BookCrossing.comThere is a book called 1001 books you must read before you die, edited by Peter Boxall. The original book was issued in 2006. In 2008 a second edition was released which replaced almost three hundred of the original books with different ones.
My plan is to read as many of those books, as I possibly can. Currently there are 1283 of them to plough through. That's until the next edition comes out, that is. This page will be used to keep track of which ones I have read so far, and also, which ones I have on my To be read pile, and which are coming to me via Bookrings and rays.
Some of the ones I read will then be donated to the Bookcrossing 1001 books library, which I am also borrowing some books from.
Total read so far = 179
2. Saturday - Ian McEwan
3. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
5. Adjunct: an Undigest - Peter Manson
7. The red queen - Margaret Drabble
11. The lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd
19. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time - Mark Haddon
27. Unless - Carol Shields
29. The story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
35. Dead air - Iain Banks
45. The body artist - Don DeLillo
48. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
49. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
54. White teeth - Zadie Smith
63. The blind assassin - Margaret Atwood
81. Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
92. The god of small things - Arundhati Roy
93. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
95. Enduring love - Ian McEwan
104. Fugitive pieces - Anne Michaels
109. Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
111. Morvern Callar - Alan Warner
125. The wind-up bird chronicle - Haruki Murakami
129. Captain Corelli's mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
135. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
138. Complicity - Iain Banks
153. The crow road - Iain Banks
159. Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates
162. Black dogs - Ian McEwan
165. Wild Swans - Jung Chang
176. Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
184. The Buddha of suburbia - Hanif Kureishi
187. Sexing the cherry - Jeanette Winterson
195. Like water from chocolate - Laura Esquivel
199. Cat's eye - Margaret Atwood
207. The player of games - Iain Banks
209. The long dark teatime of the soul - Douglas Adams
214. The passion - Jeanette Winterson
216. The Child in time - Ian McEwan
218. Bonfire of the vanities - Tom Wolfe
219. The New York trilogy - Paul Auster
230. An artist of the floating world - Kazuo Ishiguro
238. The cider house rules - John Irving
242. The handmaid's tale - Margaret Atwood
243. Perfume - Patrick Suskind
247. Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd
253. Empire of the sun - J. G. Ballard
254. The wasp factory - Iain Banks
259. Flaubert's parrot - Julian Barnes
268. The piano teacher - Elfriede Jelinek
283. The comfort of strangers - Ian McEwan
286. Broken April - Ismail Kadare
289. Rites of passage - William Golding
293. The name of the rose - Umberto Eco
301. The Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy - Douglas Adams
302. The Cement garden - Ian McEwan
303. The world according to Garp - John Irving
312. The shining - Stephen King
314. Petals of blood - Ngugi wa Thiong'o
320. Interview with a vampire - Anne Rice
338. The lost honor of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Boll
352. The summer book - Tove Jansson
358. Fear and loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
367. I know why the caged bird sings - Maya Angelou
384. Myra Breckinridge - Gore Vidal
390. Do Androids dream of electric sheep? - Philip K. Dick
396. Chocky - John Wyndham
399. 100 years of solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
400. The master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
408. In cold blood - Truman Capote
409. The Magus - John Fowles
425. Herzog - Saul Bellow
436. One flew over the cuckoo's nest - Ken Kesey
439. The drowned world - J. G. Ballard
450. The prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
451. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
456. To kill a mockingbird - Harper Lee
457. Rabbit run - John Updike
470. A town like Alice - Nevil Shute
477. The once and future king - T.H. White
481. The midwich cuckoos - John Wyndham
486. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
487. The wonderful O - James Thurber
490. The lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon
494. Lord of the rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
495. The talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
508. Lord of the flies - William Golding
518. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
521. The old man and the sea - Ernest Hemingway
526. The day of the triffids - John Wyndham
527. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
529. The catcher in the rye - J. D. Salinger
535. The third man - Graham Greene
536. The 13 clocks - James Thurber
537. Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
547. Nineteen Eighty-four - George Orwell
561. Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
563. Brideshead revisited - Evelyn Waugh
564. Animal Farm - George Orwell
592. The grapes of wrath - John Steinbeck
603. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
608. Of mice and men - John Steinbeck
609. Their eyes were watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
610. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
624. They shoot horses, don't they? - Horace McCoy
632. The nine tailors - Dorothy L Sayers
635. The postman always rings twice - James M. Cain
642. Murder must advertise - Dorothy L Sayers
649. Brave new world - Aldous Huxley
650. Cold comfort farm - Stella Gibbons
652. The thin man - Dashiell Hammett
660. The Maltese falcon - Dashiell Hammett
662. Passing - Nella Larson
664. Red harvest - Dashiell Hammett
676. Lady Chatterley's lover - D.H. Lawrence
695. The murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
699. The great gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
707. We - Eugene Zamiatin
725. Crome yellow - Aldous Huxley
743. The thirty-nine steps - John Buchan
748. The ragged trousered philanthropists - Robert Tressell
750. Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
758. Strait is the gate - Andre Gide
775. The golden bowl - Henry James
778. The immoralists - Andre Gide
780. Heart of darkness - Joseph Conrad
781. The hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
789. The turn of the screw - Henry James
790. The war of the worlds - H.G. Wells
791. The invisible man - H.G. Wells
794. Dracula - Bram Stoker
796. The island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
797. The time machine - H.G. Wells
801. The yellow wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
803. Diary of a nobody - George & Weedon Goldsmith
804. The adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
808. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
820. The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
825. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
831. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
846. Far from the madding crowd - Thomas Hardy
854. Through the looking glass - Lewis Carroll
862. The moonstone - Wilkie Collins
863. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
868. Alice's adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
872. The water babies - Charles Kingsley
901. The tenant of Wildfell hall - Anne Bronte
902. Wuthering heights - Emily Bronte
904. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
909. The purloined letter - Edgar Allan Poe
911. The pit and the pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
916. The fall of the house of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
931. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
933. Persuasion - Jane Austen
937. Mansfield park - Jane Austen
938. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
946. The monk - M. G. Lewis
952. Vathek - William Beckford
965. The castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
974. Fanny Hill - John Cleland
983. Gulliver's travels - Jonathan Swift
987. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
996. The thousand and one nights - Anonymous
997. The golden ass - Apuleius
1001. Aesop's fables - Aesopus
Additions in 2008
4. Half of a yellow sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
6. The inheritance of loss - Kiran Desai
11. A short history of tractors in Ukranian - Marina Lewycka
13. The accidental - Ali Smith
16. Small island - Andrea Levy
21. The swarm - Frank Schatzing
28. The Successor - Ismail Kadare
29. Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
55. The museum of unconditional surrender - Dubravka Ugresic
588. Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
781. The call of the wild - Jack London
624. The blind owl - Sadegh Hedayat
634. War with the newts - Karel Capek
220. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Sitting on my TBR shelf:
377. The green man - Kingsley Amis
936. Emma - Jane Austen
932. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
940. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A dry white season - Andre Brink
903. Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte
899. Shirley - Charlotte Bronte
891. Villette - Charlotte Bronte
991. Pilgrim's progress - John Bunyan
437. A clockwork orange - Anthony Burgess
958. Evelina - Frances Burney
467. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
992. Don Quixote - Cervantes
511. The long goodbye - Raymond Chandler
599. The big sleep - Raymond Chandler
586. Farewell my lovely - Raymond Chandler
956. Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
880. The woman in white - Wilkie Collins
785. Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
985. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
913. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
883. A tale of two cities - Charles Dickens
890. Bleak house - Charles Dickens
898. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
876. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
888. Hard times - Charles Dickens
910. Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
918. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
869. Our mutual friend - Charles Dickens
917. The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
I know I've read some of the above Austen and Dickens, but I can't recall which so I'm just going to have to read them again. Not exactly a hardship! The Dickens are all in a beautiful cloth bound set that I picked up in a second-hand bookshop for £20.
867. Crime and punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
871. Notes from underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
906. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
908. The three musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
853. Middlemarch - George Eliot
875. Silas Marner - George Eliot
885. Adam Bede - George Eliot
213. The black dahlia - James Ellroy
975. Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
638. Tender is the night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
376. The French Lieutenant's woman - John Fowles
43. The corrections - Jonathan Franzen
769. The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy
887. North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
258. Neuromancer - William Gibson
282. Lanark: A life in four books - Alasdair Gray
799. Jude the obscure - Thomas Hardy
839. Return of the native - Thomas Hardy
821. The mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
818. The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
Since I bought the gorgeous boxed set of Hardy, I've managed to read Tess several times, but none of the others. Time I did something about that, methinks.
897. The scarlet letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
663. A farewell to arms - Ernest Hemingway
873. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
712. Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley
776. The Ambassadors - Henry James
792. What Maisie knew - Henry James
833. Portrait of a lady - Henry James
341. Fear of flying - Erica Jong
736. Portrait of the artist as a young man - James Joyce
701. The trial - Kafka
275. Schindler's ark - Thomas Keneally
783. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
728. Women in love - D. H. Lawrence
749. Sons and lovers - D. H. Lawrence
742. The rainbow - D. H. Lawrence
693. The plumed serpent - D. H. Lawrence
267. The diaries of Jane Somers
42. Atonement - Ian McEwan
553. Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
236. Love in the time of cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
896. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
416. August is a wicked month - Edna O'Brien
442. Girl with green eyes - Edna O' Brien
288. Midnight's children - Salman Rushdie
935. Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
The tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
387. Cancer ward - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
982. Jonathan Swift - A modest proposal
147. The secret history - Donna Tartt
840. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
857. War and peace - Leo Tolstoy
848. Around the world in eighty days - Jules Verne
970. Candide - Voltaire
835. Ben Hur - Lew Wallace
726. The age of innocence - Edith Wharton
698. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
654. The Waves - Virginia Woolf
Bookrings:
925. Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
577. Embers - Sandor Marai
809. The picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
227. Watchmen - Alan Moore
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
90. Veronika decides to die - Paulo Coelho
762. The iron heel - Jack London
656. Cakes and ale - W. Somerset Maugham
752. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
Measuring the world - Daniel Kehlmann
I'm not scared - Niccolò Ammaniti
478. The Bell - Iris Murdoch
77. Disgrace - J. M. Coetzee
140. What a carve up! - Jonathan Coe
659. Vile bodies - Evelyn Waugh
674. Story of the eye - Georges Bataille
681. Quicksand - Nella Larson
463. Absolute beginners - Colin MacInnes
1001-Library
619. Gone with the wind - Margaret Mitchell
767. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
294. The book of laughter and forgetting - Milan Kundera
24. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
Library books
E-books
930. Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
905. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
I'm also keeping track using an Excel spreadsheet. It contains all the books from both editions and is sortable by several categories. You can enter books read, to be read, and bookrings to keep track of those too. If you'd like to use it, feel free to download it using the link below.
It's based on a spreadsheet done by Arukiyomi and was put together with help from Lucy-lemon and Soffitta1 over on BookCrossing.
If anyone notices any mistakes that I've made, or typos, I'd be grateful if you could post details in the comments box at the bottom of the page so I can fix it.
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