Korrick's Meandering Through the 1001+

Total: 204 (As of May 28th, 2014)

I started working on these in earnest about two to three years ago.

As for present work, I'm currently reading:

Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño

Welcome Korrick! Phew indeed! The list can become quite addictive, right?

Oh yes, paruline. I got through sixty works on it last year alone. Other projects are making it unlikely that I'll match the number this year, but I've still made my way through a fair number.

As the touchstones aren't loading on the huge main post and I really want them to work, I'm going to be doing some fiddling by year. Don't mind me.

Pre-2010 Read
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
The Shining – Stephen King
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
The Sound of Waves - Yukio Mishima
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
Silence - Shusaku Endo
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
Animal Farm – George Orwell

Wow, you've read many impressive ones, like Proust and Joyce! Which are your favourites of the list so far?

Pre-2010 Read (cont.)
Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
2666 - Roberto Bolaño

6> I wouldn't have gotten through Proust and Joyce without some wonderful group reads. As for my favorites, they would have to be:

Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
Epitaph of a Small Winner - Machado de Assis
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
Regeneration - Pat Barker
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
Hadrian's Memoirs - Marguerite Yourcenar
Villette - Charlotte Brontë
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Native Son - Richard Wright
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Fateless - Imre Kertesz
There but for the - Ali Smith
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

I have reviews up on LT for most of them.

2010 Read
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Saturday - Ian McEwan
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
A Heart So White - Javier Marías
The Discovery of Heaven - Harry Mulisch
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin

2011 Read
Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Deep River - Shusaku Endo
Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Book of Evidence - John Banville
Possession - A.S. Byatt
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
Baltasar and Blimunda - José Saramago
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Waterland - Graham Swift
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann

2012 Read
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Schindler's List - Thomas Keneally
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
The Waves - Virginia Woolf
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
If Not Now, When? - Primo Levi
The Kindly Ones - Jonathan Littell
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Süskind
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Red and the Black - Stendhal
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maugham
Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Farewell, My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

2013 Read
Watchmen - Alan Moore
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Trial - Franz Kafka
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Smith
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Chess Story - Stefan Zweig
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
V. - Thomas Pynchon
Embers - Sándor Márai
The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch
The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
Epitaph of a Small Winner - Machado de Assis
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
Against Nature - Joris-Karl Huysmans
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Barabbas - Pär Lagerkvist
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
Delta of Venus - Anaïs Nin
Regeneration - Pat Barker
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
Middlemarch - George Eliot
The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek
Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
Hadrian's Memoirs - Marguerite Yourcenar
Villette - Charlotte Brontë
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
Faces in the Water - Janet Frame
Transit - Anna Seghers
Labyrinths - Jorges Luis Borges
Native Son - Richard Wright
Mr. Vertigo - Paul Auster
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys
Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
Independent People - Halldór Laxness
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
The Leopard - Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
Disgrace - J. M. Coetzee
Ada or Ardor - Vladimir Nabokov
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

2013 Read (cont.)
The Lover - Marguerite Duras
Dictionary of the Khazars - Milorad Pavić
White Teeth - Zadie Smith

2014 Read (so far)
Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O'Connor (within The Complete Stories)
At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien
Fateless - Imre Kertesz
Shirley - Charlotte Brontë
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsun
Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
There but for the - Ali Smith
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure - John Cleland
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño
Howards End - E. M. Forster
A Room with a View - E. M. Forster
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
Quicksand - Nella Larsen
Passing - Nella Larsen
The Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir
The Mill on the Floss - Marian Evans
The Summer Book - Tove Jansson

What did you think of O'Brien's At Swim, Two Birds? That's one I've been planning to get ahold of for a while.

13> I liked it, but so many of the references went over my head that I didn't enjoy it as much as I did O'Brien's 'The Third Policeman'. I have a review for it up on LT if you want a more in-depth summation of my thoughts.

Agree, The Third Policeman is his best. Also The Dalkey Archive which is not on the list.

I haven't read 'The Dalkey Archive', but I do adore the publishing press inspired by it.

I've just started A Room with a View / Howards End (combined edition of those two works).

>8 Korrick: Welcome! Looks like you've got quite a start on the 1001 lists. And I noticed that you've read (and loved) a book that no one else in the group has read yet -- The Book of Disquiet.

Thank you for the welcome, Eliz. As for 'The Book of Disquiet', I had noticed the group thread, but was unsure whether this challenge was a 'read whenever' sort of thing, or if each book had to be read between the start of the challenge and today. If the former is the case, I'll gladly put my name in for having read TBoD.

I'd say if it's crossed off your list, it can be crossed off the group list. Come on over and join in the fun!

Ha ha, if that's the case, will do!

Finished:

The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño (5 stars, review)
Howards End - E. M. Forster (5 stars, review)
A Room with a View - E. M. Forster (4 stars, review)
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (5 stars, review)

Total: 204

Currently Reading:

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

Finished:

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (4 stars, review)
On Beauty - Zadie Smith (5 stars, review)
Quicksand - Nella Larsen (5 stars, review)
Passing - Nella Larsen (4.5 stars, review)
The Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir (3 stars, review)
The Mill on the Floss - Marian Evans (4.5 stars, review)
The Summer Book - Tove Jansson (4.5 stars, review)

Total: 211

Currently Reading:

Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset
The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai

If you're on a Scandinavian kick, make sure to read Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel. An amazing evocation of life above the arctic circle. It made me want to visit but NEVER live there.

woooo Kristin... excellent, excellent novel... looking forward to hearing your thoughts on that

Finished:

The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai (4 stars, review)
Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset (5 stars, review)
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie (4 stars, review)

Total: 214

ah... I guess I'm to be disappointed!

Oh, it seems I forgot to put up review links. They've all been recently uploaded if you want to dig them up yourself, arukiyomi, but I'll be putting direct links up as soon as I can.