chamberk's 1001

Hey, I see everyone else doing it. I have a pretty decent start:

1. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
3. 2666 - Roberto Bolano
4. Cloud Atlas - David Mitrchell
5. the namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
6. kafka on the shore - haruki murakami
7. everything is illuminated - jonathan safran foer
8. the corrections - jonathan franzen
9. life of pi - yann martell
10. savage detectives - roberto bolano
11. underworld - don delillo
12. infinite jest - david foster wallace
13. alias grace - margaret atwood
14. a fine balance - rohinton mistry
15. the wind-up bird chronicle - haruki murakami
16. the virgin suicides - jeffrey eugenides
17. the secret history - donna tartt
18. the english patient - michael ondaatje
19. american psycho - bret easton ellis
20. the things they carried - tim o'brien
21. the remains of the day - kazuo ishiguro
22. a prayer for owen meany - john irving
23. the satanic verses - salman rushdie
24. beloved - toni morrison
25. artist of the floating world - kazuo ishiguro
26. watchmen - alan moore
27. love in the time of cholera - gabriel garcia marquez
28. the cider house rules - john irving
29. blood meridian - cormac mccarthy
30. the handmaid's tale - margaret atwood
31. white noise - don delillo
32. the unbearable lightness of being - milan kundera
33. a pale view of hills -- kazuo ishiguro
34. the war of the end of the world - mario vargas llosa
35. midnight's children - salman rushdie
36. confederacy of dunces - john kennedy toole
37. the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy - douglas adams
38. song of solomon - toni morrison
39. ragtime - el doctorow
40. the siege of krishnapur - jg farrell
41. gravity's rainbow - thomas pynchon
42. the bluest eye - toni morrison
43. slaughterhouse-five - kurt vonnegut
44. the electric kool-aid acid test - tom wolfe
45. one hundred years of solitude - gabriel garcia marquez
46. the master and margarita - mikhail bulgakov
47. the crying of lot 49 - thomas pynchon
48. in cold blood - truman capote
49. sometimes a great notion - ken kesey
50. cat's cradle - kurt vonnegut
51. the bell jar - sylvia plath
52. one day in the life of ivan denisovich -alexandr solzhenitsyn
53. one flew over the cuckoo's nest - ken kesey
54. a clockwork orange - anthony burgess
55. pale fire - vladimir nabokov
56. franny and zooey - jd salinger
57. catch-22 - joseph heller
58. to kill a mockingbird - harper lee
59. rabbit, run - john updike
60. things fall apart - chinua achebe
61. the once and future king - th white
62. giovanni's room - james baldwin
63. lolita - vladimir nabokov
64. the lord of the rings - jrr tolkien
65. the quiet american - graham greene
66. lord of the flies - william golding
67. go tell it on the mountain - james baldwin
68. invisible man - ralph ellison
69. old man and the sea - ernest hemingway
70. foundation - isaac asimov
71. the catcher in the rye - jd salinger
72. the end of the affair - graham greene
73. 1984 - george orwell
74. the plague - albert camus
75. brideshead revisited - evelyn waugh
76. zorba the greek - nicos kazantzakis
77. animal farm - george orwell
78. for whom the bell tolls - ernest hemingway
79. the grapes of wrath - john steinbeck
80. the power and the glory - graham greenel
81. the hobbit - jrr tolkien
82. absalom, absalom! - william faulkner
83. at the mountains of madness - hp lovecraft
84. tender is the night - f. scott fitzgerald
85. brave new world - aldous huxley
86. her privates we - frederic manning
87. a farewell to arms - ernest hemingway
88. all quiet on the western front - erich maria remarque
89. under fire - henri barbusse
90. to the lighthouse - virginia woolf
91. the sun also rises - ernest hemingway
92. a portrait of the artist as a young man - james joyce
93. of human bondage - w. somerset maugham
94. tarzan of the apes - edgar rice burroughs
95. the great gatsby - f. scott fitzgerald
96. ethan frome - edith wharton
97. the picture of dorian grey - oscar wilde
98. the adventures of huckleberry finn - mark twain
99. the portrait of a lady - henry james
100. anna karenina - leo tolstoy
101. war and peace - leo tolstoy
102. les miserables - victor hugo
103. great expectations - charles dickens
104. madame bovary - gustave flaubert
105. moby-dick - herman melville
106. the scarlet letter - nathaniel hawthorne
107. jane eyre - charlotte bronte
108. the count of monte cristo - alexandre dumas
109. wuthering heights - emily bronte
110. the three musketeers - alexandre dumas
111. the pit and the pendulum - edgar allen poe
112. the fall of the house of usher - edgar allen poe
113. emma - jane austen
114. pride and prejudice - jane austen
115. candide - voltaire

Based off the 2010 list. Too much Ishiguro, and I like the guy...

Not a bad start at all! Welcome to the club :)

Looking through your list I couldn't find Ishiguro's The Unconsoled. I just gave up on that one and as you say I like the guy. Have you read that one, and if you have what did you think of it?

What are you reading from the list at the moment?

Very impressive head start -- you've read a lot that I haven't. Welcome to the group!

>3 socialpages:: I have not given The Unconsoled a shot, but I'm willing. Same with We Were Orphans... but I have a startling ability to push my way through a book, even if it's actively resisting me. (The only book to defeat me in recent memory was Middlemarch, which I'm surely going to go back to one day.

Currently, I know I'm reading Dr. Zhivago off the list, and I'm not sure if I, Claudius is on the list but I'm reading that one as well... and if it isn't on the list, it damn well should be.

Yes, I Claudius should be there but isn't. http://johnandsheena.co.uk/books/?p=1489 is a link to my review of the Unconsoled which I thought was good actually.

5- I'm reading Middlemarch right now! It is taking me a long time to get through; I can understand why you decided to take a break from it.

Finished Dr Zhivago, started We. David Copperfield's not far off.

The Shining, A Suitable Boy, Fathers and Sons, Feast of the Goat and David Copperfield are down. I also reread All Quiet on the Western Front, The Cider House Rules, The Bluest Eye, and Anna Karenina - cause really, yes, it defeats the purpose of reading as many as possible, but some of these books are so good they deserve to be revisited again and again.

Absolutely that's the best thing about books - they can be reread. Of the four you reread I've only read one, All Quiet on the Western Front in 2006 and can see myself rereading it later on...

Since last time: The House of the Spirits, Oliver Twist, and Shame. That brings my total to about 125.

Working on The Tin Drum - what a bizarre book. Also rereading Cloud Atlas.

Since January, I've read...

Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
A Room with a View - E.M. Forster

rereads include:

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

Since September....

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
The Kreutzer Sonata and The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Age of Innocence was by far the best, and Dead Souls could have been an all-time favorite if it hadn't ended mid-sentence.

I read The Age of Innocence last August, and it was one of my very top reads last year. For years I resisted reading Wharton (I thought she was too "American" but I caved in and now she's one of my favourite writers.)

I recognize that. I waited a long time, kept postponing it, but after having started reading Wharton, she became one of my favourites too. The House of Mirth and Ethan Frome are also awesome.

Oh good. I talked my book club into reading the House of Mirth for this month. I read Ethan Frome a few years ago and liked it too.

I hated Ethan Frome, but I'm glad I gave Wharton another shot. I'll read House of Mirth soon...

In the past month I've added the following:

Sense & Sensibility
The Poisonwood Bible
The House of Mirth

Also, retroactively, I can add Freedom, A Visit from the Goon Squad, The History of Love, The Art of Fielding, 1Q84 and The Marriage Plot to my total, as they're in the 2012 list and I read both before then.

Mrs. Dalloway and Wise Blood were quite good. Now, I'm working on Don Quixote and Under the Volcano.