The 1001 "I've Read That" chain game, Thread Two

Here are "the rules":

Post a book you have read from the 1001 list. The next person to respond should be one who has also read that book. That person then posts another book from the list that they have read, and so on. Try not to duplicate. If no one continues the chain in 24 hours, anyone can "restart" it by posting their book, even if they didn't read the prior post.

I am keeping track on a spreadsheet so we can see how we are doing.

Here are the books that were called in the first thread (http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=32748):

These have touchstone brackets, but I am not sure they will work. It says they are loading, but I think it is choking on having so many of them. I will try to address this later.

A Christmas Carol
A Fine Balance
A Maggot
A Modest Proposal
A Room With a View
A Tale of Two Cities
A Void/Avoid
Adjunct: An Undigest
Aesop’s Fables
After the Quake
Against the Grain
All Quiet on the Western Front
American Psycho
Amsterdam
Animal Farm
Anna Karenina
At Swim, Two Boys
Atonement
Autumn of the Patriarch
Birdsong
Bleak House
Buddenbrooks
Candide
Cannery Row
Catch-22
Chaireas and Kallirhoe
Choke
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Cider With Rosie
Cloud Atlas
Cloudsplitter
Cold Comfort Farm
Confederacy of Dunces
Cry, the Beloved Country
Cryptonomicon
Dangerous Liaisons
Day of the Triffids
Dead Air
Disgrace
Drop City
Elizabeth Costello
Émile; or, On Education
Emma
Enduring Love
Eugénie Grandet
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
Far from the Madding Crowd
Fingersmith
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Foucault’s Pendulum
Franny and Zooey
Glamorama
Go Down, Moses
Gone With the Wind
Gravity’s Rainbow
Gulliver’s Travels
Hadrian the Seventh
Hard Times
House Mother Normal
House of Leaves
Howards End
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Invisible Cities
Invisible Man
Jane Eyre
Jazz
Journey to the End of the Night
Jude the Obscure
Junkie
Kokoro
Le Père Goriot
Les Misérables
Less Than Zero
Life of Pi
Lolita
Lord of the Flies
Love in the Time of Cholera
Madame Bovary
Metamorphoses
Middlemarch
Middlesex
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Moll Flanders
Mrs. Dalloway
Nadja
Nausea
Neuromancer
Never Let Me Go
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nostromo
Oblomovka
On Beauty
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Orlando
Oroonoko
Oscar and Lucinda
Out of Africa
Pastoralia
Perfume
Platform
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring
Pnin
Possession
Pride and Prejudice
Quo Vadis
Rasselas
Reasons to Live
Rebecca
Regeneration
Remains of the Day
Seize the Day
Sense and Sensibility
Sentimental Education
Sexing the Cherry
She
Siddhartha
Sister Carrie
Slaughterhouse Five
Slow Man
Smilla’s Sense of Snow
Sputnik Sweetheart
Steppenwolf
Surfacing
The Ambassadors
The Atrocity Exhibition
The Awakening
The Bell Jar
The Blind Assassin
The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Cement Garden
The Cider House Rules
The Corrections
The Count of Monte-Cristo
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Discovery of Heaven
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Emigrants
The English Patient
The Feast of the Goat
The Floating Opera
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played
The Glass Bead Game
The God of Small Things
The Golden Ass
The Golden Bowl
The Green Man
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Hours
The House of Mirth
The House of the Spirits
The Invisible Man
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Killer Inside Me
The Life and Times of Michael K
The Light of Day
The Lonely Londoners
The Lord of the Rings
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
The Lover
The Master and Margarita
The Midwich Cuckoos
The Monk
The Moonstone
The Moor’s Last Sigh
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Name of the Rose
The Pigeon
The Plague
The Plot Against America
The Poisonwood Bible
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Radiant Way
The Red and the Black
The Red Queen
The Satanic Verses
The Sea
The Secret History
The Shipping News
The Sound and the Fury
The Story of O
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Things They Carried
The Third Policeman
The Thousand and One Nights
The Trial
The Virgin Suicides
The Wasp Factory
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Woman in White
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Things Fall Apart
To Have and Have Not
Trainspotting
Under the Skin
Under the Volcano
Unless
Vanity Fair
Veronika Decides to Die
Villette
Voss
Watchmen
Where Angels Fear to Tread
White Teeth
Wild Swans
Wise Children

Restarting the thread which was stalled with Glamorama - another I have not read.

How about Memoirs of a Geisha?

Thanks for starting the new thread, BKieras. Looks like it was a lot of work for you.

Gilgamesh Am I doing this right?

Aren't we looking for Memoirs of a Geisha? I don't believe the book you mentioned is on the 1001 list.

So the answer's no, then? Sorry - I thought that, having read Geisha, I then had to name another one I'd read. And I'd have sworn Gilgamesh was in my copy - but it isn't. Let's try again. Okay, I've read Geisha - now what do I have to do? Apologies for stupidity.

Okay, I've read Geisha - now what do I have to do?
Pick a book from the 1001 list that's not yet been named (see #2). Then anyone who's read that book will say so, and nominate the next book ... and so on ...

You're almost there- since you've read Geisha, now you name another book that you've read, that hasn't been mentioned yet, that's on the 1001 list. I like to use the spreadsheet for reference since it's so hard to remember what is/isn't on the list.

So it doesn't have to be one I've read?

"now you name another book that you've read"

You do need to have read it.

I think I'd nearly got it right. Just didn't bother checking my particular book. Okay then who else has read Adam Bede? That one doesn't seem to be on BKeiras' list.

ETA Not QUITE as stupid as I seem. I crossed over with a couple of those explanations!

Yeah, if you don't actually spell it out: "I've read __(previously mentioned book)___; has anyone read __(your suggestion)____?, it just gets totally and completely confusing, as you can see. Follow the link from post #2 to see how the game has worked in the past.

Also, make sure you put your suggested book in touchstones so that it makes the master list on the right side of the thread. In this case, Adam Bede.

Thanks Nickelini. Think I've got it now.

Yes, I have read Adam Bede and also Daniel Deronda. Anyone else for DD?

(And thanks BKieras)

I've read Daniel Deronda (and also Adam Bede). What about Jane Austen's Mansfield Park?

I love Mansfield Park- not only have I read it several times, it's one of my favorite audio books to listen to while knitting.

How about The Woodlanders by Hardy?

I've read The Woodlanders. Who's read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? (You've probably already figured out I'm going a bit alphabetical here.)

I've read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (and subsequently thought I wasn't a Twain fan, until I ran across Letters From the Earth). How about John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman?

Don't mean to take over here but I'm having a very boring day! Yes, I've read and loved the French Lieutenant's Woman many times so how about we stick with the same author for the next one - Who else has read The Magus? (I love that one even more.)

Yes, I agree about The Magus although I read it a long time ago. How about The Collector to keep the Fowles theme going?

Oh I adore The Collector! Okay then, let's move on to The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (back to the alphabet!)

Done that one! Quite a good collection of stories.

How about we kick it nice and old school with the first Gothic novel: Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto.

'Kay, that's me done for a bit - haven't read that.

I adore gothic lit, so I have most definitely read The Castle of Otranto! How about something by Poe, to keep it kind of gothicy- The Pit and the Pendulum is a perennial favorite, right?

Touché! Let's stay Gothic, and slightly less obscure: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Great, sooo back again! I've read Frankie, who's read Dracula?

I've got Dracula! I'm going away from Gothic, though. Anyone here read Loving by Henry Green?

Guess not...

How about Little Women, by Louisa M Alcott ?

Oh I have read Little Women. It was probably the first book I read from the 1001 list many years ago.

The next book I would have read was Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte...

Yes to Wuthering Heights. Hands up for The Age of Innocence.

Yes to The Age of Innocence. How about Embers by Sandor Marai?

Read Embers. Let's hear it for Alias Grace.

I've read Alias Grace. How about another one about a troubled woman who falls victim to her Victorian circumstances: Wide Sargasso Sea?

I really liked Wide Sargasso Sea. Keeping with the Victorian theme, how about Shirley by Charlotte Bronte?

Yes to Shirley. How about Tess of the D'Urbervilles then?

Yes to Tess. How about the Snopes Trilogy by Faulkner

Are you sure that's on the list? Or is it just another one I've never heard of?

I think it's only sorta on the list - The Hamlet definitely is, and it is one of the Snopes stories, but the Snopes Trilogy itself isn't.

I suppose I can resolve the issue by saying that yes, I have read the Snopes trilogy, including The Hamlet, and ask if anyone has read Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov. (The link here is: my two favorite writers!)
Does that work?

I am looking at 1001 Books right now, as I was, when I put the book in the game. Index says Faulkner, William, Snopes trilogy referring us to p. 414, when you go to p. 414, it lists The Hamlet, so Jfetting did the perfect thing by answering with both the Snopes trilogy and The Hamlet.

I've read Pale Fire, how about The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera?

yes to The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Anyone read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce?

Yes to the Artist. How about Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh?

Yes to Brideshead. How about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?

#45 Many ways??? Is that as in journeys or versatility?

Yes to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

How about Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser?

Yes indeed to Sister Carrie. Now if only I could finish An American Tragedy . . . (not in touchstones so as not to get it accidentally included).

How about The Blithedale Romance by Hawthorne?

Recently I had a terrible computer crash - lost my 1001 excel spreadsheet list - can anyone direct me to the excel version of the list again?

Thanks ahead of time!

Nevermind - I re-found it myself! Can't help youwith Hawthorne though.
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Kplatypus - I do believe you've hit on one that only you have read! What happens now?

I think kplatypus should have the honor of posting another book......well done!

And winning a cookie!

Of course Kplatypus can restart. I have read the Hawthorne but always feel funny about jumping in too often. So let's call it dead for now, and have Kplatypus restart us :-)

polutropos, if you're still around, I think you should admit to reading the Hawthorne and start us up again. We were doing so well!

Alas! Sorry to leave everyone hanging- I'm on a cross-country roadtrip and was without internet for most of the last ten days. Horrors! To restart, how about my most recent 1001 book- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell?

I have read North and South, and have also seen the movie, both of which are excellent and I recommend highly. And to keep a theme of 'most recent', how about my most recently read 1001 book, Passing by Nella Larsen?

Cocaine Nights, by J G Ballard anyone ?

Ok, it has been quite a while so let's re-start. Billy Budd anyone?

Ugh, yes. Billy Budd was inflicted on me junior year of high school.

Has anyone here read Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow? It's a great book and I highly recommend it.

Yes to Ragtime.

How about Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee?

Well I find it difficult to believe someone else hasn't read this, but I will restart with:

Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth

Any takers?

I've read that. Has anyone else read The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford?

Yes to The Good Soldier. Sticking with Ford, has anyone read Parade's End?

Guess not! How about One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?

Back in high school, we were assigned that for a class. I ended up really liking it too.

How about The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, by Milan Kundera? Another school-required read that I rather enjoyed.

Read it, loved it. How about another Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being?

I've read The Unbearable Lightness of Being (and, to quote one of my favourite movies, it was about girls, right?), and will counter with my most recently finished 1001 book: Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley.

I love Aldous Huxley and read all his books including Antic Hay for the first time as a teenager. That's one that I haven't reread though, think I'll do that soon. How about a book from the new list: The Reluctant Fundamentalist anyone?

I've read it......Intense.

How about Family Matters?

Without Moby Dick - and Don Quixote -- the entire concept is a farce.

Fair..................but have you read Family Matters?

No - but I'd like to. It looks excellent.

Well......I will jump start this thread, since it has been quite a while that it has been stuck..............

Has anyone read Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks?

Looks like a good time to restart the game and to let you all know that, together, we've read 251 books from the list - 25%.

So has anyone else read The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood?

I have indeed. How about The Black Dahlia? Loved the book, but god was the movie adaptation terrible.

Fun trivia- when I lived in Hollywood, I lived down the street from where the real murders (and so much of the book) took place.

I read The Black Dahlia. I liked the book a lot. Didn't see the film, but heard it was pretty bad.

How about Exercises In Style? The same short story written in 99 different ways?

-- M1001

Looks like it's time for another restart. Has anyone read Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake?

Wow, that's weird. I was going to suggest Titus Groan next. What are the chances?

To back up a moment though, if none of you all have read Exercises In Style, I would suggest it. It is an original and unusual idea for a book, and you can read it in one sitting.

Okay, back to the game, yes I have read both Titus Groan and Gormenghast and they are both really, really Gothic and long and a bit depressing.

How about The House on the Borderland?

-- M1001

sorry, haven't read that one, but I just wanted to say thanks for pointing out Exercises in Style. It's yet another 1001 title that I've never noticed, and it sounds really interesting. Okay, resume play. . . .

Hey, look at me...

Two suggestions in a row that no one locked into. No one has read The House on the Borderland? It is an average horror short story. A bit of a Poe short story rip off. Regardless, my fellow list-conquerers, it is a short read: one to two days. So check it out.

Is there a prize in this game for reading obscure titles? :)

Okay, how about One, No One and One Hundred Thousand? An existential crisis story splitting the concept of the human soul into 100k pieces. Incidentally, of you loved Steppenwolf (and who doesn't love Hesse) you owe it to yourself to read this novel. Hesse gives an intellectual nod to Pirandello's work, although I think Hesse's work is far superior.

-- M1001.

#82 - Is there a prize in this game for reading obscure titles? :)

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Not in my books! :-)

I try to post more obvious titles so that we can get a volley going. I'm saving my obscure titles for when we've exhausted all the common ones. But that's just me . . .

Reply to Message 83: Nickelini

I'm surprised at you, Nickelini. I have always thought of you as an obscure title person through and through :).

Thanks for the input, BTW. I think you already read all of Hesse, you will probably be split on Pirandello.

-- M1001.

I always had more fun just playing a game than trying to score points. Not very competitive, I guess :-)

I'm not doing it to be competitive -- the prize comment was a joke -- I am trying to find books that people have not read and bring them to light, particularly the short ones. But your point is taken...I will try something less obscure...

How about The Grass is Singing?

-- M1001

Yahoo! At last..........I have read it! I am a less obscure kinda gal!

How about Shame by Salman Rushdie?

I've read Shame. From Pakistan to South Africa: how about Burger's Daughter?

Well, I don't blame you guys for not reading Burger's Daughter. It wasn't very good, IMO. Here's one that I'm sure lots of you have read: The Color Purple.

Yeah, I get to play! How about Everything is Illuminated - I loved both the book and the film (a little independent movie starring a Hobbit!).

I have read it and also seen it, and I agree that they were great!

How about Felicia's Journey by William Trevor?

Yes to Felicia's journey. I've been away for the past 3 weeks so I have to check what's left. be as quick as I can!

How about Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates. Think I'm okay there - sorry if someone else has already had this one and I've missed it.

I've read Black Water - years ago! How about The Last Temptation of Christ, my latest read?

Yes to Last Temptation. As a big Kazantzakis (well, moderate) fan I was hoping to follow that up with Zorba the Greek but, on checking, I find that is only in the second edition. Does it still count or should I come up with something else?

I think since most of us own the first edition, we should just stick to that.

That's fair enough as nobody else seems to have read it! (Cookie please!) Okay - how about An Artist of the Floating World then?

Me! Me! One of my top 10 books ever! I hope I don't kill the thread, but has anyone here read Justine by Lawrence Durrell?

Ok. Maybe not. How about A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul?

ETA: sorry, touchstones just informed me that it's Sir V.S. Naipaul.

Okay, I am going to jump start this thread.........

How about The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez?

Thanks Hemlok - I was starting to think everyone had died. I haven't read your book though.

Well I hope someone has, or tonight I will just try another!

I have read that. How about Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord

Wow! At last!

Yes, yes, yes to the fantastic Senor Vivo; now how about one I've only recently read, but want to recommend to the whole world - As If I Am Not There?

Yet another one that I'm not familiar with (somehow I think I should know them all by now). When I click on the touchstone, it leads to a book called S: a novel about the Balkans (Yet another 1001 book who's notice has so far escaped me). Is this an alternate title?

It looks like an alternate title, if you look at the link you can see the edition where it is called "As if I am not there" but when I go on Goodreads.com the summaries look like different books.

Sorry about that guys. In the edition I've got the 'a novel about the Balkans' bit is the subtitle. It's the same book and is by Slavenka Drakulic (harrowing, moving, immensely readable, I recommend it.). Do I take it we've come up negative on this one then?

Let's try Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan instead.

I'm guessing that's also a 'no' then. Let's try The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell.

Okay, I'll get this going with one that I'm sure many of you have read: Persuasion, by Jane Austen.

Did I just get frozen out or am I still allowed to try? Yes, of course, to Persuasion. Okay then - Surely The Diary of a Nobody? Somebody?

Of course you're not frozen out, silly!

Haven't read Nobody's diary though.

Is nobody else playing this game or do the people who are playing not read? Or have we finally exhausted all the books everyone's read from the list? Surely Uncle Tom's Cabin then?

Yes, I have. Anyone for A Handful of Dust? Surely there are some other Waugh fans around, right?

Thanks jfetting! That's quite a relief! No, I haven't read yours.

Ok, trying again. I can't quite believe that this one hasn't come up yet, but has anyone here read Captain Corelli's Mandolin?

Read it and loved it!

How about Felicia's Journey by William Trevor

Yes to that one but also a nod to my favourite book in the whole world ever, Captain Corelli! Howsabout The Fall of the House of Usher then?

Yes to the House of Usher. I've just finished Great Expectations, so how about that? Surely an easy one.

Yes to Great Expectations.....how about Silas Marner?

Yes to Silas. In honour of the person who said earlier that the game is a farce without Don Quixote - it's in my edition, which one are you reading? SO - Don Quixote?

Yes to Don Quixote which was absolutely hilarious. What about Interview with a Vampire?

I read it a long time ago and loved it! How about Rabbit, Run by John Updike?

Yup! Let's try Iris Murdoch's The Bell.

Yes to The Bell! Anyone else read Goodbye to Berlin?

Yes, I've read Goodbye to Berlin. How about The Buddha of Suburbia? It's getting very hard to work out what hasn't been mentioned.

Tempted to lie about that but it's really just on my TBR pile. I agree with you about it being hard to find what's gone before. I'm stuck on the sofa right now with back problems so I'll volunteer to try and put another complete list together. Might take a little while.

Absalom, Absalom
Ada, or Ardour
Adam Bede
Adjunct: An Undigest
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The
Aesop’s Fables
After the Quake
Against the Grain
Age of Innocence, The
Alias Grace
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
All Quiet on the Western Front
Ambassadors, The
American Psycho
Amerika
Amsterdam
Animal Farm
Anna Karenina
Antic Hay
Arrow of God
Artist of the Floating World, An
As If I Am Not There: A Novel About the Balkans
At Swim, Two Boys
Atonement
Atrocity Exhibition, The
Autumn of the Patriarch
Awakening,
Babbit
TheBell, The
Bell Jar, The
Beloved
Bend In the River, A
Billy Budd and other stories
Birdsong
Black Dahlia, The
Black Water
Bleak House
Blind Assassin, The
Blithedale Romance, The
Bluest Eye, The
Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The
Bonfire of the Vanities, The
Borstal Boy
Brideshead Revisited
Buddenbrooks
Buddha of Suburbia, The
Burger’s Daughter
Candide
Cannery Row
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Casino Royale
Castle of Otranto, The
Catch-22
Cat's Eye
Cement Garden, The
Chaireas and Kallirhoe
Child in Time, The
Choke
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Christmas Carol, A
Cider House Rules, The
Cider With Rosie
Clockwork Orange, A
Cloud Atlas
Cloudsplitter
Cocaine Nights
Cold Comfort Farm
Collector, The
Color Purple, The
Comfort of Strangers, The
Confederacy of Dunces
Confessions
Contact
Corrections, The
Count of Monte-Cristo, The
Crime and Punishment
Cry, the Beloved Country
Cryptonomicon
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The
Dangerous Liaisons
Daniel Deronda
David Copperfield
Day of the Triffids
Dead Air
Death of Ivan Ilyich
Death in Venice
Devil and Miss Prym, The
Diary of a Nobody, The
Discovery of Heaven, The
Disgrace
Don Quixote
Don't Move
Dracula
Drop City
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The
Elizabeth Costello
Embers
Emigrants, The
Emile; or, On Education
Emma
End of the Affair, The
Enduring Love
England Made Me
English Patient, The
Eugenie Grandet
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit
Everything Is Illuminated
Exercises in Style
Faceless Killers
Fall of the House of Usher, The
Family Matters
Fanny Hill
Far from the Madding Crowd
Fathers and Sons
Fear of Flying
Feast of the Goat, The
Felicia’s Journey
Fine Balance, A
Fingersmith
Flaubert's Parrot
Floating Opera, The
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Foucault’s Pendulum
Frankenstein
Franny and Zooey
French Lieutenant’s Woman, The
Fugitive Pieces
Fury
Gabriel's Gift
Garden Where the Brass Band Played, The
Gilgamesh
Glamorama
Glass Bead Game, The
Go Down, Moses
God of Small Things, The
Godfather, The
Golden Ass, The
Golden Bowl, The
Gone With the Wind
Good Soldier, The
Good Soldier Svejk, The
Goodbye to Berlin
Gormenghast
Grass Is Singing, The
Gravity’s Rainbow
Great Expectations
Green Man, The
Grimus
Gulliver’s Travels
Hadrian the Seventh
Hamlet
Hamlet, The
Handful of Dust, A
Handmaid’s Tale, The
Hard Times
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The
Hours, The
House of Mirth, The
House of the Spirits, The
House Mother Normal
House of Leaves
House on the Borderland, The
If On a Winter’s Light a Traveller
In the Forest
In the Heart of the Seas
Interview With the Vampire
Invisible Cities
Invisible Man
Invisible Man, The
Island of Doctor Moreau, The
Jane Eyre
Jazz
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Journey to the End of the Night
Jude the Obscure
July's People
Junkie
Justine
Kafka on the Shore
Killer Inside Me, The
Kokoro
Kristin Lavransdatter
Last Temptation of Christ, The
Le Pere Goriot
Les Miserables
Les Than Zero
Life and Times of Michael K, The
Life of Pi
Light of Day, The
Like Water for Chocolate
Little Prince, The
Little Women
Lolita
Lonely Londoners, The
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Rings, The
Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, The
Love in the Time of Cholera
Lover, The
Loving
Lucky Jim
Madame Bovary
Maggot, A
Magus, The
Mansfield Park
Master, The
Master and Margarita, The
Mayor of Casterbridge
Memoirs of a Geisha
Metamorphoses
Middlemarch
Middlesex
Midnight's Children
Midwich Cuckoos, The
Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Modest Proposal, A
Moll Flanders
Monk, The
Moonstone, The
Moor’s Last Sigh, The
Mrs 'Arris Goes bto Paris
Mrs Dalloway
Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The
Nadja
Name of the Rose, The
Nausea
Neuromancer
Never Let Me Go
Nineteen Eighty-Four
North and South
Northanger Abbey
Nostromo
Novel With Cocaine
Oblomovka
Old Man and the Sea, The
On Beauty
One Day inthe Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One, No One & One Hundred Thousand
Orlando
Oroonoko
Oscar and Lucinda
Out of Africa
Outsider, The
Pale Fire
Parade’s End
Passage to India, A
Passing
Pastoralia
Perfume
Persuasion
Pigeon, The
Pit and the Pendulum, The
Plague, The
Platform
Plot Against America, The
Poisonwood Bible, The
Portrait of a Lady, The
Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, A
Postman Always Rings Twice, The
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring
Pnin
Possession
Pride and Prejudice
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The
Quo Vadis
Rabbit Redux
Rabbit Is Rich
Rabbit, Run
Radiant Way, The
Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, The
Ragtime
Rasselas
Reasons to Live
Rebecca
Red and the Black, The
Red Queen, The
Reader, The
Regeneration
Reluctant Fundamentalist
Remains of the Day
Return of the Native
Robber Bride, The
Robinson Crusoe
Room With a View, A
Roots of Heaven
Sabbath’s Theatre
Satanic Verses, The
Sea, The
Secret History, The
Seize the Day
Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord
Sense and Sensibility
Sentimental Education
Sexing the Cherry
Shame
She
Shining, The
Shirley
Short History of Tractors in Ukranian, A
Siddhartha
Silas Marner
Sister Carrie
Slaughterhouse Five
Slow Man
Snopes
Some Experiences of an Irish R M
Sorrows of Werther, The
Sound and the Fury, The
Sputnik Sweetheart
Steppenwolf
Story of O, The
Strait is the Gate
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The
Summer
Surfacing
Tale of a Tub, A
Tale of Two Cities, A
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Things Fall Apart
Things They Carried, The
Third Policeman, The
Thousand and One Nights, The
Tin Drum, The
Titus Groan
To Have and Have Not
To Kill a Mockingbird
To the Lighthouse
Tom Jones
Trainspotting
Trial, The
Turn of the Screw, The
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Under the Skin
Under the Volcano
Unless
USA
Vanity Fair
Veronika Decides to Die
Villette
Virgin Suicides, The
Void/Avoid, A
Voss
Walden
Wasp Factory, The
Watchmen
Waterland
Waves, The
Where Angels Fear to Tread
White Teeth
Wide Sargasso Sea
Wild Swans
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The
Wings of a Dove, The
Wise Children
Woman in White, The
Woodlanders, The
Wuthering Heights
Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, The
Zorba the Greek

Phew! I’ll try and update this list every now and then so that all we’ll need to do is copy the list from one thread to the next. If I’ve made any mistakes please let me know and I will go back in and change them.

I've made no attempt to include touchstones as I remember what happened whe I tried to touchstone my list of just the ones I had read! I don't think it's really necessary though if touchstones are added in individual posts.

Thanks for doing that! Very helpful. I see that almost half of the books that I've read from the 1001 list haven't been mentioned yet, so play on!

No problem, I was bored! Quite frightening to really notice how many of those I not only haven't read, but haven't even heard of before!

Anyway, in case I lost anyone, we were on The Buddha of Suburbia.

I read The Buddha of Suburbia a while back, and if no one minds me jumping in again, I shall offer up The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, a rather fabulous Agatha Christie (which I read as a child, and then re-read last Xmas). So terribly, terribly English. And a great re-read too!

Finally! One I've read. There's been so many books I haven't even heard of that I'd almost given up playing the game. Has anyone read Kafka on the Shore?

Me! Me! Me!

None of Kureishi's novels had been mentioned until now. Gabriel's Gift is also on the 1st edition list, which I've read. Anyone else?

It's been a day, so here we go again . . . I'm sure someone out there has read The Godfather, by Mario Puzo (and a strange edition to the list in my opinion).

Okay....I read it..........now..........how about Ada; or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov?

I have just returned from a month in France when I was not participating in the game but I will do my part again for a while. (Thanks so much Booksloth for updating the list.) So, yes to Ada . Much of my reading in the next year will be French-based. So how about a book to be read and reread, and which comes across very differently in the numerous translations into English, The Outsider by Albert Camus.

Finally, I get to play the game! I have read The Outsider by Albert Camus. Who has read my favourite book of all time, Crime and Punishment by Fjodor Dostoyevsky?

Yes to Crime and Punishment. No to Gabriel's Gift.
What about the fairly obvious but so far unlisted Beloved?

Yes to Beloved. How about The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek?

I think you defeated us all Polutropos - want to try another one?

Sure, love to. (But Good Soldier Svejk SHOULD be on the reading lists of many of the readers here. It is a magnificent novel of World War I, filled with humour, absurdity, local colour...Probably still the greatest novel written in Czech. The description of it in 1001 Books is very good. I recommend the book most highly. Moving then to another of my favorite books of all time, but one read probably by all here; I am shocked it has not been mentioned already: A Passage to India by E.M. Forster.

I've read A Passage to India. How about Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.?

Grrr, missed one of my all-time faves. Passage to India. A big No for Irish RM. (Make that a big Not Yet.)

Okay, guys, I've read about 40 books that no one has mentioned yet . . . I'd love to play, but y'all are reading the wrong ones! :-)

Guess it's time to restart. I've been keeping track and there are still a lot of books on the list that I bet tons of us have read. For instance, I don't think Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne was mentioned.

That makes book number 296 on my list by the way - closing in on 30%!

Ah, I've read Journey to the Centre of the Earth! How about To Kill a Mockingbird?

Loved it. How about The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy?

Oh yay! Have to go check the list now!

Right, I'm not proud of this but Casino Royale?

Yes, in my adolescence I must confess to reading nearly all the Bond's. I can't believe we haven't had Fugitive Pieces, one of my all time favourite books.

Finally! One I've read. Yes to Fugitive Pieces. Now, how about Like Water for Chocolate?

Yes, I read Like Water for Chocolate.

How about...

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris?

-- M1001

Looks like it's time for a restart. What about The Master by Colm Toibin?

Read it. Wasn't a huge fan, but I got through it.

Time to kick it majorly old school. Read it this summer for lack of anything better: Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub.

Yes, I studied Swift, it seems like a hundred years ago and although I much preferred A Modest Proposal which has already been used to Tub, I will confess to being a Swift admirer. Sticking with the "old school" idea, though moving across to the Continent, specifically France which is my current big preoccupation, has anyone else read Jean-Jacques Rousseau? Specifically, Confessions?

OK then, "old school" in France did not work out. Restart then with an easy and popular recent Canadian, Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood.

Yes to Cat's Eye. The Child in Time?

Read that one. How about The Return of the Native?

Yes to Return of the Native, how about Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis?

Darn, I missed my chance with Return of the Native. that will teach me to have a nice family dinner followed by a good movie, Little Voice, and fun conversation!

Lucky Jim - yup (v disappointing). How about A Clockwork Orange - can't believe we've missed this one so far.

Yes to A Clockwork Orange - such a great book! Anyone read Robinson Crusoe?

Yup. Sticking with McEwan then - The Comfort of Strangers?

Indeed, it was one of my most recent 1001 reads.

How about we switch gears a bit: who's read Franz Kafka's Amerika?

Ok, no Amerika. But someone must have read The Old Man and the Sea.

I read The Old Man and the Sea, my first Hemingway! Who read The Shining?

Yep - in my 'fourteen-year-old-obsessesed-by-horror' phase!

What about In the Forest by Edna O'Brien? Just arrived in my Mooch post this morning!

Yup! David Copperfield?

Tom Jones

Devious-dantes, are you trying to say that yes, you've read David Copperfield and are now suggesting Tom Jones?
(posting to add touchstone so text is listed on the right side of the page)

Referee, please.

Are we to assume that devious_dantes is saying yes, David Copperfield and throwing out Tom Jones or are we still on David Copperfield? Come to think of it, I can resolve it without a referee. I have read both of those. Let me lob an easy one out there: Fury by Salman Rushdie.

Nickelini, yes, that is exactly what I am saying. I am clueless as to how to create hyperlinks and touchstones on these particular message boards, though. I've been unable to find any sort of a useful help section, either.

Can't help you with hyperlinks (even if I knew what they are) but for touchstones all you need to do is enclose a book title in a set of square brackets or an author's name in a double set. There's an example right beside the box that comes up while you are writing your message. Hope that helps.

ETA - But, hey - you've only been here a couple of weeks (welcome, btw). I've been here 9 months and I still don't know what a hyperlink is!

the count of monte cristo

Hey it works! Thank you Booksloth! :-)

A hyperlink is pretty much anything you click on on a webpage which sends you to another webpage. You know what a hypelink is, you just didn't know that you know it. :-) I guess most people just call them links nowadays.

I'm also ignorant as to how to insert pitcures, or pretty much anything else on these message boards, though I see it being done, so it must be possible.

Congrats on figuring out the touchstone thing. But what does The Count of Monte Cristo mean? Are you just testing touchstones, or are you saying that you've read Fury and are throwing the the Count into the game? Can you please clarify?

Sorry, I was just testing the touchstones. Please ignore The Count of Monte Cristo.

Yes to Fury and, next, here's Waterland by Graham Swift.

waterland

adding touchstones so this book adds to the game record

I haven't read Waterland but we are due for a restart. How about The Reader?

Read The Reader. What about Death in Venice?

Yahoo! I have read Death in Venice. How about Daniel Deronda?

YES, to Daniel Deronda. What about Rabbit is Rich by John Updike?

Yes to Rabbit. I guess the next one has to be Rabbit Redux then.

ETA (Though Daniel Deronda was already on the list, hemlok.)

Oops....I even checked the list.....not a good sign!

I am surprised we got stuck on Updike. I have read Rabbit Redux. Anyone for Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes?

Yes to Flaubert's Parrot - Don't Move? (by Margaret Mazzantini)

Well, I'm reading some pretty obscure works myself, but haven't been able to get in the thread yet. Thanks for the info about the hyperlink!

Well, it looks as if you're not alone on Don't Move! I'm just going through mine more or less alphabetically, making allowances for those that are already on the list, so I'm hoping that makes for a reasonable mix of popular and obscure. Let's abandon Don't Move then and try my next one which is - Empire of the Sun.

Can't believe it. Finally one I've read - have been waiting for days, weeks even. There's been so many books that I've never even heard of. What about Summer by Edith Wharton?

I have read Summer. How about Northanger Abbey to round out the Austen books?

Getting repeats here--how am I ever going to get in the chain this way? Just kidding, by the way!

Yes, though didn't hemlok already claim that one? - now I'm confused. Still, I'll grab up the baton and run with it all the way to The End of the Affair

By the way, just in case people are getting confused, the list to check is at #127. I am doing my best to add to it and keep it up to date but can't give it touchstones as everything goes crazy when I try, so touchstones on subsequent posts are still as important as ever.

Aha! I loved that one! How about Kiss of the Spiderwoman?

Kiss of the Spiderwoman is on the list? How did I miss that one!

I see that does not pass the test of being on the list. How about The Island of Doctor Moreau?

I'm with kerrim here - I've always thought Kiss of the Spiderwoman was on the list. I was amazed when I checked just now to find that it wasn't. It should be. Have never fancied Doctor Moreau though I'm sure I saw the film. I know. That doesn't count. Just rambling really.

I'm with kerrim here - I've always thought Kiss of the Spiderwoman was on the list. I was amazed when I checked just now to find that it wasn't. It should be. Have never fancied Doctor Moreau though I'm sure I saw the film. I know. That doesn't count. Just rambling really.

ETA - But I've also just discovered that Doctor Moreau has already been done. How about the dire and tedious (IMO anyway) England Made Me?

Sigh. Kiss of the Spiderwoman is on the 2008 list, not the original list. So it only counts if you're doing the 1282 Books. Still can't hop in here, though with that last entry.

I, for one, don't have a problem with using both lists. Does it really matter?

It does, and there's a discussion on this chain about it, in fact. Personally, I'm counting the lists as one and it's just 1282 books to track. It's not as if some list or other isn't tracking various titles.

Well, that sounds completely sensible to me. Maybe the casting vote should go to whoever started the game all those posts ago?

Of course the decision should go to the originator, who I believe is BKieras, but we have accepted books from the second edition in the past, so the precedent is there to accept any one of the 1282 books, as Prop2gether suggests above.

I am so honored! We had discussed only using the first edition, because most of us have the book or there is a fairly well-known and reliable spreadsheet a lot of folks are using. I am using that spreadsheet to track our progress.

Does anyone know if there is a similar spreadsheet for edition 2? Prop, have you create a combined list?

If you look at the "arukiyomi's spreadsheet" thread in this group you will see that arukiyomi has already made an updated spreadsheet with the new books added on.

Arukiyomi has a second spreadsheet, which I wish I could open. It's a zip file and in the latest version of Excel which (gotta love Mr. Gates--like all his products) you have to have to open it. There are workarounds, but I can't make them work. I have a personal Word table (which can be converted to Excel) with the works in order, by author. I wanted to sort it by author so I could locate books on shelves without walking 80 miles back and forth between aisles.

So the short answer is yes, I have a table which I use. It just doesn't have all the neat links and numbers and sorts that arukiyomi sets up. It's a "plain vanilla" version.

I will search out the updated spreadsheet so I can keep track of what we've covered (I believe a few of you are also tracking). So let's open it up to edition 2! Cool with everyone?

PS Props - if I cannot find the spreadsheet and open it, I may hit you up for your Word table if you are willing to share.

I was reminded there is a "2003" version of the new spreadsheet which should solve my opening problems. But I still use mine because I keep it in author order, and, yes, willing to share. I'm cleaning up the inevitable typos, but if you can't get the other to work for you, leave me a comment on my profile and I'll send it to you.

Aaaanyhoo. . . it looks as if we've struck some kind of blockage with England Made Me (and very wise of you all too, if I may say so). Let's move on then - which of you naughty people has sneaked a copy of Fanny Hill between the covers of a text book?

Okay, my excel guru husband helped me out. This does take out the hyperlinks for the author, but you could get to it from the book hyperlink if you really wanted to. This will also save the hyperlinks to Amazon so that Arukiyomi will get all the kudos she/he deserves (sorry, Arukiyomi, but I don't want to make assumptions :).

To remove the hyperlinks:

1. Select column E, the author's last name (click on the E at the top)
2. hit ctrl C
3. hit alt H
4. type V (JUST V)
5. type V again

Now you can sort by doing the following:

1. select all columns, again, either by time period, or, if you want all of them together, select all the text and data
2. click on DATA at the top
3. click on the big SORT icon
4. in the SORT BY drop down menu, choose COLUMN E, click OK

Good luck and enjoy.

Back to the game?

I agree that England Made Me is dire and tedious and, when compared with ANYTHING else Greene wrote, it's a wonder that it was ever published. Please, if you have only ever read this of his, that "Graham Greene" bit on the cover is indeed a typo. Get hold of The Heart of the Matter and you will see a very different author.

Anyway, I have indeed also read Fanny Hill. Despite it being hundreds of years old, it just goes to show that, for all the complaints of our grandparents, we've always been as debauched as we are now.

oops forgot to post another to continue the chain.

How about Strait is the Gate by Andre Gide?

touchstones don't seem to work for me for that...

Strait is the Gate (just having another bash at those touchstones for you - I think it's worked this time). Haven't read the book though!

Doesn't look like anyone for that one. I haven't read Strait is the Gate, but I did just buy it recently. In any case, looks like it's time for a restart. Has anyone read The Sorrows of Werther?

Yes for The Sorrows of Young Werther. Has anyone read U.S.A., the trilogy by John Dos Passos?

Guess not. I don't blame you, to be totally honest.
How about Absalom, Absalom!? A personal favorite, although not the easiest read.

Oh, oh, I got in! Absalom, Absalom! is one of the only Faulkner novels I've enjoyed. Anyone out there forIn the Heart of the Seas by Shmuel Yosef Agnon?

How about Faceless Killers? Great modern mystery, by the way.

Ouch! Two in a row. How about Grimus by Rushdie?

Haven't read Grimus yet but, since I just finished it and found it completely absorbing, how about Midnight's Children?

Finally! One I've read. So, yes to Midnight's Children. Anyone for The Waves, by Virginia Woolf?

Yes! Not my favorite, but brilliant! Now something in my own language: Paulo Coelho's The Devil and Miss Prym

Yes to The Devil and Miss Prym, which I really liked. Has anyone here read Contact by Carl Sagan?

Woohoo! At last I can say yes to Contact. How about The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery?

Oh, I've read that! How exciting, I finally get to participate. Has anyone read Babbit?

(I searched the thread and didn't see it so I hope it hasn't already been mentioned).

Yep. Long ago and far away. Let's see if I do better with Novel with Cocaine, which I just finished and recommend.

I'll restart with The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass.

Oooh, I adore The Tin Drum; little Oskar of Danzig so often pops up in my thoughts. Almost can't believe it hasn't been listed already, so this next should be easy: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka, anybody?

Whew! Back in the game! Just read it a few weeks ago and am working on a seminar paper on it -- what a great book!

How about another recent read of mine: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf?

Ooh ooh! I've read that one. How about a weighty tome that I've just finished Kristin Lavransdatter for Group Reads Literature - I know there's quite a few of you out there reading that one. This book is from the 2nd edition of 1001 books. I'm assuming these books count?

This one probably won't go anywhere either but how about Roots of Heaven (Les racines du ciel) by Romain Gary?

I guess that's a no, lilisin. 'Nother one?

Well, maybe I'm the only one still playing but I reckon we've waited long enough. How about Fathers and Sons?

I'm still in and I've read Fathers and Sons. How about The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa?

How about War and Peace? I may have missed it, but I didn't see it on the last list posted.

Which just goes to show you are the only person in the world who has actually read it! Are you saying you've read The Book of Disquiet too? (Some of us are still fighting our way through The Big Book of Cat Control!)

Not quite the only person - I've read War and Peace, though I prefer Anna Karenina. How about The Idiot? I do love the Russians!

I loved The Idiot and yes, I love the Russians, too. There aren't enough of them in 1001. Anyone else for The Brothers Karamazov?

whoa! I'm totally confused. Did anyone read the Book of Disquiet? (And I'm trusting that it's a 1001 book, because it's yet ANOTHER one that I don't recognize--and really, I've looked at the list so many times you'd think I'd have memorized it already). Sorry to stop the game, but I'm seeing a break in play.

You're right Nickelini, things did go a bit haywire there for a second. I've checked it out and that one is in the new edition, which everyone seems to agree is also fair game. So now we're really looking for someone who has read The Book of Disquiet and The Brothers Karamazov - maybe we'll need to keep them running in tandem for a while.

Perhaps this is a good point for a round-up of the 'rules' as they're not immediately apparent to newcomers - I was certainly confused for a while when I first joined. I'm also going to suggest that we post these rules again every time we start a new thread.

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~ Eligible books are those that are in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Peter Boxall. Both first and second editions count.

~What you have to do. You have to have read the book that is currently being listed. You say 'yes, I've read that' then nominate another book from the list(s) that hasn't already been mentioned and that you have also read.

The books that have already been nominated are listed in full at post #127 and I am doing my best to keep that list as up-to-date as possible. Please use touchstones the first time a book is mentioned.

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Here's hoping that will help a bit! Please tell me if I've missed anything. Could someone also re-post the link to the spreadsheet for those who don't have the books.

Well, I've read both. I was the one who entered The Book of Disquiet. Shall I?

Of course! You've saved us a lot of confusion!

I have read The Brothers Karamazov.

I would like to propose the next one be Arrow of God, by Chinua Achebe.

I have read Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe. Has anyone read The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison?

Yes, I have! Just off to get the book - back with my next one in a sec.

Okay, this one should sort the men from the boys - or the Girl Power Girls from the Faded Old Feminists (and I think we all know which I am!)

Fear of Flying!

I am not sure where that puts me, men or boys, but I do remember Fear of Flying vividly, especially for its airplane scene. But I do not have a copy of 1001 with me. I do not see Henry James listed in the Touchstone authors. Perhaps he is not in the book and that is why? Someone will correct me if I am putting in a book not on the list, I know. For now let me try Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.

yes, yes, yes. Love Henry James. Anyone read The Wings of the Dove? More Henry James!

251 - I second that. Loved Wings of the Dove. I'll go with another James - The Turn of the Screw. Surprised no one has mentioned it yet.

I read The Turn of the Screw many years ago! Has anyone out there read Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe? A magnificent novel.

Yes, I've read Things Fall Apart. How about Walden. I've just finished it today.

Just because I'm miffed at not having read Walden, I'll be a p-in-the-a and point out that we already had Things Fall Apart. Not to worry.

Yes, I've read and loved Walden! Anyone read July's People by Nadine Gordimer?

#253 I'm not picking on you, but why would anyone bend a wookie? Sounds cruel to me.

Sounds like it's time to start a new thread with the opening message being the list. People are getting very lost here.

Here it is then -

http://www.librarything.com/topic/48249&newpost=1#lastmsg

Hey, booksloth.

"I bent my wookie" is one of my favourite Ralph Wiggum quotes. Hence, wookiebender. :)

Sorry, I was surpised that "Things Fall Apart" wasn't listed, but I **did** search this page (good old ctrl-F) and didn't find it. (And I've just done a second search, and still can't find it.) Are we also referring back to an earlier thread?

Thanks for starting thread #3, this one is getting a bit tangled!

Ahah, I see my mistake! That list of books at the top are books already mentioned: I thought it was "just" the full 1001 list so I ignored it when I posted Things Fall Apart.

Now I know better!

Of course! I knew I'd heard it somewhere before! (Still think it's cruel though, I'm a bit of a wookie fan.) The full list of books already mentioned is at the top of the new thread - I guess it's just more proof that this one was getting a bit confusing.

Go to the new thread!!

http://www.librarything.com/topic/48249

No panic - we're there too!

just making sure... ;)