kelmaria Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 I'd love that book,it sounds good. out of the list,I have read The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx The World According to Garp – John Irving The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote the Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson848. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne Little Women – Louisa May Alcott Great Expectations – Charles Dickens The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas.Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens Emma – Jane Austen Mansfield Park – Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen of mice and men,john steinbeck so quite a short list and a definate sign I need to read more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms Squiggles Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 I don't have the time to go through this entire thread at the moment, so apologies if this has been asked or mentioned before, but does anyone know if there is a complete, up-to-date list available online somewhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaraPepparkaka Posted September 22, 2010 Share Posted September 22, 2010 (edited) I've read these: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoJunotDíaz Half of a Yellow SunChimamanda NgoziAdichie White Teeth ZadieSmith The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle HarukiMurakami Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis deBernières A Suitable Boy VikramSeth The Secret History DonnaTartt The English Patient MichaelOndaatje Smilla’s Sense of Snow PeterHøeg Wild Swans JungChang Foucault’s Pendulum UmbertoEco The Satanic Verses SalmanRushdie Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency DouglasAdams Love in the Time of Cholera GabrielGarcía Márquez Simon and the oaksMarianneFredriksson The Handmaid’s Tale MargaretAtwood The Unbearable Lightness of Being MilanKundera The Lover MargueriteDuras The House of the Spirits IsabelAllende July’s People NadineGordimer Midnight’s Children SalmanRushdie Burger’s DaughterNadineGordimer Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy DouglasAdams Delta of Venus AnaïsNin The Shining StephenKing The Bluest Eye ToniMorrison Cancer Ward AleksandrSolzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich AleksandrSolzhenitsyn Catch-22 JosephHeller The Magician of LublinIsaac BashevisSinger The Lord of the Rings J.R.R.Tolkien The Unknown SoldierVainoLinna The Catcher in the Rye J.D.Salinger Brideshead Revisited EvelynWaugh The Bridge on the Drina IvoAndrić Animal Farm GeorgeOrwell Pippi LongstockingAstridLindgren The Little Prince Antoine deSaint-Exupéry For Whom the Bell Tolls ErnestHemingway Rebecca Daphnedu Maurier Of Mice and Men JohnSteinbeck The Hobbit J.R.R.Tolkien Gone With the Wind MargaretMitchell All Quiet on the Western Front Erich MariaRemarque Lady Chatterley’s Lover D.H.Lawrence Mrs. Dalloway VirginiaWoolf Kristin LavransdatterSigridUndset The Age of Innocence EdithWharton The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur ConanDoyle The War of the Worlds H.G.Wells Dracula BramStoker The Time Machine H.G.Wells The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur ConanDoyle Gösta Berling’s Saga SelmaLagerlöf Tess of the D’Urbervilles ThomasHardy The Picture of Dorian Gray OscarWilde The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn MarkTwain Treasure Island Robert LouisStevenson Nana ÉmileZola Around the World in Eighty Days JulesVerne Through the Looking GlassLewisCarroll War and Peace LeoTolstoy Crime and Punishment FyodorDostoevsky Journey to the Centre of the Earth JulesVerne Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland LewisCarroll Madame Bovary GustaveFlaubert Uncle Tom’s Cabin HarrietBeecher Stowe Moby-Dick HermanMelville The Tenant of Wildfell Hall AnneBrontë Wuthering Heights EmilyBrontë Jane Eyre CharlotteBrontë The Count of Monte-Cristo AlexandreDumas The Three Musketeers AlexandreDumas Oliver Twist CharlesDickens The Hunchback of Notre Dame VictorHugo Ivanhoe Sir WalterScott Frankenstein MaryShelley Emma JaneAusten Mansfield Park JaneAusten Pride and Prejudice JaneAusten Sense and Sensibility JaneAusten Dangerous Liaisons PierreChoderlos de Laclos Candide Voltaire Gulliver’s Travels JonathanSwift Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe That makes 85. If I counted correctly. I have a question though: What did J M Coetzee do to deserve to have 6 books on this list? I've read one book by him, and didn't think it was all that special. Not bad either, but.. Granted, it's not on this list, so I take it that means it's not the best book he's written. Still wondering why though. Edited September 22, 2010 by SaraPepparkaka Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 This was in 'trash' too - now restored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Is this correct? The post prior to Janet's has a date of 2010. I know it was posted in many times this year. Or is there a different 1001 thread somewhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Yes, there's a thread in the Challenges section HERE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Oh shoot, I had no idea there was already an existing thread on the subject when I started the other thread. Is this a problem, should the threads be merged? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 I don't think there's any need to, personally, as this thread is more about asking who has the book - the ohter one in the challenge section is more focusing on the challenge itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 As you reasoned it so well, I will have to agree with you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 Ah, sorry for the confusion! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Good Citizen Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 only 50 I was doing quite well but as the books got older it tailed off. I shoudl probably read more classics ha! That is a great link though, I will definitely use this in future. I've nearly watched all of the IMDB top 250 films, this may take a lifetime however which I suppose is this point! Cloud Atlas The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel Kafka on the Shore Life of Pi Super-Cannes Sputnik Sweetheart The Hours Great Apes (Will Self) The Reader The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Birdsong Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China Love in the Time of Cholera The WASP FACTORY: A NOVEL A Pale View of Hills Midnight's Children A Confederacy of Dunces The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Cement Garden The Shining Interview with the Vampire Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Slaughterhouse-Five Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? One Hundred Years of Solitude The Master and Margarita Catch-22 To Kill a Mockingbird On the Road Lord of the Flies The Day of the Triffids Foundation The Catcher in the Rye Nineteen Eighty-Four The Plague Animal Farm The Grapes of Wrath Nausea Of Mice and Men Brave New World A Farewell To Arms All Quiet on the Western Front Mrs. Dalloway The Great Gatsby The Trial A Passage to India Bram Stoker's Dracula The Picture of Dorian Gray The Metamorphoses of Ovid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nursenblack Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I posted on this thread couple of years ago and counted only 18 that I had read on the original 1001 list (maybe it's been changed by now),and wanted to see how I have fared. Read - bold TBR -underlined Wishlist- italics Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides Atonement – Ian McEwan The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski The Hours – Michael Cunningham The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood The Color Purple – Alice Walker Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald The Awakening – Kate Chopin Little Women – Louisa May Alcott Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll Great Expectations – Charles Dickens The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë Persuasion – Jane Austen Emma – Jane Austen Mansfield Park – Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen Well, 26 is an improvement Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottaleger Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 I would like to suggest a nice book about children. This is "1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up" by Julia Eccleshare Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devi Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 I keep meaning to try and find the time to go through the 2010 list, but after reading about the free e-books with amazon, I have been spending the last two nights going through them all, downloading interesting looking ones to the kindle app on my iPad haha. I've been meaning to set myself a reading challenge for awhile now, I do rather enjoy them. When I used to do the MS readathon every year when I was younger, my parents would always say "I bet you can't read x amount of books". Is there a 2011 list out yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 There was a new list in 2010, Devi. So far there has been one every two years, so maybe there'll be a new one this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devi Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 There was a new list in 2010, Devi. So far there has been one every two years, so maybe there'll be a new one this year. Makes sense, I imagine you would need two years to make a list so large haha. I will work with the 2010 one then I think, after I stop looking through the amazon e-books that is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookGeek20 Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 Wow just found this, I'm going to have to go through it and work out what I've read and what I would like to read, but its soo long! *feels daunted* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 I've just had a look at this and I have now read 51 so I'm not doing too badly I think the last time I posted I had only read 32. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlysonofBathe Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 (edited) Hi everyone, I'm super new here and was so happy to find this thread! I've been (slowly) working my way through the list, and while I've found a few similarly-minded blogs to follow, for the most part its just been me and a lot of books. How's everyone been faring with it? I've been blogging about it here. Anyone do the same? Cheers, Alyson Edited March 21, 2012 by AlysonofBathe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arukiyomi Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 thanks everyone for putting up links to v4 of the spreadsheet in my absence. Much appreciated. I've not heard any news of a new edition in the works. Has anyone else? I'm up to 334 off all three lists combined. I suppose that means I'm officially over a third of the way to 1001. Yay! It's been an amazing experience so far. Anyway, your wonderful support for the spreadsheet has enabled the iPhone app to become a reality. So many thanks for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arukiyomi Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 erm... how do you edit your own posts? I can't see a link for that anywhere. Don't know why the formatting didn't work for links in that last post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 (edited) I'm up to 334 off all three lists combined. I suppose that means I'm officially over a third of the way to 1001. Yay! It's been an amazing experience so far. Wow, that's amazing! erm... how do you edit your own posts? I can't see a link for that anywhere. Don't know why the formatting didn't work for links in that last post. You need to have posted 10 or more posts to be able to edit your posts So keep on posting! Edit: Oh and I believe the 10 posts are needed for the link formatting to go the way you wanted, as well Edit2: Oh and welcome to the forum! Edited March 22, 2012 by frankie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arukiyomi Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 thank you frankie.... he says just trying to get his post tally up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Formatting for links doesn't work for new members as we ask you to NOT post links until you're a more regular member here - and posting just to increase your post count is not looked upon favourably either! Are you personally linked to that app, as we also have a strict promotional policy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Arukiyomi is linked to the spreadsheet and the app, but I'm sure he has been open about his connection to the spreadsheet in the past. I'm pretty sure I've posted a link to his blog (where he reviews the 1001 books) and discussed the spreadsheet in the past (it's an impressive piece of work). I can vouch that he's a good guy, and legit, if that helps. I think the post tally comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek and just added to the end of a legitimate 'thank you' post. Anyway, 334 books is so impressive! Over one-third of the way - what an achievement! I think I'm still barely over 100. Your spreadsheet doesn't give me a good chance of getting through them all in my lifetime, so it's lucky I wasn't planning on reading them all! I haven't heard of a new edition either, Arukiyomi. It's funny you should ask, because I was just looking around online yesterday to try and find out. I actually went to your site first, because I figured if anyone would know, you would! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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