lindapanzo's attempt at the 1,001 books list

Hello. In recent years, I find I rarely stray out of my usual comfort reading zone, mainly reading mysteries, sports books, and history.

I'm here to hope to change that, at least somewhat.

If a book is on any of the 1,000 books to read before you die, I'll consider it.

Total Books Read--78--as of November 10, 2025

The following lists are books I've completed from the 1,001 lists. Not very many at this point, sadly.

Pre-1800 Books--0 books (as of 4/28/22)

Books from the 1800's--21 books (as of 3/23/25)

* Jane Austen--Persuasion (read in 2017)
* Jane Austen--Pride and Prejudice (read in 1986)

* Honore de Balzac--Pere Goriot (read in 1980)

* Charles Dickens--Bleak House (read in 2014)
* Charles Dickens--A Christmas Carol (read in 2010)
* Charles Dickens--David Copperfield (read in 1977)
* Charles Dickens--Great Expectations (read in 1977)
* Charles Dickens--Hard Times (read in 1980)
* Charles Dickens--A Tale of Two Cities (read in 1977)
* Fyodor Dostoevsky--Crime and Punishment (read in 1978)

* Gustave Flaubert--Madame Bovary
* Gustave Flaubert--Sentimental Education
* Theodor Fontane--Effi Briest

* Nikolai Gogol--Dead Souls

* Nathaniel Hawthorne--The Scarlett Letter
* Victor Hugo--Les Miserables

* Harriett Beecher Stowe--Uncle Tom's Cabin

* Henry David Thoreau--Walden (read in 2000)
* Leo Tolstoy--Anna Karenina

* Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days (read in March of 2025)

* H.G. Wells--The War of the Worlds

Books from 1900 to 1949--26 books read (as of June 2025)

* Saul Bellow--Dangling Man
* Saul Bellow--The Victim

* Albert Camus--The Plague
* Agatha Christie--The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (read in 2002)

* Arthur Conan Doyle--The Hound of the Baskervilles (read in 2025)
* Theodore Dreiser--Sister Carrie

* William Faulkner--The Sound and the Fury
* F. Scott Fitzgerald--The Great Gatsby

* Andre Gide--The Immoralist

* Dashiell Hammett--The Maltese Falcon (read in 2000)
* Dashiell Hammett - The Thin Man (read in February 2023)
* Ernest Hemmingway--The Sun Also Rises
* Aldous Huxley--Brave New World

* Babbit by Sinclair Lewis

* Margaret Mitchell--Gone With the Wind

* George Orwell--Animal Farm
* George Orwell--Nineteen Eighty-Four

* Erich Maria Remarque--All Quiet on the Western Front

* Dorothy L. Sayers--Murder Must Advertise
* Dorothy L. Sayers--The Nine Tailors
* Upton Sinclair--The Jungle (read in 1977)
* John Steinbeck--Cannery Row
* John Steinbeck--The Grapes of Wrath

* J.R.R. Tolkein--The Hobbit (read in 1982)

* Nathanael West--Miss Lonelyhearts (read in 1983)
* Richard Wright--Native Son (read in 1976)

Books from 1950 to 1999--25 books read (as of 4/28/22)

* Margaret Atwood--The Handmaid's Tale

* Saul Bellow--Herzog
* Saul Bellow--Seize the Day
* Heinrich Boll--Billiards at Half Past Nine

* Breakfast at Tiffany's--Truman Capote

* E.L. Doctorow--Billy Bathgate
* E.L. Doctorow--Ragtime

* Ralph Ellison--Invisible Man
* Laura Esquivel--Like Water for Chocolate

* Gunter Grass--The Tin Drum

* Ernest Hemingway--The Old Man and the Sea

* Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
* Milan Kundera--The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
* Milan Kundera--The Joke

* Harper Lee--To Kill a Mockingbird

* Cormac McCarthy--All the Pretty Horses (read in 2014)

* Joyce Carol Oates--Them

* J.D. Salinger--The Catcher in the Rye
* The Reader--Bernhard Schlink
* Alexander Alexander Solzhenitsyn--The First Circle
* Alexander Alexander Solzhenitsyn--One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

* Donna Tartt--The Secret History

* John Updike--Rabbit, Run

* Kurt Vonnegut--God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

* Tom Wolfe--The Bonfire of the Vanities

Books from the 2000's--6 books read (as of 4/29/22)

* Drop City by T.C. Boyle

* Junot Diaz--The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (read in 2017)

* Mark Haddon--The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (read in 2010)
* Chad Harbach--The Art of Fielding (read in 2012)

* Phillip Roth--The Plot Against America (read in 2005)

* Ali Smith--Winter (read in 2021)

Only 74 books read, so far. I think this is now a pretty complete list for me, as of now.

Books I'll add, hopefully in the near future, include:

--Summer by Edith Wharton
--The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
--The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
--The Red and the Black by Stendhal

Welcome to the group! 63 seems like a good start. Including a LOT of Dickens.

Welcome. Nice selection of books so far. Hope you enjoy the trip outside your comfort zone!

>8 annamorphic: >9 puckers: Thanks for the welcome!!

I've been keeping track of my reading since 1976. It started as a high school class project so I can see what I've read. No doubt I've missed a few (Heinrich Boll's Billiards at Half-Past Nine springs to mind).

I'm sure I won't go full tilt on the 1,001 books but if I can read one a month or 3 per quarter, I can make a good start.

Good luck on your reading goals, Linda. Of your immediate list to read I have read 4. I loved The Postman Always Rings Twice, it's one of my favorite books. I also enjoyed The Thin Man but not as much as the movie. I usually find that Edith Wharton is highly readable and I enjoyed Summer.
I read Robinson Crusoe many years ago and credit it as one of the books that gave me a love for survival stories.

>11 DeltaQueen50: Judy, I know that, for TIOLI, I usually look at your choices for a share, usually the mysteries. I think I've got a western and a mystery for May to share. Now I'll have to look at your 1,001 choices for a share.

Welcome! I recognize you from the Category Challenge and glad to see you here as well! My reading from the list has slowed in the past couple years, but I still have many books from the list that I intend to get to and this is a really fun group to be a part of!

Welcome in! 65 is a pretty good start.
Of your upcoming list, I've rad 2. Robinson Crusoe wasn't what I expected from what I thought I knew of it. And I adored Remains of the day.

>12 lindapanzo: I'm happy to have the company. I couldn't believe it when I checked and saw that two people are going to join in with my Louis L'Amour read!

Welcome, Linda.
65 books read from the various lists is a nice start. I hope this group helps to read some more.

It's been quite some time since I read one of the books on the list but I just started The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett. Hoping to start a new trend for myself.

I did not do well on this in 2023. Hoping for a better year in 2024.

Oh brother. I did not do well in 2024 either.

However, I am planning to participate in a group read of The Count of Monte Cristo in December. Here's hoping.

I haven't been doing well with the 1,001 books list. However, I am hoping to start The Woman in White, as part of a group read, within the next few days.

I had a long 1,001 books reading drought but read The Hound of the Baskervilles. Maybe I can start a winning streak now?

Oops, earlier this year, I read Around the World in Eighty Days but forgot to mark it here. So TWO books in 2025. I'm on a roll. LOL

>22 lindapanzo:, Good job, Linda

>23 Kristelh: I'm also reading Jane Austen's Emma for this month's TIOLI.

I've read my THIRD book of the 1,001 book list with a likely fourth book in December.

I've finished Saul Bellow's The Victim and, in December, I'll be reading, I hope The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay