Kristel's Reading 1001 list

This is a continuation of my progress. Kristel's 1001. Version 8
I ended the year 2020 at 556. (I can't say for sure if this is totally accurate).

#557. In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul. Published 1971. I rated it 4.6. Appreciated it more after reading article about the novel, its structure, its themes, the authors own experiences.

#558. Brighton Rock Graham Greene. 4 stars. Probably doesn't need to be on the list but I did enjoy it. It was not hard to read.

#559. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene. Mexico, Cristo Wars. 4 stars

560. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake, fantasy. 3.5 stars.

561.

Book The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1943
Acquisition date/place: 2019, Audible
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.6 stars
Book description/summary: wise men play games
Challenge(s): 1001 BOTM
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI: #4, last name only one vowel (e).
American: no
British: no
List book: 1001, Guardian, Nobel Laureate

562.
Book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Format: audio play
Original publication date: 1892
Acquisition date/place: 2014
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.8
Book description/summary: logic solves it all
Challenge(s): TBR takedown, 1001
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British: yes
List book: 1001 Books

new format I see... what is Bingo DOG? Any relation to the CAT above it?

>8 arukiyomi: The CAT and Bingo dog all come from Category Challenge Group. The format is what I am using in 75 group and it is just easier to cut and paste.

ah right... I see... kind of ;-)

563.

Book The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1929
Acquisition date/place: Audible
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.6 stars
Book description/summary: Southern Aristocrat family falls apart
Challenge(s): 1001, TBR, ROOT
American: yes
British:
List book: on many notable lists

564,

Book Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard
Format: book
Original publication date: 2000
Acquisition date/place: Bookmooch 2019
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.2 stars
Book description/summary: Eden has its snakes and gods of Olympus
Challenge(s): 1001, ROOT
American:
British: yes

565.
Book The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1766
Acquisition date/place: 4/2021, Libby, LCL
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.8 stars
Book description/summary: fictitious memoir of the vicar's difficulties

566. The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt
Historical fiction, family saga, arts, politics, you name it and it is in this book. Rating 3.5 to 4 stars

567. Completed Eugenia Grandet by Honore de Balzac, 4 stars

568.

Book Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
Format: audible
Original publication date: 1914
Acquisition date/place: March 2020.
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.6 stars
Book description/summary: heart of things/isolation/suicide
Challenge(s): 1001, TBR takedown
CAT/KIT:
Bingo DOG:
TIOLI:
American:
British:
List book: 1001 Books

569.

Book Une Vie by Guy de Maupassant
Format: kindle
Original publication date: 1883
Acquisition date/place: Amazon, 2021
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: a woman's life, is a good description
Challenge(s): 1001 BOTM
List book: 1001 Book

570. Orlando by Virginia Woolf. This was quite different from what I had expected.

571. Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard. Structure of this one was the challenge. One continues stream of sentences with no paragraphs. Thank goodness it wasn't too long.

572. Group Portrait with Lady by Heinrich Böll. Worthy of being on the list of books one must read. Rated 4 stars.

573. The Shining by Stephen King, 1977 classic horror. Rated 3.8 stars

574. The Enigma of Arrival by V.S. Naipaul. Rated 3.4 stars.

575. 72.
Book Santa Evita by Tomás Eloy Martínez
Format: book
Original publication date: 1995
Acquisition date/place:MnLink 2021Decimal/
Star rating: 2.5 stars
Book description/summary: the story of a corpse
Challenge(s): 1001 randomizer book, Category challenges, 75 books

This book might mean more to someone from Argentina or those that tend to idolize famous people which I am not. It is interesting but just way to long. The use of magical realism is what is generally expected in Latin American lit and it works okay. The use of investigative journalism technique is also something not unique. It took almost the whole month to finish this book.

577.

Book Deep Rivers by Jose Maria Arguedas
Format: book
Original publication date: 1958
Acquisition date/place: August 1, 2021, BOTM Reading 1001
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.8 stars
Book description/summary: The bridge over the world
Challenge(s): 1001 Books
List book: 1001

578.
The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White
Format: audible (play)
Original publication date: 1988
Acquisition date/place: July 2021
Decimal/ Star rating: 2 stars
Book description/summary: yes, the room was empty
Challenge(s): 1001, 1001 TBR takedown
American: yes
British:
List book: 1001

579.

Book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
Format: book
Original publication date: 1987
Acquisition date/place: 11/16/2013
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.2
Book description/summary: AI creates ghost while time traveling

Hello to my fellow Minnesotan! It's good to see you on here still plugging away at the list. After a considerable break from the list I am going to start trying to read one a month. It won't get me to all of them before I die but hopefully just the most enjoyable ones. The Beautiful Room is empty looks like one I can skip although I loved your summary. :)

>27 Lynsey2: Hi Lynsey, so good to see you popping up on book sites again. I wasn't very impressed with the empty room, now did it seem very beautiful but it was a quick read. The author also has A Boy's Story which "they" say is better.

580.
Book Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1901
Acquisition date/place: January 2021
Decimal/ Star rating: 5 stars
Book description/summary: Family, home, job rack & ruin.
Challenge(s): Reading 1001
List book: 1001 Books, Nobel Prize

581. 86.
Book In Watermelon Sugar
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1968
Acquisition date/place: audible 12/2020
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.6
Book description/summary: Not so sweet in IDEATH
Challenge(s): 1001 TBR takedown
List book: 1001

582. New Grub Street by George Gissing. I enjoy this author. This is a story about writing, writing for literary achievement or for money.

583. The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide. Also liked this one and it is also about writing. Unique structure and narrator changes.

584. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, reread.

585. The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers

586. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Adventure story well known for Long John Silver and buried treasure.

587. How late it was, how late by James Kelman. 1994 Booker, Scottish lit. Rated 3.8 stars.

588. Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain

autobiography of a feminist during the great war

589. The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil. Not my favorite but better than some unfinished work. Just happy to have finished the annual read by Reading 1001.

590.
Nana by Zola. Not my favorite Zola.

591. The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble.

I liked that it was about middle aged women in the 80s but though horrible things are happening, the emotional reaction doesn't seem realistic.

592. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Jose Saramago
4 stars
Heteronym of Pessoa visits Pessoa during unrest in Portugal

593.
Billy Bathgate Doctorow always entertains. A story of a young lads coming of age as he is accepted into the inner circle of Dutch Schultz gang.

594.
Book The History of the Siege of Lisbon by José Saramago
Format: audio/kindle
Original publication date: 1989
Acquisition date/place: 2013, kindle edition, audio 2022
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.8
Book description/summary: history is "not"
Challenge(s): reading 1001 botm, ROOT
American:
British:
List book: 1001 Books

596.

Book The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1881
Acquisition date/place: 2/2/22, Hoopla
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: The berries lost the anchovies
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 botm

597.
Book Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist
Format: kindle e book
Original publication date: 1810
Acquisition date/place: 12/20/21
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: eat paper and die
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 BOTM, ROOT
American:
British:
List book: 1001 books

598.
Book Baltasar & Blimunda by Jose Saramago
Format: kindle/audio
Original publication date: 1982
Acquisition date/place: 2/10/2013
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.6 stars
Book description/summary: build a convent, get a son
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, TBR takedown
American:
British:
List book: 1001 books

599.
Book Black Box by Amos Oz
Format: print book
Original publication date: 1987
Acquisition date/place: 1/25/22 ABE books
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: write family dysfunction away
Challenge(s): Asian author, 1001 books
American:
British:
List book: 1001

600.
Book Metamorphoses by Ovid
Format: audio
Original publication date: 8 AD
Acquisition date/place: 2005?
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: poetry, mythology, legend
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 Qrt
American:
British:
List book: 1001 Books

601.
Book The Gathering by Anne Enright
Format: kindle/audio
Original publication date: 2007
Acquisition date/place: 2015
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.6
Book description/summary: don't always like people we love
Challenge(s): TBR takedown, ROOT, 75er
American:
British:
List book: Pulitzer, 1001 Books,

Congratulations on 600! That's amazing!

>50 paruline: thank you!

600! Go you!

Congratulations on 600 - well over half way now!

602.
Book Professor Martens' Departure by Jaan Kross
Format: book
Original publication date: 1984
Acquisition date/place: February 2022, Daisey
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.4 stars
Book description/summary: too much compliance gets you no where
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 BOTM, 75, TIOLI, EU country, Estonia
American:
British:
List book: 1001 Books

603.
Book The Hothouse by Wolfgang Koeppen
Format: book
Original publication date: 1953
Acquisition date/place: used book, not sure where I bought it
Decimal/ Star rating: hmm, I probably will give it 3 stars
Book description/summary: in the hothouse of politics
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 botm
American:
British:
List book: 1001 Books

604.

Book Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Format: Book, audio
Original publication date: 1920
Acquisition date/place: my shelf and also Libby, on shelf since 2017
Decimal/ Star rating: rating 3.2
Book description/summary: Dissatisfaction follows you wherever you go
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 BOTM, Reading a book set in your country
American: yes
British:
List book: Sinclair Lewis, Nobel Prize winner

605.

Book L'Assommoir by Emile Zola
Format: audio book, narrated by Leighton Pugh
Original publication date: 1876
Acquisition date/place: March 2022
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: drinking den numbs the pain
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 botm, doublespin
American:
British:
List book: 1001 books

606.

Book Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
Format: nook/audio
Original publication date: 1847
Acquisition date/place: 1/2/2012
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5
Book description/summary: independent woman takes on spoiled children
Challenge(s): TBR take down, 1001 Books, ROOT
American:
British: yes
List book: 1001

I was just thinking to start Agnes Grey on audio. Glad you liked it at least reasonably well.

607.
Book Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
Format: audio and book
Original publication date: 1997
Acquisition date/place: library sales, 5/2017
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: orphan survives tough life
Challenge(s): TBR takedown, Reading 1001
American:
British:
List book: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

608.
Book Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1945
Acquisition date/place: 5/6/2022 Audio, Libby
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: fearless girl takes care of self
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, botm May
American:
British:
List book: 1001 Books

609.
Book At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
Format: book (K), audio (hoopla)
Original publication date: 1939
Acquisition date/place: 1/20/20
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: characters turn on writer
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, June BOTM
American:
British: UK, Irish author
List book: 1001, Guardian
genre modernism/fiction
Liked: humor, folklore, Anglo/Gaelic sentences
Disliked: lose, disconnected structure

610. 63. Book Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann
Format: audio
Original publication date: 2017
Acquisition date/place: Audible, 1/1/2022
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.7
Book description/summary: Trickster through 30 years of war.
Challenge(s): Randomizer, Reading 1001
American:
British:
List book: 1001, German
Genre historical fiction with magic
Like: learned a bit about 30 year war, trickster mythology, retelling of Antigone
Dislike: hard to engage

611.

Book Underworld by Don DeLillo
Format:book/audio
Original publication date: 1997
Acquisition date/place: 10/19/2018
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.9 stars
Book description/summary: follow the ball
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, 2nd Q read 2022.
American: yes
British:
List book: 1001 books

612.
Book The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
Format: book/audio
Original publication date: 1902
Acquisition date/place: 1/20/2016
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5
Book description/summary: what a tangled web we weave, when we practice to deceive.
Challenge(s): TBR takedown, 1001, ROOT
American: yes
British:
List book: 1001, Guardian, etc
Genre literary fiction, classic
Liked: I liked the ending, good job with that, like the symbol of a dove
Disliked: author is too wordy

613.
Book The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Format: book/audio
Original publication date: 2006
Acquisition date/place: 11/16/2013
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.6
Book description/summary: New York to India, life is hard
Challenge(s): Asian Author (India), ROOT, 1001, Booker-2006.
American:
British:
List book: 1001, Booker, National Book Critics Circle Award, etc

614.

Book Life is a Caravanserai: Has Two Doors I Came in One I Went Out the Other - Emine Sevgi Özdamar
Format: book
Original publication date: 1993
Acquisition date/place: 5/10/2022
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.8 stars
Book description/summary: from foetus to young adult via Istanbul, Bursa, Ankara and back to Istanbul.
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, alpha C,
American:
British:
List book: 1001
genre memoir/fiction
Liked: a story of a woman's life
Dislike: it's a bit crude and gotta wonder if it is culturally true, but it might be.

615.
Book The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes by anonymous
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1554
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla 7/1/22
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.8
Book description/summary: history of a pheasant
Challenge(s): 1001, TBR takedown
American:
British:
List book: 1001 books
genre classic, picaresque
Liked: it was humorous, it was short
Disliked: the accent of narrator was so strong it was hard to follow

616.
Book Pavel's Letters by Manika Maron
Format: Kindle book
Original publication date: 1999
Acquisition date/place: 6/14/22
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: identity in family
Challenge(s): Reading 1001
American:
British:
List book: 1001
European Capitals Berlin
Genre nonfiction, biography, history, political

617.
Book Her Private's We
Format: e-book
Original publication date: 1929
Acquisition date/place: 5/25/22
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: war's a strumpet
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, botm July 2022, TIOLI pronoun
American:
British: yes
List book: 1001 books
genre memoir
Liked: the character development
Disliked: the violence and language fit the book.

618.
Book Oscar & Lucinda - Peter Carey
Format: book/audio
Original publication date: 1988
Acquisition date/place: 10/29/2016
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.8 stars
Book description/summary: life is a gamble in the lucky land
Challenge(s): TBR takedown
American:
British:
List book: 1001 Books, Booker Winner
Genre literary fiction
Liked: enjoyed the story of two young people in Australia
Disliked: a lot of details that wasn't necessary

619.

Book The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1954
Acquisition date/place: July 15, 2022
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: young fisher falls for diving girl
Challenge(s): Asian author, Reading 1001
American:
British:
List book: 1001

620.
Book The Rings of Saturn
Format: Kindle
Original publication date: 1995
Acquisition date/place: 7/11/2017
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars but probably should be rated higher. Literary device used "the walk" to explore issues of destruction and decay
Book description/summary: walk among the ruins
Challenge(s): ROOT, Reading 1001
American:
British:
List book: 1001, Guardian
Genre fiction written as travelogue
Liked: I liked that it was written like a travelogue and appreciated the exploration of decay and covered a lot of history.
Disliked: it is like a person would think while walking, a bit disjointed but it fits the books goal.

621.
Book News From Nowhere - William Morris
Format: audio book
Original publication date: 1890
Acquisition date/place: 7/23/22 Audible
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.2 stars
Book description/summary: Utopia if we can get rid of the capitalists
Challenge(s): reading 1001
American:
British: yes
List book:
Guardian 1000 (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2006/2008/2010/2012 Edition)
Western World's Greatest Books - Project Gutenberg
1898 C.K. Shorter List of Best 100 Novels
Newark Public Library's 1904 List of a Thousand of the Best Novels
Genre fantasy, communist propaganda
Liked: it's over and I don't need to read it again
Disliked: the whole thing

622.
Book Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard
Format: book/audio
Original publication date: 1984
Acquisition date/place: 9/2/2020
Decimal/ Star rating: 5 stars
Book description/summary: Boy survives horror
Challenge(s): TBR, ROOT, Reading 1001
American:
British: yes
List book: 1001
Genre fiction, autobiography, historical
Liked: depiction of Japan China during WWII
Disliked: the horrors were realistic so it was ok much better than Ballard usual

623.

Book Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: audio and book
Original publication date: 1986
Acquisition date/place: 3/15/17
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.4 stars
Book description/summary: old man faces his past
Challenge(s): alpha KI, ROOT, 1001
American:
British:
List book: 1001
Genre fiction/literature
Liked: I like stories of old people and also the generational look at family/Japan, post WWII
Disliked: its not much plot, character study and that gets a bit slim as well

624.
Book A Gate at the Stairs - Lorrie Moore
Format: book/audio
Original publication date: 2009
Acquisition date/place:
Decimal/ Star rating: 4/29/2017
Book description/summary: racism, war, and clueless
Challenge(s): reading 1001, ROOT
American: yes
British:
List book: 1001 Books
genre fiction, post 9/11 literature
Liked: I liked the descriptions of birds, I liked the humor. descriptions of self righteous liberal idealogy.
Disliked: can anyone be that clueless, yes, fraid so

625.
Book The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
Format: Book/audio
Original publication date:1907
Acquisition date/place: 2018/Bookmooch
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.4 stars
Book description/summary: puppets of forces beyond their control
Challenge(s): 1001, TBR takedown, ROOT
American:
British:
List book: 1001
Genre Espionage lit
Liked: I liked that it points out the real victims are innocents
Disliked: it was a bit easy to get lost with the back and forth time frames

626.
Book Fools of Fortune - William Trevor
Format: book
Original publication date: 1983
Acquisition date/place: 9/4/22
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.6
Book description/summary: destruction casts shadow
Challenge(s): reading 1001, Oct botm
American:
British:
List book: 1001
Genre historical fiction
Liked: I liked that it compared two houses and I liked the secondary characters
Disliked: it was hard to engage and at times it was confusing

627. completed in October

Book Our Lady of the Assassins by Fernando Vallejo
Format: book
Original publication date: 1994
Acquisition date/place: 8/2022
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: death rules and nobody dies of boredom
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, translated fiction
American:
British:
List book: 1001
Genre fiction, Latin American
Liked: the writing
Disliked: thankfully a short book because the subject is hard to digest

628. 134.
Book Possession A Romance by A. S. Byatt
Format: Book/Audio
Original publication date: 1990
Acquisition date/place: Goodwill 11/2/2011
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.8 stars
Book description/summary: academia in all its intrigue
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 TBR takedown, ROOT, Booker 1990
American:
British: yes
List book: 1001, Booker
Genre historiographic metafiction
Liked: I liked the story of English academia research using letters, journals, etc.
Disliked: It was so hard to stay engaged

629.
Book 1984, a reread
Format:audible
Original publication date: 1949
Acquisition date/place: audible play
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: control thought control the man
Challenge(s):
American:
British: yes
List book: 1001, etc
Genre political, dystopian
Liked: I liked how relevant it is today
Disliked: there's a part that just gets bogged down in detail and the story is lost

630.
Book Quartet by Jean Rhys
Format: book
Original publication date: 1928
Acquisition date/place: 9/2022
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.2
Book description/summary: Bleak, sordid Paris life
Challenge(s): Reading 1001
American:
British:
List book: 1001
Genre fiction, semi-autobiographical
Liked: it's short
Disliked: cold

631.
Book Fury - Salman Rushdie
Format: book/audio
Original publication date: 2001
Acquisition date/place: 2017, 5-26.
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.4 stars
Book description/summary: Fury goes with you, you can't run from it.
Challenge(s): Asian-Diaspora, 1001, ROOT
American:
British:
List book: 1001
Genre fiction
Liked: I liked Rushdie's use of language, references to books, myths, authors
Disliked: fury in blue language and sexual content

632.


Book So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
Format: book
Original publication date: 1980
Acquisition date/place: 3/14/2020
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.8 stars
Book description/summary: a work of feminist literature-Africa, Islam
Challenge(s): TBR takedown, ROOT, 1001
American:
British:
List book: 1001, Winner of the Noma Award
Genre epistolary novel
Liked: this is a woman who was loyal to the covenant of her marriage in spite of betrayal
Disliked: at first it was confusing.

633.
Book Anniversaries: From a year in the life of Gesine Cresspahl - Uwe Johnson
Format: e-book
Original publication date: 1970, 1971, 1873, 1983
Acquisition date/place: 12/30/21
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.4 stars
Book description/summary: historical, coming of age, 1930 - 1968 and and exploration of the Sixties.
Challenge(s): yearly read for Reading 1001
American:
British:
List book: 1001
Genre historical fiction, epistolary
Liked: it wasn't hard to read but it also was not compelling. The decision to read a section every day helped to keep me reading and ultimately finish. It was a panoramic view of history.
Disliked: it was often confusing and hard to know who was speaking, even though it had to be Gesine. And the point was often lost or unclear. Perhaps because it was history through Gesine's eyes and the NYT, it was unreliable? It also has or shares a lot of details with the author's life.

634.
Book Blaming - Elizabeth Taylor
Format: e-book
Original publication date: 1976
Acquisition date/place: 11/28/21
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.2
Book description/summary: death, blaming, grief
Challenge(s): reading 1001 Dec botm 2022
American:
British: yes
List book: 1001, Virago
Genre literature, fiction
Liked: exploration of life as a widow/old age
Disliked: disliked the awkward American woman author

635.

Book The Master of Ballantrae - R. L. Stevenson
Format: book/audio
Original publication date: 1889
Acquisition date/place: 2013
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: playing on both sides of the fence leads to no one winning
Challenge(s): 1001
American:
British:
List book: 1001
Genre adventure fiction
Liked: historical setting Jacobite Rising, adventure
Disliked: unbelievable, couldn't like any character

636.
Book Kim - Rudyard Kipling
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1901
Acquisition date/place: 10/30/2010
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: adventures of an orphan
Challenge(s): bookspinbingo
American:
British: yes
List book: 1001
Genre fiction, adventure
Liked: fun, adventure
Disliked: got a little lost towards end but probably me not the book

637.
Book Atrocity Exhibition - J. G. Ballard
Format: audio, William Gaminara
Original publication date: 1970
Acquisition date/place: 1/1/2023 (First purchase of 2023, and it is this book, that's sad.
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.4
Book description/summary: assault on the mind
Challenge(s): Reading 1001
American:
British: yes
List book: 1001
Genre experimental
Liked: historical references
Disliked: having bought it, having listened to it

638.
Book In a Glass Darkly
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1872
Acquisition date/place: 12/24/22
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.2
Book description/summary: short gothic stories
Challenge(s): tbr takedown, Reading 1001, ROOT
American:
British:
List book: 1001
Genre Gothic horror
Liked: liked the novellas
Disliked: shorter stories had a difficulty holding my attention.

639.
Book The Golden Ass
Format: Apueius
Original publication date: 159 AD
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla Digital
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.4
Book description/summary: nothing new under the sun; sex, adventures, gods/goddess, and ass.
Challenge(s): African Author Challenge. Reading 1001
American:
British:
List book:1001 Books
Genre
Liked: its humorous, adventure
Disliked: sexual content that is offensive

640.
Book H(A)PPY - Nicola Barker
Format: book
Original publication date: 2017
Acquisition date/place: 12/2/22
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: is Happy constrained or chaotic?
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, ROOT
American:
British: yes
List book: 1001
Genre dystopia, SF
Liked: structure
Disliked: not knowing more

641.
Book As A Man Grows Older
Format: book
Original publication date: 1892
Acquisition date/place: 11/2/22
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: middle aged man falls for gorgeous cheat
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, ROOT alpha IS
American:
British:
List book: 1001
Genre psychological literature
Liked: it wasn't too long
Disliked: did not care for characters

642.
Book To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
Format: audio book
Original publication date: 1937
Acquisition date/place: Jan 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.4 stars
Book description/summary: Key West to Cuba
Challenge(s): reading 1001
American: yes
British:
List book: 1001
Genre fiction
Liked: the setting, the characters
Disliked: disjointed

643.
Book Saturday - Ian McEwan
Format: audio/book
Original publication date: 2005
Acquisition date/place: borrowed from Karen Oswood
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.2
Book description/summary: A neurosurgeon's Saturday
Challenge(s): TBR Takedown, ROOT, Reading 1001
American:
British: yes
List book: 1001
Genre fiction, contemporary
Liked: contemplative
Disliked: okay, but not necessary 1001 worthy

644.
Book The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1876
Acquisition date/place: 12/20/22
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.2 stars
Book description/summary: marriage is serious business
Challenge(s): ROOT, Reading 1001, TIOLI #1
American:
British: yes, 19th century
List book: 1001
Genre novel, comedy
Liked: strong woman character
Disliked: This one probably did not need to be on the 1001 list

645.
Book Parade's End - Ford Madox Ford
Format: audio, read by Stephen Crossley
Original publication date: 1925
Acquisition date/place: 11/29/2022, audible
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: love with no passion, trenches with no battles, tragedy without denouement
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, Q1 read, ROOT
American:
British: yes
List book: 1001
Genre fiction
Liked: I liked the exploration of the end of Edwardian culture
Disliked: I really disliked Sylvia!!!!

646.
Book Threepenny Novel - Bertolt Brecht
Format: kindle
Original publication date: 1934
Acquisition date/place: 1/25/23, Amazon
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.4 stars
Book description/summary: Mac the Knife meets the Beggar King
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 March botm
American:
British:
Other German lit
List book: 1001
Genre crime fiction/play
Liked: I liked visiting the origin of Mac the Knife; a song from my youth
Disliked: a happy ending; was it justified?

647.
Book Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1928
Acquisition date/place: 11/27/22, audible
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: "its meant to be funny"
Challenge(s): reading 1001, tbr take down, TIOLI #6
American:
British: yes
List book: yes, 1001
Genre fiction, satire
Liked: humor
Disliked: unlikely

648.
Book The Enchanted Wanderer - Nikolai Leskov
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1873
Acquisition date/place: 4/1/23
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: no luck, no plot, picaresque
Challenge(s): tbr takedown, reading 1001
American:
British:
Other Russian
List book: 1001
Genre Picaresque, novella
Liked: somewhat amusing
Disliked: cruelty

649.
Book Correction by Thomas Bernhard
Format: dead tree
Original publication date: 1975
Acquisition date/place: 3/13/2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars (it might be higher but the 3 stars are because it was so, so miserable.
Book description/summary: Correcting the corrections and .... we did it all wrong.
Challenge(s): Reading 1001. TIOLI April, one word title
American:
British:
Other Austrian
List book: 1001
Genre novel/fiction
Liked: some interesting thoughts
Disliked: the lack of cohesiveness, the run-on sentences. Made my brain tired.

650.
Book I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch
Format: audiobook read by Jonathan Davis, translated by Michael Bullock
Original publication date: 1954
Acquisition date/place: 3/2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: identity, are you who you say you are or who others say you are.
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 botm
American:
British:
Other Switzerland
List book: 1001
Genre fiction
Liked: identity. it started out kind of interesting but then just went on and on. It also looks at marriage. Lists many books and explores whether are identity isn't affected by what we read.
Disliked: sometimes just plain boring

651.
Book Viper's Tangle by Francois Mauriac
Format: audiobook, read by Geoffrey Howard
Original publication date: 1932
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla May 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 or C+
Book description/summary: Family is a nest of vipers
Challenge(s): TBR takedown
American:
British:
Other France
List book: 1001, Nobel Prize winner author
Genre fiction, family drama, epistolary
Liked: unreliable narrator feels excluded from family
Disliked: it was so full of bitterness

652.
Book The First Circle - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Format: book and audio
Original publication date: 1968, (was censored)
Acquisition date/place: 10/22/18
Decimal/ Star rating: 5 stars
Book description/summary: Dumas did not know what prison is like
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 Quarterly
American:
British:
Other Russian
List book: 1001
Genre fiction, semi autobiographical
Liked: this should be mandatory reading, it plainly explains why progressive agendas do not work and do not help people.
Disliked: nothing, sad that this is not mandatory reading in our curriculum.

653.
Book The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Format: book/audio
Original publication date: 1962
Acquisition date/place: 11/16/2013 Goodwill used book
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.5 stars
Book description/summary: Fragmentation
Challenge(s): read African Nobel Prize winner.
American:
British: Rhodesia/British author
List book: 1001
Genre fiction
Liked: many of the comments on communism
Disliked: the female/male relationships

654.
Book The Stechlin - Theodor Fontane
Format: Kindle
Original publication date: 1898
Acquisition date/place: March 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars, it's worth more if I could have studied it rather than force my self to read through it. I think there is stuff here I simply could not pay attention to
Book description/summary: end of an era
Challenge(s): reading 1001 botm
American:
British:
Other German
List book: 1001
Genre fiction
Liked: the writing is nice
Disliked: so so easy to fall asleep, no plot

I read 5 list books in May. And it was not an easy bunch to read.

655

Book Martin Eden
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1909
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla 6/23
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: the making of a writer
Challenge(s): TBR takedown Reading 1001
American: yes
British:
List book: 1001
Genre Künstlerroman
Liked: That in making himself he lost himself
Disliked: he was "better than everyone"

656.

Book Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Format: book and audiobook
Original publication date: 1795, 1796
Acquisition date/place: 2/10/23
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: German takes on Shakespeare
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, June botm
American:
British:
Other German
List book: 1001
Genre novel, coming of age. considered to be the first bildungsroman by some.
Liked: it was readable
Disliked: disjointed

I've been reading a bunch of books lately that just haven't been that much fun. And a lot of them have been books written in the German language. It got me thinking.

Here's a list of my top (5 Star) 1001 books. (not in any particular order)
1. To Kill a Mockingbird (USA)
2. Les Miserables (France)
3. The Poisonwood Bible (USA)
4. Jane Eyre (UK)
5. Gone with the Wind (USA)
5. The Handmaid's Tale (Canada)
6. The Sea (Ireland)
7. Never Let Me Go (Japanese/England)
8. Of Human Bondage (UK)
9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (USA)
10. The Reader (German)
11. Lolita (Russian/USA)
12. The Leopard (Italian)
13. Amongst Women (Irish)
14. The God of Small Things (India)
15. Things Fall Apart (Nigeria)
16. The Elegance of the Hedgehog (France)
17. Wild Swans (China)
18. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (UK)
19. Silas Marner (UK)
20. Atonement (UK)
21. The Things They Carried (USA)
22. Anna Karenina (Russia)
23. Midnight's Children (India)
24. The Twilight Years (Japan)
25. Thousand Cranes (Japan)
26. The Secret History (USA)
27. Vanity Fair (UK)
28. Of Love and Shadows (Chili)
29. Growth of Soil (Norway)
30. Alias Grace (Canada)
31. Old Wives' Tale (UK)
32. The Plague (Algeria/French)
33. Cryptonomicon (USA)
34. Half a Yellow Sun (Nigeria)
35. Absalom, Absalom! (USA)
36. The Roots of Heaven (French)
37. Invisible Man (USA)
38. Smilla's Sense of Snow (Denmark)
39. Ragtime (USA)
40. Cry, the Beloved Country (South Africa)
41. Middlemarch (UK)
42. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Scottish)
43. Candide (French)
44. The Color Purple (USA)
45. The Blind Assassin (Canada)
46. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (USA)
47. A Fine Balance (Indian/Canada)
48. The Stone Diaries (American/Canada)
49. Amsterdam (UK)
50. The Day of the Triffids (UK)
51. The House of Mirth (USA)
52. Catch-22 (USA)
53. Rebecca (UK)
54. The Three Musketeers (French)
55. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (UK)
56. The Fellowship of the Ring (UK)
57. The House of the Spirit (Chile)
58. On Beauty (UK)
59. The History of Love (USA)
60. The Marriage Plot (USA)
61. The Moonstone (UK)
62. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Russia)
63. The Godfather (USA)
64. The Heretic (Spanish)
65. A Visit from the Goon Squad (USA)
66. The Mill on the Floss (UK)
67. A Modest Proposal (Irish)
68. The Bell (Irish /British)
69. Regeneration (British)
70. Alamut ( Slovene/Italian)
71. Krisin Lavransdatter (Nordic)
72. Cancer Ward (Russian)
73. The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman (Polish)
74. The Idiot (Russian)
75. On the Black Hill (UK)
76. Pale Fire (Russian/USA)
77. Schindler's List (Australian)
78. The Dark Child (Guinea)
79. Paradise of the Blind (Vietnamese)
80. First Circle (Russian)
81. Bonfire of the Vanities (USA)
82. The Old Man and the Sea (USA)
83. The Brothers Karamazov (Russia)
84. Cat's Eye (Canada)
85. The Return of the soldier (UK)
86. Broken April (Albania)
87. That They May Face the Rising Sun, (Irish)
88. The Player of Games (Irish)
89. In a Free State (Trinidad/British)
90. Survival in Aushwitz (Jew/Italy)
91. Remembering Babylon (Australian)
92. The Mayor of Casterbridge (UK)
93. Buddenbrooks (German)
94. Empire of the Sun (UK)
95. Woman at Point Zero (Egypt)
96. The Siege of Krishnapur (UK)
97. Sula (US)
98. Moll Flanders (UK)
99. Born in Exile (UK)
100. Arrow of God (Nigeria)

So only 2 German books made my top 100. Definately heavy for USA and UK authors. My ratings have changed over time. I probably rate differently now than I did when I first started the 1001 list.

What are your top 100, 1001 books?

Removed from top 100
Brave New World

We should have a separate thread to share these! I love the idea. I've gotten really bogged down after reading so many books from the list that I really didn't like at all. It's good to remember that there are a lot of amazing books on the list!

I've read most of the books on your list, but there are a few I haven't gotten to that I'll try to get to soon. I'm in a busy stretch at work right now, but I'll think about my top reads soon.

657.
Book Dispatches - Michael Herr
Format: audiobook read by Ray Porter
Original publication date: 1977
Acquisition date/place: June 2023 Libby
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: memoirs of a war corespondent
Challenge(s): Randomizer 1001
American: yes
British:
List book: 1001, Guardian nonfiction
Genre nonfiction novel
Liked: even in the 70s reporters didn't report accurately if in would upset their favorite agencies
Disliked: horrible behaviors of war

658.
Book The Immoralist - André Gide
Format: book
Original publication date: 1902
Acquisition date/place: 5/2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.2 stars or C
Book description/summary: self absorbed man throws it all away
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 Nobel Prize Winner 1947
American:
British:
Other French author
List book: 1001
Genre existential
Liked: I liked that debauchery was tastefully explored
Disliked: it's so hard to read 124 pages about a man you cannot like

>112 japaul22: Thank you. If you start a thread I will copy and paste mine to it.

I'm going to start this thread -- I'm curious. So please paste yours into it.

659.
Book Ratner's Star - Don DeLillo
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1976
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla, 7/2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.5 stars rounded to 3 stars.
Book description/summary: Twillig goes down a rabbit hole.
Challenge(s): TBR takedown; Reading 1001
American: yes
British:
List book: 1001
Genre Science Fiction/novel
Liked: I liked the start of the book, it was ingenious in many ways
Disliked: lost me with the excess of characters, sexual content and body secretions.

660.
Book Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
Format: e-book (trilogy).
Original publication date: 1964
Acquisition date/place: 5/2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 5 stars
Book description/summary: somethings are in God's hands, not ours
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 botm, ANC, Chinua Achebe
American:
British:
Other Nigerian
List book: 1001
Genre African Realism
Liked: I liked it mostly
Disliked: I liked it a lot and other than the sexual content which was appropriate to the book I cannot say I disliked anything.

Note that GR says I've read 685 1001 books. Not sure what makes for the 25 book discrepancy.

661.
Book The Hive - Camilo Jose Cela
Format: book
Original publication date: 1950
Acquisition date/place: July 2023 MnLink
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.2 stars
Book description/summary: Madrid is the Hive
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 botm, August 2023.
American: no
British: no
Other: Spain
List book: 1001 books
Genre experimental, social realism
Liked: I liked the prose, I like the picture of life
Disliked: I want to know more

662.
Book The Posthumous Memoir of Bras Cubas - Machado de Assis
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1881
Acquisition date/place: August 2023 Hoopla Digital
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.4 stars
Book description/summary: don't take yourself so seriously
Challenge(s): reading 1001, TBR takedown, TIOLI #10
Author Brazil, male,19th century
List book: 1001, Guardian
Genre realism
Liked: liked the humor
Disliked: that I didn't have a book to read along and take notes

663.
Book The Child in Time - Ian McEwan
Format: kindle/audio
Original publication date: 1987
Acquisition date/place: August 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.2
Book description/summary: parenthood in Thatcher's England
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, ROOT, TIOLI
Author: British
List book: 1001
Awards Whitbread Novel Award
Genre fiction
Liked: I liked the themes of loss, parenthood
Disliked: I like books about time but I don't think this book did a good job of exploring time.

664.
Book Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
Format:audiobook
Original publication date: 1904
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla Digital, Sept 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.6 or B-
Book description/summary: political picture of South America
Challenge(s): TBR takedown, Reading 1001, TIOLI #2 Sept 23
Author: Polish/British author
List book: Best fiction of the 20th Century, Modern Library, Reading 1001
Genre modernistic novel, early 20th centruy, Post-colonialism global capitalism
Liked: I enjoyed the last half of the story - it does need a reread.
Disliked: backstory sooo soporific

665.
Book Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1925
Acquisition date/place: August 2023, Hoopla Digital
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.6, or B-
Book description/summary: New York on the move
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, botm, TIOLI #9
Author: US
List book: 1001
Genre literary fiction
Liked: I liked it the characters
Disliked: it was easy to get lost

666.
Book The Book of Daniel - E.L. Doctorow
Format: book/audiobook
Original publication date: 1971
Acquisition date/place: 7/5/2016, ?
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: trauma in leftist politics vs capitalism
Challenge(s): 1001, botm 2023, Sept
Author: US
List book: 1001, Guardian 1000
Genre postmodern, literary, political, historical
Liked: liked the Disney section
Disliked: sexual explicit sadism

667.

Seize the Day - Saul Bellow.
Summary; Loser Man meets up with the end of man. Redemption? Rating 3.6 stars.

668.
Book Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley
Format: book
Original publication date: 1936
Acquisition date/place: Sept 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: from cynic to pacifist
Challenge(s): botm Oct 23, Reading 1001
Author: British
List book: 1001 books
Genre literary fiction with a heavy sprinkling of philosophy
Liked: the writing
Disliked: the philosophizing

669.
Book Troubles by J.G. Farrell
Format: kindle/audiobook
Original publication date: 1970
Acquisition date/place: 2013, March
Decimal/ Star rating: 5 star read, recommended
Book description/summary: Grand Hotel meets wrack and ruin.
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, Nov 2023 botm
Author: British
List book: 1001 books, Booker, Lost Man
Genre Historical Fiction
Liked: I liked this story and learning more about the troubles
Disliked: at first it was a bit hard to engage but starting over helped.

670.
Book A Home at the End of the World - Michael Cunningham
Format: book/audio
Original publication date: 1990
Acquisition date/place: 2019
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.4 stars
Book description/summary: its the 60s/70s/80s drugs, sex
Challenge(s): tbr takedown
Author: US
List book: 1001
Genre Gay lit
Liked: I liked the aspects of dealing with death
Disliked: I did not like the female characters

671.
Book The Fox by D. H. Lawrence
Format: book/audio
Original publication date: 1922
Acquisition date/place: 2023, used book
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.6 stars
Book description/summary: triangle of love and hate
Challenge(s): animal in title, book under 100 pages
Author: British
List book: 1001
Genre short fiction; novella
Liked: short
Disliked: that the women were so helpless to deal with the man (fox).

672.
Book Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady - Samuel Richardson
Format: Kindle
Original publication date: 1748
Acquisition date/place: 11/20/22
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.5 stars
Book description/summary: soap opera in the 18th century
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, year long read
Author: British
List book: 1001, Classic, Guardians, etc
Genre epistolary novel
Liked: I liked the middle part the best
Disliked: it was slow going in the beginning but the author sets you up with emotional engagement so it all works out.

>131 Kristelh: congratulations on finishing the book and, judging by your rating, enjoying it!

>132 puckers:; Thank you, I did end up enjoying it but it was slow going at first and it took me almost a year.

673.
Book A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1982
Acquisition date/place: Libby, 2023/Dec
Decimal/ Star rating: 3
Book description/summary: post WWII, changes for Japanese family, suicide
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, tbr takedown
Author: Japanese/British
List book: 1001 Books
Genre Fiction
Liked: I liked the exploration of family roles after the war
Disliked: its a bit scrambled so that made it hard to keep it all straight

674.
Book The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll - Alvaro Mutis
Format: book
Original publication date: 1993
Acquisition date/place: 2012, Amazon
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.2
Book description/summary: Outlaw adventure story
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, 4th Q
Author: Columbia
List book: 1001 books
Genre a collection of Novellas
Liked: interesting lawless characters travel the world
Disliked: long.......

I read 38 books in 2023.

675.
Book Dangling Man - Saul Bellow
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1944
Acquisition date/place: Dec 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 1.8 stars
Book description/summary: Man dangles as he waits to be drafted
Challenge(s): tbr takedown, 1001
Author: US
List book: 1001
Genre fiction, epistolary (diary)
Liked: what happens when man has no motivation
Disliked: man has no motivation

676.
Book Gosta Berling's Saga - Selma Lagerlof
Format: book and librovox
Original publication date: 1891
Acquisition date/place: 2023, Abe books
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.2 stars
Book description/summary: Swedish folktales
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 botm
Author: Swedish
List book: 1001
Genre folktales
Liked: the setting
Disliked: while not hard to read it was hard to engage.

677.
Book The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1935
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla Digital, January 2024
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.5 to 5 stars
Book description/summary: fictitional memory; effects of adults on a child
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, January special word
Author: Anglo/Irish author
List book: 1001
Genre Realism/Modernism, free and direct speech
Liked: the atmospheric elements, the children
Disliked: it is a bit too much time bending that you can miss some of the elements

678.

Book Memento Mori - Muriel Spark
Format: kindle/audiobook
Original publication date: 1959
Acquisition date/place: 2016, Dec
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: "know that you will die"
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 botm
Author: Scottish
List book: 1001
Genre fiction
Liked: I liked the concept of the book, exploring how people view death
Disliked: I found it a bit hard to engage. Perhaps it was me and it deserves a reread.

679.
Book The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1999
Acquisition date/place: February 2024
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.4 stars
Book description/summary: Alternate history of music
Challenge(s): Special Event, Reading 1001
Author: Indian/British
List book: 1001
Genre fiction, alternate history, magical realism
Liked: I liked the review of history and music and heavy name dropping
Disliked: excessive sexual content and vulgar language.

680.
Book He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1869
Acquisition date/place: Libby, February 2024
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 star
Book description/summary: happy marriage spoiled by jealousy and stubbornness.
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, 1st Q
Author: British
List book: 1001, classic
Genre fiction
Liked: I liked the strong female characters
Disliked: the lack of comments about the harm being done to the poor child.

681.
Book Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1990
Acquisition date/place: Audible/2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.4
Book description/summary: first generation/British Indian coming of age.
Challenge(s): TBR takedown/reading 1001
Author: British Pakistani
List book: 1001
Genre fiction/coming of age
Liked: it is a well told coming of age, first generation
Disliked: sexual explicit

682.
Book Home - Marilynn Robinson
Format: book/audiobook
Original publication date: 2008
Acquisition date/place: 2011
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: family generations/secrets/forgiveness
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 botm
Author: US author
List book: 1001, Women's Prize
Genre fiction
Liked: I liked the subject, the character study
Disliked:

683.
Book Sandokan - Emilio Salgari
Format: kindle
Original publication date: 1900
Acquisition date/place: Kindle, Jan 2024
Decimal/ Star rating: 2 stars
Book description/summary: Pirates in the China Sea sent by Italian author
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 botm March 2024.
Author: Italian
List book: 1001
Genre adventure story
Liked: I was glad that it wasn’t long
Disliked: disliked the characters

684

Book Call It Sleep - Henry Roth
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1934
Acquisition date/place: March 2024 Hoopla Digital
Decimal/ Star rating: 5 stars
Book description/summary: Jewish novel; immigrant, family, childhood (dialect, culture, family)
Challenge(s): Special Event, GR
Author: American Jewish
List book: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die,
The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read
Genre Jewish novel, fiction, literary fiction, modernist novel
Liked: I liked the story, I think there is much that remains relevant today with the large numbers of immigrants that are forming slums in border towns and sanctuary cities.
Disliked: Some things remain unanswered. The reader is left to make their own conclusions.

685.
Book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1848
Acquisition date/place: 2017, Audible
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 to 5 stars
Book description/summary: Alcoholism/abusive/romance, strong woman
Challenge(s): TBR takedown, reading 1001
Author: British
List book: 1001 books
Genre fiction, classic
Liked: I liked the female character
Disliked: I disliked most of the male characters but that was the point!

686.
Book The Book Of Illusions - Paul Auster
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2002
Acquisition date/place: April 2024, Hoopla
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: writers writing, women dying
Challenge(s): Special Event, Word of the month, Reading 1001
Author: US Author
List book: 1001 Books
Genre fiction
Liked: story of grief and isolation
Disliked: not Auster's best

687.
Book Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
Format: book
Original publication date: 1954
Acquisition date/place: 2016/January
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: search for identity in the streets of London
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, botm April 2024
Author: British
List book: 1001
Genre fiction
Liked: a interesting story with depth that is easy to take
Disliked: it took a little while to engage with the book, and I left it in Florida and had to get it from the library ILL.

688.
Book The Years - Virginia Woolf
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1937
Acquisition date/place: Audible Play, expires 5/3/24.
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 to 5 stars
Book description/summary: time, memory
Challenge(s): Reading 1001
Author: British
List book: 1001 books
Genre novel/fiction
Liked: I liked the themes in this book, time, aging, memory
Disliked: it is SOC which I am okay with but it has set times but still doubles back on itself and there are quite a few characters and some are there only for a brief appearance It's good to "know" a little about the book when taking up the book.

689.
Book The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1928
Acquisition date/place: 8/15/19, audible, ibook
Decimal/ Star rating: 2 to 3 stars I think
Book description/summary: life is miserable if you're an invert
Challenge(s): TBR takedown, Reading 1001
Author: British
List book: 1001, Virago
Genre fiction
Liked: more autobiography than literature?
Disliked: I appreciated that it did not go into details that are unnecessary. Not my kind of book.

690.

Book The Names - Don DeLillo
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1982
Acquisition date/place: May 2024, Hoopla Digital
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: man, language, politics
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, word challenge
Author: US
List book: 1001 Books
Genre modernism
Liked: Setting and the politics
Disliked: sexual content

691. Alice in Wonderland

692. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice found there

enjoyed revisit/visiting these tales.

693.

Book All Souls Day - Cees Nooteboom
Format: book
Original publication date: 1998
Acquisition date/place: 9/25/22, Discover books, used
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: slow, meandering widowed cameraman wanders
Challenge(s): 1001 botm
Author: Dutch
List book: 1001
Genre fiction
Liked: Some great sentences
Disliked: painfully slow, and also some violence

694.
Book One, None, and a Hundred Thousand - Luigi Pirandello
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1926
Acquisition date/place: June 2024, Hoopla Digital
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary:obsession with identity and how others sees us leads to madness
Challenge(s): Reading 1001; Word Challenge
Author: Italian author, Nobel Prize for Literature winner.
List book: 1001
Genre modernism, philosophy, existential
Liked: it had Kafka feel, or Golgi, etc
Disliked: not much of a story but obsession with identity leads to madness

695.
Book Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Anita Loos
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1925
Acquisition date/place: June 2024
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.5 stars
Book description/summary: dumb like a fox
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 botm/June 2023=4
Author: American
List book: 1001, last update
Genre fiction
Liked: thankfully it was short
Disliked: social climber behaves badly

696.

Book Molloy - Samuel Beckett
Format: book/audio
Original publication date: 1947 original, French
Acquisition date/place: 2016, May B&N
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: existential literary work about life/death as experienced by Molloy and Moren
Challenge(s): TBR takedown, Reading 1001
Author: Irish author/written in French
List book: 1001
Genre modernism, existentialism
Liked: I always like that Beckett keeps it short
Disliked: pretty bleak over all. You live/you die, life is miserable

697.
Book Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pnychon
Format: book/audio and helps from M & D Wiki
Original publication date: 1997
Acquisition date/place: May 2024 also I had downloaded it from Audible Play but don't know when I did this.
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.75
Book description/summary: A border between Pennsylvania and Maryland is the British orders
Challenge(s): quarterly read for Reading 1001.
Author: American/USA
List book: 1001
Genre
Liked: I liked the complexities. I appreciated that it was written in 18th century syntax. I liked the playful mix of melancholy/comic. You grow to care about these two men who grow to appreciate each other.
Disliked: there is a bit of vulgar language, a bit of sexual references but mostly it all fits together nicely.

>158 Kristelh: 4.75 stars for a Pynchon! (my ratings for 5 books of his so far have been 2 or 3). I might have to try this one.

>159 puckers:, I liked this one but it was work to read.

698.
Book The Diaries of Jane Somers - Doris Lessing
Format: book
Original publication date: 1984
Acquisition date/place: 5/1/24
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: successful woman explores aging and relationships
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, botm, June 2024
Author: British
List book: 1001
Genre fiction
Liked: I liked the exploration of geriatric women
Disliked: disliked the emotional affair

699.

Book Burmese Days - George Orwell
Format: audio/Kindle
Original publication date: 1934, debut
Acquisition date/place: 2013, Kindle
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: lonely man caught between two cultures
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, Word of the month
Author: British
List book: 1001
Genre fiction,
Liked: I liked how author was able to show the effects of imperialism on both the oppressor and the oppressed, Strongly looks at the harm of racism.
Disliked: the women were unlikeable but served their literary purposes as women so I am okay with that. I was also impressed with how some of the most vile get by without repercussions and others are harmed by these individuals; Elis and U Po Kyin.

My review; https://www.librarything.com/work/8414/summary/161591353&savedbook=1

700.
Book Indigo or Mapping the Water
Format: book
Original publication date: 1992
Acquisition date/place: 2017
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: colonialism, power, culture
Challenge(s): botm, Reading 1001 July
Author: British
List book: 1001
Genre fiction, mythology, retelling
Liked: I liked the idea of the book
Disliked: the book was a bit challenging to read

Congratulations on reaching 700!

>165 Kristelh:,Thank you, Puckers!

700! Good going!

>166 annamorphic:, Thank you, Annamorphic

Congratulations on 700!

>168 BentleyMay: Thank you

701.

Book Mao II - Don DeLillo
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1991
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla Digital
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 (2.5)
Book description/summary: the future belongs to crowds
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, TBR takedown
Author: American
List book: PEN/Faulkner
Genre modernism
Liked: I liked how ahead of its time in depicting terrorism and also defining terrorism
Disliked: could do without sexual content. It served no purpose whatsoever

702.
Book Life: A User's Manual - Georges Pered
Format: Kindle
Original publication date: 1978
Acquisition date/place: 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 5 stars
Book description/summary: a puzzle of a book
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, botm August 2024
Author: France
List book: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (438)
The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read
Genre novel, literary fiction, experimental,
Liked: I enjoyed this book about jigsaw puzzles and an apartment
Disliked: the erotica is rather small but it was obnoxious

>171 Kristelh: I managed halfway through but got bogged down; it's a neat structure but did it have to be so long? Haven't completely given up on it. Congrats on finishing.

>172 Cecilturtle: Given the mathematics of the whole thing, it probably is the length it was meant to be. I didn't find it hard to read and I had decided to only read 5% each day. Not sure what that comes out in pages. I read it on a Kindle.

703
Book Chess Story - Stefan Zweig
Format: Kindle/audio
Original publication date: 1942
Acquisition date/place: 12/27/2019
Decimal/ Star rating: 5 stars
Book description/summary: sanity and insanity in a game of chess
Challenge(s): in memoriam for AnitaF and 1001 books
Author: Austria
List book: 1001
Genre literary fiction, novella
Liked: a deep story in few words
Disliked:

704.
Book The Manor - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Format: Kindle
Original publication date: 1952 Yiddish
Acquisition date/place: August 20, 2024, Kindle Unlimited
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: clash of cultures, breakup of families
Challenge(s): Reading 1001
Author: Jewish/American (Poland/US)
List book: 1001, National Book Award (Finalist – Translation – 1968)
Genre literary fiction, historical
Liked: I liked the look at a traditional Jew trying to keep things as they were, reminded me of Fiddler on the Roof
Disliked: I disliked just about all the female charaters.

705.
Book Blind Man with a Pistol - Chester Himes
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1969
Acquisition date/place: March 2021
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: crime book/police procedural
Challenge(s): TBR takedown, September Reading 1001
Author: US/France/Spain
List book: 1001 Books
Genre crime fiction
Liked: I liked the police officers
Disliked: chaotic, no resolutions, mild sexual content

Pre 1700
✔ Aesopus - Aesop's Fables
✔ Ovid - Metamorphoses Book
Chariton - Chaireas and Kallirhoe - Chariton
Heliodorus - Aithiopika
✔ Anonymous - The Thousand and One Nights
✔ Anonymous - The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
Shikibu, Murasaki - The Tale of Genji Book
Guanzhong, Luo - Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Nai'an, Shi -The Water Margin Book
✔ Apuleius, Lucius - The Golden Ass Book
Martorell, Joanot - Tirant lo Blanc
de Rojas, Fernando - La Celestina
✔ De Montalvo, Garci Rodriguez - Amadis of Gaul
Anonymous - The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
Rabelias, Francois - Gargantua and Pantagruel
de Camos, Luis Vaz - The Lusiad
✔ Ch'eng-en, Wu - Monkey - Journey to the West
Lyly, John - Euphues : The Anatomy of Wit
✔ Nashe, Thomas - The Unfortunate Traveller
Deloney, Thomas - Thomas of Reading
✔ de Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel - Don Quixote
de Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel - The Travels of Persiles and Sigismunda
del Castillo, Bernal Diaz - The Conquest of New Spain
von Grimmelshausen, Hans - The Adventurous Simplicissimus
✔ Bunyan, John - The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
✔ de La Fayette, Madame - The Princess of Cleves
✔ Behn, Aphra - Oroonoko
Read: 12

1700 to 1799
✔ Swift, Jonathan - A Tale of a Tub
✔ Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Haywood, Eliza - Love in Excess
✔ Defoe, Daniel - Moll Flanders
Defoe, Daniel - Roxana
✔ Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
✔ Swift, Jonathan - A Modest Proposal
Fielding, Henry - Joseph Andrews
Arbuthnot, John - Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
Richardson, Samuel - Pamela
✔ Richardson, Samuel - Clarissa
Smollett, Tobias George - Roderick Random
✔ Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
✔ Cleland, John - Fanny Hill
Smollett, Tobias George - Peregrine Pickle
Fielding, Henry - Amelia
Lennox, Charlotte - The Female Quixote
✔ Voltaire - Candide
Johnson, Samuel - Rasselas
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - Julie; or, the New Eloise
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - Emile; or, On Education
✔ Walpole, Horace - The Castle of Otranto
✔ Goldsmith, Oliver - The Vicar of Wakefield
Sterne, Laurence - Tristram Shandy
Sterne, Laurence - A Sentimental Journey
Mackenzie, Henry - The Man of Feeling
Smollett, Tobias George - Humphry Clinker
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang - The Sorrows of Young Werther
Burney, Fanny - Evelina
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - Reveries of a Solitary Walker
✔ de Laclos, Pierre Choderlos - Dangerous Liaisons
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - Confessions
Burney, Fanny - Cecilia
de Sade, Marquis - The 120 Days of Sodom
Moritz, Karl Philipp - Anton Reiser
✔ Beckford, William Thomas - Vathek
de Sade, Marquis - Justine
Xueqin, Cao - A Dream of Red Mansions
Godwin, William - The Adventures of Caleb Williams
Equiano, Olaudah - The Interesting Narrative
✔ Radcliffe, Ann - The Mysteries of Udolpho
✔ von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang - Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
✔ Lewis, M.G. - The Monk
✔ Burney, Fanny - Camilla
Diderot, Denis - Jacques the Fatalist
Diderot, Denis - The Nun
Holderlin, Friedrich - Hyperion Book 646
Books read 17

1800 to 1849
Edgeworth, Maria - Castle Rackrent
Novalis - Henry of Ofterdingen Book
Diderot, Denis - Rameau's Nephew
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang - Elective Affinities
Edgeworth, Maria - The Absentee Book
✔ von Kleist, Heinrich - Michael Kohlhaas
✔ Austen, Jane - Sense and Sensibility
✔ Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
✔ Austen, Jane - Mansfield Park
✔ Austen, Jane - Emma
✔ Scott, Sir Walter - Rob Roy
✔ Edgeworth, Maria - Ormond
✔ Austen, Jane - Persuasion
✔ Austen, Jane - Northanger Abbey
✔ Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Scott, Sir Walter - The Monastery
✔ Maturin, Charles Robert - Melmoth the Wanderer
Maturin, Charles Robert - The Albigenses
Hoffman, E.T.A. - The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
Hogg, James - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
von Eichendorff, Joseph - The Life of a Good-for-Nothing
✔ Cooper, James Fenimore - Last of the Mohicans
Manzoni, Alessandro - The Betrothed Book
✔ Stendhal - The Red and the Black
✔ Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
✔ Pushkin, Alexander - Eugene Onegin
de Balzac, Honore - Eugenie Grandet Book
✔ de Balzac, Honore - Le Pere Goriot Book
✔ Gogol, Nikolay - The Nose
✔ Dickens, Charles - Oliver Twist
✔ Dickens, Charles - The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
✔ Conscience, Hendrik - The Lion of Flanders
✔ Stendhal - The Charterhouse of Parma
✔ Poe, Edgar Allan - The Fall of the House of Usher
Hildebrand - Camera Obscura
Lermontov, Mikhail Yurevich - A Hero of Our Time
✔ Gogol, Nikolay - Dead Souls
✔ Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol
de Balzac, Honore - Lost Illusions Book
✔ Poe, Edgar Allan - The Pit and the Pendulum
✔ Dickens, Charles - Martin Chuzzlewit
✔ Poe, Edgar Allan - The Purloined Letter
✔ Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Dumas, Alexandre - Le Reine Margot
Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino - Facundo
Sand, George - The Devil's Pool
✔ Dumas, Alexandre - The Count of Monte-Cristo
✔ Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
✔ Thackeray, William Makepeace - Vanity Fair
✔ Bronte, Anne - Agnes Grey
✔ Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
✔ Bronte, Anne - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
✔ Gaskell, Elizabeth - Mary Barton
Bronte, Charlotte - Shirley
Books read: 35

1850 to 1899
✔ Dickens, Charles - David Copperfield
✔ Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
✔ Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
✔ Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The House of the Seven Gables
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Blithedale Romance
✔ Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Gaskell, Elizabeth - Cranford
✔ Bronte, Charlotte - Villette
✔ Dickens, Charles - Bleak House
✔ Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
✔ Dickens, Charles - Hard Times
Keller, Gottfried - Green Henry
✔ Gaskell, Elizabeth - North and South
✔ Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Stifter, Adalbert - Indian Summer
✔ Eliot, George - Adam Bede
Gocharov, Ivan - Oblomov
✔ Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
✔ Collins, Wilkie - The Woman in White
✔ Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
Trollope, Anthony - Castle Richmond
Turgenev, Ivan - On the Eve
✔ Multatuli - Max Havelaar
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Marble Faun
✔ Dickens, Charles - Great Expectations
✔ Eliot, George - Silas Marner
✔ Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
✔ Hugo, Victor - Les Miserables
✔ Kingsley, Charles - The Water-Babies
✔ Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Notes from the Underground Book
✔ Le Fanu, Sheridan - Uncle Silas
✔ Dickens, Charles - Our Mutual Friend
✔ Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
✔ Verne, Jules - Journey to the Centre of the Earth
✔ Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
Trollope, Anthony - The Last Chronicle of Barset
✔ Zola, Emile - Therese Raquin
✔ Collins, Wilkie - The Moonstone
✔ Alcott, Louisa May - Little Women
✔ Dostoevsky, Fyodor - The Idiot Book
de Lautreaumont, Comte - Maldoror Book
✔ Trollope, Anthony - Phineas Finn
Flaubert, Gustave - Sentimental Education
✔ Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
✔ Trollope, Anthony - He Knew He Was Right
Turgenev, Ivan - King Lear of the Steppes
✔ Carroll, Lewis - Through the Looking Glass
✔ Eliot, George - Middlemarch
Turgenev, Ivan - Spring Torrents
Butler, Samuel - Erewhon
Dostoevsky, Fyodor -The Devils Book
✔ Le Fanu, Sheridan - In a Glass Darkly
✔ Verne, Jules - Around the World in Eighty Days
✔ Leskov, Nikolai - The Enchanted Wanderer
✔ Hardy, Thomas - Far from the Madding Crowd
✔ Flaubert, Gustave - The Temptation of Saint Anthony
✔ Hardy, Thomas - The Hand of Ethelberta
Eliot, George - Daniel Deronda
Turgenev, Ivan - Virgin Soil
Valera, Juan - Pepita Jimenez
de Queiros, Jose Maria Eca - The Crime of Father Amaro
✔Zola, Emile - Drunkard
✔ Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina
✔ Hardy, Thomas - Return of the Native
✔ Hernandez, Jose - Martin Fierro
Strindberg, August - The Red Room
✔ Dostoevsky, Fodor - The Brothers Karamazov
✔ Wallace, Lew - Ben-Hur
✔ Zola, Emile - Nana
✔ James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
✔ Verga, Giovanni - The House by the Medlar Tree
✔ de Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado - The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
✔ Flaubert, Gustave - Bouvard and Pecuchet
✔ Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
✔ de Maupassant, Guy - A Woman's Life
✔ Tolstoy, Leo - The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Huysmans, Joris-Karl - Against the Grain
Alas, Leopoldo - The Regent's Wife
✔ de Maupassant, Guy - Bel-Ami
Pater, Walter - Marius the Epicurean
✔ Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
✔ Zola, Emile - Germinal
✔ Haggard, H. Rider - King Solomon's Mines
✔ Stevenson, Robert Louis - Kidnapped
✔ Hardy, Thomas - The Mayor of Casterbridge
van Eeden, Frederik - The Quest
✔ Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde
✔ Haggard, H. Rider - She
✔ Hardy, Thomas - The Woodlanders
Bazan, Emilia Pardo - The Manors of Ulloa
Strindberg, August - The People of Hemso
Perez Galdos, Benito - Fortunata y Jacinta
✔ de Maupassant, Guy - Pierre and Jean
✔ Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Master of Ballantrae
Vazov, Ivan - Under the Yoke
D'Annunzio, Gabriele The Child of Pleasure
Couperus, Louis - Eline Vere
✔ Hamsun, Knut - Hunger
✔ Strindberg, August - By the Open Sea
Zola, Emile - La Bete Humaine
France, Anatole - Thais Book
✔ Tolstoy, Leo - The Kreutzer Sonata
✔ Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Huysmans, Joris-Karl - Down There
✔ Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
✔ Lagerlof, Selma - Gosta Berling's Saga
✔ Gissing, George - New Grub Street
✔ Morris, William - News from Nowhere
✔ Conan Doyle, Arthur - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
✔ Grossmith, George - Diary of a Nobody
✔ Gissing, George - Born in Exile
✔ Perkins Gilman, Charlotte - The Yellow Wallpaper
Ross, Somerville - The Real Charlotte
De Roberto, Federico - The Viceroys
✔ Hardy, Thomas - Jude the Obscure
✔ Fontane, Theodor - Effi Briest
✔ Wells, H.G. - The Time Machine
✔ Wells, H.G. - The Island of Dr. Moreau
✔ Sienkiewicz, Henryk - Quo Vadis
✔ Stoker, Bram - Dracula
James, Henry - What Maisie Knew
✔ Wells, H.G. - The Invisible Man
Galdos, Benito Perez - Compassion
Prus, Boleslaw - Pharoah
Gide, Andre - Fruits of the Earth
✔ Wells, H.G. - The War of the Worlds
✔ James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
✔ Svevo, Italo - As a Man Grows Older
✔ de Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado - Dom Casmurro
✔ Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
✔ Fontane, Theodor - The Stechlin
Gardonyi, Geza - Eclipse of the Crescent Moon
✔ Somerville and Ross - Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
✔ Salgari, Emilio - Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem

Books read 94

Total through 1899: 158

1900 to 1919
Dreiser, Theodore - Sister Carrie
✔ Conrad, Joseph - Lord Jim
Schnitzler, Arthur - None but the Brave
✔ Kipling, Rudyard - Kim
✔ Mann, Thomas - Buddenbrooks
✔ Conan Doyle, Arthur - The Hound of the Baskervilles
✔ Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
✔ James, Henry - The Wings of the Dove
✔ Gide, Andre - The Immoralist
James, Henry - The Ambassadors
James, Henry - The Golden Bowl
✔ Childers, Erskine - The Riddle of the Sands
✔ London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
Schreber, Daniel Paul - Memoirs of my Nervous Illness
Butler, Samuel - The Way of All Flesh
Rolfe, Frederick - Hadrian the Seventh
✔ Conrad, Joseph - Nostromo
✔ Forster, E.M. - Where Angels Fear to Tread
✔ Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Mann, Heinrich - Professor Unrat
Catala, Victor - Solitude
Musil, Robert - Young Torless
✔ Galsworthy, John - The Forsyte Saga
✔ Sinclair, Upton - The Jungle
✔ Conrad, Joseph - The Secret Agent
Gorky, Maxim - Mother
✔ Hodgson, William Hope - The House on the Borderland
✔ Bennett, Arnold - The Old Wives' Tale
✔ London, Jack - The Iron Heel
Barbusse, Henri - The Inferno
✔ Wells, H.G. - Tono-Bungay
✔ Forster, E.M. - A Room With a View
Gide, Andre - Strait is the Gate
✔ London, Jack - Martin Eden
Stein, Gertrude - Three Lives
Rilke, Rainer Maria - The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
✔ Forster, E.M. - Howards End Book
Roussel, Raymond - Impressions of Africa
Allain, Marcel - Fantamos
✔ Wharton, Edith - Ethan Frome
✔ Stephens, James - The Charwoman's Daughter
✔ Mann, Thomas - Death in Venice
✔ Lawrence, D.H. - Sons and Lovers
Tressell, Robert - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Jimenez, Juan Ramon - Platero and I
✔ Burroughs, Edgar Rice - Tarzan of the Apes
Hesse, Herman - Rosshalde
Roussel, Raymond - Locus Solus
✔ Soseki, Natsume - Kokoro
✔ Buchan, John - The Thirty-Nine Steps
Lawrence, D.H. - The Rainbow
✔ Maugham, W. Somerset - Of Human Bondage
Woolf, Virginia - The Voyage Out
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Ryunosuke, Akutagawa - Rashomon
Barbusse, Henri - Under Fire
✔ Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Wharton, Edith - Bunner Sisters
✔ Azuela, Mariano - The Underdogs
Timmermans, Felix - Pallieter
Tagore, Rabindranath - The Home and the World
✔ Hamsun, Knut - Growth of the Soil
✔ Wharton, Edith - Summer
Conrad, Joseph - The Shadow Line
✔ West, Rebecca - The Return of the Soldier
Lewis, Wyndham - Tarr
✔ Woolf, Virginia - Night and Day

Books read 36

1920 to 1929
Junger, Ernst - The Storm of Steel
✔ Lawrence, D.H. - Women in Love
✔ Lewis, Sinclair - Main Street
✔ Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence
✔ Huxley, Aldous - Crome Yellow
✔ Lawrence, D.H. - The Fox
Papini, Giovanni - Life of Christ
✔ Joyce, James - Ulysses
Lewis, Sinclair - Babbit
Lawrence, D.H. - Aaron's Rod
Kraus, Karl - The Last Days of Humanity
Colette - Claudine's House
Sinclair, May - Life and Death of Harriett Frean
✔ Wharton, Edith - Glimpses of the Moon
Rebreanu, Liviu - The Forest of the Hanged
✔ Hesse, Herman - Siddhartha
Woolf, Virginia - Jacob's Room
✔ Cummings, E.E. - The Enormous Room
✔ Mansfield, Katherine - The Garden Party
✔ Undset, Sigrid - Kristin Lavransdatter
✔ Zweig, Stefan - Amok
Huxley, Aldous - Antic Hay
Toomer, Jean - Cane
Radiguet, Raymond - The Devil in the Flesh
Svevo, Italo - Zeno's Conscience
✔ Forster, E.M. - A Passage to India
✔ Zamyatin, Yevgeny - We
✔ Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
✔ Arlen, Michael - The Green Hat
✔ Melville, Herman - Billy Budd, Foretopman
Sellase, Blattengeta Heruy Welde - The New World
Cather, Willa - The Professor's House
✔ Gorky, Maxim - The Artamonov Business
Kafka, Franz - The Trial
✔ Gide, Andre - The Counterfeiters
✔ Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
✔ Woolf, Virginia - Mrs. Dalloway
✔ Passos, John Dos - Manhattan Transfer
Mofolo, Thomas Chaka the Zulu
Stein, Gertrude - The Making of Americans
✔ Christie, Agatha - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
✔ Pirandello, Luigi - One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
Lawrence, D.H. - The Plumed Serpent
Bernanos, Georges - Under Satan's Sun
✔ Hasek, Jaroslav - The Good Soldier Svejk
Sandel, Cora - Alberta and Jacob
Kafka, Franz - The Castle
✔ Green, Henry - Blindness
✔ Hemingway, Ernest - The Sun Also Rises
✔ Kafka, Franz - Amerika
Zweig, Arnold - The Case of Sergeant Grischa
✔ Williamson, Henry - Tarka the Otter
✔ Woolf, Virginia - To The Lighthouse
✔ Proust, Marcel - Remembrance of Things Past
✔ Hesse, Herman -
Breton, Andre - Nadja
Larsen, Nella - Quicksand
✔ Waugh, Evelyn - Decline and Fall
✔ Rhys, Jean - Quartet
Lewis, Wyndham - The Childermass
Tanizaki, Junichiro - Some Prefer Nettles
✔ Ford, Ford Madox - Parade's End
✔ Hall, Radclyffe - The Well of Loneliness
✔ Lawrence, D.H. - Lady Chatterley's Lover
✔ Woolf, Virginia - Orlando Book
Bataille, Georges - Story of the Eye Book
Shahnour, Shahan - Retreat Without Song
Cocteau, Jean - Les Enfants Terribles Book
✔ Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
West, Rebecca - Harriet Hume Book 284
✔ Bowen, Elizabeth - The Last September
Doblin, Alfred - Berlin Alexanderplatz
✔ Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
Moravia, Alberto - The Time of Indifference
✔ Green Henry - Living
Hammett, Dashiell - The Red Harvest
Wilson, Edmund - I Thought of Daisy
✔ Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
✔ Larsen, Nella - Passing
de Chirico, Giorgio - Hebdomeros
Wolfe, Thomas - Look Homeward, Angel

Books read 44

1930 to 1939

✔ Hammett, Dashiell - The Maltese Falcon
✔ Waugh, Evelyn - Vile Bodies
✔ Manning, Frederic - Her Privates We
Lewis, Wyndham - the Apes of God
Maugham, W. Somerset - Cakes and Ale
Hammett, Dashiell - The Glass Key
Lewis, Saunders - Monica
Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy - Insatiability
Woolf, Virginia - The Waves
Bowen, Elizabeth - To the North
✔ Hammett, Dashiell - The Thin Man
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand - Journey to the End of the Night Book
Gibbon, Lewis Grassic - Sunset Song
Krieza, Miroslav - The Return of Philip Latinowicz
✔ Roth, Joseph - The Radetzky March
Slauerhoff, Jan Jacob - The Forbidden Realm
✔ Gibbons, Stella - Cold Comfort Farm
✔ Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
✔Mauriac, Francois - Vipers' Tangle
✔ Musil, Robert - The Man Without Qualities
Eisschot, Willem - Cheese
✔ Malraux, Andre - Man's Fate
Jameson, Storm - A Day Off
✔ Brittain, Vera - Testament of Youth
Stein, Gertrude - The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
✔ Sayers, Dorothy - Murder Must Advertise
West, Nathanael - Miss Lonelyhearts
✔ Roth, Henry - Call it Sleep
Schultz, Bruno - The Street of Crocodiles
✔ Wodehouse, P.G. - Thank You, Jeeves
✔ Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Tender is the Night
✔ Waugh, Evelyn - A Handful of Dust
Miller, Henry - Tropic of Cancer
✔ Cain, James M. - The Postman Always Rings
Ageyev, M. - Novel With Cocaine
✔ Brecht, Bertolt - Threepenny Novel
Cioran, Emil - On the Heights of Despair
Aragon, Louis - The Bells of Basel
✔ Sayers, Dorothy L. - The Nine Tailors
✔ Orwell, George - Burmese Days
Greene, Graham - England Made Me
✔ Bowen, Elizabeth - The House in Paris
✔ Canetti, Elias - Auto-da-Fe
✔ McCoy, Horace - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
✔ Isherwood, Christopher - The Last of Mr. Norris
✔ Anand, Mulk Raj - Untouchable
✔ Laxness, Halldor - Independent People
Barnes, Djuna - Nightwood
✔ Lovecraft, H.P. - At the Mountains of Madness
✔ Faulkner, William - Absalom, Absalom!
MacPherson, Ian - Wild Harbour
Capek, Karel - War with the Newts
Orwell, George - Keep the Aspidistra Flying
✔ Mitchell, Margaret - Gone with the Wind
West, Rebecca - The Thinking Reed
✔ Huxley, Aldous - Eyeless in Gaza
Warner, Sylvia Townsend - Summer Will Show
✔ Hemingway, Ernest - To Have and Have Not
She, Lao - Rickshaw Boy
✔ Dinesen, Isak - Out of Africa
Lewis, Wyndham - The Revenge for Love
Jones, David - In Parenthesis
Gombrowicz, Witold - Ferdydurke
✔ Hedayat, Sadegh - The Blind Owl
✔ Tolkein, J.R.R - The Hobbit
✔ Woolf, Virginia - The Years
✔ Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
✔ Steinbeck, John - Of Mice and Men
✔ Beckett, Samuel - Murphy
Dos Passos, John - U.S.A.
✔ Greene, Graham - Brighton Rock
Ambler, Eric - Cause for Alarm
✔ Bartol, Vladimir - Alamut
✔ du Maurier, Daphne - Rebecca
Satre, Jean-Paul - Nausea
✔ Watson, Winifred - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Warner, Sylvia Townsend - After the Death of Don Juan
Krleza, Miroslav - On the Edge of Reason
✔ Chandler. Raymond - The Big Sleep
✔ Isherwood, Christopher - Goodbye to Berlin
Orwell, George - Coming Up for Air
✔ Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Green, Henry - Party Going
✔ Rhys, Jean - Good Morning, Midnight
Miller, Henry - Tropic of Capricorn
✔ O'Brien, Flann - At Swim-Two-Birds
Joyce, James - Finnegans Wake

Books read 47

1940 to 1949
Wright, Richard - Native Son
Buzzati, Dino - The Tartar Steppe
✔ Greene, Graham - The Power and the Glory
Hemingway, Ernest - For Whom the Bells Toll
✔ Chandler, Raymond - Farewell My Lovely
Faulkner, William - The Hamlet
Woolf, Virginia - Between the Acts
Hamilton, Patrick - Hangover Square
Stead, Christine - The Man Who Loved Children
Alegria, Ciro - Broad and Alien is the World
White, Patrick - The Living and the Dead
O'Brien, Flann - The Poor Mouth
Pavese, Cesare - The Harvesters
Vittorini, Elio - Conversations in Sicily
✔ Camus, Albert - The Outsider
Faulkner, William - Go Down, Moses
✔ Marai, Sandor - Embers
✔ Zweig, Stefan - Chess Story
✔ Hesse, Herman - The Glass Bead Game
Green, Henry - Caught
Mann, Thomas - Joseph and His Brothers
✔ de Saint-Exupery, Antoine - The Little Prince
✔ Bellow, Saul - Dangling Man
✔ Borges, Jorge Luis - Ficciones
✔ Maugham, W. Somerset - The Razor's Edge
Seghers, Anne - Transit
✔ Lindgren, Astrid Pippi Longstocking
✔ Green, Henry - Loving
Mitford, Nancy - The Pursuit of Love
✔ Steinbeck, John - Cannery Row
✔ Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Andric, Ivo - The Bridge on the Drina
Levi, Carlo - Christ Stopped at Eboli
Breton, Andre - Arcanum 17
✔ Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited
Andric, Ivo - Bosnian Chronicle
Roy, Gabrielle - The Tin Flute
Laforet, Carmen - Andrea
Broch, Hermann - The Death of Virgil
✔ Peake, Mervyn - Titus Groan
✔ Kazantzakis, Nikos - Zorba the Greek
Green, Henry - Back
Caldwell, Erskine - House in the Uplands
Calvino, Italo - The Path to the Nest of Spiders
✔ Lowry, Malcolm - Under the Volcano
✔ Levi, Primo - If This Is a Man
✔ Queneau, Raymond - Exercises in Style
Bellow, Saul - The Victim
✔ Camus, Albert - The Plague Book 456
Mann, Thomas - Doctor Faustus
✔ Mahfouz, Naguib - Midaq Alley
Vian, Boris - Froth on the Daydream
✔ Cela, Camilo Jose - Journey to the Alcarria
Andrzejewski, Jerzy - Ashes and Diamonds
Moravia, Alberto - Disobedience
Desani, G.V. - All About Hatterr
✔ Paton, Alan - Cry, The Beloved Country
Greene, Graham - The Heart of the Matter
Agnon, Shmuel Yosef - In the Heart of the Seas
✔ Borowski, Tadeusz - This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Blanchot, Maurice - Death Sentence
✔ Orwell, George - Nineteen Eighty-Four
✔ Algren, Nelson - The Man with the Golden
Carpentier, Alejo - Kingdom of this World
Bowen, Elizabeth - The Heat of the Day
✔ Mitford, Nancy - Love in a Cold Climate
Serge, Victor - The Case of Comrade Tulayev

Books read 28

Total 155 + 158 = 313

1950 to 1959

Vestdijk - The Garden Where the Brass Band Played
✔ Asimov, Isaac - I, Robot
✔ Lessing, Doris - The Grass is Singing
✔ Shute, Nevil - A Town Like Alice
Pavese, Cesare - The Moon and the Bonfires
✔ Peake, Mervyn - Gormenghast
✔ Thurber, James - The 13 Clocks
✔ Greene, Graham - The Third Man
Paz, Octavio - The Labyrinth of Solitude
Bataille, Georges - The Abbot C
Broch, Hermann - The Guiltless
✔ Lagerkvist, Par - Barabbas
✔ Greene, Graham - The End of the Affair
✔ Beckett, Samuel - Molloy
Camus, Albert - The Rebel
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Gracq, Julien - The Opposing Shore
✔ Asimov, Isaac - Foundation
Beckett, Samuel - Malone Dies
✔ Wyndham, John - Day of the Triffids
Yourcenar, Marguerite - Memoirs of Hadrian
✔ Thompson, Jim - The Killer Inside Me
✔ Cela, Camilo Jose - The Hive
O'Connor, Flannery - Wise Blood
✔ Hemingway, Ernest - The Old Man and the Sea
✔ Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
✔ Durrenmatt, Friedrich - The Judge and His Hangman
✔ Pym, Barbara - Excellent Women
✔ Kawabata, Yasunari - A Thousand Cranes
✔ Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
✔ Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
✔ Fleming, Ian - Casino Royale
✔ Burroughs, William - Junkie
✔ Amis, Kingsley - Lucky Jim
✔Carpentier, Alejo - The Lost Steps
✔ Koeppen, Wolfgang - The Hothouse
✔ Beckett, Samuel - Watt
Beckett, Samuel - The Unnamable
✔ Chandler, Raymond - The Long Goodbye
✔ Hartley, L.P. - The Go-Between
✔ Laye, Camara - The Dark Child
Kosmac, Ciril - A Day in Spring
Moravia, Alberto - A Ghost at Noon
Reage, Pauline - The Story of O
✔ Murdoch, Iris - Under the Net
✔ Golding, William - The Lord of the Flies
de Beauvoir, Simone - The Mandarins
✔ Sagan, Francoise - Bonjour Tristesse
Koeppen, Wolfgang - Death in Rome
✔ Mishima, Yukio - The Sound of Waves
Linna, Vaino - The Unknown Soldier
Lewis, Wyndham - Self Condemned
✔ Frisch, Max - I'm Not Stiller
Pasolini, Pier Paulo - The Ragazzi
Gaddis, William - The Recognitions
Rulfo, Juan - The Burning Plain and Other Stories
✔ Greene, Graham - The Quiet American
Plunkett, James - The Trusting and the Maimed
Bowen, Elizabeth - A World of Love
White, Patrick - The Tree of Man
Kazantzakis, Nikos - The Last Temptation of Christ
✔ Rosa, Joao Guimaraes - The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
✔ Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita
✔ Highsmith, Patricia - The Talented Mr. Ripley
✔ Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Lord of the Rings
Selvon, Sam - The Lonely Londoners
✔ Gary, Romain - The Roots of Heaven
✔ Barth, John - The Floating Opera
✔ Bellow, Saul - Seize the Day
✔ Baldwin, James - Giovanni's Room
✔ Durrell, Lawrence - Justine
✔ Thurber, James - The Wonderful "O"
Junger, Ernst - The Glass Bees
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Nabokov, Vladimir - Pnin
✔ Kerouac, Jack - On the Road
Meri, Veijo - The Manila Rope
✔ Ruyslinck, Ward - The Deadbeats
Frisch, Max - Homo Faber
✔ Bataille, Georges - Blue of Noon
✔ Wyndham, John - The Midwich Cuckoo
White, Patrick - Voss
✔obbe-Grillet, John - Jealousy
✔ Vesaas, Tarjei - The Birds
✔ White, John - The Once and Future King
✔ Barth, John - The End of the Road
✔ Murdoch, Iris - The Bell
Behan, Brendan - Borstal Boy
✔ Gallico, Paul - Mrs 'Arris Goes to Paris
Amado, Jorge - Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
✔ Sillitoe, Alan - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
✔ Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Dillon, Ellis - The Bitter Glass
Narayan, R.K. - The Guide
✔ di Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi - The Leopard
✔ Arguedas, Jose Maria - Deep Rivers
✔ Capote, Truman - Breakfast at Tiffany's
Oe, Kenzaburo - Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring
Boll, Heinrich - Billiards at Half-Past Nine
✔ Spark, Muriel - Memento Mori
Bellow, Saul - Henderson the Rain King
Mphahlele, Es'kia - Down Second Avenue
✔ Lee, Laurie - Cider with Rosie
✔ Grass, Gunter - The Tin Drum
Burroughs, William - Naked Lunch
Waterhouse, Keith - Billy Liar
✔ MacInnes, Colin - Absolute Beginners
Books read 64

1960 to 1969

✔ Gary, Romain - Promise at Dawn Book 594
✔ Updike, John - Rabbit, Run
✔ Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Singer, Isaac Bashevis - The Magician of Lublin
Walser, Martin - Halftime Not Translated
✔ O'Brien, Edna - The Country Girls
Calvino, Italo - Our Ancestors
✔ Beckett, Samuel - How It Is
✔ O'Connor, Flannery - The Violent Bear it Away
Cassola, Carlo - Bebo's Girl
Sembene, Ousmane - God's Bit of Wood
✔ Onetti, Juan Carlos - The Shipyard Book
✔ Heller, Joseph - Catch-22
✔ Lem, Stanislaw - Solaris
✔ Grass, Gunter - Cat and Mouse
✔ Spark, Muriel - The Prime of Miss Jean
✔ Murdoch, Iris - A Severed Head
✔ Salinger, J.D. - Franny and Zooey
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - No One Writes to the Colonel
✔ Frame, Janet - Faces in the Water
✔ Vilas, Xose Neira - Memoirs of a Peasant Boy
✔ Heinlein, Robert - Stranger in a Strange Land
✔ Borges, Jorge Luis - Labyrinths
✔ Lessing, Doris - The Golden Notebook
Ballard, J.G. - The Drowned World
Santos, Luis Martin - Time of Silence
✔ Nabokov, Vladimir - Pale Fire
✔ Burgess, Anthony - A Clockwork Orange
✔ Kesey, Ken - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
✔ Fowles, John - The Collector
Brien, Edna - Girl with Green Eyes
✔ Fuentes, Carlos - The Death of Artemio Cruz
Llosa, Mario Vargas - The Time of the Hero
Bassani, Giorgio - The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
✔ Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Taksis, Costas - The Third Wedding
Grass, Gunter - Dog Years
✔ Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Burgess, Anthony - Inside Mr. Enderby
✔ Spark, Muriel - The Girls of Slender Means
✔ Le Carre, John - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Pagnol, Marcel - Manon des Sources
✔ Webb, Charles - The Graduate
✔ Vonnegut, Kurt - Cat's Cradle
Pynchon, Thomas - V.
✔ Bellow, Saul - Herzog
Duras, Marguerite - The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein
✔ Achebe, Chinua - Arrow of God
Barthelme, Donald - Come Back, Dr Caligari
Infante, Guillermo Cabrera - Three Trapped Tigers
✔ Kesey, Ken - Sometimes a Great Notion
✔ Lispector, Clarice - The Passion According to G.H.
Wolkers, Jan - Back to Oegstgeest
✔ Hrabal, Bohumil - Closely Watched Trains
Thiong'o, Ngugi wa - The River Between
Kis, Danilo - Garden, Ashes
✔ O'Connor, Flannery - Everything That Rises Must Converge
Vonnegut, Kurt - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
✔ O'Brien, Edna - August is a Wicked Month
Perec, Georges - Things: A Story of the Sixties
✔ Capote, Truman - In Cold Blood
Selimovic, Mesa - Death and the Dervish
✔ Endo, Shusaku - Silence
✔ Sciascia, Leonardo - To Each His Own
✔ Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Barth, John - Giles Goat-Boy
Goytisolo, Juan - Marks of Identity
✔ Duras, Marguerite - The Vice-Consol
✔ Fowles, John - The Magus Book
✔ Johnson, B.S. - Trawl
West, Rebecca - The Birds Fall Down
Perec, Georges - A Man Asleep
✔ Bulgakov, Mikhail - The Master and the Margarita
✔ Rhys, Jean - Wide Sargasso Sea
✔ O'Brien, Flann - The Third Policeman
Mahfouz, Naguib - Miramar
Vassilikos, Vassilis - Z
✔ Kundera, Milan - The Joke
Richardson, Dorothy - Pilgrimage
✔ Singer, Isaac Bashevis - The Manor
✔ Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Llosa, Mario Vargos - The Cubs and Other Stories
✔ Wyndham, John - Chocky
Wilson, Angus - No Laughing Matter
✔ Merle, Robert - Day of the Dolphin
✔ Wolfe, Tom - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Bowen, Elizabeth - Eva Trout
✔ Honchar, Oles - The Cathedral
Hines, Barry - A Kestrel for a Knave
✔ Brautigan, Richard - In Watermelon Sugar
Lenz, Siegfried - The German Lesson
Lowry, Malcolm - Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid Book
Wolf, Christa - The Quest for Christa T.
✔ Dick, Philip K. - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
✔ Clarke, Arthur C. - 2001: A Space Odyssey
Cohan, Albert - Belle du Seigneur
Murdoch, Iris - The Nice and the Good
✔ Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr - Cancer Ward
Vidal, Gore - Myra Breckinridge
✔ Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr - The First Circle
✔ Perec, Georges - A Void
Oates, Joyce Carol - them
Nabokov, Vladimir - Ada
✔ Puzo, Mario - The Godfather
Roth, Philip - Portnoy's Complaint
Becker, Jurek - Jacob the Liar
Amis, Kingsley - The Green Man
✔ Fowles, John - The French Lieutenant's Woman
✔ Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse Five
✔ Himes, Chester - Blind Man with a Pistol
✔ Coover, Robert - Pricksongs and Descants
Amado, Jorge - Tent of Miracles
Books read: 64

1970 to 1979

✔ Ballard, J.G. - The Atrocity Exhibition
Konrad, Gyorgy - The Case Worker
Erofeyev, Venedikt - Moscow Stations
Puig, Manuel - Heartbreak Tango
✔ Salih, Tayeb - Seasons of Migration to the North
Poniatowska, Elena - Here's to You, Jesusa
Davies, Robertson - Fifth Business
✔ Didion, Joan - Play It As It Lays
✔ Johnson, Uwe - Jahrestage
✔ Farrell J.G. - Troubles
Beckett, Samuel - Mercier and Camier
Echenique, Alfredo Bryce - A World for Julius
✔ Angelou, Maya - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Handke, Peter - Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty
✔ Morrison, Toni - The Bluest Eye
Tournier, Michael - The Ogre
Spark, Muriel - The Driver's Seat
Mishima, Yukio - The Sea of Fertility
✔ Updike, John - Rabbit Redux
Burroughs, William - The Wild Boys
Osadchyi, Mykhailo - Cataract
✔ Boll, Heinrich - Group Portrait with Lady
✔ Thompson, Hunter S. - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
✔ Doctorow, E. L. - The Book of Daniel
✔ Munro, Alice - Lives of Girls and Women
Johnson, B.S. - House Mother Normal
✔ Naipaul, V.S. - In a Free State
✔ Atwood, Margaret - Surfacing
Berger, John - G
✔ Jansson, Tove - The Summer Book
✔ Roth, Philip - The Breast
✔ Ariyoshi, Sawako - The Twilight Years
✔ Welty, Eudora - The Optimist's Daughter
✔ Calvino, Italo - Invisible Cities
✔ Morrison, Toni - Sula
✔ Murdoch, Iris - The Black Prince
Pynchon, Thomas - Gravity's Rainbow
Greene, Graham - The Honorary Consul
✔ Ballard, J.G. - Crash
Calvino, Italo - The Castle of Crossed Destinies
✔ Farrell, J.G. - The Siege of Krishnapur
Head, Bessie - A Question of Power
Jong, Erica - Fear of Flying
✔ Vonnegut, Kurt - Breakfast of Champions
✔ Le Carre, John - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
✔ Le Guin, Ursula K. - The Dispossessed
Laurence, Margaret - The Diviners
✔ Boll, Heinrich - The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Coetzee, J. M. - Dusklands
Kotzwinkle, William - The Fan Man
Soljan, Antun - The Port (not translated)
✔ Doctorow, E.L. - Ragtime
Anderson, Jessica - The Commandant
✔ Paasilinna, Arto - The Year of the Hare
✔ Bellow, Saul - Humboldt's Gift
✔ Ballard, J.G. - High Rise
✔ Saadawi, Nawal El - Woman at Point Zero
Brautigan, Richard - Willard and His Bowling Trophies
Kertesz, Imre - Fateless
Barthelme, Donald - The Dead Father
✔ Rushdie, Salman - Grimus
✔ Bernhard, Thomas - Correction
✔ Amis, Martin - Dead Babies
✔ Powell, Anthony - A Dance to the Music of Time
Perec, Georges - W, or the Memory of Childhood
✔ Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - Autumn of the Patriarch
Wolf, Christa - Patterns of Childhood
✔ Barthelme, Donald - Amateurs
✔ Taylor, Elizabeth - Blaming
Thornburg, Newton - Cutter and Bone
✔ Rice, Anne - Interview with the Vampire
Coover, Robert - The Public Burning
✔ DeLillo, Don - Ratner's Star
Handke, Peter - The Left-Handed Woman
✔ Puig, Manuel - Kiss of the Spider Woman
Murakami, Ryu - Almost Transparent Blue
Coetzee, J.M. - In the Heart of the Country
Skvorecky, Josef - The Engineer of Human Souls
✔ Pym, Barbara - Quartet in Autumn
Lispector, Clarice - The Hour of the Star
✔ Morrison, Toni - Song of Solomon
Thiong'o, Ngugi wa - Petals of Blood
Findley, Timothy - The Wars
✔ Herr, Michael - Dispatches
✔ King, Stephen - The Shining
Nin, Anais - Delta of Venus
Carter, Angela - The Passion of New Eve
✔ Munro, Alice - The Beggar Maid
✔ Selby Jr, Hubert - Requiem for a Dream
Farrell, J.G. - The Singapore Grip
✔ Murdoch, Iris - The Sea, The Sea
✔ Perec, Georges - Life: A User's Manual
✔ Irving, John - The World According to Garp
Gaite, Carmen Martin - The Back Room
Byatt, A.S. - The Virgin in the Garden
Bernhard, Thomas - Yes
McEwan, Ian - The Cement Garden
✔ Adams, Douglas - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
✔ Calvino, Italo - If On a Winter's Night a Traveler
✔ Boll, Heinrich - The Safety Net
✔ Ba, Mariama - So Long a Letter
✔ Gordimer, Nadine - Burger's Daughter
✔ Naipaul, V.S. - A Bend in the River
Lessing, Doris - Shikasta
✔ Brink, Andre - A Dry White Season
✔ Kundera, Milan - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Douka, Maro - Fool's Gold
Le Carre, John - Smiley's People
Montalban, Manuel Vazquez - Southern Seas
Books read: 59

1980 to 1989
✔ Eco, Umberto - The Name of the Rose
✔ Leonard, Elmore - City Primeval
Desai, Anita - Clear Light of Day
✔ Toole, John Kennedy - Confederacy of Dunces
Nooteboom, Cees - Rituals
Kossman, Alfred - Smell of Sadness
✔ Kadare, Ismail - Broken April
✔ Golding, William - Rites of Passage
✔ Rushdie, Salman - Midnight's Children
✔ Coetzee, J.M. - Waiting for the Barbarians
Tsypkin, Loenid - Summer in Baden-Baden
✔ The House with the Blind Glass Windows
Jie, Zhang - Leaden Wings
Llosa, Mario Vargas - The War of the End of the World
Gray, Alasdair - Lanark
✔ Updike, John - Rabbit is Rich
✔ DeLillo, Don - The Names
Bernhard, Thomas - Concrete
✔ Strauss, Botho - Couples, Passerby
✔ Gordimer, Nadine - July's People
McEwan, Ian - The Comfort of Strangers
✔ Chatwin, Bruce - On the Black Hill
Banville, John - The Newton Letter
✔ Allende, Isabel - The House of Spirits
✔ Keneally, Thomas - Schindler's Ark
✔ Ishiguro, Kazuo - A Pale View of the Hills
✔ Bernhard, Thomas - Wittgenstein's Nephew
✔ Walker, Alice - The Colour Purple
White, Edmund - A Boy's Own Story
Levi, Primo - If Not Now, When?
✔ Pessoa, Fernando - The Book of Disquiet
✔ Saramago, Jose - Baltasar and Blimunda
Claus, Hugo - The Sorrow of Belgium
✔ Jelinek, Elfriede - The Piano Teacher
✔ Lessing, Doris - The Diary of Jane Somers
✔ Coetzee, J.M. - The Life and Times of Michael
✔ Swift, Graham - Waterland
Leonard, Elmore - La Brava Book
✔ Trevor, William - Fools of Fortune
Beckett, Samuel - Worstward Ho
Tunstrom, Goran - The Christmas Oratorio
Antunes, Antonio Lobo - Fado Alexandrino
Saer, Juan Jose - The Witness
Rushdie, Salman - Shame
✔ Amis, Martin - Money: A Suicide Note
✔ Barnes, Julian - Flaubert's Parrot
✔Kross, Jaan - Professor Marten's Departure
Acker, Kathy - Blood and Guts in High School
Rios, Julian - Larva: Midsummer Night's Babel
Carter, Angela - Nights at the Circus
✔ Gibson, William - Neuromancer
Banks, Iain - The Wasp Factory
Didion, Joan - Democracy
✔ Duras, Marguerite - The Lover
✔ Saramago, Jose - The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
✔ Ballard, J.G. - Empire of the Sun
Kelman, James - The Busconductor Hines
Pavis, Milorad - Dictionary of the Khazars
✔ Kundera, Milan - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
✔ Gemmell, David - Legend
Strauss, Botho - The Young Man
✔ Erdrich, Louise - Love Medicine
✔ DeLillo, Don - White Noise
✔ Bernhard, Thomas - Old Masters
✔ Xianliang, Zhang - Half of Man is Woman
✔ Hempel, Amy - Reasons to Live
✔ Atwood, Margaret - The Handmaid's Tale
✔ Ackroyd, Peter - Hawksmoor
Burroughs, William - Queer
✔ Suskind, Patrick - Perfume
✔ McCarthy, Cormac - Blood Meridian
✔ Sagan, Carl - Contact
Ellis, Brett Easton - Less Than Zero
Fowles, John - A Maggot
Fredriksson, Marianne - Simon and the Oaks
✔ Irving, John - The Cider House Rules
✔ Winterson, Jeanette - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
✔ Kincaid, Jamaica - Annie John
Hofmann, Gert - The Parable of the Blind
✔ Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - Love in the Time of Cholera
Heerden, Etienne von - Ancestral Voices
✔ Szczypiorski, Andrzej - The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman
✔ Levi, Primo - The Drowned and the Saved
Coetzee, J.M. - Foe
✔ Moore, Alan - Watchmen
✔ Oates, Joyce Carol - Marya
Bernhard, Thomas - Extinction
✔ Ishiguro, Kazuo - An Artist of the Floating World
✔ Galeano, Eduardo - Memory of Fire
✔ Amis, Kingsley - The Old Devils
Thiong'o, Ngugi wa - Matigari
Moore, Lorrie - Anagrams
✔ Leavitt, David - Lost Language of Cranes
Cho, Jung Rae - The Taebaek Moutains Not Translated
✔ Paskov, Viktor - Ballad for Georg Henig
✔ Naipaul, V.S. - Enigma of Arrival
✔ Boyle, T. Coraghessan - World's End
Suskind, Patrick - The Pigeon
✔ Allende, Isabel - Of Love and Shadows
✔ Morrison, Toni - Beloved
Marias, Javier - All Souls
✔ Auster, Paul - The New York Trilogy
✔ Oz, Amos - Black Box
✔ Wolfe, Thomas - The Bonfire of the Vanities
✔ Ellroy, James - The Black Dahlia
✔ Winterson, Jeannette - The Passion
Handle, Peter - The Afternoon of the Writer
✔ Drabble, Margaret - The Radiant Way
✔ Yoshimoto, Banana - Kitchen
✔ Adams, Douglas - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
✔ Adams, Douglas - The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
Matthews, Henry - Cigarettes
✔ McEwan, Ian - The Child in Time
✔ Dandarembga, Tsitsi - Nervous Conditions
✔ Banks, Iain M. - The Player of Games
✔ DeLillo, Don - Libra
Hebert, Anne - The First Garden
Ransmayr, Christoph - The Last World
✔ Carey, Peter - Oscar and Lucinda
✔ Hollinghurst, Alan - The Swimming Pool Library
Rushdie, Salman - The Satanic Verses
Markson, David - Wittgenstein's Mistress
✔ White, Edmund - The Beautiful Room is Empty
✔ Huong, Duong Thu - Paradise of the Blind
Eco, Umberto - Foucault's Pendulum Book 528
✔ Atwood, Margaret - Cat's Eye
✔ Banville, John - The Book of Evidence
Zwagerman, Joost - Gimmick! Not translated
Atxaga, Bernardo - Obabakoak
Murnane, Gerald - Inland
✔ Irving, John - A Prayer for Owen Meany
✔ Esquivel, Laura - Like Water for Chocolate
✔ Saramago, Jose - History of the Seige of Lisbon
Galloway, Janice - The Trick is to Keep Breathing
Walker, Alice - The Temple of My Familiar
✔ Tharoor, Shashi - The Great Indian Novel
Krasznakorkai, Laszlo - The Melancholy of Resistance
✔ Ishiguro, Kazuo - Remains of the Day
✔ Doctorow, E. L. - Billy Bathgate
✔ Amis, Martin - London Fields
Auster, Paul - Moon Palace
Winterson, Jeanette - Sexing the Cherry
Kelman, James - A Disaffection
Moore, Lorrie - Like Life
✔ Cunningham, Michael - A Home at the End of the World
✔ Kureishi, Hanif - The Buddha of Suburbia
✔ Byatt, A.S. - Possession
Books read: 90

Total 277 + 313 = 590

1990 to 1999

Ghosh, Amitav - The Shadow Lines
✔ Kotzwinkle, William - The Midnight Examiner
✔ O'Brien, Tim - The Things They Carried
✔ Auster, Paul - The Music of Chance
Dodge, Jim - Stone Junction
✔ McGahern, John - Amongst Women
✔ Leonard, Elmore - Get Shorty
✔ Carter, Angela - Wise Children
✔ de Bernieres, Louis - Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord
Sinclair, Ian - Downriver
✔ Matesis, Pavlos - The Daughter
Sebald W.G. - Vertigo
Pynchon, Thomas - Vineland
Easton Ellis, Bret - American Psycho
Palmen, Connie - The Laws
✔ Mankell, Henning - Faceless Killers
Fakinou, Eugenia - Astradeni
✔ Barker, Pat - Regeneration
Powell, Padgett - Typical
✔ DeLillo, Don - Mao II
✔ Amis, Martin - Time's Arrow
✔ Chang, Jung - Wild Swans
✔ Crace, Jim - Arcadia
Freud, Esther - Hideous Kinky
McEwan, Ian - Black Dogs
Gupta, Sunetra - Memoirs of Rain
Doolittle, Hilda - Asphodel
Toibin, Colin - The Heather Blazing
✔ Oates, Joyce Carol - Black Water
McCabe, Patrick - The Butcher Boy
✔ Hoeg, Peter - Smilla's Sense of Snow
✔ Perez- Reverte - The Dumas Club
Winterson, Jeanette - Written on the Body
Banks, Iain - The Crow Road
✔ Warner, Marina - Indigo
✔ Ondaatje, Michael - The English Patient
✔ Morrison, Toni - Jazz
✔ Walker, Alice - Possessing the Secret of Joy
✔ Marias, Javier - A Heart So White
✔ McCarthy, Cormac - All the Pretty Horses
Ghose, Zulfikar - The Triple Mirror of Self
Doxiadis, Apostolos - Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture
Mulisch, Harry - The Discovery of Heaven
✔ Ozdamar, Emine - Life is a Caravanserai
Arenas, Reinaldo - Before Night Falls
✔ Tartt, Donna - The Secret History
Sebald, W.G. - The Emigrants Book
Atwood, Margaret - The Robber Bride
✔ Ackroyd, Peter - The House of Doctor Dee
✔ Mutis, Alvaro - The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
✔ Malouf, David - Remembering Babylon
Mukherjee, Bharati - The Holder of the World
✔ Eugenides, Jeffrey - The Virgin Suicides
✔ Shields, Carol - The Stone Diaries
Seth, Vikram - A Suitable Boy
Coe, Jonathan - What a Carve Up!
de Botton, Alain - On Love Book
✔ Banks, Iain - Complicity
Roth, Philip - Operation Shylock
de Loo, Tessa - The Twins
Kennedy A.L. - Looking for the Possible Dance
Faulks, Sebastian - Birdsong
Welsh, Irvine - Trainspotting
✔ Proulx, E. Annie - The Shipping News
Klima, Ivan - Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light
✔ Timm, Uwe - The Invention of Curried Sausages
Dabydeen, David - Disappearance
✔ Endo, Shusaku - Deep River B
Trevor, William - Felicia's Journey
✔ de Bernieres, Louis - Captain Corelli's Mandolin
✔ Kelman, James - How Late It Was, How Late
Topol, Jachym - City Sister Silver
Tabucchi, Antonio - Pereira Declares: A Testimony
✔ Murakami, Haruki - The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Coetzee, J.M. - The Master of Petersburg
✔ Vallejo, Fernando - Our Lady of the Assassins
Kyung-ni, Park - Land
Houellebecq, Michael - Whatever
Hollinghurst, Alan - The Folding Star
Auster, Paul - Mr. Vertigo
Ferrante, Elena - Troubling
✔ Markaris, Petros - The Late-Night News
Davis, Lydia - The End of the Story
Rose, Gillian - Love's Work
✔ Mistry, Rohinton - A Fine Balance
✔ Schlink, Bernhard - The Reader
✔ Sebald, W.G. - The Rings of Saturn
Roth, Philip - Sabbath's Theatre
Rushdie, Salman - The Moor's Last Sigh
Amis, Martin - The Information
✔ Martinez, Tomas Eloy - Santa Evita
Warner, Alan - Morvern Callar
Ishiguro, Kazuo - The Unconsoled
✔ Atwood, Margaret - Alias Grace
Pelevin, Victor - The Clay Machine-Gun
✔ Wallace, David Foster - Infinite Jest
Haase, Hella - Forever a Stranger
Barker, Pat - The Ghost Road
✔ Michaels, Anne - Fugitive Pieces
✔ Duncker, Patricia - Hallucinating Foucault
Ballard, J.G. - Cocaine Nights
Mendoza, Eduardo - A Light Comedy
MacDonald Ann-Marie - Fall on Your Knees
✔ Barrico, Alessandro - Silk
Banville, John - The Untouchable
✔ Roth, Philip - American Pastoral
✔ Roy, Arundhati - The God of Small Things
✔ Pynchon, Thomas - Mason & Dixon
Hemmerechts, Kristien - Margot and the Angels
Pelevin, Victor - The Life of Insects
Piglia, Ricardo - Money to Burn
✔ Carey, Peter - Jack Maggs
✔ DeLillo, Don - Underworld
McEwan Ian - Enduring Love
Self, Will - Great Apes
✔ Golden, Arthur - Memoirs of a Geisha
Miyabe, Miyuki - Crossfire
✔ Kingsolver, Barbara - The Poisonwood Bible
✔ Coelho, Paulo - Veronika Decides to Die
✔ Cunningham, Michael - The Hours
✔ Barker, Pat - Another World
Ellis, Bret Easton - Glamorama
✔ Waters, Sarah - Tipping the Velvet
✔ Nooteboom, Cees - All Souls Day
✔ Banks, Russell - Cloudsplitter
✔ McEwan, Ian - Amsterdam
Kureishi, Hanif - Intimacy
✔ Delibes, Miguel - The Heretic
Houellebecq, Michel - Elementary Particles
Murakami, Haruki - Sputnik Sweetheart
O'Hanlon, Ardal - The Talk of the Town
Gutierrez, Pedro Juan - Dirty Havana Trilogy
Bolano, Roberto - Savage Detectives
Coetzee, J.M. - Disgrace
✔ Rushdie, Salman - The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Drakulic, Slavenka - As If I Am Not There
✔ Stephenson, Neal - Cryptonomicon
Books read 64

2000 to 2009

Mishra, Pankaj - The Romantics
✔ Auster, Paul - Timbuktu
✔ Maron, Monika - Pavel's Letters
Volpi, Jorge - In Search of Klingsor
Ugresic, Dubravka - The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
✔ Nothomb, Amelie - Fear and Trembling
Kennedy, A.L. - Everything You Need
✔ Saunders, George - Pastoralia
✔ Oates, Joyce Carol - Blonde
Danielewski, Mark Z. - House of Leaves
✔ Ballard, J.G. - Super-Cannes
Vila-Matas, Enrique - Bartleby and Co.
Esterhazy, Peter - Celestial Harmonies
Peace, David - Nineteen Seventy-Seven
✔ Kundera, Milan - Ignorance
Deshpande, Shashi - Small Remedies
✔ Murakami, Haruki - After The Quake
✔ Atwood, Margaret - The Blind Assassin
✔ Roth, Philip - The Human Stain Book 180
Self, Will - How the Dead Live
✔ Doctorow, E.L. - City of God
✔ Smith, Zadie - White Teeth
✔ Faber, Michel - Under the Skin
Mda, Zakes - The Heart of Redness
Kadare, Ismail - Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
Coelho, Paulo - The Devil and Miss Prym
Sharma, Akhil - An Obedient Father
✔ Cahbon, Michael - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Llosa, Mario Vargas - The Feast of the Goat
✔ Ammaniti, Niccolo - I'm Not Scared
Cercas, Javier - Soldiers of Salamis
✔ McEwan, Ian - Atonement
McGowan, Heather - Schooling
✔ Sebald, W. G. - Austerlitz
Kureishi, Hanif - Gabriel's Gift
✔ Auster, Paul - The Book of Illusions
✔ Martel, Yann - The Life of Pi
✔ Palahniuk, Chuck - Choke
✔ O'Neill, Jamie - At Swim, Two Boys
✔ Rushdie, Salman - Fury
✔ DeLillo, Don - The Body Artist
Mazzantini, Margaret - Don't Move
✔ Franzen, Jonathan - The Corrections
Houllebecq, Michel - Platform
✔ Pamuk, Orhan - Snow
Hemon, Aleksandar - Nowhere Man
Banks, Iain - Dead Air
Coetzee, J. M. - Youth
✔ Eugenides, Jeffrey - Middlesex
Banville, John - Shroud
✔ O'Brien, Edna - In the Forest
✔ McGahern, John - That They May Face the Rising Sun
Trevor, William - The Story of Lucy Gault
✔ Foer, Jonathan Safran - Everything is Illuminated
Saramago, Jose - The Double
✔ Waters, Sarah - Fingersmith
Mistry, Rohinton - Family Matters
Sinclair, Iain - London Orbital
✔ Coetzee, J. M. - Elizabeth Costello
✔ Murakami, Haruki - Kafka on the Shore
✔ Shields, Carol, - Unless
Sleigh, Dan - Islands
✔ Lahiri, Jhumpa - The Namesake
Pierre, DBC - Vernon God Little
Kadare, Ismail - The Successor
Somoza, Jose Carlos - Lady Number Thirteen
✔ Hustvedt, Siri - What I loved
✔ Swift, Graham - The Light of Day
Garner, Alan - Thursbitch
✔ Tremain, Rose - The Colour
✔ Boyle, T. Coraghessan - Drop City
✔ Haddon, Mark - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
✔ Oz, Amos - A Tale of Love and Darkness
Marias, Javier - Your Face Tomorrow
✔ Mitchell, David - Cloud Atlas
Sinclair, Iain - Dining on Stones
Ackroyd, Peter - The Lambs of London
Markson, David - Vanishing Point
✔Schatzing, Frank - The Swarm
✔ Nemirovsky, Irene - Suite Francaise
✔ Toibin, Colm - The Master
✔ Roth, Philip - The Plot Against America
✔ Drabble, Margaret - The Red Queen
Enquist, Per Olov - The Book about Blanche and Marie
Levy, Andrea - Small Island Book 738
✔ Bolano, Roberto - 2666
✔ Hollinghurst, Alan - The Line of Beauty
✔ Smith, Ali - The Accidental
✔ Manson, Peter - Adjunct: An Undigest
✔ Coetzee, J.M. - Slow Man
✔ Smith, Zadie - On Beauty
✔ McEwan, Ian - Saturday
✔ Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go
✔ Banville, John - The Sea
✔ Lewycka, Marina - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Kehlmann, Daniel - Measuring the World
✔ Krauss, Nicole - The History of Love
✔ St Aubyn, Edward - Mother's Milk
✔ Hyland, M.J. - Carry Me Down
Pynchon, Thomas - Against the Day
✔ Desai, Kiran - The Inheritance of Loss
✔ Littell, Jonathan - The Kindly Ones
✔ Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi - Half of a Yellow Sun
✔ Hamid, Mohsin - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
✔ DeLillo, Don - Falling Man
Sinha, Indra - Animal's People
✔ Barbery, Muriel - Elegance of the Hedgehog
✔ Enright, Anne - The Gathering
✔ Diaz, Junot - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
✔ Frank, Julia - The Blind Side of the Heart
Kelman, James - Kieron Smith, Boy
✔ Robinson, Marilynne - Home
✔ Adiga, Aravind - The White Tiger
Robinson, Roxana - Cost
✔ Auster, Paul - Invisible
✔ Byatt, A.S. - The Children's Book
✔ Meyer, Philipp - American Rust
Books read 73

2010 to 2019

✔ Murakami, Haruki- 1Q84
✔ Saramago, Jose - Cain
✔ Moore, Lorrie - A Gate at the Stairs
✔ Franzen Jonathan - Freedom
✔ Roth, Philip - Nemesis
✔ Eugenides, Jeffrey - The Marriage Plot
✔ Barnes, Julian - The Sense of an Ending
✔ Egan, Jennifer - A Visit from the Goon Squad
✔ Smith, Ali - There but for the
✔ Harbach, Chad - The Art of Fielding
✔ Tartt, Donna - The Goldfinch
Eggers, Dave - The Circle
✔ Aidiches, Chimamanda Ngozi - Americanah
✔ Kushner, Rachel - The Flamethrowers
✔ McBride, Eimear - A Girl is a Half-formed Thing
✔ MacDonald, Helen - H is for Hawk
Lerner, Ben - 10:04
Ferrante, Elena - The Story of the Lost Child
Smith, Ali - Winter
✔ Barker, Nicola - H(A)PPY
✔ Loos, Anita - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Barry, Kevin - Night Boat to Tangier
✔ Kehlmann, Daniel - Tyll

Books read 18

64 + 73 + 18 = 155

Total
Total 277 + 313 = 590 + 155 = 745

Impressive! And a neat system for counting.

>182 annamorphic:, Thank you. I was inspired by others.