Janet Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 I'd like to read the Life of Pi pretty soon because I can't see the film until I have read the book and everyone is going on about it! I also have a Tolstoy novella on the TBR pile that I think I'd like to tackle this year I can't remember if you have a Kindle or not, Alex, but it's currently 20p on Kindle from Amazon if you do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted January 18, 2013 Author Share Posted January 18, 2013 I finished Uncle Tom's Cabin last night, I'm now at 95/1001 books and I'm going to try to get to 100 this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 You go, girl! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bree Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 I finished Uncle Tom's Cabin last night, I'm now at 95/1001 books and I'm going to try to get to 100 this year. Wonderful! Did you like it frankie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted January 18, 2013 Author Share Posted January 18, 2013 I did at first, it was easy going and funny (which I didn't expect) and I thought this might be a 5/5 read... Then it started dragging a bit... And then there was a lot of stuff on religion, and then it was a bit preachy and pointing and all. I understand why Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote it in the way she did at the time, but for my 'modern mind' it was all too much. I was torn between giving it a 2 or 3, ended up with 3/5 in the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted February 2, 2013 Author Share Posted February 2, 2013 I finished The Remains of the Day last night, four more books to finish one goal of the current reading year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexi Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 Great stuff Frankie I'm about to start The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre from the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bree Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 I finished The Remains of the Day last night, four more books to finish one goal of the current reading year What goal is that frankie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted February 2, 2013 Author Share Posted February 2, 2013 Great stuff Frankie I'm about to start The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre from the list. Have you read any John Le Carre before? I don't really know what his books are like and having been feeling too keen to get to them... What goal is that frankie? I'm aiming for 100 read books off the 1001 list Even better if I make it to 101, then it's 10% for sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bree Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 Have you read any John Le Carre before? I don't really know what his books are like and having been feeling too keen to get to them... I'm aiming for 100 read books off the 1001 list Even better if I make it to 101, then it's 10% for sure! Wow! You've read 96! Good going! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexi Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 Have you read any John Le Carre before? I don't really know what his books are like and having been feeling too keen to get to them... I haven't read any yet, but was intrigued by the good film reviews Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy received, so I'm looking forward to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted February 18, 2013 Author Share Posted February 18, 2013 I haven't read any yet, but was intrigued by the good film reviews Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy received, so I'm looking forward to it. How did this go for you? I finished Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee and have mixed feelings about it. Having known something about the political and social history and current events in South Africa would've probably helped a lot. 97/1001. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexi Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Really well it was a bit slow to start, because it feels quite complicated a plot and I ended up feeling a bit bewildered at the beginning, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I've just started Dangerous Liaisons from the list. I'm currently on 29/1294. (I am working from the combined app, pre 2012 adjustments). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted February 19, 2013 Author Share Posted February 19, 2013 Really well it was a bit slow to start, because it feels quite complicated a plot and I ended up feeling a bit bewildered at the beginning, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. That sounds encouraging! Maybe I ought to try it some day, I haven't been inclined to do so before. Thanks! I've just started Dangerous Liaisons from the list. I'm currently on 29/1294. (I am working from the combined app, pre 2012 adjustments). I love it that the March Reading Circle is so conveniently about a 1001 Book Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bree Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I love it that the March Reading Circle is so conveniently about a 1001 Book If I remember right you nominated it frankie I'm still waiting for my copy to arrive - chesil's remarks about it have convinced me its a brilliant read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korenith Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 This looks like a pretty good list though I will never understand why people like Paulo Coelho or why they picked Dead Air instead of The Bridge when they were chosing Iain Banks novels but nobody ever agree 100% with these lists. Here's what I've managed so far: Pre-1700992. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra1700s 985. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift 1800s 931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe911. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe909. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe908. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë900. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell 896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky 866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne848. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain 820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson 809. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde 804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 801. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman799. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy794. Dracula – Bram Stoker789. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James788. The Awakening – Kate Chopin 1900s781. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 773. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad769. The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy761. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster748. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell741. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham 736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce731. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West728. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence723. Ulysses – James Joyce701. The Trial – Franz Kafka 699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald698. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf 687. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson686. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf 671. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner663. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley647. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon636. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller623. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft622. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck607. Murphy – Samuel Beckett605. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier 593. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck587. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway564. Animal Farm – George Orwell559. The Plague – Albert Camus547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell538. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing531. Molloy – Samuel Beckett529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger527. Foundation – Isaac Asimov526. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham525. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett514. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis512. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien 490. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac481. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham473. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe472. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller 450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark445. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger440. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath413. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon 411. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys409. The Magus – John Fowles 399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick389. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke376. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles375. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson354. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood345. Crash – J.G. Ballard320. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice312. The Shining – Stephen King310. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter302. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 291. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole288. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie283. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan282. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray274. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro 272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker265. Waterland – Graham Swift260. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis258. Neuromancer – William Gibson255. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter254. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks253. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard243. Perfume – Patrick Süskind242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood240. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson236. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez 227. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons222. Beloved – Toni Morrison 216. The Child in Time – Ian McEwan215. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind208. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga207. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks203. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie200. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco199. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 187. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson186. A Disaffection – James Kelman184. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi 170. Regeneration – Pat Barker167. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis166. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis153. The Crow Road – Iain Banks 138. Complicity – Iain Banks 135. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres128. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami 112. The Information – Martin Amis109. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood 96. Underworld – Don DeLillo95. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan94. Great Apes – Will Self93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden90. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho87. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis81. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan 2000s63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith 49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel48. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk42. Atonement – Ian McEwan35. Dead Air – Iain Banks24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell 2. Saturday – Ian McEwan1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted February 19, 2013 Author Share Posted February 19, 2013 If I remember right you nominated it frankie I'm so busted! Korenith, that's a lot of books read off the list, I'm impressed! Have you counted how many books those make in total? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peahen Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 How to make a huge list really small :-) So far have read the following: Pre-17001001. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus989. Oroonoko – Aphra Behn - Made to read at University.1700s983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift 964. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne - Really forced to read this one (he is not born until Volume 3)961. Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett1800s942. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen937. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen936. Emma – Jane Austen933. Persuasion – Jane Austen932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley930. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens917. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë903. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë901. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë899. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne895. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe891. Villette – Charlotte Brontë887. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell880. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll853. Middlemarch – George Eliot849. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson819. She – H. Rider Haggard809. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas HardyWeedon Grossmith801. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman800. The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross799. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy794. Dracula – Bram Stoker789. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James1900s780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad779. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James776. The Ambassadors – Henry James775. The Golden Bowl – Henry James766. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad748. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell742. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce730. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis723. Ulysses – James Joyce716. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf704. Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville 699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald698. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf676. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence669. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier594. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien593. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry564. Animal Farm – George Orwell547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding506. The Story of O – Pauline Réage490. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon459. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess435. The Collector – John Fowles433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath411. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys408. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick369. Troubles – J.G. Farrell367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou357. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow320. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice312. The Shining – Stephen King301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker254. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood238. The Cider House Rules – John Irving237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson219. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster205. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey203. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie198. The Book of Evidence – John Banville196. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro183. Possession – A.S. Byatt165. Wild Swans – Jung Chang147. The Secret History – Donna Tartt134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami109. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden92. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy90. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho89. The Hours – Michael Cunningham86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver85. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters2000s54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith52. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel43. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides28. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon11. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith2. Saturday – Ian McEwan1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSchultz19 Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 Books I loved reading Books I liked Books I hated Read: 918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne 825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain 699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald 603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier 564. Animal Farm – George Orwell 521. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway 508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding 456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee TBR pile: 940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 936. Emma – Jane Austen 933. Persuasion – Jane Austen 925. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper 898. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville 893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe 820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson 737. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse 689. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway 610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien 494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien 49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel Wishlist: Don Quixote - Cervantes 987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe 932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley930. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott 922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo 906. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas905. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë903. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë 890. Bleak House – Charles Dickens 888. Hard Times – Charles Dickens 887. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell 876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 869. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky 863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott 840. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells 780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 638. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald 619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell 608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell 529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger 518. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming 451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller Reading: 873. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo I've only read 11, but that I've only had 16 years to work on this My TBR and wishlist is pretty huge and I hope to get through all of these books in the next 2-3 years. Shouldn't be a problem! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted August 1, 2013 Author Share Posted August 1, 2013 Books I loved reading Books I liked Books I hated Read: 918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne 825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain 699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald 603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier 564. Animal Farm – George Orwell 521. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway 508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding 456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee TBR pile: 940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 936. Emma – Jane Austen 933. Persuasion – Jane Austen 925. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper 898. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne 896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville 893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe 820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson 737. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse 689. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway 610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien 494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien 49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel Wishlist: Don Quixote - Cervantes 987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe 932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen 931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 930. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott 922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo 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 890. Bleak House – Charles Dickens 888. Hard Times – Charles Dickens 887. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell 876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 869. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens 868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky 863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott 840. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells 780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 638. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald 619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell 608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell 529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger 518. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming 451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller Reading: 873. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo I've only read 11, but that I've only had 16 years to work on this My TBR and wishlist is pretty huge and I hope to get through all of these books in the next 2-3 years. Shouldn't be a problem! Nice to see a new member on here! Yep, you still have loads of time to catch up! Oh and I think you are the only person I know who's loved Lord of the Flies! I'm happy you did, it's not nice for an author to write a book in vain (that is: have no one like it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSchultz19 Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 Nice to see a new member on here! Yep, you still have loads of time to catch up! Oh and I think you are the only person I know who's loved Lord of the Flies! I'm happy you did, it's not nice for an author to write a book in vain (that is: have no one like it) I was very surprised when I saw that nobody liked it. My liking it is mostly because I had to read it in school and my English teach taught it amazingly! There was so much symbolism in the book it was amazing to me that an author could put that much thought into writing a novel. That, and, I just enjoyed the book overall. It was a pretty easy read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexi Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 The reason I hate it is because I had an English teacher who made it extremely dull! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSchultz19 Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 The reason I hate it is because I had an English teacher who made it extremely dull! How ironic! It was great how she taught it. She even split the class into "tribes" and had us do competitions that somehow related to what we were currently reading in the book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted August 1, 2013 Author Share Posted August 1, 2013 How ironic! It was great how she taught it. She even split the class into "tribes" and had us do competitions that somehow related to what we were currently reading in the book. That sounds interesting! And I think that makes a heck of a difference.... I read it on my own, and didn't have anyone to be in different tribes with... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian. Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 I updated my records today and I have 5 more read since my last update. Of Mice & Men - John Steinbeck Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood Faceless Killers - Henning Mankell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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