Kilgorius' 1001 attempt

Here's my progress. I follow the 2006, 2008 and 2010 editions.
Books from the list I read so far:

#1 Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille - 3 stars

#2 Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille - 4 stars

#3 Jacob the Liar by Jurek Becker - 5 stars

#4 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe - 4 stars

#5 2666 by Roberto Bolaño - 5 stars

#6 Drop City by T.C. Boyle - 5 stars

#7 World's End by T.C. Boyle - 5 stars

#8 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - 4 stars

#9 The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - 4 stars

#10 Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs - 4 stars

#11 The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain - 3 stars

#12 If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino - 4 stars

#13 The Plague by Albert Camus - 4 stars

#14 The Stranger by Albert Camus - 5 stars

#15 Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline - 4 stars

#16 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - 5 stars

#17 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - 4 stars

#18 Life of a Good-For-Nothing by Joseph von Eichendorff - 4 stars

#19 The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy - 4 stars

#20 The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald - 4 stars

#21 Homo faber by Max Frisch - 4 stars

#22 No One Writes to the Colonel - Gabriel García Márquez - 4 stars

#23 Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez - 5 stars

#24 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez - 5 stars

#25 The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 4 stars

#26 Lord of the Flies by William Golding - 5 stars

#27 The Third Man by Graham Greene - 4 stars

#28 Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun - 5 stars

#29 Hunger by Knut Hamsun - 5 stars

#30 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway - 3 stars

#31 Platform by Michel Houellebecq - 4 stars

#32 The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo - 5 stars

#33 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - 4 stars

#34 At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft - 3 stars

#35 The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan - 4 stars

#36 Moby-Dick by Herman Melville - 5 stars

#37 The Confusions of Young Torless by Robert Musil - 3 stars

#38 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - 4 stars

#39 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell - 5 stars

#40 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak - 4 stars

#41 The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe - 5 stars

#42 The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe - 4 stars

#43 The Godfather by Mario Puzo - 5 stars

#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque - 4 stars

#45 The Catcher in the Rye by Jerome D. Salinger - 4 stars

#46 Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre - 4 stars

#47 The Reader by Bernhard Schlink - 4 stars

#48 Transit by Anna Seghers - 4 stars

#49 Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 5 stars

#50 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solschenizyn - 4 stars

#51 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - 4 stars

btw: I wonder that East of Eden is not on the list; this is really great!

#52 Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - 4 stars

#53 Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson - 4 stars

#54 Dracula by Bram Stoker - 5 stars

#55 Walden by Henry David Thoreau - 4 stars

#56 The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien - 5 stars

#57 The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien - 5 stars

#58 Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne - 4 stars

#59 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut - 5 stars

#60 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut - 4 stars

#61 The Time Machine by H.G. Wells - 5 stars

#62 The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells - 5 stars

I have some more 1001 books on my tbr pile. I will list them when I read them.

wow you've rated nothing lower than 3 stars.... (and one of them was The Old man and the sea? surely not!)

To bring your average down, try Indigo by Maria Warner or Underworld by Don Delillo... heh heh

glad to see your progress here... keep on at it...

I read some books I've rated lower than 3 stars, but they're not on the 1001 list.

And The Old Man and the Sea...well, I found it very boring, but I want to reread it one day. Maybe I'll change my opinion ;-)

#63 Fateless by Imre Kertész

Rating: 4 stars

Never read such a "non-judgmental" book about concentration camps:

Kertész was deported from Budapest to Auschwitz and Buchenwald at the age of 15. In Fateless he's writing about this time from the view of a naive innocent boy.

#64 Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

Rating: 3 1/2 stars

#65 Chess Story by Stefan Zweig

Rating: 4 stars

#66 Aesop's Fables

Rating: 3 1/2 stars

#67 Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Rating: 4 stars

#68 Rites of Passage by William Golding

Rating: 4 stars

#69 Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist

Rating 3 1/2 stars

#70 Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez

Rating: 4 stars

#71 I Robot by Isaac Asimov

Rating: 4 stars

I didn't like the last story, but I like the other eight ones.

#72 Amok by Stefan Zweig

Rating: 4 stars

#73 The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino

Rating: 4 stars

#74 The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

Rating: 4 stars

This was a long read (over 1000 pages) and partly it was really exhausting to read. But all in all I liked it.

#75 The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino

Rating: 3 1/2 stars

#76 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Rating: 4 stars

#77 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Rating: 5 stars

#78 The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino

Rating: 4 stars

This was the last part of the 'Our Ancestors' trilogy, and I think it's the best.

#25, I agree, I liked it best of the three too. For some reason critics seem to favor The Baron in the Trees as the definite Calvino, which I found the weakest in the trilogy...

Same here. I think The Baron in the Trees is the weakest - but still good, somehow.

There's another list around called "Buch der 1000 Bücher" (Book of 1000 books), which has The Baron in the Trees as the only Calvino on it..well...

#79 Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

Rating: 4 stars

Death in Venice gets 5 stars. But there are seven more stories in the book; some of them are great too, some of them are just ok - so the whole book gets 4 stars.

#80 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Rating: 5 stars

One of the best books I've read this year.

Four stars for Death in Venice? Why? What did you like about it? I don't think I could have finished it if I hadn't actually been in Venice when I read it.

>>30 annamorphic:

Well, I like the story, but especially I like the writing style of Thomas Mann. For me, he's the greatest (german) author of the 20th century.

If you don't like it, it's maybe because of the translation. And if you wonder about the "homo erotic"...it's a part of the subtext in many Thomas Mann stories. But I agree, in Death in Venice it's not really a "sub"text.

#81 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Rating: 4 stars

#82 Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

Rating: 5 stars

The story begins in 1835 and ends in 1877. There are four generations with opposed characters. In the beginning everything's very well: big house, big factory, lots of money. But little by little it all starts to crumble: divorces, bad investments and death.

#83 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

113 pages

Rating: 4,5 stars

This was a re-read. I didn't remember this one is kind of sad. Makes me think awhile.

#84 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

938 pages

Rating: 4,5 stars

Very good. A few parts were a little lengthy, but all in all this in an absolutely must-read.

#85 The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

235 pages

Rating: 4 stars

#86 If This Is a Man by Primo Levi

165 pages

Rating: 4,5 stars

Very impressive. Very down-to-earth. Good read.

I should get around to reading that soon, I've read recently couple of other Primo Levi books and liked them a lot...

#87 The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño

677 pages

Rating: 4,5 stars

Though I liked 2666 more this was still a great read.

#88 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

383 pages

Rating: 2,5 stars

#89 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

1545 pages

Rating: 4,5 stars

#90 We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

142 pages

Rating: 4 stars

Books I read in the last months and forgot to post:

#91 Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht - 5 stars

#92 Finnegans Wake by James Joyce - 3,5 stars

#93 Animal Farm by George Orwell - 5 stars

#94 The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe - 3 stars

Now this list is up to date.

#95 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

443 pages

Rating: 4 stars

Quite good book. Very satirical; I enjoyed reading very much.

44> Catch-22's been my favorite since high school. It rocked my little high school brain.

#96 Neuromancer by William Gibson

328 pages

Rating: 3,5 stars

It was weird, confusing but good. I didn't expect that this would be a little bit hard to read. I'm sure I didn't get every single detail of the story.

To make this list up-to-date here are the books of the list I also read in the last few weeks:

#97 Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

161 pages

Rating: 4 stars

#98 The Lion of Flanders by Hendrik Conscience

218 pages

Rating: 3 stars

#99 Il pendolo di Foucault by Umberto Eco

754 pages

Rating: 4 stars

#100 Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan

438 pages

Rating: 3,5 stars

#101 Jazz by Toni Morrison

250 pages

Rating: 3,5 stars

#102 The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

375 pages

Rating: 4 stars

Quite good one(s). I especially liked The Locked Room.

#103 The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

952 pages

Rating: 4 stars

#104 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

160 pages

Rating: 4,5 stars

I hope you enjoyed Ficciones as much as I did.

I will be reading Ficciones for this and another challenge so I am glad that others enjoyed it.

#105 Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

383 pages

Rating: 4,5 stars

#106 Kim by Rudyard Kipling

381 pages

Rating: 3,5 stars

#107 Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

139 pages

Rating: 3 stars

# 108 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Rating: 3 stars

I read this one as an eBook. Maybe I'm too old for this, maybe it's the translation. Anyway, in my mind it was better (read it of course in my childhood).

#109 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

406 pages

Rating: 4,5 stars

#110 Anton Reiser: A Psychological Novel by Karl Philipp Moritz

436 pages

Rating: 4 stars

I guess it's time to update this list again. Books I read in the last months (without rating this time):

#111 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

#112 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

#113 The Tin Drum by Günter Grass

#114 Ashes and Diamonds by Jerzy Andrzejewski

#115 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

#116 Christ stopped at Eboli - The Story of a Year by Carlo Levi

#117 A Hero of our Time by Mikhail Lermontov

#118 Shining by Stephen King

#119 The World According to Garp by John Irving

#120 Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos

#121 Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

#122 Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

#123 Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin

#124 The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch

#125 Snow by Orhan Pamuk

#126 Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry

#127 The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade

#128 Jacques the Fatalist and his Master by Denis Diderot

#129 Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans

Well, I think it's up to date now...

#130 I'm Not Scared by Niccolò Ammaniti

253 pages

Rating: 4 stars

#131 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

668 pages

Rating: 4,5 stars

#132 The Judge and His Hangman by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

118 pages

Rating: 3,5 stars

Nice crime story. This was the second Dürrenmatt I read and this one reminds me a lot of The Pledge (which I really like).

#133 The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

192 pages

Rating: 3,5 stars

#134 Rabbit, Run by John Updike

316 pages

Rating: 4 stars

I can't say exactly why, but I liked it. However, before I go on with the next part of the pentalogy I need to read some Bukowski or Vonnegut stuff.

#135 Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

255 pages

4,5 stars

Very good one. It's about bokononism (a religion invented by Vonnegut), the Hiroshima bomb, ice-nine and the isle San Lorenzo.