Tuesday, January 18, 2011

1,001 Book Challenge

I like how this challenge is being managed at Sarah Reads Too Much. I did not want to list all 1,001 books so this will be real simple. A running total of what I've read as well as the title/author/year published from the list, 1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2010). General Editor: Peter Boxall.

45 out of 1,001 read

  1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
  2. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)
  3. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1873)
  4. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid (1981)
  5. Atonement by Ian McEwan (2001)
  6. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963)
  7. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939)
  8. Brideshead Revisied by Evelyn Waugh (1945)
  9. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (1953)
  10. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (1951)
  11. Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
  12. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (2006)
  13. Emma by Jane Austen (1815)
  14. Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell (1948)
  15. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong (1974)
  16. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936)
  17. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (1937)
  18. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
  19. The Hours by Michael Cunningham (2000)
  20. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende (1982)
  21. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1970)
  22. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1965)
  23. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
  24. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847)
  25. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
  26. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
  27. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (1951)
  28. Madame Bovary by Gustauve Flaubert (1856)
  29. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1930)
  30. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (1814)
  31. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
  32. The Once and Future King by T.H. White (1958)
  33. Oroonoko by Aphra Behn (1688)
  34. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro (1982)
  35. Pamela by Samuel Richardson (1742)
  36. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin (1813)
  37. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (1995)
  38. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811)
  39. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John LeCarre (1963)
  40. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (1993)
  41. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
  42. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (1990)
  43. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
  44. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (1993)
  45. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (1847)

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