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Books read 2009
Books read 2010 -
it once was lost but now is found .. thank you Janet :friends0:
Books read 2011

Total books read in 2009 ... 49 - incomplete list (39 fiction, 9 non-fiction & 1 audio } male authors: 24 .. female authors: 25)
Total books read in 2010 ... 141 (94 fiction, 9 non-fiction, 4 short stories, 2 plays & 32 audio } male authors: 75 .. female authors: 66)
Total books read in 2011 ... 109 (71 fiction, 26 non-fiction, 1 short story & 11 audio } male authors: 54 .. female authors: 55)

Anyway, off I go .. I don't like change so ...

Books I love ... purple
Books that I like a lot ... green
Books that I like ... blue
The rest ... black

January 2012 (6 read)

Boy: Tales of Childhood - Roald Dahl (my bookshelf) 9/10 Review
The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter (a Janet present :D) 9/10 Review
The Sisters Brothers - Patrick DeWitt (my bookshelf) 10/10 Review
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson (my bookshelf) 8/10 Review
The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham (charity shop buy) 9/10 Review
Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs (my bookshelf) 9/10 Review

February 2012 (6 read)
Mistress Masham's repose - T.H. White (my bookshelf) 8/10 Review
Dracula - Bram Stoker (my bookshelf) 10/10 Review
Love Story - Erich Segal (my bookshelf) 8/10 Review
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou (my bookshelf) 8/10 Review
Red Dog - Louis de Bernieres (library loan) 8/10 Review
Girl Meets Boy - Ali Smith (my bookshelf) 9/10 Review

March 2012 (8 read and 1 listened to)
The Blue World - Jack Vance (thank you James :friends0:) 9/10 Review
The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell (my bookshelf) 8/10 Review
Pied Piper - Nevil Shute (my bookshelf) 9/10 Review
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages - Tom Holt (Audible D/L) 9/10 Review
De Profundis - Oscar Wilde - 50,000 word letter (my bookshelf) 9/10 Review
The Ballad of Reading Gaol - Oscar Wilde - poem (my bookshelf) 8/10 Review
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (my bookshelf) 6/10 Review
Night - Elie Wiesel (my bookshelf) 10/10 Review
Gigi - Colette - short story (my bookshelf) 8/10 Review

April 2012 (6 read)
Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch (thank you Claire :friends0:) 10/10 Review
Un Lun Dun - China Mieville (my bookshelf) 8/10 Review
The Fifth Child - Doris Lessing (my bookshelf) 8/10 Review
How to Be a Woman - Caitlin Moran (my bookshelf) 9/10 Review
The Moving Toyshop - Edmund Crispin (my bookshelf) 8/10 Review
My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier (my bookshelf) 10/10 Review

May 2012 (7 read and 1 listened to)
A Postillion Struck By Lightning - Dirk Bogarde (my bookshelf) 8/10 Review
Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater (Audible D/L) 5/10 Review
Talk to the Snail - Stephen Clarke (library) 7/10 Review
Paris Revealed - Stephen Clarke (library) 7/10 Review
Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs - (my bookshelf) Jeremy Mercer 9/10 Review
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith (my bookshelf) 10/10 Review
Lunch in Paris - Elizabeth Bard (library) 8/10 Review
Also read .. as in glanced .. but in a very thorough way .. the DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Paris, the Rough Guide to Paris & the Lonely Planet Paris : City Guide :smile: What you have to understand is .. this is not just a trip .. it's an obsession :D

June 2012 (5 read)
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf (my bookshelf) 10/10 Review
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World - John Baxter (my bookshelf) 8/10 Review
Cakes and Ale - Somerset Maugham (my bookshelf) 7/10 Review
Slaves of the Klau - Jack Vance (thank you James :friends0:) 8/10 Review
Mockingbird - Walter Tevis (thank you Steve :friends0:) 9/10

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July 2012 (11 read)
The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey (my bookshelf) 10/10 Review
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs (my bookshelf) 9/10 Review
Almost French - Sarah Turnbull (library) 9/10 Review
Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood (loaned from Claire :smile:) 9/10 Review
Girl Reading - Katie Ward (my bookshelf) 8/10 Review
A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness (my bookshelf) 10/10 Review
The Lost Continent - Bill Bryson (thanks Julie :friends0:) 10/10 Review
ella minnow pea - Mark Dunn (my bookshelf) 10/10 Review
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery (my bookshelf) 7/10 Review from Reading Circle - watch out for spoilers
The Borrower - Rebecca Makkai (my bookshelf) 8/10
Selected Letters - Virginia Woolf (my bookshelf) 9/10

August 2012 (9 read and 1 listened to)
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson (my bookshelf) 9/10
The Pedant in the Kitchen - Julian Barnes (my bookshelf) 8/10 Review
The Child that Books Built - Francis Spufford (my bookshelf) 6/10 Review
Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson re-read (my bookshelf) 9/10 Review
Surfacing - Margaret Atwood (my bookshelf) 5/10 Review
Notes from a Big Country - Bill Bryson re-read (my bookshelf) 8/10
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark (my bookshelf) 9/10
Moon Over Soho - Ben Aaronovitch (my bookshelf) 9/10

Selected Diaries - Virginia Woolf (my bookshelf) 9/10
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce (Audible D/L) 9/10 Review

September 2012 (3 read and 2 listened to)
Dear Fatty - Dawn French (Audible D/L) 8/10 Review
The Fry Chronicles - Stephen Fry (Audible D/L) 9/10 Review
The Visitation - Jenny Erpenbeck (my bookshelf) 8/10 Review
Virginia Woolf - Hermione Lee (my bookshelf) 9/10 Review
Rabbit Run - John Updike (my bookshelf) 8/10

October 2012 (11 read and 2 listened to)
Orlando - Virginia Woolf (library) 9/10 Review

The Sweet Life in Paris - David Lebovitz (bookshelf) 8/10 Review
The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals - Wendy Jones (library) 8/10 Review
Tom-All-Alone's - Lynn Shepherd (library) 10/10 Review
Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf (library) 7/10
The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf (Audible D/L) 8/10 Review
Watership Down - Richard Adams (bookshelf) 10/10 Review
Back Story - David Mitchell (my copy .. my very own copy .. my SIGNED copy :D) 10/10
Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel (Audible D/L) 10/10 Review
One Pair of Feet - Monica Dickens (bookshelf) 8/10 Review
Selected Short Stories - Virginia Woolf (library) 7/10
The Tortoise and the Hare - Elizabeth Jenkins (bookshelf) 8/10 Review
The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein (library) 6/10 Review from Reading Circle - watch out for spoilers


November 2012 (7 read and 1 listened to)
Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally (bookshelf) 9/10 Review
The Paris Wife - Paula McLain (bookshelf) 9/10
The Vanishing Act - Mette Jakobsen (bookshelf) 10/10 Review from Reading Circle - watch out for spoilers
Lady Into Fox - David Garnett (bookshelf) 8/10 Review
The Library at Night - Alberto Manguel (bookshelf) 9/10
Candide - Voltaire (bookshelf) 10/10 Review
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (bookshelf) 10/10 Review
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (Audible D/L) re-read 10/10

December 2012 (3 read)
Gillespie & I - Jane Harris (bookshelf) 8/10 Review
The Hundred-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window And Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson (bookshelf) 9/10 Review
The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year - Sue Townsend (bookshelf) 8/10 Review

Literary Toast Quotations Part One

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TBR's on my bookshelf **want to see far more strike-through's by the end of 2012 than was achieved in 2011 ... check often and punish accordingly** Also see Books I've Bought/Acquired in 2012

Progress: 17/107 :roll2:

 

Fiction:

Adams, Richard - Watership Down

Ali, Monica - Brick Lane

Alison, Rosie - The Very Thought of You

Amis, Kingsley - The Old Devils

Anderson, James - The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy

Atkinson, Kate - Started Early Took My Dog

Atwood, Margaret - Surfacing

Atwood, Margaret - The Blind Assassin

Barbery, Muriel - The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Barker, Pat - The Ghost Road

Benson, EF - Mrs Ames (Bloomsbury)

Bloom, Amy - Away

Bullington, Jesse - The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart

Byatt, AS - Possession

Carey, Peter - Oscar and Lucinda

Carter, Angela - The Passion of New Eve

Coe, Jonathan - The Rotters Club

Connolly, John - Nocturnes

Craig, Amanda - Hearts and Minds

Cunningham, Michael - The Hours

de Bernieres, Louis - Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Dennys, Joyce - Henrietta Sees it Through (Bloomsbury)

de Waal, Edmund - The Hare with Amber Eyes

Dickens, Monica - One Pair of Feet

Drabble, Margaret - The Red Queen

Eco, Umberto - The Name of the Rose

Englander, Nathan - The Ministry of Special Cases

Eugenides, Jeffrey - My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead

Fallada, Hans - Alone in Berlin

Fforde, Jasper - One of Our Thursdays is Missing

Fforde, Jasper - The Fourth Bear

Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Tender is the Night

French, Dawn - A Tiny Bit Marvellous

French, Vivien - The Robe of Skulls

Freud, Esther - The Sea House

Funke, Cornelia - Reckless

Gallico, Paul - Mrs Harris Goes to Paris (Bloomsbury)

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - Leaf Storm

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - The Autumn of the Patriarch

Gold, Glen David - Carter Beats the Devil

Grassic Gibbon, Lewis - Sunset Song

Greene, Graham - Brighton Rock

Haig, Matt - The Last Family in England

Hay, Sheridan - The Secret of Lost Things

Hoare, Philip - Leviathan

Hoeg, Peter - Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

Hoffman, Alice - Practical Magic

Hornby, Nick - Juliet Naked

Isherwood, Christopher - Goodbye to Berlin

Jacobson, Howard - The Finkler Question

Jenkins, Elizabeth - The Tortoise and the Hare

Jones, Sadie - The Outcast

Keneally, Thomas - Schindlers Ark

Kingsolver, Barbara - The Lacuna

Lawrence, DH - Women in Love

Le Carre, John - The Spy who Came in from the Cold

McGregor, Jon - If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

McPherson, Catriona - Winter Ground

Mieville, China - Un Lun Dun

Mistry, Rohinton - A Fine Balance

Moers, Walter - The 1312 Lives of Captain Bluebear

Morton, Kate - The House at Riverton

Murdoch, Iris - The Black Prince

Murdoch, Iris - The Flight from the Enchanter

Murdoch, Iris - The Unofficial Rose

O'Neill, Joseph - Netherland

Orwell, George - Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Ransome, Arthur - Winter Holiday

Rhodes, Danuta - The Little White Car

Schlink, Bernard - The Reader

Sittenfield, Curtis - American Wife (on loan)

Skeslien Charles, Janet - Moonlight in Odessa

Smith, Ali - Girl Meets Boy

Smith, Ali - The Accidental

Spark, Muriel - Far Cry from Kensington

Spark, Muriel - Robinson

Spark, Muriel - The Comforters

Spark, Muriel - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Starling, Belinda - The Journal of Dora Damage

Stevenson, DE - Mrs Tim of the Regiment (Bloomsbury)

Tartt, Donna - The Little Friend

Taylor, G.P. - Mariah Mundi & the Ghost Diamonds

Townsend, Sue - Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

Townsend, Sue - Adrian Mole & the Weapons of Mass Destruction

Udall, Brady - The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

Updike, John - Rabbit Run

Waters, Sarah - Fingersmith

Waters, Sarah - The Night Watch

Winterson, Jeanette - Oranges are not the Only Fruit

Winterson, Jeanette - Sexing the Cherry

 

Non Fiction:

Angelou, Maya - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Barnes, Julian - The Pedant in the Kitchen

Burroughs, Augusten - Running with Scissors

Dahl, Roald - Boy: Tales of Childhood

Faulks, Sebastian - Faulks on Fiction

Fitzgerald, Penelope - So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - Living to Tell the Tale

Holroyd, Michael - A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Helen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families

McCourt, Frank - Angela's Ashes

McCourt, Frank - Tis

Mosley, Diana - The Pursuit of Laughter

Murdoch, Iris - A Writer at War: the Letters and Diaries of Iris Murdoch 1939-1945

Pasternak, Boris - Letters to Georgian Friends

Proulx, Annie - Bird Cloud

Rugg, Julie & Murphy, Lynda - A Book Addicts Treasury

Summerscale, Kate - The Queen of Whale Cay

Wood, Ronnie - Ronnie

Woolf, Virginia - Selected Diaries

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Books read from the 2012 World Book Night Longlist of 100 books (something to look smug about)

 

Progress so far: 56/100

 

1 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

2 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

3 The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

4 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

5 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

6 The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien

7 The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

8 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

9 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

10 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

11 American Gods - Neil Gaiman

12 A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

13 Harry Potter Adult Hardback Boxed Set - J. K. Rowling

14 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

15 The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien

16 One Day -David Nicholls

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

18 The Help - Kathryn Stockett

19 Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

20 Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

21 The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks

22 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson

23 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

24 The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald

25 Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott

26 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

27 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

28 Atonement - Ian McEwan

29 Room - Emma Donoghue

30 Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

31 We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver

32 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

33 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres

34 The Island - Victoria Hislop

35 Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman

36 The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

37 The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

38 Chocolat - Joanne Harris

39 Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

40 The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom

41 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

42 Animal Farm - George Orwell

43 The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett

44 The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde

45 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

46 Charlie & the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

47 I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith

48 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

49 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

50 The Road - Cormac McCarthy

51 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

52 Dracula - Bram Stoker

53 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

54 Small Island - Andrea Levy

55 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

56 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

57 Persuasion - Jane Austen

58 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

59 Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson

60 Watership Down - Richard Adams

61. Night Watch - Terry Pratchett

62 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

63 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

64 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke

65 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

66 My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult

67 The Stand - Stephen King

68 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

69 The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

70 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

71 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

72 Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

73 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer

74 The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

75 Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell

76 The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman

77 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

78 The Princess Bride - William Goldman

79 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

80 Perfume - Patrick Suskind

81 The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

82 The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

83 Middlemarch - George Eliot

84 Dune - Frank Herbert

85 Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel

86 Stardust - Neil Gaiman

87 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

88 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

89 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling

90 Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts

91 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

92 Possession - A.S. Byatt

93. Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin

94 Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

95 The Magus - John Fowles

96 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne

97 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

98. Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood

99 Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

100 The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami

 

I'll just add that the event is due to take place on April 23rd 2012. The books to be given away are as follows (and this is the bit that totally confuses me because some of them are not on the longlist .. work that one out :o .. and that has messed up my percentages because now I've only read 9/25 :( ... thank you World Booknight :banghead: )

 

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks

3 Sleepyhead - Mark Billingham

4 Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson

5 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

6 The Take - Martina Cole

7 Harlequin - Bernard Cornwell

8 Someone Like You - Roald Dahl

9 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

10 Room - Emma Donoghue

11 Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

12 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

13 Misery - Stephen King

14 The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella

15 Small Island - Andrea Levy

16 Let the Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist

17 The Road - Cormac McCarthy

18 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

19 The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell

20 The Damned United - David Peace

21 Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

22 How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff

23 Touching the Void - Joe Simpson

24 I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith

25 The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

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Books read from the 1001 Books You Must Read before You Die by Peter Boxall - 2006 (something to take the smug look off my face) ** note to self .. you won't die if you read them all .. in any case you won't read them all .. you won't even read all the titles**

 

Progress so far: 117/1001

 

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

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

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

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

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

910. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens

909. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

891. Villette – Charlotte Brontë

890. Bleak House - Charles Dickens

889. Walden – Henry David Thoreau

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 Woman - Louisa May Alcott

862. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins

861. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky (TBR)

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. Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Caroll

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

614. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)

613. The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis

612. In Parenthesis – David Jones

611. The Years - Virginia Woolf

610. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

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

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

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

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

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 Reage

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. Tokien

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

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 (TBR)

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 Carre

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

412. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth

411. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys

410. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras

409. The Magus – John Fowles

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

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

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

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 Carre

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

304. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec

303. The World According to Garp – John Irving

302. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan

301. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

300. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino

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

218. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe

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

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

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

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. Miss Smilla's Sense of Snow - Peter Hoeg

156. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje

155. Jazz – Toni Morrison

154. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson

153. The Crow Road - Iain Banks

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

140. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe

139. On Love – Alain de Botton

138. Complicity – Iain Banks

137. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth

136. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy

135. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

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

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

88. Another World – Pat Barker

87. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis

86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

85. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters

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

67. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski

66. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard

65. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande

64. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami

63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood

62. The Human Stain – Philip Roth

61. How the Dead Live – Will Self

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

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. Thursbitch – Alan Garner

15. The Colour – Rose Tremain

14. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle

13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

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

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

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Books I'd like to lick .. I mean own

 

Fiction

Aaronovitch, Ben - Rivers of London (Thank you Claire :friends0:)

Aaronovitch, Ben - Whispers Under Ground

Baker, Tiffany - The Gilly Salt Sisters

Beauman, Ned - The Teleportation Accident

Bradley, Alan - The Weed That Strings the Hangmans Bag

Bulgakov, Mikhail - The Heart of a Dog

Bulgakow, Mikhail - The Master and Margarita

Chabon, Michael - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Comyns. Barbara - Sisters by a River

Comyns, Barbara - What was Changed and Who was Dead

Connolly, John - The Gates

Doshi, Tishani - The Pleasure Seekers

Erpenbeck, Jenny - Visitation

Eugenides, Jeffrey - The Marriage Plot

Evans, Lissa - Small Change for Stuart

Fagan, Jenni - The Panopticon

Gaiman, Neil & Pratchett, Terry - Good Omens

Haig, Matt - The Radleys

Harris, Jane - Gillespie and I

Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter

Healy, Dermot - Long Time, No See

Joyce, Rachel - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Juster, Norton - The Phantom Tollbooth (Thank you Kylie)

Kaufman, Andrew - All my Friends are Superheroes

Kaye, I.J. - Mountains of the Moon

Kennedy Toole, John - A Confederacy of Dunces

Kurkov, Andrey - Death and the Penguin (Thank you frankie)

Makkai, Rebecca - The Borrower

Mandery, Evan - Q: A Love Story

Mantel, Hilary - Bring Up the Bodies

Miller, Andrew - Pure

Morrall, Clare - The Roundabout Man

Morgenstern, Erin - The Night Circus

Murray, Paul - An Evening of Long Goodbyes

Patchett, Ann - Bel Canto

Peake, Mervyn - Mr Pye

Pears, Tim - Disputed Land

Pierre, DBC - Vernon God Little

Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar

Pratchett, Terry - Dodger

Rhodes, Dan - This is Life

Riggs, Ransom - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Rogan, Charlotte - The Lifeboat

Rowling, JK - The Casual Vacancy

Shepherd, Lynn - Tom All-Alone's

Silverstone, Shel - Falling Up

Steinbeck, John - The Short Novels of John Steinbeck

Stoker, Bram - Dracula

Tey, Josephine - The Daughter of Time

Tey, Josephine - The Franchise Affair

Waugh, Evelyn - A Handful of Dust

Waugh, Evelyn - Vile Bodies

Wetta, Stephen - If Jack's In Love

Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth

Woolf, Virginia - A Room of One's Own

Woolf, Virginia - The Waves

 

Non Fiction:

Bair, Deirdre - Simone de Beauvoir : A Biography

Beach, Sylvia - The Letters of Sylvia Beach

Bowker, Gordon - George Orwell

Brody, Leslie - Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford

Carter, Angela - Expletives Deleted

Fowler, Christopher - Paperboy

Fry, Stephen - The Fry Chronicles

Garnett, Angelica - Deceived with Kindness (Thank you Kylie)

Kafka, Franz - Letters to Friends, Family and Editors

Kennedy, Richard - A Boy at the Hogarth Press (Thank you Kylie)

Knight, Lynn - Lemon Sherbert and Dolly Blue

Lee, Hermione - Virginia Woolf

Lurie, Leslie Gilbert & Rita - Bending Toward the Sun : A Mother and Daughter Memoir

Manguel, Alberto - The Library at Night (Thank you frankie :friends0:)

Moore, Lucy - Anything Goes : A Biography of the Roaring Twenties

Nabakov, Vladimir - Speak, Memory

Nicholson, Virginia - Among the Bohemians (Thank you Kylie :friends0:)

Ozma, Alice - The Reading Promise

Reid, Christopher - The Letters of Ted Hughes

Sewell, Brian - Outsider: Always Almost: Never Quite

Shilling, Jane - The Stranger in the Mirror

Walker, Alice - The Chicken Chronicles

Walls, Jeanette - The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Wheeler, Thom - One Steppe Beyond

Welty, Eudora & Maxwell, William - What There Is to Say We Have Said

Werber, Millie & Keller, Eve - Two Rings: A Story of Love and War

Wiesel, Elie - Night

Winterson, Jeanette - Why be Happy When you Could be Normal?

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Books I've Bought/Acquired in 2012 - a very short list wink.gif (and no lying or claiming they were bought by your Aunt Sue .. you haven't got an Aunt Sue!)

 

Ok I'm going to include my 2011 xmas books in this list because I always think of them as books to start the new year off with.

 

Total so far: 93 (but I really truly didn't buy them all)

Progress: 46/93

 

Fiction:

About a Boy - Nick Hornby

A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby

And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

Appointment with Death - Agatha Christie

The Beautiful and the Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

The BFG - Roald Dahl

The Blue World - Jack Vance (Thank you VF :friends0:)

The Bloody Chamber and other stories - Angela Carter (Thank you Janet :friends0:)

The Borrower - Rebecca Makkai

Charlie & the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

Charlie & the Glass Elevator - Roald Dahl

Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

The Cider House Rules - John Irving (Thank you Julie :friends0:)

Curtain: Poirot's Last case - Agatha Christie

Dandy Gilver & the Proper Treatment of Blood Stains - Catriona McPherson

Danny the Champion of the World - Roald Dahl

Death at Pemberley - P.D. James (strictly speaking this was a Christmas present for Alan but there's no way I'm not reading it!)

Dracula - Bram Stoker

Dumb Witness - Agatha Christie

Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn

Esio Trot - Roald Dahl

Fantastic Mr Fox - Roald Dahl

Fever Pitch - Nick Hornby (read a library copy)

The Fifth Child - Doris Lessing

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

George's Marvellous Medicine - Roald Dahl

Gillespie and I - Jane Harris

The Giraffe & the Pelly & Me - Roald Dahl

Girl Reading - Katie Ward

Grace Williams Says it Loud - Emma Henderson (read a library copy)

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

High Fidelity - Nick Hornby (read a library copy)

How to be Good - Nick Hornby

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Stepped Out of the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson

James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl

The Magic Finger - Roald Dahl

Matilda - Roald Dahl

The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham

Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs

Mistress Masham's Repose - E.H. White

Mockingbird - Walter Tevis (Thank you Steve :friends0:)

A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness

Moon Over Soho - Ben Aaronovitch

The Moving Toyshop - Edmund Crispin

The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie

The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe - Agatha Christie

Peril at End House - Agatha Christie

Pied Piper - Nevil Shute

Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch (Thank you Claire :friends0:)

A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf

The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Sisters Brothers - Patrick deWitt

Slam - Nick Hornby

Slaves of the Klau - Jack Vance (Thank you James :friends0:)

Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey

The Somnambulist - Essie Fox

Suite Francais - Irene Nemirovsky

Tender is the Night - F.Scott Fitzgerald (nicer copy)

Third Girl - Agatha Christie

The Tiny Wife - Andrew Kaufman

The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean - David Almond

The Twits - Roald Dahl

The Vanishing Act - Mette Jakobsen

Visitation - Jenny Erpenbeck

The Witches - Roald Dahl

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aiken

 

Non Fiction:

Among the Bohemians - Virginia Nicholson (Thank you Kylie :friends0:)

A Postillion Struck by Lightning - Dirk Bogarde

Back Story - David Mitchell

Books, Baguettes & Bedbugs: The Left Bank World of Shakespeare & Co - Jeremy Mercer

Boy: Tales of Childhood - Roald Dahl

Bright Star: The Complete Poems and Selected Letters - John Keats

The Child That Books Built - Francis Spufford

De Profundis - Oscar Wilde

Going Solo: Roald Dahl

How to be a Woman - Caitlin Moran

Julie & Julia - Julie Powell

The Library at Night - Alberto Manguel (Thank you frankie :friends0:)

My Life in France - Julia Child

The Lost Continent - Bill Bryson (Thank you Julie :friends0:)

Night - Elie Wiesel

The Reading Promise - Alice Ozma

The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell

Selected Letters - Virginia Woolf

The Sweet Life in Paris - David Lebovitz

Virginia Woolf - Hermione Lee

Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal - Jeanette Winterson

 

Poetry:

Penguin's Poems by Heart - selected by Laura Barber

The Christmas Truce - Carol Ann Duffy

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It's very exciting to have these lists :yahoo: long have I wished for them :yahoo: I've highlighted those I've read and made a note of those on my wishlist but I'll be looking the rest up ... you bet :smile:

 

Kylie's Bestest Books progress 28/63

 

Fiction (read)

Joseph Heller: Catch-22

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

Alexandre Dumas: Count of Monte Christo (TBR)

Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol

Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird

Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita (TBR)

Bram Stoker: Dracula

John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men (TBR)

Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange (TBR)

Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (TBR)

Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (TBR)

George Grossmith: Diary of a Nobody

Jane Austen: Emma

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations

Jack Kerouac: The Town and the City

George Orwell: Animal Farm

Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre

John Banville: The Book of Evidence

Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray (TBR)

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (TBR)

Markus Zusak: The Book Thief

John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces (TBR)

John Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath (TBR)

Erich Maria Marquez: All Quiet on the Western Front (TBR)

Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex

Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451

Mark Dunn: Ella Minnow Pea

Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind

Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon

Tim Winton: Cloudstreet (TBR)

Michel Faber: The Crimson Petal and the White (TBR)

Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged

Italo Calvino: If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (TBR)

Susan Hill: The Woman in Black

Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything is Illuminated

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (TBR)

Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities

Jack Kerouac: On the Road

John Connolly: The Book of Lost Things

 

 

Kylie's Top 10 Young Adult

Suzanne Collins: Hunger Games (trilogy) (TBR)

John Marsden: Tomorrow, When the War Began (series)

J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter (series)

Lucy M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables (TBR)

Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden (TBR)

Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth (TBR)

Walter Moers: The 13 ½ Lives of Captain Bluebear (TBR)

A. A. Milne: Winnie the Pooh

Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

 

Kylie's Top 13 Non-Fiction

Truman Capote: In Cold Blood

AB Facey: A Fortunate Life

Helene Hanff: 84 Charing Cross Road (TBR)

Martin Toseland: A Steroid Hit the Earth

Steven D. Levitt: Freaconomics

Andrew Solomon: The Noonday Demon

Sylvia Plath: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (TBR)

Bill Bryson: Down Under

Bill Bryson: A Walk in the Woods (TBR)

Bill Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything

Tim Flannery: The Explorers

Tim Flannery: The Birth of Sydney

Anne Frank: The Diary of Anne Frank

 

frankie's Bestest Books progress 31/93

 

frankie's Fiction (read)

She Who Remembers by Linda Lay Shuler

Ten Little Niggers by Agatha Christie (TBR)

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (TBR)

Green Mile by Stephen King

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Northanger Abby by Jane Austen

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (TBR)

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Perfume by Patrick Süskind (TBR)

Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov

A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham (TBR)

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (TBR)

Dexter series by Jeff Lindsay

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Gentlemen & Players by Joanne Harris

Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (TBR)

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (TBR)

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

Dracula by Bram Stoker

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice (TBR)

Purge by Sofi Oksanen

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne

Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (TBR)

Q&A by Vikas Swarup

Psycho by Robert Bloch

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami (TBR)

Under the Skin by Michel Faber

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (TBR)

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

Gold by Dan Rhodes

Push! by Sapphire (TBR)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Candide by Voltaire (TBR)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (TBR)

The Last Family in England by Matt Haig (TBR)

The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch (and you need to watch the TV show!!)

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (TBR)

The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck

A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro

Night by Elie Wiesel (TBR)

Room by Emma Donoghue (TBR)

Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

Incidences by Daniil Harms

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (TBR)

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier (TBR)

The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery

Crippen by John Boyne

The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt

Marley and Me by John Grogan

 

frankie's Non-fiction

And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder by Deborah Spungen

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach (TBR)

How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton

The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath by Ronald Hayman (TBR)

The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule

The Dirt by Mötley Crüe

Stiff – The Life of the Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Sybil by Flora Rheta Scheiber

Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski (TBR)

Please Kill Me – The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain

Between the Sheets – The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th Century Women Writers by Lesley McDowell

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs (TBR)

 

frankie's Young Adult

Anastasia Krupnik series by Lois Lowry

The Little Vampire by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg

Emily of New Moon (series) by Lucy M. Montgomery

Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren

The Secred Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 12 ¾ by Sue Townsend

Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism by Georgia Byng

Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (TBR)

Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling

The Bill Bergson series by Astrid Lindgren

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No deletion necessary Janet .. I wubs you back :friends0: you are a genius (where was it .. down the back of the sofa?)

Yes! :giggle2:

 

The last post in it was from an Indian ISP - somebody spamming it with links. I think what must have happened is that someone accidentally removed the whole thread instead of that one post. Deleted posts (and whole threads) go into a 'trash' can - I searched in there for it, and voilà! :D

 

I'm quite happy to delete these posts though as they interrupt the flow of your lovely shiny new thread! :)

 

ETA: I've just found Claire's thread on Indian books that way too! :)

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Motivational Thoughts ... Get your finger out for goodness sake poppyshake and try and keep this years reviews up to date.

Write a more detailed reading list for this year so that the full extent of books you've bought and not read will be shown and you will be chastened.

Set a ridiculously low reading target for 2012 .. something like 4 ... then you will definitely succeed and Goodreads won't keep reminding you that you are 48% behind and a failure.

Make more time to read ... forget you ever had a facebook page.

Drop heavier hints about books you want ... the family are still including stuff like perfume and gloves in their Chrissy parcels .. what are they for?

Branch out .. read books out of your comfort zone .. don't just dip your toe into sci-fi but jump in and have a good splash about. Read something with gore in it and possibly vampires. Think about reading a Lee Childs book (but keep options open).

Stop sneering when you come across a trestle table full of 'Danielle Steel's' at the bootfair, instead buy one of those books (but make sure you haggle) bring it home, read it and display it next to your Austens. You are not narrow minded.

Don't judge a book by it's cover ... read an ugly book.

Stop colour coding your book displays, it's an illness. Put a red book in amongst the yellows .. live dangerously.

Consider reading an autobiography by a twenty-something reality show contestant .. there may be important life lessons within.

Go to Waterstones less often (like every other day) and stop licking the books .. you're worrying the staff.

Try and understand that people who hate reading are still valuable human beings.

Adopt a more loving approach towards Kindle readers .. stop considering buying one just because you've seen some lovely covers.

Be more reckless .. abandon a book halfway through .. it won't kill you (though it may make you mentally ill.)

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Just had a wonderful time reading through your lists and motivational thoughts for 2012; the latter giving me a good chuckle so thanks for that. Perhaps I should do something similar, who knows. I know for a fact I'm adopting some 'challenges' next year; the 2012 World Booklist Longlist of 100 books being the one that looks rather appealing. In any case, enough of my waffling, best of luck with your 2012 reading poppyshake. :friends3:

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Just had a wonderful time reading through your lists and motivational thoughts for 2012; the latter giving me a good chuckle so thanks for that. Perhaps I should do something similar, who knows. I know for a fact I'm adopting some 'challenges' next year; the 2012 World Booklist Longlist of 100 books being the one that looks rather appealing. In any case, enough of my waffling, best of luck with your 2012 reading poppyshake.

Thanks Ben :smile: ... the best of luck to you too in 2012. I'm a bit worried now that I'm going to have to read some books that I hate (or at least hate the sound of) in 2012 but I need to shake up my reading habits so it's the only way to go. I reckon 90% of my reading will still be in my comfort zone but the other 10% could be anything. Basically what ever the charity shop has to offer that fits in with my motivational thoughts. I saw a Kerry Katona book in the Sue Ryder shop last week but as I said to Alan, it's not 2012 yet .. I may as well wait until January to give up all forms of pleasure :D .. See, I seriously need to shake that attitude!

Happy reading in the New Year Poppy, love the motivational thoughts.

Thanks Kidsmum .. you too. Hope you have a fantastic 2012 :friends0:Think of me and my un-colour co-ordinated bookshelves :lol:

Poppy, good luck next year! I love your motivational thoughts!!! I think whenever I lose my mojo next year I'll come back and read them!

Thanks Jessi :friends0:I think I may be looking for my mojo for most of next year ... it will probably be in Waterstones looking wistfully at the Vintage classics :D

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Thanks Ben :smile: ... the best of luck to you too in 2012. I'm a bit worried now that I'm going to have to read some books that I hate (or at least hate the sound of) in 2012 but I need to shake up my reading habits so it's the only way to go. I reckon 90% of my reading will still be in my comfort zone but the other 10% could be anything. Basically what ever the charity shop has to offer that fits in with my motivational thoughts. I saw a Kerry Katona book in the Sue Ryder shop last week but as I said to Alan, it's not 2012 yet .. I may as well wait until January to give up all forms of pleasure :D .. See, I seriously need to shake that attitude!

Ah, the endless battle with temptation that we all suffer with on here always seems more apparent at the start of the new year when we've convinced ourselves of fresh starts and challenges, and we've promised ourselves not to make too many acquisitions. Our efforts our fruitless; I'm convinced it never works. :lol:

 

I wish you the best of luck with the shake-up, however, and I'm sure you'll get many friendly words of encouragement here if you ever start to waver! :smile2:

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Thanks Ben, I think the forum keeps us all encouraged when things start wobbling. I must apologise though for incorrectly titling the Worlds Book Night Longlist as the Worlds Booklist Longlist :unsure: I decided to go back and insert all the titles, not just the one's I've read, into the list and in doing so found I had read another one so woo-hoo and jubilations. It was short lived however as when I typed up the shortlist, I found that they hadn't taken them from the longlist (go figure) .. and I hadn't read many of the new inclusions .. they're really out to get me :help:

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Thanks Ben, I think the forum keeps us all encouraged when things start wobbling. I must apologise though for incorrectly titling the Worlds Book Night Longlist as the Worlds Booklist Longlist :unsure: I decided to go back and insert all the titles, not just the one's I've read, into the list and in doing so found I had read another one so woo-hoo and jubilations. It was short lived however as when I typed up the shortlist, I found that they hadn't taken them from the longlist (go figure) .. and I hadn't read many of the new inclusions .. they're really out to get me :help:

No apologies necessary poppyshake, I had to search for the list so I had the complete one anyway, so ended up entitling correctly anyway!

 

:lol: That's just typical isn't it?! Think I'll probably just stick to the longlist and see how I can get on with that.

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Motivational Thoughts ... Get your finger out for goodness sake poppyshake and try and keep this years reviews up to date.

Write a more detailed reading list for this year so that the full extent of books you've bought and not read will be shown and you will be chastened.

Set a ridiculously low reading target for 2012 .. something like 4 ... then you will definitely succeed and Goodreads won't keep reminding you that you are 48% behind and a failure.

Make more time to read ... forget you ever had a facebook page.

Drop heavier hints about books you want ... the family are still including stuff like perfume and gloves in their Chrissy parcels .. what are they for?

Branch out .. read books out of your comfort zone .. don't just dip your toe into sci-fi but jump in and have a good splash about. Read something with gore in it and possibly vampires. Think about reading a Lee Childs book (but keep options open).

Stop sneering when you come across a trestle table full of 'Danielle Steel's' at the bootfair, instead buy one of those books (but make sure you haggle) bring it home, read it and display it next to your Austens. You are not narrow minded.

Don't judge a book by it's cover ... read an ugly book.

Stop colour coding your book displays, it's an illness. Put a red book in amongst the yellows .. live dangerously.

Consider reading an autobiography by a twenty-something reality show contestant .. there may be important life lessons within.

Go to Waterstones less often (like every other day) and stop licking the books .. you're worrying the staff.

Try and understand that people who hate reading are still valuable human beings.

Adopt a more loving approach towards Kindle readers .. stop considering buying one just because you've seen some lovely covers.

Be more reckless .. abandon a book halfway through .. it won't kill you (though it may make you mentally ill.)

 

This has made me laugh every time I've read it, and I'll be coming back to it every time I need cheering up! :lol: (and us Kindle readers need all the love we can get ;) )

 

Happy reading in 2012 poppyshake :smile2:

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Christmas books bought for me ... (I'll leave out the cookery books etc) all ready to start reading in 2012

 

A Postillion Struck by Lightning - Dirk Bogarde (from Mum and taken from my Amazon wishlist .. I've loved listening to some of his recollections on Radio 4 Xtra.)

Jamrachs Menagerie - Carol Birch (from my niece Louise .. I have read it but didn't own my own copy.)

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (from Alan ... a new copy ... a delicious Penguin Deluxe :smile:)

Julie & Julia - Julie Powell & My Life in France - Julia Child (from my sister Lynne .. next to memoirs about writers I love memoirs about food.)

Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs (from Alan .. but I already had it on the shelf ... exchanged it today for other books which I will post about later.)

The Christmas Truce - Carol Ann Duffy (from Alan .. after he saw me licking it in Waterstones ;))

The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern (from Alan .. I think I started hinting about this one back in September.)

The Reading Promise - Alice Ozma (from Alan proving that he reads my Amazon wishlist.)

The Tiny Wife - Andrew Kaufman (from Alan ditto)

Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson (from Alan .. I sat and read the first few pages in Waterstones and laughed lots .. she has that sort of dark skewed way of looking at things that I like. I bought it for my niece but obviously the appreciative noises I'd made didn't go unnoticed.)

 

Also my Mum bought me the Puffin postcards and Alan bought me a 'My Little Library' journal which I can fail to record all my book purchases in and a '365 Penguin Classics to read Before You Die' desk calendar. I'm a very spoilt bear :thanx:

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