frankie Posted April 20, 2011 Author Share Posted April 20, 2011 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted April 21, 2011 Author Share Posted April 21, 2011 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nali Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted April 27, 2011 Author Share Posted April 27, 2011 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 I'm currently readin The Little Prince and I bought Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh while I was away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted April 28, 2011 Author Share Posted April 28, 2011 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted May 17, 2011 Author Share Posted May 17, 2011 I found a free copy of Neuromancer by William Gibson today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kell Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easy Reader Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted May 19, 2011 Author Share Posted May 19, 2011 I've finished The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway today. Quite a nice read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted May 25, 2011 Author Share Posted May 25, 2011 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted May 29, 2011 Share Posted May 29, 2011 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted June 3, 2011 Author Share Posted June 3, 2011 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted June 9, 2011 Author Share Posted June 9, 2011 You guys crack me up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted August 27, 2011 Author Share Posted August 27, 2011 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraloves Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbyland1986 Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busy91 Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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