sabrina's progress

I'm finally posting my progress through the list, mainly because I want to be on Jonny's nifty progress index! I've been reading from the combined list for about 3-4 years, and have been following everyone's progress here for the last 2 of those.

Luckily I had a pretty good start, having been given a similar list in high school (books one should be familiar with before beginning college, ha!), and from majoring in Humanities. And from being slightly obsessive.

In (very) rough reading order:

1. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
2. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
3. Animal Farm - George Orwell
4. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
5. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
6. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
7. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
9. The Shining - Stephen King
10. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
11. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
12. Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
13. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
14. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
15. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defor
16. The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells
17. All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
18. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
19. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
20. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
21. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
22. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
23. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
24. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
25. King Solomon's Mines - Henry Rider Haggard
26. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
27. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
28. Dracula - Bram Stoker
29. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
30. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
31. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
32. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
33. Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
34. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
35. Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
36. 1984 - George Orwell
37. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
38. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
39. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
40. A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
41. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
42. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
43. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
44. Contact - Carl Sagan
45. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
46. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
47. The Stranger - Albert Camus
48. The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
49. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
50. The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie
51. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
52. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
53. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
54. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
55. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
56. Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
57. Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
58. The Body Artist - Don DeLillo
59. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
61. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
62. Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
63. White Teeth - Zadie Smith
64. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
65. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
66. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
67. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
68. White Noise - Don DeLillo
69. The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
70. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
71. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
72. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
73. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
74. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
75. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
76. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
77. Neuromancer - William Gibson
78. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
79. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
80. Nadja - Andre Breton
81. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
82. The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
83. House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
84. The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano
85. Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Read in 2012:

86. Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
87. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
88. American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis
89. Smilla's Sense of Snow - Peter Hoeg
90. Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
91. Watchmen - Alan Moore
92. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
93. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
94. 2666 - Roberto Bolano
95. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

Read in 2013:

96. The Fall of the House of Usher - Poe
97. The Pit and the Pendulum - Poe
98. The Professor's House - Willa Cather
99. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
100. Franny and Zooey - J. D. Salinger
101. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
102. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
103. Rabbit, Run - John Updike
104. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
105. The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
106. The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
107. After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
108. Atonement - Ian McEwan
109. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
110. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
111. On Love - Alain de Botton
112. Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
113. The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
114. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
115. The Purloined Letter - Poe
116. Aesop's Fables - Aesop
117. Waiting for the Barbarians - J. M. Coetzee
118. 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
119. The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
120. A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
121. The Nose - Nikolai V. Gogol
122. The Art of Fielding - Chad Harbach
123. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
124. The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
125. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
126. The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells

I've been knocking out a lot of the shorter books I've had on my Kindle forever, especially this month.

January:
127. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

February:
128. The 39 Steps - John Buchan
129. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Horace McCoy
130. Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
131. The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
132. The Call of the Wild - Jack London
133. The Fox - D. H. Lawrence
134. Cain - Jose Saramago
135. A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
136. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
137. Beloved - Toni Morrison
138. The Accidental - Ali Smith
139. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
140. The Inferno - Henri Barbusse
141. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

March 2014:
142. The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides
143. The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
144. Bunner Sisters - Edith Wharton
145. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
146. Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
147. Saturday - Ian McEwan
148. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
149. The Breast - Philip Roth
150. Unless - Carol Shields
151. The Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille (forgot I had read part of this in grad school, so finished it off)
152. The Quiet American - Graham Greene

Wow - 11 books finished in March. You are on a roll!

Thanks! I had some down time...