram Stoker: Dracula read Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas TBR John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces read Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Tim Winton: Cloudstreet TBR Markus Zusak: The Book Thief read KYLIE'S TOP 10 YOUNG ADULT Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden read Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower read Suzanne Collins: Hunger Games (trilogy) Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth read John Marsden: Tomorrow, When the War Began (series) TBR A. A. Milne: Winnie the Pooh Walter Moers: The 13 ½ Lives of Captain Bluebear TBR Lucy M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables read J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter (series) read Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn TBR KYLIE'S TOP 13 NON-FICTION Bill Bryson: Down Under TBR Bill Bryson: A Walk in the Woods Byll Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything TBR Truman Capote: In Cold Blood read AB Facey: A Fortunate Life Tim Flannery: The Explorers TBR Tim Flannery: The Birth of Sydney Anne Frank: The Diary of Anne Frank read Helene Hanff: 84 Charing Cross Road read Steven D. Levitt: Freaconomics TBR Sylvia Plath: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath TBR Andrew Solomon: The Noonday Demon TBR Martin Toseland: A Steroid Hit the Earth Poppyshake Fiction (50) The First Law Trilogy - Joe Abercrombie Poppy Shakespeare - Clare Allen Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen read Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen read Arthur & George - Julian Barnes TBR City of Thieves - David Benioff Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke read The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly TBR The Sisters Brothers - Patrick deWitt read A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens read Great Expectations - Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens read Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides read The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde read Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer read Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman TBR Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith read Catch 22 - Joseph Heller TBR Grace Williams Says it Loud - Emma Henderson A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro TBR We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson Pigeon English - Stephen Kelman The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee read The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter & Jam - Lauren Liebenberg Company of Liars - Karen Maitland Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier read The Road - Cormac McCarthy Moby Dick - Herman Melville TBR Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell read The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford read Beloved - Toni Morrison The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch TBR Skippy Dies - Paul Murray TBR The Shipping News - Annie Proulx Gold - Dan Rhodes read The Wrong Boy - Willy Russell The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer read I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith The Help - Kathryn Stockett read The Earth Hums in B Flat - Mari Strachan The Secret History - Donna Tartt read The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf read The Book Thief - Markus Zusak read Young Adult Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll read The Perks of being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky read The Artemis Fowl series - Eoin Colfer Inkheart - Cornelia Funke read The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman read I Coriander - Sally Gardner Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon read The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis read Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne The Borrowers - Mary Norton Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett Tales of Terror series - Chris Priestley read/wishlist The Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling read The Bartimaeus Trilogy - Jonathan Stroud The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien - TBR Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien TBR The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ - Sue Townsend read Non-fiction Once in a House on Fire - Andrea Ashworth TBR The Iris Trilogy - John Bayley Along the Enchanted Way - William Blacker Notes from a Big Country - Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson TBR Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs read The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank read Howards End is on the Landing - Susan Hill read The Complete Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby read An Evil Cradling - Brian Keenan Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee The Mitford Girls - Mary S. Lovell TBR Stuart: A Life Backwards - Alexander Masters The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters TBR The Journals of Sylvia Plath TBR Bad Blood - Lorna Sage Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal - Jeanette Winterson * Recommended by Kylie, poppyshake and frankie: Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex Anne Frank: The Diary of Anne Frank Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter (series) Markus Zusak: The Book Thief * Steve The Malazan Book of the Fallen - Steven Erikson - my favourite fantasy series. I've banged the drum about it quite enough by now. It's like Marmite. Seven out of the ten books in the series are right at the top of my list: Gardens of the Moon / Deadhouse Gates / Memories of Ice / House of Chains / Midnight Tides / The Bonehunters / Toll the Hounds. The Belgariad - David Eddings - this was the series that introduced me to the fantasy genre. I loved it when I was 14 or 15. Not sure how I'd feel about it if I read it again now, but I have to include it here. On to the rest: Feersum Endjinn - Iain M. Banks Voyage - Stephen Baxter The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester read Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card A Man on the Moon - Andrew Chaikin (okay, this one isn't fiction!) Die Trying - Lee Child The Fifth Horseman - Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre The Winter King / Enemy of God / Excalibur (Warlord Trilogy) - Bernard Cornwell TBR Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Phillip K. Dick TBR Legend - David Gemmell The Forever War - Joe Haldeman The Reality Dysfunction / The Neutronium Alchemist / The Naked God (The Night's Dawn Trilogy) - Peter F. Hamilton Lustrum - Robert Harris Dune - Frank Herbert TBR The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay read Cujo - Stephen King read The Dead Zone - Stephen King Salem's Lot - Stephen King TBR The Shining - Stephen King read The Osterman Weekend - Robert Ludlum The Satan Bug - Alistair MacLean Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin TBR I Am Legend - Richard Matheson TBR Stinger - Robert McCammon Perdido Street Station - China Mieville The Redbreast - Jo Nesbo The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers Northern Lights - Phillip Pullman Chasm City - Alastair Reynolds Sovereign - C J Sansom TBR Arms of Nemesis - Steven Saylor Hyperion - Dan Simmons The Time Machine - H. G. Wells read The Kraken Wakes - John Wyndham The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon read * Frankie: Fiction (67 titles): Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Northanger Abby by Jane Austen Wasp Factory by Iain Banks Psycho by Robert Bloch The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne Crippen by John Boyne A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Ten Little Niggers by Agatha Christie Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Room by Emma Donoghue Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Under the Skin by Michel Faber The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg Marley and Me by John Grogan The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon The Last Family in England by Matt Haig Incidences by Daniil Harms Gentlemen & Players by Joanne Harris The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones Green Mile by Stephen King Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Dexter series by Jeff Lindsay The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch (and you need to watch the TV show!!) My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami Purge by Sofi Oksanen Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Gold by Dan Rhodes Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Push! by Sapphire Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve She Who Remembers by Linda Lay Shuler The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Dracula by Bram Stoker Perfume by Patrick Süskind Q&A by Vikas Swarup The Secret History by Donna Tartt Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh Night by Elie Wiesel The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Candide by Voltaire Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Non-fiction Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath by Ronald Hayman Between the Sheets – The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th Century Women Writers by Lesley McDowell Please Kill Me – The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain The Dirt by Mötley Crüe Stiff – The Life of the Human Cadavers by Mary Roach The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule Sybil by Flora Rheta Scheiber And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder by Deborah Spungen Young Adult The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism by Georgia Byng Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones The Bill Bergson series by Astrid Lindgren Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren Anastasia Krupnik series by Lois Lowry The Giver by Lois Lowry Emily of New Moon (series) by Lucy M. Montgomery Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling The Little Vampire by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg The Secred Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 12 ¾ by Sue Townsend * Updated list by Frankie: 8.9.2013 (in the order they come up in my manual reading log) *NEW* = new addition (FIN) = Finnish novel which hasn't unfortunately been translate into English, at least not yet, and therefore they are listed only for my own benefit Fiction Linda Lay Shuler: She Who Remembers Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting Stephen King: Misery *NEW* Kauko Röyhkä: Kaksi aurinkoa *NEW* (FIN) Jennifer Lynch: The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (also: watch the TV show!) Stephen King: Green Mile Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones books Jane Austen: Northanger Abby Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest Jane Austen: Persuasion *NEW* Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five Stephen King: Cujo *NEW* Katja Kallio: Kuutamolla *NEW* (FIN) Ingvar Ambjørnsen: Elling series *NEW* Donna Tartt: The Secret History Anita Shreve: The Weight of Water Fannie Flagg: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair Patrick Süskind: Perfume Andrey Kurkov: Death and the Penguin Carlos Ruiz Zafón: The Shadow of the Wind Jeff Lindsay: Dexter series Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex Stephen King: The Stand *NEW* Joanne Harris: Gentlemen & Players Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Sarah Waters: Fingersmith Markus Zusak: The Book Thief Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Lloyd Jones: Mister Pip John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces *NEW* Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Bram Stoker: Dracula Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange Anne Rice: Interview with a Vampire Sofi Oksanen: Purge John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Iain Banks: Wasp Factory Vikas Swarup: Q&A Jeffery Deaver: Lincoln Rhyme series *NEW* Chelsea Cain: Heartsick *NEW* Robert Bloch: Psycho Haruki Murakami: Sputnik Sweetheart Michel Faber: Under the Skin Charlaine Harris: Sookie Stackhouse series *NEW* Garth Stein: The Art of Racing in the Rain Karin Slaughter: Grant County + Will Trent series *NEW* Sophie Kinsella: Twenties Girl *NEW* Väinö Linna: The Unknown Soldier Linwood Barclay: Too Close To Home *NEW* Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany's Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon *NEW* Dan Rhodes: Gold Ira Levin: Rosemary's Baby *NEW* Sapphire: Push! Nick Hornby: Juliet, Naked *NEW* Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower Voltaire: Candide Grace Metalious: Peyton Place *NEW* Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird Poppy Z. Brite: Exquisite Corpse *NEW* Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Matt Haig: The Last Family in England Ann Patchett: Bel Canto John Steinbeck: The Wayward Bus Erich Segal: Love Story *NEW* Kazuo Ishiguro: A Pale View of Hills Emma Donoghue: Room Irene Nemirovsky: The Ball *NEW* Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons: Watchmen Peter Franzén: Tumman veden päällä *NEW* (FIN) Daniil Harms: Incidences Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises Linda Gillard: Emotional Geology *NEW* Daphne du Maurier: My Cousin Rachel Pirkko Saisio: Punainen erokirja *NEW* (FIN) Boris Akunin: The Winter Queen *NEW* L. M. Montgomery: The Blue Castle Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita *NEW* Tuomas Kyrö: Mielensäpahoittaja *NEW* (FIN) John Boyne: Crippen Siri Hustvedt: The Summer Without Men Dai Sijie: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress *NEW* Anna-Leena Härkönen: Häräntappoase *NEW* (FIN) Nevil Shute: Pied Piper *NEW* William Goldman: The Marathon Man *NEW* Stephen Fry: The Hippopotamus *NEW* Dennis Lehane: Shutter Island *NEW* Muriel Barbery: The Elegance of the Hedgehog *NEW* Inna Patrakova: Naapurit *NEW* Guy Gavriel Kay: The Lions of Al-Rassan *NEW* Karin Brunk Holmqvist: Pieni potenssipuoti *NEW* Sue Monk Kidd: The Secret of Bees *NEW* Alex Garland: The Beach *NEW* David Mitchell: Black Swan Green *NEW* Lucy Dillon: The Secret of Happy Ever After *NEW* Jari Tervo: Pyhiesi yhteyteen *NEW* (FIN) Kathryn Stockett: Help *NEW* Non-fiction Deborah Spungen: And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Sylvia Beach: Shakespeare and Company Augusten Burroughs: Running with Scissors Alain de Botton: How Proust Can Change Your Life Tuula-Liina Varis: Kilpikonna ja olkimarsalkka *NEW* (FIN) Ronald Hayman: The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath Augusten Burroughs: Dry *NEW* Augusten Burroughs: A Wolf at the Table John Grogan: Marley and Me Ann Rule: The Stranger Beside Me Vicki Myron: Dewey - The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World *NEW* Dave Peltzer: A Child Called It *NEW* (this is very disturbing, though, so beware!) Vincent Bugliosi: Helter Skelter *NEW* Nick Hornby: The Complete Polysyllabic Spree *NEW* Mötley Crüe: The Dirt Augusten Burroughs: Magical Thinking *NEW* Mary Roach: Stiff – The Life of the Human Cadavers Augusten Burroughs: Possible Side Effects *NEW* Flora Rheta Scheiber: Sybil Peggy Claude-Pierre: The Secret Language of Eating Disorders *NEW* Philip Gonzalez: The Dog Who Rescues Cats *NEW* Lesley McDowell: Between the Sheets – The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th Century Women Writers Tobias Wolff: This Boy's Life *NEW* Constance Briscoe: Ugly *NEW* Christopher V. V. Parnell: Hell's Prisoner *NEW* Danny Wallace: Yes Man *NEW* Pamela Druckerson: French Children Don't Throw Food *NEW* Children/Young Adult Angela Sommer-Bodenburg: The Little Vampire Maria Gripe: Salaisuus varjossa *NEW* Lois Lowry: Anastasia series Anu Jaantila: Dear Sanna *NEW* (FIN) Astrid Lindgren: Brothers Lionheart J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter series Lucy M. Montgomery: Emily of New Moon series Astrid Lindgren: Bill Bergson series Sue Townsend: Adrian Mole series Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince Diana Wynne Jones: Fire and Hemlock Lois Lowry: The Giver Georgia Byng: Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism Mary Rodgers: Freaky Friday *NEW* Chris Priestley: Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden Roald Dahl: Matilda *NEW* Cornelia Funke: Inkheart *NEW* Updated list by poppyshake 11.9.2013 Poppyshake's 133 books You Must Read Before You Die List (with further apologies for any you've read that you think suck I'd be very grateful if you didn't point them out ) Fiction Ben Aaronovitch - Rivers of London series NEW - TBR Joe Abercrombie - The First Law Trilogy Edward Albee - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf NEW - READ Clare Allen - Poppy Shakespeare Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey - READ Jane Austen - Persuasion NEW - READ Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice - READ Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility NEW - READ Julian Barnes - Arthur & George - TBR David Benioff - City of Thieves Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights - READ Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None NEW - READ Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - READ John Connolly - The Book of Lost Things - TBR Patrick deWitt - The Sisters Brothers - READ Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol - READ Charles Dickens - Bleak House - NEW Charles Dickens - Great Expectations - TBR Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities - READ Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime & Punishment - TBR Mark Dunn - Ella Minnow Pea NEW Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex - READ Jasper Fforde - The Thursday Next series - READ / TBR Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated - READ Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere TBR Paul Gallico - Mrs Harris Goes to Paris NEW - READ George & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody - READ Joseph Heller - Catch 22 - TBR Emma Henderson - Grace Williams Says it Loud John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go - TBR Eowyn Ivey - The Snow Child NEW - READ Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle Mette Jakobsen - The Vanishing Act NEW - TBR Thomas Keneally - Schindlers Ark NEW Stephen Kelman - Pigeon English Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible Andrey Kurkov - Death and the Penguin - NEW - READ Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird - READ Lauren Liebenberg - The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter & Jam Karen Maitland - Company of Liars Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies NEW Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude Daphne du Maurier - My Cousin Rachel NEW - READ Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca - READ Cormac McCarthy - The Road Herman Melville - Moby Dick TBR Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind - READ Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love - READ Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus NEW Toni Morrison - Beloved Iris Murdoch - The Sea, The Sea - TBR Paul Murray - Skippy Dies TBR Irene Nemirovsky - Suite Francaise NEW Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar NEW - READ Annie Proulx - The Shipping News Dan Rhodes - Gold - READ Ransom Riggs - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children NEW Willy Russell - The Wrong Boy F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby NEW - READ Maria Semple - Where'd You Go Bernadette NEW - READ Mary Ann Shaffer - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - READ Lynn Shepherd - Tom All-Alones NEW - TBR Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle Kathryn Stockett - The Help - READ Bram Stoker - Dracula NEW - READ Mari Strachan - The Earth Hums in B Flat Donna Tartt - The Secret History - READ Voltaire - Candide NEW - READ Sarah Waters - The Little Stranger Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse - READ Markus Zusak - The Book Thief - READ Young Adult Richard Adams - Watership Down NEW Joan Aiken - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase NEW Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - READ Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of being a Wallflower - READ Eoin Colfer - The Artemis Fowl series Roald Dahl - Matilda NEW - READ Cornelia Funke - Inkheart - READ Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book - READ Sally Gardner - I Coriander Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - READ C.S. Lewis - The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe - READ A.A. Milne - Winnie the Pooh Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls NEW Mary Norton - The Borrowers Terry Pratchett - Wintersmith Chris Priestley - Tales of Terror series J.K. Rowling - The Harry Potter series - READ Jonathan Stroud - The Bartimaeus Trilogy J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit - TBR J.R.R. Tolkien - Lord of the Rings - TBR Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ - READ P.L. Travers - Mary Poppins NEW - READ Catherynne M.Valente - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making NEW Non-fiction Andrea Ashworth - Once in a House on Fire TBR Clare Balding - My Animals and Other Family NEW John Bayley - The Iris Trilogy William Blacker - Along the Enchanted Way James Bowen - A Streetcat Named Bob NEW - READ Bill Bryson - Notes from a Big Country Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island - TBR Bill Bryson - The Lost Continent NEW Augusten Burroughs - Running with Scissors - READ Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl - READ Stephen Fry - Moab is My Washpot NEW - TBR Stephen Fry - The Fry Chronicles NEW - READ Angelica Garnett - Deceived with Kindness NEW Susan Hill - Howards End is on the Landing - READ Nick Hornby - The Complete Polysyllabic Spree - READ William Horwood - The Boy With No Shoes NEW Brian Keenan - An Evil Cradling Richard Kennedy - A Boy at the Hogarth Press NEW Hermione Lee - Virginia Woolf NEW Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie Mary S. Lovell - The Mitford Girls - TBR Alexander Masters - Stuart: A Life Backwards Sarah Miles - Right Royal B*stard NEW David Mitchell - Back Story NEW - TBR Caitlin Moran - How To Be A Woman NEW Charlotte Mosly - Letters Between Six Sisters (Mitfords) - TBR Steven Naafeh & Gregory White Smith - Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith - Van Gogh: The Life NEW George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London NEW Sylvia Plath - The Journals of Sylvia Plath - TBR Lorna Sage - Bad Blood Oscar Wilde - De Profundis NEW Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? Elie Wiesel - Night NEW - READ Virginia Woolf - A Room of Ones Own NEW Virginia Woolf - Selected Diaries NEW Virginia Woolf - Selected Letters NEW Broadening horizons Sci-fi + fantasy enthusiast vs. normal book enthusiast 2012: Karsa Orlong's suggestions to frankie: Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers Replay by Ken Grimwood 4/5 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester 4/5 Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds The Forever War by Joe Haldeman frankie's suggestions to Karsa Orlong: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 10/10 Crippen by John Boyne Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Under the Skin by Michel Faber Fingersmith by Sarah Waters 7/10 2013: Karsa Orlong's suggestions to frankie: The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell (first in a trilogy) TBR Storm Front by Jim Butcher (first in the Dresden Files series) TBR The Terror by Dan Simmons The Wine of Angels by Phil Rickman (first book in the Merrily Watkins series) The Breach by Patrick Lee (Breach trilogy book 1) Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis (Milkweed Tryptich book 1) TBR frankie's suggestions to Karsa Orlong: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Q&A by Vikas Swarup Marathon Man by William Goldman 9/10 Beyond the Great Indoors by Ingvar Ambjørnsen Poppyshake's updated list, January 2016 Fiction Ben Aaronovitch - Rivers of London series tbr Joe Abercrombie - The First Law Trilogy tbr Boris Akunin - The Winter Queen read Edward Albee - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf read Clare Allen - Poppy Shakespeare (my biography ) Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey read Jane Austen - Persuasion read Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice read Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility read Julian Barnes - Arthur & George tbr David Benioff - City of Thieves Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights read Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None read Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell read John Connolly - The Book of Lost Things tbr Patrick deWitt - The Sisters Brothers read Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol read Charles Dickens - Bleak House Charles Dickens - Great Expectations Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities read Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime & Punishment Mark Dunn - Ella Minnow Pea Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex read Jasper Fforde - The Thursday Next series Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated read Claire Fuller - Our Endless Numbered Days Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere tbr George & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody read Joseph Heller - Catch 22 tbr Jason Hewitt - The Dynamite Room John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go Eowyn Ivey - The Snow Child read Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle Mette Jakobsen - The Vanishing Act tbr Thomas Keneally - Schindler's Ark Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible Andrey Kurkov - Death and the Penguin read Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird read Lauren Liebenberg - The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter & Jam Karen Maitland - Company of Liars Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude Daphne du Maurier - My Cousin Rachel read Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca read Cormac McCarthy - The Road Herman Melville - Moby Dick tbr Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind read Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love read Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus Toni Morrison - Beloved Iris Murdoch - The Sea, The Sea tbr Paul Murray - Skippy Dies tbr Irene Nemirovsky - Suite Francaise Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar read Annie Proulx - The Shipping News Dan Rhodes - Gold read Ransom Riggs - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children tbr Willy Russell - The Wrong Boy F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby read Maria Semple - Where'd You Go Bernadette read Mary Ann Shaffer - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society read Lynn Shepherd - Tom All-Alones tbr Dai Sijie - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress read Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle John Steinbeck - East of Eden tbr Bram Stoker - Dracula read Mari Strachan - The Earth Hums in B Flat Donna Tartt - The Secret History read Voltaire - Candide read Sarah Waters - The Little Stranger Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse read Markus Zusak - The Book Thief read Young Adult Richard Adams - Watership Down Joan Aiken - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland read Eoin Colfer - The Artemis Fowl series Roald Dahl - Matilda read Cornelia Funke - Inkheart read Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book read Sally Gardner - I Coriander Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time read C.S. Lewis - The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe read A.A. Milne - Winnie the Pooh Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls Mary Norton - The Borrowers Terry Pratchett - Wintersmith Chris Priestley - Tales of Terror series read J.K. Rowling - The Harry Potter series read Robin Stevens - Murder Most Unladylike tbr Jonathan Stroud - The Bartimaeus Trilogy J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit tbr J.R.R. Tolkien - Lord of the Rings tbr Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ read P.L. Travers - Mary Poppins read Catherynne M.Valente - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Non-fiction Andrea Ashworth - Once in a House on Fire - tbr Clare Balding - My Animals and Other Family John Bayley - The Iris Trilogy William Blacker - Along the Enchanted Way Bill Bryson - Notes from a Big Country Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island tbr Bill Bryson - The Lost Continent Augusten Burroughs - Running with Scissors read Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl read Stephen Fry - Moab is My Washpot tbr Angelica Garnett - Deceived with Kindness Susan Hill - Howards End is on the Landing read Nick Hornby - The Complete Polysyllabic Spree read William Horwood - The Boy With No Shoes Brian Keenan - An Evil Cradling Richard Kennedy - A Boy at the Hogarth Press Hermione Lee - Virginia Woolf Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie Mary S. Lovell - The Mitford Girls tbr Sarah Miles - Right Royal B*stard Caitlin Moran - How To Be A Woman Charlotte Mosley - Letters Between Six Sisters (Mitford's) tbr Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith - Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith - Van Gogh: The Life George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London Sylvia Plath - The Journals of Sylvia Plath tbr Nina Stibbe - Love, Nina Oscar Wilde - De Profundis Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? Elie Wiesel - Night read Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf - Selected Diaries Virginia Woolf - Selected Letters
  9. 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - challenge Pre-1700 1001. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus 1000. Metamorphoses – Ovid 999. Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton 998. Aithiopika – Heliodorus 997. The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius 996. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous 995. Gargantua and Pantagruel – François Rabelais 994. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly 993. The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe 992. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 991. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan 990. The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette 989. Oroonoko – Aphra Behn 1700s 988. A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift (TBR) 987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe 986. Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood 985. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe 984. Roxana – Daniel Defoe 983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift 982. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift 981. Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding 980. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift 979. Pamela – Samuel Richardson 978. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson 977. Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett 976. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding 975. Fanny Hill – John Cleland 974. Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett 973. Amelia – Henry Fielding 972. The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox 971. Candide – Voltaire 970. Rasselas – Samuel Johnson 969. Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau 968. Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot 967. Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau 966. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole 965. The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith 964. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne 963. A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne 962. The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie 961. Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett 960. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (TBR) 959. Evelina – Fanny Burney 958. Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau 957. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 956. Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau 955. Cecilia – Fanny Burney 954. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade 953. Vathek – William Beckford 952. Justine – Marquis de Sade 951. The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin 950. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano 949. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe (TBR) 948. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 947. The Monk – M.G. Lewis (TBR) 946. Camilla – Fanny Burney 945. Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot 944. The Nun – Denis Diderot 943. Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin 1800s 942. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth 941. Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 939. The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth 938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 937. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen 936. Emma – Jane Austen 935. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott 934. Ormond – Maria Edgeworth 933. Persuasion – Jane Austen 932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen 931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 930. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott 929. The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott 928. Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin 927. The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin 926. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg 925. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper 924. The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni 923. The Red and the Black – Stendhal 922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo 921. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac 920. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac 919. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol 918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 917. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens 916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe (TBR) 915. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal 914. Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol 913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 912. Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac 911. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe (TBR) 910. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens 909. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe (TBR) 908. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 907. La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas 906. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 905. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë 903. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë 902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë 901. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë 900. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell 899. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë 898. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne 896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville (TBR) 895. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne 894. The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne 893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe 892. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell (TBR) 891. Villette – Charlotte Brontë 890. Bleak House – Charles Dickens 889. Walden – Henry David Thoreau (TBR) 888. Hard Times – Charles Dickens 887. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell 886. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 885. Adam Bede – George Eliot 884. Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov 883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 882. Max Havelaar – Multatuli 881. The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne 880. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 879. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot 878. Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope 877. On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev 876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 875. Silas Marner – George Eliot 874. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev 873. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo 872. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley 871. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky 870. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu 869. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens 868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky 866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne 865. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope 864. Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola 863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott 862. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins 861. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky 860. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont 859. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope 858. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert 857. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 856. He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope 855. King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev 854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll 853. Middlemarch – George Eliot 852. Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev 851. Erewhon – Samuel Butler 850. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky 849. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu 848. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne 847. The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov 846. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 845. The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert 844. The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy 843. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot 842. Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev 841. Drunkard – Émile Zola 840. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 839. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy 838. The Red Room – August Strindberg 837. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky 836. Nana – Émile Zola 835. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace 834. Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert 833. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James 832. The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga 831. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson 830. A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant 829. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy 828. Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans 827. Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater 826. Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant 825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain (TBR) 824. Germinal – Émile Zola 823. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard 822. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson 821. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy 820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson 819. She – H. Rider Haggard 818. The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy 817. The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg 816. Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés 815. Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant 814. The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson 813. Hunger – Knut Hamsun 812. By the Open Sea – August Strindberg 811. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola 810. The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy 809. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde 808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 807. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf 806. New Grub Street – George Gissing 805. News from Nowhere – William Morris 804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 803. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith 802. Born in Exile – George Gissing 801. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman 800. The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross 799. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 798. Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane 797. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells 796. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells 795. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz 794. Dracula – Bram Stoker 793. Fruits of the Earth – André Gide 792. What Maisie Knew – Henry James 791. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells 790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells 789. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James 788. The Awakening – Kate Chopin (TBR) 787. The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane 786. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross 1900s 785. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad 784. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser 783. Kim – Rudyard Kipling 782. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann 781. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 779. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James 778. The Immoralist – André Gide 777. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers 776. The Ambassadors – Henry James 775. The Golden Bowl – Henry James 774. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe 773. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad 772. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster 771. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann 770. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton 769. The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy 768. Young Törless – Robert Musil 767. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair 766. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad 765. Mother – Maxim Gorky 764. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson 763. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett 762. The Iron Heel – Jack London 761. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster 760. The Inferno – Henri Barbusse 759. Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells 758. Strait is the Gate – André Gide 757. Martin Eden – Jack London 756. Three Lives – Gertrude Stein 755. Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel 754. Howards End – E.M. Forster 753. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre 752. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton 751. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens 750. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann 749. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence 748. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell 747. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs 746. Rosshalde – Herman Hesse 745. Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel 744. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki 743. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan 742. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence 741. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham 740. The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf 739. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford (TBR) 738. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke 737. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse 736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce 735. Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton 734. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen 733. Summer – Edith Wharton 732. The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad 731. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West 730. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis 729. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf 728. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence 727. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis 726. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton 725. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley 724. The Fox – D.H. Lawrence 723. Ulysses – James Joyce 722. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis 721. Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence 720. The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus 719. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair 718. The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton 717. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse 716. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf 715. The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings 714. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield 713. Amok – Stefan Zweig 712. Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley 711. Cane – Jean Toomer 710. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo 709. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet 708. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster 707. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin 706. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann 705. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen 704. Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville 703. The Professor’s House – Willa Cather 702. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky 701. The Trial – Franz Kafka 700. The Counterfeiters – André Gide 699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald 698. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf (TBR) 697. Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos 696. The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein 695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie 694. One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello 693. The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence 692. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek 691. The Castle – Franz Kafka 690. Blindness – Henry Green 689. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway 688. Amerika – Franz Kafka 687. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson 686. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf 685. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust 684. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse 683. Nadja – André Breton 682. Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford 681. Quicksand – Nella Larsen 680. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh 679. Quartet – Jean Rhys 678. The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis 677. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall (TBR) 676. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence 675. Orlando – Virginia Woolf 674. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille 673. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe 672. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau 671. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner 670. Harriet Hume – Rebecca West 669. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen 668. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin 667. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque 666. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia 665. Living – Henry Green 664. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett 663. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway 662. Passing – Nella Larsen 661. Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico 660. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett 659. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh 658. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning 657. The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis 656. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham 655. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett 654. The Waves – Virginia Woolf 653. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth 652. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett 651. To the North – Elizabeth Bowen 650. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 648. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline 647. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon 646. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil 645. A Day Off – Storm Jameson 644. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain 643. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein (TBR) 642. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers 641. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West 640. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth 639. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse 638. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald 637. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh 636. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller 635. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain 634. Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev 633. Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht 632. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers 631. Burmese Days – George Orwell 630. England Made Me – Graham Greene 629. The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen 628. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy 627. The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood 626. Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti 625. Independent People – Halldór Laxness 624. Nightwood – Djuna Barnes 623. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft 622. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner 621. Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson 620. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell 619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell 618. The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West 617. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley 616. Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner 615. To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway (TBR) 614. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson 613. The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis 612. In Parenthesis – David Jones 611. The Years – Virginia Woolf 610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien (TBR) 609. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston 608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 607. Murphy – Samuel Beckett 606. U.S.A. – John Dos Passos 605. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene 604. Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler 603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier 602. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre (TBR) 601. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson 600. After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner 599. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler 598. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys 597. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller 596. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood 595. Coming Up for Air – George Orwell 594. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien 593. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce 592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 591. Party Going – Henry Green 590. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati 589. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene 588. Native Son – Richard Wright 587. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway (TBR) 586. Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler 585. The Hamlet – William Faulkner 584. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf 583. Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton 582. The Living and the Dead – Patrick White 581. The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien 580. Conversations in Sicily – Elio Vittorini 579. The Outsider – Albert Camus 578. Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner 577. Embers – Sandor Marai 576. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse 575. Caught – Henry Green 574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 573. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow 572. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges 571. Transit – Anna Seghers 570. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham 569. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi 568. Arcanum 17 – André Breton 567. Loving – Henry Green 566. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford 565. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck 564. Animal Farm – George Orwell 563. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 562. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andric 561. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake (TBR) 560. Back – Henry Green 559. The Plague – Albert Camus 558. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino 557. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry 556. If This Is a Man – Primo Levi 555. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau 554. The Victim – Saul Bellow 553. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann 552. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton 551. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene 550. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot 549. Disobedience – Alberto Moravia 548. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani 547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell 546. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren 545. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier 544. The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen 543. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge 542. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford 541. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk 540. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese 539. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov 538. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing 537. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake (TBR) 536. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber 535. The Third Man – Graham Greene 534. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz 533. The Abbot C – Georges Bataille 532. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene 531. Molloy – Samuel Beckett 530. The Rebel – Albert Camus 529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger 528. The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq 527. Foundation – Isaac Asimov 526. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham 525. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett 524. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar 523. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson 522. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor 521. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway 520. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison 519. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt 518. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming 517. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin 516. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow 515. Junkie – William Burroughs 514. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis 513. Watt – Samuel Beckett 512. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett 511. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler 510. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley 509. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch 508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding 507. A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia 506. The Story of O – Pauline Réage 505. Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis 504. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch 503. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan 502. The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini 501. The Recognitions – William Gaddis 500. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis 499. The Quiet American – Graham Greene 498. The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett 497. A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen 496. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 495. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith 494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien (TBR) 493. The Floating Opera – John Barth 492. Seize the Day – Saul Bellow 491. The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary 490. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon 489. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin 488. Justine – Lawrence Durrell 487. The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber 486. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak 485. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov 484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac 483. Homo Faber – Max Frisch 482. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille 481. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham 480. Voss – Patrick White 479. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet 478. The Bell – Iris Murdoch 477. The Once and Future King – T.H. White 476. The End of the Road – John Barth 475. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan 474. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico 473. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe 472. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe 471. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon 470. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 469. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe 468. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote 466. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll 465. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark 464. Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow 463. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes 462. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass 461. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs 460. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse 459. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee 458. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary 457. Rabbit, Run – John Updike 456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee 455. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien 454. Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino 453. How It Is – Samuel Beckett 452. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor 451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller (TBR) 450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark 449. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass 448. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem 447. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame 446. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch 445. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger 444. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein 443. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani 442. Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien 441. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges 440. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing 439. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard 438. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov 437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess 436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey 435. The Collector – John Fowles 434. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 432. Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess 431. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark 430. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré 429. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol 428. The Graduate – Charles Webb 427. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut 426. V. – Thomas Pynchon 425. Herzog – Saul Bellow 424. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras 423. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe 422. Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson 421. Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme 420. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey 419. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector 418. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor 417. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut 416. August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien 415. The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o 414. Things – Georges Perec 413. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon (TBR) 412. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth 411. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys 410. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras 409. The Magus – John Fowles (TBR) 408. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote 407. Trawl – B.S. Johnson 406. The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West 405. A Man Asleep – Georges Perec 404. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien 403. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson 402. The Joke – Milan Kundera 401. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson 400. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov 399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez 398. The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa 397. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe (TBR) 396. Chocky – John Wyndham 395. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf 394. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines 393. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan 392. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz 391. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry 390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick 389. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke 388. The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 387. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 386. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen 385. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch 384. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal 383. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen 382. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec 381. Them – Joyce Carol Oates 380. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov 379. The Godfather – Mario Puzo (TBR) 378. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth 377. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis 376. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles 375. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 374. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines 373. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover 372. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado 371. The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard 370. Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson 369. Troubles – J.G. Farrell 368. Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett 367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou 366. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke 365. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison 364. The Ogre – Michael Tournier 363. The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark 362. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima 361. Rabbit Redux – John Updike 360. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs 359. Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll 358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson (TBR) 357. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow 356. In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul 355. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson 354. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood 353. G – John Berger 352. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson 351. The Breast – Philip Roth 350. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino 349. Sula – Toni Morrison 348. The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch 347. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon 346. The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene 345. Crash – J.G. Ballard 344. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino 343. The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell 342. A Question of Power – Bessie Head 341. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong 340. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré 338. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll 337. Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee 336. The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle 335. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow 334. Correction – Thomas Bernhard 333. Dead Babies – Martin Amis 332. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow 331. High Rise – J.G. Ballard 330. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan 329. Fateless – Imre Kertész 328. The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme 327. Grimus – Salman Rushdie 326. A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell 325. W, or the Memory of childhood – Georges Perec 324. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez 323. Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf 322. Amateurs – Donald Barthelme 321. Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg 320. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice 319. The Public Burning – Robert Coover 318. Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo 317. The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke 316. The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector 315. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison 314. Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o 313. Dispatches – Michael Herr 312. The Shining – Stephen King 311. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin 310. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter 309. In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee 308. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt 307. Yes – Thomas Bernhard 306. The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell 305. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch (TBR) 304. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec (TBR) 303. The World According to Garp – John Irving 302. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan 301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 300. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino (TBR) 299. The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll 298. Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer 297. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul 296. Shikasta – Doris Lessing 295. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré 294. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera 293. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco 292. City Primeval – Elmore Leonard 291. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 290. Rituals – Cees Nooteboom 289. Rites of Passage – William Golding 288. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 287. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee 286. Broken April – Ismail Kadare 285. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin 284. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer 283. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan 282. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray 281. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike 280. The Names – Don DeLillo 279. Concrete – Thomas Bernhard 278. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin 277. The Newton Letter – John Banville 276. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende 275. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally 274. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro 273. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard 272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker 271. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White 270. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi 269. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus 268. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek 267. The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing 266. The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee 265. Waterland – Graham Swift 264. La Brava – Elmore Leonard 263. Fools of Fortune – William Trevor 262. Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett 261. Shame – Salman Rushdie 260. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis 259. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes 258. Neuromancer – William Gibson 257. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker 256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera 255. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter 254. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 253. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard 252. The Lover – Marguerite Duras 251. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago 250. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman 249. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi? 248. Legend – David Gemmell 247. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd 246. Queer – William Burroughs 245. White Noise – Don DeLillo 244. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard 243. Perfume – Patrick Süskind 242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 241. Contact – Carl Sagan 240. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis 239. A Maggot – John Fowles 238. The Cider House Rules – John Irving 237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson 236. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez 235. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann 234. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel 233. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi 232. Foe – J.M. Coetzee 231. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard 230. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro 229. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt 228. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis 227. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons 226. Marya – Joyce Carol Oates 225. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o 224. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore 223. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae 222. Beloved – Toni Morrison 221. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul 220. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle 219. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster (TBR) 218. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe (TBR) 217. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews 216. The Child in Time – Ian McEwan 215. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind 214. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson 213. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy 212. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke 211. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble 210. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams (TBR) 209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams 208. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga 207. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks 206. Libra – Don DeLillo 205. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey 204. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst 203. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie 202. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson 201. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White 200. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco 199. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood 198. The Book of Evidence – John Banville 197. London Fields – Martin Amis 196. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving 195. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel (TBR) 194. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago 193. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway 192. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker 191. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai 190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 189. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow 188. Moon Palace – Paul Auster 187. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson 186. A Disaffection – James Kelman 185. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle 184. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi 183. Possession – A.S. Byatt (TBR) 182. Like Life – Lorrie Moore 181. A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham 180. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien 179. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster 178. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge 177. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald 176. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon 175. Amongst Women – John McGahern 174. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard 173. Wise Children – Angela Carter 172. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres 171. Downriver – Iain Sinclair 170. Regeneration – Pat Barker 169. Typical – Padgett Powell 168. Mao II – Don DeLillo 167. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis 166. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis 165. Wild Swans – Jung Chang 164. Arcadia – Jim Crace 163. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud 162. Black Dogs – Ian McEwan 161. Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) 160. The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín 159. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates 158. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe 157. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg 156. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje 155. Jazz – Toni Morrison 154. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson 153. The Crow Road – Iain Banks (TBR) 152. Indigo – Marina Warner 151. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker 150. A Heart So White – Javier Marias 149. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch 148. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar 147. The Secret History – Donna Tartt 146. The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald 145. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood 144. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd 143. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides 142. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields 141. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth (TBR) 140. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe 139. On Love – Alain de Botton 138. Complicity – Iain Banks (TBR) 137. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth 136. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy 135. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks (TBR) 134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh 133. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx 132. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm 131. Disappearance – David Dabydeen 130. Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor 129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres 128. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman 127. City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol 126. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi 125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami (TBR) 124. The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee 123. Land – Park Kyong-ni 122. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq 121. The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst 120. Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster 119. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis 118. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose 117. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 116. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink 115. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald 114. Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth 113. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie 112. The Information – Martin Amis 111. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner 110. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro 109. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood 108. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin 107. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace 106. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse 105. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker 104. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels 103. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker 102. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard 101. Silk – Alessandro Baricco 100. The Untouchable – John Banville 99. American Pastoral – Philip Roth 98. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin 97. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey 96. Underworld – Don DeLillo 95. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan 94. Great Apes – Will Self 93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 92. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy 91. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon 90. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho 89. The Hours – Michael Cunningham (TBR) 88. Another World – Pat Barker 87. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis 86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver 85. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters (TBR) 84. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon 83. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom 82. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks 81. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan 80. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi 79. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq 78. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami 77. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee 76. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie 75. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb 74. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy 73. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakulic 72. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson 71. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra 70. Timbuktu – Paul Auster 2000s 69. Pastoralia – George Saunders 68. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates (TBR) 67. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski (TBR) 66. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard 65. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande 64. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami (TBR) 63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood 62. The Human Stain – Philip Roth 61. How the Dead Live – Will Self (TBR) 60. City of God – E.L. Doctorow 59. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy 58. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace 57. Ignorance – Milan Kundera 56. Under the Skin – Michel Faber 55. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda 54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith 53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare 52. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho 51. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma 50. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa 49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel 48. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk 47. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill 46. Fury – Salman Rushdie 45. The Body Artist – Don DeLillo 44. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini 43. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen 42. Atonement – Ian McEwan 41. Schooling – Heather McGowan 40. Platform – Michael Houellebecq 39. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald 38. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi 37. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster 36. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon 35. Dead Air – Iain Banks 34. Youth – J.M. Coetzee 33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides 32. Shroud – John Banville 31. In the Forest – Edna O’Brien 30. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern 29. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor 28. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami (TBR) 27. Unless – Carol Shields 26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer 25. The Double – José Saramago 24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters 23. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry 22. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair 21. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee 20. Islands – Dan Sleigh 19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon 18. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt 17. The Light of Day – Graham Swift 16. Thursmother of a puppy dog! – Alan Garner 15. The Colour – Rose Tremain 14. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle 13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell (TBR) 12. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair 11. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd 10. Vanishing Point – David Markson 9. The Master – Colm Tóibín 8. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth 7. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble 6. The Sea – John Banville (TBR) 5. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson 4. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee 3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith 2. Saturday – Ian McEwan 1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro (TBR) 14.3.2013: 100/1001 30.3.2019: 106/1001
  10. The Rory Gilmore reading challenge This list includes all the titles in the three different lists that I have, and of course the new titles referred to in the 2016 Gilmore Girls season And a very special thank you to Kylie <3 Who combined all three lists and made them into this big one! Thanks you Kylie! 1. Aeschylus: (no specific title) 2. Uwem Akpan: Say You're One of Them 3. Celeste Albaret: Monsieur Proust 4. Edward Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 5. Mitch Albom: Tuesdays with Morrie 6. Mitch Albom: The Five People You Meet in Heaven 7. Louisa May Alcott: Little Women 8. Sholem Aleichem: Tevya The Dairyman and the Railroad Stories 9. Robert Alexander: The Kitchen Boy 10. Monica Ali: Brick Lane 11. Dante Aligheri: The Divine Comedy 12. Dante Aligheri: Inferno 13. Isabel Allende: Eva Luna 14. Isabel Allende: The House of the Spirits 15. Isabel Allende: Daughter of Fortune 16. Hans Christian Andersen: The Little Match Girl 17. Maya Angelou: The Heart of a Woman 18. A Manette Ansay: Vinegar Hill 19. Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake 20. Jane Austen: Emma 21. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice 22. Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey 23. Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility 24. Paul Auster: Oracle Night 25. L Frank Baum: The Scarecrow of Oz 26. L Frank Baum: The Wizard of Oz 27. Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot 28. Elizabeth Berg: Open House 29. Maeve Binchy: Tara Road 30. TJ Binyon: Pushkin: A Biography 31. Judy Blume: Deenie 32. Chris Bohjalian: Midwives 33. Richard Nelson Bolles: What Colour is Your Parachute? 34. Anthony Bourdain: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly 35. Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 36. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre 37. Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights 38. Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code 39. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets from the Portugese TBR 40. Pearl S Buck: The Good Earth 41. Vincent Bugliosi: Helter Skelter 42. Charles Bukowski: Notes of a Dirty Old Man 43. Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita 44. Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange 45. Judith Butler: Gender Trouble 46. William E Cain: The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism 47. Truman Capote: In Cold Blood 48. Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 49. Michael Chabon: Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay 50. Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales, The 51. Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower 52. Kate Chopin: The Awakening TBR 53. Jill Ciment: Heroic Measures 54. Breena Clarke: River, Cross my Heart 55. Pearl Cleage: What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day 56. Hillary Clinton: It Takes a Village 57. Hillary Clinton: Living History 58. Judith Ortiz Cofer: The Meaning of Consuelo 59. Anne Collett: Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals 60. Carlo Collodi: Pinocchio 61. Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness 62. Blanche Wiesen Cook: Eleanor Roosevelt 63. Bill Cosby: The Best Way to Play 64. Bill Cosby: The Treasure Hunt 65. Bill Cosby: The Meanest Thing to Say 66. Greg Critser: Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World 67. Edwidge Danticat: Breath, Eyes, Memory 68. Robertson Davies: The Manticore 69. Honore De Balzac: Cousin Bette 70. Simone De Beauvoir: The Second Sex TBR 71. Simone De Beauvoir: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter TBR 72. Julia De Burgos: Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems 73. Don Miguel: De Cervantes Don Quixote 74. Isaak Denison: Out of Africa 75. Pamela Des Barres: I'm With the Band TBR 76. Anita Diamant: The Red Tent 77. Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities 78. Charles Dickens: David Copperfield 79. Charles Dickens: Great Expectations 80. Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit 81. Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist 82. Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol 83. Charles Dickens: Our Mutual Friend 84. Emily Dickinson: The New Poems of Emily Dickinson 85. Joan Didion: The Year of Magical Thinking 86. Fyodor Dostoevsky: Demons 87. Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment 88. Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedy 89. Daphne Du Maurier: Rebecca 90. Andre Dubus III: House of Sand and Fog 91. Peter Duff: The Bielski Brothers 92. Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo TBR 93. Mark Dunn: Ella Minnow Pea 94. Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose 95. Dave Eggers: (no specific title) 96. Dave Eggers: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 97. Barbara Ehrenreich: Nickel and Dimed 98. Bret Easton Ellis: Less than Zero 99. Nora Ephron: I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman TBR 100. Louise Erdich: Love Medicine 101. Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex 102. Jeffrey Eugenides: The Virgin Suicides 103. Michel Faber: The Crimson Petal and the White 104. Susan Faludi: Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women TBR 105. Henry Farrell: What Happened to Baby Jane? 106. William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury 107. William Faulkner: Sanctuary 108. William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying 109. William Faulkner: Light in August 110. Jack Finney: Time and Again 111. Janet Fitch: White Oleander TBR 112. F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby 113. F Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is the Night 114. Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary 115. Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything is Illuminated 116. Ken Follett: The Pillars of the Earth TBR 117. Ford Maddox Ford: The Good Soldier TBR 118. EM Forster: A Room with a View 119. EM Forster: A Passage to India 120. Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl 121. Al Franken: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them 122. Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections 123. James Frey: A Million Little Pieces 124. Milton Friedman: A Monetary History of the United States 125. Ernest Gaines: A Lesson Before Dying 126. Edward Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 127. Kaye Gibbons: Ellen Foster 128. Kaye Gibbons: A Virtuous Woman 129. William Gibson: The Miracle Worker 130. Allen Ginsberg: Howl TBR 131. Nikolai Gogol: Dead Souls 132. Myla Goldberg: Bee Season TBR 133. William Golding: Lord of the Flies 134. William Goldman: Marathon Man 135. Sue Grafton: R is for Ricochet 136. Sue Grafton: S is for Silence 137. Alvin Granowsky: Goldilocks and the Three Bears 138. Lucy Grealy: Autobiography of a Face TBR 139. Brothers Grimm: Snow White and the Rose Red 140. Brothers Grimm: Rapunzel 141. Tim Guest: My Life in Orange 142. Mark Haddon: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 143. Rachel Howzell: A Hall Quiet Storm 144. Jane Hamilton: The Book of Ruth 145. Jane Hamilton: A Map of the World 146. Joe Harvard: Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) 147. Katharine Butler Hathaway: The Little Locksmith 148. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter 149. Melinda Haynes: Mother of Pearl 150. Seamus Heaney: Beowulf: A New Verse Translation 151. Ursula Hegi: Sacred Time 152. Ursula Hegi: Stones from the River 153. Joseph Heller: Catch-22 TBR 154. Lillian Hellman: The Children's Hour 155. Ernest Hemingway: To Have and Have Not TBR 156. Ernest Hemingway: Snows of Kilimanjaro TBR 157. Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises 158. Ernest Hemingway: A Moveable Feast TBR 159. Seymour M Hersh: My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath 160. Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha 161. Laura Hillenbrand: Seabiscuit: An American Legend 162. SE Hinton: The Outsiders 163. Alice Hoffman: Here on Earth 164. Virginia Holman: Rescuing Patty Hearst 165. Nick Hornby: High Fidelity 166. Nick Hornby: The Polysyllabic Spree 167. Nick Hornby: Songbook (31 Songs) 168. Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner 169. Arianna Huffington: Pigs at the Trough 170. Victor Hugo: The Hunchback of Notre Dame 171. Aldous Huxley: Brave New World 172. MJ Hyland: How the Light Gets In 173. Shirley Jackson: Lottery, The and Other Stories 174. Henry James: The Art of Fiction 175. Henry James: Daisy Miller 176. Jan Lars Jensen: Nervous System TBR 178. Spencer Johnson: Who Moved My Cheese? TBR 179. James Joyce: Finnegan's Wake 180. James Joyce: Ulysses 181. Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis 182. Franz Kafka: The Trial 183. Donald Kagan: Archidamian War 184. Donald Kagan: The Fall of the Athenian Empire 185. Donald Kagan: The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War 186. Donald Kagan: The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition 187. Susanna Kaysen: Girl, Interrupted 188. Carolyn Keene: Nancy Drew series 189. Helen Keller: The Story of My Life 190. William J Kennedy: Iron Weed 191. Jack Kerouac: On the Road 192. Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 193. Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon 194. Sue Monk Kidd: The Secret Life of Bees 195. Stephen King: The Shining 196. Stephen King: Carrie 197. Stephen King: Christine 198. Stephen King: Cujo 199. Stephen King: Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption 200. Dick King-Smith: Babe 201. Barbara Kingsolver: The Poisonwood Bible 202. Karl Ove Knausgård: My Struggle TBR 203. John Knowles: A Separate Peace 204. Frederick Kohner: Gidget 205. Marie Kondo: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up TBR 206. Gary Krist: Extravagance 207. Jhumpa Lahiri: The Namesake 208. Wally Lamb: I Know This Much is True 209. Wally Lamb: She's Come Undone 210. Erik Larsson: The Devil in the White City TBR 211. Jerome Lawrence: Inherit the Wind 212. DH Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover 213. Norman Lebrecht: Song of Names 214. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird 215. Tommy Lee: The Dirt 216. Alan Jay Lerner: Brigadoon 217. Jonathan Lethem: The Fortress of Solitude 218. Billie Letts: Where the Heart Is 219. Ira Levin: Rosemary's Baby 220. Andrea Levy: Small Island TBR 221. Lawrence Lipton: The Holy Barbarians 222. Hugh Lofting: Dr Dolittle 223. Bret Lott: Jewel 224. David Macauley: The New Way Things Work 225. Ann-Marie MacDonald: Fall on Your Knees 226. Mojo Magazine: Mojo Magazine Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion 267. Norman Mailer: The Naked and the Dead 268. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude 269. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera 270. Julie Mars: A Months of Sundays 271. Yann Martel: Life of Pi 272. Valerie Martin: Property 273. W Somerset Maugham: The Razor's Edge 274. Mary McCarthy: The Group 275. Mary McCarthy: A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays 276. Cormac McCarthy: The Road 277. Frank McCourt: Angela’s Ashes 278. Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 279. Gregory McDonald: Fletch 280. Ian McEwan: Atonement 281. James McKean: Quattrocento 282. Emma McLaughlin: The Nanny Diaries 283. Larry McMurtry: Terms of Endearment 284. Legs McNeil: Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk 285. John McPhee: (no specific title) 286. Herman Melville: Moby Dick TBR 287. HL Mencken: A Mencken Chrestomathy TBR 288. HL Mencken: My Life as Author and Editor TBR 289. Grace Metalious: Peyton Place 290. Phillip Meyers: The Vanishing Newspaper 291. Nancy Milford: Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay 292. Arthur Miller: The Crucible TBR 293. Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman 294. Henry Miller: Sexus 295. Sue Miller: While I Was Gone 296. Rohinton Mistry: A Fine Balance 297. Jacquelyn Mitchard: The Deep End of the Ocean 298. Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind 299. Michael Moore: Fahrenheit 9/11 300. Barrington Moore: Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World 301. Robert Morgan: Gap Creek 302. Mary McGarry: Morris Songs in Ordinary Time 303. Toni Morrison: Beloved 304. Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye 305. Toni Morrison: Paradise 306. Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon 307. Toni Morrison: Sula 308. Vladimir Nabokov: Speak, Memory TBR 309. Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran 310. Fredrich Nietzche: The Portable Nietzche 311. Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife 312. Charles Nordhoff: Mutiny on the Bounty 313. Tawni O'Dell: Back Roads 314. Joyce Carol Oates: We Were the Mulvaneys 315. Julie Orringer: How to Breathe Underwater 316. George Orwell: 1984 317. Julie Otsuka: When the Emperor Was Devine 318. Malika Oufkir: Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail 319. Elaine Pagels: The Gnostic Gospels 320. Dorothy Parker: The Portable Dorothy Parker TBR 321. Ann Patchett: Bel Canto 322. Ann Patchett: Truth and Beauty TBR 323. Alan Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country 324. Jodi Piccoult: My Sister's Keeper 325. Sylvia Plath: Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath TBR 326. Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar 327. Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven 328. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems 329. Sidney Poitier: The Measure of a Man 330. Dawn Powell: Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 331. Dawn Powell: Complete Novels 332. Dawn Powell: Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to Be Born 333. Steven Pressfield: Legend of Bagger Vance, The 334. Marcel Proust: Swann's Way 335. Mario Puzo: The Godfather TBR 336. Anna Quindlen: Black and Blue 337. Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead TBR 338. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: The Yearling 339. Roger Reger: Emily the Strange 340. Sheri Reynolds: The Rapture of Canaan 341. Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet TBR 342. Mary Roach: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 343. Henry Robert: Robert's Rules of Order 344. Elisabeth Robinson: True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters 345. Mary Rodgers: Freaky Friday 346. JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 347. JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 348. Arundhati Roy: God of Small Things, The 349. Theodore Isaac Rubin: David and Lisa 350. Gwyn Hyman Rubio: Icy Sparks 351. Richard Russo: Empire Falls 352. JD Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye 353. JD Salinger: Franny and Zooey 354. Felix Salten: Bambi 355. Jack Schaefer: Shane 356. Bernhard Schlink: The Reader 357. Flora Schreiber: Sybil 358. Christina Schwarz: Drowning Ruth 359. Alice Sebold: The Lovely Bones 360. David Sedaris: Holidays on Ice 361. David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One Day 362. Erich Segal: Love Story 363. Dr Seuss: How the Grinch Stole Christmas 364. Anne Sexton: The Complete Poems 365. William Shakespeare: A Comedy of Errors 367. William Shakespeare: Richard III 368. William Shakespeare: The Sonnets TBR 369. William Shakespeare: Macbeth 370. William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet 371. William Shakespeare: Hamlet 372. William Shakespeare: Othello 373. William Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part 1 374. William Shakespeare: Henry IV, Part 2 375. William Shakespeare: Henry V 376. William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar 377. George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion 378. Mary Shelley: Frankenstein 379. William Tecumseh: Sherman Memoirs of General WT Sherman 380. Carol Shields: Unless 381. Anita Shreve: The Pilot's Wife 382. Dai Sijie: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress 383. Upton Sinclair: The Jungle 384. Daniel Sinker: We Owe You Nothing - Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews 385. Betty Smith: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 386. Donald J Sobol: Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective 387. Joseph Stein: Fiddler on the Roof 388. John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath 389. John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men 390. John Steinbeck: East of Eden TBR 391. Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 392. Rick Steves: Europe through the Back Door, 2003 393. Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin 394. Cheryl Strayed: Wild TBR 395. William Styron: Sophie's Choice TBR 396. Jacqueline Susann: Valley of the Dolls 397. Ron Suskind: Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill 398. Lalita Tademy: Cane River 399. Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club 400. Amy Tan: The Opposite of Fate TBR 401. Hobart Chatfield Taylor: Moliere: A Biography 402. William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair 403. Hunter S Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas TBR 404. Hunter S Thompson: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 405. Kay Thompson: Eloise 406. Henry David Thoreau: Walden TBR 407. Judith Thurman: Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette TBR 408. JRR Tolkien: Return of the King TBR 409. JRR Tolkien: The Fellowship of the Ring TBR 410. Eckhart Tolle: A New Earth 411. Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina 412. Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace 413. John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces 414. Lisa Tucker: The Song Reader 415. Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn TBR 416. Mark Twain: The Jumping Frog 417. Sun Tzu: The Art of War 418. Alfred Uhry: Driving Miss Daisy 419. Gore Vidal: The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 420. Tony Vigorito: Just a Couple of Days 421. Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five 422. Kurt Vonnegut: Galapagos 423. Myra Waldo: Myra Waldo's Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 424. David Foster Wallace: Consider the Lobster 425. Charles Webb: The Graduate 426. Jacob Weisberg: George W. Bushisms: The Slate Book of The Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President 427. Rebecca Wells: The Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood 428. Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting 429. Eudora Welty: The Collected (Short) Stories 430. Edith Wharton: Roman Holiday 431. Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome 432. Edith Wharton: (no specific title) 433. EB White: Stuart Little 435. EB White: Charlotte's Web 436. Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass 437. Elie Wiesel: Night 438. Kate Douglas Wiggin: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 439. Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray 440. Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire 441. PG Wodehouse: The Code of the Woosters 442. Tobias Wolff: Old School 443. Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own 444. Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway TBR 445. Tom Woolfe: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test TBR 446. William Wordsworth: Tevya The Dairyman and the Railroad Stories 447. David Wroblewski: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle 448. Elizabeth Wurtzel: Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women 449. Carlos Ruiz Zafon: The Shadow of the Wind 450. Compact Oxford English Dictionary 451. Homer: The Iliad 452. Several biographies of Winston Churchill 453. Bhagavad Gita 454. Voltaire: Candide 455. The Merry Wives of Windsor 456. Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 457. Selected Hotels of Europe 458. Spinoza Ethics 459. Hidden Romantic Gems of the Restaurant World 460. He's Just Not That Into You Read: 102/460
  11. Wishlist Samantha Hayes Fiction Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff (Mac) The Bad Seed by William March The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters Caligula by Douglas Jackson Capital by John Lanchester The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb How to Stop Time by Matt Haig (Riikka) I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb Let's Kill Uncle by Rohan O'Grady Looking for Peyton Place by Barbara Delinsky Old School by Tobias Woolf Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A. S. King Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York by Gail Parent (GR) Suicide Notes by Michael Thomas Ford Tell No One by Harlan Coben The Suicide Shop by Jean Teulé (GR) The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst L We Are Water by Wally Lamb L Non-fiction Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight by M. E. Thomas Dangerous Instincts: Use An FBI Profiler's Tactics to Avoid Unsafe Situations by Mary Ellen O'Toole Emotional Vampires by Albert Bernstein Essays in Love by Alain de Botton The Happy Introvert: A Wild and Crazy Guide to Celebrating Your True Self by Elizabeth Wagele In Love with a Serial Killer by Sandy Fawkes Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength by Laurie Helgoe Introvert's Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World by Sophia Dembling The Last Victim by Jason Michael Moss Letters of John Keats The Mermaid Man: The Autobiography of Hans Christian Andersen Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret (Albaret was Proust's housekeeper) No Easy Answers - The Truth Behind Death at Columbine High School by Brooks Brown Paperboy by Christopher Fowler A Queer and Pleasant Danger: A Memoir by Kate Bornstein The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir by Lillian Hellman Wild Mind by Natalie Goldberg Writers Gone Wild: The Feuds, Frolics, and Follies of Literature's Great Adventurers, Drunkards, Lovers, Iconoclasts, and Misanthropes by Bill Peschel Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
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TBR A - Aalto, Aleksi: Rintaperillinen - Aaronovitch, Ben: Moon Over Soho - Aaronovitch, Ben: Rivers of London - Aavasto, Kaulio, Syrjälä: Jännittääkö? - Abercrombie, Joe: Best Served Cold - Adams, Douglas: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1001) - Adler-Olsen, Jussi: Poika varjoista - Adler-Olsen, Jussi: Tapaus 64 - Aidan, Pamela: An Assembly Such as This #1 - Aidan, Pamela: Duty and Desire #2 - Akunin, Boris: Patasotilas - Akunin, Boris: Turkish Gambit - Alatalo; Tuomas: Olen ja saan sanoa - Aldridge, Kitty: A Trick I Learned from Dead Men - Andersson, Claes: Jokainen sydämeni lyönti - Armstrong, Kelley: Exit Strategy - Ashworth, Andrea: Once in a House on Fire - Auster, Paul: The New York Trilogy B - Bachman, Richard: Roadwork - Bachman, Richard: The Running Man - Baker, Frank: Miss Hargreaves - Banks, Iain: Complicity - Banks, Iain: The Crow Road (1001) - Banville, John: The Sea (1001) - Barlettani, Elvio: Junakoira Lampo - Barnes, Julian: Arthur & George - Barres, Pamela des: I'm with the Band – Confessions of a Groupie (RG-B) - Barrows, Annie: The Truth According to Us - Barthes, Roland: The Pleasure of the Text - Beauvoir, Simone de: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter - Beauvoir, Simone de: Voiman vuodet - Beauvoir, Simone de: Pariisi 1939-44 - Beauvoir, Simone de: Maailman meno - Beauvoir, Simone de: Asioiden laita - Beauvoir, Simone de: Loppujen lopuksi - Beauvoir, Simone de: The Second Sex - Bellow, Saul: The Adventures of Augie March - Bernieres, Louis de: Red Dog - Binet, Laurent: The 7th Function of Language - Binet, Laurent: HHhH - Boyne, John: Mutiny on the Bounty - Bradshaw, John: In Defence of Dogs - Briscoe, Constance: Beyond Ugly - Brite, Poppy Z.: Drawing Blood (CF) - Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: Sonnets from the Portuguese (RG-B) - Bryson, Bill: Down Under - Bryson, Bill: Mother Tongue - Bryson, Bill: Notes from a Small Island - Bryson, Bill: A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bucay, Jorge: Kerro kanssani - Burns, David D.: Feeling Good Together - Butcher, Jim: Storm Front #1 - Butler, Gillian: Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness - By, Oddbjörn: Memo - Byatt, A. S.: Possession C - Cain, Susan: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Calvino, Italo: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1001) - Carey, Peter: Bliss - Carey, Peter: True History of the Kelly Gang (Aussie read, 1001) - Carpelan, Bo: Lehtiä syksyn arkistosta - Cassady, Neal: The First Third - Charriére, Henri: Papillon - Chase, Truddi: When Rabbit Howls - Chopin, Kate: The Awakening (RG-b) - Clark, Emma Chichester: Plumdog - Clark, Marcus: For the Term of His Natural Life (from Kylie, Aussie read) - Clarke, George: Capote - A Biography - Clunes, Martin: A Dog's Life - Colgan, Jenny: Class - Connolly, John: The Book of Lost Things - Coolidge, Susan: What Katy Did - Cornwell, Bernard: The Winter King - Cunningham, Michael: The Hours (1001) D - Danielewski, Mark Z.: House of Leaves (1001) - Deaver, Jeffery: The Bodies Left Behind (s-a) - Deaver, Jeffery: The Devil's Teardrop (s-a) - Deaver, Jeffery: Edge (s-a) - Deaver, Jeffery: Mistress of Justice (s-a) - Deaver, Jeffery: The Garden of Beasts (s-a) - Deaver, Jeffery: The Lesson of Her Death (s-a) - Deaver, Jeffery: Speaking in Tongues (s-a) - Deaver, Jeffery: The Empty Chair #3 LR - Deaver, Jeffery: The Stone Monkey #4 LR - Deaver, Jeffery: The Vanished Man #5 LR - Deaver, Jeffery: The Twelfth Card #6 LR - Deaver, Jeffery: The Cold Moon #7 LR - Deaver, Jeffery: The Broken Window #8 LR - Deaver, Jeffery: The Kill Room - Deaver, Jeffery: Manhattan Is My Beat #1 RT - Deaver, Jeffery: Death of a Blue Movie Star #2 RT - Deaver, Jeffery: Hard News #3 RT - Deaver, Jeffery: Roadside Crosses #2 KD - Deaver, Jeffery: Shallow Graves #1 JP - Deaver, Jeffery: Bloody River Blues #2 JP - Deaver, Jeffery: Hell's Kitchen #3 JP - Deaver, Jeffery: Twisted Co - Dicker, Joël: The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair - Dicker, Joël: Baltimoren sukuhaaran tragedia - Dillon, Lucy: The Ballroom Class - Donnelley, Paul: 501 Most Notorious Crimes - Doyle, Ursula (ed.): Love Letters by Great Men and Women - Droit, Roger-Pol: Astonish Yourself: 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life - Duffy, Carol Ann: The Christmas Truce - Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo - Duranti, Francesca: Talo Kuujärven rannalla E - Egan, Jennifer: A Visit from the Goon Squad - Ellmann, Richard: Oscar Wilde - Elton, Ben: Past Mortem - Ephron, Nora: I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts On Being a Woman - Erikson, Steven: Gardens of the Moon - Erikson, Thomas: Idiootit ympärilläni - Esquival, Laura: Like Water for Chocolate (1001) F - Faludi, Susan: Backlash (RG-b) - Faulks, Sebastian: Birdsong (1001) - Faulks, Sebastian: Faulks on Fiction - Faulks, Sebastian: Human Traces - Fforde, Jasper: Lost in a Good Book #2 - Fforde, Jasper: The Well of Lost Plots #3 - Fforde, Jasper: Something Rotten # 4 - Fforde, Jasper: First Among Sequels #5 - Fforde, Jasper: The Big Over Easy #1 - Fitch, Janet: White Oleander - Fitch, Noel Riley (ed.): Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties & Thirties - Flannery, Tim: The Explorers - Foenkinos, David: Delicacy - Foer, Jonathan Safran: Here I Am - Follett, Ken: The Pillars of the Earth - Follett, Ken: World Without End - Fonda, Jane: My Life So Far - Fowler, Christopher: Full Dark House - Fowles, John: The Magus (1001) - Franzén, Peter: Samoilla silmillä - Fry, Stephen: The Liar - Fry, Stephen: Making History - Fry, Stephen: Moab Is My Washpot - Funke, Cornelia: Inkworld G - Gaiman, Neil: Anansi Boys - Gaiman, Neil: Neverwhere - Gardell, Jonas: En komikers uppväxt - Gardell, Jonas: Ett ufo gör entré - Gaskell, Elizabeth: Cranford (1001) - George, Margaret: The Autobiography of Henry VIII With Notes By His Fool, Will Somers - Gerdt, Armas: Petrin matka Myyrmanniin - Gillard, Linda: A Lifetime Burning - Gillard, Linda: Star Gazing - Ginsberg, Allen: The Book of Martyrdom + Artifice - Goethe, J. W. von: The Sorrows of Young Werther (1001, 501) - Gold, Glen David: Carter Beats the Devil - Goldberg, Myla: Bee Season - Goldberg, Natalie: Wild Mind. Living the Writer's Life - Goleman, Daniel: Emotional Intelligence - Grandell, Ronnie: Irti itsekritiikistä - Grealy, Lucy: Autobiography of a Face - Gruen, Sara: Water for Elephants - Guiliano, Mireille: French Women Don't Get Fat - Guinn, Jeff: The Road to Jonestown - Jim Jones and Peoples Temple H - Haavikko, Ritva (ed.): Mika Waltari - Kirjailijan muistelmia - Haavio, Katarina & Koskimies, Satu: 50-luvun teinit - päiväkirjat ja kirjeet 1957-1960 - Hakkarainen, Anna-Kaari: Purkaus - Hall, Radclyffe: The Well of Loneliness - Hamid, Mohsin: The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Hammond, Claudia: Emotional Rollercoaster - Harari, Yuval Noah: Homo Deus. A Brief History of Tomorrow - Harford, Tim: The Undercover Economist - Harris, Charlaine: Dead in the Family - Harris, Joanne: Chocolat - Hayder, Mo: Birdman #1 - Hayder, Mo: Tokyo (s-a) - Heikkinen, Mikko-Pekka: Jääräpää - Hekanaho, Mustola, Lassila & Suhonen: Uusin silmin - lesbinen katse kulttuuriin - Heller, Joseph: Catch-22 (1001, RG-B) - Hemingway, Ernest: By-Line - Hemingway, Ernest: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1001) - Hemingway, Ernest: Green Hills of Africa - Hemingway, Ernest: A Moveable Feast (RG-b) - Hemingway, Ernest: To Have and Have Not - Hemingway, Leicester: My Brother Ernest Hemingway - Herbert, Frank: Dune - Hessérus, Madeleine: Paljain jaloin - Hietamies, Heikki: Sydän toivoa täynnä - Hill, Susan: The Small Hand - Holloway, Monica: Driving with Dead People - Hotakainen, Kari: Juoksuhaudantie - Hotchner, A. E.: Papa Hemingway - Howe, Katherine: The Lost Book of Salem - Hunt, Rebecca: Mr Chartwell - Hustvedt, Siri: The Enchantment of Lily Dahl - Härkönen, Anna-Leena: Ihan ystävänä sanon ja muita kirjoituksia - Härkönen, Anna-Leena: Takana puhumisen taito I - Introduction to Psychology - Ishiguro, Kazuo: Never Let Me Go (1001) - Izzo, Kim: The Jane Austen Marriage Manual J - Jaakkola, Kaisa: Hyvän olon hormonidieetti - Jakobsen, Mette: The Vanishing Act - James, E. L.: Fifty Shades of Grey - Jensen, Jan Lars: Nervous System (RG-b) - Johnson, Dr Spencer: Who Moved My Cheese? (RG-b) - Jones, Lloyd: Hand Me Down World - Jones, Wendy: The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price Purveyor of Superior Funerals - Junkkari, Lari ja Kaija Maria: Läsnä ja lähellä - Juusola, Mervi: Äidin voimakirja - Järvinen, Katriina & Pietilä, Tuulikki: Vapaa nainen törmää todellisuuteen - Jääskeläinen, Pasi Ilmari: Harjukaupungin salakäytävät K - Kaarsbol, Jette: Suljettu kirja - Kabat-Zinn, Jon: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness - Kadrey, Richard: Sandman Slim - Kadrey, Richard: Kill the Dead - Kallio, Maaret: Lujasti lempeä - Kazantzakis, Niko: Zorba the Greek - Kekki, Lasse & Kaisa Ilmonen: Pervot pidot – Homo-, lesbo- ja queer-näkökulmia kirjallisuudentutkimukseen - Keltikangas-Järvinen, Liisa: Hyvä itsetunto - Kepler, Lars: The Hypnotist - Kilpi, Volter: Alastalon salissa - King, Stephen: The Dark Half - King, Stephen: Salem's Lot - Kirkland, Gelsey: Dancing on my Grave - Kirschner, Josef: Egoistin käsikirja - Kivi, Aino: Maailman kaunein tyttö - Klippel, Wilma: Nurmeksen kauppala - ensimmäiset vuosikymmenet - Knausgård, Karl Ove: Taisteluni I - Knausgård, Karl Ove: Taisteluni II - Koren, Yehuda and Negev, Eilat: A Lover of Unreason: The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill, Ted Hughes' Doomed Love - Kosonen, Päivi: Naissubjekti & postmoderni - Kyrö, Tuomas: Ilosia aikoja, mielensäpahoittaja - Känkänen, Juhani: Luppa ja Tattis L - Larson, Erik: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of Lusitania - Larson, Erik: The Devil in the White City (RG-b) - Laurain, Antoine: The Red Notebook - Lerner, Harriet: The Dance of Anger - Levitt, Steven D. & Dubner, Stephen J.: Freakonomics (RG-b) - Levy, Andrea: Small Island (RG-b) - Lewis, Damien: War Dog - The No-Man's-Land Puppy Who Took to the Skies - Lewis, Matthew Gregory: The Monk (1001) - Leyner, Mark & Goldberg, Billy: Why Do Men Have Nipples? - Lindgren, Astrid: Sotapäiväkirjat 1939-1945 - Lindsay, Jeff: Double Dexter (#6) - Lindsay, Jeff: Dexter's Final Cut (#7) - Louhija, Aura: Hans Christian - kertomus satukuninkaan nuoruusvuosista - Lovric, Michelle: The Book of Human Skin - Lovell, Mary S.: The Mitford Girls - Lundberg, Ulla-Lena: Jää - Luoma, Sakari: Poket - Luther, Annika: Kirje maan ääriin - Löhken, Sylvia: Introverteissa on voimaa! M - Malamud, Bernard: The Tenants - Malinen, Ben: Mustasukkaisuus - Mann, Thomas: Doctor Faustus (1001) - Maple, Eric: Noidan käsikirja - Marsden, John: Tomorrow, When the War Began - Martin, George R. R.: A Game of Thrones - Martin, George R.R.: A Storm of Swords part 1.: Steel and Snow - Martin, George R.R.: A Feast for Crows - Marx, Groucho: Groucho and Me - Marx, Harpo: Harpo Speaks! - Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff: Dog Never Lies About Love - Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff: When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals - Matheson, Richard: I Am Legend - Mattila, Juhani: Nöyryytys - Maurier, Daphne du: Frenchman's Creek - Maurier, Daphne du: The House on the Strand - Maurier, Daphne du: Rebecca (1001, RG-B) - Maurois, André: Marcel Proust - Maynard, Joyce: After Her - Maynard, Joyce: At Home in the World - Mazzarella, Merete: Ainoat todelliset asiat - Mazzarella, Merete: Elämä sanoiksi - McBride, Karyl: Will I Ever Be Good Enough? - McCaig, Donald: Rhett Butler's People - McKenzie, Elizabeth: Here I Am - McMahon: Katharine: The Rose of Sebastopol - McSween, E. Chas et al.: Things Bogans Like - Tribal Tatts to Reality TV: How to Recognise the Twenty-First Century Bogan - Mee, Benjamin: We Bought a Zoo - de Mello, Anthony: Awareness - Melville, Herman: Moby Dick (1001, RG-b) - Mencken, H. L.: A Mencken Chrestomathy (RG-b) - Mencken, H. L.: My Life As Author and Editor - Miller, Arthur: The Crucible (RG-b) - Mitchell, David: Back Story - Mitchell, David: Cloud Atlas (1001) - Mitchell, David: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - Moers, Walter: 13½ Lives of Captain Blue Bear - Montanari, Richard: The Rosary Girls #1 - Montanari, Richard: The Skin Gods #2 - Morton, Kate: The Forgotten Garden - Mosley, Charlotte: The Mitfords - Letters Between Six Sisters - Murakami, Haruki: Norwegian Wood - Murakami, Haruki: South of the Border, West of the Sun - Murakami, Haruki : After the Quake - Murakami, Haruki : Dance Dance Dance - Murakami, Haruki: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Murakami, Haruki: Kafka on the Shore - Murakami, Haruki: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Murakami, Haruki: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Murdoch, Iris: The Sea, the Sea (1001) - Murray, Paul: Skippy Dies - Myllyviita, Katja: Tunne tunteesi N - Nabokov, Vladimir: Speak, Memory (RG-b) - Nevils & Hardy: Ignatius Rising - Niemi, Marjo: Kaikkien menetysten äiti - Nin, Anaïs: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1931-1934 - Nin, Anaïs: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1934-1939 - Nin, Anaïs: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1944-1947 - Nin, Anaïs: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1947-1955 - Nin, Anaïs: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1955-1966 - Nin, Anaïs: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1966-1974 - Nousiainen, Miika: Juurihoito O - Obama, Michelle: Becoming - Ohlsson, Kristina: Lotus Blues - Oksanen, Sofi & Paju, Imbi: Kaiken takana oli pelko - Oksanen, Sofi: Kun kyyhkyset katosivat - Ollivier, Debra: What French Women Know About Love, Sex and Other Matters of Heart and Mind - Osborne, Frances: The Bolter P - P., Melissa: 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed - Palmgren, Reidar: Kirpputori - Pancol, Katherine: Keltaisen krokotiilin silmät - Paperi T: Post alfa - Parini, Jay: The Passages of H.M. - A Novel of Herman Melville - Parker, Dorothy: The Portable Dorothy Parker (RG-b) - Patchett, Ann: Truth & Beauty (RG-b) - Patrakova, Inna: Tulkki - Peake, Mervyn: Titus Groan - Peake, Mervyn: Gormenghast - Peake, Mervyn: Titus Alone - Pearce, Philippa: Tom's Midnight Garden - Pearl, Matthew: The Poe Shadow - Perec, Georges: Life: A User's Manual - Pitkänen, Ilkka & Pitkänen, Matti A.: Tunski - erään koiran tarina - Plath, Sylvia: Letters Home - Plath, Sylvia: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (RG-B) - Poe, Edgar Allan: The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (1001, RG-b, 501) - Polo, Marco: Travels in the Land of Kubilai Khan - Powell, Julie: Julie & Julia - Pratchett, Terry & Gaiman, Neil: Good Omens - Proust, Marcel: Remembrance of Things Past: 1 (1001) - Psykiatria - Puzo, Mario: The Godfather (1001, RG-b) - Päätalo, Kalle: Ihmisiä telineillä - Päätalo, Kalle: Pyynikin rinteessä R - Radcliffe, Ann: The Mysteries of Udolpho (1001) - Rakoff, Joanna: A Fortunate Age - Rakoff, Joanna: My Salinger Year - Rand, Ayn: The Fountainhead - Rand, Ayn: Atlas Shrugged - Read, Mark Brandon: Chopper 4 (Aussie read) - Reichs, Kathy: Monday Mourning #7 - Reichs, Kathy: Cross Bones #8 - Reichs, Kathy: Break No Bones #9 - Reichs, Kathy: 206 Bones #12 - Rhinehart, Luke: The Dice Man - Rhodes, Dan: Little Hands Clapping - Rhodes, Dan: Timoleon Vieta Come Home - Riekki, Matti: Täältä pohjoiseen - Sentencedin tarina - Riggs, Ransom: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Rilke, Rainer Maria: Letters to a Young Poet (RG-B) - Rimminen, Mikko: Pussikaljaromaani - Ripley, Alexandra: Scarlett - Roach, Mary: Bonk - The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science - Roberts, Gregory David: Shantaram - Rowell, Rainbow: Eleanor & Park - Rowley, Steven: Lily and the Octopus - Rubenfeld, Jed: The Interpretation of Murder - Rubin, Gretchen: The Happiness Project S - Saarikoski, Pentti: Nuoruuden päiväkirjat - Sacks, Oliver: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat - Sairanen, Jorma & Kinnunen, Kalle: Daddy Cool - Saisio, Pirkko: Voimattomuus - Salola, Eero: Ilman fritsaria - Sandison, David: Ernest Hemingway - Sansom, C. J: Dissolution - Sansom, C. J: Dark Fire - Sansom, C. J: Sovereign - Sansom, C. J: Revelation - Sartre, Jean-Paul: Nausea (1001) - Seierstad, Åsne: The Bookseller of Kabul - Self, Will: How the Dead Live - Seth, Vikram: A Suitable Boy (1001) - Shakespeare, William: Complete Sonnets - Shamsie, Kamila: Kartography - Sharp, Ilsa: Culture Shock! Australia (Aussie read) - Shepherd, Lynn: Tom-All-Alone's (review book) - Shriver, Lionel: We Need to Talk about Kevin - Shteyngart, Gary: Super Sad True Love Story (FTBC) - Siirilä, Jussi: Historia on minut vapauttava - Sittenfeld, Curtis: The Man of My Dreams - Slaughter, Karin: Fractured - Slaughter, Karin: Genesis - Slaughter, Karin: Broken - Slawenski, Kenneth: J. D. Salinger - Smith, Ali: Girl Meets Boy - Smith, Patti: Just Kids - Solomon, Andrew: The Noonday Demon. An Atlas of Depression - Solomons, Natasha: The Novel in the Viola - Stein, Gertrude: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1001) - Steinbeck, John: East of Eden - Steinbeck, John: Travels with Charley - Stenberg, Jan-Henry et al: Irti murehtimisesta - Stevens, Robin: Murder Most Unladylike - Stone, Irving: Lust for Life - A Biographical Novel of Vincent van Gogh - Strayed, Cheryl: Wild - Stridsberg, Sara: Drömfakulteten - Strömstedt, Margareta: Astrid Lindgren - Swann, Leonie: Three Bags Full - Swift, Jonathan: A Tale of a Tub (1001) T - Takala, Kimmo: Tunne lukkosi - Tammet, Daniel: Born on a Blue Day - Tan, Amy: The Bonesetter's Daughter - Tan, Amy: The Opposite of Fate (RG-B) - Tarkka, Pekka: Pentti Saarikoski - Vuodet 1937- 1963 - Tartt, Donna: The Goldfinch - Tartt, Donna: Little Friend - Teller, Janne: Samantekevää - Tesdell, Diana Secker: Dog Stories - Tervo, Jari: Tuulikaappimaa - Thomas, Scarlett: The End of Mr. Y - Thomas, Scarlett: Going Out - Thompson, Hunter S.: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1001, RG-b) - Thompson, Hunter S.: Kingdom of Fear - Thoreau: Walden and Other Writings - Thurman, Judith: Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette - Tiffany, John et al: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Tolkien, J.R.R: The Hobbit - Tolkien, J.R.R: Lord of the Rings (1001, RG-B) - Toltz, Steve: A Fraction of the Whole - Tregillis, Ian: Bitter Seeds - Trollope, Joanna: Sense & Sensibility - Truss, Lynne: Eats, Shoots & Leaves - Tsiolkas, Christos: The Slap - Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn U V - Vallgren, Carl-Johan: Herra Bachmannin esite - Vincent, Norah: Self-Made Man - Vizzini, Ned: It's Kind of a Funny Story W - Wahlsten, Ari: Jobikirja - Waltari, Mika: Sinuhe egyptiläinen - Waters, Sarah: Affinity - Waters, Sarah: Tipping the Velvet (1001) - Williams, Tad: The Dirty Streets of Heaven - Wilson, David: A History of British Serial Killing - Wilson, Jacqueline: The Suitcase Kid - Winton, Tim: Cloudstreet - Wiseman, Richard: 59 Seconds. Think a Little, Change a Lot - Wolf, Maryanne: Proust and the Squid - Wolfe, Tom: Back to Blood - Wolfe, Tom: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1001) - Wolfe, Tom: I Am Charlotte Simmons - Wolfe, Tom: The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby - Wolfe, Tom: The Bonfire of the Vanities - Woolf, Virginia: Moments of Being - Woolf, Virginia: Mrs Dalloway (1001, RG-B) - Wulf, Andrea: The Invention of Nature Y - Yanagihara, Hanya: A Little Life Z - Zafón, Carlos Ruiz: The Angel's Game - Zafón, Carlos Ruiz: Marina - Zafón, Carlos Ruiz: The Prisoner of Heaven - Zafón, Carlos Ruiz: The Prince of Mist - Zusak, Markus: I Am The Messenger 30.12.2018: 433 3.5.2019: 445
  13. Books acquired in 2019 1. Sairanen, Jorma & Kinnunen, Kalle: Daddy Cool 2. Järvinen, Katriina & Pietilä, Tuulikki: Vapaa nainen törmää todellisuuteen 3. Wiseman, Richard: 59 Seconds. Think a Little, Change a Lot 4. Gerdt, Armas: Petrin matka Myyrmanniin 5. Akunin, Boris: Patasotilas 6. Dicker, Joël : Baltimoren sukuhaaran tragedia 7. Thomas, Scarlett: Going Out 8. Donoghue, Emma: Room 9. Harford, Tim: The Undercover Economist 10. Knight, Renée: Disclaimer 11. Luther, Annika: Opettajainhuone 12. Maynard, Joyce: After Her 13. Mencken, H.L.: My Life As Author and Editor 14. Rhinehart, Luke: The Dice Man 15. Truss, Lynne: Eats, Shoots & Leaves 16. Martin, George R.R.: A Storm of Swords part 1.: Steel and Snow 17. Australian Slang 18. Duranti, Francesca: Talo Kuujärven rannalla 19. Tukiainen, Maaretta: Hyvän mielen taidot 20. Guinn, Jeff: The Road to Jonestown - Jim Jones and Peoples Temple 21. Martin, George R.R.: A Feast for Crows 22. Deaver, Jeffery: The Kill Room 23. Harari, Yuval Noah: Homo Deus. A Brief History of Tomorrow 24. Wulf, Andrea: The Invention of Nature 25. Fonda, Jane: My Life So Far
  14. Books read in 2019 January 1. We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin Mee - 2/5 2. Pese hampaat ennen kuin pussaat by Satu Kivinen - 3/5 3. The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty - 4/5 4. Ääniä rappukäytävässä by Jukka-Pekka Palviainen - 5/5 5. One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus - 5/5 6. Harkinta-aika by Jukka-Pekka Palviainen - 3/5 February 7. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler - 4/5 8. Star Gazing by Linda Gillard - 2/5 9. Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak - 4/5 10. Väkivaltatoimisto Sofiankatu 4A - väkivaltatutkijan muistelmia by Ilpo Keiski - 4/5 11. Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty - 4/5 12. Andy Rock 'n' Roll Star by Lamppu Laamanen - 4/5 March 13. Siirtolainen by Ella Laurikkala - 4/5 14. People Like Us by Dana Mele - 2/5 15. A Noise Downstairs by Linwood Barclay - 3/5 16. Koirien Kalevala by Mauri Kunnas - 2/5 17. Am I Normal Yet? by Holly Bourne - 4/5 18. Karhumies by Vesa Tuominen - 4/5 19. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier - 4/5 20. Aihe vapaa vauva.fi by Paula Mononen - 3/5 21. The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney 4/5 April 22. The Environment Equation by Alex Shimo-Barry - 2/5 23. The Class by Jenny Colgan - 3/5 24. The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas - 4/5 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Currently reading: 25. Petrin matka Myyrmanniin by Armas Gerdt - TBR book: 5 Library book: 19 - Female authors: 12 Male authors: 10 - Fiction: 18 Non-fiction: 6 - Foreign: 15 Finnish: 9 - Ratings:1/5: 2/5: 5 3/5: 54/5: 125/5: 2
  15. Hello everyone! Welcome 2019 and new and old books! I hope we all have a great year of reading! I've now set up my log, it's very much the same as last year, plus a new challenge (and minus Round Robin, which I just couldn't get into last year )
  16. I'm sorry I've been missing in action, it's just been busy towards the end of the year, and I haven't felt very energetic, probably because of lack of light. December did cheer me up what with all the festivities, and now I'm really eager about this new year! To summarize 2018, reading-wise... It was a crappy year! I had no mojo in the early months of the year, which made me sad. Frankie was sad. I also became involved with my BF who took up some of my time, and then I suffered from a bout of depression, which I felt was unexpected. I'm much better now, thanks to online therapy (they didn't have the resources for live therapy at that point in time). At the start of the year my goal for books read was 100 as it always is, but I soon figured that was going to be impossible and uninspiring instead of encouraging. Towards the end of the year I decided it would be nice to read 36 books, which is one more than last year. But it wasn't to be But I'm not that bothered. Here are the books I read this year: 1. Wedding Night by Sophie Kinsella (re-read) 2/5 - thoughts 2. Dumplin' by Julie Murphy 3/5 - thoughts 3. Lukot by Pauliina Susi 3/5 - thoughts 4. Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi (re-read) 4/5 - thoughts 5. The Widow by Fiona Barton 4/5 - thoughts 6. The Cold Song by Linn Ullmann 3/5 - thoughts 7. Pormestari by Herman Koch 2/5 - thoughts 8. The Secret of Happy Ever After by Lucy Dillon (re-read) 5/5 - thoughts 9. Surprise Me by Sophie Kinsella 3/5 - thoughts 10. The Beach House by Jane Green 3/5 - thoughts 11. Kaikki anteeksi by Laura Manninen 4/5 - thoughts 12. Wedding Ring by Emilie Richards 4/5 - thoughts 13. Keskivaikea vuosi by Pauliina Vanhatalo 3/5 14. Särkyneen pyörän karjatila by Peter Franzén 4/5 15. Jemima J by Jane Green (re-read) 16. How Do You Like Me Now by Holly Bourne 3/5 17. The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter 4/5 18. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman 4/5 19. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson 4/5 20. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson 4/5 21. Sivuhenkilö by Saara Turunen 5/5 22. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman 5/5 23. Under the Influence by Joyce Maynard 3/5 24. In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware 1/5 25. Kosteusvaurioita by Ani Kellomäki 2/5 26. Upstairs at the Party by Linda Grant 2/5 27. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff 3/5 28. The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand 4/5 29. Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty 3/5 30. The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp by Sarra Manning 2/5 31. Nepsyt by Essi Jäntti & Riitta Savinainen (editors) 4/5 32. Ei muisteta pahalla by Veera Nieminen 4/5 33. Korkeampi oikeus by Hjorth & Rosenfeldt 3/5 34. Ehkä tänä kesänä kaikki muuttuu by Sisko Savonlahti 3/5 35. Rouva C. by Minna Rytisalo 4/5 I read 11 books off TBR pile, and 20 library books. Average rating was 3,25 if I counted correctly. What I'm most happy about my reading is that I managed so many books off my TBR pile. 27 books were written by female authors, and only 8 were by male authors! And looking back, I read 10 books by Finnish authors, which I think is actually the happiest thing about my read books this year. That's well above my average year. I'm off to make a 2019 reading log, and then I hope to have some time to go through unread threads on the forum! Happy New Year and Happy Reading, folks!
  17. I have to say, for some reason I do tend to remember if I've already added a title on my wishlist or not, but then if I had to say why I'd added a certain title, it's recently become more and more difficult! I used to organize my wishlist a lot and I used to remember more about it, but these days there are just too many books on my TBR pile there's no use in dreaming about wishlist books Thanks! It felt amazing I think that's the way to go, having the old list as a back up list, and starting anew. If one feels nervous about doing a cull... And yes, it takes a lot of time to go over the list! The further I got, the more easily I started just deleting titles You should then come on BCF and start a thread to ask "Hey what's that title of the book, one of you must know what I'm talking about?!" Yep, the lists are so tiny! Glad to have inspired you
  18. Exactly! On another note, I've done a massive cull on my wishlist (fiction). I've had the wishlist for so long and I couldn't say what most of the books on it were about and where I'd gotten the idea to read them. I saved the full list on my computer and then did the cull on the list on the first page of this thread. It's so short, it's refreshing I'm going to do the same with my non-fiction wishlist.
  19. Status Anxiety sounds really intriguing, I'm adding it to my wishlist!
  20. I'm still watching Vanity Fair, there's only one episode left. Has anyone watched Capital? I've watched the first episode, and I'm intrigued! I know it's based on a novel which is on my wishlist... I wonder if bobblybear has watched it, as she read the book?
  21. Sorry you didn't like Dreamcatcher! I've never even tried reading it, the synopsis has never appealed to me. I actually had to google what the book is about. I found something interesting on Wikipedia: "The book, written in cursive, helped the author recuperate from a 1999 car accident, and was completed in half a year. According to the author in his afterword, the working title was Cancer.[1] His wife, Tabitha King, persuaded him to change the title. A film adaptation was released in 2003. In 2014, King told Rolling Stone that "I don't like Dreamcatcher very much," and stated that the book was written under the influence of Oxycontin.[2] So don't feel bad about not liking the book, King doesn't like it either
  22. It was a bit of a disappointment, I have to say. I really loved the first half of the book but then things took a turn that I personally wasn't too keen on. I did like the book but found it lacking. It's nothing compared to Big Little Lies which is my favorite. Maybe others will enjoy / will have enjoyed it more! Edit: I forgot to say, I'm currently reading The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp by Sarra Manning.
  23. I've been busy with stuff, so haven't been on here for a few weeks or so. The way I go about things is I click on unread content and read the new posts people have written after my last visit. I was going to do the same today, as I have plenty of free time on my hands, but I accidentally marked the whole forum read, when I was supposed to mark the games and quizzes section to be read. Now there's all sorts of new stuff in all different threads and I will never know any of that!! Why am I such a klutz! I had really looked forward to getting into the unread content! Edit: Haha, I figured a way! I went and asked the forum to show me all content (that I'd 'read') in the past x days and now I can view all threads that have had activity since I've been gone!
  24. Thank you muggle not! And I'm sorry for not having responded to this earlier! I think finding out that the forum would shut down made me a little sad (well, obviously) and I kept coming on here regularly when it was still up and running before things took another turn. No, you didn't miss them! The thing is, I had a copy of Cannery Row which also included Sweet Thursday. I really liked Cannery Row, but for some reason I didn't move on to ST straight after that. Then I gave the copy away because it was a secondhand book and in Finnish and I thought I'd rather re-read CR in English first and then move on to ST after that, in the original language. But I never got around to it! I have been intending to read Tortilla Flats, as well, but I haven't gotten around to that, either! I think the biggest problem is that I don't read that many classics these days, I feel like they are too difficult for me at the moment. I fear that my brain can't take it. But maybe I'm overly cautious and should just trust my brain... Edit: I was watching the Finnish version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire a week ago, and one of the questions was, 'Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?'. I don't expect everyone to know the answer, but the contestant had a master's degree and had studied literature, so I fully expected him to know the stuff! He went with William Faulkner I've been meaning to read The Road, it's been on my mental wishlist for some years, but in the past years I've started to avoid books that deal with terminal illnesses and doom and gloom because they make me too sad You are welcome to recommend something else by Cormac McCarthy, though! That's amazing! It must be thrilling to be able to visit places you've read about in classic books, it will give you a better perspective!
  25. frankie

    Hi :)

    Hello and welcome to the forum!
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