Vladd Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 OK I've read 1001. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus 996. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous 992. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 991. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan 1700s 987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe 985. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe 983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift 976. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding 975. Fanny Hill – John Cleland 1800s 940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 935. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott 931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 930. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott 925. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper 922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo 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 913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 911. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe 908. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 906. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville 873. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo 868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky 866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne 861. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky 857. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll 835. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace 831. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson 825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain 823. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard 822. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson 820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson 819. She – H. Rider Haggard 809. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde 804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 797. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells 796. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells 794. Dracula – Bram Stoker 791. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells 790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells 1900s 785. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad 781. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 777. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers 773. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad 766. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad 747. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs 743. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan 699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald 695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie 689. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway 667. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque 664. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett 663. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway 660. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett 652. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett 649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 639. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse 623. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft 610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien 599. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler 564. Animal Farm – George Orwell 547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell 539. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov 535. The Third Man – Graham Greene 529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger 526. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham 518. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming 511. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler 496. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 495. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith 494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien 484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac 481. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham 470. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller 437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess 430. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré 396. Chocky – John Wyndham 390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick 389. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke 379. The Godfather – Mario Puzo 358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson 339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré 301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 295. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré 258. Neuromancer – William Gibson 249. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi? 247. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd 227. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons 219. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster 218. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe 210. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams 209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams 203. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie 200. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco Mmmm got some reading to do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Janet, I was laughing out loud when I read your description of you least favorites: ugh! A very apt choice of wording! Seems a bit of a shame that The Mayor of Casterbridge wasn't chosen for the reading group last autumn, but I think Vanity Fair won and it's also on the list, I think. <snip> Kylie, do you remember when we were in one of the secondhand bookshops or at the book fair, and we started discussing about this book that has a boy and some kind of a bird on the cover, trying to remember the title of the book or alternatively, whether it was on the list? I think the book we talked about was A Kestrel for a Knave and it's on the list and it seems like Chrissy has read it. Had we found a copy of it, or why were we talking about it? Hehe - ugh sums up my feelings very well! I picked up a book today (I forget what it was) and the 'blurb' started Just like J D Salinger... - that was the point I put it back on the shelf! I might get round to Vanity Fair at some point (I will try) but I'm rather put off by the number of pages. I *suppose* I can see that this is where a Kindle would come in handy! I forgot to add A Kestrel for a Knave to my 'to read' list - I bought it recently in a charity shop and it looks brand new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 I forgot to add A Kestrel for a Knave to my 'to read' list - I bought it recently in a charity shop and it looks brand new. I finished it today. That takes my list up to the rather paltry sum of 43/1001 books read! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted March 5, 2011 Author Share Posted March 5, 2011 (edited) Hehe - ugh sums up my feelings very well! I picked up a book today (I forget what it was) and the 'blurb' started Just like J D Salinger... - that was the point I put it back on the shelf! Haha, poor (unknown) book! I might get round to Vanity Fair at some point (I will try) but I'm rather put off by the number of pages. I *suppose* I can see that this is where a Kindle would come in handy! I should get around to reading Vanity Fair as well, I was going to read it for the reading circle but then Australia happened and I was too busy. Kindle would be handy, but how else do you think we can get those nice clear arm muscles if not by holding large tombs of books I finished it today. That takes my list up to the rather paltry sum of 43/1001 books read! Great progress! I also did a little dent on mine, I got Madame Bovary now crossed off the list and I bought Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, because of the list. Edited March 5, 2011 by frankie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 Thanks. And you've read 81 now, Frankie? That's very impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted March 8, 2011 Author Share Posted March 8, 2011 Thanks. And you've read 81 now, Frankie? That's very impressive. Thanks Janet, although 81 seems very little to me Still long ways to go! I've now read The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman -> 82. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted April 4, 2011 Author Share Posted April 4, 2011 Some more progress with the challenge, I've read Watchmen by Alan Moore & David Gibbons since my last post, and I've also acquired copies of The Maltese Falcon and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 (edited) Books read .... 987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe 959. Evelina - Fanny Burney 940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 937. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen 936. Emma – Jane Austen 933. Persuasion – Jane Austen 932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen 916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe 913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 910. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens 909. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe 905. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë 903. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë 902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë 900. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell 898. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville 892. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell 891. Villette – Charlotte Brontë 890. Bleak House – Charles Dickens 887. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell 886. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert (boo hiss!!) 876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 871. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky 869. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens 868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 867. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky 865. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope 863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott 854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll 853. Middlemarch – George Eliot 846. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 840. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 821. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy 808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 805. News from Nowhere – William Morris 804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 803. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith 650. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell 610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien 603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier 601. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson 566. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford 564. Animal Farm – George Orwell 563. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell 542. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford 529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger 521. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway 494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien 484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac 478. The Bell - Iris Murdoch 467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote 465. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark 459. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee 456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee 451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller 446. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch 431. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark 399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez 352. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson 305. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch 272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker 236. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez 222. Beloved – Toni Morrison 196. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving 172. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres 147. The Secret History – Donna Tartt 143. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides 133. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx 120. Mr Vertigo - Paul Auster 112. The Information – Martin Amis 92. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy 86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver 54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith 52. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho 49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel 38. Gabriel's Gift - Hanif Kureishi 33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides 28. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami 26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer 19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon 15. The Colour – Rose Tremain 13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell 9. The Master – Colm Tóibín 6. The Sea – John Banville 3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith 1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro That makes 91 so far (though I do object to calling 'Lord of the Rings' one book even though it was Tolkien's intention ... it felt like three books to me!!) These are the one's sitting on my shelf. 911. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe 883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 862. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins 825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain 794. Dracula – Bram Stoker 790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells 698. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf 686. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf 656. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham 643. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein 639. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse 605. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene 596. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood 474. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico 457. Rabbit, Run – John Updike 450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark 430. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré 375. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou 348. The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch 332. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow 324. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez 310. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter 293. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco 275. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally 237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson 228. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis 205. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey 183. Possession – A.S. Byatt 170. Regeneration – Pat Barker 165. Wild Swans – Jung Chang 157. Miss Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg 140. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe 134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh 129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres 117. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 116. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink 105. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker 93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 89. The Hours – Michael Cunningham 63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood 24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters 18. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt Edited May 29, 2011 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 I finished Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot yesterday, taking my total to 44/1001! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted April 10, 2011 Author Share Posted April 10, 2011 (edited) How did you like Silas Marner, Janet? I've got it on my TBR, I bought it mostly because it's a classic and it's on the list. Can't remember what the book is about, though And haven't been very tempted to give it a go yet. Edit: Ah, I've just noticed you've started a thread about the novel, will now go and read your review Edited April 10, 2011 by frankie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 I know you've read my review now, but yes, I really enjoyed it about 9/10! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted April 11, 2011 Author Share Posted April 11, 2011 Great stuff! I was also really surprised that it's apparently a relatively short read, I had this image in my head where it competes with, say, War and Peace in size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 I think the print is probably a bit smaller than what I would call 'normal' sized, but even with a larger print I think the actual story would be around 250 pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 (edited) Does anyone know if there is a spreadsheet for the new edition of 1001 Books? I noticed from Kylie's recent haul of books that there are some on it which aren't on my version. ETA: Or just a list of the new/extra titles will do. Edited April 12, 2011 by Janet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 I'd be happy to send you a copy of the spreadsheet I have. It's rather fancy and very nicely set up (not by me though!) It has all 3 versions of the list, separate and combined, plus other nifty features. You can PM me your email address if you like and I can send it to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habeebi Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 What is this list exactly and who produced it?! X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 Habeebi, there is a book called 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Peter Boxall. It has been compiled by a group of people and contains short summaries of the books. It originally came out in 2006, but a revised edition came out in 2008 with a couple of hundred changes, and then another edition came out in 2010 with only about a dozen changes. Frankie has kindly posted a complete list of the books on the first page of this thread. I'd love to see which books you've read. Of course, you don't have to participate in the challenge if you don't want to. I have no intention of reading all 1001 books, but I *love* lists and I like crossing things off so I'm playing along for a while. If you're stuck for something to read, you could always use this list (or any of the other lists floating around the internet) to perhaps find your next read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habeebi Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 Ooo I shall have a perusal when I finish work..at the risk of making my tbr pile even greater x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 I'd be happy to send you a copy of the spreadsheet I have. It's rather fancy and very nicely set up (not by me though!) It has all 3 versions of the list, separate and combined, plus other nifty features. You can PM me your email address if you like and I can send it to you. Bless you, Kylie - you're a star. A PM is wending its way to you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habeebi Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 Kylie do you have the updated 2010 list? I would be most grateful if you could email me! ta x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 No worries Habeebi. Just PM me your email address when you're ready. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted April 14, 2011 Author Share Posted April 14, 2011 I'm happy to announce that I acquired 4 more books on this list for myself yesterday when I was bookshopping: 960. The Sorrows of Young Werther - J. W. von Goethe 689. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway 526. The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham 484. On the Road - Jack Kerouac I'm so pleased! I've wanted a copy of The Sorrows of Young Werther for ages, I think it'll be a great read. And the copy I found was rather cheap, and absolutely gorgeous! I can't get over it I'm also really happy about finding The Day of the Triffids, in English I might add. The Kerouac book was a find as well but it's in Finnish so I'm not totally satisfied. I think I'll read it anyways and if I like it, I'll buy myself a nice English copy and pass the Finnish one on to someone else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 Oh my word - this is amazing!! Mind you, it's a bit scary knowing I will die before I finish it unless I up my rate substantially! I love the new features. Thank you so much, Kylie. I really enjoyed The Day of the Triffids, Frankie - I hope you do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted April 14, 2011 Author Share Posted April 14, 2011 (edited) Mind you, it's a bit scary knowing I will die before I finish it unless I up my rate substantially! Well in that case you can always ask for your money back! Well, if you've bought a book version, that is. And of course, if you de-die somehow. In which case you can continue with the challenge. Hm, I don't think this helped. Thanks Janet, I think I will enjoy The Day of the Triffids, I knew nothing about the novel beforehand but read the blurb at the shop and really liked the sound of it Edited April 14, 2011 by frankie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 Well in that case you can always ask for your money back! Well, if you've bought a book version, that is. And of course, if you de-die somehow. In which case you can continue with the challenge. Hm, I don't think this helped. I do have the book! If I de-die I'll be sure to ask for a refund! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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