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1001 books you must read before you die.

Of the books on the list I have read:


19.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
49.Life of Pi – Yann Martel
93.Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
320.Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
433.The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
436.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
456.To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
494.The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
496.Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
508.Lord of the Flies – William Golding
529.The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
564.Animal Farm – George Orwell
608.Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
619.Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
699.The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
767.The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
794.Dracula – Bram Stoker
831.Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
854.Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
863.Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
868.Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
873.Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
876.Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
883.A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
902.Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
908.The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
911.The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
913.A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
918.Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
931.Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
938.Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
983.Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
1001.Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

Lists such as this are interesting and good resources for some, but I prefer the freedom to pick up anything that happens to catch my attention. :)
 
According to LibraryThing the list was updated this year (so now it has 1298 books) which means I now own 92 books of that list.

The updated list of the ones I've read so far:
The Lover by Marguerite Duras (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende (2008/2010 Edition)
The crime of Father Amaro by Eça de Queirós (2008/2010 Edition)
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
The Story of O by Pauline Reage (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (2006/2008/2010 Edition)

And I'm currently reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
 
. . .out of the ones I've read, I doubt that even half would make my own personal top 1001 list. Which I'll post here on my 80th birthday, so stay tuned. :innocent:

Waiting for your eightieth BeerGood, and hoping that all the years in between are good ones. :flowers:

Stilll haven't checked my recent reading against the 1001, but did recently make a list from memory of my all-time favorites -- a couple dozen or so -- and I might check that. Also am thinking of making a life list, as well as I can remember, by checking against Library Thing or some such super-list

Lists, lists.

And of course my immediate TBR list is still a couple dozen long, and always being lengthened from new purchases faster than I can read them. That's maybe :sad: or :). Dunno.

One day I have to get organized here. :lol:
 
I stumbled across this list yet again and decided to see if, according to LibraryThing, I now owned more books on the list. Turns out I do. I now own 102 books of that list and read 23 (8 were read this year).

The updated list of the ones I've read so far:
The Lover by Marguerite Duras (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende (2008/2010 Edition)
The crime of Father Amaro by Eça de Queirós (2008/2010 Edition)
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
The Story of O by Pauline Reage (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Delta of Venus by Annais Nin (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
The Music of Chance by Paul Auster (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann (2008/2010 Edition)

And I'm reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (2006/2008/2010 Edition) next.

It seems the list is updated every two years so we should have a new list next year.
 
Thanks for the resurrection, Landslide, and Yay for your progress! And for a very nice list, too. :flowers:

I'm going to have to get busy checking my own progress.

But, as if 1001 wasn't enough, I came across a fat NYT Books of the Century volume at a library sale recently. With that and the 1001 side-by-side on my shelf, it looks like I may have the beginning of a new "Lists" genre taking shape. :sad:
 
Oh My God and I thought I was a regular reader:innocent:

I could only find the following books that I have read so far and diligently remember.

65. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
113. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
379. The Godfather – Mario Puzo
857. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
936. Emma – Jane Austen
938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

Though, there were lots of books that I had read in college, but I don't think I should include them in my read list as I hardly remember the story well. But, I am happy that lots of books listed here were already on my TBR and hopefully I would finish them soon.
 
Thanks for bumping the thread, Landslide. Time flies, but bookreading plods. :sad:
Since the previous update of 1001 Books in 2008, I've only read 6 from the list, with Salinger being the one genuine joy to read:

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
Franny and Zooey - John D. Salinger
The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

That brings my total to 139, and "only" 161 still to go on my personally shortened list of 300. Completing the 300 still seems to be as far away as ever, but on the other hand I still see much good reading ahead. So, onward! :)
 
Don't mention it, Peder!

Wow, 139, that's a lot of books! Shortening the list seems like a good idea, I'm sure you'll manage the 161 books left. Happy reading! ;)
 
good to find this thread... I wonder if the posting after me will be in 2013 though!

anyone heard anything about a new edition of this book being released? It seems about time they did.
 
anyone heard anything about a new edition of this book being released? It seems about time they did.

That's a good question, Arukiyomi. I've been hoping for a new edition, too, because most of my reading lately has tended toward more recent books and it would be nice to find that some might be on a new list -- an effortless way to grow one's total. :D

/checking amazon/

No luck at amazon. They still show only the 2010 edition, so it sounds a bit early for another. :sad:

Cheers,
Peder
 
Ha. Perhaps I should read more books that were published after the 1950s.

The ones I've read from the list are:

Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Molloy – Samuel Beckett
Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
The Years – Virginia Woolf
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The Waves – Virginia Woolf
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
Orlando – Virginia Woolf
Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
Ulysses – James Joyce
Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Pamela – Samuel Richardson
Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
Metamorphoses – Ovid
 
My list to 701 due to time constraints. A lot of good ones on the list, I saw a few that are in my BTR pile. I'm going to have to develop a mean case of insomnia some time.:whistling:


The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
Junkie – William Burroughs
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Trial – Franz Kafka
The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
 
That is definitely the feeling I have when I am buying books. They are so beautiful on the tables, and looking so lonely. :)

Yes and don't you just love the smell of new books? I must admit to now being curious about how many books I have read over the years.
 
So, since my last update I have bought a few more books on the list. According to LibraryThing, I now own 111 books of that list and read 27.

The updated list of the ones I've read so far:
The Lover by Marguerite Duras (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende (2008/2010 Edition)
The crime of Father Amaro by Eça de Queirós (2008/2010 Edition)
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
The Story of O by Pauline Reage (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Delta of Venus by Annais Nin (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
The Music of Chance by Paul Auster (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann (2008/2010 Edition)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (2006/2008/2010 Edition)
 
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