Trinah's 1001...or 1283

This is my progress for the 1001 (or 1283) books, taken from both editions. Those books with an * are the ones removed from the latest edition.

1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
2. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
3. Austerlitz - Paul Auster
4. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
5. The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho
6. Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
7. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
8. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
9. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
10. The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
11. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
12. White Noise - Don DeLillo
13. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
14. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
15. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
16. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
17. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
18. The Catcher and the Rye - J.D. Salinger
19. 1984 - George Orwell
20. Animal Farm - George Orwell
21. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
22. The Outsider - Albert Camus
23. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
24. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
25. A Room With a View - E.M. Forster
26. Dracula - Bram Stoker
27. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
28. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
29. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
30. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
31. Through the Looking Glass - Louis Carroll
32. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
33. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Louis Carroll
34. The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
35. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
36. A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
37. Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
38. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka
39. Falling Man - Don DeLillo
40. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
41. Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
42. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
43. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
44. Atonement - Ian McEwan
45. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
46. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro*
47. Youth - J.M. Coetzee*
48. The Body Artist - Don DeLillo*
49. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk*
50. Ignorance - Milan Kundera*
51. Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami*
52. Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis*
53. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden*
54. Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis*
55. The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield*
56. The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman*
57. Aesop’s Fables - Aesopus*
58. Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates*

59. The Colour Purple by Alice Walker

I missed one and just realised!

60. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Probably one of the most interesting yet hilarious books I have ever read. Whichever publisher rejected this back when Toole was trying to get it published, was an idiot. Interesting story behind the book, but an even more interesting story within the book. If you haven't read it yet, I suggest reading it soon.

Also, Ignatius J. Reilly has got to be one of my favourite book characters to date.

61. Breakfast At Tiffany's by Truman Capote

Short yet sweet read. I'd seen the movie, but I find this storyline to be quite a bit different. I guess the film had been made to have a sweet romantic ending, whilst this does not really end that way. Still, a very quick read, so if you haven't read this one, it'll be a good one to knock off easily.

62. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

A good, yet very odd book. Not that that's really a problem for me, because I love books with a bit of odd about them.

63. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Bought this because I didn't think I was going to get it from the library in time to read it before the movie came out this Thursday in Australia. I really enjoyed it, and am hoping I feel the same way about the film. The film's nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards so I asume there is something good about it. Well worth a read, and a quick one to check off the list if you haven't read it yet. It's found on both versions of the list.

64. The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid (2008 Ed)

65. Delta of Venus - Anais Nin

66. Candide - Voltaire

67. The Purloined Letter - Edgar Allan Poe

A few I hadn't added since reading them, or that I'd missed originally.

Currently 514 pages into the 1024 pages of Gone With the Wind by Magaret Mitchell, which is immensely enjoyable, although quite a long one.

68. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell

Such a wonderful novel, and I feel like I've achieved something great in reading this 1011 page novel, it's not too usual for me to sit down and get through something so big, haven't done so since I read Anna Karenina, so I'm proud to have completed this one.

69. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

Great book, and a quick read, read half of it today, but started it over a year ago, which is quite terrible. Glad to have finally completed it.

70. Junky - William S. Burroughs

An interesting book about drug addiction, taking up new habits, and trying to kick them. Also, a very quick read, at 158 pages, I started it yesterday afternoon, and finished less than 24 hours later.

71. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A fabulous read, and a new favourite. This book is very easy to read, and certainly makes for fun reading, as you join Holmes and Watson as facts are given for various cases. It was fun trying to solve the cases before Holmes revealed the answers, and they were very cleverly written on Doyle's part, I must say.

If you're looking for a quick read from the 1800's, this is certainly a good place to start.

72. Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Didn't enjoy the first 50 pages or so, but persevered and found that once it got to more tales about the protagonist's life, that it was a much more interesting and enjoyable read.

73. Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel

Such a wonderful book, I wish I had read it earlier, although I do read it at a time in my life where I relate so much to the passion of Tita and Pedro's love, that I can see and understand how she she feels anguish throughout the story, as I know I would feel the same way.

This is quite a quick read, and if you haven't read it yet, I'd certainly recommend it.

74. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpope

For a book listed in the 1700s, and fairly close to the bottom end of the list, this was quite an easy read, and one that I thoroughly enjoyed. I have an idea in my mind that books down this end of the list could be exceptionally difficult to read, given time differences and changes in the way we speak and write, but this was an exception to this thought. It's also quite a short book, which is good because I have more of an allegiance to the shorter books on this list, rather than the longer, heavier tomes. Certainly very enjoyable, and makes this Uni semester less daunting knowing we'll be studying this book first for my 'Ghosts and the Gothic' subject.

Hi trinah,

I will most certainly be coming back to take a look at your list, a lot of the books you've read and enjoyed are the same as mine. You've helped me decide on my next read - The Castle of Otranto

75. Chess Story - Stefan Zweig

This story is very short, at only 76 pages, and tells the story of various chess games, and one man's way of dealing with solitary confinement in Austria during World War II. It probably won't take you very long to read, and if you know anything about chess, and have enjoyed in a game in the past, you will probably find this one interesting.

Bear, hope you enjoy The Castle of Otranto!

76. The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe

Realised I hadn't read this short story, so got right onto it and read it within the hour, easily found at Project Gutenberg if you're after a quick read.

77. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Just finished this one for a class, it got off to a bit of a slow start, so didn't really surprise me that this one got cut from the 2008 list. Somewhat pleasant, but certainly not her best work.

78. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

Excellent book, very well written, and often amusing.

79. The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind

A very short book, the version of the book I had was short in stature and the pages seemed to have more blank space than text on them. As my boyfriend put it 'you'll spend more time turning pages than actually reading' which seemed quite true of this one.

80. Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne

Started this yesterday afternoon and just finished it. I really quite enjoyed taking this adventure around the world, loved the mentions of various places, their cultures and assorted mentions of histories that the countries had. Once again, another quick read, but also another classic, so you really can't go wrong with this one.

81. Silk - Alessandro Baricco

I started this book an hour and a half ago, and the during this time I have been chatting to people online, and looking at things on the internet. This book is 104 pages long, and has 65 chapters, one of which is only 3 lines long. It's a strange book about a man who buys silkworm eggs from Japan and falls in love with a woman over there. Worth the read, and once again, another easy one knocked off the list, making that 14 this year.

According to my age, I've got to read 19.72 per year in order to complete the list before I die of the old age I'm hoping for, so I'm fairly certain I'm going to meet that number this year. Hurrah!

82. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson

I think this is the first book I've read from the list that takes place over one day, and doesn't draw into the events of any others. It's a relatively short read, and even comes with some illustrations which is quite cool. It's a neat little story that reminds me somewhat of a 1930s romantic comedy set in a city somewhere. The book itself does actually make mention of the 'talkies' as they were called then, and even describes a character as a 'Clark Gable' of a man, which was a rather exciting character description, I must say.

83. Faces in the Water - Janet Frame

Review here

86. The 13 Clocks - James Thurber

Review here

I don't mistakenly write 86, it's 86 according to the spreadsheet, this list is off a bit and I haven't a clue how or why or where but obviously something's missing. I have all of them on my blog, just not here. I could sit down and work it out but I think it's easier just changing numbers now

87. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James

Review here

88. In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan

Review here

I was much kinder to this book than I was to The Turn of the Screw.

89. The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett

Review here

90. Enduring Love - Ian McEwan

Review here

91. Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan

Short, somewhat wonderful, but still a little bit, er, I don't know.

Here's my review, if you'd call it that

Thanks for alerting us to some of the good "quick reads" on the list!

No problem!