willoyd Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 (edited) Book List 2012 Previous book lists: 2009, 2010-2011 January 1. Ratking by Michael Dibdin (Jan 3) **** 2. Stone's Fall by Iain Pears (Jan 15) U ** 3. Alison Wonderland by Helen Smith (Jan 21) ** February 4. The Angel's Game by Carlos Luiz Zafon (Feb 2) ** 5. From Sea to Shining Sea by Gavin Young (Feb 11) **** 6. Keeping Up With the Germans by Philip Oltermann (Feb 12) *** 7. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (Feb 21) ***** March 8. Capital by John Lanchester (Mar 5) **** 9. Tom-All-Alone's by Lynn Shepherd (Mar 13) ***** 10. Almost French by Sarah Turnbull (Mar 17) **** April 11. A Brief History of Britain 1066-1485 by Nicholas Vincent (Apr 1) *** 12. The Family Tree by Carole Cadwalladr (Apr 4) *** 13. To The River by Olivia Laing (Apr 10) **** 14. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell (Apr 11) *** 15. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Apr 14) ***** 16. Blackout by John Lawton (Apr 20) **** 17. The Waves by Virginia Woolf (Apr 27) ***** May 18. Vendetta by Michael Dibdin (May 7) **** 19. Cakes and Ale by William Somerset Maugham (May 11) ***** 20. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (May 13) **** 21. Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch (May 21) ***** June 22. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Moby Dick by Gideon Defoe (Jun 1) * 23. Full Moon by PG Wodehouse (Jun 5) *** 24. The Final Act of Mr Shakespeare by Robert Winder (Jun 9) **** 25. Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch (Jun 24) **** 26. Pure by Andrew Miller (Jun 30) ****** July 27. Dam Busters by James Holland (Jul 12) ****** 28. The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller (Jul 16) *** 29. Moo by Jame Smiley (Jul 21) *** 30. L'Auberge by Julia Stagg (Jul 22) **** 31. Sky's The Limit by Richard Moore (Jul 24) *** 32. The Harlot's Press by Helen Pike (Jul 28) *** 33. The Parisian Returns by Julia Stagg (Jul 31) **** August 34. Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski (Aug 12) *** 35. The Warden by Anthony Trollope (Aug 22) R *** September 36. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope (Sep 10) R ***** October 37. Canada by Richard Ford (Oct 7) **** 38. An Honourable Man by Gillian Slovo (Oct 13) **** 39. My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell (Oct 21) *** 40. Ash by James Herbert (Oct 29) U * November 41. The Pinecone by Jenny Uglow (Nov 4) ****** 42. City of Fortune by Roger Crowley (Nov 18) ***** 43. Christine Falls by Benjamin Black (Nov 25) ** 44. The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Nov 28) ** December 45. The Lighthouse by Alison Moore (Dec 1) *** 46. Transgressions by Sarah Dunant (Dec 5) **** 47. Spell It Out by David Crystal (Dec 9) *** 48. The Return of John Macnab by Andrew Greig (Dec 10) R ****** 49. The Spire by William Golding (Dec 13) *** 50. The Sea Detective by Mark Douglas-Home (Dec 17) **** 51. Romanno Bridge by Andrew Greig (Dec 23) *** 52. The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M Boston (Dec 24) ***** 53. The Chimes by Charles Dickens (Dec 25) *** 54. Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Dec 25) ****** 55. The Bar on the Seine by Georges Simenon (Dec 26) *** 56. Summoned by Bells by John Betjeman (Dec 26) ***** 57. Liza of Lambeth by W Somerset Maugham (Dec 26) *** 58. The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd (Dec 27) ****(*) 59. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (Dec 28) **** A 60. Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf (Dec 30) ****** Ratings * Disliked intensely, almost certainly unfinished. ** Disappointing. Sometimes unfinished. *** Solid enjoyable read, but nothing I could get particularly excited about. **** A really good, involving read, hard to put down - recommended. ***** Excellent, unputdownable, with something a bit special about it. ****** An all-time favourite. U=unfinished, A=audiobook, R=reread Edited January 1, 2014 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted December 16, 2011 Author Share Posted December 16, 2011 (edited) 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 105 books read to start of 2011, 5 read in 2012. Total = 110 Pre-1700 1001. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus *** 1000. Metamorphoses – Ovid 999. Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton 998. Aithiopika – Heliodorus 997. The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius 996. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous 995. Gargantua and Pantagruel – François Rabelais 994. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly 993. The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe 992. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 991. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan 990. The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette 989. Oroonoko – Aphra Behn 1700s 988. A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift 987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe 986. Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood 985. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe ** 984. Roxana – Daniel Defoe 983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift 982. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift 981. Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding 980. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift 979. Pamela – Samuel Richardson 978. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson 977. Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett 976. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding 975. Fanny Hill – John Cleland 974. Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett 973. Amelia – Henry Fielding 972. The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox 971. Candide - Voltaire **** 970. Rasselas – Samuel Johnson 969. Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau 968. Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot 967. Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau 966. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole 965. The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith 964. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne 963. A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne 962. The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie 961. Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett 960. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 959. Evelina – Fanny Burney 958. Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau 957. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 956. Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau 955. Cecilia – Fanny Burney 954. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade 953. Vathek – William Beckford 952. Justine – Marquis de Sade 951. The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin 950. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano 949. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe 948. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 947. The Monk – M.G. Lewis (TBR) 946. Camilla – Fanny Burney 945. Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot 944. The Nun – Denis Diderot 943. Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin 1800s 942. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth 941. Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen ****** 939. The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth 938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen ****** 937. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen ***** 936. Emma – Jane Austen ****** 935. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott 934. Ormond – Maria Edgeworth 933. Persuasion – Jane Austen ***** 932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen ***** 931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 930. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott *** 929. The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott 928. Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin 927. The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin 926. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg 925. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper 924. The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni 923. The Red and the Black – Stendhal 922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo 921. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac 920. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac 919. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol 918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens ***** 917. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens 916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe 915. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal 914. Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol 913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens *** 912. Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac 911. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe 910. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens 909. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe 908. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 907. La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas 906. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas ***** 905. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray ****** 904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë ****** 903. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë 902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë ****** 901. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë 900. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell ***** 899. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë 898. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne 896. Moby Dick – Herman Melville ****** 895. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne 894. The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne 893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe 892. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell **** 891. Villette – Charlotte Brontë 890. Bleak House – Charles Dickens ****** 889. Walden – Henry David Thoreau 888. Hard Times – Charles Dickens 887. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell 886. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert ***** 885. Adam Bede – George Eliot 884. Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov 883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 882. Max Havelaar – Multatuli 881. The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne 880. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins ***** 879. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot 878. Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope 877. On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev 876. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens **** 875. Silas Marner – George Eliot *** 874. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev 873. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo 872. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley 871. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky 870. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu 869. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens 868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll **** 867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky 866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne*** 865. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope 864. Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola 863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott *** 862. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins **** 861. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky (TBR) 860. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont 859. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope 858. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert 857. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy ****** 856. He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope 855. King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev 854. 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 **** 824. Germinal – Émile Zola 823. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard 822. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson ****** 821. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy 820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson **** 819. She – H. Rider Haggard 818. The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy 817. The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg 816. Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés 815. Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant 814. The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson 813. Hunger – Knut Hamsun 812. By the Open Sea – August Strindberg 811. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola **** 810. The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy 809. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde *** 808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 807. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf 806. New Grub Street – George Gissing 805. News from Nowhere – William Morris 804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ***** 803. Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith * 802. Born in Exile – George Gissing 801. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman 800. The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross 799. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 798. Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane 797. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells 796. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells 795. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz 794. Dracula – Bram Stoker **** 793. Fruits of the Earth – André Gide 792. What Maisie Knew – Henry James 791. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells 790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells 789. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James 788. The Awakening – Kate Chopin 787. The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane 786. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross 1900s 785. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad 784. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser 783. Kim – Rudyard Kipling 782. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann 781. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle **** 780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 779. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James 778. The Immoralist – André Gide 777. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers ****** 776. The Ambassadors – Henry James 775. The Golden Bowl – Henry James 774. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe 773. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad 772. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster 771. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann 770. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton 769. The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy 768. Young Törless – Robert Musil 767. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair 766. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad 765. Mother – Maxim Gorky 764. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson 763. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett 762. The Iron Heel – Jack London 761. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster ***** 760. The Inferno – Henri Barbusse 759. Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells 758. Strait is the Gate – André Gide 757. Martin Eden – Jack London 756. Three Lives – Gertrude Stein 755. Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel 754. Howards End – E.M. Forster 753. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre 752. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton 751. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens 750. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann 749. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence 748. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell 747. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs 746. Rosshalde – Herman Hesse 745. Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel 744. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki 743. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan **** 742. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence 741. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham 740. The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf 739. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford 738. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke 737. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse 736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce 735. Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton 734. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen 733. Summer – Edith Wharton 732. The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad 731. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West 730. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis 729. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf 728. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence 727. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis 726. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton 725. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley 724. The Fox – D.H. Lawrence 723. Ulysses – James Joyce 722. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis 721. Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence 720. The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus 719. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair 718. The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton 717. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse 716. Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf ***** 715. The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings 714. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield 713. Amok – Stefan Zweig 712. Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley 711. Cane – Jean Toomer 710. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo 709. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet 708. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster 707. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin 706. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann 705. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen 704. Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville 703. The Professor’s House – Willa Cather 702. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky 701. The Trial – Franz Kafka 700. The Counterfeiters – André Gide 699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald ** 698. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf ****** 697. Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos 696. The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein 695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie *** 694. One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello 693. The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence 692. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek 691. The Castle – Franz Kafka 690. Blindness – Henry Green 689. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway 688. Amerika – Franz Kafka 687. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson 686. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf ****** 685. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust 684. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse 683. Nadja – André Breton 682. Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford 681. Quicksand – Nella Larsen 680. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh 679. Quartet – Jean Rhys 678. The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis 677. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall 676. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence * 675. Orlando – Virginia Woolf **** 674. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille 673. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe 672. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau 671. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner 670. Harriet Hume – Rebecca West 669. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen 668. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin 667. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque ** 666. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia 665. Living – Henry Green 664. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett 663. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway 662. Passing – Nella Larsen 661. Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico 660. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett *** 659. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh 658. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning 657. The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis 656. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham ***** 655. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett 654. The Waves – Virginia Woolf ***** 653. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth 652. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett 651. To the North – Elizabeth Bowen 650. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons ***** 649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 648. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline 647. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon 646. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil 645. A Day Off – Storm Jameson 644. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain 643. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein (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 614. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen) 613. The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis 612. In Parenthesis – David Jones 611. The Years – Virginia Woolf ****** 610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien *** 609. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston 608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 607. Murphy – Samuel Beckett 606. U.S.A. – John Dos Passos 605. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene 604. Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler 603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier 602. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre 601. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson ***** 600. After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner 599. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler **** 598. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys 597. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller 596. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood 595. Coming Up for Air – George Orwell 594. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien 593. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce 592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 591. Party Going – Henry Green 590. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati 589. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene 588. Native Son – Richard Wright 587. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway 586. Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler **** 585. The Hamlet – William Faulkner 584. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf 583. Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton 582. The Living and the Dead – Patrick White 581. The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien 580. Conversations in Sicily – Elio Vittorini 579. The Outsider – Albert Camus * 578. Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner 577. Embers – Sandor Marai 576. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse 575. Caught – Henry Green 574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 573. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow 572. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges 571. Transit – Anna Seghers 570. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham 569. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi 568. Arcanum 17 – André Breton 567. Loving – Henry Green 566. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford ***** 565. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck 564. Animal Farm – George Orwell **** 563. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 562. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andric 561. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake 560. Back – Henry Green 559. The Plague – Albert Camus ** 558. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino 557. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry 556. If This Is a Man – Primo Levi 555. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau 554. The Victim – Saul Bellow 553. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann 552. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton 551. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene 550. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot 549. Disobedience – Alberto Moravia 548. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani 547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell * 546. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren 545. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier 544. The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen 543. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge 542. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford ***** 541. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk 540. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese 539. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov *** 538. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing 537. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake 536. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber 535. The Third Man – Graham Greene 534. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz 533. The Abbot C – Georges Bataille 532. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene 531. Molloy – Samuel Beckett 530. The Rebel – Albert Camus 529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger 528. The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq 527. Foundation – Isaac Asimov **** 526. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham 525. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett 524. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar 523. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson 522. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor 521. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway *** 520. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison 519. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt 518. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming 517. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin 516. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow 515. Junkie – William Burroughs 514. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis 513. Watt – Samuel Beckett 512. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett 511. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler 510. The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley ** 509. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch 508. Lord of the Flies – William Golding **** 507. A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia 506. The Story of O – Pauline 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 ****** 493. The Floating Opera – John Barth 492. Seize the Day – Saul Bellow 491. The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary 490. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon 489. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin 488. Justine – Lawrence Durrell * 487. The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber 486. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak 485. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov 484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac 483. Homo Faber – Max Frisch 482. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille 481. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham 480. Voss – Patrick White 479. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet 478. The Bell – Iris Murdoch 477. The Once and Future King – T.H. White 476. The End of the Road – John Barth 475. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan 474. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico 473. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe 472. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe 471. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon 470. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 469. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe 468. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote 466. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll 465. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark 464. Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow 463. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes 462. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass 461. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs 460. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse 459. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee 458. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary 457. Rabbit, Run – John Updike 456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee ****** 455. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien 454. Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino 453. How It Is – Samuel Beckett 452. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor 451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller 450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark **** 449. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass 448. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem 447. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame 446. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch 445. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger 444. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein 443. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani 442. Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien 441. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges 440. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing 439. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard 438. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov 437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess 436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey 435. The Collector – John Fowles 434. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (TBR) 433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 432. Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess 431. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark 430. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le 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 412. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth 411. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys 410. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras 409. The Magus – John Fowles 408. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote 407. Trawl – B.S. Johnson 406. The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West 405. A Man Asleep – Georges Perec 404. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien 403. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson 402. The Joke – Milan Kundera 401. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson 400. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov **** 399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez 398. The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa 397. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe 396. Chocky – John Wyndham 395. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf 394. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines 393. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan 392. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz 391. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry 390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick 389. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke *** 388. The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 387. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn 386. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen 385. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch 384. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal 383. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen 382. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec 381. Them – Joyce Carol Oates 380. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov 379. The Godfather – Mario Puzo *** 378. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth 377. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis 376. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles 375. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr * 374. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines 373. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover 372. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado 371. The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard 370. Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson 369. Troubles – J.G. Farrell 368. Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett 367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou 366. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke 365. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison 364. The Ogre – Michael Tournier 363. The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark 362. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima 361. Rabbit Redux – John Updike 360. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs 359. Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll 358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson 357. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow 356. In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul 355. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson 354. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood 353. G – John Berger 352. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson 351. The Breast – Philip Roth 350. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino 349. Sula – Toni Morrison 348. The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch 347. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon 346. The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene 345. Crash – J.G. Ballard 344. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino 343. The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell 342. A Question of Power – Bessie Head 341. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong 340. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le 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 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 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 57. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker 256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera 255. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter 254. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 253. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard 252. The Lover – Marguerite Duras 251. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago 250. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman 249. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi? 248. Legend – David Gemmell 247. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd ****** 246. Queer – William Burroughs 245. White Noise – Don DeLillo 244. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard 243. Perfume – Patrick Süskind 242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 241. Contact – Carl Sagan 240. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis 239. A Maggot – John Fowles 238. The Cider House Rules – John Irving 237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson 236. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez 235. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann 234. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel 233. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi 232. Foe – J.M. Coetzee 231. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard 230. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro 229. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt 228. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis 227. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons 226. Marya – Joyce Carol Oates 225. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o 224. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore 223. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae 222. Beloved – Toni Morrison ) 221. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul 220. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle 219. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster 218. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe 217. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews 216. The Child in Time – Ian McEwan 215. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind 214. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson 213. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy 212. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke 211. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble 210. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams **** 209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams**** 208. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga 207. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks 206. Libra – Don DeLillo 205. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey 204. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst 203. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie 202. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson 201. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White 200. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco 199. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood 198. The Book of Evidence – John Banville 197. London Fields – Martin Amis 196. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving 195. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel 194. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago 193. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway 192. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker 191. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai 190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro **** 189. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow 188. Moon Palace – Paul Auster 187. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson 186. A Disaffection – James Kelman 185. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle 184. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi 183. Possession – A.S. Byatt 182. Like Life – Lorrie Moore 181. A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham 180. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien 179. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster 178. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge 177. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald 176. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon 175. Amongst Women – John McGahern 174. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard 173. Wise Children – Angela Carter 172. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres 171. Downriver – Iain Sinclair 170. Regeneration – Pat Barker 169. Typical – Padgett Powell 168. Mao II – Don DeLillo 167. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis 166. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis 165. Wild Swans – Jung Chang 164. Arcadia – Jim Crace 163. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud 162. Black Dogs – Ian McEwan 161. Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) 160. The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín 159. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates 158. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe 157. 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 **** 152. Indigo – Marina Warner 151. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker 150. A Heart So White – Javier Marias 149. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch 148. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar 147. The Secret History – Donna Tartt 146. The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald 145. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood 144. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd 143. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides 142. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields 141. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth ****** 140. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe 139. On Love – Alain de Botton 138. Complicity – Iain Banks 137. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth 136. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy 135. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh 133. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx 132. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm 131. Disappearance – David Dabydeen 130. Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor 129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres 128. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman 127. City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol 126. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi 125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami 124. The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee 123. Land – Park Kyong-ni 122. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq 121. The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst 120. Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster 119. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis 118. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose 117. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 116. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink * 115. The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald ** 114. Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth 113. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie 112. The Information – Martin Amis 111. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner 110. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro 109. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood 108. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin 107. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace 106. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse 105. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker 104. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels 103. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker 102. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard 101. Silk – Alessandro Baricco 100. The Untouchable – John Banville 99. American Pastoral – Philip Roth 98. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin 97. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey 96. Underworld – Don DeLillo 95. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan * 94. Great Apes – Will Self 93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 92. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy 91. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon 90. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho 89. The Hours – Michael Cunningham ****** 88. Another World – Pat Barker 87. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis 86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver 85. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters (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 67. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski 66. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard 65. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande 64. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami 63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood 62. The Human Stain – Philip Roth 61. How the Dead Live – Will Self 60. City of God – E.L. Doctorow 59. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy 58. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace 57. Ignorance – Milan Kundera 56. Under the Skin – Michel Faber 55. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda 54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith 53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare 52. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho 51. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma 50. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa 49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel ***** 48. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk 47. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill 46. Fury – Salman Rushdie 45. The Body Artist – Don DeLillo 44. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini 43. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen 42. Atonement – Ian McEwan 41. Schooling – Heather McGowan 40. Platform – Michael Houellebecq 39. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald 38. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi 37. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster 36. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon 35. Dead Air – Iain Banks 34. Youth – J.M. Coetzee 33. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides *** 32. Shroud – John Banville 31. In the Forest – Edna O’Brien 30. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern 29. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor ***** 28. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami 27. Unless – Carol Shields 26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer 25. The Double – José Saramago 24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters 23. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry 22. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair 21. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee 20. Islands – Dan Sleigh 19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon ****** 18. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt 17. The Light of Day – Graham Swift 16. Thursbitch – Alan Garner 15. The Colour – Rose Tremain 14. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle 13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell 12. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair 11. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd ***** 10. Vanishing Point – David Markson 9. The Master – Colm Tóibín 8. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth 7. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble 6. The Sea – John Banville 5. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson 4. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee 3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith 2. Saturday – Ian McEwan 1. 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willoyd Posted December 22, 2011 Author Share Posted December 22, 2011 (edited) 501 Must Read Books 75 Books read to date (October 2012). CHILDREN'S FICTION 01. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott 02. Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen 03. Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie 04. The Wonderful World of Oz – L. Frank Baum 05. The Last Unicorn – Peter S. Beagle 06. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 07. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 08. Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi 09. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 10. Sophie's World – Jostein Gaarder 11. The Weirdstone of Brisingamen – Alan Garner 12. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 13. Children's and Household Tales – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 14. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon 15. Emil and the Detectives – Erich Kästner 16. Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling 17. The Complete Nonsense Books – Edward Lear 18. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L'Engle 19. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis 20. Pippi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren 21. Dr Dolittle – Hugh Lofting 22. At the Back of the North Wind – George Macdonald 23. Nobody's Boy – Hector Malot 24. Winnie-the-Pooh – A.A. Milne 25. Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery 26. Five Children and It – E. Nesbit 27. Tom's Midnight Garden – Philippa Pearce 28. The War of the Buttons – Louis Pergaud 29. Fairy Tales – Charles Perrault 30. The Tale of Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter 31. The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett 32. Northern Lights – Philip Pullman 33. Swallows and amazons – Arthur Ransome 34. Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang – Mordecai Richler 35. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone – J.K. Rowling 36. The King of the Golden River – John Ruskin 37. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery 38. The Human Comedy – William Saroyan 39. The Misfortunes of Sophie – Comtesse de Segur 40. Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak 41. And To Think That I Saw It On Mulburry Street – Dr Seuss 42. Black Beauty – Anna Sewell 43. The Golem – Isaac Bashevis Singer 44. Heidi – Johanna Spyri 45. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson 46. The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien 47. Mary Poppins – P.L. Travers 48. Charlotte's Web – E.B. White 49. The Sword in the Stone – T.H. White 50 .Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm – Kate Douglas Wiggin 51. The Happy Prince and Other Tales – Oscar Wilde CLASSIC FICTION 52. The Epic of Gilgamesh – Anonymous 53. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous 54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55. Old Goriot – Honoré de Balzac 56. Vathek: an Arabian Tale – William Beckford 57. Lady Audley's Secret – Mary Elisabeth Braddon 58. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë 59. Wuthering Heights – Emil Brontë 60. The Pilgrim's Progress – John Bunyan 61. The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer 62. The Collected Stories – Anton Chekhov 63. The Man Who Was Thursday – G.K. Chesterton 64. Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure – John Cleland 65. The Moonstone: a Romance – Wilkie Collins 66. The Hound of Baskerville – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 67. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 68. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe 69. The Christmas Books – Charles Dickens 70. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens 71. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 72. Middlemarch: A Study in Provincial Life – George Eliot 73. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding 74. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald 75. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 76. Howards End – E.M. Forster 77. North and South – Elisabeth Gaskell 78. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 79. The Vicar of Wakefiled – Oliver Goldsmith 80. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene 81. King Solomon's Mines – H. Rider Haggard 82. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 83. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne 84. Moby Dick – Herman Melville 85. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James 86. The Iliad – Homer 87. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo 88. Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome 89. Kim – Rudyard Kipling 90. Bliss and Other Stories – Katherine Mansfield 91. Utopia – Sir Thomas More 92. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque – Edgar Alan Poe 93. In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust 94. A Silician Romance – Anne Radcliffe 95. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson 96. Waverley – Sir Walter Scott 97. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley 98. The Red and the Black – Stendhal 99. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson 100. Dracula – Bram Stoker 101. Gulliver's Travels – Jonathan Swift 102. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thakeray 103. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 104. Barchester Towers – Anthony Trollope 105. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain 106. Candide, or Optimism – Voltaire 107. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole 108. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton 109. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde 110. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf 111. La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola HISTORY 112. London The Biography – Peter Ackroyd 113. Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life – John Lee Anderson 114. The Hour of Our Death – Philippe Aries 115. Berlin The Downfall – Antony Beevor 116. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II – Fernand Braudel 117. The Pleasures of Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century – John Brewer 118. Frozen Desire: An Enquiry Into the Meaning of Money – James Buchan 119. Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives – Alan Bullock 120. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy – Jacob Burckhardt 121. Daily Life in Ancient Rome – Jerome Carcopino 122. The Accursed Kings – Maurice Druon 123. The Age of the Cathedrals – Georges Duby 124. The Stripping of the Altars – Eamon Duffy 125. Rites of Spring – Modris Eksteins 126. The Wretched of the Earth – Franz Fanon 127. Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire – Niall Ferguson 128. Millennium – Felipe Fernández-Armesto 129. Pagans and Christians – Robin Lane Fox 130. The End of History and the Last Man – Francis Fukuyama 131. The Naked Heart – Peter Gay 132. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbon 133. The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy – Martin Gilbert 134. The Cheese and the Worms – Carlo Ginzburg 135. God's First Love – Friedrich Heer 136. Histories – Herodotus 137. Hiroshima – John Hersey 138. The Fatal Shore – Robert Hughes 139. Pandaemonium – Humphrey Jennings 140. A History of Warfare – John Keegan 141. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies – Bartolomé de las Casas 142. Seven Pillars of Wisdom – Thomas Edwards Lawrence 143. Islam in History – Bernard Lewis 144. Chinese Shadows – Simon Leys 145. The Crusades through Arab Eyes – Amin Maalouf 146. The Defeat of the Spanish Armada – Garrett Mattingly 147. The Story of English – Robert Mccrum, William Cran, Robert Macneil 148. The Ornament of the World – Maria Rosa Menocal 149. The Women's History of the World – Rosalind Miles 150. Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire – Jan Morris 151. Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade – Henri Pirenne 152. Parallel Lives – Plutarch 153. Flesh in the Age of Reason – Roy Porter 154. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution – Simon Schama 155. Leviathan and the Air-Pump – Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer 156. The Decline of the West – Oswald Spengler 157. The Trial of Socrates – Isador Stone 158. Annals of Imperial Rome – Tacitus 159. The Origins of the Second World War – A.J.P. Taylor 160. A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous 14th Century – Barbara M. Tuchman 161. A People's History of the United States – Howard Zinn MEMOIRS 162. Paula – Isabel Allende 163. Journal Intime – Henri-Frédéric Amiel 164. Aubrey's Brief Lives – John Aubrey 165. Confessions – Augustine 166. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter – Simone de Beauvoir 167. My Left Foot – Christy Brown 168. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini – Benvenuto Cellini 169.The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus – Cyril Connolly 170. Boy: Tales of Childhood – Roald Dahl 171. My Family and Other Animals – Gerald Durrell 172. An Angel at my Table – Janet Frame 173. The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank 174. Journals 1889-1949 – Andre Paul Guillaume Gide 175. Poetry and Truth: From My Own Life – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 176. Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments – Edmund Gosse 177. Ways of Escape – Graham Greene 178. Black Like Me – John Howard Griffin 179. 84, Charing Cross Road – Helene Hanff 180. Pentimento – Lillian Hellman 181. Childhood, Youth and Exile – Alexander Herzen 182. The Diary of Alice James – Alice James 183. Memoirs, Dreams, Reflections – Carl Gustav Jung 184. Diaries 1919-23 – Franz Kafka 185. The Story of My Life – Helen Keller 186. The Book of Margery Kempe – Margery Kempe 187. I Will Bear Witness – Victor Klemperer 188. In the Castle of My Skin – George Lamming 189. A Grief Observed – C.S. Lewis 190. The Towers of Trebizond – Rose Macauley 191. Journal of Katherine Mansfield – Katherine Mansfield 192. The Seven Storey Mountain – Thomas Merton 193. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford 194. Borrowed Time – Paul Monette 195. My Place – Sally Morgan 196. Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited – Vladimir Nabokov 197. Reading Lolita in Teheran: A Memoir in Books – Azar Nafisi 198. Memoirs – Pablo Neruda 199. Portrait of a Marriage – Nigel Nicolson 200. Running in the Family – Michael Ondaatje 201. Down an Out in Paris and London – George Orwell 202. Autobiography of a Yogi – Paramahansa Yogananda 203. Diary – Samuel Pepys 204. Letters – Pliny The Younger 205. Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau 206. Words – Jean-Paul Sartre 207. Journal of a Solitude – May Sarton 208. Walden – Henry David Thoreau 209. De Profundis – Oscar Wilde 210. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson 211. Autobiographies – William Butler Yeats MODERN FICTION 212. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe 213. Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands – Jorge Amado 214. Le Grand Meaulnes – Alain-Fournier 215. Take a Girl Like You – Kingsley Amis 216. Winesburg, Ohio – Sherwood Anderson 217. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood 218. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster 219. Tales of Odessa – Isaak Babel 220. Giovanni's Room – James Baldwin 221. The Sweet Hereafter – Russell Banks 222. The Regeneration Trilogy – Pat Barker 223. Herzog – Saul Bellow 224. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges 225. Nadja – André Breton 226. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov 227. The Naked Lunch – William Burroughs 228. Possession – A.S. Byatt 229. If On a Winter's Night a Traveller – Italo Calvino 230. The Outsider – Albert Camus 231. Auto da Fé – Elias Canetti 232. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey 233. The Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier 234. The Bloody Chamber – Angela Carter 235. What We Talk about When We Talk about Love – Raymond Carver 236. The Horse's Mouse – Joyce Carey 237. Journey to the End of Night – Louis-Ferdinand Celine 238. Soldier of Salamis – Javier Cercas 239. The Stories of John Cheever – John Cheever 240. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee 241. Chéri – Colette 242. Victory – Joseph Conrad 243. A House and Its Head – Ivy Compton-Burnett 244. Fifth Business – William Robertson Davies 245. Captain Corelli's Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres 246. Underworld – Don Delillo 247. Seven Gothic Tales – Isak Dinesen ( also known as Karen Blixen ) 248. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Doblin 249. Once Were Warriors – Alan Duff 250. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 251. The Lover – Marguerite Duras 252. The Alexandria Quartet – Lawrence George Durrell 253. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco 254. The Neverending Story – Michael Ende 255. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner 256. The Wars – Timothy Findley 257. The Good Soldier – Ford Maddox Ford 258. Wildlife – Richard Ford 259. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster 260. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen 261. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 262. The Blue Flower – Penelope Fitzgerald 263. From the Fifteenth District – Mavis Gallant 264. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez 265. Our Lady of the Flowers – Jean Genet 266. Lord of the Flies – William Golding 267. July's People – Nadine Gordimer 268. FerdyDurke – Witold Gombrowicz 269. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass 270. Hunger – Knut Hamsun 271. The Blind Owl – Sadegh Hedayat 272. The Old Man and the Sea – Earnest Hemingway 273. The Glass Bead Game – Hermann Hesse 274. Lost Horizon – James Hilton 275. A High Wind in Jamaica – Richard Hughes 276. The World According to Garp – John Irving 277. Berlin Stories – Christopher Isherwood 278. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 279. Ulysses – James Joyce 280. The File on H – Ismail Kadare 281. The Trial – Franz Kafka 282. It – Stephen King 283. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera 284. The Leopard – Guiseppe Di Lampedusa 285. The Diviners – Margaret Laurence 286. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence 287. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing 288. The Periodic Table – Primo Levi 289. Changing Places – David Lodge 290. The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas – J.M. Machado de Assis 291. The Cairo Trilogy – Naguib Mahfouz 292. The Executioner's Song – Norman Mailer 293. God's Grace – Bernard Malamud 294. An Imaginary Life – David Malouf 295. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann 296. Embers – Sándor Márai 297. Life of Pi – Yann Martel 298. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham 299. The Group – Mary McCarthy 300. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers 301. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan 302. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima 303. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 304. Cold Heaven – Brian Moore 305. Beloved – Toni Morrison 306. The Progress of Love – Alice Munro 307. The Sea, the Sea – Iris Murdoch 308. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 309. A House for Mr Biswas – V.S. Naipaul 310. The Third Policeman – Flann O'Brian 311. A Good Man is Hard to Find – Flannery O'Connor 312. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje 313. Where the Jackals Howl – Amos Oz 314. The Messiah of Stockholm – Cynthia Ozick 315. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake 316. Mr. Weston's Good Wine – T.F. Powys 317. The Nephew – James Purdy 318. Interview with the Vampire – Anne Rice 319. Barney's Version – Mordecai Richler 320. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe 321. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth 322. The Human Stain – Philip Roth 323. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie 324. Pedro Páramo – Juan Rulfo 325. Bonjour Tristesse – Francoise Sagan 326. Short Stories – Saki 327. Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger 328. Staying On – Paul Scott 329. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald 330. Last Exit to Brooklyn – Hubert Selby Jr. 331. Unless – Carol Shields 332. The Magician of Lublin – Isaac Bashevis Singer 333. The Engineer of Human Souls – Josef Skvorecky 334. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark 335. The Man Who Loved Children – Christina Stead 336. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 337. Sophie's Choice – William Styron 338. Perfume – Patrick Süskind 339. The Confessions of Zeno – Italo Svevo 340. Declares Pereira – Antonio Tabucchi 341. The White Hotel – D.M. Thomas 342. The Master – Colm Toibin 343. Felicia's Journey – William Trevor 344. The Palm-Wine Drinkard – Amos Tutuola 345. The Accidental Tourist – Anne Tyler 346. Couples – John Updike 347. The Time of the Hero – Mario Vargas Llosa 348. In Praise of Older Women – Stephen Vizinczey 349. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 350. Voss – Patrick White 351. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar SCIENCE FICTION 352. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Noel Adams 353. Hothouse – Brian Aldiss 354. Brain Wave – Poul Anderson 355. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov 356. The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood 357. The Crystal World – J.G. Ballard 358. The Demolished Man – Alfred Bester 359. Who Goes There – John W. Campbell 360. The Invention of Moral – Adolfo Bioy Casares 361. Planet of the Apes – Pierre Boule 362. The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury 363. The Sheep Look Up – John Brunner 364. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess 365. Erewhon – Samuel Butler 366. Cosmicomics – Italo Calvino 367. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke 368. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder – James De Mille 369. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch – Philip K. Dick 370. To Your Scattered Bodies Go – Philip Jose Farmer 371. Neuromancer – William Gibson 372. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert A. Heinlein 373. Dune – Frank Herbert 374. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 375. Two Planets – Kurd Lasswitz 376. Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin 377. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem 378. Shikasta – Doris Lessing 379. Stepford Wives – Ira Levin 380. Out of the Silent Planet – C.S. Lewis 381. I Am Legend – Richard Matheson 382. Dwellers in the Mirage – Abraham Merritt 383. A Canticle for Leibowitz – Walter Miller 384. Ringworld – Larry Niven 385. Time Traders – Andre Norton 386. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell 387. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket – Edgar Allan Poe 388. The Inverted World – Christopher Priest 389. The Green Child – Herbert Read 390. The Laxian Key – Robert Sheckley 391. City – Clifford D. Simak 392. Donovan's Brain – Curt Siodmak 393. Lest Darkness Fall – L. Sprague De Camp 394. Last and First Men – Olaf Stapledon 395. More than Human – Theodore Sturgeon 396. Slan – A.E. Van Vogt 397. A Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne 398. Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade – Kurt Vonnegut 399. The Island of Dr Moreau – H.G. Wells 400. Islandia – Aistin Tappan Wright 401. The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham THRILLERS 402. More Work for the Undertaker – Margery Allingham 403. Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly – John Franklin Bardin 404. Trent's Last Case – E.C. Bentley 405. Trial and Error – Anthony Berkeley 406. The Poisoned Chocolates Case – Anthony Berkeley 407. The Beast Must Die – Nicholas Blake 408. Psycho – Robert Bloch 409. Double Indemnity – James Cain 410. Thus Was Adonis Murdered – Sarah Caudwell 411. Farewell, My Lovely – Raymond Chandler 412. No Orchids for Miss Blandish – James Hadley Chase 413. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie 414. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 415. Unnatural Exposure – Patricia Cornwell 416.The Moving Toyshop – Edmund Crispin 417. In the Last Analysis – Amanda Cross 418. Rose at Ten – Marco Denevi 419. Vendetta – Michael Dibdin 420. The Glass-sided Ants' Nest – Peter Dickinson 421. He Who Whispers – John Dickson Carr 422. The Big Clock – Kenneth Fearing 423. Blood Sport – Dick Francis 424. Quiet as a Nun – Lady Antonia Fraser 425. The Sunday Woman – Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini 426. Death in the Wrong Room – Anthony Gilbert 427. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett 428. Suicide Excepted – Cyril Hare 429. Bones and Silence – Reginald Hill 430. A Rage in Harlem – Chester Himes 431. Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow – Peter Hoeg 432. Malice Aforethought – Francis Iles 433. Hamlet, Revenge! - Michael Innes 434. The Murder Room – P.D. James 435. The Sleeping-Car Murders – Sebastien Japrisot 436. Death of My Aunt – C.H.B. Kitchin 437. The Spy Who Came In From the Cold – John Le Carre 438. The Mystery of the Yellow Room – Caston Leroux 439. The Last Detective – Peter Lovesey 440. Final Curtain – Ngaio Marsh 441. An Oxford Tragedy – J.C. Masterman 442. The Steam Pig – James McClure 443. The Seven Per Cent Solution – Nicholas Meyer 444 .The Red House Mystery – A.A. Milne 446. A Red Death – Walter Mosley 447. Deadlock – Sara Paretsky 448. Dover One – Joyce Porter 449. The Chinese Orange Mystery – Ellery Queen 450. The Man in the Net – Patrick Quentin 451. A Judgement in Stone – Ruth Rendell 452. Gaudy Night – Dorothy L. Sayers 453. Mr Hire's Engagement – Georges Simeon 454. The Laughing Policeman – Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö 455. The Red Box – Rex Stout 456. The Man Who Killed Himself – Julian Symons 457. A Pin to See the Peep-Show – F. Tennyson Jesse 458. The Daughter of Time – Josephine Tey 459. Above the Dark Circus – Sir Hugh Walpole 460. Born Victim – Hillary Waugh 461. The Bride Wore Black – Cornell Woolrich TRAVEL WRITING 462. Travels – Ibn Battuta 463. The Scorpion-Fish – Nicholas Bouvier 464. The Road to Oxiana – Robert Byron 465. In Patagonia – Bruce Charles Chatwin 466. The Voyage on HMS Beagle – Charles Darwin 467. My Journey to Lhasa – Alexandra David-Neel 468. On the Narrow Road to the Deep North – Lesley Downer 469. The Traveller's Tree – Patrick Leigh Fermor 470. Seven Years in Tibet – Heinrich Harrer 471. Kon Tiki – Thor Heyerdahl 472. The Purple Land – W.H. Hudson 473. The Last Place on Earth – Roland Huntford 474. Video Night in Kathmandu – Pico Iyer 475. Journey to the Hebrides – Samuel Johnson, James Boswell 476. Eothen – A.W. Kinglake 477. The Seasick Whale – Emphraim Kishon 478. A Rose for Winter – Laurie Lee 479. Golden Earth: Travels in Burma – Norman Lewis 480. Arctic Dreams – Barry Lopez 482. The Danube – Claudio Magris 483. The Snow Leopard – Peter Matthiessen 484. Destinations – Jan Morris 485. Never Cry Wolf – Farley Mowat 486. Among the Believers: an Islamic Journey – V.S. Naipaul 487. A short Walk in the Hindu Kush – Eric Newby 488. Roads to Santiago – Cees Nooteboom 489. La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West – Francis Parkman 490. Into the Heart of Borneo – Raymond O'Hanlon 491. The Travels – Marco Polo 492. Dead Man's Chest: Travels after Robert Louis Stevenson – Nicholas Rankin 493. Sailing Alone Around the World – Joshua Slocum 494. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile – J.H. Speke 495. Travels with Charley: In Search of America – John Steinbeck 496. Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes – Robert Louis Stevenson 497. The Valley of the Assassins and Other Persian Travels – Freya Stark 498. The Great Railway Bazaar – Paul Theroux 499. Southern Cross to Pole Star – A.F. Tschiffely 500. A Tramp Abroad – Mark Twain 501. On Fiji Islands – Ronald Wright Edited October 21, 2012 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted December 26, 2011 Author Share Posted December 26, 2011 (edited) BBC Top 200 list 78 out of 187 read to date (with all those Jacqueline Wilsons the 200 will never be completed - have crossed out those I will definitely not be reading. Am not sure about all those Terry Pratchetts either!). 01. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien 02. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 03. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman 04. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 05. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling 06. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 07. Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne 08. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 09. The Lion by the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis 10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 11. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 12. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 13. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 14. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 15. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger 16. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 17. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 18. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres 20. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 21. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling 23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets by JK Rowling 24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban by JK Rowling 25. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien 26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 27. Middlemarch by George Eliot 28. A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving 29. The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck 30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson 32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 33. The Pillars Of The Earth by Ken Follett 34. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl 36. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 37. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute 38. Persuasion by Jane Austen 39. Dune by Frank Herbert 40. Emma by Jane Austen 41. Anne Of Green Gables by LM Montgomery 42. Watership Down by Richard Adams 43. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald 44. The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 45. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 46. Animal Farm by George Orwell 47. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 48. Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 49. Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian 50. The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher 51. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 52. Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck 53. The Stand by Stephen King 54. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 55. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth 56. The BFG by Roald Dahl 57. Swallows And Amazons by Arthur Ransome 58. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell 59. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer 60. Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 61. Noughts And Crosses by Malorie Blackman 62. Memoirs Of A Geisha by Arthur Golden 63. A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 64. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCollough 65. Mort by Terry Pratchett 66. The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton 67. The Magus by John Fowles 68. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman 69. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett 70. Lord Of The Flies by William Golding 71. Perfume by Patrick Süskind 72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell 73. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett 74. Matilda by Roald Dahl 75. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding 76. The Secret History by Donna Tartt 77. The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins 78. Ulysses by James Joyce 79. Bleak House by Charles Dickens 80. Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson 81. The Twits by Roald Dahl 82. I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith 83. Holes by Louis Sachar 84. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake 85. The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 86. Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson 87. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 88. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 89. Magician by Raymond E Feist 90. On The Road by Jack Kerouac 91. The Godfather by Mario Puzo 92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear by Jean M Auel 93. The Colour Of Magic by Terry Pratchett 94. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 95. Katherine by Anya Seton 96. Kane And Abel by Jeffrey Archer 97. Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez 98. Girls In Love by Jacqueline Wilson 99. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot 100. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie 101. Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome 102. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett 103. The Beach by Alex Garland 104. Dracula by Bram Stoker 105. Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz 106. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens 107. Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz 108. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks 109. The Day Of The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth 110. The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson 111. Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy 112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend 113. The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat 114. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 116. The Dare Game by Jacqueline Wilson 117. Bad Girls by Jacqueline Wilson 118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 119. Shogun by James Clavell 120. The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham 121. Lola Rose by Jacqueline Wilson 122. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 123. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy 124. House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 125. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 126. Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett 127. Angus Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison 128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 129. Possession by A. S. Byatt 130. The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 131. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 132. Danny The Champion Of The World by Roald Dahl 133. East Of Eden by John Steinbeck 134. George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl 135. Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett 136. The Color Purple by Alice Walker 137. Hogfather by Terry Pratchett 138. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan 139. Girls In Tears by Jacqueline Wilson 140. Sleepovers by Jacqueline Wilson 141. All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum by Kate Atkinson 143. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 144. It by Stephen King 145. James And The Giant Peach by Roald Dahl 146. The Green Mile by Stephen King 147. Papillon by Henri Charriere 148. Men At Arms by Terry Pratchett 149. Master And Commander by Patrick O'Brian 150. Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz 151. Soul Music by Terry Pratchett 152. Thief Of Time by Terry Pratchett 153. The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett 154. Atonement by Ian McEwan 155. Secrets by Jacqueline Wilson 156. The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier 157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 158. Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 159. Kim by Rudyard Kipling 160. Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon 161. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 162. River God by Wilbur Smith 163. Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon 164. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx 165. The World According To Garp by John Irving 166. Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore 167. Girls Out Late by Jacqueline Wilson 168. The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye 169. The Witches by Roald Dahl 170. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White 171. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 172. They Used To Play On Grass by Terry Venables and Gordon Williams 173. The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway 174. The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco 175. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder 176. Dustbin Baby by Jacqueline Wilson 177. Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl 178. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull by Richard Bach 180. The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery 181. The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson 182. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 183. The Power Of One by Bryce Courtenay 184. Silas Marner by George Eliot 185. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis 186. The Diary Of A Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith 187. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh 188. Goosebumps by R. L. Stine 189. Heidi by Johanna Spyri 190. Sons And Lovers by D. H. LawrenceLife of Lawrence 191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 192. Man And Boy by Tony Parsons 193. The Truth by Terry Pratchett 194. The War Of The Worlds by H. G. Wells 195. The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans 196. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry 197. Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett 198. The Once And Future King by T. H. White 199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle 200. Flowers In The Attic by Virginia Andrews Edited April 21, 2012 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted December 26, 2011 Author Share Posted December 26, 2011 (edited) The Ultimate Teen Book Guide Many thanks to Lauraloves for all the work on this one. 739 books, and 27 series = 766 115 read: 15% 1066 and all that - W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear - Walter Moers 52 Pick - Up - Elmore Leonard 84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff 87th Precinct Series - Ed McBain Abarat - Clive Barker The Abortion - Richard Brautigan About a Boy - Nick Hornby Across the Nightingale Floor - Lian Hearn The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain After the First Death - Robert Cormier Against the Day - Michael Cronin Airborn - Kenneth Oppel Al Copone Does my Shirts - Gennifer Choldenko Alanna - The First Adventure The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho The Alchemist's Apprentice - Kate Thompson Alchemy - Margaret Mahy The Aldous Lexicon - Michael Lawrence Alex Rider Series - Anthony Horowitz Alice Series - Susan Juby All American Girl - Meg Cabot All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett The Amulet of Samarkand - Jonathan Stroud And the Ass of an Angel - Nick Cave Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging - Louise Rennison Animal Farm - George Orwell Anita and Me - Meera Syal Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins Anthem for the Doomed Youth - Ed. Jon Stallworthy An Anthropologist on Mars - Oliver Sacks Apocalypse - Tim Bowler Arabella - Georgette Heyer Archers Goon - Diana Wynne Jones Are You Dave Gorman? - Dave Gorman and Danny Wallace Are you Experienced? William Sutcliffe Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer The Seeing Stone - Kevin Crossley - Holland At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien At the Sign of the Sacred Plum - Mary Hooper Atonement - Ian McEwan Automated Alice - Jeff Noon Bad Alice - Jean Ure Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie Barrel Fever - David Sedaris Be More Chilled - Ned Vizzini The Beach - Alex Garland Beau Geste - P.C. Wren Beauty - Robin Mckinley The Beet Fields - Gary Paulsen The Belgariad - David Eddings The Bell - Iris Murdoch The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Beloved - Toni Morrison Beyond the Deepwoods - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler Bilgewater - Jane Gardam Bindi Babes - Narinder Dhami The Birds in the Trees - Nina Bawden Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks Bitter Fruit - Brian Keaney The Black Magican Trilogy - Trudi Canavan Blame my Brain - Nicola Morgan Blankets - Craig Thompson Blinded by the Light - Sherry Ashworth The Blood Stone - Jamila Gavin Bloodtide - Melvin Burgess Blue - Sue Mayfield Blue Moon - Julia Green The Body in the Library - Agatha Christie Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan Born Confused - Tanuja Desai Hidier Bows Against the Barons - Geoffrey Trease Boy2girl - Terence Blacker The Boy in the Burning House - Tim Wynne-Jones The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne Boy Kills Man - Matt Whyman Boy Meets Boy - David Levithan Boy Soldier - Andy McNab and Robert Rigby Brat Farrar - Josephine Tey Brave New World - Aldos Huxley The Breadwinner - Deborah Ellis Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote Breaktime - Aiden Chambers Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding Brighton Rock - Graham Green The Bromland Trilogy - Terry Pratchett Brother of the Famous Jack - Barbara Trapido Brothers - Ted Van Lieshout The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi The Burning City - Ariel and Joaquin Dorfman The Butterfly Tattoo - Philip Pullman The Call of the Wind - Jack London Calling a Dead Man - Gillian Cross Can you Keep a Secret? Sandra Glover Candy - Kevin Brooks Cannery Row/Sweet Thursday - John Steinbeck Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres Carwash - Lesley Howarth Cat Among the Pigeons - Agatha Christie Catalyst - Laurie Halse Anderson Catch-22 - Joseph Heller The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood Caught in the Crossfire - Alan Gibbons Cause Celeb - Helen Fielding The Cement Garden - Ian McEwen The Changeover - Margaret Mahy A Child Called IT - David Pelzer Child X - Lee Weatherly Children of the Dust - Louise Lawrence Chinese Cinderella - Adeline Yen Mah Chocolat - Joanne Harris The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier Christine - Stephen King A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens The Chrysalids - John Wyndham Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee Claudine at School - Colette Clay - David Almond A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons The Colditz Story - P.R. Reid The Color Purple - Alice Walker Come Clean - Terri Paddock Coming up for Air - George Orwell Complete Short Stories - J.G. Ballard Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen - Dyan Sheldon Consider Phlebas - Iain M. 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willoyd Posted December 26, 2011 Author Share Posted December 26, 2011 (edited) Books rated as 6-stars A record of the 80 books I've given my top rating to: Fiction (55) Ackroyd, Peter: Dan Lemo and the Limehouse Golem Ackroyd, Peter: Hawksmoor Atkinson, Kate: Case Histories Austen, Jane: Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights Carr JL: A Month in the Country Carr JL: The Harpole Report Carre, John Le: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales Chevalier, Tracey: Fallen Angels Childers, Erskine: The Riddle of the Sands Collins, Norman: London Belongs To Me Cunningham, Michael: The Hours Davies, Martin: The Conjuror's Bird Dickens, Charles: Bleak House Elphinstone, Margaret: The Sea Road Elphinstone, Margaret: Voyageurs Ewing, Barbara: Rosetta Greig, Andrew: The Return of John MacNab Haddon, Mark: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Herbert, Frank: Dune Horwood, William: Skallagrig Hulme, Keri: Bone People Japrisot, Sebastian: A Very Long Engagement Kipling, Rudyard: Puck of Pook's Hill Kipling, Rudyard: Rewards and Fairies Lee, Harper: To Kill A Mockingbird Mantel, Hilary: Wolf Hall Melville, Herman: Moby Dick Miller, Andrew: Pure Monsarrat, Nicholas: The Cruel Sea Moorcroft, Michael: Mother London O'Brian, Patrick: The Mauritius Command Pears, Ian: An Instance of the Fingerpost Penney, Stef: The Tenderness of Wolves Pullman, Philip: Northern Lights Rushdie, Salman: Midnight's Children Seth, Vikram: A Suitable Boy Smiley, Jane: A Thousand Acres Smith, Dodie: I Capture the Castle Stephenson, Neal: Cryptonomicon Stevenson, Robert Louis: Kidnapped Thackeray, William: Vanity Fair Thompson, Harry: This Thing of Darkness Tolkien JRR: The Lord of the Rings Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace White, TH: Mistress Masham's Repose Willis, Connie: To Say Nothing of the Dog Woolf, Virginia: Mrs Dalloway Woolf, Virginia: The Years Woolf, Virginia: To The Lighthouse Woolfenden, Ben: The Ruins of Time Non-fiction (25) Cocker, Mark: Crow Country Dawkins, Richard: The Blind Watchmaker Fadiman, Anne: Ex Libris Frater, Alexander: Chasing the Monsoon Hanff, Helen: 84 Charing Cross Road Hastings, Max: All Hell Let Loose Holland, James: Dam Busters Hoskins, WG: The Making of the English Landscape Huntford, Roland: Shackleton Junger, Sebastian: The Perfect Storm Longford, Elizabeth: Wellington, The Years of the Sword Lee, Hermione: Virginia Woolf Moore, Richard: In Search of Robert Millar Nichols, Peter: A Voyage for Madmen Pennac, Daniel: The Rights of the Reader Rackham, Oliver: The History of the Countryside Pinker, Stephen: The Language Instinct de Saint-Exupery, Antoine; Wind, Sea and Stars Salisbury, Laney and Gay: The Cruellest Miles Simpson, Joe: Touching the Void Taylor, Stephen: Storm and Conquest Tomalin, Claire: Pepys, The Unequalled Self Unsworth, Walt: Everest Wheeler, Sara: Terra Incognita Young, Gavin: Slow Boats to China Edited December 27, 2012 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 (edited) Kept spare for future inserts Edited December 31, 2011 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 (edited) Review of 2011, Looking forward to 2012 2011 was a really mixed bag of a year in terms of reading. I found it really difficult to get going in the first half, bogged down a bit in an OU course that I was really enjoying but which eventually started getting too much in the way of other things - too many immovable deadlines (the OU isn't quite as flexible as the image created). Even so, there were some real highlights, not least discovering Margaret Elphinstone. I only read two of her books, but both were 6-star reads, and others look equally promising. The other highlight was a growing enjoyment of writing by or about Virginia Woolf, with To The Lighthouse proving the standout fiction read of the year, and Hermione Lee's doorstopper of a biography consuming several weeks of spring reading, taking over as my favourite biog to date. I also enjoyed Ben Aaronavitch's quirky crime thrillers with a magic twist - not quite as off the wall as Jasper Fforde, but a really enjoyable slant on the crime story with a strong sense of setting. I also, at a distance, now have very fond memories of Sally Vickers's Miss Garnet's Angel, even if I 'only' rated it 4 stars at the time, whilst Robert Massie's Dreadnought kept me enthralled on a couple of thoroughly tedious and long coach journeys.. Things started picking up in the autumn, whilst December proved frenetic - my biggest reading month ever (19 books!). However, aside from a 're-read' (in fact a listening) of Sense and Sensibility, the standout books were all non-fiction, led by Max Hastings's superb single volume history of WW2. The biggest surprise was probably Ned Boulting's book on his coverage of the Tour de France, a much stronger read than I expected (even if his style was determinedly light, there was some interesting reading between the lines for a cycling aficionado). I don't usually go much of a bundle on self-deprecating humorous books, especially on sport, but this worked for me. On the downside? Aside from the slow start, not a lot. In particular, there wasn't much that disappointed. Perhaps the only mild blot was that, having read two of the Booker shortlist, I was not overly impressed with either. Julian Barnes's winner was solidly enjoyable and interesting, but I can't say that it stood out for me as a major award winner. However, I do seem to be in a small minority, so I'm obviously missing something. Snowdrops stood out only for its very ordinariness, its short listing a complete puzzle. Otherwise, not much featured in the lower echelons of ratings. So, all in all, a good, if not spectacular, year. In terms of pure numbers, I can't believe I finished up on 50 books, but it was a pretty mad December! Looking forward to 2012, my biggest aim is to increase the amount of reading I do, whilst buying a lot less! In particular, the shelves are overflowing, so what buying is done will need to be predominanly for the Kindle, which I am increasingly enjoying using, especially as more and more reading is being done whilst travelling - I've taken to using the train far more for commuting even though it's 4 times as long as by car (the bike has come into play too!). I'm also finding that too many paperbacks (especially non-fiction) have unpleasantly small type, and the Kindle helps counter that very effectively. And, to allow the real world to intrude for a moment, being both in our mid-50s, we are seriously having to look at finances if we are both to be able to retire at an age where we can actually enjoy it. Another aim is to make some significant inroads into some of the big doorstopper reads that I've had lined up for some time, but with one thing and another (mostly work related, but also some pretty skilled procrastination!) have never got around to getting stuck into. I hesitate to put numbers on these things - too much hostage to fortune - but I'd like to see if I can hit the 60 book mark this year for the first time ever, and include at least 2 megadoorstoppers (1000+pagers), and another 3-4 standard doorstoppers (600+pagers) - and I don't mean some of the fairly standard fiction fare with not a lot on each page. Maybe this is, at last, the year of Les Miserables and/or one of the big histories??! Whatever, am really looking forward to 2012, reading up on everybody else's reading and ideas, and seeing how it all pans out. Edited January 1, 2012 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 (edited) Ratking by Michael Dibdin **** The first of the Aurelio Zen series, about a Venetian detective based in Rome. However, in this, he is posted to Perugia, having spent the previous couple of years working in administration, shunted to one side for getting too close to the powers that be in a previous kidnapping investigation. I've seen one of the TV episodes (enjoying it a lot), but this is my first experience of the books. Basically, I think I'll finish off reading before going back to the TV, as this was an excellent read: a suitably twisting thread as Zen negotiates not just the intricacies of the case but also the politics of the Italian state and society. Not a book where it's all suddenly revealed at the end - the villain becomes fairly obvious almost a hundred pages from the end - but one where you get immersed in the ins and outs of how Zen gets there, and gets the result he's after (or does he?!). A good start to the year - I suspect that Dibdin will feature more than once on the reading list over the next 12 months! Have also started Norman Davies's Vanished Kingdoms. It's a big chunky hardback (Christmas present from OH), so won't be travelling with me much, but it's already (p60) looking to be as promising as all the rave reviews suggested. Edited January 3, 2012 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ooshie Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 A complimentary copy of Ratking was waiting invitingly on the bed of a hotel I stayed in about 10 years ago - a very clever move on the part of the publishers, as I then had to buy the rest of the series over the years! I enjoyed the TV adaptations too, but I still prefer the books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 (edited) Maybe this is, at last, the year of Les Miserables and/or one of the big histories??! Whatever, am really looking forward to 2012, reading up on everybody else's reading and ideas, and seeing how it all pans out. Hey willoyd, best of luck with your reading in 2012. I'd also like to think 2012 was my year for Les Miserables but we'll have to see about that. Edited January 4, 2012 by Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruth Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Another aim is to make some significant inroads into some of the big doorstopper reads that I've had lined up for some time, but with one thing and another (mostly work related, but also some pretty skilled procrastination!) have never got around to getting stuck into. I hesitate to put numbers on these things - too much hostage to fortune - but I'd like to see if I can hit the 60 book mark this year for the first time ever, and include at least 2 megadoorstoppers (1000+pagers), and another 3-4 standard doorstoppers (600+pagers) - and I don't mean some of the fairly standard fiction fare with not a lot on each page. Maybe this is, at last, the year of Les Miserables and/or one of the big histories??! Whatever, am really looking forward to 2012, reading up on everybody else's reading and ideas, and seeing how it all pans out. Will, I bought Les Miserables on Christmas Eve, and hope to read it this year. Also hoping to read The Three Musketeers or The Count of Monte Cristo, both of which have been languishing on my tbr for far too long! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted January 4, 2012 Author Share Posted January 4, 2012 (edited) Will, I bought Les Miserables on Christmas Eve, and hope to read it this year. Also hoping to read The Three Musketeers or The Count of Monte Cristo, both of which have been languishing on my tbr for far too long! I read The Count of Monte Cristo a couple of years ago - very enjoyable read, thoroughly recommended. I read The Three Musketeers many years ago, so long ago that I'm more than ready for a reread, especially as I've got Twenty Years After and The Man in the Iron Mask staring at me from the shelves. Hey willoyd, best of luck with your reading in 2012. I'd also like to think 2012 was my year for Les Miserables but we'll have to see about that. Looks like there's almost enough for a book group A complimentary copy of Ratking was waiting invitingly on the bed of a hotel I stayed in about 10 years ago - a very clever move on the part of the publishers, as I then had to buy the rest of the series over the years! I enjoyed the TV adaptations too, but I still prefer the books. Clever idea. I'm definitely going to have to get stuck into Vendetta before very long - Zen/Dibdin is/are very addictive. Edited January 4, 2012 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted January 7, 2012 Author Share Posted January 7, 2012 (edited) Reading notes week ending Jan 7 Over the past couple of years I've tended only to post when I've finished a book, to write the review (that's aside from doing the 30-day challenge last August). Trouble is, that can mean not really keeping a track for quite long periods of time, especially when tackling the bigger stuff (which I've promised myself to do more of this year). So, I'm going to try and do a periodic (roughly weekly?) summary this year to give myself a better idea when looking back at how the reading goes. This week has been marked by the return to school. First and last weeks are always desperately busy, so inevitably reading drops off a bit. Still - managed to finish off the first Aurelio Zen books, and started reading Ian Pears's Stone Fall - looks promising. I started the first doorstopper of the year last weekend, Vanished Kingdom (Norman Davies), finishing off the second chapter this morning. It's too big to read whilst travelling and requires too much concentration to read at bedtime, which is why I've got two on the go at the same time, but is already proving very rewarding. Each chapter focuses on the history of a now vanished country. So far, it's been about Tolosa (5th century Visigothic kingdom) and Alt Clud, the ancient Brythonic kingdom based on Dumbarton Rock, which staggered through almost to the English Norman period. Both chapters have helped me sort out a lot of my own understanding of the histories of their times, and indeed the latter has a lot to say about modern day politics. Fascinating, and beautifully written. It could take a few weeks to finish though! Bought a couple of books from the Amazon 12 Days of Kindle sale, but overall a bit underwhelmed by what was on offer. Read a really enthusiastic review of Sally Gardner's The Double Shadow in this morning's Guardian. The downloaded sample looked promising, so went and bought the full book. Must read it soon though - trying to get into the habit of reading books soon after buying rather than leaving them to fester on shelves for weeks/months, sometimes years! Edited January 7, 2012 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 .. trying to get into the habit of reading books soon after buying rather than leaving them to fester on shelves for weeks/months, sometimes years! You and me both .. I'm not doing too badly so far but it's whether I can sustain it. Sally Gardner wrote 'I Coriander' didn't she? if so I liked that. Is it for adults?, I'm more used to her children's fiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted January 7, 2012 Author Share Posted January 7, 2012 (edited) You and me both .. I'm not doing too badly so far but it's whether I can sustain it. Sally Gardner wrote 'I Coriander' didn't she? if so I liked that. Is it for adults?, I'm more used to her children's fiction. I picked this up on the electronic Guardian that I subscribe to on the Kindle, where it doesn't indicate anything about target audience. When I got onto Amazon, one of the reviews mentions that it is aimed at young adults. I've just been and taken a look on the Guardian website, and the review is listed under teen books. It does sort of read like that too. I get the impression from the review that it's the first she's aimed at an older market. Edited January 7, 2012 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vodkafan Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Vanished Kingdoms looks right up my street thanks Willoyd . Your idea of a weekly update makes sense . Good luck with your reading. That is one huge TBR list you have my friend! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 (edited) That is one huge TBR list you have my friend! You've got me a bit puzzled there, as I deliberately don't keep one as I hate having my reading planned ahead. Do you mean the 1001/501/BBC200 lists at the start of the thread? If so, I've got those really for ideas. I'm sort of ticking them off, but realistically I'm never going to finish any of them, not least because there's too many books on them that I have no intention of reading - I reckon life's too short to waste on Jacqueline Wilson and obscure 18th century tomes (along with a few othes I could mention)! Edited January 8, 2012 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted January 14, 2012 Author Share Posted January 14, 2012 (edited) Reading notes week ending Jan 14 Not a good week from a reading point of view. I've not had time to get any further with Vanished Kingdoms, and have found it difficult to settle down with Stone's Fall. To be honest, the latter hasn't really caught my imagination. It's now almost 150 pages in, and very little has happened. What has happened is decidedly ungrabbing - all being a bit obvious. Nicely written, but getting to be rather tedious, not helped by the fact that I'm struggling to read more than 10 to 20 pages at a time. My commuting involves some days when I take the train and then walk 20 mins from the station to work. Last term, I started listening to an audiobook on this walk (rather boring through housing estates), eventually taking out an Audiobooks.com subscription. This month my book choice was Don Quixote, long on my list to read. Started listening to it on Friday, and am already well into it; it's read by Roy Macmillan (great reading voice) from the translation by John Ormsby - which is a lot more followable than I anticipated, and more appealing than the Iain Pears book at present. So, unusually, I have three books on the go simultaneously - don't know whether I'm going to be able to cope with this as normally I like to read sequentially and devote myself to just one. We'll see. Just hope next week sees more progress. Just one book acquired this week: a copy of the Folio Society edition of The Gentleman's Daughter by Amanda Vickery. Couldn't resist the near mint copy going for just over a tenner. The book looks at the lives of the eighteenth century's 'genteel' (I.e. middle class) women of Whalley parish in Lancashire, primarily using their letters and diaries. I know the area well, and it's a period of history that I find fascinating too, all about a group of people who rarely come to the surface. It's a lovely edition, and I'm really looking forward to being able to get stuck in. Will need to finish something else off first though! Edited January 14, 2012 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Review of 2011, Looking forward to 2012 I enjoyed reading this post very much, thank you for writing it 2011 was a really mixed bag of a year in terms of reading. I found it really difficult to get going in the first half, bogged down a bit in an OU course that I was really enjoying but which eventually started getting too much in the way of other things - too many immovable deadlines (the OU isn't quite as flexible as the image created). Sorry for going off-topic for a moment, and do excuse my ignorance, but what is OU? The other highlight was a growing enjoyment of writing by or about Virginia Woolf, with To The Lighthouse proving the standout fiction read of the year, and Hermione Lee's doorstopper of a biography consuming several weeks of spring reading, taking over as my favourite biog to date. Eventhough I didn't read any Virginia Woolf last year myself, I will definitely remember your, poppyshake's and my conversations on Woolf as one of the most inspiring talking-about-literature conversations in 2011 I'll have to wait and see if you come up with more Woolf related reads this year I also enjoyed Ben Aaronavitch's quirky crime thrillers with a magic twist - not quite as off the wall as Jasper Fforde, but a really enjoyable slant on the crime story with a strong sense of setting. Hm, this sounds interesting, I might have to add it to my wishlist! I also, at a distance, now have very fond memories of Sally Vickers's Miss Garnet's Angel, even if I 'only' rated it 4 stars at the time, whilst Robert Massie's Dreadnought kept me enthralled on a couple of thoroughly tedious and long coach journeys.. It's funny how we sometimes rate a book fairly low, but then after some time passes, think of the book more fondly than right after reading it. This has happened to me many times. Looking forward to 2012, my biggest aim is to increase the amount of reading I do, whilst buying a lot less! Good luck with this, I think we all know how difficult this can be... Anyways, have a happy year of reading, I'll be keeping a close eye on your reading log Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted January 15, 2012 Author Share Posted January 15, 2012 (edited) I enjoyed reading this post very much, thank you for writing it Thank you - it's lovely to hear when others enjoy what you write! I must admit, I'm enjoying putting these 'blogs' together more and more, not least because it has helped me think about my reading a lot more, which in turn has made the reading much more enjoyable. It's only when I started going back over previous entries that I've realised how valuable they are to me as a record, to the extent that I've started downloading and backing them up as a personal reading diary, just in case something untoward happens here. Sorry for going off-topic for a moment, and do excuse my ignorance, but what is OU? Sorry - I forget we are international (although that assumes that all those in Britain would know, and now you ask, I'm not sure they would!) The OU is the Open University: The OU offers a whole host of subjects that can be studied to degree level. To earn a degree you have to earn so many credits (normally 360) at different levels (years 1, 2 and 3, with usually 120 credits at each level) by combining different modules together (normally earning between 30 and 60 credits) in specific combinations. You study using a variety of supplied media (books, video, computer based material), and tutorials which can be on-line, over the phone or face to face. I was studying on the arts side: I'd successfully completed a first year German module, but having studied, but not completed the assessments for, a French module and the main Arts first year unit, I've decided that whilst the materials and courses are superb, I just don't have the time to do the work in the timescales set: the OU are proud of their flexibility, but they are not sufficiently flexible for me! Even though I didn't read any Virginia Woolf last year myself, I will definitely remember your, poppyshake's and my conversations on Woolf as one of the most inspiring talking-about-literature conversations in 2011 Same here - but you must read some yourself - I'd love to hear (read!) your thoughts too. I'll have to wait and see if you come up with more Woolf related reads this year I fully intend to - probably more of her non-fiction material though, atlhough I've got my eye on The Waves and The Voyage Out. I'm especially looking forward to reading some of her essays - especially The Common Reader. Anyways, have a happy year of reading, I'll be keeping a close eye on your reading log And you too - yours is one of the logs I read and enjoy regularly: this forum is definitely my favourite area on the site. Edited January 15, 2012 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Thank you - it's lovely to hear when others enjoy what you write! I must admit, I'm enjoying putting these 'blogs' together more and more, not least because it has helped me think about my reading a lot more, which in turn has made the reading much more enjoyable. It's only when I started going back over previous entries that I've realised how valuable they are to me as a record, to the extent that I've started downloading and backing them up as a personal reading diary, just in case something untoward happens here. It is a 'vicious' circle Reading books, writing about them, enjoying reading them more, enjoying writing about them.. and voila, brain is happy of all the extra pleasure and the different connections and references! I like it that you've started saving your reading blog, I'm not quite that organisational but I'd love to be. What's more, for example, I've sometimes looked for a particular post with a particular info on my reading blog for some purpose or another, and sometimes I get carried away with it, reading other people's posts and the dialogue that ensues and it's just so much fun to read old posts and go back in time and compare what one has read many moons ago and how one's reading tastes have possibly differed then. Not a bad way to pass the time, I say. Sorry - I forget we are international (although that assumes that all those in Britain would know, and now you ask, I'm not sure they would!) The OU is the Open University: The OU offers a whole host of subjects that can be studied to degree level. To earn a degree you have to earn so many credits (normally 360) at different levels (years 1, 2 and 3, with usually 120 credits at each level) by combining different modules together (normally earning between 30 and 60 credits) in specific combinations. You study using a variety of supplied media (books, video, computer based material), and tutorials which can be on-line, over the phone or face to face. I was studying on the arts side: I'd successfully completed a first year German module, but having studied, but not completed the assessments for, a French module and the main Arts first year unit, I've decided that whilst the materials and courses are superb, I just don't have the time to do the work in the timescales set: the OU are proud of their flexibility, but they are not sufficiently flexible for me! Don't worry, it's easy to forget! I sometimes forget, too, and I'm one of the non-natives I guess it's to do with us all speaking English. I guess it should've been obvious from the context that you were talking about open uni, but I was very off! We also have an open uni system but I'm not familiar with it so wouldn't know how it compares to yours. Too bad the English OU can't accommodate to your particular needs and wishes. Same here - but you must read some yourself - I'd love to hear (read!) your thoughts too. I'll try! I bought Woolf's Moments of Being just a week ago, as it happens. And in English, too. I also have Mrs Dalloway on TBR. I've only read To the Lighthouse but that was in Finnish and poppyshake and I discussed that it's really of no use to read Woolf in Finnish, it's difficult enough to read it in English and who knows what the poor Finnish translator must've gone through, and what kinds of altercations there have been. Woolf just intimidates me so much. I'll have to be in the perfect mindset for her. But you surely know how it is. And you too - yours is one of the logs I read and enjoy regularly: this forum is definitely my favourite area on the site. Aww, thank you for your kind words I agree, I enjoy reading other people's reading logs the most! Unfortunately I'm usually the sort of person who leaves the best til last, and I usually reply in other kinds of threads first, and then posts keep piling up and soon enough I have tons of reading logs to go through. It's very enjoyable, but it takes time to fully read everything and make one's comments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted January 16, 2012 Author Share Posted January 16, 2012 Stone's Fall by Iain Pears ** I said in my week's review on Saturday that I was beginning to find this tedious, and I've finally ground to a compete halt. Almost 200 pages in, I really can't bring myself to continue this any longer: it's just one non-event after another. I think the final straw was the introduction of yet another in an increasingly long line of minor characters called, believe it or not, "Jan the Builder", although the romantic (or should I say obsessive?) element contributed much, muddying the plot of what might otherwise have been an involving premise. Dull, dull, dull! Not quite a one star - I didn't dislike it as such - but certainly nothing more than two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 You've abandoned a book and all I can say is I hope it's catching I'm fed up of plodding on with unenjoyable reads. This Reading Blog forum is my favourite place to be too .. it's so full of interesting chat and info on books and we can witter on about Woolf to our hearts content, they'd probably chuck you out of General Chat for that I save bits from my bookblog too .. as a means to seeing what I've read and when etc. Up until I joined here I didn't keep a record of books read and it's all a bit hazy pre 2009. I know I read Malory Towers/St Clares when I was about eight but I couldn't guarantee anything else. A lot of the books I read in 2011 came directly from recommendations here, and I am in great hopes that Hermione Lee's biog of Virginia will be amongst my birthday presents in Feb. I have dropped the heaviest of hints and even gone so far as to print out my wishlists with preferences highlighted so here's hoping Also on the cards is a visit to Monks House sometime this year. I would so love to see Virginia's writing room and Alan is quite interested because after it was Virginia's room it was Trekkie's studio so there should be something to interest us both. Will wait for warmer weather though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 (edited) We've got a few days in the south in August, at the Olympics. Hoping to get out of the city as there are three places (amongst others!) I am dying to visit: Altham (Jane Austen), Selborne (Gilbert White) and Rodmell, the first of which will be a revisit after several decades, but the other two new in spite of the fact that I grew up in Surrey. I agree with you about keeping records. I started in mid-2006, and it's fascinating (and eye-opening sometimes) looking back. It's been very motivating too. Edited January 17, 2012 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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