Just found this group, great motivation! I am trying to read as many of these books as possible, should be fun.

As I write this post, I have read 213 of the books on the combined list (16.61%)

Underneath, I am going to list the books I have read from the original, then the new ones from the 2008 edition.

This year I joined a couple of challenges to help me with this huge list of books. The first was Katrinat's 1001 Book Challenge (on Bookcrossing), where you made your own goal to attain. I chose 52, a book a week. The second was the 999 Challenge here.

Message edited by its author, Oct 1, 2009, 6:50am.

Original List 1-99

1 Never Let Me Go
2 Saturday
3 On Beauty
11 The Lambs of London
13 Cloud Atlas
18 What I Loved
19 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
21 Elizabeth Costello
24 Fingersmith
26 Everything is Illuminated on mount TBR
28 Kafka on the Shore
29 The Story of Lucy Gault on mount TBR
33 Middlesex
38 Gabriel’s Gift
41 Schooling on mount TBR
42 Atonement
49 Life of Pi
50 The Feast of the Goat
52 The Devil and Miss Prym
54 White Teeth
63 The Blind Assassin
64 After the Quake
71 The Romantics on Mount TBR
77 Disgrace
78 Sputnik Sweetheart
80 Intimacy
81 Amsterdam
85 Tipping the Velvet
86 The Poisonwood Bible
89 The Hours
90 Veronika Decides to Die
92 The God of Small Things
93 Memoirs of a Geisha
95 Enduring Love

Message edited by its author, Oct 1, 2009, 6:37am.

Original List: 100-199

101 Silk
104 Fugitive Pieces
105 The Ghost Road
109 Alias Grace
110 The Unconsoled
111 Morvern Callar
115 The Rings of Saturn on Mount TBR
116 The Reader
117 A Fine Balance on Mount TBR
125 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
126 Pereira Declares: A Testimony
129 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
133 The Shipping News
134 Trainspotting on Mount TBR
135 Birdsong
140 What a Carve Up! on Mount TBR
141 A Suitable Boy
142 The Stone Diaries
145 The Robber Bride
146 The Emigrants
147 The Secret History
151 Possessing the Secret of Joy
153 The Crow Road
156 The English Patient
157 Smilla’s Sense of Snow
165 Wild Swans
166 American Psycho
170 Regeneration
172 Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord on Mount TBR
175 Amongst Women
183 Possession
184 The Buddha of Suburbia
187 Sexing the Cherry on Mount TBR
190 Remains of the Day
194 The History of the Siege of Lisbon
195 Like Water for Chocolate
197 London Fields
199 Cat’s Eye

Message edited by its author, Oct 2, 2009, 4:43pm.

200-299

200 Foucault’s Pendulum
203 The Satanic Verses
205 Oscar and Lucinda
208 Nervous Conditions
216 The Child in Time
220 World’s End
223 Beloved
230 An Artist of the Floating World
236 Love in the Time of Cholera
242 The Handmaid’s Tale
243 Perfume
247 Hawksmoor
252 The Lover
253 Empire of the Sun
254 The Wasp Factory
256 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
268 The Piano Teacher on Mount TBR
272 The Color Purple
274 A Pale View of Hills
275 Schindler’s Ark
276 The House of the Spirits
283 The Comfort of Strangers
288 Midnight’s Children
294 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
297 A Bend in the River

Message edited by its author, Oct 1, 2009, 9:11am.

Original List: 300-399

302 The Cement Garden
306 The Singapore Grip on Mount TBR
308 The Virgin in the Garden
314 Petals of Blood
320 Interview With the Vampire
324 Autumn of the Patriarch on Mount TBR
338 The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
343 The Siege of Krishnapur
354 Surfacing
356 In A Free State
375 Slaughterhouse Five
376 The French Lieutenant’s Woman on Mount TBR
390 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
394 A Kestrel for a Knave on Mount TBR
395 The Quest for Christa T.
399 One Hundred Years of Solitude

Message edited by its author, Oct 1, 2009, 5:48pm.

Original list: 400-499

408 In Cold Blood
435 The Collector
436 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
437 A Clockwork Orange
443 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
450 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
451 Catch-22
456 To Kill a Mockingbird
462 The Tin Drum on Mount TBR
467 Breakfast at Tiffany’s on Mount TBR
468 The Leopard
470 A Town Like Alice
487 The Wonderful “O”
494 The Lord of the Rings
495 The Talented Mr. Ripley
496 Lolita
499 The Quiet American

Message edited by its author, Oct 1, 2009, 5:57pm.

Original List: 500-599

503 Bonjour Tristesse
508 Lord of the Flies
510 The Go-Between
514 Lucky Jim on Mount TBR
518 Casino Royale
519 The Judge and His Hangman
526 Day of the Triffids on Mount TBR
529 The Catcher in the Rye
535 The Third Man
536 The 13 Clocks
538 The Grass is Singing
545 Kingdom of This World
547 Nineteen Eighty-Four
551 The Heart of the Matter
552 Cry, the Beloved Country
559 The Plague
562 The Bridge on the Drina
563 Brideshead Revisited on Mount TBR
564 Animal Farm
574 The Little Prince
579 The Outsider
587 For Whom the Bell Tolls
589 The Power and the Glory

Message edited by its author, Oct 2, 2009, 5:14pm.

Original List: 600-699

603 Rebecca
605 Brighton Rock
608 Of Mice and Men on Mount TBR
609 Their Eyes Were Watching God
610 The Hobbit
614 Out of Africa
619 Gone With the Wind
620 Keep the Aspidistra Flying
631 Burmese Days
635 The Postman Always Rings Twice
637 A Handful of Dust
649 Brave New World
650 Cold Comfort Farm on Mount TBR
653 The Radetzky March
660 The Maltese Falcon
663 A Farewell to Arms
667 All Quiet on the Western Front
675 Orlando
676 Lady Chatterley’s Lover
686 To The Lighthouse
687 Tarka the Otter
689 The Sun Also Rises
695 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
698 Mrs. Dalloway
699 The Great Gatsby

Message edited by its author, Oct 1, 2009, 6:15pm.

Original List: 700-799

706 The Magic Mountain
708 A Passage to India
717 Siddhartha
726 The Age of Innocence
733 Summer
743 The Thirty-Nine Steps
744 Kokoro
749 Sons and Lovers
750 Death in Venice
754 Howards End
761 A Room With a View
769 The Forsyte Sage on Mount TBR
772 Where Angels Fear to Tread
777 The Riddle of the Sands on Mount TBR
779 The Wings of the Dove
780 Heart of Darkness
781 The Hound of the Baskervilles
789 The Turn of the Screw
790 The War of the Worlds on Mount TBR
794 Dracula

Message edited by its author, Oct 1, 2009, 6:24pm.

Original List: 800-899

801 The Yellow Wallpaper
803 Diary of a Nobody on Mount TBR
804 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
809 The Picture of Dorian Gray
820 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
822 Kidnapped
823 King Solomon’s Mines on Mount TBR
829 The Death of Ivan Ilyich
831 Treasure Island
840 Anna Karenina
848 Around the World in Eighty Days
862 The Moonstone
863 Little Women
868 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland on Mount TBR
876 Great Expectations
880 The Woman in White on Mount TBR
887 North and South on Mount TBR
892 Cranford on Mount TBR
897 The Scarlet Letter

Message edited by its author, Oct 2, 2009, 4:21pm.

Original List: 900-1001

902 Wuthering Heights
904 Jane Eyre on Mount TBR
906 The Count of Monte-Cristo
908 The Three Musketeers
911 The Pit and the Pendulum
923 The Red and the Black on Mount TBR
925 Last of the Mohicans
926 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
931 Frankenstein
932 Northanger Abbey
933 Persuasion
936 Emma
937 Mansfield Park
938 Pride and Prejudice
940 Sense and Sensibility
942 Castle Rackrent
949 The Interesting Narrative
952 Vathek
956 Dangerous Liaisons
958 Evelina
959 The Sorrows of Young Werther on Mount TBR
965 The Castle of Otranto
974 Fanny Hill
983 Gulliver’s Travels
1001 Aesop’s Fables

Message edited by its author, Oct 30, 2009, 5:29pm.

New List: 1-500

4 Half of a yellow sun on Mount TBR
6 The inheritance of loss on Mount TBR
11 A short history of tractors in Ukrainian
13 The Accidental
16 Small island
28 The Successor
30 The namesake on Mount TBR
35 Snow
44 The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay on Mount TBR
61 Dirty Havana trilogy
112 The twins
127 All the pretty horses
133 The Dumas club
192 Of love and shadows
211 Annie John
215 Blood meridian
427 The time of the hero
439 No one writes to the colonel
470 Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon

Message edited by its author, Oct 11, 2009, 12:59pm.

New List: 501-1001

585 Pippi Longstocking
779 The call of the wild
990 The Lusiad

Message edited by its author, Oct 12, 2009, 3:03pm.

oops, posted in the wrong place :)

Message edited by its author, Oct 1, 2009, 6:38am.

213 already, that's a lot more than me. May I ask what your top 5 is from the books you've read so far?

Well, that is a tough one.

Of the ones I have read this year so far, I would say Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, the Regeneration series from Pat Barker, Snow and Petals of Blood.

This is a link to the ones I have read so far this year:
http://soffitta1-bookcrossing.blogspot.c...

I am going to think more about my best from all the ones I have read, it is such a hard question.

Message edited by its author, Oct 2, 2009, 4:48pm.

I read The Successor last night, a very good read. You quickly get sucked into the political world of Albania after the suicide of The Successor. It is on the new list, a worthy addition. Next up - The Lusiads, another book from the 2008 list.

The Lusiads was an interesting read, a good yarn about Portugal's history.

Then it was Castle Rackrent, which was a bit tiring to read, short but rammed with info.

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - an interesting read from way down the list.