poppyshake Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 (edited) Books read 2009Books read 2010 - it once was lost but now is found .. thank you Janet Books read 2011Total 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 ... purpleBooks that I like a lot ... greenBooks that I like ... blueThe rest ... blackJanuary 2012 (6 read)Boy: Tales of Childhood - Roald Dahl (my bookshelf) 9/10 ReviewThe Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter (a Janet present ) 9/10 ReviewThe Sisters Brothers - Patrick DeWitt (my bookshelf) 10/10 ReviewOranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson (my bookshelf) 8/10 ReviewThe Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham (charity shop buy) 9/10 ReviewRunning with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs (my bookshelf) 9/10 ReviewFebruary 2012 (6 read)Mistress Masham's repose - T.H. White (my bookshelf) 8/10 ReviewDracula - Bram Stoker (my bookshelf) 10/10 ReviewLove Story - Erich Segal (my bookshelf) 8/10 ReviewI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou (my bookshelf) 8/10 ReviewRed Dog - Louis de Bernieres (library loan) 8/10 ReviewGirl Meets Boy - Ali Smith (my bookshelf) 9/10 ReviewMarch 2012 (8 read and 1 listened to)The Blue World - Jack Vance (thank you James ) 9/10 ReviewThe Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell (my bookshelf) 8/10 ReviewPied Piper - Nevil Shute (my bookshelf) 9/10 ReviewLife, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages - Tom Holt (Audible D/L) 9/10 ReviewDe Profundis - Oscar Wilde - 50,000 word letter (my bookshelf) 9/10 ReviewThe Ballad of Reading Gaol - Oscar Wilde - poem (my bookshelf) 8/10 ReviewFrankenstein - Mary Shelley (my bookshelf) 6/10 ReviewNight - Elie Wiesel (my bookshelf) 10/10 ReviewGigi - Colette - short story (my bookshelf) 8/10 ReviewApril 2012 (6 read)Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch (thank you Claire ) 10/10 ReviewUn Lun Dun - China Mieville (my bookshelf) 8/10 ReviewThe Fifth Child - Doris Lessing (my bookshelf) 8/10 ReviewHow to Be a Woman - Caitlin Moran (my bookshelf) 9/10 ReviewThe Moving Toyshop - Edmund Crispin (my bookshelf) 8/10 ReviewMy Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier (my bookshelf) 10/10 ReviewMay 2012 (7 read and 1 listened to)A Postillion Struck By Lightning - Dirk Bogarde (my bookshelf) 8/10 ReviewShiver - Maggie Stiefvater (Audible D/L) 5/10 ReviewTalk to the Snail - Stephen Clarke (library) 7/10 ReviewParis Revealed - Stephen Clarke (library) 7/10 ReviewBooks, Baguettes and Bedbugs - (my bookshelf) Jeremy Mercer 9/10 ReviewI Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith (my bookshelf) 10/10 ReviewLunch in Paris - Elizabeth Bard (library) 8/10 ReviewAlso 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 What you have to understand is .. this is not just a trip .. it's an obsession June 2012 (5 read)A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf (my bookshelf) 10/10 ReviewThe Most Beautiful Walk in the World - John Baxter (my bookshelf) 8/10 ReviewCakes and Ale - Somerset Maugham (my bookshelf) 7/10 ReviewSlaves of the Klau - Jack Vance (thank you James ) 8/10 ReviewMockingbird - Walter Tevis (thank you Steve ) 9/10 Edited November 28, 2013 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 16, 2011 Author Share Posted December 16, 2011 (edited) July 2012 (11 read)The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey (my bookshelf) 10/10 ReviewMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs (my bookshelf) 9/10 ReviewAlmost French - Sarah Turnbull (library) 9/10 ReviewPenelopiad - Margaret Atwood (loaned from Claire ) 9/10 ReviewGirl Reading - Katie Ward (my bookshelf) 8/10 ReviewA Monster Calls - Patrick Ness (my bookshelf) 10/10 ReviewThe Lost Continent - Bill Bryson (thanks Julie ) 10/10 Reviewella minnow pea - Mark Dunn (my bookshelf) 10/10 ReviewThe Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery (my bookshelf) 7/10 Review from Reading Circle - watch out for spoilersThe Borrower - Rebecca Makkai (my bookshelf) 8/10Selected Letters - Virginia Woolf (my bookshelf) 9/10August 2012 (9 read and 1 listened to)The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson (my bookshelf) 9/10The Pedant in the Kitchen - Julian Barnes (my bookshelf) 8/10 ReviewThe Child that Books Built - Francis Spufford (my bookshelf) 6/10 ReviewNotes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson re-read (my bookshelf) 9/10 ReviewSurfacing - Margaret Atwood (my bookshelf) 5/10 ReviewNotes from a Big Country - Bill Bryson re-read (my bookshelf) 8/10The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark (my bookshelf) 9/10Moon Over Soho - Ben Aaronovitch (my bookshelf) 9/10Selected Diaries - Virginia Woolf (my bookshelf) 9/10The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce (Audible D/L) 9/10 ReviewSeptember 2012 (3 read and 2 listened to)Dear Fatty - Dawn French (Audible D/L) 8/10 ReviewThe Fry Chronicles - Stephen Fry (Audible D/L) 9/10 ReviewThe Visitation - Jenny Erpenbeck (my bookshelf) 8/10 ReviewVirginia Woolf - Hermione Lee (my bookshelf) 9/10 ReviewRabbit Run - John Updike (my bookshelf) 8/10October 2012 (11 read and 2 listened to)Orlando - Virginia Woolf (library) 9/10 ReviewThe Sweet Life in Paris - David Lebovitz (bookshelf) 8/10 ReviewThe Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals - Wendy Jones (library) 8/10 ReviewTom-All-Alone's - Lynn Shepherd (library) 10/10 ReviewBetween the Acts - Virginia Woolf (library) 7/10The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf (Audible D/L) 8/10 ReviewWatership Down - Richard Adams (bookshelf) 10/10 ReviewBack Story - David Mitchell (my copy .. my very own copy .. my SIGNED copy ) 10/10Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel (Audible D/L) 10/10 ReviewOne Pair of Feet - Monica Dickens (bookshelf) 8/10 ReviewSelected Short Stories - Virginia Woolf (library) 7/10The Tortoise and the Hare - Elizabeth Jenkins (bookshelf) 8/10 ReviewThe Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein (library) 6/10 Review from Reading Circle - watch out for spoilersNovember 2012 (7 read and 1 listened to)Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally (bookshelf) 9/10 ReviewThe Paris Wife - Paula McLain (bookshelf) 9/10The Vanishing Act - Mette Jakobsen (bookshelf) 10/10 Review from Reading Circle - watch out for spoilersLady Into Fox - David Garnett (bookshelf) 8/10 ReviewThe Library at Night - Alberto Manguel (bookshelf) 9/10Candide - Voltaire (bookshelf) 10/10 ReviewThe Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (bookshelf) 10/10 ReviewA Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (Audible D/L) re-read 10/10December 2012 (3 read)Gillespie & I - Jane Harris (bookshelf) 8/10 ReviewThe Hundred-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window And Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson (bookshelf) 9/10 ReviewThe Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year - Sue Townsend (bookshelf) 8/10 ReviewLiterary Toast Quotations Part One Edited November 28, 2013 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 16, 2011 Author Share Posted December 16, 2011 (edited) 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 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 131⁄2 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 Edited November 11, 2012 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 16, 2011 Author Share Posted December 16, 2011 (edited) 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 .. and that has messed up my percentages because now I've only read 9/25 ... thank you World Booknight ) 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 Edited July 12, 2012 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 16, 2011 Author Share Posted December 16, 2011 (edited) 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 Edited November 13, 2012 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 16, 2011 Author Share Posted December 16, 2011 (edited) Books I'd like to lick .. I mean own Fiction Aaronovitch, Ben - Rivers of London (Thank you Claire ) 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 ) Moore, Lucy - Anything Goes : A Biography of the Roaring Twenties Nabakov, Vladimir - Speak, Memory Nicholson, Virginia - Among the Bohemians (Thank you Kylie ) 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? Edited December 30, 2012 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 16, 2011 Author Share Posted December 16, 2011 (edited) Books I've Bought/Acquired in 2012 - a very short list (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 ) The Bloody Chamber and other stories - Angela Carter (Thank you Janet ) 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 ) 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 ) 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 ) 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 ) 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 ) 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 ) My Life in France - Julia Child The Lost Continent - Bill Bryson (Thank you Julie ) 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 Edited December 30, 2012 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 I will delete this when you've seen it, but because I wubs you ( ) I found 2010!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 16, 2011 Author Share Posted December 16, 2011 I will delete this when you've seen it, but because I wubs you ( ) I found 2010!! No deletion necessary Janet .. I wubs you back you are a genius (where was it .. down the back of the sofa?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 16, 2011 Author Share Posted December 16, 2011 (edited) It's very exciting to have these lists long have I wished for them 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 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 Edited October 29, 2012 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 (edited) No deletion necessary Janet .. I wubs you back you are a genius (where was it .. down the back of the sofa?) Yes! 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! 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! Edited December 16, 2011 by Janet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 16, 2011 Author Share Posted December 16, 2011 It's ok, I'm more or less done now and ready for business Thank you so much again, Miss Marple has nothing on you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 16, 2011 Author Share Posted December 16, 2011 (edited) 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.) Edited December 20, 2011 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Love them... all of them! This one is probably my favourite... Consider reading an autobiography by a twenty-something reality show contestant .. there may be important life lessons within. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 22, 2011 Author Share Posted December 22, 2011 I've been persuaded now to use the motivational thoughts list as a reading challenge for 2012 ... boy am I going to be in a bad mood next year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidsmum Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 Happy reading in the New Year Poppy, love the motivational thoughts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessi Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 26, 2011 Author Share Posted December 26, 2011 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 ... 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 .. 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 Think of me and my un-colour co-ordinated bookshelves 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 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Thanks Ben ... 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 .. 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. 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 26, 2011 Author Share Posted December 26, 2011 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 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 (edited) 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 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 No apologies necessary poppyshake, I had to search for the list so I had the complete one anyway, so ended up entitling correctly anyway! 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. Edited December 26, 2011 by Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 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! (and us Kindle readers need all the love we can get ) Happy reading in 2012 poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 26, 2011 Author Share Posted December 26, 2011 Thanks Claire Happy reading in 2012 to you too. I wonder if my reading blog will ever be called 'Poppy's Downloads'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 27, 2011 Author Share Posted December 27, 2011 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 ) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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