1BentleyMay
I've kept a reading list as long as I can remember. I've always liked book lists, too. I started keeping track of lists when Modern Library came out with its Top 100 Books of the 20th century. I found the list of all lists, 1001 Books, whilst browsing in a bookstore in Reykjavik in 2009. My sister gave me a copy of the book for Christmas that year, and I soon started making my own spreadsheet to add it to my other lists. And then I found arukiyomi's spreadsheet. I have purchased several versions of the spreadsheet over the years - thank you!
I will list what I've read in chronological order.
I will list what I've read in chronological order.
2BentleyMay
Jr High/High School & College
1. Call of the Wild by Jack London
2. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
3. The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
4. The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
5. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
6. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
7. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
9. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
10. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
11. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
12. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
13. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
14. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
15. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
16. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
17. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
18. Candide by Voltaire
19. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
20. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
21. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
22. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
23. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
24. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
25. Animal Farm by George Orwell
26. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
27. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
28. Princess de Clèves by Madame de la Fayette
29. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
30. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
1. Call of the Wild by Jack London
2. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
3. The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
4. The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
5. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
6. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
7. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
9. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
10. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
11. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
12. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
13. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
14. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
15. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
16. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
17. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
18. Candide by Voltaire
19. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
20. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
21. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
22. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
23. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
24. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
25. Animal Farm by George Orwell
26. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
27. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
28. Princess de Clèves by Madame de la Fayette
29. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
30. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
3BentleyMay
1990-1999
31. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
32. Les Liasons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
33. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
34. Sula by Toni Morrison
35. Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
36. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
37. The Prime of Miss Jean Brody by Muriel Spark
38. Emma by Jane Austen
39. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
40. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
41. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
42. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
43. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
44. Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
45. Beloved by Toni Morrison
46. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
47. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
48. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
49. Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
50. Summer by Edith Wharton
51. Howards End by E.M. Forster
52. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
53. The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
54. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
55. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
56. Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
57. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
58. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
59. The Stranger by Albert Camus
60. The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
61. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
62. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
63. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
64. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
65. Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
66. Persuasion by Jane Austen
67. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
68. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
69. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
70. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
71. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
72. Hard Times by Charles Dickens
73. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
74. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
75. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
76. Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac
77. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
78. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
79. The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
80. The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
81. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
82. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maughm
83. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
84. The Plague by Albert Camus
85. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
86. Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
87. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
88. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
89. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
90. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
91. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
92. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
93. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
94. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
95. The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
96. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
97. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
98. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
99. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
100. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
101. Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo
102. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
103. Silas Marner by George Eliot
104. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Samuel Clemens
105. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
106. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
107. Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac
108. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
109. A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
110. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
111. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann von Goethe
112. Amerika by Franz Kafka
113. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
114. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
115. Elective Affinities by Johann von Goethe
116. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
117. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
118. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
119. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
120. The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
121. The Rainbow by D H Lawrence
122. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
123. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
124. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
125. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
126. Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
127. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
128. Ulysses by James Joyce
129. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
130. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
131. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
132. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
133. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
134. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
135. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
31. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
32. Les Liasons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
33. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
34. Sula by Toni Morrison
35. Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
36. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
37. The Prime of Miss Jean Brody by Muriel Spark
38. Emma by Jane Austen
39. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
40. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
41. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
42. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
43. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
44. Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
45. Beloved by Toni Morrison
46. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
47. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
48. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
49. Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
50. Summer by Edith Wharton
51. Howards End by E.M. Forster
52. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
53. The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
54. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
55. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
56. Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
57. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
58. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
59. The Stranger by Albert Camus
60. The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
61. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
62. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
63. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
64. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
65. Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
66. Persuasion by Jane Austen
67. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
68. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
69. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
70. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
71. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
72. Hard Times by Charles Dickens
73. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
74. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
75. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
76. Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac
77. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
78. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
79. The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
80. The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
81. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
82. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maughm
83. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
84. The Plague by Albert Camus
85. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
86. Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
87. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
88. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
89. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
90. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
91. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
92. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
93. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
94. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
95. The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
96. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
97. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
98. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
99. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
100. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
101. Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo
102. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
103. Silas Marner by George Eliot
104. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Samuel Clemens
105. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
106. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
107. Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac
108. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
109. A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
110. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
111. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann von Goethe
112. Amerika by Franz Kafka
113. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
114. Hunger by Knut Hamsun
115. Elective Affinities by Johann von Goethe
116. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
117. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
118. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
119. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
120. The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
121. The Rainbow by D H Lawrence
122. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
123. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
124. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
125. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
126. Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
127. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
128. Ulysses by James Joyce
129. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
130. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
131. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
132. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
133. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
134. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
135. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
4BentleyMay
2000-2009
136. The Immoralist André Gide
137. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
138. A Bend in the River by V S Naipaul
139. 1984 by George Orwell
140. Jazz by Toni Morrison
141. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
142. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
143. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
144. The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
145. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
146. Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz
147. Passing by Nella Larson
148. Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago
149. Midaq Alley by Naguib Mafouz
150. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
151. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
152. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
153. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
154. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
155. Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
156. Possession by A.S. Byatt
157. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
158. Nana by Emile Zola
159. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
160. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
161. The Ambassadors by Henry James
162. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
163. Loving by Henry Green
164. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
165. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
166. Native Son by Richard Wright
167. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
168. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
169. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
170. U.S.A. by John Dos Passos
171. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
172. The Magus by John Fowles
173. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maughm
174. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
175. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
176. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
177. The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
178. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
179. Dracula by Bram Stoker
180. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
181. Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
182. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
183. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
184. Perfume by Patrick Süskind
185. Independent People by Halldor Laxness
186. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
187. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
188. Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant
189. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
190. The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
191. The Nose by Nickolai Gogol
192. Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant
136. The Immoralist André Gide
137. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
138. A Bend in the River by V S Naipaul
139. 1984 by George Orwell
140. Jazz by Toni Morrison
141. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
142. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
143. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
144. The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
145. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
146. Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz
147. Passing by Nella Larson
148. Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago
149. Midaq Alley by Naguib Mafouz
150. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
151. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
152. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
153. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
154. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
155. Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
156. Possession by A.S. Byatt
157. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
158. Nana by Emile Zola
159. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
160. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
161. The Ambassadors by Henry James
162. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
163. Loving by Henry Green
164. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
165. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
166. Native Son by Richard Wright
167. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
168. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
169. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
170. U.S.A. by John Dos Passos
171. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
172. The Magus by John Fowles
173. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maughm
174. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
175. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
176. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
177. The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
178. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
179. Dracula by Bram Stoker
180. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
181. Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
182. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
183. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
184. Perfume by Patrick Süskind
185. Independent People by Halldor Laxness
186. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
187. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
188. Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant
189. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
190. The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
191. The Nose by Nickolai Gogol
192. Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant
5BentleyMay
2010 – present
193. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
194. Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
195. Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
196. Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
197. Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
198. The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
199. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
200. The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan
201. Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau
202. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
203. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
204. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
205. Story of the Eye by George Bataille
206. The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
207. Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
208. Life and Death of Harriet Frean by May Sinclair
209. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
210. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
211. The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
212. Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
213. A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
214. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
215. The Crime of Father Amaro by Jose Maria Eca de Queiros
216. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
217. Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
218. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
219. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
220. The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
221. Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
222. New Grub Street by George Gissing
223. Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
224. The Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
225. Rashomon by Akutagawa Ryunosuke
226. The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
227. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll
228. Michael Kohlhaas by Henrich von Kleist
229. Strait is the Gate by André Gide
230. The Devil’s Pool by George Sand
231. The Charwoman’s Daughter by James Stephens
232. The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendahl
233. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
234. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
235. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
236. Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
237. The Count of Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
238. A Woman’s Life by Guy de Maupassant
239. The Parable of the Blind by Gert Hofmann
240. A History of Love by Nicole Krauss
193. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
194. Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
195. Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
196. Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
197. Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
198. The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
199. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
200. The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan
201. Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau
202. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
203. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
204. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
205. Story of the Eye by George Bataille
206. The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
207. Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
208. Life and Death of Harriet Frean by May Sinclair
209. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
210. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
211. The 13 Clocks by James Thurber
212. Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
213. A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
214. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
215. The Crime of Father Amaro by Jose Maria Eca de Queiros
216. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
217. Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
218. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
219. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
220. The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
221. Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
222. New Grub Street by George Gissing
223. Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
224. The Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
225. Rashomon by Akutagawa Ryunosuke
226. The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
227. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll
228. Michael Kohlhaas by Henrich von Kleist
229. Strait is the Gate by André Gide
230. The Devil’s Pool by George Sand
231. The Charwoman’s Daughter by James Stephens
232. The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendahl
233. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
234. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
235. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
236. Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
237. The Count of Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
238. A Woman’s Life by Guy de Maupassant
239. The Parable of the Blind by Gert Hofmann
240. A History of Love by Nicole Krauss
6BentleyMay
241. The Story of O by Pauline Réage
242. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
243. The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
244. Platform by Michel Houellebecq
245. Things: A Story of the Sixties by Georges Perec
246. The Path to the Nest of Spiders by Italo Calvino
247. Fatelessness by Imre Kertész
248. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
249. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
250. Justine by Lawrence Durell
251. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
252. The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind
253. Atonement by Ian McEwan
254. Middlemarch by George Eliot
255. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
256. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
257. White Noise by Don DeLillo
258. Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence
259. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
260. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
261. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
262. Germinal by Emile Zola
263. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
264. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
265. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
266. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
267. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
268. Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
269. The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
270. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
271. The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
272. Cider House Rules by John Irving
273. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
274. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
275. What Maisie Knew by Henry James
276. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
277. Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
278. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
279. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
280. Under the Skin by Michel Faber
281. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
282. A Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
283. Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
284. A Heart So White by Javier Marías
285. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
286. Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
287. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
288. Martin Eden by Jack London
289. The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett
290. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
242. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
243. The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
244. Platform by Michel Houellebecq
245. Things: A Story of the Sixties by Georges Perec
246. The Path to the Nest of Spiders by Italo Calvino
247. Fatelessness by Imre Kertész
248. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
249. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
250. Justine by Lawrence Durell
251. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
252. The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind
253. Atonement by Ian McEwan
254. Middlemarch by George Eliot
255. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
256. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
257. White Noise by Don DeLillo
258. Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence
259. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
260. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
261. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
262. Germinal by Emile Zola
263. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
264. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
265. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
266. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
267. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
268. Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
269. The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
270. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
271. The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
272. Cider House Rules by John Irving
273. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
274. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
275. What Maisie Knew by Henry James
276. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
277. Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
278. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
279. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
280. Under the Skin by Michel Faber
281. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
282. A Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
283. Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
284. A Heart So White by Javier Marías
285. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
286. Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
287. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
288. Martin Eden by Jack London
289. The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett
290. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
7BentleyMay
291. The Lover by Marguerite Duras
292. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
293. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
294. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
295. Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
296. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
297. Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
298. To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia
299. Snow by Orhan Pamuk
300. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
301. The Trial by Franz Kafka
302. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
303. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
304. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
305. The Collector by John Fowles
306. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
307. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
308. War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
309. The Third Man by Graham Greene
310. Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford
311. The Double by José Saramago
312. The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
313. Silk by Alessandro Baricco
314. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
315. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
316. Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
317. Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton
318. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
319. Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
320. The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien
321. The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
322. Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
323. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter by Anonymous
324. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
325. Adam Bede by George Eliot
326. Villette by Charlotte Brontë
327. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
328. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
329. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
330. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
331. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
332. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
333. The Master by Colm Tóibín
334. Girl With Green Eyes by Edna O'Brien
335. Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
336. Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
337. Neuromancer by William Gibson
338. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
339. The Golden Bowl by Henry James
340. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
292. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
293. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
294. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
295. Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
296. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
297. Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
298. To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia
299. Snow by Orhan Pamuk
300. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
301. The Trial by Franz Kafka
302. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
303. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
304. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
305. The Collector by John Fowles
306. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
307. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
308. War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
309. The Third Man by Graham Greene
310. Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford
311. The Double by José Saramago
312. The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
313. Silk by Alessandro Baricco
314. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
315. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
316. Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
317. Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton
318. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
319. Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
320. The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien
321. The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
322. Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
323. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter by Anonymous
324. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
325. Adam Bede by George Eliot
326. Villette by Charlotte Brontë
327. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
328. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
329. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
330. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
331. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
332. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
333. The Master by Colm Tóibín
334. Girl With Green Eyes by Edna O'Brien
335. Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
336. Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
337. Neuromancer by William Gibson
338. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
339. The Golden Bowl by Henry James
340. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
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341. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
342. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
343. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
344. The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson
345. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
346. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
347. Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev
348. On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev
349. Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley
342. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
343. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
344. The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson
345. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
346. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
347. Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev
348. On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev
349. Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley
10BentleyMay
Thank you Simone2!
12BentleyMay
Thank you puckers!
13gypsysmom
I echo the comments of Simone2 and puckers. I presume you are in your late 30s or early 40s based on your chronology so you may indeed read all of the 1001 plus before you die. I am in my early 60s and I am only at a total of 248. I only try to read about 10 books from the list a year so in the best case scenario I'll only make it to about 500.
14M1nks
Hi BentleyMay - It's always great to have fresh people :-)
Are you going to join in our 1001 (and more) list 'competition'? You've read a lot already so you'll be starting in a poll position!
Are you going to join in our 1001 (and more) list 'competition'? You've read a lot already so you'll be starting in a poll position!
15Henrik_Madsen
Welcome - and what a great list of books you have read already.
16BentleyMay
Thank you gypsysmom! I am a bit older than that! I don't think I will read all of the books, but it's fun trying.
17BentleyMay
Thank you M1nks! Yes, I think I will join the competition. I'm still figuring my way around here.
18BentleyMay
Thank you Henrik_Madsen!
19BentleyMay
350. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would. It's probably my favorite book so far this year. Very timely given the huge opioid crisis. The slang was difficult at first, but listening to the audiobook while I read helped significantly. Now I can finally watch the movie.
351. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Enjoyable story.
352. Evelina by Frances Burney I didn't think I would like this, only because I read Tristram Shandy last year and really disliked it. I guess I thought they would be similar based on their publication dates. I ended up enjoying Evelina quite a bit. The sticker on the back says I purchased it at Barnes & Noble in 1998 - It's been on my "to read" pile for a long time! I saw a couple of positive reviews of Evelina on here recently. They inspired me to give it a go and I am glad I did!
353. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
354. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
355. Embers by Sandor Marai
356. The Graduate by Charles Webb
357. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
351. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Enjoyable story.
352. Evelina by Frances Burney I didn't think I would like this, only because I read Tristram Shandy last year and really disliked it. I guess I thought they would be similar based on their publication dates. I ended up enjoying Evelina quite a bit. The sticker on the back says I purchased it at Barnes & Noble in 1998 - It's been on my "to read" pile for a long time! I saw a couple of positive reviews of Evelina on here recently. They inspired me to give it a go and I am glad I did!
353. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
354. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
355. Embers by Sandor Marai
356. The Graduate by Charles Webb
357. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
20BentleyMay
358. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
359. The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
360. Billy Budd, Foretopman by Herman Melville
361. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
362. Junkie by William S. Burroughs
363. Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
364. Queer by William S. Burroughs
365. He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
366. Hell by Henri Barbusse
359. The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
360. Billy Budd, Foretopman by Herman Melville
361. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
362. Junkie by William S. Burroughs
363. Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
364. Queer by William S. Burroughs
365. He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
366. Hell by Henri Barbusse
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367. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
368. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
369. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
370. There but for the by Ali Smith
371. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
372. Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante
373. The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
374. A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
375. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
376. The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
377. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
378. Crash by J.G. Ballard
379. The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
380. The Gathering by Anne Enright
381. Ashes and Diamonds by Jerzy Andrzejewski
368. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
369. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
370. There but for the by Ali Smith
371. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
372. Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante
373. The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
374. A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
375. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
376. The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
377. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
378. Crash by J.G. Ballard
379. The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
380. The Gathering by Anne Enright
381. Ashes and Diamonds by Jerzy Andrzejewski
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382. Unless by Carol Shields
383. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
384. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
385. Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett
386. The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
387. The Castle by Franz Kafka
388. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
389. Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
390. A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
391. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
392. High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
393. Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
383. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
384. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
385. Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett
386. The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
387. The Castle by Franz Kafka
388. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
389. Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
390. A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
391. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
392. High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
393. Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
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394. The Wild Boys by William S. Burroughs
395. Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard
396. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
397. Choke by Chuck Palaniuk
398. The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
399. Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
400. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Made it to 400!
395. Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard
396. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
397. Choke by Chuck Palaniuk
398. The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
399. Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
400. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Made it to 400!
24Henrik_Madsen
Cool - Congratulations!
26BentleyMay
Thank you Henrik_Madsen and puckers! On to the next book...
28BentleyMay
Thank you paruline!
I have enough books in my 1001 TBR stack to get to 700... that's going to take awhile.
I have enough books in my 1001 TBR stack to get to 700... that's going to take awhile.
29BentleyMay
401. The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
402. The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin
403. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
404. Claudine's House by Colette
405. Quartet by Jean Rhys
406. Nadja by Andre Breton
407. Chocky by John Wyndham
408. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
409. Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
410. The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
411. Cheese by Willem Elsschot
412. The Witness by Juan Jose Saer
413. Troubles by J.G. Farrell
414. July's People by Nadine Gordimer
415. The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
402. The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin
403. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
404. Claudine's House by Colette
405. Quartet by Jean Rhys
406. Nadja by Andre Breton
407. Chocky by John Wyndham
408. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
409. Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
410. The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
411. Cheese by Willem Elsschot
412. The Witness by Juan Jose Saer
413. Troubles by J.G. Farrell
414. July's People by Nadine Gordimer
415. The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
30BentleyMay
I am way behind on updating my list. I wanted to write a little bit about each book as I posted them, but I never have enough time. Thank you to all who do find the time to post impressions. I read and appreciate them.
31BentleyMay
416. Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn
I read all five volumes of the Patrick Melrose novels this summer, although only volume 4, Mother's Milk, is on the 1001 list. In a nutshell, this story is about trying to deal with a difficult childhood. The events in Patrick's childhood in volume 1 are very graphically described and quite soul-crushing. The remaining volumes deal with after effects of this trauma throughout Patrick's life, until about midlife.
I read all five volumes of the Patrick Melrose novels this summer, although only volume 4, Mother's Milk, is on the 1001 list. In a nutshell, this story is about trying to deal with a difficult childhood. The events in Patrick's childhood in volume 1 are very graphically described and quite soul-crushing. The remaining volumes deal with after effects of this trauma throughout Patrick's life, until about midlife.
32BentleyMay
417. Quicksand by Nella Larsen
I really wanted to cheer for the main character, but I just couldn't understand the choices she made.
I really wanted to cheer for the main character, but I just couldn't understand the choices she made.
33BentleyMay
418. The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
I purchased a paperback version of this based on the cool front cover graphics (Serpent's Tail Classics, ISBN 978-1846687357). I didn't realize that this was an abridged version of the text. Luckily though, I downloaded a Kindle version of the book from my library and started reading that instead. When I went to the paperback to find my place I realized they weren't the same edition of the book. The paperback was not only abridged, but the chapters were in a different order!
That aside, the book is very interesting. I'm not sure the chapter order makes all that much difference. You can randomly open and read a chapter, for the most part.
I purchased a paperback version of this based on the cool front cover graphics (Serpent's Tail Classics, ISBN 978-1846687357). I didn't realize that this was an abridged version of the text. Luckily though, I downloaded a Kindle version of the book from my library and started reading that instead. When I went to the paperback to find my place I realized they weren't the same edition of the book. The paperback was not only abridged, but the chapters were in a different order!
That aside, the book is very interesting. I'm not sure the chapter order makes all that much difference. You can randomly open and read a chapter, for the most part.
34BentleyMay
419. The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe. Excellent unreliable narration.
420. Ghost at Noon by Alberto Moravia. I read this in 2015 as "Contempt" but didn't realize it was the same book until recently. Bonus!
421. The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek. Not my cup of tea. I understand it was supposed to be funny and a jab at the ridiculousness of war. That point came across early but the book goes on and on and on.
422. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro. Another unreliable narrator, which I like.
423. Night and Day by the fabulous Virginia Woolf. Follows the love lives of four individuals in pre-WWI London. They struggle with what they think they are supposed to do and what they want to do, or think they want to do with their lives.
424. I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti
425. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
426. Justine by Marquis de Sade. Ick, just ick.
427. Silence by Shusaku Endo
428. None But the Brave by Arthur Schnitzler
429. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
430. Waterland by Graham Swift. Possibly my favorite book so far, this year.
431. On Love by Alain de Botton
432. The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway.
420. Ghost at Noon by Alberto Moravia. I read this in 2015 as "Contempt" but didn't realize it was the same book until recently. Bonus!
421. The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek. Not my cup of tea. I understand it was supposed to be funny and a jab at the ridiculousness of war. That point came across early but the book goes on and on and on.
422. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro. Another unreliable narrator, which I like.
423. Night and Day by the fabulous Virginia Woolf. Follows the love lives of four individuals in pre-WWI London. They struggle with what they think they are supposed to do and what they want to do, or think they want to do with their lives.
424. I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti
425. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
426. Justine by Marquis de Sade. Ick, just ick.
427. Silence by Shusaku Endo
428. None But the Brave by Arthur Schnitzler
429. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
430. Waterland by Graham Swift. Possibly my favorite book so far, this year.
431. On Love by Alain de Botton
432. The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway.
35BentleyMay
I recently purchased version 6 of the spreadsheet so I get to add two books that I had previously read. Both of these titles were on NYT's Best Ten Books of the year list in 2013.
433. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
434. The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
Plus
435. Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
436. The Iron Heel by Jack London
437. The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius
438. The Sea by John Banville
433. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
434. The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
Plus
435. Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
436. The Iron Heel by Jack London
437. The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius
438. The Sea by John Banville
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439. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
440. Don't Move by Margaret Mazzantini
441. The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante (read all four volumes)
442. London Fields by Martin Amis
443. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
444. The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
445. Vathek by William Thomas Beckford
446. Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
447. Nada by Carmen Laforet (aka Andrea)
448. Platero and I by Juan Ramon Jimenez
440. Don't Move by Margaret Mazzantini
441. The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante (read all four volumes)
442. London Fields by Martin Amis
443. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
444. The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
445. Vathek by William Thomas Beckford
446. Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
447. Nada by Carmen Laforet (aka Andrea)
448. Platero and I by Juan Ramon Jimenez
37BentleyMay
2019
449. The Twins by Tessa de Loo Twin girls get separated at six years old just before WWII in Cologne, Germany. One stays in Germany and one goes to relatives in Netherlands. They meet up again at seventy years old and try to make each other understand the war from their very different experiences.
450. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey.
451. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong. At first I was turned off by the language, but then I really got into the story.
452. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. A good story of the cultural differences between the North and South of England.
449. The Twins by Tessa de Loo Twin girls get separated at six years old just before WWII in Cologne, Germany. One stays in Germany and one goes to relatives in Netherlands. They meet up again at seventy years old and try to make each other understand the war from their very different experiences.
450. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey.
451. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong. At first I was turned off by the language, but then I really got into the story.
452. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. A good story of the cultural differences between the North and South of England.
38BentleyMay
Oh boy, way behind again!
453. At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
454. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. This was a struggle to get through. Probably just a case of the wrong book at the time. I read and enjoyed The Heart of a Dog by the same author.
455. A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne. A boring travelogue.
456. Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov. For the January Group Read. I felt Nabokov was teasing his readers in as many languages as possible. I liked Part 4, near the end, the essay on Time. I'm not sure why it was there. But again, Nabokov was teasing or showing off - not only does he know enough English, Russian, Italian, and French to make jokes and puns, but he can also talk eloquently about quantum mechanics and evolution. The story, however, is about a brother-sister incestuous relationship - ick.
453. At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
454. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. This was a struggle to get through. Probably just a case of the wrong book at the time. I read and enjoyed The Heart of a Dog by the same author.
455. A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne. A boring travelogue.
456. Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov. For the January Group Read. I felt Nabokov was teasing his readers in as many languages as possible. I liked Part 4, near the end, the essay on Time. I'm not sure why it was there. But again, Nabokov was teasing or showing off - not only does he know enough English, Russian, Italian, and French to make jokes and puns, but he can also talk eloquently about quantum mechanics and evolution. The story, however, is about a brother-sister incestuous relationship - ick.
39BentleyMay
For February 2019 I challenged myself to read as many short works from the list as possible. I won't do that again - I was constantly finishing one and trying to decide on what to read next.
457. The Fox by D.H. Lawrence.
458. A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift. I really didn't get this.
459. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford. Hilarious, I loved it!
460. Barabbas by Par Lagerkvist (Nobel, 1951).
461. Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford. Must read part 3: Don't Tell Alfred but it is non-1001. Read both Mitford books for the February Group Challenge (books with "Love" in the title).
462. Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi. The spreadsheet says 350 pp, but my copy was only 160 pp. The story of a man trying to decide if he is going to leave his partner.
463. Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi. This was fascinating - could not put down. A woman is about to be executed for murder. She has refused to talk to anyone until the night before her execution date when she summons a social worker into the prison to listen to her story.
464. Seize the Day by Saul Bellow. Annoying people who whine about the choices they have made and their resulting lives.
465. The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan. Just gross. I don't understand why so many of his books are on the list. I don't believe in any of the characters, and the sex scenes feel so contrived.
466. Viper's Tangle by Francois Mauriac. A nasty man's life.
467. The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho. Thoroughly contrived.
468. Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf. Wonderful, as usual for Woolf. The spreadsheet says 400 pp, but my copy is just 219 pp.
469. Timbuktu by Paul Auster. The story of a dog's life told from the dog's point of view. Loved it - but parts were difficult for me.
470. The Colour by Rose Tremain. Read this for the February Group Read. Historical fiction of the New Zealand gold rush. Interesting and enjoyable in parts - just okay.
457. The Fox by D.H. Lawrence.
458. A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift. I really didn't get this.
459. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford. Hilarious, I loved it!
460. Barabbas by Par Lagerkvist (Nobel, 1951).
461. Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford. Must read part 3: Don't Tell Alfred but it is non-1001. Read both Mitford books for the February Group Challenge (books with "Love" in the title).
462. Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi. The spreadsheet says 350 pp, but my copy was only 160 pp. The story of a man trying to decide if he is going to leave his partner.
463. Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi. This was fascinating - could not put down. A woman is about to be executed for murder. She has refused to talk to anyone until the night before her execution date when she summons a social worker into the prison to listen to her story.
464. Seize the Day by Saul Bellow. Annoying people who whine about the choices they have made and their resulting lives.
465. The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan. Just gross. I don't understand why so many of his books are on the list. I don't believe in any of the characters, and the sex scenes feel so contrived.
466. Viper's Tangle by Francois Mauriac. A nasty man's life.
467. The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho. Thoroughly contrived.
468. Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf. Wonderful, as usual for Woolf. The spreadsheet says 400 pp, but my copy is just 219 pp.
469. Timbuktu by Paul Auster. The story of a dog's life told from the dog's point of view. Loved it - but parts were difficult for me.
470. The Colour by Rose Tremain. Read this for the February Group Read. Historical fiction of the New Zealand gold rush. Interesting and enjoyable in parts - just okay.
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March 2019
471. Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon
472. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
473. The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade
474. L'Assommoir by Emile Zola
475. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
476. Jacob the Liar by Jurek Becker
477. Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
478. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
479. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
480. Erewhon by Samuel Butler
471. Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon
472. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
473. The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade
474. L'Assommoir by Emile Zola
475. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
476. Jacob the Liar by Jurek Becker
477. Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
478. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
479. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
480. Erewhon by Samuel Butler
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April 2019
481. The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
482. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
483. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
484. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
485. Cause for Alarm by Eric Ambler
486. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
487. The Daughter by Pavlos Matesis
488. A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
489. Fanny Hill by John Cleland
490. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
491. Pricksongs and Descants by Robert Coover
492. Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
481. The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
482. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
483. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
484. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
485. Cause for Alarm by Eric Ambler
486. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
487. The Daughter by Pavlos Matesis
488. A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
489. Fanny Hill by John Cleland
490. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
491. Pricksongs and Descants by Robert Coover
492. Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
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May 2019
493. The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
494. Harriet Hume by Rebecca West
495. The Monk by Matthew Lewis
496. In the Forest by Edna O'Brien
497. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
498. Typical by Padgett Powell
499. The Light of Day by Graham Swift
500. Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet
501. Amok by Stefan Zweig
502. Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino
493. The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
494. Harriet Hume by Rebecca West
495. The Monk by Matthew Lewis
496. In the Forest by Edna O'Brien
497. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
498. Typical by Padgett Powell
499. The Light of Day by Graham Swift
500. Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet
501. Amok by Stefan Zweig
502. Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino
43ELiz_M
Nice choice for #500! I found that novel strangely compelling, with it's unusual narrative style, and it is definitely a book i would never have found without the list!
44BentleyMay
I'm not sure I would have found that one either, without the list. It was really interesting. I read and reread many of the passages to note what things were same/different from the previous run through.
46BentleyMay
Thank you puckers and ELiz_M!
Halfway there! I discovered the 1001 book in September 2009. Maybe I will finish by 2029. My rate has increased, though, the last two years because I started a job that includes a three hour commute.
Halfway there! I discovered the 1001 book in September 2009. Maybe I will finish by 2029. My rate has increased, though, the last two years because I started a job that includes a three hour commute.
48BentleyMay
Thank you paruline!
49ELiz_M
You're not interested in adding your name to the 1001 Progress Index?
50BentleyMay
I suppose I should...
51BentleyMay
June 2019
503. Albert Angelo by B.S. Johnson
504. Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
505. Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
506. Pluck the Bud, Destroy the Offspring aka Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe
507. The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
508. Small Island by Andrea Levy
509. Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland
510. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke
511. Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
512. Underworld by Don DeLillo
513. In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
514. The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard
515. Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami
516. Murphy by Samuel Beckett
503. Albert Angelo by B.S. Johnson
504. Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
505. Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
506. Pluck the Bud, Destroy the Offspring aka Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe
507. The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
508. Small Island by Andrea Levy
509. Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland
510. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke
511. Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
512. Underworld by Don DeLillo
513. In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
514. The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard
515. Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami
516. Murphy by Samuel Beckett
52BentleyMay
July 2019
517. Monica by Saunders Lewis
518. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
519. Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard
520. Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
521. Molloy by Samuel Beckett
522. Party Going by Henry Green
523. The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
524. Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett
525. The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna
526. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
527. Bouvard and Pecuchet by Gustave Flaubert
528. In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
517. Monica by Saunders Lewis
518. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
519. Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard
520. Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
521. Molloy by Samuel Beckett
522. Party Going by Henry Green
523. The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
524. Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett
525. The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna
526. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
527. Bouvard and Pecuchet by Gustave Flaubert
528. In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
53BentleyMay
August 2019
529. The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings
530. Ignorance by Milan Kundera
531. The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
532. A Home At the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
533. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
534. Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman
535. The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
536. Living by Henry Green
537. On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
538. Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
539. Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes
529. The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings
530. Ignorance by Milan Kundera
531. The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
532. A Home At the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
533. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
534. Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman
535. The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
536. Living by Henry Green
537. On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
538. Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
539. Absolute Beginners by Colin MacInnes
54BentleyMay
September 2019
540. The Newton Letter by John Banville
541. In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu
542. Great Apes bu Will Self
543. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
544. Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
545. Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
546. Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
547. The Red Room by August Strindberg
548. Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
540. The Newton Letter by John Banville
541. In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu
542. Great Apes bu Will Self
543. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
544. Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
545. Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
546. Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
547. The Red Room by August Strindberg
548. Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
55BentleyMay
October 2019
549. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
550. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
551. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
552. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
553. The Shining by Stephen King
554. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
555. Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-en
549. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
550. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
551. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
552. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
553. The Shining by Stephen King
554. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
555. Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-en
56BentleyMay
November 2019
556. The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow
557. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
558. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
559. She by H. Rider Haggard
560. The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
561. Coming Up for Air by George Orwell
562. Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
563. Hangover Square by Partrick Hamilton
556. The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow
557. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
558. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
559. She by H. Rider Haggard
560. The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
561. Coming Up for Air by George Orwell
562. Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
563. Hangover Square by Partrick Hamilton
57BentleyMay
December 2019
564. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
565. The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell
566. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
567. Aesop's Fables by Aesopus
568. The Shadow-Line by Joseph Conrad
569. Reveries of a Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
570. The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
564. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
565. The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell
566. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
567. Aesop's Fables by Aesopus
568. The Shadow-Line by Joseph Conrad
569. Reveries of a Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
570. The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
58BentleyMay
Goals for 2020:
1. Of all the authors on the combined list, I counted 248 have more than one title listed. Of these, there are 67 authors that I haven't read. I hope to reduce this by half in 2020.
2. I have way too many books on my TBR stack. I'd like to read the ones I have had the longest first. This includes 15 titles below that I purchased last century! There may be more...
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (currently reading for January Challenge)(also fulfills #1)
Three Lives (also fulfills #1)
Nausea
The House by the Medlar Tree
Contact
The Garden Party
The Magic Mountain
The Dispossessed
The Marble Faun
The Power and the Glory
Joseph Andrews
The Heat of the Day
Lost Illusions
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (also fulfills #1)
Out of Africa
1. Of all the authors on the combined list, I counted 248 have more than one title listed. Of these, there are 67 authors that I haven't read. I hope to reduce this by half in 2020.
2. I have way too many books on my TBR stack. I'd like to read the ones I have had the longest first. This includes 15 titles below that I purchased last century! There may be more...
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (currently reading for January Challenge)(also fulfills #1)
Three Lives (also fulfills #1)
Nausea
The House by the Medlar Tree
Contact
The Garden Party
The Magic Mountain
The Dispossessed
The Marble Faun
The Power and the Glory
Joseph Andrews
The Heat of the Day
Lost Illusions
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (also fulfills #1)
Out of Africa
59BentleyMay
January 2020
571. Democracy by Joan Didion
572. The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt
573. House Mother Normal by B. S. Johnson
574. Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
575. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
576. City Primeval by Elmore Leonard
577. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
578. Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
579. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
580. Fantomas by Marcel Allain &
581. The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer
582. The Breast by Philip Roth
571. Democracy by Joan Didion
572. The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt
573. House Mother Normal by B. S. Johnson
574. Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
575. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
576. City Primeval by Elmore Leonard
577. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
578. Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
579. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
580. Fantomas by Marcel Allain &
581. The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer
582. The Breast by Philip Roth
61BentleyMay
Thank you! I made the same error in several places but didn't notice.
62BentleyMay
February 2020
583. Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
584. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare
585. Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
586. Regeneration by Pat Barker
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
587. The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
588. The Floating Opera by John Barth
589. Anagrams by Lorrie Moore
590. The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
591. The End of the Road by John Barth
592. Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson
593. A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
583. Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
584. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare
585. Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
586. Regeneration by Pat Barker
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
587. The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
588. The Floating Opera by John Barth
589. Anagrams by Lorrie Moore
590. The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox
591. The End of the Road by John Barth
592. Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson
593. A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
63BentleyMay
March 2020
594. Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
595. The Diviners by Margaret Laurence
596. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
597. Winter by Ali Smith
598. The Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee
599. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
600. The Untouchable by John Banville
601. Kokoro bu Natsume Soseki
602. The Ragazzi by Pier Paolo Pasolini
603. Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz
604. Adjunct: an Undigest by Peter Manson
594. Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
595. The Diviners by Margaret Laurence
596. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
597. Winter by Ali Smith
598. The Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee
599. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
600. The Untouchable by John Banville
601. Kokoro bu Natsume Soseki
602. The Ragazzi by Pier Paolo Pasolini
603. Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz
604. Adjunct: an Undigest by Peter Manson
66BentleyMay
The writing and language was superb in The Untouchable. It is the third Banville book I have read and I am now a big fan.
Thank you JayneCM and puckers!
Thank you JayneCM and puckers!
67BentleyMay
April 2020
605. News From Nowhere by William Morris
606. Cain by Jose Saramago
607. War with the Newts by Karel Capek
608. Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow
609. Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
610. The Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
611. The Human Stain by Philip Roth
612. Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
613. The Home and the World Rabindranath Tagore
614. Watchmen by Alan Moore
615. Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
605. News From Nowhere by William Morris
606. Cain by Jose Saramago
607. War with the Newts by Karel Capek
608. Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow
609. Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
610. The Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
611. The Human Stain by Philip Roth
612. Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
613. The Home and the World Rabindranath Tagore
614. Watchmen by Alan Moore
615. Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
68BentleyMay
May 2020
616. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
617. Pastoralia by George Saunders
618. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
619. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
620. Homo Faber by Max Frisch
621. Marya by Joyce Carol Oates
622. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
616. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
617. Pastoralia by George Saunders
618. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
619. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
620. Homo Faber by Max Frisch
621. Marya by Joyce Carol Oates
622. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
69JayneCM
>68 BentleyMay: Wow! That is a big reading month. To fit both Kristin Lavransdatter and The Lord of the Rings in one month!
70BentleyMay
I was having a hard time concentrating. Instead of reading many books, which is what I usually do, I tried fewer, longer ones. It worked out well. I am also reading some longer ones this month.
Both KL and LoR are long, but the language is straight forward, and the story moves right along. It took me longer to read Pastoralia! Mostly because of the ick and WTF factors in it. Seriously weird.
Both KL and LoR are long, but the language is straight forward, and the story moves right along. It took me longer to read Pastoralia! Mostly because of the ick and WTF factors in it. Seriously weird.
71BentleyMay
June 2020
623. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
624. In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
625. Cane by Jean Toomer
626. The Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky
623. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
624. In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
625. Cane by Jean Toomer
626. The Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky
72BentleyMay
July 2020
627. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
628. The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
629. The Birds by Tarjei Vessas
630. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
631. Thank you, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
August 2020
632. Out of Africa by Isak Dineson
633. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
634. The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez-Reverte
635. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
636. Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
637. Operation Shylock by Philip Roth
627. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
628. The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
629. The Birds by Tarjei Vessas
630. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
631. Thank you, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
August 2020
632. Out of Africa by Isak Dineson
633. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
634. The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez-Reverte
635. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
636. Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
637. Operation Shylock by Philip Roth
73BentleyMay
September 2020
638. The Crow Road by Iain Banks
639. Rickshaw Boy by She Lao
640. Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
641. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
642. Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
643. Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
644. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
645. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
638. The Crow Road by Iain Banks
639. Rickshaw Boy by She Lao
640. Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
641. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
642. Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
643. Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
644. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
645. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
74BentleyMay
October 2020
646. Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
647. A Man Asleep by Georges Perec
648. The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
649. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
650. Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
651. The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin
652. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
653. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
654. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
655. The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme
656. The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
646. Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
647. A Man Asleep by Georges Perec
648. The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
649. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
650. Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
651. The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin
652. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
653. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
654. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
655. The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme
656. The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
75BentleyMay
657. Jahrestage, or Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl by Uwe Johnson
Close to 1700 pages! I bought the NYRB two-volume, slip-covered set that was published in 2018.
It is a year's worth of dated entries starting on August 21, 1967 through August 20, 1968. I started reading last year on 8/21 with plans to read an entry a day. That didn't work out. I got behind by the time the holidays rolled around last year and then ended up reading larger chunks at a time. I read until I felt book-fatigue - that happened a lot!
There are several threads running through the narrative, and there are no clear lines to tell the reader which thread is presently being discussed. It jumps around continuously. One thread is the current life of German immigrant/refuge Gesine Cresspahl, a single mother living in Manhattan with her daughter, Marie. Another thread is the current events of the day as read from the New York Times newspaper. Much of that centers on the war in Vietnam and civil unrest in NYC. Gesine is obsessed with the paper, not just the news of the day, but the institution that is the NYT. I found these parts oddly interesting.
The main thread, I think, is the story Gesine is telling her daughter about how they came to be living in NYC now. This includes the history of her parents and their families (the Cresspahls and the Papenbrocks), Gesine's childhood in Germany, and continues through WWII and its aftermath in Europe. Gesine ultimately ends up going back to Europe, to Prague, where the "Prague Spring" Revolution is going on. The book ends, however, on the day before the Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia to put an end to the revolution and begin 21 years of occupation.
I am halfway through the 1315 combined list!
Close to 1700 pages! I bought the NYRB two-volume, slip-covered set that was published in 2018.
It is a year's worth of dated entries starting on August 21, 1967 through August 20, 1968. I started reading last year on 8/21 with plans to read an entry a day. That didn't work out. I got behind by the time the holidays rolled around last year and then ended up reading larger chunks at a time. I read until I felt book-fatigue - that happened a lot!
There are several threads running through the narrative, and there are no clear lines to tell the reader which thread is presently being discussed. It jumps around continuously. One thread is the current life of German immigrant/refuge Gesine Cresspahl, a single mother living in Manhattan with her daughter, Marie. Another thread is the current events of the day as read from the New York Times newspaper. Much of that centers on the war in Vietnam and civil unrest in NYC. Gesine is obsessed with the paper, not just the news of the day, but the institution that is the NYT. I found these parts oddly interesting.
The main thread, I think, is the story Gesine is telling her daughter about how they came to be living in NYC now. This includes the history of her parents and their families (the Cresspahls and the Papenbrocks), Gesine's childhood in Germany, and continues through WWII and its aftermath in Europe. Gesine ultimately ends up going back to Europe, to Prague, where the "Prague Spring" Revolution is going on. The book ends, however, on the day before the Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia to put an end to the revolution and begin 21 years of occupation.
I am halfway through the 1315 combined list!
76puckers
>75 BentleyMay: Well done - not one I've read yet.
77BentleyMay
>76 puckers: Thanks!
78BentleyMay
November 2020
658. The Hamlet by William Faulkner
659. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
660. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
661. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
662. The Living and the Dead by Patrick White
663. Her Privates We by Frederic Manning
658. The Hamlet by William Faulkner
659. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
660. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
661. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
662. The Living and the Dead by Patrick White
663. Her Privates We by Frederic Manning
79BentleyMay
December 2020
664. Drop City by T.C. Boyle
665. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico
666. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
667. The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
668. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
669. Arcanum 17 by Andre Breton
670. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
671. No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
672. The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf
664. Drop City by T.C. Boyle
665. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico
666. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
667. The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
668. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
669. Arcanum 17 by Andre Breton
670. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
671. No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
672. The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf
80BentleyMay
Goals I had set for 2020:
1. Of all the authors on the combined list, I counted 248 have more than one title listed. Of these, there are 67 authors that I haven't read. I hope to reduce this by half in 2020.
I read 30 of the 67 authors in 2020.
2. I have way too many books on my TBR stack. I'd like to read the ones I have had the longest first. This includes 15 titles below that I purchased last century!
I read 8 of 15 titles from this list
Also, I participated in 11 of the 12 Group Challenges and 6 of the 12 Group Reads.
1. Of all the authors on the combined list, I counted 248 have more than one title listed. Of these, there are 67 authors that I haven't read. I hope to reduce this by half in 2020.
I read 30 of the 67 authors in 2020.
2. I have way too many books on my TBR stack. I'd like to read the ones I have had the longest first. This includes 15 titles below that I purchased last century!
I read 8 of 15 titles from this list
Also, I participated in 11 of the 12 Group Challenges and 6 of the 12 Group Reads.
82BentleyMay
January 2021
673. The Successor by Ismail Kadare
674. The Power and the Glory by Grahame Green (January challenge)
675. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
676. The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus by John Arbuthnot et al.
677. The Man With the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
678. Deep River by Shusako Endo
679. The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
680. Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens (January group read)
673. The Successor by Ismail Kadare
674. The Power and the Glory by Grahame Green (January challenge)
675. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
676. The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus by John Arbuthnot et al.
677. The Man With the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
678. Deep River by Shusako Endo
679. The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
680. Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens (January group read)
83AnnaBarber
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84BentleyMay
February 2021
681. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
682. The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Joaquim Machado de Assis (Feb Group read)
683. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
684. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
685. The Names by Don DeLillo
686. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (Feb group challenge)
687. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
688. The Unknown Soldier by Vaino Linna
681. Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
682. The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Joaquim Machado de Assis (Feb Group read)
683. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
684. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
685. The Names by Don DeLillo
686. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (Feb group challenge)
687. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
688. The Unknown Soldier by Vaino Linna
85BentleyMay
March 2021
I'm glad April is finally here. March just went on and on for me.
689. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by EO Somerville and M. Ross (March Challenge)
690. The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
691. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
692. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
693. The Book of Evidence by John Banville (March group read)
694. Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
695. Like Life by Lorrie Moore
696. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
697. Another World by Pat Barker
Testament of Youth will stay with me for a long while. I really felt the struggle between family, education, and career for women. Plus the devastating losses and senseless war. I can't imagine how I would have survived if I had been born then.
I'm glad April is finally here. March just went on and on for me.
689. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by EO Somerville and M. Ross (March Challenge)
690. The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
691. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
692. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
693. The Book of Evidence by John Banville (March group read)
694. Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
695. Like Life by Lorrie Moore
696. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
697. Another World by Pat Barker
Testament of Youth will stay with me for a long while. I really felt the struggle between family, education, and career for women. Plus the devastating losses and senseless war. I can't imagine how I would have survived if I had been born then.
86BentleyMay
April 2021
698. The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
699. Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb
700. La Bete Humaine by Emile Zola
701. Nemesis by Philip Roth
702. If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino
703. The House of Doctor Dee by Peter Ackroyd
704. Heartbreak Tango by Manuel Puig
705. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
698. The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
699. Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb
700. La Bete Humaine by Emile Zola
701. Nemesis by Philip Roth
702. If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino
703. The House of Doctor Dee by Peter Ackroyd
704. Heartbreak Tango by Manuel Puig
705. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
87japaul22
>85 BentleyMay: I'm hoping to get to Testament of Youth this year - glad to see your positive review!
88BentleyMay
May 2021
706. The Virgin in the Garden by A.S. Byatt. I thought I would love this based on the summary, but it was a terrible chore to get through it.
707. The Afternoon of a Writer by Peter Handke
708. The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke
709. The Talk of the Town by Ardal O'Hanlon. Loved this. This reminded me of the Irish TV series "The Derry Girls" and "London Irish" by Lisa McGee. Imagine my surprise when I realized O'Hanlon plays Bronagh and Conor's father!
710. Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro. The first and last stories were very good.
711. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. Weird, but it fit my mood.
712. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. Awful.
713. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul by Douglas Adams. Even worse.
714. Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee. This is the 4th Coetzee I have finished. I am impressed by how different they have been. And glad. I disliked the first one, Disgrace so much.
715. The Waves by Virginia Woolf. Brilliant. May Group challenge. Woolf captures the feeling of the moment of her characters.
706. The Virgin in the Garden by A.S. Byatt. I thought I would love this based on the summary, but it was a terrible chore to get through it.
707. The Afternoon of a Writer by Peter Handke
708. The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke
709. The Talk of the Town by Ardal O'Hanlon. Loved this. This reminded me of the Irish TV series "The Derry Girls" and "London Irish" by Lisa McGee. Imagine my surprise when I realized O'Hanlon plays Bronagh and Conor's father!
710. Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro. The first and last stories were very good.
711. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. Weird, but it fit my mood.
712. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. Awful.
713. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul by Douglas Adams. Even worse.
714. Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee. This is the 4th Coetzee I have finished. I am impressed by how different they have been. And glad. I disliked the first one, Disgrace so much.
715. The Waves by Virginia Woolf. Brilliant. May Group challenge. Woolf captures the feeling of the moment of her characters.
89ursula
I also disliked Disgrace. So much that it took me 10 years to convince myself to try another Coetzee! I read Waiting for the Barbarians earlier this year and quite liked it.
90BentleyMay
>89 ursula: It took me 5 years after Disgrace before I attempted another by Coetzee!
91BentleyMay
I forgot to update after June! It has been a slow reading summer for me this year.
June 2021
716. The Cubs and Other Stories by Mario Vargas Llosa. My first of the four titles on the combined list by this author. I had a hard time connecting with the stories. A little too macho for me, maybe?
717. Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis. I loved this short novel. Uncle Petros devotes his life to proving the unsolvable mathematical problem called Goldbach's Conjecture (every even whole number greater than 2 is the sum of two prime numbers). You do not have to know anything about number theory to understand the story.
718. The Wonderful O by James Thurber. A sort of fairy-tale for "children" packed with fun word play.
719. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. The standout of the summer so far. I read this for the June Group Challenge to read an author from your part of the world.
June 2021
716. The Cubs and Other Stories by Mario Vargas Llosa. My first of the four titles on the combined list by this author. I had a hard time connecting with the stories. A little too macho for me, maybe?
717. Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis. I loved this short novel. Uncle Petros devotes his life to proving the unsolvable mathematical problem called Goldbach's Conjecture (every even whole number greater than 2 is the sum of two prime numbers). You do not have to know anything about number theory to understand the story.
718. The Wonderful O by James Thurber. A sort of fairy-tale for "children" packed with fun word play.
719. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. The standout of the summer so far. I read this for the June Group Challenge to read an author from your part of the world.
92BentleyMay
July 2021
720. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré. July Group Challenge.
721. American Rust by Philipp Meyer.
722. Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor. July Group Read.
723. The Fan Man by William Kotzwinkle. I do not "get" this type of humor!
I also finished Pilgrimage Volume 2 which contains Book 4 The Tunnel and Book 5 Interim, by Dorothy Richardson.
Also read the non-list book Kindred by Octavia E. Butler for a book club.
720. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré. July Group Challenge.
721. American Rust by Philipp Meyer.
722. Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor. July Group Read.
723. The Fan Man by William Kotzwinkle. I do not "get" this type of humor!
I also finished Pilgrimage Volume 2 which contains Book 4 The Tunnel and Book 5 Interim, by Dorothy Richardson.
Also read the non-list book Kindred by Octavia E. Butler for a book club.
93Yells
>92 BentleyMay: I have no idea why The Fan Man is on the list, but I laughed myself silly. I guess I have an odd sense of humour :)
>91 BentleyMay: I also loved Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture - definitely a novel I never would have found without this list.
What did you think of American Rust? I read it this year and was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. It's not my usual type of book.
>91 BentleyMay: I also loved Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture - definitely a novel I never would have found without this list.
What did you think of American Rust? I read it this year and was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. It's not my usual type of book.
94BentleyMay
>93 Yells: The Fan Man: it is supposed to be funny, so I must be the odd one!
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture: totally agree
American Rust: I did like this, although I figured out the ending way before I got there. I think your review was the one I saw that spurred me on to reading it!
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture: totally agree
American Rust: I did like this, although I figured out the ending way before I got there. I think your review was the one I saw that spurred me on to reading it!
95BentleyMay
August 2021
724. The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
725. The Invention of Curried Sausage by Uwe Timm (August Group Challenge)
726. Burmese Days by George Orwell (August Group Read)
727. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
728. Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard
729. Transit by Anna Seghers
730. Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
731. August Is A Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien
732. The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge
733. The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
724. The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
725. The Invention of Curried Sausage by Uwe Timm (August Group Challenge)
726. Burmese Days by George Orwell (August Group Read)
727. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
728. Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard
729. Transit by Anna Seghers
730. Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
731. August Is A Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien
732. The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge
733. The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
96BentleyMay
September 2021
734. Nineteen Seventy Seven by David Peace. The second book in a quartet. I did read Nineteen Seventy Four just before because I wasn't sure if book 2 could stand on its own. I'm glad I did. There are a lot of characters and events in the first that help make the second book make more sense. This story is bloody, graphic, and really gross. Lots of bodily fluids everywhere, at all times! However, the writing style is really interesting. It mixes reality, warped reality, and surreal imaginings together. I started listening to the audiobook, but that proved difficult, since it was hard to separate the real from the surreal. In the printed book the surreal and inner voice dialogue is in italics (or at least some of it is). I won't be reading Books 3 and 4 though!
735. Remembering Babylon by David Malouf. Although I read this book just a few weeks ago, I am struggling to remember anything about it.
736. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I was very upset with the description of the slaughter houses at the beginning of the novel. Then I realized the cows and pigs had a much more merciful ending than the humans. I read this for the monthly challenge (book written from 1901-1950) and because it had been on my TBR pile forever!
737. Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andric. Bosnians get pulled in every direction from the French, Turks, Austrians, and Russians.
738. Falling Man by Don DeLillo. Read in remembrance of 9/11/21 20th anniversary.
739. Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary. Read for September Group Read.
740. The Siege of Krishnapur by JG Farrell
741. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes. I read Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert to prepare. I had already read Madame Bovary, Bouvard and Pecuchet, and Sentimental Education.
742. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
743. Herzog by Saul Bellow
744. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Phew! That was a lot this month. I am back to commuting three hours a day!
734. Nineteen Seventy Seven by David Peace. The second book in a quartet. I did read Nineteen Seventy Four just before because I wasn't sure if book 2 could stand on its own. I'm glad I did. There are a lot of characters and events in the first that help make the second book make more sense. This story is bloody, graphic, and really gross. Lots of bodily fluids everywhere, at all times! However, the writing style is really interesting. It mixes reality, warped reality, and surreal imaginings together. I started listening to the audiobook, but that proved difficult, since it was hard to separate the real from the surreal. In the printed book the surreal and inner voice dialogue is in italics (or at least some of it is). I won't be reading Books 3 and 4 though!
735. Remembering Babylon by David Malouf. Although I read this book just a few weeks ago, I am struggling to remember anything about it.
736. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I was very upset with the description of the slaughter houses at the beginning of the novel. Then I realized the cows and pigs had a much more merciful ending than the humans. I read this for the monthly challenge (book written from 1901-1950) and because it had been on my TBR pile forever!
737. Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andric. Bosnians get pulled in every direction from the French, Turks, Austrians, and Russians.
738. Falling Man by Don DeLillo. Read in remembrance of 9/11/21 20th anniversary.
739. Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary. Read for September Group Read.
740. The Siege of Krishnapur by JG Farrell
741. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes. I read Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert to prepare. I had already read Madame Bovary, Bouvard and Pecuchet, and Sentimental Education.
742. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
743. Herzog by Saul Bellow
744. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Phew! That was a lot this month. I am back to commuting three hours a day!
97BentleyMay
October 2021
745. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (October Group Challenge)
746. The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
747. The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
748. Youth by J. M. Coetzee. This is part 2 of a trilogy. I read part 1 first, Boyhood, but in this case I don't think it was absolutely necessary. My favorite Coetzee book so far!
749. Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
750. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
751. Dispatches by Michael Herr. A journalist in Viet Nam during the war. Very interesting.
752. Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
753. The Green Man by Kingsley Amis
I read Melmoth to get in the Halloween mood, but it didn't work. However, the last two were great Halloweenish titles.
745. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (October Group Challenge)
746. The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
747. The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
748. Youth by J. M. Coetzee. This is part 2 of a trilogy. I read part 1 first, Boyhood, but in this case I don't think it was absolutely necessary. My favorite Coetzee book so far!
749. Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
750. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
751. Dispatches by Michael Herr. A journalist in Viet Nam during the war. Very interesting.
752. Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
753. The Green Man by Kingsley Amis
I read Melmoth to get in the Halloween mood, but it didn't work. However, the last two were great Halloweenish titles.
99BentleyMay
Yeah, Melmoth didn't work for me but Felicia's Journey and The Green Man both did!
100BentleyMay
November, 2021
754. The Godfather by Mario Puzo (November challenge)
755. The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
756. Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
757. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake
758. Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
759. The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd
760. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Also, I finished Pilgrimage, Volume 3 by Dorothy Richardson
754. The Godfather by Mario Puzo (November challenge)
755. The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
756. Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
757. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake
758. Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
759. The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd
760. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Also, I finished Pilgrimage, Volume 3 by Dorothy Richardson
101BentleyMay
December 2021:
761. The Heather Blazing by Colm Toibin
762. Complicity by Iain Banks
763. Pilgrimage by Dorothy M Richardson
764. The Once and Future King by TH White
765. Leaden Wings by Jie Zhang
766. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
767. The Green Hat by Michael Arlen
761. The Heather Blazing by Colm Toibin
762. Complicity by Iain Banks
763. Pilgrimage by Dorothy M Richardson
764. The Once and Future King by TH White
765. Leaden Wings by Jie Zhang
766. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
767. The Green Hat by Michael Arlen
102BentleyMay
January 2022:
768. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
769. Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann
770. I Thought of Daisy by Edmund Wilson
771. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
772. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Jose Saramago
773. The Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White
774. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
also read non-list book: The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins, and watched the movie starring the great Robert Mitchum. This book is also on the Guardian's 1000 booklist. I am keeping track of that list too, but not focusing on it. There is a lot of overlap between it and the 1001 list.
Two Edmunds! From Miranda: Ed-WARD, normal person, Ed-MUND, weird person! (I apologise to any Edmunds out there reading that).
Also, I coincidently started Nausea on January 29th, which the date of the first entry in the novel!
768. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
769. Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann
770. I Thought of Daisy by Edmund Wilson
771. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
772. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Jose Saramago
773. The Beautiful Room is Empty by Edmund White
774. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
also read non-list book: The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins, and watched the movie starring the great Robert Mitchum. This book is also on the Guardian's 1000 booklist. I am keeping track of that list too, but not focusing on it. There is a lot of overlap between it and the 1001 list.
Two Edmunds! From Miranda: Ed-WARD, normal person, Ed-MUND, weird person! (I apologise to any Edmunds out there reading that).
Also, I coincidently started Nausea on January 29th, which the date of the first entry in the novel!
103BentleyMay
February 2022:
775. Enigma of Arrival by V.S. Naipaul
776. The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga
777. La-bas by Joris-Karl Huysmans (really gross, I'm glad I'm done with Huysmans)
778. Ormond by Maria Edgeworth
779. Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende (Feb group challenge)
780. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch (A melodrama with so many unlikeable characters in an unbelievable situation. However, I couldn't stop reading!)
781. The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
782. Disobedience by Alberto Moravia
783. Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (also really gross; lots of defecation and putrefaction)
775. Enigma of Arrival by V.S. Naipaul
776. The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga
777. La-bas by Joris-Karl Huysmans (really gross, I'm glad I'm done with Huysmans)
778. Ormond by Maria Edgeworth
779. Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende (Feb group challenge)
780. The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch (A melodrama with so many unlikeable characters in an unbelievable situation. However, I couldn't stop reading!)
781. The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
782. Disobedience by Alberto Moravia
783. Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (also really gross; lots of defecation and putrefaction)
104JayneCM
>103 BentleyMay: I agree on The Sea, The Sea. I am currently 38% of the way through and on the surface it seems like it should be the most boring book but I am strangely engrossed.
105BentleyMay
March 2022:
784. Castle Richmond by Anthony Trollope
785. Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi
786. One, No One & 100,000 by Luigi Pirandello
787. The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene
788. What A Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
789. The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
790. The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch - March Group Challenge
791. Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
792. How the Dead Live by Will Self
Time to start thinking about what will be #800!
784. Castle Richmond by Anthony Trollope
785. Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi
786. One, No One & 100,000 by Luigi Pirandello
787. The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene
788. What A Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
789. The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
790. The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch - March Group Challenge
791. Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
792. How the Dead Live by Will Self
Time to start thinking about what will be #800!
107BentleyMay
>106 paruline: No clue yet!
108BentleyMay
April 2022:
793. Tono-Bungay by H.G Wells
794. The Wars by Timothy Findley
795. Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
796. A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
797. Trawl by B.S. Johnson
798. The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
799. How It Is by Samuel Beckett
800. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
801. Rites of Passage by William Golding
793. Tono-Bungay by H.G Wells
794. The Wars by Timothy Findley
795. Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry
796. A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
797. Trawl by B.S. Johnson
798. The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
799. How It Is by Samuel Beckett
800. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
801. Rites of Passage by William Golding
110annamorphic
Wow! Congratulations on 800!!
111BentleyMay
Thank you! I have to admit that I am feeling a bit out of steam...
112japaul22
Congrats on 800!
Any favorites from the past couple months? I'm needing some inspiration as well . . .
Any favorites from the past couple months? I'm needing some inspiration as well . . .
113BentleyMay
>112 japaul22: Thank you!
No recent favorites, and that is the problem. I need to pick something that I know I'll like.
No recent favorites, and that is the problem. I need to pick something that I know I'll like.
114japaul22
>113 BentleyMay: I think that's why I've slowed down on list books! I had quite a stretch of books I didn't really enjoy. Now I'm only reading ones who have a review here that really grabs me. So I like a higher percentage of the list books I read, but I'm not reading very many.
116BentleyMay
>115 paruline: Thank you!
117BentleyMay
May 2022:
802. Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu
803. The Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedayat
804. The Shipyard by Juan Carlos Onetti
805. Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
806. So Long A Letter by Mariama Ba
802. Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu
803. The Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedayat
804. The Shipyard by Juan Carlos Onetti
805. Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
806. So Long A Letter by Mariama Ba
118BentleyMay
June 2022:
807. Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
808. Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster
809. Wise Children by Angela Carter
810. Elizabeth Costello by JM Coetzee
811. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
July 2022:
812. Inside Mr. Enderby by Anthony Burgess
813. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
814. The Victim by Saul Bellow
815. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
816. Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
807. Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
808. Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster
809. Wise Children by Angela Carter
810. Elizabeth Costello by JM Coetzee
811. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
July 2022:
812. Inside Mr. Enderby by Anthony Burgess
813. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
814. The Victim by Saul Bellow
815. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
816. Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
119BentleyMay
August 2022:
817. Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
818. Thais by Anatole France
819. Fury by Salman Rushdie
820. H(a)ppy by Nicola Barker
821. Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
822. The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Gustave Flaubert
823. England Made Me by Graham Greene
817. Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
818. Thais by Anatole France
819. Fury by Salman Rushdie
820. H(a)ppy by Nicola Barker
821. Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
822. The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Gustave Flaubert
823. England Made Me by Graham Greene
120BentleyMay
September 2022
824. Legend by David Gemmell
825. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
826. Requiem For A Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
827. Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac
828. The Life of a Good-for-Nothing by Joseph von Eichendorff
829. Blindness by Henry Green
830. Home by Marilynne Robinson
824. Legend by David Gemmell
825. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
826. Requiem For A Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
827. Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac
828. The Life of a Good-for-Nothing by Joseph von Eichendorff
829. Blindness by Henry Green
830. Home by Marilynne Robinson
121BentleyMay
October 2022
831. Rameau's Nephew by Denis Diderot
832. King Lear of the Steppes by Ivan Turgenev
833. The Confusions of Young Torless by Robert Musil
834. The Information by Martin Amis
835. Contact by Carl Sagan
836. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
837. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
838. The Nun by Denis Diderot
839. The Accidental by Ali Smith
831. Rameau's Nephew by Denis Diderot
832. King Lear of the Steppes by Ivan Turgenev
833. The Confusions of Young Torless by Robert Musil
834. The Information by Martin Amis
835. Contact by Carl Sagan
836. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
837. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
838. The Nun by Denis Diderot
839. The Accidental by Ali Smith
122BentleyMay
November 2022
840. Blind Man With A Pistol by Chester Himes
841. The Music of Chance by Paul Auster
842. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
843. That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern
844. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
845. The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
846. Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
xxx. Rabbit, Run by John Updike (re-read)
840. Blind Man With A Pistol by Chester Himes
841. The Music of Chance by Paul Auster
842. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
843. That They May Face the Rising Sun by John McGahern
844. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett
845. The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
846. Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
xxx. Rabbit, Run by John Updike (re-read)
123BentleyMay
December 2022:
847. Foe by J.M. Coetzee
848. Rasselas by Samuel Johnson
849. Rabbit Redux by John Updike
850. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
851. Rituals by Cees Nooteboom
847. Foe by J.M. Coetzee
848. Rasselas by Samuel Johnson
849. Rabbit Redux by John Updike
850. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
851. Rituals by Cees Nooteboom
124BentleyMay
January 2023:
852. The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
853. Rosshalde by Hermann Hesse
854. La Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas
855. If This Is A Man by Primo Levi
856. The Bell by Iris Murdoch
February 2023:
857. Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
858. London Orbital by Iain Sinclair
859. Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
860. Exercises In Style by Raymond Queneau
861. Metamorphoses by Ovid
862. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
863. The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe
852. The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
853. Rosshalde by Hermann Hesse
854. La Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas
855. If This Is A Man by Primo Levi
856. The Bell by Iris Murdoch
February 2023:
857. Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
858. London Orbital by Iain Sinclair
859. Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
860. Exercises In Style by Raymond Queneau
861. Metamorphoses by Ovid
862. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
863. The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe
125BentleyMay
March 2023:
864. H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
865. Saturday by Ian McEwan
866. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
867. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
868. As If I Am Not There by Slavenka Drakulic
869. Couples, Passersby by Botho Strauss
870. 10:04 by Ben Lerner
864. H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
865. Saturday by Ian McEwan
866. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
867. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
868. As If I Am Not There by Slavenka Drakulic
869. Couples, Passersby by Botho Strauss
870. 10:04 by Ben Lerner
126BentleyMay
April 2023:
871. Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace
872. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
873. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela
874. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
875. Empire Of The Sun by J.G. Ballard
876. The World According To Garp by John Irving
877. Looking For The Possible Dance by A.L. Kennedy
878. Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
871. Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace
872. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
873. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela
874. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
875. Empire Of The Sun by J.G. Ballard
876. The World According To Garp by John Irving
877. Looking For The Possible Dance by A.L. Kennedy
878. Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
127BentleyMay
May 2023:
879. Invisible by Paul Auster
880. Amadis of Gaul by Garcia Rodriguez de Montalvo
881. What I Loved by Siri Husvedt
882. Voss by Patrick White
883. Novel With Cocaine by M. Ageyev
884. The Circle by Dave Eggers
885. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
879. Invisible by Paul Auster
880. Amadis of Gaul by Garcia Rodriguez de Montalvo
881. What I Loved by Siri Husvedt
882. Voss by Patrick White
883. Novel With Cocaine by M. Ageyev
884. The Circle by Dave Eggers
885. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
128BentleyMay
June 2023:
886. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzan
887. Chaireas by Chariton
888. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
889. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
890. Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
891. I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch
886. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzan
887. Chaireas by Chariton
888. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
889. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
890. Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
891. I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch
129BentleyMay
July 2023:
892. Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
893. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
894. The Joke by Milan Kundera
895. American Pastoral Philip Roth
August 2023:
896. A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
897. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
898. The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Andrzej Szczpiorski
892. Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
893. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
894. The Joke by Milan Kundera
895. American Pastoral Philip Roth
August 2023:
896. A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
897. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
898. The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Andrzej Szczpiorski
130BentleyMay
September 2023:
899. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
900. The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
901. Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
902. Rob Roy by Walter Scott
903. Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
899. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
900. The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
901. Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
902. Rob Roy by Walter Scott
903. Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
132annamorphic
Wow, 900! Well done.
133BentleyMay
Thank you puckers and annamorphic! I have been slowing down on my list reading lately. Hopefully this milestone will get me back into reading more.
134MartinBodek
900! Wawaweewa!
135JayneCM
>130 BentleyMay: Wow! 900 - you're almost there!
136BentleyMay
Thank you MartinBodek and JayneCM!
137BentleyMay
October 2023
904. The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier
905. Alamut by Vladimir Bartol
906. Moon Palace by Paul Auster
907. Roxana by Daniel Defoe
908. Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
909. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
910. The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter
November 2023
911. Pavel's Letters by Monika Maron
912. The Swarm by Frank Schatzing
913. Caleb Williams by William Godwin
914. Schooling by Heather McGowan
904. The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier
905. Alamut by Vladimir Bartol
906. Moon Palace by Paul Auster
907. Roxana by Daniel Defoe
908. Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
909. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
910. The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter
November 2023
911. Pavel's Letters by Monika Maron
912. The Swarm by Frank Schatzing
913. Caleb Williams by William Godwin
914. Schooling by Heather McGowan
138BentleyMay
December 2023
915. The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
916. Mao II by Don DeLillo
917. City of God by E.L. Doctorow
915. The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
916. Mao II by Don DeLillo
917. City of God by E.L. Doctorow
139BentleyMay
Getting closer and closer, slowly.
January 2024
918. Death in Rome by Wolfgang Koeppen
919. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
920. The Adventurous Simplicissimus by Johann Grimmelshausen
February 20024
921. Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev
922. Grimus by Salman Rushdie
923. Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
924. Dead Air by Iain Banks
925. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
926. The Judge And His Hangman by Friedrich Durrenmatt
January 2024
918. Death in Rome by Wolfgang Koeppen
919. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
920. The Adventurous Simplicissimus by Johann Grimmelshausen
February 20024
921. Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev
922. Grimus by Salman Rushdie
923. Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
924. Dead Air by Iain Banks
925. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
926. The Judge And His Hangman by Friedrich Durrenmatt
140BentleyMay
March 2024
927. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
928. Love's Work by Gillian Rose
929. Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
930. The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
April 2024
931. The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
932. The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
933. The Years by Virginia Woolf
934. Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
927. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
928. Love's Work by Gillian Rose
929. Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
930. The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
April 2024
931. The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
932. The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
933. The Years by Virginia Woolf
934. Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
141BentleyMay
I've got a little catching up to do.
May 2024
935. Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley
936. The History of the Siege of Lisbon by Jose Saramago
937. Dusklands by J.M. Coetzee
938. Eclipse of the Crescent Moon by Geza Gardonyi
June 2024
939. The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
940. Watt by Samuel Beckett
July 2024
941. Shame by Salman Rushdie
942. Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel
August 2024
943. The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein
944. On the Heights of Despair by E.M. Cioran
945. Under Fire by Henri Barbusse
May 2024
935. Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley
936. The History of the Siege of Lisbon by Jose Saramago
937. Dusklands by J.M. Coetzee
938. Eclipse of the Crescent Moon by Geza Gardonyi
June 2024
939. The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
940. Watt by Samuel Beckett
July 2024
941. Shame by Salman Rushdie
942. Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel
August 2024
943. The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein
944. On the Heights of Despair by E.M. Cioran
945. Under Fire by Henri Barbusse
142BentleyMay
September 2024
946. Smiley's People by John Le Carre
947. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
948. Libra by Don DeLillo
949. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Von Goethe
950. Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga
946. Smiley's People by John Le Carre
947. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
948. Libra by Don DeLillo
949. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Von Goethe
950. Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga
