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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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?

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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.

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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

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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.

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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! :D

 

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! :smile2:

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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.

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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!

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