Kristel's Reading 1001 list

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 16

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

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 - Steppenwolf
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
✔ 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 43 + 36 = 79

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
✔Laxness, Halldor - Independent People
✔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 30

Total 156 + 159 = 315

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
Robbe-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 65

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
✔ 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: 60

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 = 591

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 65

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
✔ 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 75

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

65 + 75 + 18 = 158

Total
Total 277 + 313 = 590 + 158 = 748

#745

Book The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis
Format: audio/Kindle
Original publication date: 1986
Acquisition date/place: September 2024
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: old age meets up in Wales
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, Word event
Author: UK
List book: 1001
Genre fiction
Liked: liked the setting, liked some of the characters, its about Wales and holding onto its culture
Disliked: drinking, lying, cheating

746.
Book The Thinking Reed - Rebecca West
Format: e-book
Original publication date: 1936
Acquisition date/place: 9/13/2024
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: privileged woman takes on industrialist man
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 botm
Author: British
List book: 1001
Genre Literary fiction, romance, domestic
Liked: I liked the exploration of marriage
Disliked: boring plot, unlikeable characters (but they did grow).

747.
Book The Victim - Saul Bellow
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1947
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla Digital/Oct 2024
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: everyday man struggles with his prisons
Challenge(s): reading 1001, TBR takedown
Author: US, Jewish American, Nobel prize winner
List book: 1001
Genre literary fiction
Liked: I liked the themes of man struggles with Fate but winning
Disliked: nothing really, Bellow can be challenging but this one was okay I rated it 4 stars

748.
Book How The Dead Live - Will Self
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2000
Acquisition date/place: 2024/Sept
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: the title says it all
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, monthly word
Author: British
List book: 1001
Genre Literary, horror, fantasy
Liked: a look at issues through the dead
Disliked: there is a lot of swearing and use of God and Jesus name in vain. (but it fit the character) Too much repetition. It is gruesome.

749.
Book The Magician of Lublin - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1969 (English)
Acquisition date/place: 2023/November, audible
Decimal/ Star rating: 5 stars
Book description/summary: Jewish man's appetites
Challenge(s): AAC, Jewish/American
Author: US
List book: 1001
Genre literature
Liked: I liked the story
Disliked: felt bad for his wife

750.
Book For Whom the Bell Tolls
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1940
Acquisition date/place: Nov 2024 audible
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: life is brief, enjoy it to the fullest
Challenge(s): TBR takedown, reading 1001
Author: US
List book: 1001
Genre fiction
Liked: I liked the story well enough
Disliked: it read awkwardly because of author writing as if translating story from Spanish and also using words like obscenity and unprintable for swear words but I appreciated the effort and not having to read the words.

751.
Book The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2002
Acquisition date/place: Nov 2, 2024
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: Grief and guilt
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 botm
Author: Irish
List book: 1001
Genre Fiction, domestic fiction
Liked: nice quiet story
Disliked: maybe not quite believable

752.
Book The Melancholy of Resistance - Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Format: book
Original publication date: 1989
Acquisition date/place: Dec 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: chaos and decay
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, January botm
Author: Hungary
List book: 1001
Genre fiction, allegory
Liked: there are many great prose but
Disliked: it is hard work to read

753.
Book Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1992
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla Digital/Nov 2024
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: Son-in-law writes of his mother in law.
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, word challenge
Author: British
List book: 1001, Booker Short list
Genre fiction
Liked: it explores the relationships from an orphans perspective.
Disliked: it receives mixed reviews. It was okay but I've liked other books by the author more.

754.
Book Storm of Steel - Ernst Junger
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1920
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla Digital
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: memoir from the trench
Challenge(s): reading the Great War
Author: German
List book: Reading 1001
Genre memoir
Liked: pretty much matter of fact, not much politics
Disliked: lots of death of course

>15 Kristelh: how have I failed to read this? Sounds wonderful. Barbusse’s Under Fire from the other side.

755.
Book The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
Format: Kindle
Original publication date: 1995
Acquisition date/place: 12/4/20
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars, would have been 4 if it had not gone into sexual explicit details
Book description/summary: tragedy of politics deciding war and peace
Challenge(s): War Room, Reading1001
Author: British
List book: 1001, Booker
Genre historical fiction
Liked: Good writing, war book with female author.
Disliked: sexually explicit

756.
Book Miramar - Naguib Mahfouz
Format: book
Original publication date: 1967
Acquisition date/place: 11/20/22
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: story told in 4 POV set in the pension Miramar
Challenge(s): reading 1001, botm Dec 2024
Author: Egyptian
List book: yes, 1001, Nobel Prize winning author
Genre fiction, literary
Liked: I liked the story of the old and the young
Disliked: nothing of note

757.
Book Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
Format: book/audio
Original publication date: 1900
Acquisition date/place: 2016
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: rurual girl makes way in urban life
Challenge(s): TBR takedown, reading1001
Author: American author
List book: 1001, Modern Library, Guardian 1000
Genre realistic, naturalism
Liked: not very believable even though it is "realism"
Disliked: The title doesn't really fit

758.
Book The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1981
Acquisition date/place: Dec 2024
Decimal/ Star rating: 1 star
Book description/summary: horrid book, no comfort here
Challenge(s): Reading1001 botm
Author: British
List book: 1001, Booker Short List
Genre horrid, erotic thriller
Liked: nothing to like except at least it was short
Disliked: violent erotica

>20 Kristelh: I hated this one too. NO redeeming features. There were way too many McEwans on the list and several were just bad.

759.
Book After the Death of Don Juan - Sylvia Townsend Warner
Format: book
Original publication date: 1938
Acquisition date/place: 2020
Decimal/ Star rating: 5 stars
Book description/summary: legend and historical interlaced in novel of Spain
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, word challenge
Author: British
List book: 1001
Genre literary fiction
Liked: beautiful writing, sense of place, no preaching
Disliked: the printing by the publisher could have been better but otherwise a great story and writing.

>21 annamorphic: totally agree that there are too many McEwans on the list.

760. First book of 2025

Book The Circle - Dave Eggers
Format: audiobook (Audible)
Original publication date: 2013
Acquisition date/place: 8/31/2018
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: everyone is watching
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 botm
Author: US
List book: 1001
Genre science fiction/dystopia
Liked: I liked how it pointed out the dangers of the slippery slope of technology
Disliked: sexual content

761.
Book The Heather Blazing - Colm Toibin
Format: book/audio
Original publication date: 1992
Acquisition date/place: 2010/September 14
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.75 stars
Book description/summary: grief and loss makes for difficulty connecting
Challenge(s): TBR takedown/reading1001
Author: Irish
List book: 1001
Genre domestic fiction, literary fiction
Liked: I liked the quiet look at grief/loss/marriage and family
Disliked: did not need to include sexual details

762.
Book The Professor's House - Willa Cather
Format: Kindle
Original publication date: 1925
Acquisition date/place: 10/23/22, Kindle
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: loss and change
Challenge(s): Reading1002, TIOLI
Author: US
List book: 1001
Genre fiction
Liked: I liked the exploration of change; consumerism, politics, marriage
Disliked: disliked the women but I think I was meant to dislike them. Interesting novel written by a woman. So not really a dislike.

763.
Book The Bitter Glass - Eilis Dillon
Format: Kindle
Original publication date: 1958
Acquisition date/place: January 2026, audible
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5
Book description/summary: Irish civil war/love, death, war
Challenge(s): Randomizer selection
Author: Irish
List book: 1001
Genre literary fiction, historical
Liked: it was short so that was good
Disliked: the women characters were annoying but it all ends well

764.
Book Spring Flower, Spring Frost - Ismail Kadare
Format: Kindle/audio
Original publication date: 2000
Acquisition date/place: 2020/Amazon Kindle
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: Albania grapples with end of communism
Challenge(s): botm, February Reading1001
Author: Albania
List book: 1001 Man Booker International 2005 for full body of his work
Genre fiction
Liked: explores Albania end of communism
Disliked: sexual content

765.

Book Night Boat to Tangiers - Kevin Barry
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2016
Acquisition date/place: Libby Electronic Books
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.5 ⭐
Book description/summary: old crooks reminense over their loser lives
Challenge(s): reading 1001, word of the month, February
Author: Irish
List book: 1001
Genre Irish literature
Liked: lyrical writing
Disliked: disgusting use of *?&*

766.
Book Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
Format: audiobook/book
Original publication date: 1957
Acquisition date/place: 2016, used book
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: Russian epic
Challenge(s): TBR takedown, Reading 1001
Author: Russian
List book: 1001
Genre fiction
Liked:
Disliked: lots of characters with various names in the Russian tradition

I read 3 1001nbooks in February.

Night Boat to Tangier - Kevin Barry
Spring Flower, Spring Frost - Ismael Kadare
Doctor Zhivago

767.

Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2003
Acquisition date/place: March 2025, audible play
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: mysterious death of the man who would be Successor
Challenge(s): Reading1001, Warsaw Pact/European Tour
Author: Albania
List book: 1001
Genre literature
Liked: I liked the story that was based on real political event
Disliked:

768.
Book Coming Up For Air - George Orwell
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1939
Acquisition date/place: March 2025
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: a ramble down memory lane by a fat man
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, tbr takedown
Author: British
List book:
Genre 1001
Liked: I liked some of the ideas that Orwell brings out in the book. It seemed autobiographical the way it was written.
Disliked: doesn't seem to have much plot, just a lot of reminences and excuses

769.
Book Sunset Song - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1932
Acquisition date/place: March 2025
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 star
Book description/summary: Change of life in farming community
Challenge(s): Reading1001, botm March
Author: Scottish
List book: 1001
Genre fiction/literature
Liked: its a story of life in Scotland/farming
Disliked: there is some violence and sexual content

770.
Book The Story of the Lost Child - Elena Ferrante
Format: audiobook, audible
Original publication date: 2014
Acquisition date/place: 9/2/18, audible
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: one women reflects on her lifetime friendship and motherhood.
Challenge(s): Reading1001, word of the month
Author: Italian
list/awards 1001
Genre novel, fiction
Liked: I liked some of the aspects of motherhood that was explored
Disliked: I didn't like some of the choices, it felt like a soap opera

771.

Book England Made Me - Graham Greene
Format: book
Original publication date: 1935
Acquisition date/place: January 2025
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: "all the world owes me a living" Walt Disney
Challenge(s): Reading1001, botm March
Author: British
List book: 1001
Genre fiction
Liked: interesting take on twins, flawed characters
Disliked: why was the woman so masculinely portrayed?

772.
Book Smiley's People - John LeCarre
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1979
Acquisition date/place: April 2025
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: final encounter with nemesis
Challenge(s): tbr takedown
Author: British
List book: 1001
Genre spy, espionage, cold war
Liked: it was easy to follow, atmospheric
Disliked; I find it hard to remain focused

773.
Book Nowhere Man - Aleksander Hemon
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2002
Acquisition date/place: April 11, 2025, Hoopla Digital
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: Bosnian immigrant's struggles in US
Challenge(s): randomized reading list, bookspin bingo
Author: Bosnian/American
List book: 1001
Genre literary fiction
Liked: interesting style and semiautobiographical
Disliked: sexual content

774.
Book Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1809
Acquisition date/place: April 2025, Hoopla
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: math and seduction in the garden
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, botm/April
Author: German
List book: 1001
Genre fiction
Liked: interesting look at relationships
Disliked: hmm

775.
Book Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1853
Acquisition date/place: April 2025 Hoopla
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: women rule the roost
Challenge(s): April botm, Reading 1001
Author: English
List book: 1001
Genre Victorian lit
Liked: nice comfort type read
Disliked: all's good

776.
Book The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1952, 1955 into English
Acquisition date/place: April 2025 Hoopla Digital
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: He understands our weaknesses because he was tempted in every way as we are, yet he remained without sin.
Challenge(s): Euro Tour/Ottoman, Greek author, Reading 1001
Author: Greek
List book: 1001
Genre historical fiction
Liked: It was interesting to see how the author visualized these characters from his Greek perspective
Disliked: I think he forgot "yet he remained without sin".

777.
Book Spring Torrents - Ivan Turgenev
Format: audio book
Original publication date: 1872
Acquisition date/place: April 2025, Hoopla Digital
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: what wins; love or passion?
Challenge(s): Reading 10001 Word special event
Author: Russian
List book: 1001
Genre novel or novella
Liked: the good, the bad, the regretful
Disliked: it was good, maybe his best

778.
Book The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead
Format: ebook/audio
Original publication date: 1940
Acquisition date/place: 2014, ebook, Kindle
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.75 stars
Book description/summary: dysfunctional family
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, Special Event Word of the month
Author: Australian
List book: 1001
Genre fiction, domestic fiction, psychological novel
Liked:
Disliked: too long

779.
Book The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
Format: audio book
Original publication date: 1945
Acquisition date/place: May 2025
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.5 stars
Book description/summary: comedy/pathos
Challenge(s): BAC, 1001
Author: British
List book: Yes, 1001
Genre comedy
Liked: I liked it more knowing it was semiautobiographical
Disliked: not that I disliked it at all but the father was cruel and it is also a study of the political (Fascist, Nazi, Communist, socialist) and it delves into maternity and the bad mother.

I started the series that is on prime

A reread.

Book Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1985
Acquisition date/place: May 2025
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: parallel stories of Nicholas Dyer and Nicholas Hawksmoor, 19th and 20th century London
Challenge(s): botm May 2025 Reread
Author: British
List book: 1001, Whitbread and Guardian Fiction Prize
Genre novel, historical, mystery
Liked: I like novels that explore concepts of time.
Disliked: it is gruesome, violence and sexual content

780.
Book The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - Rainer Maria Rilke
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1910
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla Digital, 2025/May
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: Poetic angst
Challenge(s): Reading1001, TBR takedown
Author: German
List book: 1001
Genre existential
Liked:
Disliked: lots of angst

781.
Book Tent of Miracles
Format: book, used book, discard from Pioneer Library System
Original publication date: 1969
Acquisition date/place: 11/16/23
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: miscegentations ends racism
Challenge(s): botm May, 1001
Author: Brazilian
List book: 1001
Genre fiction
Liked: liked the ideas; see quotes in review
Disliked: there is sexual content, women used for sex, children born without fathers

782.

Book Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
Format:
Original publication date: 1876
Acquisition date/place: 11/29/23
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: seeking identity
Challenge(s): Quarterly read, 2nd Q 2025
Author: British
List book: 1001, Guardian 1000
Genre literary fiction
Liked: I liked the novel mostly
Disliked: I didn't like some of the characters but that was the point and necessary for the book. Too much romance.

783.
Book The Castle of Crossed Destinies - Italo Calvino
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1969
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars.
Book description/summary: Certainly a bright work and my score of 3 stars is probably because I listened to this. This is a book better read or read and listened too.
Challenge(s): botm Reading 1001
Author: Cuban born, lived in Italy and wrote in Italian
List book: 1001
Genre experimental
Liked: I liked the concept of using tarot cards to tell ones story. The tension of not being able to speak.
Disliked: there is some sexual content but it's not in your face type.

I would reread this if I find a real book copy of it.

784.
Book The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Format: book
Original publication date: 1951
Acquisition date/place: used book 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: teenage angst or is this depression
Challenge(s): reading 1001
Author: US
List book: 1001
Genre fiction, coming of age
Liked: it was readable
Disliked: too much swearing

785.
Book The Moor's Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1995
Acquisition date/place: June 2025/Hoopla Digital
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: Family saga, India, art, politics, loss
Challenge(s): Special Event/Word, Reading 1001
Author: Indian born, English and American author
List book: Reading 1001, Booker Short list
Genre domestic fiction, magical realism
Liked: an interested story of a multiracial family of India
Disliked: sex/violence

786.
Book The Joke by Milan Kundera
Format: audiobook,
Original publication date: 1967
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla, July 2025
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: love in a communist climate
Challenge(s): tbr takedown, reading 1001
Author: Czech
List book: 1001
Genrelit fiction
Liked: I liked this best of all Kundera's books. Interesting review of love in communism, Christianity in Communism, and folktales.
Disliked: some sexual content that I could have done without but this is better than other's by Kundera

787.
Book Troubling Love - Elena Ferrante.
Format: ebook
Original publication date:
Acquisition date/place: 1992
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: daughter like mother
Challenge(s): work in translation, 1001, botm
Author: Italian
List book: 1001
Genre lit fiction
Liked: self discovery
Disliked: gross, violent, I don't appreciate this author

788.
Book The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1774
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla Digital July 2025
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: Sturm und Dang for sure!
Challenge(s): European Tour, reading 1001
Author: German
List book: Yes, 1001
Genre epistolary/Sturm und Dang
Liked: I appreciated it more when I looked up Sturm und Dang. Otherwise, annoying
Disliked: annoying self-centered man

789.
Book Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Format: e reader
Original publication date: 1993
Acquisition date/place: 2021
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: Addictions as escape and friendship
Challenge(s): reading 1001, Word
Author: Scottish
List book: 1001
Genre fiction
Liked: it was good
Disliked: be warned, it is gritty, violence and repulsive but it fits the story

790.

Book The Devil's Pool - George Sand
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1846
Acquisition date/place: August 2025 Hoopla Digital
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: Pastoral novel, rural life is the best
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, Word of the month challenge
Author: French
List book: 1001
Genre Pastoral novel
Liked: almost like a fairy tale, a bit of culture around the wedding tradition
Disliked: it really wasn't much of a story

791.

Book The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1949
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla, August 2025
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: Wartime love, espionage, loyalty, betrayal.
Challenge(s): tbr takedown, 1001, Irish author
Author: anglo/Irish author
List book: 1001
Genre psychological realism
Liked: it was a good story all in all
Disliked: too many characters, disjointed

792. Book Measuring the World - Daniel Kehlmann
Format: book/audio
Original publication date: 2005
Acquisition date/place: used book
Decimal/ Star rating: 5 stars
Book description/summary: science and math in the Enlightenment
Challenge(s): reading 1001, Word of the month
Author: German author
List book: 1001
Genre fiction, historical fiction
Liked: great quotes in this one. Two men in their way measure the world
Disliked: I have no complaints, this is an author that was able to write about sexual content without too much detail.

See review for more.

793.
Book Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
Format: audio
Original publication date: 1939
Acquisition date/place: used books/Hoopla
Decimal/ Star rating: 1 star
Writing quality: 1/5
Originality: 2/5
Character development: 1/5
Plot development: 1/4
Overall enjoyment: 0/5
Book description/summary: looking for self actualization through sex
Challenge(s): tbr takedown
Author: US
List book: 1001
Genre semi-autobiographical smut
Liked: nothing
Disliked: everything

>59 Kristelh: Wow, that's one heck of a review. I'll try to remember not to read it!

794.
Book Dusklands - J.M. Coetzee
Format: e-book
Original publication date: 1974
Acquisition date/place: Amazon, kindle 2025
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.8 stars
Book description/summary: the violence of man upon "the other"
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 botm October 2025
Author: South Africa
List book: 1001, Nobel author
Genre historical fiction, novellas
Liked: not long
Disliked: it is violent and cruel but that's the point

795. Book Operation Shylock - Philip Roth
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1993
Acquisition date/place: October 2025, Libby
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.8 stars rounded to 3
Book description/summary: fiction/reality blurred, doppelganger
Challenge(s): tbr takedown, reading 1001
Author: American author
List book: PenFaulkner, 1001
Genre postmodern
Liked:I liked that it fit so well with current political climate
Disliked: self absorbed author, explicit language and sexual content

796. Book No One Writes the Colonel - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1961
Acquisition date/place: October 2025, Libby
Decimal/ Star rating: 5 stars
Book description/summary: a rooster of hope
Challenge(s): reading 1001
Author: Colombian
List book: yes, 1001
Genre literary fiction
Liked: it's good
Disliked:

797. #159 Book The Confusions of Young Torless - Robert Musil
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1906
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla Digital, November 2025
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: coming of age in boarding school
Liked: I thought it was honestly told story of life in a military academy boarding school
Disliked: it is about violence and sexual cruelty

798. Book Like Life - Lori Moore
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1990
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla Digital, November 2025
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.6 stars
Book description/summary: short stories
Liked: mostly positive experience

#799 # 164. I completed Herzog by Saul Bellow. It was my November botm read for the 1001 group over at GR that a few of us moderate. I read this in my first decade and now again in my 7th. A winner of the National Book Award and included in 1001 books you must read before you die. Here's my review.

#800. Book Tale of Genji
Format: book/Washburn Translation
Original publication date:
Acquisition date/place: 11th century
Decimal/ Star rating:
Book description/summary:
Liked: it's a good tranlation, interesting that this is written by a female in an ancient Japanese alphabet.
Disliked: very long, too heavy!

>67 Kristelh: Congratulations on 800, and I great book to reach that landmark with.

>68 puckers:, Thanks!! It was a great book, all 1300 plus pages. I'm glad to have finished it. It is recommended that a person pick it up and just read it now and then.

800!! What a milestone!

>70 amaryann21: thank you!

#801 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

#802. Finished Blithedale Romance.

#803 Winter - Ali Smith

#804 Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding. First book of 2026 from the 1001 list.

#805 Transit - Anna Seghers
German author
1944

#806 The Drowned World - Ballard
Published 1962, science fiction, near future, British Author.

#805
Italian novel The Bethrothed by Manzoni Alesandro. Set in 17th century, historical fiction covering 30 year war and the plague. Deserves 5 stars.

#806 Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light - Ivan Klima
Pages: 234 pages.
Reason read; 1001 botm February 2026, on the shelf since 2017. Czech novel. Velvet Revolution.

#807 Myra Breckenridge - Gore Vidal
US author, male
"Camp" novel

#808 Malone Dies, tbr takedown. Irish author.

#809 The Golden Bowl - Henry James
From my randomization list

#810 The Red Room - August Strindberg. April botm.

#811 Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjectures - Apostolos Doxiadis
Published 1992.
Author male/Greece
209 pgs
TBR takedown, April 2026

>84 Kristelh: Great choice of wine for this book! I remember enjoying this one, and a Reisling sounds like a perfect companion.

>85 amaryann21:. Thank you, Maryann. It ended up being a good pairing. I am waiting to see what May's book and pairing will be.

812. On the Eve - Ivan Turgenev
May botm

813. Some Prefer Nettles - Junichiro Tanizaki
May botm

814: Journey to the End of Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine. I was dreading this but it went okay. May 2026 TBR takedown.