ALWINN UPDATED 1001 LIST

Since it has been a long time since I have updated this list I thought it would just be better to just start a brand new and fresh thread. So here goes.

2000

1 . The Lambs of London
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
3. The Colour
4. Family Matters
5. Middlesex
6. The Corrections
7. Life of Pi
8. White Teeth
9. How The Dead Live
10. The Human Stain
11. The Blind Assassin
12. Blonde
13. Elegance of the HedgeHog
14. Unless
15. Home: A novel

1999-1950

16. Disgrace
17. Intimacy
18. Cloudsplitter
19. Memoirs of a Geisha
20. The Reader
21. The Virgin Suicides
22. The Discovery of Heaven
23. Black Water
24. American Psycho
25. Like Water for Chocolate
26. Cat's Eye
27. The Black Dahlia
28. The New York Trilogy
29. Beloved
30. Love in The Time of Cholera
31. The Color Purple
32. The Name of the Rose
33. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
34. The Shining
35. Interview With the Vampire
36. Slaughterhouse-five
37. The Godfather
38. One Hundred Years of Solitude
39. The Master and Margarita
40. In Cold Blood
41. Arrow of God
42. The Bell Jar
43. A severed Head
44. Catch-22
45. To Kill a Mockingbird
46. Breakfast at Tiffany's
47. Lolita
48. The Last Temptation of Christ
49. Go Tell it on the Mountain
50. Invisible Man
51. The Catcher in the Rye
52. The End of the Affair
53. Wild Swans
54. The French Lieutenant's Woman
55. The Black Prince
56. Sula
57. The Robbers Bride
58. Lord of the Rings
59. Lord of the Flies
60. The Bluest Eyes
61. The Golden Notebook
62. World End
63. Birdsong
64. The Handmaids Tale
65. The Life and Times of Michael K
66. Another World
67. Song of Solomon
68. The Ghost Road
69. Regeneration
70. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1949-1900

71. 1984
72. The Plague
73. Dangling Man
74. The Grapes of Wrath
75. Rebecca
76. Of Mice and Men
77. Gone with the Wind
78. A Farewell to Arms
79. Lady Chatterley's Lover
80. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
81. The Great Gatsby
82. The Trail
83. The Life and Death Harriett Frean
84. The Fox
85. The Age of Innocence
86. Main Street
87. Kokoro
88. Tarzan of the Apes
89. Sons and Lovers
90. Ethan Frome
91. Howards End
92. The Jungle
93. The House of Mirth
94. Where Angels Fear to Tread
95. Buddenbrooks
96. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
97. A Room With a View
98. All Quiet on the Western Front
99. Animal Farm
100. Brideshead Revisited
101. Rashomon
102. Heart of Darkness
103. Pippi Longstocking
104. The Call of the Wild
105. The Forsyte Saga
106. The Magic Mountian
107. Their Eyes Were Watching God
108. Titus Groan

1800
109. The turn of the Screw
110. Dracula
111. The Island of Dr Moreau
112. Diary of a Nobody
113. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
114. Tess of the D'Ubervilles
115. The Picture of Dorian Gray
116. The Strange Case of Dr jekyll and Mr Hyde
117. Germinal
118. Treasure Island
119. The Portrait of a lady
120. The Brothers karamazov
121. Anna Karenina
122. Middlemarch
123. Little Women
124. Crime and Punishment
125. Notes From the Underground
126. The Water-Babies
127. Great Expectations
128. The Woman in White
129. Madame Bovary
130. Uncle Tom's Cabin
131. David Copperfield
132. Wuthering Heights
133. Agnes Grey
134. Jane Eyre
135. Vanity Fair
136. The Count of Monte-Cristo
137. A Christmas Carol
138. The Nose
139. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
140. The Red and The Black
141. Last of the Mohicans
142. Frankenstein
143. Northanger Abbey
144. Persuasion
145. Emma
146. Pride and Prejudice
147. Alice Adventures in Wonderland
148. Through the Looking Glass
149. Bleak House
150. Bouvard and Pecuchet
151. Far From the Madding Crowd
152. Gosta Berling's Saga
153. Hard Times
154. He Knew He Was Right
155. Les Miserables
156. Oliver Twist
157. Sense and Sensibility
158. The Awakening
159. The Invisible Man
160. The Moonstone
161. The Pit and the Pendulum
162. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
163. The Three Musketeers
164. The Time Machine
165. The Yellow Wallpaper
166. Therese Raquin
167. War and Peace
167. Heart of Darkness
170. the Scarlet Letter

1700 and before

171. Aesop's Fables
172. Fanny Hill
173. Moll Flanders
174. The Female Quixote

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175. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow I was so looking forward to this but was somewhat disappointed.

Set in New York City during the early 1900s with a mix of Real people such as Pierpont Morgan, Houdini, Henry Ford with fictional characters. But the main story line was sit around this black musician that had his car trashed and just wants justice. This was an easy read but just not sure what the point was to this book.

Publication Date 1975
Length 336
Rating 3 stars
Format physical book but will have to replace a naughty 2 year old ripped off the front and back cover

176. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

A teacher Jean Brodie takes a set of set 6 girls under her wing to teach them what she "Jean Brodie" is important in life and her view of things since she reminds everyone all the time that she is in her PRIME. Miss Brodie is involved in a love triangle with 3 different men at the school that she involves the girls in. At the end Mis Brodie is betrayed by one of her own girls and is fired from the school thus ending her PRIME. This was a quick easy entertaining audiobook that I was able to start and finish in an afternoon.

Publication Date 1961
Length 160 p
Rating 3 stars
Format Audio

177. Candide by Voltaire

I found a decent audio form of the book and was about to start and finish in an afternoon. Not really going to give a review of this book since I cant add anything that has already been said and most everyone already knows the plot. My thoughts on this book is we often set our minds on something or someone and spend all this time sometimes even years trying to obtain this one thing and once we get it that thing, situation or even that person turns out to be a great disappointment.

Publication Date 1748
Length 84p
Rating 3 stars
Format Audio

178. Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee

I listen to this book on audio and since the writer was the one reading his own book it was great because it was like sitting down with your Grandfather and him just talking about his childhood.

This is a coming of age story of a boy that grows up in the early 1900 during WWI in a large family 4 sisters and 3 other brothers in a small village outside of London. His father moved his wife with his 4 daughter from his first marriage and then with the 3 boys they had together to a small village and then pretty much abandons them only showing up every so often to London.

This was a very easy to listen too and just felt like story time. Nothing earth changing.

Publication Date 1959
Length 224p
Rating 3 1/2 stars
Format Audio

That sounds like it might be quite a pleasant change of pace book. Some respite from what sometimes feels like the constant doom and gloom of the main list books.

Really the best way to describe it has a cozy listen too. At first I was like why are they having the old man read this book because he sounds like he is out of breath then I looked and he was the one that wrote the book so I was like well this is really cool. Just sit back and listen to Grandpa.

179. The Stanger by Albert Camus

A lot of thoughts on this little book. What to say about the main character Mersault? Shortly after his Mothers death he happens to get into a situation where he kills a man. When he is on trail it seems that he is more on trail for his feelings and emotions or lack of them the actual murder. The thought of just because you may not show the emotions that people think you should feel does that make you a bad person?

Publication Date 1942
Length 76p
Rating 3 stars
Format Audio

180. Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago

Set in Portugal in the 1711 the book has 3 main story lines: The 1st is a king that promises to build a convent if the queen conceives. the 2nd is a couple that falls in love Baltasar a former solider with only one hand and Blimunda that has the ability to see under the surface of things including people. The 3rd is a strange priest that building a flying machine that uses runs off of energy taken from the inner wills of dying people. During this time Baltasar and Blimunda becomes separated several times and Baltasar spends many years searching for Blimunda. After many years Baltasar and Blimunda find each other but Blimunda has lost her beauty and cranky.
Listening to this on audio and at times really had to pay attention to what was being said or I would get completely lost and have to rewind. The realism wasn’t that magical for me it was just kinda of meh so just glad I can tic this one off the list.

Publication Date 1982
Length 360p
Rating 2 1/2 stars
Format Audio

181. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

We have two main characters John Wheelwright and Owen Meany that grow up together. John is an only child to a single mother and his life time obsession is to find out who his father is, but his mother dies before revealing who the man is. Owen the more interesting character is a tiny little guy with a very usual voice that is very intelligent.

I didn’t mind John in his younger years but later one he turns into a bitter and angry man, but Owen he was just so unique and fascinating with his ideas of being an instrument of God and later on in college some of the things that he able to pull off and get away with.

I just couldn’t wait to get back to this book to see what will happen next a very delightful read and it will bring on the feels and yes tears (Im not ashamed).

Publication Date 1989
Length 640p
Rating 4 1/2 stars
Format Audio

Have you read Garp? Most people seem to like Owen Meany the best but Garp will always be my favourite.

NO not yet but its on my radar.

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182. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dr Diver marries his rich patient and trying to save her he in turns ruins himself in alcohol. At first glance the Divers appear to have it all a great marriage, living the life of leisure surrounded by many friends. While on the beach the Divers meet an American actress Rosemary that spends the summer with the Divers and there we see the cracks in the Divers marriage.
Any one that knows the story of Fitzgerald and Zelda will know that this book is about his marriage and himself. While the book was interesting it wasn’t anything near The Great Gasby.

Publication Date 1934
Length 400p
Rating 3 stars
Format Audio

183. The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Heminway

An old man goes over 80 days without catching anything and one day the old man decides he will catch something by going out further then all the other boats. Sure enough he catches a big fish that tows him a day or so from shore before the fight is over and the old man wins against the fish. Since the fish is so big instead of getting the fish on board of the boat he attaches him to the boat itself and begins to tow the fish in to shore. On the way back to the shore he has to fight off many sharks and by the time he reaches shore there is nothing left of the fish except the head, backbone and tail.

This one is a big surprise for me that I actually enjoyed this book at all but very much so. Im not a big out door type of person so a book about an old man catching a big fish just wasn't high on my list.

Publication Date 1952
Length 128p
Rating 4 stars
Format Physical