frankie

Oh dear That's going to take you a long while, innit?

Good luck, chalie!

Darling. You have the libraries! <3

Yeah I can imagine how difficult it must be not to have all your books with you

:lol: Goodreads works in mysterious ways....

Very possible! Wherever I see someone mentioning the book, I'll tell them I loved it and that I hope they'll love it, too Both here and on Goodreads. And there's been a few of those occasions on here lately, which brings me joy Awesome! Such a great read in a few different aspects/themes.

Hehe, funny that you didn't even notice it that much I noticed it immediately But then again I'm quick to go to GR when I've finished a book. Same as having to record my latest read here on BCF, in my reading log I haven't noticed the color of the links, though... off to take a look -> Hm, I'm not quite sure which links you mean?

Yeah, it's disturbing alright!! I wasn't sure if I should tell you it is, but I had a feeling you're alright with that. And personally I think it's good you've forgotten what the book's about Your journey into it will be fresh and non-prejudiced Cooooool!!

Change always takes a bit of time to get used to. Maybe they'll make the font bigger if it's a strain on so many people's eyes.

Library challenge. Go to them all! 1. Arabianranta 2. Etelä-Haaga 3. Herttoniemi 4. Itäkeskus 5. Jakomäki 6. Jätkänsaari 7. Kallio This is my 'home library' 8. Kannelmäki 9. Kirjasto 10 10. Kontula 11. Käpylä 12. Laajasalo 13. Lauttasaari 14. Malmi 15. Malminkartano 16. Maunula 17. Munkkiniemi 18. Myllypuro (media library) 19. Oulunkylä 20. Paloheinä 21. Pasila 22. Pikku Huopalahti (children's library) 23. Pitäjänmäki 24. Pohjois-Haaga 25. Puistola 26. Pukinmäki 27. Rikhardinkatu 28. Roihuvuori 29. Sakarinmäki (children's library) 30. Suomenlinna 31. Suutarila 32. Tapanila 33. Tapulikaupunki 34. Töölö 35. Vallila 36. Viikki 37. Vuosaari

Books I read in 2009 2010 1. The Virgin in the Ice by Ellis Peters 4/5 2. Too Close to Home by Linwood Barclay 5/5 3. Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts by Lucy Dillon 3/5 4. Dewey: A Small Town, a Library and the World's Most Beloved Cat by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter 5/5 5. Lady, My Life as a Bitch by Melvin Burgess 1/5 6. A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon 4/5 7. Psycho II by Robert Bloch 3/5 8. Anastasia Has the Answers by Lois Lowry 5/5 9. Macbeth by William Shakespeare (RG-B) 10. Anastasia's Chosen Career by Lois Lowry 5/5 11. Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw 5/5 (RG-B) 12. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 5/5 (1001, RG-B) 13. If You Really Loved Me by Ann Rule 2/5 14. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming 2/5 (1001) 15. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote 4/5 (1001) 16. Anastasia at this Address by Lois Lowry 5/5 17. Anastasia, Absolutely by Lois Lowry 5/5 18. Animal Farm by George Orwell (1001) 3/5 19. A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer 4/5 20. The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer 4/5 21. A Man Named Dave by Dave Pelzer 4/5 22. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (RG-B) 4/5 23. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1001) 4/5 24. Gold by Dan Rhodes 5/5 25. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin (RG-B) 5/5 26. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1001, RG-B) 2/5 27. Push by Sapphire 5/5 28. Human Harbour by John Ajvide Lindqvist 4/5 29. Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry (RG-B 3/5 30. Älähän änkee by Anni Polva 2/5 31. The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen 2/5 32. Niin Lotan tapaista by Merri Vik 4/5 (re-read) 33. The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson 4/5 34. Lottapa tietenkin by Merri Vik 4/5 (re-read) 35. Älä lannistu, Lotta! by Merri Vik 3/5 (re-read) 36. Vaara vaanii by Merrri Vik (re-read) 37. Mitkä hipat, Lotta! by Merri Vik (re-read) 38. Kirjoita muistiin, Lotta! by Merri Vik (re-read) 39. Yhtä hulinaa, Lotta! by Merri Vik (re-read) 40. Katso eteesi, Lotta! by Merri Vik (re-read) 41. Hyvin arvattu, Lotta! by Merri Vik (re-read) 42. Nolo juttu, Lotta! by Merri Vik (re-read) 43. Vintti pimeänä, Lotta! by Merri Vik (re-read) 44. Getting the Girl by Markus Zusak 3/5 45. A Stranger in the Family by Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith 4/5 46. Full Moon by P. G. Wodehouse 3/5 47. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (RG-B) 4/5 48. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber (RG-B) 2/5 49. Wicked by Gregory Maguire (RG-B) 2/5 50. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh 4/5 (re-read) 51. The Complete Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby (RG-B) 4/5 52. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby 4/5 53. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1001, RG-B) 3/5 54. Roommates by Emily Chase 4/5 (re-read) 55. How to Be Good by Nick Hornby 56. Miss Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg (1001) 2/5 57. About a Boy by Nick Hornby 4/5 58. Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby 4/5 59. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (RG-B) 5/5 60. Candide by Voltaire (1001, RG-B) 2/5 61. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist 3/5 62. The Dirt by Mötley Crüe (RG-B) 5/5 63. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious (RG-B) 4/5 64. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 3/5 65. The Difficulty of Being a Dog by Roger Grenier 1/5 66. Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding 2/5 67. Sliver by Ira Levin 4/5 68. The One hundredth Thing about Caroline by Lois Lowry 2/5 69. Sheriffi Mccoy by Andy McCoy 4/5 70. Shaker Run by Karen Harper 3/5 71. Down to the Bone by Karen Harper 4/5 72. Aftermath by Peter Robinson 3/5 73. Trial & Retribution II by Lynda la Plante 4/5 74. Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism by Georgia Byng 4/5 75. Molly Moon Stops the World by Georgia Byng 3/5 76. The Book Club by Mary Alice Monroe 3/5 77. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry 2/5 78. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1001, RG-B) 5/5 79. Dexter by Design by Jeff Lindsay 3/5 80. Dexter is Delicious by Jeff Lindsay 5/5 81. The Sweetheart Season by Karen Joy Fowler 3/5 82. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers 5/5 83. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull by Richard Bach 5/5 84. Trial & Retribution lll by Lynda La Plante 5/5 85. Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite 4/5 86. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris 2/5 87. Fear the Worst by Linwood Barclay 4/5 88. An Australian Son by Gordon Matthews 4/5 89. The Possession of Mr Cave by Matt Haig 2/5 90. Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley 4/5 91. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 4/5 92. Rebuilding Coventry by Sue Townsend 3/5 93. The Case of the Imaginary Detective by Karen Joy Fowler 1/5 94. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 3/5 95. The Last Family in England by Matt Haig 5/5 96. Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot 3/5 97. Size 14 Is Not Fat Either by Meg Cabot 4/5 98. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin 3/5 99. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr 4/5 100. Sellevision by Augusten Burroughs 5/5 101. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (RG-b) 4/5 102. Property by Valerie Martin (RG-b) 2/5 103. The True And Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elizabeth Brown 1/5 104. Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs 5/5 105. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin 3/5 106. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson 4/5 107. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach 5/5 108. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 2/5 109. The Long Hard Road out of Hell by Marilyn Manson with Neil Strauss 4/5 110. The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck 4/5 111. The Bad Dog's Diary by Martin Howard1 /5 112. Mesimarjani, pulmuni, pääskyni by Hilkka Ravilo 4/5 113. Manillaköysi by Veijo Meri 3/5 114. Love Story by Erich Segal (RG-b) 5/5 115. Barmy in Wonderland by P. G. Wodehouse 4/5 116. Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs 5/5 117. Farmer Giles of Ham by J. R. R. Tolkien 3/5 118. Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett 3/5 119. The Eleven Thousand Rods by Apollinaire 2/5 120. The Exploits of a Young Don Juan by Apollinaire 2/5

Links to all the books I've read and reviewed since I joined the forum 8.8.2008 2008 January Bret Easton Ellis: Lunar Park Tuija Lehtinen: Mies taskussa Alain de Botton: How Proust Can Change Your Life Cornelia Funke: Inkheart Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Elizabeth Flock: Me & Emma Virpi Hämeen-Anttila: Suden vuosi February Tuula-Liina Varis: Kilpikonna ja olkimarsalkka Ronald Hayman: The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath Stephen King: It Marie Hermanson: Hembiträdet March L. M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables Patricia Cornwell: Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed Carol Shields: Jane Austen L. M. Montgomery:Anne of Avonlea April Sue Townsend: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 Sue Townsend: The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole Sue Townsend: True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole Sue Townsend: Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians Sue Townsend: Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years L. M. Montgomery: Anne of the Island Joanne Harris: Gentlemen & Players Sue Townsend: Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction Emma Tenant: Pemberley Diane Setterfield: The Thirteenth Tale May Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White June Pentti Saarikoski: Toipilaan päiväkirjat Virginia Ironside: No! I Don’t Want to Join a Bookclub Amelie Nothomb: Antichrista Douglas Adams: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Amelie Nothomb: Fear and Trembling Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Charles Bukowski: Post Office July Marina Lewycka: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Sarah Waters: Fingersmith Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Annikki Alexandersson: Ruokahirviö Sean Stewart: Perfect Circle Kathleen Tessaro: Elegance August Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse Augusten Burroughs: Dry Terry Pratchett: Feet of Clay Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest N. V. Gogol: The Nose Anja Snellman: Lemmikkikaupan tytöt Markus Zusak: The Book Thief Carol Shields: Unless September Augusten Burroughs: A Wolf at the Table Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Ben Elton: Dead Famous Elizabeth Flock: But Inside I'm Screaming Lloyd Jones: Mister Pip October Neil Gaiman: Stardust John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince Stephen King: The Shining Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory John Grogan: Marley and Me Sophie Kinsella: Shopaholic & Baby Jeff Lindsay: Dearly Devoted Dexter November Kathy Reichs: Deja Dead Alan Bennett: The Uncommon Reader Kathy Reichs: Death du Jour Stephen King: Lisey's Story Cormac McCarthy: No Country for Old Men Stephenie Meyer: Twilight December Stephenie Meyer: New Moon D. H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover Philip Roth: Portnoy's Complaint Gaetan Soucy: The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches Diane Wynne Jones: Fire and Hemlock Sarah Dunant: Birth Marks Terry Pratchett: Johnny and the Dead Kathy Reichs: Deadly Decisions

Reading plan. This is me taking into account the due dates of the library books, and other things. January - summary 1 - A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig - gift and topical/seasonal + TBR 2 - Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch - library loan - Bream Gives Me Hiccups & Other Stories by Jesse Eisenberg - library loan - didn't have the time 3 - Mykkä tyttö by Michael Hjorth & Hans Rosenfeldt 4 - The Square by Rosie Millard - library loan 5 - Tyttö vailla nimeä by Gunnel Beckman - TBR 6 - The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster - TBR 7 - Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella - library loan - Where They Found Her by Kimberly McCreight - library loan - abandoned - A Pleasure and a Calling by Phil Hogan - library loan - abandoned - Secrets by Jacqueline Wilson - library loan - abandoned - Viola in Reel Life by Adriana Trigiani - library loan - abandoned - The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George - library loan. Totally abandoned it, what a melodramatic and boring piece! 8 - One of Us by Åsne Seierstad - library loan 9 - Just William by Richmal Crompton - group read - February - summary 10 - How To Look for a Lost Dog by Ann M. Martin - The Sense of an Elephant by Marco Missiroli - library loan - abandoned, couldn't get into it. Will try again later as I think I will enjoy it when the mood is right - Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume - library loan - abandoned after 40 pages. Liked the writing but had problems with the narrative and the slowness of the story. Might try again at some point. 11 - Christmas on Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand - library loan 12 - Confess by Colleen Hoover - library loan 13 - Edith's Diary by Patricia Highsmith - library loan March - summary 14 - Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova 15 - Ukkosmyrskyä rivarissa by Ritva Pesonen 16 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty - library loan - Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin - library loan - took back, didn't have the time - Pines by Blake Crouch - library loan - took back, didn't have the time - Alice and the Fly by James Rice - library loan - took back, didn't have the time - Joyland by Stephen King - library loan - took back, didn't have the time April - summary 17 - The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow by Katherine Woodfine - library loan 18 - Broken Promise by Linwood Barclay - library loan May - summary 19 - The Last of the Bowmans by J. Paul Henderson - library loan 20 - Here's Looking at You by Mhairi McFarlane - library loan 21 - Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs - re-read 22 - You Sent Me a Letter by Lucy Dawson - library loan - Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes - library loan - abandoned for now - narrator was talking too much politics for my liking and I was fearing this would continue throughout the book. Not what I'm looking for in a book at the moment. - Jewelled Moth by Katherine Woodfine - library loan - abandoned for now - didn't suite my current mood 23 - No Safe House by Linwood Barclay - library loan 24 - Dry by Augusten Burroughs - re-read June - summary 25 - This Is Life by Dan Rhodes - library loan 26 - A Mother's Reckoning - Living in the Aftermath of the Columbine Tragedy by Sue Klebold - library loan 27 - The Hypnotist's Love Story by Liane Moriarty - library loan 28 - The Vintage Springtime Club by Beatrice Meier - library loan - Sarah by J. T. Leroy - library loan - abandoned - I couldn't figure out if the protagonist was a boy or a girl and it really bothered me, even though it might have been the point of the book, although I doubt it. Couldn't get into it. 29 - Kasvonsa menettänyt mies by Kimmo Oksanen - library loan 30 - Pertsa ja Kilu by Väinö Riikkilä - library loan 31 - Far from True by Linwood Barclay - library loan July - summary 32 - The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams - library loan - Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller - library loan - had to take back to the library before I was able to read it, as someone had reserved the copy - Beside Myself by Ann Morgan - library loan - abandoned - couldn't get into it. Will give it another go at some other point. 33 - Upstairs Downstairs by John Hawkesworth - TBR book 34 - Kevyesti kipsissä by Veera Vaahtera - library loan - The Butcher's Hook by Janet Ellis - library loan - abandoned - couldn't get into it. Will give it another go at some other point. 35 - Onnellisesti eksyksissä by Veera Vaahtera - library loan 36 - Sattumalta sinun by Veera Vaahtera - library loan 37 - Rakkautta, vahingossa by Veera Vaahtera - library loan - Jane of Lantern Hill by L. M. Montgomery - library loan - abandoned - liked it while I was reading it, but lost the plot when I opted for something more chick litty August - summary 38 - Veljen vaimo by Henna Helmi Heinonen - library loan 39 - Kun mustarastas laulaa by Linda Olsson - library loan 40 - The Bucket List to Mend a Broken Heart by Anna Bell - library loan 41 - Charlotte Street by Juliette Mead - TBR book Also started and abandoned many other books, as mojo was fighting me. September - summary 42 - Hylätyt by Michael Hjorth & Hans Rosenfeldt - library loan 43 - Slammed by Colleen Hoover - library loan 44 - Varaudu pahimbaan by Petteri Nuottimäki - library loan October - summary 45 - Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty - library loan 46 - Be Frank with Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson - library loan 47 - Nina Is Not Okay by Shappi Khorsandi - library loan November - summary 48 - The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen - library loan 49 - The Absent One by Jussi Adler-Olsen - library loan 50 - Kellari by Maaria Päivinen - library loan 51 - This One Is Mine by Maria Semple - library loan December - reading summary The Real Liddy James by Anne-Marie Casey - library loan - abandoned: the books seems really great, but I was just in no reading mood! I will most definitely give this one another go, at a better time! 52 - Bridget Jones's Baby by Helen Fielding - library loan (Leaving the puppy here ) Back to Top October

More detailed reading plans and ideas for 2016 General stuff: - Read more books off the TBR pile. Don't leave them thinking you're waiting for the perfect moment, as they are precious books. Pick one up and start reading - Try not to reserve too many books from the library. That will be the downfall of the TBR. Authors I want to read more books by: Wally Lamb Linda Gillard Borrowed from the library, didn't have the time to finish: Liz Moore: Heft Carol Lynch Williams: The Chosen One Esko-Pekka Tiitinen: Perinnevanhukset Jorma Ranivaara: Valekirjailija Ulla-Maija Paavilainen: Vanhapoika Stef Penney: Näkymättömät John Elder Robison: Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's Kaj Korkea-Aho: Tummaa tuolla puolen Jayne Anne Phillips: Murhenäytelmä Tapani Heinonen: Reunalla R. J. Palacio: Wonder Rachel Joyce: Perfect Henry Farrell: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Gervase Phinn: The Little Village School Lisa Tucker: The Song Reader Marjo Niemi: Ihmissyöjän ystävyys E. F. Benson: Mapp & Lucia Sarah Wise: Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England Sam Lipsyte: Home Land Emily Murdoch: If You Find Me Robert Goolrick: Luotettava vaimo Lisa Ballantyne: Syyllinen M E Thomas: Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight Laura Kasischke: Mind of Winter Jane Sanderson: Netherwood Leslie Parry: Church of Marvels J. M. Coetzee & Arabella Kurtz: The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy Sara Crowe: Campari for Breakfast John Burley: The Hiding Place Daniel Handler: Ja sen takia me erosimme Jenni Kirves: Aino Sibelius – ihmeellinen olento Phil Hogan: A Pleasure and a Calling Kimberly McCreight: Where They Found Her Ideas for reading through the TBR by genre/theme: (coming up with genres/themes in the order they pop up when going through the TBR in chronological order) Mysteries: - Aaronovitch, Ben: Moon Over Soho - Aaronovitch, Ben: Rivers of London - Fowler, Christopher: Full Dark House - Pearl, Matthew: The Poe Shadow - Rubenfeld, Jed: The Interpretation of Murder Fantasy/sci-fi: - Abercrombie, Joe: Best Served Cold - Adams, Douglas: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency - Armstrong, Kelley: Exit Strategy - Butcher, Jim: Storm Front #1 - Cornwell, Bernard: The Winter King - Erikson, Steven: Gardens of the Moon - Herbert, Frank: Dune - Martin, George R. R.: A Game of Thrones - Matheson, Richard: I Am Legend - Pratchett, Terry & Gaiman, Neil: Good Omens - Sansom, C. J: Dissolution - Sansom, C. J: Dark Fire - Sansom, C. J: Sovereign - Sansom, C. J: Revelation - Tolkien, J.R.R: The Hobbit - Tolkien, J.R.R: Lord of the Rings - Tregillis, Ian: Bitter Seeds - Zusak, Markus: I Am The Messenger 1001 Books challenge: - Adams, Douglas: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency - Banks, Iain: The Crow Road - Banville, John: The Sea - Calvino, Italo: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Carey, Peter: True History of the Kelly Gang - Cunningham, Michael: The Hours - Danielewski, Mark Z.: House of Leaves - Faulks, Sebastian: Birdsong - Fowles, John: The Magus - Gaskell, Elizabeth: Cranford - Goethe, J. W. von: The Sorrows of Young Werther - Heller, Joseph: Catch-22 - Hemingway, Ernest: To Have and Have Not - Ishiguro, Kazuo: Never Let Me Go - Lewis, Matthew Gregory: The Monk - Mann, Thomas: Doctor Faustus - Maurier, Daphne du: Rebecca - Melville, Herman: Moby Dick - Mitchell, David: Cloud Atlas - Murdoch, Iris: The Sea, the Sea - Poe, Edgar Allan: The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe - Proust, Marcel: Remembrance of Things Past: 1 - Puzo, Mario: The Godfather - Radcliffe, Ann: The Mysteries of Udolpho - Sartre, Jean-Paul: Nausea - Seth, Vikram: A Suitable Boy - Swift, Jonathan: A Tale of a Tub - Thompson, Hunter S.: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Thoreau: Walden and Other Writings - Tolkien, J.R.R: The Hobbit - Tolkien, J.R.R: Lord of the Rings - Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Waters, Sarah: Tipping the Velvet - Wolfe, Tom: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Wolfe, Tom: The Bonfire of the Vanities - Woolf, Virginia: Mrs Dalloway Stephen King: - Bachman, Richard: Roadwork - Bachman, Richard: The Running Man - King, Stephen: The Dark Half - King, Stephen: Salem's Lot Presents from friends: - Aaronovitch, Ben: Rivers of London - Abercrombie, Joe: Best Served Cold - Baker, Frank: Miss Hargreaves - Brite, Poppy Z.: Drawing Blood - Bradshaw, John: In Defence of Dogs - Bryson, Bill: Down Under - Butcher, Jim: Storm Front #1 - Clark, Marcus: For the Term of His Natural Life - Clunes, Martin: A Dog's Life - Cornwell, Bernard: The Winter King - Duffy, Carol Ann: The Christmas Truce - Faulks, Sebastian: Human Traces - Fitch, Noel Riley (ed.): Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties & Thirties - Flannery, Tim: The Explorers - Fry, Stephen: Moab Is My Washpot - Ginsberg, Allen: The Book of Martyrdom + Artifice - Hamid, Mohsin: The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Herbert, Frank: Dune - Hill, Susan: The Small Hand - Hunt, Rebecca: Mr Chartwell - Jensen, Jan Lars: Nervous System - Levitt, Steven D. & Dubner, Stephen J.: Freakonomics - Lewis, Damien: War Dog - The No-Man's-Land Puppy Who Took to the Skies - Lindsay, Jeff: Double Dexter - Marsden, John: Tomorrow, When the War Began - Maynard, Joyce: At Home in the World - McSween, E. Chas et al.: Things Bogans Like - Tribal Tatts to Reality TV: How to Recognise the Twenty-First Century Bogan - Mencken, H. L.: A Mencken Chrestomathy - Mencken, H. L.: My Life As Author and Editor - Mitchell, David: Back Story - Mosley, Charlotte: The Mitfords - Letters Between Six Sisters - Nevils & Hardy: Ignatius Rising - Pearce, Philippa: Tom's Midnight Garden - Polo, Marco: Travels in the Land of Kubilai Khan - Rand, Ayn: The Fountainhead - Rand, Ayn: Atlas Shrugged - Roach, Mary: Bonk - The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science - Shteyngart, Gary: Super Sad True Love Story - Siirilä, Jussi: Historia on minut vapauttava - Solomons, Natasha: The Novel in the Viola - Stevens, Robin: Murder Most Unladylike - Swift, Jonathan: A Tale of a Tub - Tesdell, Diana Secker: Dog Stories - Tolkien, J.R.R: The Hobbit - Tolkien, J.R.R: Lord of the Rings - Toltz, Steve: A Fraction of the Whole - Winton, Tim: Cloudstreet - Wolf, Maryanne: Proust and the Squid Dog/animal books: - Barlettani, Elvio: Junakoira Lampo - Bradshaw, John: In Defence of Dogs - Clunes, Martin: A Dog's Life - Lewis, Damien: War Dog - The No-Man's-Land Puppy Who Took to the Skies - Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff: Dog Never Lies About Love - Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff: When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals - Pitkänen, Ilkka & Pitkänen, Matti A.: Tunski - erään koiran tarina - Tesdell, Diana Secker: Dog Stories Friends '1001 Books': - Barnes, Julian: Arthur & George - Calvino, Italo: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Clark, Marcus: For the Term of His Natural Life - Erikson, Steven: Gardens of the Moon - Flannery, Tim: The Explorers - Heller, Joseph: Catch-22 - Herbert, Frank: Dune - Marsden, John: Tomorrow, When the War Began - Matheson, Richard: I Am Legend - Maurier, Daphne du: Rebecca - Melville, Herman: Moby Dick - Moers, Walter: 13½ Lives of Captain Blue Bear - Tolkien, J.R.R: The Hobbit - Tolkien, J.R.R: Lord of the Rings - Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Winton, Tim: Cloudstreet Rory challenge: - Barres, Pamela des: I'm with the Band – Confessions of a Groupie - Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: Sonnets from the Portuguese - Chopin, Kate: The Awakening - Faludi, Susan: Backlash - Goldberg, Myla: Bee Season - Grealy, Lucy: Autobiography of a Face - Heller, Joseph: Catch-22 - Hemingway, Ernest: A Moveable Feast - Hemingway, Ernest: To Have and Have Not - Jensen, Jan Lars: Nervous System - Johnson, Dr Spencer: Who Moved My Cheese? - Levitt, Steven D. & Dubner, Stephen J.: Freakonomics - Levy, Andrea: Small Island - Maurier, Daphne du: Rebecca - McMurtry, Larry: Terms of Endearment - Melville, Herman: Moby Dick - Mencken, H. L.: A Mencken Chrestomathy - Miller, Arthur: The Crucible - Nabokov, Vladimir: Speak, Memory - Parker, Dorothy: The Portable Dorothy Parker - Patchett, Ann: Truth & Beauty - Plath, Sylvia: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath - Poe, Edgar Allan: The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe - Puzo, Mario: The Godfather - Rand, Ayn: The Fountainhead - Rand, Ayn: Atlas Shrugged - Rilke, Rainer Maria: Letters to a Young Poet - Shakespeare, William: Complete Sonnets - Stein, Gertrude: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Tan, Amy: The Opposite of Fate - Thompson, Hunter S.: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Thoreau: Walden and Other Writings - Thurman, Judith: Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette - Tolkien, J.R.R: Lord of the Rings - Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Wolfe, Tom: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Woolf, Virginia: Mrs Dalloway Books about books/authors: - Barthes, Roland: The Pleasure of the Text - Beauvoir, Simone de: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter - Beauvoir, Simone de: Voiman vuodet - Beauvoir, Simone de: Pariisi 1939-44 - Beauvoir, Simone de: Maailman meno - Beauvoir, Simone de: Asioiden laita - Beauvoir, Simone de: Loppujen lopuksi - Beauvoir, Simone de: The Second Sex - Calvino, Italo: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Clarke, George: Capote - A Biography - Ellmann, Richard: Oscar Wilde - Faulks, Sebastian: Faulks on Fiction - Fitch, Noel Riley (ed.): Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties & Thirties - Fry, Stephen: Moab Is My Washpot - Haavikko, Ritva (ed.): Mika Waltari - Kirjailijan muistelmia - Hekanaho, Mustola, Lassila & Suhonen: Uusin silmin - lesbinen katse kulttuuriin - Hemingway, Ernest: A Moveable Feast - Hemingway, Leicester: My Brother Ernest Hemingway - Hotchner, A. E.: Papa Hemingway - Jensen, Jan Lars: Nervous System - Kekki, Lasse & Kaisa Ilmonen: Pervot pidot – Homo-, lesbo- ja queer-näkökulmia kirjallisuudentutkimukseen - Koren, Yehuda and Negev, Eilat: A Lover of Unreason: The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill, Ted Hughes' Doomed Love - Kosonen, Päivi: Naissubjekti & postmoderni - Louhija, Aura: Hans Christian - kertomus satukuninkaan nuoruusvuosista - Maurois, André: Marcel Proust - Maynard, Joyce: At Home in the World - Mazzarella, Merete: Ainoat todelliset asiat - Mazzarella, Merete: Elämä sanoiksi - Mencken, H. L.: My Life As Author and Editor - Nevils & Hardy: Ignatius Rising - Parini, Jay: The Passages of H.M. - A Novel of Herman Melville - Stein, Gertrude: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Strömstedt, Margareta: Astrid Lindgren - Wolf, Maryanne: Proust and the Squid - Woolf, Virginia: Moments of Being Diaries, letters, biographies: - Beauvoir, Simone de: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter - Beauvoir, Simone de: Voiman vuodet - Beauvoir, Simone de: Pariisi 1939-44 - Beauvoir, Simone de: Maailman meno - Beauvoir, Simone de: Asioiden laita - Beauvoir, Simone de: Loppujen lopuksi - Cassady, Neal: The First Third - Clarke, George: Capote - A Biography - Doyle, Ursula (ed.): Love Letters by Great Men and Women - Ellmann, Richard: Oscar Wilde - Fry, Stephen: Moab Is My Washpot - Grealy, Lucy: Autobiography of a Face - Haavikko, Ritva (ed.): Mika Waltari - Kirjailijan muistelmia - Haavio, Katarina & Koskimies, Satu: 50-luvun teinit - päiväkirjat ja kirjeet 1957-1960 - Hemingway, Ernest: By-Line - Hemingway, Ernest: A Moveable Feast - Hemingway, Leicester: My Brother Ernest Hemingway - Hotchner, A. E.: Papa Hemingway - Jensen, Jan Lars: Nervous System - Koren, Yehuda and Negev, Eilat: A Lover of Unreason: The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill, Ted Hughes' Doomed Love - Louhija, Aura: Hans Christian - kertomus satukuninkaan nuoruusvuosista - Marx, Groucho: Groucho and Me - Marx, Harpo: Harpo Speaks! - Maurois, André: Marcel Proust - Maynard, Joyce: At Home in the World - Mencken, H. L.: My Life As Author and Editor - Mitchell, David: Back Story - Mosley, Charlotte: The Mitfords - Letters Between Six Sisters - Nabokov, Vladimir: Speak, Memory - Nevils & Hardy: Ignatius Rising - Nin, Anaïs: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1934-1939 - Nin, Anaïs: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1944-1947 - Nin, Anaïs: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1947-1955 - Nin, Anaïs: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1955-1966 - Nin, Anaïs: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1966-1974 - Osborne, Frances: The Bolter - Patchett, Ann: Truth & Beauty - Plath, Sylvia: Letters Home - Plath, Sylvia: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath - Saarikoski, Pentti: Nuoruuden päiväkirjat - Smith, Patti: Just Kids - Stein, Gertrude: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - Steinbeck, John: Travels with Charley - Stone, Irving: Lust for Life - A Biographical Novel of Vincent van Gogh - Strömstedt, Margareta: Astrid Lindgren - Tan, Amy: The Opposite of Fate - Tarkka, Pekka: Pentti Saarikoski - Vuodet 1937- 1963 - Thurman, Judith: Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette - Woolf, Virginia: Moments of Being Children's fiction: - Coolidge, Susan: What Katy Did - Funke, Cornelia: Inkworld - Jakobsen, Mette: The Vanishing Act - Pearce, Philippa: Tom's Midnight Garden Language: - Barthes, Roland: The Pleasure of the Text - Bryson, Bill: Mother Tongue - Jensen, Jan Lars: Nervous System - Mencken, H. L.: A Mencken Chrestomathy - Mencken, H. L.: My Life As Author and Editor Intimidating book candy (you know you want to!): - Byatt, A. S.: Possession - Calvino, Italo: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Danielewski, Mark Z.: House of Leaves - Fowles, John: The Magus - all the Haruki Murakamis - Peake, Mervyn: Titus Groan - Peake, Mervyn: Gormenghast - Peake, Mervyn: Titus Alone - Rand, Ayn: The Fountainhead - Rand, Ayn: Atlas Shrugged BCF: - Connolly, John: The Book of Lost Things - Egan, Jennifer: A Visit from the Goon Squad - Faulks, Sebastian: Human Traces - Gillard, Linda: A Lifetime Burning - Gillard, Linda: Star Gazing - Gruen, Sara: Water for Elephants - Hill, Susan: The Small Hand - Howe, Katherine: The Lost Book of Salem - Jakobsen, Mette: The Vanishing Act - Jones, Wendy: The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price Purveyor of Superior Funerals - McMahon: Katharine: The Rose of Sebastopol - Montanari, Richard: The Rosary Girls #1 - Montanari, Richard: The Skin Gods #2 - Pearl, Matthew: The Poe Shadow - Rubenfeld, Jed: The Interpretation of Murder - Sansom, C. J: Dissolution - Sansom, C. J: Dark Fire - Sansom, C. J: Sovereign - Sansom, C. J: Revelation - Shriver, Lionel: We Need to Talk about Kevin - Smith, Ali: Girl Meets Boy - Solomons, Natasha: The Novel in the Viola - Stevens, Robin: Murder Most Unladylike - Thomas, Scarlett: The End of Mr. Y Thrillers: Jeffery Deavers Karin Slaughters Kathy Reichs Best book candy!: - all the Jasper Ffordes - Peake, Mervyn: Titus Groan - Peake, Mervyn: Gormenghast - Peake, Mervyn: Titus Alone Comfort/easy: - Foenkinos, David: Delicacy Historical fiction: - Follett, Ken: The Pillars of the Earth - Follett, Ken: World Without End - George, Margaret: The Autobiography of Henry VIII With Notes By His Fool, Will Somers - McCaig, Donald: Rhett Butler's People - McMahon: Katharine: The Rose of Sebastopol - Ripley, Alexandra: Scarlett Finnish/Nordic: - Franzén, Peter: Samoilla silmillä - Gardell, Jonas: En komikers uppväxt - Gardell, Jonas: Ett ufo gör entré - Härkönen, Anna-Leena: Takana puhumisen taito - Kilpi, Volter: Alastalon salissa - Päätalo, Kalle: Pyynikin rinteessä - Siirilä, Jussi: Historia on minut vapauttava - Stridsberg, Sara: Drömfakulteten - Vallgren, Carl-Johan: Herra Bachmannin esite - Waltari, Mika: Sinuhe egyptiläinen Thriller/psychological: - Hayder, Mo: Birdman #1 - Hayder, Mo: Tokyo - Lindsay, Jeff: Double Dexter - Montanari, Richard: The Rosary Girls #1 - Montanari, Richard: The Skin Gods #2 - Reichs, Kathy: Monday Mourning #7 - Reichs, Kathy: Cross Bones #8 - Reichs, Kathy: Break No Bones #9 - Reichs, Kathy: 206 Bones #12 - Rubenfeld, Jed: The Interpretation of Murder - Slaughter, Karin: Fractured - Slaughter, Karin: Genesis - Slaughter, Karin: Broken Old RC reads: - Jakobsen, Mette: The Vanishing Act - Peake, Mervyn: Titus Groan - Peake, Mervyn: Gormenghast - Peake, Mervyn: Titus Alone Back to top

Books I've randomly discovered at the library etc. and that I want to borrow and read: Famous Writers School by Steven Carter -L-E-S- Forty Days without Shadow by Olivier Truc The Headmaster's Wife by Thomas Christopher Greene Hello from the Gillespies by Monica McInerney -L-E-S The Intimate Life of L.M. Montgomery by Irene Gammel Kerrigan in Copenhagen by Thomas E. Kennedy -L-E- Kuin hiipuva hiillos by Annika Sjögren -L-SU-S The Milkman in the Night by Andrey Kurkov -L-E-S- Mind of Winter by Laura Kasischke -L-E- Mrs Sinclair's Suitcase by Louise Walters Quiet Dell by Jayne Anne Phillips -L-SU-S- The Restoration of Otto Laird by Nigel Packer The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker Whatever Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Faller -L-E- Back to top

My little library at my parents house - The Arnold Anthology of British and Irish Literature in English - Edited by Robert Clark and Thomas Healy - Kein Problem: 3 x saksan kirjat - Burckhardt, Jacob: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy - Penttilä, Esa: Kielifilosofia - Nikander & Jantunen: Ruotsin kielioppi - Linnapuomi: Ord och utryck - Strachey, Lytton: Queen Victoria - Hinkkanen, Juhani & Ekholm, Kai: Science fiction - Block, Stefan Merrill: The Story of Forgetting (TBR) - Boccaccio, Giovanni: The Decameron (TBR) - Bolgár, Mirja: Pariisin päiviä - kirjoja ja kirjailijoita (TBR) - Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre - Brontë, Charlotte: Villette (1001) (TBR) - Cain, Chelsea: Heartsick - Cain, Chelsea: Sweetheart - Camus, Albert: The Plague (TBR) - Canavan, Trudi: The Magicians' Guild (TBR) - Canavan, Trudi: The Novice (TBR) - Canavan, Trudi: The High Lord (TBR) - Carey, Peter: The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (TBR) - Cederblad, Marianne: Lasten ja nuorten psykiatria (TBR) - Chabon, Michael: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (TBR) - Cleland, John: Fanny Hill (TBR) - Cunningham, Michael: Flesh and Blood (TBR) - Cunningham, Michael: Specimen Days (TBR) - Deaver, Jeffery: Blue Nowhere - Dickens, Charles: The Pickwick Papers (TBR) - Dostojevski, Fedor: Crime and Punishment (1001, RG-B) (TBR) - Dostojevski, F. M.: House of the Dead (TBR) - Eco, Umberto: The Name of the Rose (1001, RG-B) (TBR) - Eysenck, Hans & Michael: Mindwatching (TBR) - Fitzgerald, F. Scott: This Side of Paradise (TBR) - Fowles, John: The French Lieutenant's Woman - Frank, Anne: The Diary of a Young Girl - Gaarder, Jostein: The Solitaire Mystery (TBR) - Gaskell, Elizabeth: Mary Barton (TBR) - Goldblatt, Roy: Payment Is Extracted - Mechanisms of Escape into America in Immigrant and Post-Immigrant Jewish American Fiction - Goldman, William: Marathon Man - Gorki, Maksim: Esseitä kirjallisuudesta (TBR) - Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter (1001, RG-b) (TBR) - Hellsten, Tommy: Ihminen tavattavissa (TBR) - Hellsten, Tommy: Saat sen mistä luovut (TBR) - Hellsten, Tommy: Virtahepo olohuoneessa (TBR) - Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1001, RG-B) (TBR) - Härkönen, Anna-Leena: Häräntappoase - Jong, Erica: Fear of Fifty (TBR) - Jotuni, Maria: Huojuva talo (TBR) - Karra, Petri: Haarautuvan rakkauden talo (TBR) - Kostova, Elizabeth: The Historian (TBR) - Lehtinen, Tuija : Ikkunaprinsessa - Leroux, Gaston: The Phantom of the Opera (TBR) - Maddox, Brenda: Nora (TBR) - Mann, Thomas: Bubbenbrooks (1001) (TBR) - Maugham, W. Somerset: Of Human Bondage (1001) (TBR) - Maupassant, Guy de: Bel-Ami (1001) (TBR) - Maurier, Daphne du: Classics of the Macabre (TBR) - McCullough, Colleen: Thorn Birds (TBR) - McGurk, Harry: Lapsen sosiaalinen kehitys (TBR) - Metalious, Grace: Peyton Place - Miller, Arthur: Timebends. A Life (TBR) - Moers, Walter: Rumo ylämaailmassa (TBR) - Moers, Walter: Huviretki hukkateille (TBR) - Määttänen, Kirsti & Nevanlinna, Tuomas: Muistikirja - jälkien jäljillä (TBR) - Paasilinna, Arto: Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha (TBR) - Parry, Bronwyn: Schwarze Dornen (TBR) - Radzinski, Edvard: Stalin (TBR) - Saisio, Pirkko: Elämän meno (TBR) - Saisio, Pirkko: Punainen erokirja - Solzenitsyn, Aleksander: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (TBR) - Strindberg, August: Ett Drömspel (TBR) - Strindberg, August: Fröken Julie (TBR) - Susann, Jacqueline: Valley of the Dolls - Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver’s Travels (1001) (TBR) - Takala, Annika & Takala, Martti: Psykologinen kehitys lapsuusiässä (TBR) - Tervo, Jari: Pyhiesi yhteyteen - Thorup, Kirsten: Himmel och helvete (TBR) - Tolstoy, Leo: Childhood (TBR) - Tolstoy, Leo: Adolescence (TBR) - Tolstoy, Leo: Youth (TBR) - Waltari, Mika: Kuun maisema (TBR) - Waltari, Mika: Suuri Illusioni (TBR) - Waltari, Mika: Tähdet kertovat komisario Palmu (TBR) - Wharton, Edith: Age of Innocence - Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray (TBR) - Wilson, Colin: The Lord of the Under World – Jung and the Twentieth Century (TBR) Back to top

English Counties Challenges by BCF. Chesilbeach and poppyshake are the ones behind the idea! 1. Bedfordshire - My Uncle Silas by H. E. Bates 2. Berkshire - Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 3. Bristol - The Misses Mallett by E. H. Young 4. Buckinghamshire - The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper 5. Cambridgeshire - The Nine Taylors by Dorothy Sayers 6. Cheshire - Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 7. City of London - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 8. Cornwall - Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier 9. Cumbria - Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome [alt. The Maid of Buttermere by Melvyn Bragg] 10. Derbyshire - Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks 11. Devon - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie or The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 12. Dorset - Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 13. County Durham - Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 14. East Riding of Yorkshire - South Riding by Winifred Holtby 15. East Sussex - Winnie-The-Pooh by A. A. Milne 16. Essex - The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James 17. Gloucestershire - Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee 18. Greater London* - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 19. Greater Manchester - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 20. Hampshire - Watership Down by Richard Adams 21. Herefordshire - On The Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin 22. Hertfordshire - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 23. Isle of Wight - England, England by Julian Barnes [alt. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham (this book is only briefly set on the Isle of Wight but that particular section is famously associated with it)] 24. Kent - The Darling Buds of May by H. E. Bates 25. Lancashire - Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson 26. Leicestershire - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend 27. Lincolnshire - The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 28. Merseyside - An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge 29. Norfolk - The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley 30. North Yorkshire - Dracula by Bram Stoker [alt. All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot] 31. Northamptonshire - Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 32. Northumberland - The Stars Look Down by A. J. Cronin 33. Nottinghamshire - Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence 34. Oxfordshire - The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford 35. Rutland - Set In Stone by Robert Goddard 36. Shropshire - Summer Lightning by P. G. Wodehouse 37. Somerset - Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore 38. South Yorkshire - A Kestral For A Knave by Barry Hines 39. Staffordshire - The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett 40. Suffolk - The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald 41. Surrey - Emma by Jane Austen or The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 42. Tyne and Wear - Another World by Pat Barker 43. Warwickshire - Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes 44. West Midlands - Middlemarch by George Eliot 45. West Sussex - Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 46. West Yorkshire - Wuthering Heights by Emile Brontë 47. Wiltshire - Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope 48. Worcestershire - The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Back to top

50 Incredibly Tough Books for Extreme Readers Introduced to BCF by bobblybear! Nightwood, Djuna Barnes Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy Moby-Dick, Herman Melville Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace J R, William Gaddis Finnegans Wake, James Joyce The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner Bad Behavior, Mary Gaitskill In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust Alphabetical Africa, Walter Abish Geek Love, Katherine Dunn Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh - ***** Pet Sematary, Stephen King - *** Coin Locker Babies, Ryu Murakami Battle Royale, Koushun Takami House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf - ** The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski Wittgenstein’s Mistress, David Markson Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad - * Hopscotch, Julio Cortazar Out, Natsuo Kirino 2666, Roberto Bolaño Tampa, Alissa Nutting War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Laurence Sterne Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer Underworld, Don DeLillo Almanac of the Dead, Leslie Marmon Silko Cosmos, Witold Gombrowicz The Conservationist, Nadine Gordimer Sophie’s Choice, William Styron Clarissa, Or the History of a Young Lady, Samuel Richardson The Unfortunates, B.S. Johnson The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, Lydia Davis The Tunnel, William Gass The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion - * The Demon, Hubert Selby Jr. The Royal Family, William T. Vollmann Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri A Tale of a Tub, Jonathan Swift The Castle, Franz Kafka The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Back to top

Non-Fiction on Astrid Lindgren: - Astrid Lindgren by Margareta Strömstedt Astrid Lindgren - challenge Peppi Pitkätossu - Pippi Longstocking 3/5 Peppi aikoo merille - Pippi Goes on Board 4/5 Peppi Pitkätossu Etelämerellä - Pippi in the South Seas 4/5 Vaahteramäen Eemeli - Emil of Lönneberga Eemelin uudet metkut - Emil's Pranks Eläköön Eemeli – Emil and His Clever Pig Yksityisetsivä Kalle Blomkvist - Bill Bergson, Master Detective Kalle mestarietsivä - Bill Bergson Lives Dangerously Ryöstetty Rasmus ja mestarietsivä Kalle Blomkvist - Bill Bergson and the White Rose Rescue Saariston lapset - Seacrow Island Saariston lapset merirosvoina (is this a picture book after all....) Kati Amerikassa - Kati in America 3/5 Kati Italiassa - Kati in Italy 3/5 Kati Pariisissa - Kati in Paris 2/5 Pikkuveli ja Katto-Kassinen - Karlson on the Roof 5/5 Katto-Kassinen lentää jälleen - Karlson Flies Again 5/5 Katto-Kassinen kujeilee - The World's Best Karlson 5/5 Melukylän lapset - All About the Bullerby Children Melukylässä tapahtuu - Cherry Time at Bullerby (?) - The Six Bullerby Children (?) Kyllä meillä oli hauskaa - Springtime at Bullerby (?) Se pikkuinen Lotta Lotta, Janne ja Minnamanna Marikki – Madicken Marikki ja Kesäkummun Tuikku Rasmus ja kulkuri Rasmus, Pontus ja Höpö Kerstin ja minä Mio, poikani Mio - Mio, My Son Riitta-Maija keventää sydäntään Ronja ryövärintytär - Ronia the Robber's Daughter Veljeni, Leijonamieli - The Brothers Lionheart Viisauskirja Back to top

These are ~ top read ~ challenge lists by certain members off the forum: Here's the link to the 2012 reading log post where I posted about this initially. 29.1.2012 * ~~ Kylie Challenge! ~~ KYLIE'S TOP 40 FICTION Jane Austen: Emma read Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice read John Banville: The Book of Evidence Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 read Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre read Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange read Italo Calvino: If on a Winter's Night a Traveller TBR John Connolly: The Book of Lost Things TBR Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol read Charles Dickens: Great Expectations TBR Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities read Alexandre Dumas: Count of Monte Christo Mark Dunn: Ella Minnow Pea Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex read Michel Faber: The Crimson Petal and White read F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby read Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything is Illuminated read George Grossmith: Diary of a Nobody read Joseph Heller: Catch-22 TBR Susan Hill: The Woman in Black read Jack Kerouac: On the Road read Jack Kerouac: The Town and the City Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest read Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon read Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo read Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird read Erich Maria Marquez: All Quiet on the Western Front Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind read Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita read George Orwell: Animal Farm read Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged TBR Mary Shelley: Frankenstein read John Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath read John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men read Bram Stoker: Dracula read Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas TBR John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces read Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Tim Winton: Cloudstreet TBR Markus Zusak: The Book Thief read KYLIE'S TOP 10 YOUNG ADULT Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden read Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower read Suzanne Collins: Hunger Games (trilogy) TBR Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth read John Marsden: Tomorrow, When the War Began (series) TBR A. A. Milne: Winnie the Pooh Walter Moers: The 13 ½ Lives of Captain Bluebear TBR Lucy M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables read J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter (series) read Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn KYLIE'S TOP 13 NON-FICTION Bill Bryson: Down Under TBR Bill Bryson: A Walk in the Woods Byll Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything TBR Truman Capote: In Cold Blood read AB Facey: A Fortunate Life Tim Flannery: The Explorers TBR Tim Flannery: The Birth of Sydney Anne Frank: The Diary of Anne Frank read Helene Hanff: 84 Charing Cross Road read Steven D. Levitt: Freaconomics TBR Sylvia Plath: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath TBR Andrew Solomon: The Noonday Demon TBR Martin Toseland: A Steroid Hit the Earth * ~~ Poppyshake Challenge! ~~ Fiction (50) The First Law Trilogy - Joe Abercrombie Poppy Shakespeare - Clare Allen Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen read Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen read Arthur & George - Julian Barnes TBR City of Thieves - David Benioff Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke read The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly TBR The Sisters Brothers - Patrick deWitt read A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens read Great Expectations - Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens read Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides read The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde read Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer read Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith read Catch 22 - Joseph Heller TBR Grace Williams Says it Loud - Emma Henderson A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro TBR We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson Pigeon English - Stephen Kelman The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver TBR To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee read The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter & Jam - Lauren Liebenberg Company of Liars - Karen Maitland Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier TBR The Road - Cormac McCarthy Moby Dick - Herman Melville TBR Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell read The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford read Beloved - Toni Morrison The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch TBR Skippy Dies - Paul Murray The Shipping News - Annie Proulx Gold - Dan Rhodes read The Wrong Boy - Willy Russell The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer read I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith The Help - Kathryn Stockett read The Earth Hums in B Flat - Mari Strachan The Secret History - Donna Tartt read The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf read The Book Thief - Markus Zusak read Young Adult Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll read The Perks of being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky read The Artemis Fowl series - Eoin Colfer Inkheart - Cornelia Funke read The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman read I Coriander - Sally Gardner Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon read The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis read Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne The Borrowers - Mary Norton Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett Tales of Terror series - Chris Priestley read/wishlist The Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling read The Bartimaeus Trilogy - Jonathan Stroud The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien - TBR Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien TBR The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ - Sue Townsend read Non-fiction Once in a House on Fire - Andrea Ashworth TBR The Iris Trilogy - John Bayley Along the Enchanted Way - William Blacker Notes from a Big Country - Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson TBR Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs read The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank read Howards End is on the Landing - Susan Hill read The Complete Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby read An Evil Cradling - Brian Keenan Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee TBR The Mitford Girls - Mary S. Lovell Stuart: A Life Backwards - Alexander Masters The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters TBR The Journals of Sylvia Plath TBR Bad Blood - Lorna Sage Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal - Jeanette Winterson * Recommended by Kylie, poppyshake and frankie: Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex Anne Frank: The Diary of Anne Frank Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter (series) Markus Zusak: The Book Thief * ~~ Steve's Favourite Fiction - Challenge ~~ The Malazan Book of the Fallen - Steven Erikson - my favourite fantasy series. I've banged the drum about it quite enough by now. It's like Marmite. Seven out of the ten books in the series are right at the top of my list: Gardens of the Moon / Deadhouse Gates / Memories of Ice / House of Chains / Midnight Tides / The Bonehunters / Toll the Hounds. The Belgariad - David Eddings - this was the series that introduced me to the fantasy genre. I loved it when I was 14 or 15. Not sure how I'd feel about it if I read it again now, but I have to include it here. On to the rest: Feersum Endjinn - Iain M. Banks Voyage - Stephen Baxter The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester read Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card A Man on the Moon - Andrew Chaikin (okay, this one isn't fiction!) Die Trying - Lee Child The Fifth Horseman - Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre The Winter King / Enemy of God / Excalibur (Warlord Trilogy) - Bernard Cornwell TBR Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Phillip K. Dick TBR Legend - David Gemmell The Forever War - Joe Haldeman The Reality Dysfunction / The Neutronium Alchemist / The Naked God (The Night's Dawn Trilogy) - Peter F. Hamilton Lustrum - Robert Harris Dune - Frank Herbert TBR The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay read Cujo - Stephen King read The Dead Zone - Stephen King Salem's Lot - Stephen King TBR The Shining - Stephen King read The Osterman Weekend - Robert Ludlum The Satan Bug - Alistair MacLean Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin TBR I Am Legend - Richard Matheson TBR Stinger - Robert McCammon Perdido Street Station - China Mieville The Redbreast - Jo Nesbo The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers Northern Lights - Phillip Pullman Chasm City - Alastair Reynolds Sovereign - C J Sansom TBR Arms of Nemesis - Steven Saylor Hyperion - Dan Simmons The Time Machine - H. G. Wells read The Kraken Wakes - John Wyndham The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon read * Frankie recommends: Fiction (67 titles): Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Northanger Abby by Jane Austen Wasp Factory by Iain Banks Psycho by Robert Bloch The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne Crippen by John Boyne A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Ten Little Niggers by Agatha Christie Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Room by Emma Donoghue Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Under the Skin by Michel Faber The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg Marley and Me by John Grogan The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon The Last Family in England by Matt Haig Incidences by Daniil Harms Gentlemen & Players by Joanne Harris The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones Green Mile by Stephen King Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Dexter series by Jeff Lindsay The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch (and you need to watch the TV show!!) My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami Purge by Sofi Oksanen Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Gold by Dan Rhodes Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Push! by Sapphire Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve She Who Remembers by Linda Lay Shuler The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Dracula by Bram Stoker Perfume by Patrick Süskind Q&A by Vikas Swarup The Secret History by Donna Tartt Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh Night by Elie Wiesel The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Candide by Voltaire Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Non-fiction Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath by Ronald Hayman Between the Sheets – The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th Century Women Writers by Lesley McDowell Please Kill Me – The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain The Dirt by Mötley Crüe Stiff – The Life of the Human Cadavers by Mary Roach The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule Sybil by Flora Rheta Scheiber And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder by Deborah Spungen Young Adult The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism by Georgia Byng Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones The Bill Bergson series by Astrid Lindgren Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren Anastasia Krupnik series by Lois Lowry The Giver by Lois Lowry Emily of New Moon (series) by Lucy M. Montgomery Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling The Little Vampire by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg The Secred Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 12 ¾ by Sue Townsend * Updated list by Frankie: 8.9.2013 (in the order they come up in my manual reading log) *NEW* = new addition (FIN) = Finnish novel which hasn't unfortunately been translate into English, at least not yet, and therefore they are listed only for my own benefit Fiction Linda Lay Shuler: She Who Remembers Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting Stephen King: Misery *NEW* Kauko Röyhkä: Kaksi aurinkoa *NEW* (FIN) Jennifer Lynch: The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (also: watch the TV show!) Stephen King: Green Mile Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones books Jane Austen: Northanger Abby Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest Jane Austen: Persuasion *NEW* Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five Stephen King: Cujo *NEW* Katja Kallio: Kuutamolla *NEW* (FIN) Ingvar Ambjørnsen: Elling series *NEW* Donna Tartt: The Secret History Anita Shreve: The Weight of Water Fannie Flagg: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair Patrick Süskind: Perfume Andrey Kurkov: Death and the Penguin Carlos Ruiz Zafón: The Shadow of the Wind Jeff Lindsay: Dexter series Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex Stephen King: The Stand *NEW* Joanne Harris: Gentlemen & Players Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Sarah Waters: Fingersmith Markus Zusak: The Book Thief Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Lloyd Jones: Mister Pip John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces *NEW* Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Bram Stoker: Dracula Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange Anne Rice: Interview with a Vampire Sofi Oksanen: Purge John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Iain Banks: Wasp Factory Vikas Swarup: Q&A Jeffery Deaver: Lincoln Rhyme series *NEW* Chelsea Cain: Heartsick *NEW* Robert Bloch: Psycho Haruki Murakami: Sputnik Sweetheart Michel Faber: Under the Skin Charlaine Harris: Sookie Stackhouse series *NEW* Garth Stein: The Art of Racing in the Rain Karin Slaughter: Grant County + Will Trent series *NEW* Sophie Kinsella: Twenties Girl *NEW* Väinö Linna: The Unknown Soldier Linwood Barclay: Too Close To Home *NEW* Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany's Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon *NEW* Dan Rhodes: Gold Ira Levin: Rosemary's Baby *NEW* Sapphire: Push! Nick Hornby: Juliet, Naked *NEW* Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower Voltaire: Candide Grace Metalious: Peyton Place *NEW* Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird Poppy Z. Brite: Exquisite Corpse *NEW* Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Matt Haig: The Last Family in England Ann Patchett: Bel Canto John Steinbeck: The Wayward Bus Erich Segal: Love Story *NEW* Kazuo Ishiguro: A Pale View of Hills Emma Donoghue: Room Irene Nemirovsky: The Ball *NEW* Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons: Watchmen Peter Franzén: Tumman veden päällä *NEW* (FIN) Daniil Harms: Incidences Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises Linda Gillard: Emotional Geology *NEW* Daphne du Maurier: My Cousin Rachel Pirkko Saisio: Punainen erokirja *NEW* (FIN) Boris Akunin: The Winter Queen *NEW* L. M. Montgomery: The Blue Castle Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita *NEW* Tuomas Kyrö: Mielensäpahoittaja *NEW* (FIN) John Boyne: Crippen Siri Hustvedt: The Summer Without Men Dai Sijie: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress *NEW* Anna-Leena Härkönen: Häräntappoase *NEW* (FIN) Nevil Shute: Pied Piper *NEW* William Goldman: The Marathon Man *NEW* Stephen Fry: The Hippopotamus *NEW* Dennis Lehane: Shutter Island *NEW* Muriel Barbery: The Elegance of the Hedgehog *NEW* Inna Patrakova: Naapurit *NEW* Guy Gavriel Kay: The Lions of Al-Rassan *NEW* Karin Brunk Holmqvist: Pieni potenssipuoti *NEW* Sue Monk Kidd: The Secret of Bees *NEW* Alex Garland: The Beach *NEW* David Mitchell: Black Swan Green *NEW* Lucy Dillon: The Secret of Happy Ever After *NEW* Jari Tervo: Pyhiesi yhteyteen *NEW* (FIN) Kathryn Stockett: Help *NEW* Non-fiction Deborah Spungen: And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Sylvia Beach: Shakespeare and Company Augusten Burroughs: Running with Scissors Alain de Botton: How Proust Can Change Your Life Tuula-Liina Varis: Kilpikonna ja olkimarsalkka *NEW* (FIN) Ronald Hayman: The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath Augusten Burroughs: Dry *NEW* Augusten Burroughs: A Wolf at the Table John Grogan: Marley and Me Ann Rule: The Stranger Beside Me Vicki Myron: Dewey - The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World *NEW* Dave Peltzer: A Child Called It *NEW* (this is very disturbing, though, so beware!) Vincent Bugliosi: Helter Skelter *NEW* Nick Hornby: The Complete Polysyllabic Spree *NEW* Mötley Crüe: The Dirt Augusten Burroughs: Magical Thinking *NEW* Mary Roach: Stiff – The Life of the Human Cadavers Augusten Burroughs: Possible Side Effects *NEW* Flora Rheta Scheiber: Sybil Peggy Claude-Pierre: The Secret Language of Eating Disorders *NEW* Philip Gonzalez: The Dog Who Rescues Cats *NEW* Lesley McDowell: Between the Sheets – The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th Century Women Writers Tobias Wolff: This Boy's Life *NEW* Constance Briscoe: Ugly *NEW* Christopher V. V. Parnell: Hell's Prisoner *NEW* Danny Wallace: Yes Man *NEW* Pamela Druckerson: French Children Don't Throw Food *NEW* Children/Young Adult Angela Sommer-Bodenburg: The Little Vampire Maria Gripe: Salaisuus varjossa *NEW* Lois Lowry: Anastasia series Anu Jaantila: Dear Sanna *NEW* (FIN) Astrid Lindgren: Brothers Lionheart J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter series Lucy M. Montgomery: Emily of New Moon series Astrid Lindgren: Bill Bergson series Sue Townsend: Adrian Mole series Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince Diana Wynne Jones: Fire and Hemlock Lois Lowry: The Giver Georgia Byng: Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism Mary Rodgers: Freaky Friday *NEW* Chris Priestley: Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden Roald Dahl: Matilda *NEW* Cornelia Funke: Inkheart *NEW* Updated list by poppyshake 11.9.2013 Poppyshake's 133 books You Must Read Before You Die List (with further apologies for any you've read that you think suck I'd be very grateful if you didn't point them out ) Fiction Ben Aaronovitch - Rivers of London series NEW - TBR Joe Abercrombie - The First Law Trilogy Edward Albee - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf NEW - READ Clare Allen - Poppy Shakespeare Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey - READ Jane Austen - Persuasion NEW - READ Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice - READ Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility NEW - READ Julian Barnes - Arthur & George - TBR David Benioff - City of Thieves Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights - READ Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None NEW - READ Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - READ John Connolly - The Book of Lost Things - TBR Patrick deWitt - The Sisters Brothers - READ Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol - READ Charles Dickens - Bleak House - NEW Charles Dickens - Great Expectations - TBR Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities - READ Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime & Punishment - TBR Mark Dunn - Ella Minnow Pea NEW Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex - READ Jasper Fforde - The Thursday Next series - READ / TBR Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated - READ Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere Paul Gallico - Mrs Harris Goes to Paris NEW - READ George & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody - READ Joseph Heller - Catch 22 - TBR Emma Henderson - Grace Williams Says it Loud John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go - TBR Eowyn Ivey - The Snow Child NEW - READ Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle Mette Jakobsen - The Vanishing Act NEW - TBR Thomas Keneally - Schindlers Ark NEW Stephen Kelman - Pigeon English Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible - TBR Andrey Kurkov - Death and the Penguin - NEW - READ Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird - READ Lauren Liebenberg - The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter & Jam Karen Maitland - Company of Liars Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies NEW Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude Daphne du Maurier - My Cousin Rachel NEW - READ Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca - TBR Cormac McCarthy - The Road Herman Melville - Moby Dick TBR Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind - READ Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love - READ Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus NEW Toni Morrison - Beloved Iris Murdoch - The Sea, The Sea - TBR Paul Murray - Skippy Dies Irene Nemirovsky - Suite Francaise NEW Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar NEW - READ Annie Proulx - The Shipping News Dan Rhodes - Gold - READ Ransom Riggs - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children NEW Willy Russell - The Wrong Boy F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby NEW - READ Maria Semple - Where'd You Go Bernadette NEW - READ Mary Ann Shaffer - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - READ Lynn Shepherd - Tom All-Alones NEW - TBR Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle Kathryn Stockett - The Help - READ Bram Stoker - Dracula NEW - READ Mari Strachan - The Earth Hums in B Flat Donna Tartt - The Secret History - READ Voltaire - Candide NEW - READ Sarah Waters - The Little Stranger Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse - READ Markus Zusak - The Book Thief - READ Young Adult Richard Adams - Watership Down NEW Joan Aiken - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase NEW Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - READ Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of being a Wallflower - READ Eoin Colfer - The Artemis Fowl series Roald Dahl - Matilda NEW - READ Cornelia Funke - Inkheart - READ Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book - READ Sally Gardner - I Coriander Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - READ C.S. Lewis - The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe - READ A.A. Milne - Winnie the Pooh Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls NEW Mary Norton - The Borrowers Terry Pratchett - Wintersmith Chris Priestley - Tales of Terror series J.K. Rowling - The Harry Potter series - READ Jonathan Stroud - The Bartimaeus Trilogy J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit - TBR J.R.R. Tolkien - Lord of the Rings - TBR Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ - READ P.L. Travers - Mary Poppins NEW - READ Catherynne M.Valente - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making NEW Non-fiction Andrea Ashworth - Once in a House on Fire TBR Clare Balding - My Animals and Other Family NEW John Bayley - The Iris Trilogy William Blacker - Along the Enchanted Way James Bowen - A Streetcat Named Bob NEW - READ Bill Bryson - Notes from a Big Country Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island - TBR Bill Bryson - The Lost Continent NEW Augusten Burroughs - Running with Scissors - READ Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl - READ Stephen Fry - Moab is My Washpot NEW - TBR Stephen Fry - The Fry Chronicles NEW - READ Angelica Garnett - Deceived with Kindness NEW Susan Hill - Howards End is on the Landing - READ Nick Hornby - The Complete Polysyllabic Spree - READ William Horwood - The Boy With No Shoes NEW Brian Keenan - An Evil Cradling Richard Kennedy - A Boy at the Hogarth Press NEW Hermione Lee - Virginia Woolf NEW Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie - TBR Mary S. Lovell - The Mitford Girls Alexander Masters - Stuart: A Life Backwards Sarah Miles - Right Royal B*stard NEW David Mitchell - Back Story NEW - TBR Caitlin Moran - How To Be A Woman NEW Charlotte Mosly - Letters Between Six Sisters (Mitfords) - TBR Steven Naafeh & Gregory White Smith - Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith - Van Gogh: The Life NEW George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London NEW Sylvia Plath - The Journals of Sylvia Plath - TBR Lorna Sage - Bad Blood Oscar Wilde - De Profundis NEW Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? Elie Wiesel - Night NEW - READ Virginia Woolf - A Room of Ones Own NEW Virginia Woolf - Selected Diaries NEW Virginia Woolf - Selected Letters NEW Broadening horizons Sci-fi + fantasy enthusiast vs. normal book enthusiast 2012: Karsa Orlong's suggestions to frankie: Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers Replay by Ken Grimwood 4/5 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester 4/5 Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds The Forever War by Joe Haldeman frankie's suggestions to Karsa Orlong: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 10/10 Crippen by John Boyne Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Under the Skin by Michel Faber Fingersmith by Sarah Waters 7/10 2013: Karsa Orlong's suggestions to frankie: The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell (first in a trilogy) TBR Storm Front by Jim Butcher (first in the Dresden Files series) TBR The Terror by Dan Simmons The Wine of Angels by Phil Rickman (first book in the Merrily Watkins series) The Breach by Patrick Lee (Breach trilogy book 1) Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis (Milkweed Tryptich book 1) TBR frankie's suggestions to Karsa Orlong: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Q&A by Vikas Swarup Marathon Man by William Goldman 9/10 Beyond the Great Indoors by Ingvar Ambjørnsen Poppyshake's updated list, January 2016 Fiction Ben Aaronovitch - Rivers of London series tbr Joe Abercrombie - The First Law Trilogy tbr Boris Akunin - The Winter Queen read Edward Albee - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf read Clare Allen - Poppy Shakespeare (my biography ) Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey read Jane Austen - Persuasion read Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice read Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility read Julian Barnes - Arthur & George tbr David Benioff - City of Thieves Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights read Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None read Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell read John Connolly - The Book of Lost Things tbr Patrick deWitt - The Sisters Brothers read Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol read Charles Dickens - Bleak House Charles Dickens - Great Expectations Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities read Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime & Punishment Mark Dunn - Ella Minnow Pea Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex read Jasper Fforde - The Thursday Next series Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated read Claire Fuller - Our Endless Numbered Days Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere George & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody read Joseph Heller - Catch 22 tbr Jason Hewitt - The Dynamite Room John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go Eowyn Ivey - The Snow Child read Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle Mette Jakobsen - The Vanishing Act tbr Thomas Keneally - Schindler's Ark Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible Andrey Kurkov - Death and the Penguin read Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird read Lauren Liebenberg - The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter & Jam Karen Maitland - Company of Liars Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude Daphne du Maurier - My Cousin Rachel read Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca tbr Cormac McCarthy - The Road Herman Melville - Moby Dick tbr Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind read Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love read Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus Toni Morrison - Beloved Iris Murdoch - The Sea, The Sea tbr Paul Murray - Skippy Dies Irene Nemirovsky - Suite Francaise Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar read Annie Proulx - The Shipping News Dan Rhodes - Gold read Ransom Riggs - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Willy Russell - The Wrong Boy F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby read Maria Semple - Where'd You Go Bernadette read Mary Ann Shaffer - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society read Lynn Shepherd - Tom All-Alones tbr Dai Sijie - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress read Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle John Steinbeck - East of Eden tbr Bram Stoker - Dracula read Mari Strachan - The Earth Hums in B Flat Donna Tartt - The Secret History read Voltaire - Candide read Sarah Waters - The Little Stranger Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse read Markus Zusak - The Book Thief read Young Adult Richard Adams - Watership Down Joan Aiken - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland read Eoin Colfer - The Artemis Fowl series Roald Dahl - Matilda read Cornelia Funke - Inkheart read Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book read Sally Gardner - I Coriander Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time read C.S. Lewis - The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe read A.A. Milne - Winnie the Pooh Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls Mary Norton - The Borrowers Terry Pratchett - Wintersmith Chris Priestley - Tales of Terror series read J.K. Rowling - The Harry Potter series read Robin Stevens - Murder Most Unladylike tbr Jonathan Stroud - The Bartimaeus Trilogy J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit tbr J.R.R. Tolkien - Lord of the Rings tbr Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ read P.L. Travers - Mary Poppins read Catherynne M.Valente - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Non-fiction Andrea Ashworth - Once in a House on Fire - tbr Clare Balding - My Animals and Other Family John Bayley - The Iris Trilogy William Blacker - Along the Enchanted Way Bill Bryson - Notes from a Big Country Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island tbr Bill Bryson - The Lost Continent Augusten Burroughs - Running with Scissors read Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl read Stephen Fry - Moab is My Washpot tbr Angelica Garnett - Deceived with Kindness Susan Hill - Howards End is on the Landing read Nick Hornby - The Complete Polysyllabic Spree read William Horwood - The Boy With No Shoes Brian Keenan - An Evil Cradling Richard Kennedy - A Boy at the Hogarth Press Hermione Lee - Virginia Woolf Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie Mary S. Lovell - The Mitford Girls tbr Sarah Miles - Right Royal B*stard Caitlin Moran - How To Be A Woman Charlotte Mosley - Letters Between Six Sisters (Mitford's) Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith - Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith - Van Gogh: The Life George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London Sylvia Plath - The Journals of Sylvia Plath tbr Nina Stibbe, Love, Nina Oscar Wilde - De Profundis Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? Elie Wiesel - Night read Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf - Selected Diaries Virginia Woolf - Selected Letters Back to top

First Tuesday Book Club challenge: 2006 - 10 American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis – August The Ballad of Desmond Kale by Roger McDonald – August The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón – September Longitude by Dava Sobel – September The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson – October The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis – October The Mission Song by John le Carré – November The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard – November The Unkown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan – December The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins – December 2007 - 20 Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones – March The Solid Mandala by Patrick White - March In The Company of The Courtesan by Sarah Dunant – April The Secret River by Kate Grenville – April The Road by Cormac McCarthy – May Slaugterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut - May The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall – June Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll – June The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver – July Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain Fournier – July A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini – August The Dancer Upstairs by Nicholas Shakespeare – August The Broken Shore by Peter Temple – September The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty – September Moby-Dick by Herman Melville – October (TBR) East of Time by Jacob G. Rosenberg – October On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan – November The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler – November Not in the Flesh by Ruth Rendell – December The Children by Charlotte Wood – December 2008 - 19 The Memory Room by Christopher Koch – March Naked by David Sedaris – March Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis – April People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks – April The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson – May A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway – May Breath by Tim Winton – June Demons at Dusk by Peter Stewart – June Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie – July (TBR) Miracles of Life by J. G. Ballard – July Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks – August The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow – August Disquiet by Julia Leigh – September A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole – September The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore – October Pandora in the Congo by Albert Sánchez Piñol – October The Outsider by Albert Camus – November Something to Tell You by Hanif Kureishi – November The Guerney Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – December 2009 - 18 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck – March The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga – March Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates – April The Private Patient by P. D. James – April The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas – May (TBR) Darwin and the Barnacle by Rebecca Stott – May The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – June Ransom by David Malouf – June The Housekeeper + the Professor by Yoko Ogama – July The Collector by John Fowles – July Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child – August Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides – August Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer – September The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters – October Ask the Dust by John Fante – October This Is How by M. J. Hyland – November The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark – November Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd – December 2010 - 20 Cloudstreet by Tim Winton – March (TBR) Zeitoun by Dave Eggers – March Solar by Ian McEwan – April The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson – April Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys – May The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk – May Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen – June Reading by Moonlight by Brenda Walker – June One Day by David Nichols – July Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth – July Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy – August Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel – August To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – September Inheritance by Nicholas Shakespeare – September Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor – October Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger – October Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand – November (TBR) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen – November Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey – December Dead Man's Chest by Kerry Greenwood – December 2011 - 18 Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carre - March Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - March Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart - April (TBR) The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead - April Me and Mr Booker by Cory Taylor – May Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy – May The Happy Life by David Malouf – June Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence – June Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons – July The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan – July Past the Shallow by Favel Parrett – August The Master and Margharita by Mikhail Bulgakov – August Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell – September (TBR) Kinglake-350 by Adrian Hyland - September The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal - October Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier - October (TBR) A Visit from The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan - November (TBR) Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde - November 2012 - 19 The Submission by Amy Waldman - March Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - March Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson - April Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell - April The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris - May The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman - May The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers - June The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth - June The Cook by Wayne Macauley - July Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner - July The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch - August (TBR) The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker - August HHhH by Laurent Binet - September Middlemarch by George Eliot - September A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter - October Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple - October The Engagement by Chloe Hooper - November The Chrysalids by John Wyndham - November 2013 - 16 Wool by Hugh Howey - March Gilgamesh by Joan London - March Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka - April The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion - April High Sobriety by Jill Stark - May Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace - May The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez - June Pattern Recognition by William Gibson - June Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn - July Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë - July The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud - August The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien - August Secrecy by Rupert Thomson - September By Night in Chile by Robert Bolano - September The Watch Tower by Elizabeth Harrower - October The Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter - October 2014 - 16 The Perfect Scent by Chandler Burr - March Dr Sleep by Stephen King - March The Circle by Dave Eggers - April The Quiet American by Graham Greene - April Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler - May The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton - May The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey - June We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler - June Scoop by Evelyn Waugh - July Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes - July One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez - September Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch - September The Wonders by Paddy O'Reilly - October The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon - October Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami - November Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff - November 2015 - 16 Clade by James Bradley - March Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido - March An Untamed State by Roxane Gay - April My Place by Sally Morgan - April The Wonder Lover by Malcolm Knox - May If This is a Man by Primo Levi - May Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton - June The Discreet Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa - June One of Us by Åsne Seierstad - July Perfume: The Story of a Murder by Patrick Süskind - July Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee - August This Sweet Sickness by Patricia Highsmith - August Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish - September Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast - September Undermojodomo Minor by Patrick DeWitt - October Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift - October In 2016: 2 (31.1.2016) 31.1.2016 Read: 31/171 FTBC: The Top 50 Aussie Books as voted by you are: 1. Cloudstreet - Tim Winton (TBR) 2. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak 3. A Fortunate Life - A.B. Facey 4. The Harp in the South - Ruth Park 5. The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay 6. Jasper Jones - Craig Silvey 7. The Magic Pudding - Norman Lindsay 8. The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas (TBR) 9. The Secret River - Kate Grenville 10. Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay 11. Seven Little Australians - Ethel Turner 12. My Brother Jack - George Johnston 13. My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin 14. True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey (TBR) 15. Eucalyptus - Murray Bail 16. Power Without Glory - Frank Hardy 17. The Broken Shore - Peter Temple 18. Monkey Grip - Helen Garner 19. The Riders - Tim Winton 20. The Tree of Man - Patrick White 21. The Fatal Shore - Robert Hughes 22. Unreliable Memoirs - Clive James 23. The Tall Man - Chloe Hooper 24. The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead 25. The Dressmaker - Rosalie Ham 26. The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney - Henry Handel Richardson 27. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith - Thomas Keneally 28. Capricornia - Xavier Herbert 29. Wake in Fright - Kenneth Cooke 30. Ransom - David Malouf 31. The Year of Living Dangerously - C.J. Koch 32. The First Stone - Helen Garner 33. Gallipoli - Alan Moorehead 34. Maestro - Peter Goldsworthy 35. The Monkey's Mask - Dorothy Porter 36. Wanting - Richard Flanagan 37. Come In Spinner - Dymphna Cusack & Florence James 38. Grand Days - Frank Moorhouse 39. 1788 - Watkin Tench 40. It's Raining in Mango - Thea Astley 41. Riders in the Chariot - Patrick White 42. Carpentaria - Alexis Wright 43. The Tyranny of Distance - Geoffrey Blainey 44. That Deadman Dance - Kim Scott 45. For Love Alone - Christina Stead 46. An Intruder's Guide to East Arnhem Land - Andrew McMillan 47. The Life - Malcolm Knox 48. The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony - Hal Porter 49. Here's Luck - Lennie Lower 50. Visitants - Randolph Stow Read: 1/50 AND a very important link concerning Jason Back to top

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - challenge 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 (TBR) 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 (TBR) 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 (TBR) 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 (TBR) 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 (TBR) 910. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens 909. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe (TBR) 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 (TBR) 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 (TBR) 891. Villette – Charlotte Brontë 890. Bleak House – Charles Dickens 889. Walden – Henry David Thoreau (TBR) 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 Women – Louisa May Alcott 862. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins 861. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky 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. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll 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 (TBR) 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 (TBR) 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 (TBR) 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 (TBR) 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 (TBR) 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 (TBR) 614. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson 613. The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis 612. In Parenthesis – David Jones 611. The Years – Virginia Woolf 610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien (TBR) 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 (TBR) 602. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre (TBR) 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 (TBR) 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 (TBR) 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 Réage 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. Tolkien (TBR) 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 (TBR) 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 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 Carré 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 (TBR) 412. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth 411. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys 410. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras 409. The Magus – John Fowles (TBR) 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 (TBR) 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 (TBR) 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 (TBR) 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 Carré 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 (TBR) 304. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec 303. The World According to Garp – John Irving 302. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan 301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 300. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino (TBR) 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 (TBR) 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 (TBR) 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 (TBR) 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. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg 156. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje 155. Jazz – Toni Morrison 154. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson 153. The Crow Road – Iain Banks (TBR) 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 (TBR) 140. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe 139. On Love – Alain de Botton 138. Complicity – Iain Banks (TBR) 137. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth 136. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy 135. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks (TBR) 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 (TBR) 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 (TBR) 88. Another World – Pat Barker 87. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis 86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver 85. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters (TBR) 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 (TBR) 67. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski (TBR) 66. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard 65. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande 64. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami (TBR) 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 (TBR) 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. Thursmother of a puppy dog! – Alan Garner 15. The Colour – Rose Tremain 14. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle 13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell (TBR) 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 (TBR) 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 (TBR) 14.3.2013: 100/1001 31.5.2014: 105/1001 Read in 2016: Back to top

Yet another Rory list 1. 1984 by George Orwell 2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (TBR) 3. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon 5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 6. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt 7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 8. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 9. Archidamian War by Donald Kagan 10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James 11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu (TBR) 12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 13. Atonement by Ian McEwan 14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy (TBR) 15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin (TBR) 16. Babe by Dick King-Smith 17. Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell 18. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi (TBR) 19. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie 20. Bee Season by Myla Goldberg 21. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 22. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 23. Beloved by Toni Morrison 24. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney 25. The Best Way to Play by Bill Cosby 26. The Bhagava Gita 27. The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duff 28. B*tch In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel 29. Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen 30. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 31. A Bolt From The Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy 32. The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton 33. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 34. Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat 35. Brick Lane by Monica Ali 36. Brigadoon by Alan Jay Lerner 37. Candide by Voltaire 38. Cane River by Lalita Tademy 39. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 40. Carrie by Stephen King 41. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (TBR) 42. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 43. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White 44. The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman 45. Christine by Stephen King 46. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 47. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 48. The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse 49. The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty 50. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty (The Optimist's Daughter) 51. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare 52. The Compact Oxford English Dictionary 53. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell 54. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton 55. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker 56. Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe (TBR) 57. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 58. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 59. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 60. Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac 61. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 62. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber 63. The Crucible by Arthur Miller (TBR) 64. Cujo by Stephen King 65. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Timeby Mark Haddon 66. Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton 67. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende 68. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 69. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D. 70. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 71. Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol 72. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 73. Deenie by Beverly Cleary 74. Deenie by Judy Blume 75. The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard 76. Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky 77. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson 78. The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Bandby Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx 79. The Divine Comedy by Dante 80. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells 81. Don Quixote by Cervantes 82. Dr Dolittle by Hugh Lofting 83. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 84. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry 85. Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz 86. East of Eden by John Steinbeck (TBR) 87. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook 88. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe (TBR) 89. Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn 90. Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons 91. Eloise by Kay Thompson 92. Emma by Jane Austen 93. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger 94. Empire Falls by Richard Russo 95. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol 96. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 97. Ethics by Spinoza 98. Europe Through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves 99. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende 100. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 101. Extravagance by Gary Krist 102. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore 103. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan 104. Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald 105. Fat Land : How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser 106. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (TBR) 107. The Fellowship Of The Ring: Lord Of The Ring - Book 1 by J.R.R. Tolkien (TBR) 108. Fiddler of the Roof by Joseph Stein 109. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry 110. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce 111. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 112. Fletch by Gregory McDonald 113. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 114. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem 115. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (TBR) 116. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 117. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger 118. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers 119. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut 120. Gap Creek by Robert Morgan 121. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler 122. George W. Bushisms: The Slate Book of The Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg 123. Gidget by Frederick Kohner 124. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen 125. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels 126. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 127. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo (TBR) 128. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky 129. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell 130. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 131. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford (TBR) 132. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom 133. The Graduate by Charles Webb 134. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 135. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 136. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 137. The Group by Mary McCarthy 138. Hamlet by William Shakespeare 139. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling 140. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers 141. The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou 142. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 143. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers 144. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry 145. Henry IV by William Shakespeare 146. Henry V by William Shakespeare 147. Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman 148. Heroic Measures by Jill Ciment 149. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 150. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbons 151. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris 152. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton 153. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III 154. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 155. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss 156. How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland 157. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer 158. Howl by Allen Ginsburg 159. The Hunchback of Notre Dome by Victor Hugo 160. Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio 161. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb 162. The Iliad by Homer 163. I'm With the Band by Pamela Des Barres (TBR) 164. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 165. Inferno by Dante 166. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee 167. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy 168. It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton 169. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 170. Jewel by Bret Lott 171. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 172. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 173. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain 174. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 175. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito 176. The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander 177. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain 178. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 179. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 180. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal 181. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 182. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield 183. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines 184. Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis 185. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (TBR) 186. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken 187. Life of Pi by Yann Martel 188. Light in August by William Faulkner 189. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 190. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway 191. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen 192. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 193. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton 194. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 195. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson 196. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez 197. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 198. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich 199. Love Story by Erich Segal 200. Macbeth by William Shakespeare 201. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 202. The Manticore by Robertson Davies 203. A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton 204. Marathon Man by William Goldman 205. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 206. The Meanest Thing to Say by Bill Cosby 207. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer 208. The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier 209. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir (TBR) 210. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman 211. Mencken's Chrestomathy by H.R. Mencken (TBR) 212. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare 213. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris 214. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 215. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 216. Midwives by Chris Bohjalian 217. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey 218. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson 219. Moby Dick by Herman Melville (TBR) 220. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin 221. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor 222. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman 223. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret 224. A Month of Sundays by Julie Mars 225. Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes 226. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (TBR) 227. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (TBR) 228. Mutiny On The Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall 229. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh 230. My Life As Author And Editor by H.R. Mencken (TBR) 231. Life in Orange by Tim Guest 232. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult 233. Myra Waldo's Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo 234. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer 235. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 236. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 237. The Nancy Drew Series by Carolyn Keene 238. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus 239. Nervous System by Jan Lars Jensen (TBR) 240. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle 241. The New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 242. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 243. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay 244. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich 245. Night by Elie Wiesel 246. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 247. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan, Jeffrey L. Williams, Vincent B. Leitch 248. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski 249. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/ Angels on Toast/ A 250. Time to Be Born by Dawn Powell 251. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 252. Old School by Tobias Wolff 253. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 254. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 255. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 256. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 257. Open House by Elizabeth Berg 258. The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan (TBR) 259. Oracle Night by Paul Auster 260. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 261. Othello by William Shakespeare 262. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 263. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson 264. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan 265. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton 266. Paradise by Toni Morrison 267. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 268. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan 269. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 270. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious 271. The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 272. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington 273. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (TBR) 274. The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve 275. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 276. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain 277. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 278. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby 279. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker (TBR) 280. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche 281. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind 282. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 283. Property by Valerie Martin 284. Pushkin: A Biography by T.J. Binyon 285. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw 286. Quattrocento by James McKean 287. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall 288. The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds 289. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (TBR) 290. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 291. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink 292. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 293. The Return of the King: Lord Of The Rings - Book 3 by J. R. R. Tolkien (TBR) 294. R is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton 295. Rapunzel by Brothers Grimm 296. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi 297. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (TBR) 298. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin 299. Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman 300. Richard III by William Shakespeare 301. Rita Hayworth andShawshank Redemption by Stephen King 302. River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke 303. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 304. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert 305. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton 306. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 307. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 308. A Room With a View by E.M. Forster 309. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin 310. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition 311. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi 312. Sanctuary by William Faulkner 313. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford 314. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James 315. Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan 316. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum 317. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand 318. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir (TBR) 319. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 320. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman (TBR) 321. Selected Hotels of Europe 322. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell : 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell 323. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 324. A Separate Peace by John Knowles 325. Several biographies of Winston Churchill 326. Sexus by Henry Miller 327. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 328. Shane by Jack Shaefer 329. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb 330. The Shining by Stephen King 331. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 332. S is for Silence by Sue Grafton 333. Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut 334. Small Island by Andrea Levy (TBR) 335. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers 336. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway 337. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore 338. Songbook by Nick Hornby 339. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht 340. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker 341. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 342. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia De Burgos by Julia de Burgos 343. Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris 344. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare (TBR) 345. Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (TBR) 346. Sophie's Choice by William Styron 347. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 348. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov (TBR) 349. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach 350. Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir 351. Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi 352. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski 353. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller 354. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams 355. Stuart Little by E. B. White 356. Sula by Toni Morrison 357. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 358. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (TBR) 359. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett 360. Sybil by Flora Schreiber 361. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 362. Tara Road by Maeve Binchy 363. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 364. Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry 365. Time and Again by Jack Finney 366. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 367. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway (TBR) 368. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 369. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare 370. The Treasure Hunt by Bill Cosby 371. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 372. The Trial by Franz Kafka 373. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson 374. Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett (TBR) 375. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 376. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath (TBR) 377. Ulysses by James Joyce 378. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 379. Unless by Carol Shields 380. Valley of the Dolls by Susann Jacqueline 381. The Vanishing Newspaper by Phillip Meyers 382. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 383. Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard 384. Vinegar Hill by A. Manette Mansay 385. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 386. A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons 387. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 388. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (TBR) 389. Walt Disney's Bambi (Based on Original Story by Felix Salten) by Felix Salten 390. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 391. We Owe You Nothing- Punk Planet: the Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker 392. We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates 393. What Color is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles 394. What Happened to Baby Jane? by Henry Farrell 395. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage 396. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 397. Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts 398. While I Was Gone by Sue Miller 399. White Oleander by Janet Fitch (TBR) 400. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson (TBR) 401.Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee 402. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire 403. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 404. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 405. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 406. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 8.1.2014: 101/406 Read in 2016: The Rory challenge from the 8th season, 2016: 1. Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting 2. 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Rory's Book List according to Shona 1. 1984 by George Orwell 2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (TBR) 3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 6. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt 7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 8. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 9. Archidamian War by Donald Kagan 10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James 11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu (TBR) 12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 13. Atonement by Ian McEwan 14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy (TBR) 15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin (TBR) 16. Babe by Dick King-Smith 17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi (TBR) 18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie 19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 21. Beloved by Toni Morrison 22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney 23. The Bhagava Gita 24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy 25. B*tch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel 26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy 27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 28. Brick Lane by Monica Ali 29. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner 30. Candide by Voltaire 31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer 32. Carrie by Stephen King 33. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (TBR) 34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 35. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White 36. The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman 37. Christine by Stephen King 38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 39. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 40. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse 41. The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty 42. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty (The Optimist's Daughter) 43. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare 44. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell 45. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton 46. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker 47. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 48. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas pere 49. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac 50. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 51. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber 52. The Crucible by Arthur Miller (TBR) 53. Cujo by Stephen King 54. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 55. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende 56. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D 57. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 58. The Da Vinci-Code by Dan Brown 59. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 60. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 61. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 62. Deenie by Judy Blume 63. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson 64. The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx 65. The Divine Comedy by Dante 66. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells 67. Don Quijote by Cervantes 68. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv 69. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 70. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe (TBR) 71. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook 72. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe (TBR) 73. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn 74. Eloise by Kay Thompson 75. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger 76. Emma by Jane Austen 77. Empire Falls by Richard Russo 78. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol 79. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 80. Ethics by Spinoza 81. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves 82. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende 83. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 84. Extravagance by Gary Krist 85. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 86. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore 87. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan 88. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser 89. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (TBR) 90. The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (TBR) 91. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein 92. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 93. Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce 94. Fletch by Gregory McDonald 95. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 96. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem 97. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (TBR) 98. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 99. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger 100. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers 101. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut 102. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler 103. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg 104. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner 105. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen 106. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels 107. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo (TBR) 108. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 109. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky 110. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 111. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford (TBR) 112. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom 113. The Graduate by Charles Webb 114. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 115. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 116. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 117. The Group by Mary McCarthy 118. Hamlet by William Shakespeare 119. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling 120. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling 121. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers 122. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 123. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry 124. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare 125. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare 126. Henry V by William Shakespeare 127. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 128. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 129. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris 130. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton 131. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III 132. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 133. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer 134. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss 135. How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland 136. Howl by Allen Gingsburg 137. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo 138. The Iliad by Homer 139. I'm with the Band by Pamela des Barres (TBR) 140. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 141. Inferno by Dante 142. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee 143. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy 144. It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton 145. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 146. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 147. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 148. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain 149. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 150. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito 151. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander 152. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain 153. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 154. Lady Chatterleys' Lover by D. H. Lawrence 155. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal 156. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 157. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield 158. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis 159. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (TBR) 160. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken 161. Life of Pi by Yann Martel 162. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 163. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway 164. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen 165. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 166. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton 167. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 168. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson 169. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 170. The Love Story by Erich Segal 171. Macbeth by William Shakespeare 172. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 173. The Manticore by Robertson Davies 174. Marathon Man by William Goldman 175. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 176. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir (TBR) 177. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman 178. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris 179. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer 180. Mencken's Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken (TBR) 181. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare 182. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 183. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 184. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson 185. Moby Dick by Herman Melville (TBR) 186. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin 187. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor 188. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman 189. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret 190. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars 191. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (TBR) 192. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (TBR) 193. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall 194. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It's Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh 195. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken (TBR) 196. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest 197. Myra Waldo's Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo 198. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult 199. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer 200. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 201. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 202. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin 203. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen (TBR) 204. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 205. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay 206. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich 207. Night by Elie Wiesel 208. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 209. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan 210. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell 211. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski 212. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 213. Old School by Tobias Wolff 214. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 215. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 216. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 217. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan (TBR) 218. Oracle Night by Paul Auster 219. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 220. Othello by Shakespeare 221. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 222. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan 223. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson 224. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton 225. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 226. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan 227. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 228. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious 229. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 230. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington 231. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 232. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain 233. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby 234. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker (TBR) 235. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche 236. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind 237. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 238. Property by Valerie Martin 239. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon 240. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw 241. Quattrocento by James Mckean 242. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall 243. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers 244. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (TBR) 245. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 246. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi 247. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (TBR) 248. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin 249. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 250. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman 251. The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings Book 3 by J. R. R. Tolkien (TBR) 252. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton 253. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King 254. Robert's Rules of Order by Henry Robert 255. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton 256. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 257. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 258. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 259. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin 260. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition 261. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi 262. Sanctuary by William Faulkner 263. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford 264. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James 265. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum 266. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 267. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand 268. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir (TBR) 269. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 270. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman (TBR) 271. Selected Hotels of Europe 272. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell 273. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 274. A Separate Peace by John Knowles 275. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill 276. Sexus by Henry Miller 277. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 278. Shane by Jack Shaefer 279. The Shining by Stephen King 280. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 281. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton 282. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut 283. Small Island by Andrea Levy (TBR) 284. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway 285. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers 286. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore 287. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht 288. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos 289. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker 290. Songbook by Nick Hornby 291. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare (TBR) 292. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (TBR) 293. Sophie's Choice by William Styron 294. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 295. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov (TBR) 296. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach 297. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller 298. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams 299. Stuart Little by E. B. White 300. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 301. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (TBR) 302. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett 303. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber 304. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 305. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 306. Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry 307. Time and Again by Jack Finney 308. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 309. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway (TBR) 310. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 311. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare 312. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 313. The Trial by Franz Kafka 314. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson 315. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett (TBR) 316. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 317. Ulysses by James Joyce 318. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath (TBR) 319. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 320. Unless by Carol Shields 321. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann 321. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers 322. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 323. Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard 324. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 325. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 326. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (TBR) 327. Walt Disney's Bambi by Felix Salten 328. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 329. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker 330. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles 331. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell 332. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 333. Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson (TBR) 334. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee 335. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire 336. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum 337. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 338. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 339. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 4.12.2014: 97/339 Read in 2016: Back to top

Rory's Book List (My original Rory's Booklist Challenge) (books already read) 1. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 2. 1984 by George Orwell 3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (TBR) 4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 6. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 7. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 8. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy (TBR) 9. The Awakening by Kate Chopin (TBR) 10. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie 11. Beloved by Toni Morrison 12. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy 13. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 14. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 15. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 16. Brick Lane by Monica Ali 17. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 18. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse 19. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 20. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas pere 21. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac 22. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 23. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 24. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 25. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 26. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson 27. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 28. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe (TBR) 29. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn 30. Emma by Jane Austen 31. Empire Falls by Richard Russo 32. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 33. Extravagance by Gary Krist 34. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 35. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser 36. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 37. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 38. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem 39. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (TBR) 40. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 41. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut 42. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 43. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 44. Hamlet by William Shakespeare 45. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 46. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris 47. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer 48. How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland 49. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo 50. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 51. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 52. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito 53. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander 54. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 55. Life of Pi by Yann Martel 56. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 57. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 58. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson 59. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 60. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 61. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris 62. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer 63. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 64. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars 65. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest 66. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult 67. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 68. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 69. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin 70. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen (TBR) 71. Night by Elie Wiesel 72. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 73. Old School by Tobias Wolff 74. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 75. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 76. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan (TBR) 77. Oracle Night by Paul Auster 78. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 79. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 80. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 81. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby 82. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker (TBR) 83. Property by Valerie Martin 84. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw 85. Quattrocento by James Mckean 86. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall 87. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 88. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi 89. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 90. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman 91. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi 92. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 93. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand 94. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 95. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 96. A Separate Peace by John Knowles 97. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 98. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 99. Small Island by Andrea Levy (TBR) 100.The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht 101. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos 102. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker 103. Songbook by Nick Hornby 104. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 105. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov (TBR) 106. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach 107. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller 108. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 109. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber 110. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 111. Time and Again by Jack Finney 112. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 113. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 114. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson 115. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett (TBR) 116. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 117. Unless by Carol Shields 118. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 119. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 120. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire 31.5.2014: 45/120 Read in 2016: Back to top