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I'd like to read the Life of Pi pretty soon because I can't see the film until I have read the book and everyone is going on about it! I also have a Tolstoy novella on the TBR pile that I think I'd like to tackle this year :)

I can't remember if you have a Kindle or not, Alex, but it's currently 20p on Kindle from Amazon if you do! :)

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I did at first, it was easy going and funny (which I didn't expect) and I thought this might be a 5/5 read... Then it started dragging a bit... And then there was a lot of stuff on religion, and then it was a bit preachy and pointing and all. I understand why Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote it in the way she did at the time, but for my 'modern mind' it was all too much.

 

I was torn between giving it a 2 or 3, ended up with 3/5 in the end.

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Great stuff Frankie :D

 

I'm about to start The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre from the list.

 

Have you read any John Le Carre before? I don't really know what his books are like and having been feeling too keen to get to them...

What goal is that frankie?

 

I'm aiming for 100 read books off the 1001 list :)  Even better if I make it to 101, then it's 10% for sure!

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Have you read any John Le Carre before? I don't really know what his books are like and having been feeling too keen to get to them...

 

I'm aiming for 100 read books off the 1001 list :)  Even better if I make it to 101, then it's 10% for sure!

 

Wow! You've read 96! Good going!  :friends3:

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Have you read any John Le Carre before? I don't really know what his books are like and having been feeling too keen to get to them...

 

I haven't read any yet, but was intrigued by the good film reviews Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy received, so I'm looking forward to it. :)

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I haven't read any yet, but was intrigued by the good film reviews Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy received, so I'm looking forward to it. :)

 

How did this go for you? :)

 

I finished Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee and have mixed feelings about it. Having known something about the political and social history and current events in South Africa would've probably helped a lot.

 

97/1001.

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Really well :D it was a bit slow to start, because it feels quite complicated a plot and I ended up feeling a bit bewildered at the beginning, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

I've just started Dangerous Liaisons from the list. I'm currently on 29/1294. (I am working from the combined app, pre 2012 adjustments).

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Really well :D it was a bit slow to start, because it feels quite complicated a plot and I ended up feeling a bit bewildered at the beginning, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

 

That sounds encouraging! Maybe I ought to try it some day, I haven't been inclined to do so before. Thanks! :)

 

 

 

I've just started Dangerous Liaisons from the list. I'm currently on 29/1294. (I am working from the combined app, pre 2012 adjustments).

 

I love it that the March Reading Circle is so conveniently about a 1001 Book :giggle2:

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I love it that the March Reading Circle is so conveniently about a 1001 Book :giggle2:

 

If I remember right you nominated it frankie :D

I'm still waiting for my copy to arrive - chesil's remarks about it have convinced me its a brilliant read.

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This looks like a pretty good list though I will never understand why people like Paulo Coelho or why they picked Dead Air instead of The Bridge when they were chosing Iain Banks novels but nobody ever agree 100% with these lists. Here's what I've managed so far:

 

Pre-1700

992. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

1700s
 

985. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift 
 

1800s
 

931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
911. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
909. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
908. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
900. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell 
896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
876. Great Expectations – 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
848. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain 
820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson 
809. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde 
804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 
801. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
799. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
794. Dracula – Bram Stoker
789. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
788. The Awakening – Kate Chopin 

1900s

781. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 
773. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
769. The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy
761. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
748. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
741. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham 
736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
731. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
728. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
723. Ulysses – James Joyce
701. The Trial – Franz Kafka 
699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
698. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf 
687. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
686. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf 
671. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
663. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
647. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
636. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
623. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
622. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
607. Murphy – Samuel Beckett
605. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier 
593. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
587. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
564. Animal Farm – George Orwell
559. The Plague – Albert Camus
547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
538. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
531. Molloy – Samuel Beckett
529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
527. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
526. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
525. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
514. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
512. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien 
490. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
481. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
473. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
472. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller 
450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
445. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
440. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
413. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon 
411. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
409. The Magus – John Fowles 
399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
389. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
376. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
375. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
354. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
345. Crash – J.G. Ballard
320. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
312. The Shining – Stephen King
310. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
302. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 
291. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
288. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
283. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
282. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
274. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro 
272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
265. Waterland – Graham Swift
260. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
258. Neuromancer – William Gibson
255. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
254. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
253. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
243. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
240. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
236. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez 
227. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
222. Beloved – Toni Morrison 
216. The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
215. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
208. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
207. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
203. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
200. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
199. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 
187. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
186. A Disaffection – James Kelman
184. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi 
170. Regeneration – Pat Barker
167. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
166. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
153. The Crow Road – Iain Banks 
138. Complicity – Iain Banks 
135. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 
134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
128. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami 
112. The Information – Martin Amis
109. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood 
96. Underworld – Don DeLillo
95. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
94. Great Apes – Will Self
93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
90. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
87. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
81. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
 

2000s

63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith 
49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
48. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
42. Atonement – Ian McEwan
35. Dead Air – Iain Banks
24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell 
2. Saturday – Ian McEwan
1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

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How to make a huge list really small :-)

 

So far have read the following:

 

Pre-1700

1001. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
989. Oroonoko – Aphra Behn - Made to read at University.

1700s

983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

964. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne - Really forced to read this one (he is not born until Volume 3)
961. Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett

1800s
942. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
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
931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
930. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
917. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
903. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
901. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
899. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
895. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
891. Villette – Charlotte Brontë
887. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
880. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
853. Middlemarch – George Eliot
849. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
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
808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
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801. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
800. The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
799. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
794. Dracula – Bram Stoker
789. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James

1900s


780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
779. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
776. The Ambassadors – Henry James
775. The Golden Bowl – Henry James
766. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
748. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
742. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
730. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
723. Ulysses – James Joyce
716. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
704. Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville                  
699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
698. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
676. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
669. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
594. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
593. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
564. Animal Farm – George Orwell
547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
506. The Story of O – Pauline Réage

490. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
459. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
435. The Collector – John Fowles
433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
411. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
408. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
369. Troubles – J.G. Farrell
367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
357. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
320. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
312. The Shining – Stephen King
301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
254. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
238. The Cider House Rules – John Irving
237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
219. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
205. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
203. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
198. The Book of Evidence – John Banville
196. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
183. Possession – A.S. Byatt
165. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
147. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
109. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
92. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
90. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
89. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
85. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters

2000s


54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
52. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
43. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
28. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
11. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
2. Saturday – Ian McEwan
1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro         

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Books I loved reading

Books I liked

Books I hated

 

Read:

918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne

825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain 

699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier 

564. Animal Farm – George Orwell

521. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding

456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

 

 

TBR pile:

940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

936. Emma – Jane Austen

933. Persuasion – Jane Austen

925. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper

898. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville

893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe 

820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson 

737. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse

689. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien

494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien 

49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel

 

 

Wishlist:

Don Quixote - Cervantes 

987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
930. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott

922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo 

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

890. Bleak House – Charles Dickens

888. Hard Times – Charles Dickens 
887. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell

876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

869. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 
867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky 

863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott 

840. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells

780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 

638. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald

619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell

529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger

518. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming

451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller 

 

 

Reading:

873. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo 

 

 

I've only read 11, but that I've only had 16 years to work on this :)

 

My TBR and wishlist is pretty huge and I hope to get through all of these books in the next 2-3 years. Shouldn't be a problem!  :D

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Books I loved reading

Books I liked

Books I hated

 

Read:

918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne

825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain 

699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier 

564. Animal Farm – George Orwell

521. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding

456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

 

 

TBR pile:

940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

936. Emma – Jane Austen

933. Persuasion – Jane Austen

925. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper

898. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville

893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe 

820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson 

737. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse

689. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien

494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien 

49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel

 

 

Wishlist:

Don Quixote - Cervantes 

987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen

931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

930. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott

922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo 

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

890. Bleak House – Charles Dickens

888. Hard Times – Charles Dickens 

887. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell

876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

869. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens

868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 

867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky 

863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott 

840. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells

780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 

638. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald

619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell

529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger

518. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming

451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller 

 

 

Reading:

873. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo 

 

 

I've only read 11, but that I've only had 16 years to work on this :)

 

My TBR and wishlist is pretty huge and I hope to get through all of these books in the next 2-3 years. Shouldn't be a problem!  :D

 

Nice to see a new member on here! :)  Yep, you still have loads of time to catch up! :) Oh and I think you are the only person I know who's loved Lord of the Flies! I'm happy you did, it's not nice for an author to write a book in vain (that is: have no one like it) :D

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Nice to see a new member on here! :)  Yep, you still have loads of time to catch up! :) Oh and I think you are the only person I know who's loved Lord of the Flies! I'm happy you did, it's not nice for an author to write a book in vain (that is: have no one like it) :D

I was very surprised when I saw that nobody liked it. My liking it is mostly because I had to read it in school and my English teach taught it amazingly! There was so much symbolism in the book it was amazing to me that an author could put that much thought into writing a novel. That, and, I just enjoyed the book overall. It was a pretty easy read. 

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The reason I hate it is because I had an English teacher who made it extremely dull!

How ironic! 

 

It was great how she taught it. She even split the class into "tribes" and had us do competitions that somehow related to what we were currently reading in the book. 

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How ironic! 

 

It was great how she taught it. She even split the class into "tribes" and had us do competitions that somehow related to what we were currently reading in the book. 

 

That sounds interesting! And I think that makes a heck of a difference....

 

I read it on my own, and didn't have anyone to be in different tribes with... :D

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I updated my records today and I have 5 more read since my last update.

 

Of Mice & Men - John Steinbeck

Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

Faceless Killers - Henning Mankell

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