frankie Posted May 31, 2014 Author Share Posted May 31, 2014 Nice work Frankie, that's a doorstopper too I know, that's one of the reasons I'm so utterly psyched I read it and finished it I'm now on 44, have read Far From the Madding Crowd and The Return of the Soldier since last posting. On track to read 50 by the end of the year, and I think I need to live to 200 to finish Great progress! I'm positive you can get to 50 by the end of the year 200 years? I hope you keep Jänet company on this forum when the rest of us die. She'll be awful lonesome when it's past 200 years and she still has 137 years to go. Oh! She'll be the Boss by then! That ought to keep her busy... Maybe I should not talk about the death of forum members on here... Or anywhere, for that matter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian. Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 I just updated my spreadsheet (yes, it's a bit sad) and I have now read 47 of the books on the list. This what I've managed to read so far. 1 - Justine - Marquis de Sade 2 - Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky 3 - Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne 4 - Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky 5 - Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne 6 - The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy 7 - Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 8 - Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 9 - The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan 10 - Siddhartha - Herman Hesse 11 - All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque 12 - Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 13 - Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood 14 - Animal Farm - George Orwell 15 - Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell 16 - I, Robot - Isaac Asimov 17 - The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger 18 - Foundation - Isaac Asimov 19 - The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway 20 - Casino Royale - Ian Fleming 21 - Junkie - William S. Burroughs 22 - Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 23 - On the Road - Jack Kerouac 24 - Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote 25 - Catch-22 - Joseph Heller 26 - One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 27 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phillip K. Dick 28 - Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut 29 - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson 30 - Almost Transparent Blue - Ryu Murakami 31 - Broken April - Ismail Kadare 32 - Money - Martin Amis 33 - Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard 34 - The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera 35 - White Noise - Don DeLillo 36 - The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 37 - Stone Junction - Jim Dodge 38 - American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis 39 - Faceless Killers - Henning Mankell 40 - The Reader - Bernhard Schlink 41 - Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho 42 - Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee 43 - Fear and Trembling - Amelie Nothomb 44 - Snow - Orhan Pamuk 45 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon 46 - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka 47 - The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexi Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 I have the app and keep a manual list, so if you're sad I'm not sure what I am Brian! I've now read 48 books from the combined list of 1305. i wanted to have read 50 by the end of 2014, but not sure if I will squeeze another two in before the end of the year now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian. Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 I have the app and keep a manual list, so if you're sad I'm not sure what I am Brian! I've now read 48 books from the combined list of 1305. i wanted to have read 50 by the end of 2014, but not sure if I will squeeze another two in before the end of the year now. I had the app on my old phone but since I have switched from apple to android I haven't checked to see if it's available or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Which app is this? My phone doesn't find any apps called '1001 books', on Android. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian. Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 When I had the app I had an iphone but I've got a feeling that it may have been removed from the app store due to copyright issues and I've been unable to find an android version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 (edited) Which app is this? My phone doesn't find any apps called '1001 books', on Android.I don't think there was ever one for Android. There was (is?) one for the iPhone, which was at leas temporarily withdrawn around 2011 until arukiyomi came to an agreement with the publishers of the book, and was made available again in Feb 2012. There was a plan to get an Android version out, but it never happened as far as I know. There's no mention of either on arukiyomi's website. Edited November 30, 2014 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 I don't think there was ever one for Android. There was (is?) one for the iPhone, which was at leas temporarily withdrawn around 2011 until arukiyomi came to an agreement with the publishers of the book, and was made available again in Feb 2012. There was a plan to get an Android version out, but it never happened as far as I know. There's no mention of either on arukiyomi's website. Ah, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatdifficultfirstnovel Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 (edited) 971. Candide – Voltaire 931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 917. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens 913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 898. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 890. Bleak House – Charles Dickens 888. Hard Times – Charles Dickens 883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky 861. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky 857. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 837. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky 821. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy 820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson 804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 789. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James 781. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 750. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann 749. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence 748. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell 743. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan 699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald 685. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust 663. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway 649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier 587. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway 564. Animal Farm – George Orwell 561. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake 557. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry 551. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene 547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell 508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding 494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien 477. The Once and Future King – T.H. White 461. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs 456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee 451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller 375. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 347. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon 340. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré 331. High Rise – J.G. Ballard 301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 259. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes 256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera 254. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 166. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis 133. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx 125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami 107. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace 79. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq 78. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami 77. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee 72. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson 63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood 56. Under the Skin – Michel Faber 49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel 43. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen 40. Platform – Michael Houellebecq 19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon 1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro Listed 26 that I have read - the ones in bold are the ones I own but haven't read yet. It looked more impressive than it probably would be without Collections on Kindle and free books on Kindle also. In the process of reading 'Sputnik Sweetheart' and 'War and Peace'. Edited July 30, 2015 by thatdifficultfirstnovel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 I haven't updated since 2014! Since then I have read, in 2015:The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieThe Pursuit of Love by Nancy MitfordA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens And in 2016:Sense and Sensibility by Jane AustenFingersmith by Sarah WatersLove in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford My total of the combined lists (or at least, on the spreadsheet I have which totals 1294) comes to 84. Books read:1. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barberry2. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid3. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst4. Small Island by Andrea Levy5. The Sea by John Banville6. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon7. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters8. Atonement by Ian McEwan9. I’m not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti10. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden11. The Reader by Bernard Schlink12. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry13. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami14. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks15. Regeneration by Pat Barker16. Wise Children by Angela Carter17. Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro18. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson19. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Attwood20. The Color Purple by Alice Walker21. On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin22. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie23. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams24. In a Free State by V S Naipaul25. A Kestral for a Knave by Barry Hines26. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote27. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath28. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee29. Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee30. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote31. The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham32. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov33. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming34. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway35. Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham36. The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger37. Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford38. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell39. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh40. Animal Farm by George Orwell41. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford42. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry43. Coming Up for Air by George Orwell44. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier45. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck46. The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien47. Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell48. Burmese Days by George Orwell49. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons50. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh51. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque52. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie53. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald54. The Enormous Room by e e cummings55. The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan56. A Room with a View by E M Forster57. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James58. The War of the Worlds by H G Wells59. The Time Machine by H G Wells60. Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith61. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy62. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde63. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson64. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy65. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain66. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy67. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne68. Middlemarch by George Eliot69. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll70. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott71. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll72. Silas Marner by George Eliot73. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens74. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë75. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë76. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë77. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens78. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens79. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens80. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen81. Pride and Prejucide by Jane Austen82. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen83. Candide by Voltaire84. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 My last (somewhat vague) post in this thread said that I was around the 100 mark. I've actually read 113 books from the combined lists. Recent books I've read: 2016: Michel Faber Under the Skin 2015: Mark Z Danielewski House of Leaves; Daphne du Maurier Rebecca; Voltaire Candide 2014: Alain de Botton Essays in Love; Nancy Mitford The Pursuit of Love; Donna Tartt The Secret History It seems I've been averaging 3 books per year, so I may as well try to read at least 2 more this year! I have 228 books from the combined lists on my TBR pile. I'm not actually trying to read the entire list, so these books are mostly books I was interested in reading anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimble Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 I read the list of 1001, wow. Definitely not the list I would have chosen. The problems I had with the ones listed is so many are so familiar but I have not read them but still feel like I have; they are so ingrained as BOOKS one reads if one reads good books I have false memories of having read then.. The next problem is many I have read I could not tell you who the characters are, or what the story is. I have a fuzzy sort of mind, possible even Simpson like, where old stuff is bumped out as new comes in. Then there is the problem that I know nothing of modern books, I am past middle age and have not kept up. The talk of apps and books - I do not even own a cell phone or Kindle, and have never read a book except in paper. This thread has let me know I am a bit of a dinosaur. But I have read a lot of them. My sister (starving artist) would be able to really crank out a good score. And finally, where are the myths, 'The Orkneyinga Saga 'Beowulf" Greek and Roman classics, I did not even notice Shakespeare or John Donne or Omar Khayyam or the entire Non Fiction world - why call it 1001 books instead of 1001 books of fiction, or literature? I am sure I am missing something - i skimmed the beginning as I pop in and out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 The list doesn't include non-fiction, plays or poetry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimble Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Yea, I got that, I guess was commenting on the title 1001 books; kind of like reading 'The 101 Sports you must try' and then had Golf, Backgammon, skeet shooting, horse shoes, squash, darts, pole vault, marathon.........till you realized it is all single sports, no teams required. Any you would think - damn, I can list my go at Buzkshi, but not Polo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted February 5, 2016 Author Share Posted February 5, 2016 Would you prefer if it was 1001 Novels? I'm not particularly fussed, personally Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimble Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 "Would you prefer if it was 1001 Novels? I'm not particularly fussed, personally" Now it sounds like I am belaboring the point - but yes. I am a bit scrupulous with language and concepts and to list something, but in fact your list being something completely different than stated, irks me, just how I am. A list of 1001 flying things to see that was in fact only birds, or Tropical insects, but not both, grates on logic. 1001 lists that do not in fact list what they claim to list: 1) 1001 books you must read before you die 2) 1001 flying things to see 3) 1001 sports you must try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted February 5, 2016 Author Share Posted February 5, 2016 1001 lists that do not in fact list what they claim to list: 1) 1001 books you must read before you die Well, technically 1001 books does list 1001 books. But I get your point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexi Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 I'm now on 60 read from the combined list of books/fiction books/novels/whatever you should read before you die. In 2015 I crossed off 10: The Time Machine by HG Wells Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L Sayers Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Tinker, tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre Middlemarch by George Eliot Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Wild Swans by Jung Chang Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga I'm trying to knock off 10 a year so I feel I'm making some, if slow, progress Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 I think you at least have a chance of getting close to 1001, Alex! I stand no chance! (Not that I'm bothered - there are plenty of titles there I wouldn't even consider reading! ). Well done with your progress, and good luck for 2016. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexi Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 I like Willoyd's idea of reading 1001 from the combined list, so there are 300 that I don't have to touch. The English Counties and US States lists are really helping me knock a few off and I've read so few that there are loads on the list o actively want to read before I have to contemplate those I haven't heard of or don't really fancy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian. Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 I've read a few more since my last update, my current list stands thus: 001. Justine – Marquis de Sade 002. Walden – Henry David Thoreau 003. Fathers & Sons – Ivan Turgenev 004. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky 005. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne 006. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky 007. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne 008. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy 009. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 010. The War of the Worlds – H.G Wells 011. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 012. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan 013. Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse 014. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald 015. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque 016. Of Mice & Men – John Steinbeck 017. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre 018. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood 019. Animal Farm – George Orwell 020. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell 021. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov 022. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger 023. Foundation – Isaac Asimov 024. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway 025. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming 026. Junkie – William Burroughs 027. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 028. On the Road – Jack Kerouac 029. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote 030. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller 031. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 032. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut 033. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson 034. Almost Transparent Blue – Ryu Murakami 035. Broken April – Ismail Kadare 036. Money – Martin Amis 037. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera 038. White Noise – Don DeLillo 039. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 040. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge 041. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis 042.Faceless Killers – Henning Mankell 043. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink 044. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy 045. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho 046. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee 047. Fear and Trembling – Amelie Nothomb 048. Snow – Orhan Pamuk 049. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon 050. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian – Marina Lewycka 051. The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 I've added four titles to my list, which now stands at 90 of the combined books. Unfortunately I managed to delete my post and I can't remember the fourth book, but the ones I can remember are Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D H Lawrence, North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell and Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell Books read: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry A Kestral for a Knave by Barry Hines A Room with a View by E M Forster A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque Animal Farm by George Orwell Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Atonement by Ian McEwan Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Burmese Days by George Orwell Candide by Voltaire Casino Royale by Ian Fleming Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Coming Up for Air by George Orwell Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift Hard Times by Charles Dickens I’m not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti In a Free State by V S Naipaul In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D H Lawrence Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Middlemarch by George Eliot Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson Pride and Prejucide by Jane Austen Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier Regeneration by Pat Barker Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Silas Marner by George Eliot Small Island by Andrea Levy Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger The Color Purple by Alice Walker The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barberry The Enormous Room by e e cummings The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Attwood The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford The Reader by Bernard Schlink The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro The Sea by John Banville The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan The Time Machine by H G Wells The Turn of the Screw by Henry James The War of the Worlds by H G Wells The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh Wise Children by Angela Carter Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 (edited) Just ticked off the 150th book on my list: The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark - my seventh this year.Full list completed, if anybody's interested (in reverse chronological order). Numbering may look odd, but it's the numbering used by arukiyomi in his full list from all the books (a total of 1305 books), so not all will be from the current edition (115 are according to the stats on the spreadsheet), in reverse order, so most recently published first.1302. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes ***1255. The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd *****1250. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon ******1231. The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor *****1227. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides ****1215. Life of Pi by Yann Martel ****1178. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson ******1167. Amsterdam by Ian MacEwan ****1161. The Hours by Michael Cunningham ******1159. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver *****1155. Enduring Love by Ian MacEwan *1139. The Ghost Road by Pat Barker ***1128. The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald ***1127. The Reader by Bernard Schlink *1105. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx ******1103. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks ***1096. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth ******1075. The Crow Road by Ian Banks ****1073. The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez-Reverte ***1072. Miss Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg *****1057. Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell ****1059. Regeneration by Pat Barker *****1041. Possession by AS Byatt ****1032. Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro ****1005. The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul by Douglas Adams ****1004. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams ****0971. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson *****0962. Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd ******0931. Waterland by Graham Swift ******0903. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie ******0895. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco ******0883. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams *****0854. Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor *****0837. Ragtime by EL Doctorow ****0830. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre ******0802. The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark ***0782. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut *0777. The Godfather by Mario Puzo ***0768. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke ****0762. A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines ***0746. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov *****0715. The Graduate by Charles Webb ***0713. The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John Le Carre **0712. The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark ****0688. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark *****0675. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee ******0668. Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee **0665. Memento Mori by Muriel Spark ***0636. Justine by Lawrence Durrell *0630. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien ******0611. Lord of the Flies by William Golding ****0609. The Story of O by Pauline Reage *0605. The Go-Between by LP Hartley ***0604. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler ****0593. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym ***0590. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway ***0585. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham *****0583. Foundation by Isaac Asimov ****0573. The Third Man by Graham Greene ***0567. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov ****0564. Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford ******0560. Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell *0547. The Plague by Albert Camus *0529. Animal Farm by George Orwell **0527. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford *****0513. The Outsider by Albert Camus *0505. Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf ******0503. Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler ****0490. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler ****0487. Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day by Winifred Watson *****0479. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck ******0477. The Years by Virginia Woolf ******0476. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien ****0450. The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L Sayers *****0440. The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz ***0428. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons *****0420. The Waves by Virginia Woolf *****0416. Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham *****0412. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett ***0403. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque ***0395. Orlando by Virginia Woolf ****0394. Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence *0393. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall **0383. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf ******0371. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie ****0367. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf ******0366. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ***0347. Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf *****0330. Night and Day by Virginia Woolf *****0328. The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West ***0316. The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf *****0313. The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan ****0300. Howards End by EM Forster ******0295. A Room With A View by EM Forster *****0276. The Call of the Wild by Jack London ****0275. The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers ****0269. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle ****0267. Kim by Rudyard Kipling ****0256. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James ****0250. What Maisie Knew by Henry James ***0249. Dracula by Bram Stoker *****0239. The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith *0238. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle *****0232. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ***0229. La Bete Humaine by Emile Zola ****0216. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson ****0213. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson ******0210. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain ****0203. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson *****0199. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James ***0193. Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy ****0192. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy *****0184. Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy ******0182. Around The World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne ****0177. Middlemarch by George Eliot ******0176. Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll ****0173. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy ******0167. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins ****0163. Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne ****0162. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ****0155. Silas Marner by George Eliot ***0154. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens ****0148. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins *****0143. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert *****0142. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell *****0138. Bleak House by Charles Dickens ******0137. Villette by Charlotte Bronte ***0136. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell ****0132. Moby Dick by Herman Melville ******0130. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens .0128. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell *****0126. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte ******0125. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte ****0124. Vanity Fair by Wllliam Thackeray ******0123. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte ******0122. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas *****0113. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens ******0106. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens *****0105. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens *****0090. Ivanhoe by Walter Scott ***0089. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ****0088. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen *****0087. Persuasion by Jane Austen *****0084. Emma by Jane Austen ******0083. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen *****0082. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ******0081. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen ******0045. Candide by Voltaire ****0031. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe *0001. Aesop's Fables by Aesopus ** Edited May 26, 2016 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VictorC4C Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 If you read a book a month (I know it is easy for some people, but I really struggle to do that), it will take you 83 years and about 5 months to finish the challenge! Long life to the readers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmmaWhite Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 challenge accepted, hope my life will flow for the next 50 years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.