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Lori's 1001 List

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1Pigletto
Edited: Aug 30, 2014, 8:09 pm

Finally decided to take the plunge and try to tackle the list. It's time to stop thinking I must read that book one day and actually read them. I'll be using the combined list.

Here is my list so far:

1. Fanny Hill
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Mansfield Park
4. Emma
5. Persuasion
6. Northanger Abbey
7. Frankenstein
8. A Christmas Carol
9. Jane Eyre
10. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
11. Cranford
12. Bleak House
13. Great Expectations
14. Fathers and Sons
15. The Water-Babies
16. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
17. The Moonstone
18. Little Women
19. Through the Looking Glass
20. Treasure Island
21. King Solomon's Mines
22. The Picture of Dorian Gray
23. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
24. Diary of a Nobody
25. The Yellow Wallpaper
26. Dracula
27. The Hound of the Baskervilles
28. The Great Gatsby
29. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
30. Brave New World
31. Gone With the Wind
32. The Hobbit
33. Of Mice and Men
34. Rebecca
35. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
36. Animal Farm
37. Nineteen Eighty-Four
38. The Catcher in the Rye
39. Day of the Triffids
40. Casino Royale
41. The Lord of the Rings
42. To Kill a Mockingbird
43. The Bell Jar
44. Chocky
45. Slaughterhouse Five
46. Interview With the Vampire
47. The Shining
48. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
49. The House of the Spirits
50. Schindler's Ark
51. The Color Purple
52. The Handmaid's Tale
53. Perfume
54. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
55. Watchmen
56. Remains of the Day
57. The Secret History
58. The Reader
59. Alias Grace
60. Memoirs of a Geisha
61. Tipping the Velvet
62. House of Leaves
63. Life of Pi
64. Fingersmith
65. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night TIme
66. Never Let Me Go
67. A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian
68. 1Q84

Some of these I will be rereading because a) I love them, b) I want to give the book another chance or c) I read them ages ago and would like to see what I think of them now.

2Yells
Jul 28, 2014, 1:40 pm

Welcome! There are quite a few of us around who can't resist the lure of lists..

3Pigletto
Jul 29, 2014, 2:01 pm

Thank you. I do love a list.

4Pigletto
Edited: Jan 3, 2015, 9:17 pm

I forgot to update this. Here are the 1001 books I read in the last half of 2014:

69. Around the World in Eighty Days
70. The Midwich Cuckoos
71. The Invisible Man
72. The Diary of a Nobody
73. The Turn of the Screw
74. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

5MartinBodek
Jan 5, 2015, 1:07 pm

Welcome! I'm new here and am enjoying the hell out of it. I bless you that you should too.

6sjmccreary
Jan 8, 2015, 3:31 pm

Welcome! I can't resist a good list, either. I'm a slow-goer, but I've loved this group for the books I've been introduced to. The monthly group reads are fabulous.