1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - challenge

[frankie]

I've now read The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, making my total 84. I really liked the novel, I gave it a 5/5

[Weave]

I've now read The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, making my total 84. I really liked the novel, I gave it a 5/5

 

Well done hen

[frankie]

Thanks Weave

 

I bought a copy of The Poisonwood Bible today, and when I came home and listed it on my TBR list, I also realised that it's on the 2006 edition of 1001 Books, so a great buy in that way too, by chance

[Nali]

I picked up a copy of list a few months ago and started working my way through it - I have managed to read 49 books so far, and will keep going!

 

Heres a link to what I have managed to get to so far: 1001 Books You Must...

Edited April 23, 2011 by Nali

[frankie]

I just finished Kerouac's On the Road -> 85.

 

Edit: And found a copy of Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz.

Edited April 27, 2011 by frankie

[Kylie]

I'm currently readin The Little Prince and I bought Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh while I was away.

[frankie]

I'm currently readin The Little Prince and I bought Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh while I was away.

 

Hooray for The Little Prince! I do hope you like it.

[frankie]

I found a free copy of Neuromancer by William Gibson today

[Kylie]

Hooray for The Little Prince! I do hope you like it.

 

Let the records show that I enjoyed it very much.

 

I found a free copy of Neuromancer by William Gibson today

 

Excellent! I've had this for a while and really want to read it. It's also part of my dystopian challenge.

Edited May 18, 2011 by Kylie

[Kell]

The one's I've read, with a note of whether I loved it, liked it, thought it was OK, or hated it. Where they're marked "partial", I intend to go back to them and try again at some point, unless they also have "hate" next to them, in which case I was put off enough to never touchthem again!

 

996. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous (PARTIAL)

983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift (LIKE)

975. Fanny Hill – John Cleland (LOVE)

971. Candide – Voltaire (HATE)

957. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (LOVE)

940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen (PARTIAL)

938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (LOVE)

937. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen (LOVE)

936. Emma – Jane Austen (LIKE)

933. Persuasion – Jane Austen (OK)

932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen (LOVE)

931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (LIKE)

916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe (HATE)

913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens (OK)

911. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe (HATE)

908. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas (LOVE)

905. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray (PARTIAL)

904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë (LOVE)

902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë (LOVE)

901. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë (LIKE)

897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne (PARTIAL)

891. Villette – Charlotte Brontë (OK)

880. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins (OK)

872. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley (HATE)

868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (LIKE)

866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne (LIKE)

863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott (OK)

846. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy (OK)

831. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson (HATE)

825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain (LIKE)

823. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard (LIKE)

820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson (LIKE)

819. She – H. Rider Haggard (LIKE - I SUSPECT IT WAS ABRIDGED AS I WAS A KID AT THE TIME)

809. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde (LOVE)

804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (LIKE)

801. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman (OK)

797. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells (OK)

796. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells (OK)

794. Dracula – Bram Stoker (LOVE)

791. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells (LIKE)

790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells (LIKE)

789. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James (PARTIAL)

781. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (LIKE)

780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (HATE)

761. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster (LOVE)

754. Howards End – E.M. Forster (LIKE)

747. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs (LIKE)

699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (LOVE)

676. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence (LIKE)

675. Orlando – Virginia Woolf (HATE)

649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley (HATE)

647. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon (PARTIAL - HATE)

619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell (LOVE)

614. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen) (PARTIAL)

608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck (LOVE)

603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier (LOVE)

599. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler (PARTIAL)

574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (OK)

564. Animal Farm – George Orwell (LOVE)

547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell (LIKE)

529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger (OK)

526. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham (LOVE)

520. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison (HATE)

496. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov (LOVE)

495. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith (LOVE)

481. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham (LIKE)

456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (LOVE)

450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark (HATE)

436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey (LOVE)

433. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (HATE)

428. The Graduate – Charles Webb (LOVE)

396. Chocky – John Wyndham (LIKE)

394. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines (PARTIAL)

379. The Godfather – Mario Puzo (LOVE)

354. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood (PARTIAL - HATE)

320. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice (OK)

312. The Shining – Stephen King (OK)

301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (LOVE)

293. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco (LIKE)

274. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro (PATIAL - HATE)

272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker (LIKE)

243. Perfume – Patrick Süskind (LIKE)

242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood (LIKE)

227. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons (LIKE)

213. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy (HATE)

184. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi (LIKE)

166. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis (LIKE)

156. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje (PARTIAL)

145. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood (OK)

134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh (OK)

129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres (PARTIAL)

116. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink (LIKE)

93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden (LIKE)

77. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee (HATE)

49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel (LOVE)

24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters (LOVE)

19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon (LOVE)

1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro (LOVE)

 

Ones I intend to read (where I've already marked "partial previously, I've left them off this list) - I've marked the ones I have on my shelf, waiting to be read:

 

1001. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

992. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

991. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan

987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe (GOT)

985. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe (GOT)

976. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding

965. The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith

954. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade

949. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe

947. The Monk – M.G. Lewis

944. The Nun – Denis Diderot

935. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott

930. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott

925. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper

922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo (GOT)

918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens (GOT)

917. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens

910. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens

907. La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas

906. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas (GOT)

903. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë (GOT)

899. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë

898. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville (GOT)

893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe

890. Bleak House – Charles Dickens (GOT)

888. Hard Times – Charles Dickens

887. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell

886. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens (GOT)

879. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot

876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

873. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo (GOT)

870. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu

869. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens

862. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins

853. Middlemarch – George Eliot

848. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne

835. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace (GOT)

821. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy

819. She – H. Rider Haggard (UNABRIDGED VERSION)

808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy (GOT)

799. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy (GOT)

783. Kim – Rudyard Kipling (GOT)

772. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster

749. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence

743. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan

738. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke

728. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence (GOT)

708. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster

687. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson

672. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau

660. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett

650. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

639. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse (GOT)

638. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald

620. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell

592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

563. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh (GOT)

561. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake

539. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov

537. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake

508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding

506. The Story of O – Pauline Réage

486. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak

477. The Once and Future King – T.H. White

467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote

451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller

440. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing (GOT)

438. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov

437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess

411. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys

390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick

375. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

352. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson

303. The World According to Garp – John Irving

275. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally

253. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard

222. Beloved – Toni Morrison

210. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams

209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams

190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

1187. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson

163. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud

143. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides

86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver (GOT)

85. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters

63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood

62. The Human Stain – Philip Roth

33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides

[Easy Reader]

I have read and enjoyed/loved updated in red 17 Jan '12

 

940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier

592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

564. Animal Farm – George Orwell

547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell

508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding

404. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien

367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou

243. Perfume – Patrick Süskind

93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

85. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters

49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel

1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie

 

I have read and have no strong opinions either way

 

932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen

876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson

134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh

42. Atonement – Ian McEwan

24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters

19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon

 

Books I have read and was less keen on, reason given

 

869. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens – dislike as too many words story could have been told much better and quicker

565. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck – I don’t remember much about it although I think someone was standing on top of a pole!

456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee – I read and disliked but plan to re-read one day I have now re-read and prefer it second time around but still not overly keen on it

451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller went on too long

411. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys I don’t remember anything about it

272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker ditto

129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres hugely bored by this one I was expecting it to be more romance based than war based so nearly gave up reading it

92. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy I largely had no idea what was going on feel this is another one I should perhaps re-read

84. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon I can’t remember anything about it

789 turn of the screw - Henry James I really don't see how this one has stood the test of time there is nothing about it that stood out for me it was just a story

 

Started to read but gave up on

 

904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë

676. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence

 

 

On my TBR pile

255. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter

165. Wild Swans – Jung Chang (although I don’t think I want to read it)

86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith

13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe

892. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell

890. Bleak House – Charles Dickens

887. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell

868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky

825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

743. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan

639. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse

Edited January 17, 2012 by Easy Reader

[frankie]

I've finished The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway today. Quite a nice read.

[frankie]

Wohoo, I finally read Howards End by E. M. Forster, one that I've been dreading for a long time. I didn't enjoy his A Room with a View, and this one was also a bit tedious every now and then, but in this novel things actually happened and there was food for thought.

[poppyshake]

Wohoo, I finally read Howards End by E. M. Forster, one that I've been dreading for a long time. I didn't enjoy his A Room with a View, and this one was also a bit tedious every now and then, but in this novel things actually happened and there was food for thought.

I haven't read either of them but just by the films etc I know I'm in for a long tedious time .. and with the films it's easier because there are beautiful things to look at. I can't say I'm looking forward to them but feel like I should read them.

Also, just being terribly pretentious, I want to actually put 'Howards End' on the landing

[frankie]

I haven't read either of them but just by the films etc I know I'm in for a long tedious time .. and with the films it's easier because there are beautiful things to look at. I can't say I'm looking forward to them but feel like I should read them.

 

I don't want to reinforce your prejudices but I have to say I'm glad I've read them now, already

Also, just being terribly pretentious, I want to actually put 'Howards End' on the landing

 

Put it on the landing! Put it!

 

I've just read The Pigeon by Süskind, I enjoyed it. Nothing compared to Perfume but enjoyable anyways. This means I've now read 88 books, which means that I still have to read 12 books from the list in order to have read 10% of the list. Long ways to go!

[poppyshake]

I don't want to reinforce your prejudices but I have to say I'm glad I've read them now, already

oh dear I'm not inspired .. but then I imagine there's quite a few on the list that will be a bit

Put it on the landing! Put it!

I'm going to .. just for the hell of it (I never did do anything original.)

 

I've just read The Pigeon by Süskind, I enjoyed it. Nothing compared to Perfume but enjoyable anyways. This means I've now read 88 books, which means that I still have to read 12 books from the list in order to have read 10% of the list. Long ways to go!

well done Frankie you're doing brilliantly.

 

[Kylie]

Put it on the landing! Put it!

I'm going to .. just for the hell of it (I never did do anything original.)

 

I agree! I've been meaning to comment on this for ages. I'd love to be able to say 'Howard's End is on the Landing is on the landing'.

 

ETA: Ahem. Just to clarify: I was agreeing with Frankie's call to put Howard's End is on the Landing on the landing (woohoo! I got to say it again!) I was not agreeing with Poppyshake's comment that she never does anything original.

Edited June 9, 2011 by Kylie

[frankie]

You guys crack me up

[Janet]

This morning I finished The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (thoughts to follow in my Blog).

 

This takes my totals to 45 of the original 1001 list and 48 of the 1294 combined list!

 

ETA: As of today (29 July 2011) I'm now up to 46 and 49, having read the excellent A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry.

 

Today (14.08.11) I'm adding Lolita to the list!

Edited August 14, 2011 by Janet

[frankie]

Since my last post, I've read Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith from the list. 90/1001.

 

I've also acquired three more books from the list:

The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein

In A Free State by V.S. Naipaul

 

Edit: I'll also add that having read 2/3 of Between the Sheets - The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th-Century Women Writers, I've become very interested in some authors I've never really even thought about reading: Henry Miller, Jean Rhys, Rebecca West, etc. I'll be adding quite a few new titles to my 'wishlist' of 1001 Books challenge.

Edited August 27, 2011 by frankie

[lauraloves]

Stealing the update idea from Frankie, heres mine

 

Read

Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer

Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien

Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham

The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger

The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien

 

TBR

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

Life of Pi – Yann Martel

White Teeth – Zadie Smith

Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez

Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë

Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

 

Wishlist

Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

Les Misérables – Victor Hugo

Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier

Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

Catch-22 – Joseph Heller

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey

The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines

Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

The Shining – Stephen King

Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

The Color Purple – Alice Walker

Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez

Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons

A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon

Atonement – Ian McEwan

[willoyd]

An interesting challenge Frankie - one I've only recently picked up from the posts on your reading thread. I'm tempted, but there's quite a lot on here that I've tried and really, really don't want to have to read (Samuel Richardson and Marcel Proust jump immediately to mind - I really do want to have a life!!): what are the rules (if any) about incompleted books?

 

In the meantime, it looks as if I've completed 99 of the titles you list at the start (with a few others incomplete, and one or two read - usually in my teens - but can't remember a thing about them). Here they are, with the star ratings that I use for all my reading (1 = hated, 2=disappointed, 3=solid read, 4=good, 5=pretty much unputdownable, 6=on my favourites list). 6 stars in blue as well, 1 stars in red.

 

 

Pre-1700

1001. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus ***

 

1700s

985. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe **

971. Candide – Voltaire ****

 

1800s

940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen ******

938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen ******

937. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen *****

936. Emma – Jane Austen *****

933. Persuasion – Jane Austen *****

932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen *****

913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens ***

906. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas *****

905. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray ******

904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë ******

902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë ******

900. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell *****

896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville ******

892. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell ****

890. Bleak House – Charles Dickens ******

880. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins *****

876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens ****

875. Silas Marner – George Eliot ***

868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll ****

866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne ***

863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott ***

862. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins ****

857. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy ******

854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll ****

853. Middlemarch – George Eliot *****

848. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne ***

839. Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy ****

833. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James ****

831. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson *****

825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain ****

822. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson ******

820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson ****

811. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola ****

804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle *****

803. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith *

797. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells ***

794. Dracula – Bram Stoker ****

 

1900s

781. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ****

777. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers ******

761. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster *****

743. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan ****

699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald **

698. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf ******

695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie ***

686. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf ******

676. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence *

675. Orlando – Virginia Woolf ****

667. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque **

660. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett ****

650. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons *****

632. The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers ***

611. The Years – Virginia Woolf ******

610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien ***

601. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson ******

599. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler ****

586. Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler ****

579. The Outsider – Albert Camus *

566. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford *****

564. Animal Farm – George Orwell **

547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell **

542. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford *****

539. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov ***

527. Foundation – Isaac Asimov ***

521. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway **

511. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler ****

510. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley **

508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding ****

506. The Story of O – Pauline Réage *

494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien ******

488. Justine – Lawrence Durrell *

456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee ******

450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark ****

430. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré **

428. The Graduate – Charles Webb ***

400. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov ****

389. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke ***

379. The Godfather – Mario Puzo ***

375. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. *

339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré ******

301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams *****

293. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco ******

288. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie ******

265. Waterland – Graham Swift *****

247. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd ******

210. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams ****

209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams ****

157. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg ****

153. The Crow Road – Iain Banks ****

141. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth ******

116. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink *

95. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan *

89. The Hours – Michael Cunningham ******

72. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson ******

 

2000s

49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel ***

29. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor *****

19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon *****

Edited August 27, 2011 by willoyd

[Janet]

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy.

 

This takes my totals to 47 of the original 1001 list and 50 of the 1294 combined list!

[kirbyland1986]

wow I just had a quick look at the list and yeah I seen couple of them in a film but thats it! so looks like I have..... lets see... 1001 books to read still!!! oh well I am sure I will get there

[busy91]

I have posted only the books I've read. Many on the big list are on my TBR list, some of them I have started but didn't finish.

 

Here are the ones I read cover to cover.

 

 

 

938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe

913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

911. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe

903. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë

891. Villette – Charlotte Brontë

886. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

875. Silas Marner – George Eliot

840. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

770. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton

752. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton

733. Summer – Edith Wharton

699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

681. Quicksand – Nella Larsen

662. Passing – Nella Larsen

649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

623. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft

619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

496. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien

467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote

456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

375. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

365. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison

349. Sula – Toni Morrison

340. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

291. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel

19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon