Allie/ahef1963's 1001 Books Challenge

....have decided to do this alphabetically, by author.

A//

Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun
Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger
Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim
Isaac Asimov - I, Robot and Foundation
Margaret Atwood - Surfacing and The Handmaid's Tale
Jane Austen - Emma, Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice
Paul Auster - Moon Palace, The New York Trilogy

17 books in A.
Favourites in A are: I, Robot; Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and The Handmaid's Tale.

B//

Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory
Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm
Louis de Bernieres - Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Vera Brittain - Testament of Youth
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange

7 books in B.
Favourites in B are: A Clockwork Orange; Jane Eyre; and Testament of Youth.

C//

James M. Cain - The Postman Always Rings Twice
Italo Calvino - If on a Winter's Night A Traveler
Albert Camus - The Outsider - probably my favourite book ever
Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye
Kate Chopin - The Awakening
Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
John Cleland - Fanny Hill
J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace, Life and Times of Michael K.
Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone, The Woman in White
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness, Nostromo
Michael Cunningham - The Hours

18 books in C.
Favourites in C are The Outsider, The Awakening, and Disgrace.

D//

Robertson Davies - Fifth Business
Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders, Robinson Crusoe
Anita Desai - Clear Light of Day
Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss
Charles Dickens - Bleak House, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Margaret Drabble - The Radiant Way
Daphne DuMaurier - Rebecca

14 books in D.
Favourite in D is David Copperfield.

//E

George Eliot - Adam Bede, Middlemarch
Anne Enright - The Gathering

3 books in E.
Favourite is Adam Bede.

F//

Henry Fielding - Tom Jones
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
E.M. Forster - A Room with a View and Passage to India
John Fowles - The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Magus

8 books in F.
Favourite is The French Lieutenant's Women. I did my Master's thesis on Fowles.

G//

Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South
Andre Gide - The Immoralist
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
Nadine Gordimer - Burger's Daughter, July's People
Graham Greene - Brighton Rock, The Honorary Consul, The Power and the Glory, and The Quiet American
George Gissing - Diary of a Nobody

10 books in G.
Favourites are July's People and The Honorary Consul.

H//

H. Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises
Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr. Ripley
Peter Hoeg - Smilla's Sense of Snow
Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

13 books in H.
Favourites are The Scarlet Letter and Brave New World.

I//

Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day and The Unconsoled

2 books in I.
Favourite is The Remains of the Day.

J//

James Joyce - Finnegan's Wake, Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

3 books in J.
Favourite is Portrait.

K//

Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Stephen King - The Shining
Rudyard Kipling - Kim
Nicole Krauss - The History of Love

4 books in K.
Favourite is One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.

L//

Margaret Laurence - The Diviners
D.H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover, Sons and Lovers
John le Carre - The Spy who came in from The Cold
Elmore Leonard - Get Shorty, La Brava
Astrid Lindgren - Pippi Longstocking
Jack London - The Call of the Wild
H.P. Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness

9 books in L.
Favourite is Sons and Lovers.

M//

Anne-Marie MacDonald - Fall on Your Knees
Yann Martel - Life of Pi
W. Somerset Maugham - The Razor's Edge, Of Human Bondage
Ian McEwan - Atonement
Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons - Watchmen
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Alice Munro - Lives of Girls and Women
Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Iris Murdoch - The Sea, The Sea

11 books in M.
Hard to pick favourites this time - I love so many of them. Hmm....A Fine Balance, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and The Sea, The Sea.

Only one for N//

R.K. Narayan - The Guide

1 book for N.
The Guide is an old favourite.

O//

Flann O'Brien - The Third Policeman
George Orwell - Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four

3 books for O.
Not overly fond of any of them.

P//

Alan Paton - Cry, the Beloved Country
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Annie Proulx - The Shipping News

3 books for P.
Definitely love the Paton book the most.

R//

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire
Samuel Richardson - Clarissa
Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses

6 books for R.
Wide Sargasso Sea was brilliant.

S//

Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated
Carl Sagan - Contact
Antoine de St. Exupery - The Little Prince
J.D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
Jose Saramago - Baltasar and Blimunda
Dorothy L. Sayers - Murder Must Advertise and The Nine Tailors
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Tobias Smollett - Humphrey Clinker
Alexander Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
Laurence Sterne - Tristram Shandy
Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Treasure Island
Patrick Suskind - Perfume
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels

17 books for S.
Favourites are Contact, Baltasar & Blimunda, and Of Mice and Men.

T//

Donna Tartt - The Secret History
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings
Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn

5 books for T.
Favourite is The Hobbit.

V//

Jules Verne - Around the World in 80 Days and Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Voltaire - Candide
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle

5 books for V.
Favourites? All of them except Cat's Cradle, which I found incomprehensible.

W//

Alice Walker - The Color Purple
Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
H.G. Wells - The Time Machine
Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome
T.H. White - The Once and Future King
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
P.G. Wodehouse - Thank You, Jeeves
John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids

9 books for W.
The Color Purple and Ethan Frome are my favourites.

Very unusual way of spliting things up. Best of luck to you!

I'm going to try to organise mine into time periods at some point. I didn't plan my diary very well though so I will be a bit funny looking. Once I get a few more books in I guess I will have to start a new thread and start it properly!

welcome! you already have an impressive list!

>22 M1nks: Thank you! I didn't like the time period divisions - it's not how my brain works. My library is sorted by author, so this made the most sense to me. Besides, I HATED seeing how few books I'd read in certain time periods!

>23 paruline: Thank you for the welcome! I think I've read 169/1001 so there is a long way to go!

There's a few I've read that I didn't manage to list above, for one reason or another; to the count let me add:

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre - and in French, too!
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

/+4

Books I have on hand in my own library (as yet unread), not to mention the scads of books that are available on Project Gutenberg and in other places free for the reading.

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Le Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
The Plague by Albert Camus
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Fruits of the Earth by Andre Gide
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
History of the Siege of Lisbon by Jose Saramago
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Jose Saramago
Cancer Ward by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

My library used to be sorted by 'type'. Currrently it's sorted by.... ummm. Throw randomly into any space things will fit?

>27 M1nks: My library is VERY roughly sorted by author, especially the bookshelf in my living room. It's in alphabetical-ish order, in that Atwood and Austen are Auster are on the top shelf, and Wodehouse and Yates and Yeats rather lower down, but that's all. My other bookshelves are far more vague. Possibly my shelf full of Pratchett should be beneath my shelf full of Stephen King, but it's not. So, I get your sorted by.....ummm quite well!

November 15 - am reading TWO books from the list, this must be a first. I have nothing to do at work at the moment, just tending a rather empty shop, so I'm reading Nevil Shute's "A Town Like Alice" on Project Gutenberg Canada, and enjoying it rather a lot. In terms of actual books printed on paper, I'm reading "Alias Grace" by Margaret Atwood, and finding it a lot more readable than expected.

A Town Like Alice is one of my favourite books. It was on the bookshelf of our family holiday batch so was read at an early age (lack of choice) and then re-read quite often.

>30 M1nks:
I'm enjoying A Town Like Alice very much. I've not read it before because I thought it was a war story of the traditional type - lots of shooting and guns and tanks - and I don't enjoy those sorts of books. I wish now that I'd read it years ago. I'm reading it online at the moment, but this is a book that I will be buying to have on my shelves.

What are your other favourite books? I always like to know - maybe there's something I haven't read that comes highly recommended!

Some of my favourites are here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4596610-nicola?shelf=read

A Town Like Alice I haven't got around to rating yet but it will be a 5 star. I tend to rate epics highly as they've stood the test of time but others are 4 and 5 stars just because they either blew me away or I've gone back to them so many times I can't help but give them high scores.