Marleen's 1001 book list progress

I've been working on the 1001 list slowly since 2006. These are the books I have read to date:

2000's
1: Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
2: Saturday – Ian McEwan
3: On Beauty – Zadie Smith
4: Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
5: The Sea – John Banville
6: The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
7: The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
8: The Master – Colm Tóibín
9: Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
10: Thursbitch – Alan Garner
11: The Light of Day – Graham Swift
12: What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
13: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
14: Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
15: Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
16: In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
17: Dead Air – Iain Banks
18: The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
19: Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
20: Atonement – Ian McEwan
21: The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
22: At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
23: Life of Pi – Yann Martel
24: White Teeth – Zadie Smith
25: City of God – E.L. Doctorow
26: The Human Stain – Philip Roth
27: The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
28: House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
29: The Gathering - Anne Enright (Added 12/01/2015)

1900's
1: Timbuktu – Paul Auster
2: Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
3: The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
4: Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
5: Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
6: The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
7: American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
8: The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
9: Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
10: Possession – A.S. Byatt
11: The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
12: Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
13: Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
14: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
15: The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
16: Beloved – Toni Morrison
17: Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
18: Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
19: Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
20: The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
21: Neuromancer – William Gibson
22: The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
23: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
24: Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
25: The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
26: Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
27: 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
28: One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
29: In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
30: Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
31: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
32: A Clockwork Orange– Anthony Burgess
33: Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
34: Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
35: The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
36: To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
37: Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
38: Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
39: On the Road – Jack Kerouac
40: Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
41: The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
42: Lord of the Flies – William Golding
43: Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
44: Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
45: The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
46: Foundation – Isaac Asimov
47: The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
48: I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
49: Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
50: The Plague – Albert Camus
51: Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
52: Animal Farm – George Orwell
53: The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
54: The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
55: The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
56: Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
57: Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
58: The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
59: England Made Me – Graham Greene
60: Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
61: Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
62: The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
63: A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
64: To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
65: Amerika – Franz Kafka
66: The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
67: The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
68: Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
69: We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
70: A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
71: Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
72: The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
73: The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
74: Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
75: Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson (Added 10/5/2015)
76: Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (Added 10/16/2015)
77: Concrete - Thomas Bernhard (Added 12/01/2015)
78: Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller (Added 12/01/2015)

1800's
1: The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
2: The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
3: Dracula – Bram Stoker
4: The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
5: The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
6: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
8: Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
9: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
10: The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
11: Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
12: The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
13: Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
14: The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
15: Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
16: Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
17: Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
18: Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
19: A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
20: Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
21: The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
22: Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
23: The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
24: David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
25: Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
26: The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
27: The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
28: A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
29: The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
30: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
31: Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
32: Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
33: Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
34: Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
35: Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

1700's
1: The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
2: Candide – Voltaire
3: Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
4: Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
5: A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift

Pre 1700's
1: The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
2: Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

An impressive list Marleen, welcome!

Thanks.

I am hoping to start Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon over the holiday weekend. I've read his novel Reamde and really enjoyed it.

A very good start!

Are you American btw?

Yes. I am American.

Welcome Marleen! I hope you enjoy Cryptonomicon. I thought it was great fun when I read it a couple of years ago.

Well it took me longer than I thought to add Cryptonomicon to the list but I finally finished it after having stopped and started it over the past year. I found it interesting, especially the interconnection with Alan Turing, but got tired of Bobby Shafto very quickly - likely causing me to drag my feet in finishing. I actually put this book down to read Stephenson's Seven Eves (which I highly recommend).

Now to figure out what to read next - and hopefully a little quicker.

Just received a copy of the 2011 reprint of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
"updated edition" (according to the cover) as a gift.

After thumbing through it looks like I've read quite a few from that list. I think I'll want to integrate these into my overall list.

I've read the following off of that list:

The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
The Dispossed - Ursula Le Guin
Willard and His Bowling Trophies - Richard Brautigan
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundra
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Outsider (read as The Stranger - multiple times) - Albert Camus
Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
Delta of Venus - Anais Nin

Yeah, nine new ones, just like that!

#12 -- it took me years to realize that The Outsider was the book I had read in AP French class as The Stranger. And I was so pleased to get even a single "free" book like that.

Yeah, I did not realize that the Outsider was the same as the Stranger - I read that book once in high school then again for every English /modern fiction class I took in college. So I'm guessing I've read it around 4 times.

Call of the Wild - I read back in early high school.

The others are within the last few years. I had thought I was working off the 2006 list but I guess at some point I may have had an integrated list that I must have pulled some of these from.

I read Lolita yesterday night when I had some quiet time. I think I had read it or started to read it before because it seemed so familiar.

Now that I am on break (in between jobs) for a bit I hope to knock a few more titles out quickly.

My current to read pile includes Concrete, This New and Poisonous Air and Tropic of Cancer

Back again with an update. Read the following since my last post from the 2006 list:

Concrete - Depressing but had a unique twist and was a very quick read.

Tropic of Cancer - I'm not a fan of Henry Miller, struggled through this one.

From the 2008 printing:

The Gathering - I liked this story of a broken family. Deals with the death of a sibling and the impact of family secrets.

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Turns out This New and Poisonous Air was on my TBR pile but not actually on the 1001 list as far as I can tell when I went back to check - but it was a quick read, short stories, very gothic. Worked well as a Halloween time read.

So the new three on my TBR pile are:

Tale of the Genji
Kafka on the Shore
Crash

Hope to finish these three off by the end of the year.

Happy New Year! Hope everyone started the New Year well.

Finished Kafka on the Shore and Crash. Still working through Tale of the Genji but should finish it this week.

My goal for 2016 is to read a minimum of 2 - 1001 List books per month.

I've got a stack waiting for me. Some of the titles I plan to read this year include:

Gone with the Wind
Middlesex
Nana
The Ravishing of Lol Stein
Zeitoun

>15 Marleen_Cloutier: I've read three of those books in your stack (Gone with the Wind, Middlesex and Nana) and liked all of them with Middlesex being at the top and Nana at the bottom.