SqueakyChu's Arbitrary 1,001 BTRBYD List

I think I'll jump into this one. Not as a challenge, but merely out of curiosity. My feeling is that I'll read less rather than more of these books as my personal reading preference is for less well known books and certainly not classics.

I'll be posting my books in groups of ten and see if I can ever reach 100.

Well, I guess I *did* make it into a sort of a challenge. We'll just see what happens.

My reference will be Listology noted here.




By the way, I will be including all books I've read in the past. Here goes...

Books 1-10:

1. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle (14)
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon (19)
3. Everything is Illuminated – foerjonathansafraned::Jonathan Safran Foer (26)
4. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami (28)
5. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides (33)
6. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen (43)
7. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk (48)
8. Life of Pi – Yann Martel (49)
9. White Teeth – Zadie Smith (54)
10. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb (75)

Books 11-20
11. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami (78)
12. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy (92)
13. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden (93)
14. Enduring Love – Ian McEwan (95)
15. Silk – Alessandro Baricco (101)
16. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami (125)
17. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh (134)
18. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides (143)
19. The Secret History - Donna Tartt (147)
20. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg (157)

Books 21-30
21. The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien (180)
22. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel (195)
23. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving (196)
24. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood (199)
25. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga (208)
26. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez (236)
27. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson (237)
28. The Color Purple – Alice Walker (272)
29. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro (274)
30. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally (275)

Books 31-40
31. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin (278)
32. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan (302)
33. The World According to Garp – John Irving (303)
34. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez (324)
35. Fateless – Imre Kertész
36. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan (330)
37. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong (341)
38. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson (358)
39. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (375)
40. The Godfather – Mario Puzo (379)

Books 41-50
41. In Watermelon Sugar– Richard Brautigan (393)
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez (399)
43. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey (436)
44. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein (444)
45. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (451)
46. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (456)
47. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass (462)
48. Homo Faber – Max Frisch (483)
49. On the Road – Jack Kerouac (484)
50. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien (494)

Books 51-60
51. Lord of the Flies – William Golding (508)
52. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway (521)
53. Animal Farm – George Orwell (564)
54. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (574)
55. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston (609)
56. The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien (610)
57. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell (619)
58. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque (667)
59. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (699)
60. Dracula – Bram Stoker (794)

Books 61-70
61. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain (825)
62. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson (831)
63. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott (863)
64. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky (867)
65. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (868)
66. Silas Marner – George Eliot (875)
67. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens (883)
68. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne (897)
69. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens (898)
70. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë (902)

Books 71-80
71. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe (911)
72. A Christmas Carol – bycharlesdickens::Charles Dickens (913)
73. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe (916)
74. Oliver Twist – bycharlesdickens::Charles Dickens (918)
75. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo (922)
76. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper (925)
77. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott (930)
78. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (992)
79. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus (1,001)
80. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (529) - added 10/21/10

Books 81-90
81. Under the Skin - Michael Faber (56) - added 4/20/11
82. The Shining - Stephen King (312) - added 12/12/11
83. Emma - Jane Austen - (936) - added 12/12/11
84.

Phew! I just finished posting the list of all the books I've read.

What strikes me most is the number of classics I've read. Who'd have believed it? I *hate* reading classics. It seems that most of them I read when I was back in grade school, high school, or college. I have no recollection of anything about most of those books except their titles and authors.

I'm definitely a contemporary lit person!!

You already have a great list!

I've had 62 years to accumulate it! :)

I'm pretty much sticking to contemporary novels now, though.

My link no longer works. Is there a new 1,001 list? If so, I thinkI'll call this whole thing off.

I have not heard of an updated list although I like the idea that it will keep being updated every few years to keep up with the times and new books being published.

I got my list from Arukiyomi http://www.librarything.com/topic/87702

I paid for the spreadsheet that has all three versions (total 1297 books) for home and then downloaded the free 2010 only version for work.