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1LittleTaiko
Edited: Apr 13, 2014, 3:30 pm

Hello! I recently acquired the 1001 Books book (2010 edition) and thought it would be fun to join this group!

Sadly, I'm not too far along in the list but hope to add some more during 2013.

Pre-1800: 3
1800's: 22
1900's: 27
2000's: 5

Total: 57

2Yells
Dec 27, 2012, 11:51 am

We all started somewhere so no worries. Welcome! You might just find that hanging out here makes the number increase rapidly :)

3amerynth
Dec 27, 2012, 12:00 pm

Welcome and happy reading!

4LittleTaiko
Dec 27, 2012, 7:25 pm

Thanks guys! I'm looking forward to catching up and have included 1001 books in my 2013 category challenge.

5LittleTaiko
Edited: Apr 15, 2013, 9:50 am

Pre-1800

1. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe read before 2013
2. Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith read before 2013
3. Candide by Voltaire April 2013

Total - 3

6LittleTaiko
Edited: Apr 13, 2014, 3:31 pm

1800's

1. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen read before 2013
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen read before 2013
3. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen read before 2013
4. Emma by Jane Austen read before 2013
5. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley read before 2013
6. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens read before 2013
7. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe read before 2013
8. The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe read before 2013
9. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas read before 2013
10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte read before 2013
11. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert read before 2013
12. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins read before 2013
13. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott read before 2013
14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain read before 2013
15. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde read before 2013
16. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells read before 2013
17. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. March 2013
18. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle April 2013
19. The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas August 2013
20. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne January 2014
21. Bleak House by Charles Dickens January 2014
22. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson April 2014

Total - 22

7george1295
Dec 27, 2012, 7:49 pm

That's a good start!! Welcome to the group.

8LittleTaiko
Dec 27, 2012, 8:36 pm

Thanks! I think the 1800's is where I've read the most. Need to log the rest though.

9LittleTaiko
Edited: Nov 21, 2013, 9:50 am

1900's

1. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie read before 2013
2. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell read before 2013
3. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier read before 2013
4. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck read before 2013
5. Animal Farm by George Orwell read before 2013
6. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger read before 2013
7. Rabbit, Run by John Updike read before 2013
8. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee read before 2013
9. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger read before 2013
10. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys read before 2013
11. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. read before 2013
12. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice read before 2013
13. The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Skvorecky read before 2013
14. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes read before 2013
15. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway read before 2013
16. Thank You, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse January 2013
17. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov January 2013
18. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams February 2013
19. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino March 2013
20. Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym April 2013
21. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson June 2013
22. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle June 2013
23. Master and Margarita by Mihail Bulgakov June 2013
24. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym July 2013
25. Rabbit Redux by John Updike September 2013
26. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller October 2013
27. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood November 2013

Total - 27

10LittleTaiko
Edited: Oct 5, 2013, 9:11 pm

2000's

1. Atonement by Ian McEwan read before 2013
2. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery read before 2013
3. Half of the Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie read before 2013
4. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz read before 2013
5. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri October 2013

Total - 4

11LittleTaiko
Jan 14, 2013, 3:03 pm

Yea! First official 1001 book for 2013 was a great one - Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse. Love his books and this is one of the best in the Jeeves series.

12LittleTaiko
Jan 27, 2013, 2:13 pm

13LittleTaiko
Feb 17, 2013, 6:01 pm

14LittleTaiko
Edited: Mar 29, 2013, 10:22 pm

17LittleTaiko
Jul 7, 2013, 4:07 pm

July 2013

1. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

18LittleTaiko
Aug 20, 2013, 2:50 pm

19LittleTaiko
Sep 9, 2013, 10:43 pm

September 2013

1. Rabbit Redux by John Updike

20LittleTaiko
Edited: Nov 21, 2013, 9:50 am

21LittleTaiko
Nov 21, 2013, 9:50 am

November 2013

1. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

22LittleTaiko
Edited: Jan 27, 2014, 12:51 pm

23LittleTaiko
Apr 13, 2014, 3:32 pm

April 2014

1. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson