BABBLING BOOKS

sirg1006 · Last edited by sirg1006 on Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:33 pm; edited 7 times in total

READING CHALLENGE 2007 & 2008

The list for '1001 Books...' was posted in the Links section and we thought it might be a nice idea to have a little challenge. It wouldn't be fair to have a race as we know there are faster readers than others or those that don't have much time so it's more of a personal challenge.

By December 2007, how many books can you get through from the list? Note the challenge is to continue through to December 2008. Can you better the number of books you read this year in 2008? Or you may be new to the challenge and want to take part.

To be fair to everyone, the list will start from scratch and as it's a personal challenge, you'd be cheating yourself by adding books you've already read so these are just for books read this year.

You can choose what you want to read and with 1001 there are a lot to choose from! Some may not take your fancy and others might so you can read what you want!

Reply to this thread with your list! You can edit them rather than replying and keep them updated with what you've read. There will be a seperate 'Chat' thread if you want to discuss anything to keep this thread shorter so everyone can find their lists.

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sirg1006 · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:25 am Post subject:

Sirg1006's Reading List:
Finished
90. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
320. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
794. Dracula – Bram Stoker
820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
937. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen

On my TBR:

13. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
133. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
230. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
243. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
933. Persuasion – Jane Austen
936. Emma – Jane Austen
938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

Want to read:

15. The Colour – Rose Tremain
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
28. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
89. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
105. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
106. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
109. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
110. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
151. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
184. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
192. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
213. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
268. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
408. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
429. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
496. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
587. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
602. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
686. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
714. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
743. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
761. A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
857. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
863. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
873. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
891. Villette – Charlotte Brontë
902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë

Previously read:

1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
52. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
564. Animal Farm – George Orwell
565. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
638. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen

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Tigerlily · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:35 am Post subject:

ShropshireBlue's Reading list - books read in 2007:

Under The Skin
Perfume

Books read before the Challenge:

1. Never let me go
2. Curious incident...
3. Fingersmith
4. White teeth
5. Enduring love
6. Trainspotting
7. Birdsong
8. The Stone Diaries
9.The Robber Bride
10. Sexing the Cherry
11. A Prayer for owen meany
12. London Fields
13.The Satanic Verses
14.The Color Purple
15. The World According to Garp
16. Interview with the vampire
17. 100 years of solitude
18. The Bell Jar
19.One Flew over the cuckoo's nest
20. A Clockwork Orange
21. the Prime of miss jean brodie
22. Cider with Rosie
23. The Lord of the rings
24. Lucky Jim
25. The Catcher in the Rye
26. 1984
27. Animal Farm
28. The outsider
29. At Swim-Two-Birds
30. Rebecca
31. The Hobbit
32. Lady Chatterley's Lover
33. To the lighthouse
34. The Great Gatsby
35. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
36. Sons & Lovers
37. A room with a view
38. Dracula
39. Jude the obscure
40. Diary of a nobody
41. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
42. The Picture of Dorian Gray
43. Treasure Island
44. Far from the madding crowd
45. Les Miserables
46. The woman in white
47. Villette
48. The tenant of wildfell hall
49. wuthering heights
50. agnes grey
51. Jane eyre
52. Pride & Prejudice
53. The Turn of the Screw

'1001' books I own & aim to read for the challenge:
The Thirty Nine Steps
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Jacob's Room - V. Woolf
The Waves - V. Woolf
Louis de Bernieres trilogy
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow - Peter Hoeg
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Saturday - Ian McEwan
Midnight's children - Salman Rushdie
Everything is Illuminated
The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Bonjour Tristesse
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Passage to India
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Sense & Sensibility - Jane Austen
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
North & South - Elizabeth Gaskell
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (half read)
Little Women - L M Alcott
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
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Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10

sparkymarky

thought it would be interesting to see before we begin-how many of the 1001 books people have already read.....

books read before challenge

1/Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro *****
19/The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon *****
24/Fingersmith – Sarah Waters *****
49/Life of Pi – Yann Martel *****
54/White Teeth – Zadie Smith ****
56/Under the Skin – Michel Faber *****
61/How the Dead Live – Will Self ** (sorry-got bored..)
67/House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski *****(very eerie)
93/Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden ***
94/Great Apes – Will Self ****
143/The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides ****
153/The Crow Road – Iain Banks *****(one of his best )
157/Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg ****
166/American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis *****
170/Regeneration – Pat Barker ***(preferred the fim with Jonathon Pryce)
227/Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons ****(how strange to see a graphic novel in the list...?)
240/Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis ***
241/Contact – Carl Sagan ****(again thought the film with Jodie Foster worked bit better than the book)
248/Legend – David Gemmell ***(some strange choices coming up on this list...?)
254/The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks *****(very dark but funny?)
258/Neuromancer – William Gibson * (Couldn't see what all the hype was about?)
272/The Color Purple – Alice Walker *(sorry couldn't stand this either)
301/The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams ***(think this is a bit over-rated though still enjoyable)
312/The Shining – Stephen King ****(not his best but still very chilling)
320/Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice ***(later books are more engaging)
389/2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke ****
390/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick ****(became the movie Bladerunner)
396/Chocky – John Wyndham ****(loved the kids tv series as well in the 80's)
433/The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath *(no-hated this i'm afraid)
444/Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein *(AND this )
451/Catch-22 – Joseph Heller ****
461/Naked Lunch – William Burroughs (couldn't rate this as couldn't even start to get into it)
481/The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham ****(very chilling)
494/The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien *****(a vintage fantasy work)
508/Lord of the Flies – William Golding **(never really got on with this)
514/Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis *(yes...anyway)
526/Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham *****(another classic t.v series made out of this in 80's)
539/I, Robot – Isaac Asimov ***(what did they do to the film????)
603/Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier ***
610/The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien ****(a great prequel to lord of the rings)
649/Brave New World – Aldous Huxley ****
736/A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce (UNRATED as really not my thing)
781/The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle *(never really liked holmes' books)
794/Dracula – Bram Stoker ***
804/The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle **
808/Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy ***(very tragic and moving i always felt)
822/Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson ***
823/King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
825/The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain ****
831/Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson *****(must have read this twenty times as a kid)
902/Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë ***
931/Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ****
1001/Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus ***(read this loads as a kid)

blimey didn't realise it was as much as that-some of them that i haven't mentioned are on my tbr pile to be re-read or i don't remember them well enough to comment and would like to read again..but still shows how diverse my taste is at any rate!!

miranda · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:02 pm Post subject:

These are the ones I am going to read for the challenge. Couldn't choose 10 so I have went for

1. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
2. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson Read this one! 15.03.07
3. Unless – Carol Shields
4. The Sea – John Banville
5. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
6. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
7. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
8. Jazz – Toni Morrison
9. Regeneration – Pat Barker finished this one.
10. Possession – A.S. Byatt
11. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
12. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
13. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
14. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy Halfway through this.
15. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
16. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg

It wasn't on my original list, but i read Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. I am also intending to read Veronika decides to Die and The Secret History this year.< read both of them now.

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blueflower · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:00 pm Post subject:

These are the ones I have read

2. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
25. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
57. Under the Skin – Michel Faber
96. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
108. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
132. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
138. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
173. Regeneration – Pat Barker
240. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
250. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
436. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
275. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
296. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
407. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
414. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
473. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
475. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
481. The Bell – Iris Murdoch
595. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
606. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
698. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
796. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
801. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
802. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
845. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
862. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy (Read Book one)
881. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
892. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell

These are the ones I own but haven't read

3. Saturday – Ian McEwan
4. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
7. The Sea – John Banville
14. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

20. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
32. In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
50. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
51. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
55. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
64. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
88. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
89. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
91. Another World – Pat Barker
93. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
95. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
104. Silk – Alessandro Baricco
112. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
136. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
144. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
147. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
148. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
150. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
154. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
157. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
159. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
168. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
176. Wise Children – Angela Carter
190. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
198. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
202. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
206. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
226. Beloved – Toni Morrison
245. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
246. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
291. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
323. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
357. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
379. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
402. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
437. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevic
Solzhenitsyn
489. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
497. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
511. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
512. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
529. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
532. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
550. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
562. The Plague – Albert Camus
611. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
617. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
622. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
647. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
670. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
711. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
726. Ulysses – James Joyce
751. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
794. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
795. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
799. Dracula – Bram Stoker
804. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
813. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
826. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
842. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
851. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
855. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
858. Middlemarch – George Eliot
867. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
872. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
885. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
891. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
893. Hard Times – Charles Dickens
905. Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
906. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
907. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
909. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
918. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
936. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
941. Emma – Jane Austen
992. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
955. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
943. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
942. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
910. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
641. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
567. Animal Farm – George Orwell
459. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
186. Possession – A.S. Byatt

Will be starting with Purfume and Cloud atlas shortly but I don't think I will get through them all and all the other books I have to read.

nicnic · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:11 pm Post subject:

I can't believe how many of these I have read. There are some really good books on that list and I have some of them on my TBR so I can join in without guilt

Completed in challenge

2. Saturday by Ian McEwan
8. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
129. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
243. Perfume by Patrick Suskind

Read Already

1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
6. The Sea – John Banville
13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
42. Atonement – Ian McEwan
63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
89. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
109. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
158. The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
166. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
200. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
206. Libra - Don Delillo
242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
275. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
293. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
320. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
456. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
477. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
781. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
789. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
831. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
862. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
869. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
876. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
879. The Mill on the Floss - George Elliot
896. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
902. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
903. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
904. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
913. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
932. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
936. Emma – Jane Austen
938. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
970. Candide – Voltaire
996. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous

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mistymoo · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:42 pm Post subject:

Previously read

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Colour – Rose Tremain
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Wild Swans – Jung Chang
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

Read for Challenge
On Beauty – Zadie Smith
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

Would like to read

1. The Sea – John Banville - tbr pile
2. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell - tbr pile
3. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
4. The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
5. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides - tbr pile
6. Life of Pi – Yann Martel - tbr pile
7. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
8. Under the Skin – Michel Faber
9. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
10. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver - tbr pile
11. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho - tbr pile
12. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
13. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
14. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
15. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys - tbr pile
16. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
17. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
18. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
19. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee - Read
20. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell - Read
21. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh - tbr pile
22. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
23. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
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miranda · Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:28 am Post subject:

Wow! I have read 69

Well chuffed - though a lot of them were for my English degree and it is still only 7%

Anyway here are all the ones I've read -
1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
3. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
4. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
5. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
6. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
7. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
8. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
9. Beloved – Toni Morrison
10. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
11. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
12. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
13. The Shining – Stephen King
14. Sula – Toni Morrison
15. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
16. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
17. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
18. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
19. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
20. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
21. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
22. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
23. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
24. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
25. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27. Animal Farm – George Orwell
28. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
29. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
30. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
31. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
32. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
33. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
34. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
35. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
36. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
37. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
38. The Trial – Franz Kafka
39. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
40. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
41. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
42. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
43. Dracula – Bram Stoker
44. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
45. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
46. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
47. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
48. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
49. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
50. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
51. Middlemarch – George Eliot
52. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
53. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
54. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
55. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
56. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
57. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
58. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
59. Hard Times – Charles Dickens
60. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
61. Villette – Charlotte Brontë
62. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
63. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
64. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
65. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
66. Persuasion – Jane Austen
67. The Nun – Denis Diderot
68. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
69. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

I enjoyed all of these novels and they def. deserve to be on the list. The only two I didn't like are Morvern Caller and The Waves. I don't think I could pick a favourite from this list but Jane Eyre, The Picture of Dorian Gray and A Modest Proposal are all ones I have read at least 3 times!

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steviebee · Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:33 am Post subject:

Completed during chalenge
57. Under the Skin – Michel Faber

TBR

Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Perfume – Patrick Süskind
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende

Books Read Before The Challenge

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
Saturday – Ian McEwan
The Sea - John Banville
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
Regeneration – Pat Barker
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
London Fields – Martin Amis
The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
A Maggot – John Fowles
Rites of Passage – William Golding
Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
A

to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
The Magus – John Fowles
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
The Collector – John Fowles
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
The Quiet American – Graham Greene
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
The Plague – Albert Camus
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
Howards End – E.M. Forster
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Candide – Voltaire
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TBR PILE:
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
On Beauty – Zadie Smith
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

READ:
The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
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lovely treez · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:50 pm Post subject:

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
On Beauty – Zadie Smith
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
Unless – Carol Shields
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates

1900s

Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
Jazz – Toni Morrison
Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
Wild Swans – Jung Chang
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
Regeneration – Pat Barker
London Fields – Martin Amis
Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
Beloved – Toni Morrison
The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Perfume – Patrick Süskind
The Lover – Marguerite Duras

Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
The World According to Garp – John Irving
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
The Bell – Iris Murdoch
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
Lord of the Flies – William Golding

The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The Rebel – Albert Camus
The Moon and the Bonfire – Cesare Pavese

Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell

If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
The Outsider – Albert Camus
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Counterfeiters – André Gide
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
Strait is the Gate – André Gide
A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
The Ambassadors – Henry James
1800s
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola

The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
Nana – Émile Zola
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
The Red and the Black – Stendhal
Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Emma – Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
1700s
Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Candide – Voltaire
Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

Pre-1700
The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

Have read all of the above at some stage - will need some time to work out which of the rest are on my TBR pile and which are not too challenging for the post natal brain (yes, 3 years later and I'm still using that excuse!)

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amarie · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:38 pm Post subject:

Ones I have read I think it's 86 in total.

1/ Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro ***
3/ On Beauty - Zadie Smith *****
19/Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time -Mark Haddon ****
24/Fingersmith- Sarah Waters ****
33/Middlesex - jeffery Eugenides---couldn't get into it
43/The Corrections - Jonathan Frantzen---couldn't get into it
49/ The Life of PI- Yann Martel *****
54/ White Teeth - Zadie Smith ***
78/ Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami ***
84/ Talk of the Town - Ardal O' Hanlon * (this book shouldn't be in list)
92/ The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy *****
93/ Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ****
109/ Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood ***
7/ Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell*****

135/ Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks **
141/ A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ****

129/ Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ****
144/ The House of Dr. Dee - Peter Ackroyd ---couldn't get into this one
147/ The Secret History - Donna Tartt ****
153/ The Crow Road - Iain Banks ****
154/ Written on the body - Jeanette Winterson **
157/ Smilla's Felling for Snow- Peter Hoeg ****
158/ The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe ***
165/ Wild Swans - Jung Chang *****
183/ Possession - AS Byatt *****
184/ The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureisha ***
187/ Sexing The Cherry - Jeanette Winterson **
190/ Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro *****
196/ A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving ***

197/ London Fields - Martin Amis **
200/ Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco ---couldn't finish this one
236/ Love in a time of cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ****
237/ Oranges are not the only fruit - Jeanette Winterson *****
238/ The Cider House Rules - John Irving ***
242/ The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood ***
254/ The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks *****
256/ The Unbearable lightness of being - Milan Kundera **
276/ The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende ****
288/ Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie **
293/ The Name of the Rose - Umberto ECo *****
295/ Smiley's People - John Le Carre ****
300/ If on a winter's night a traveller - Italo Calvino ---Couldn't get into this one

301/ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams *****
303/ The world according to Garp - John Irving ***
320/ Interview with a Vampire - Anne Rice *****
341/ Fear of Flying Erica Jong ****
376/ French Lieutenant's woman - John Fowles ***
379/ The Godfather - Mario Puzo ****
399/ 100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ****
404/ The Third Policeman - Flann O' Brien ---never finished it- a very strange book!
430/ The Spy who came in from the cold - John Le Carre ****
433/ The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath ***
455/ The Country Girls - Edna O'Brien ****
456/ To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee *****
470/ A Town like Alice - Nevil Shute ****
494/ The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien *****
610/ The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ****

496/ Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ****
508/ Lord of the Flies - William Golding ****
521/ The Old Man & the Sea - Ernest Hemingway *****
529/ Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger *****
565/ Cannery Row - John Steinbeck ****
608/ Of mice & men - John Steinbeck *****
675/ Orlando - Virginia Woolfe ***
695/ The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie ****
761/ Room with a View - EM Forster ***
809/ Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde ***
821/ Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy ****
846/ Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ****
840/ Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ****
853/ MiddleMarch - -George Eliot ****
854/ Through the Looking Glass & What Alice found there -
Lewis Carroll ***
865/ Alices Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ****
857/ War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy ---never finished it !!!
863/ Little Women - Louisa May Alcott ****
864/ Therese Raquin - Emile Zola ****
886/ Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ***
888/ Hard Times - Charles Dickens * (Had to do it at school & put me off Dickens for life)
891/ Villette - Charlotte Bronte * --Never finished it.
901/ The Tenant of Wild fell Hall - Anne Bronte ***
902/ Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte *****
905/ Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ****
911/ The Pit & The Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe ****
933/ Persuasion - Jane Austen ** (Had to do it at school not her best )
983/ Gulliver's Travels - Johnathan Swift ****
1001/ Aesop's Fables - Aesopus ***** ( loved these as a kid)

Phew That's it !!! Will now start another post with the ones I have in my TBR pile .

zanthewitch · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:48 pm Post subject:

I have read 90 of them - but I don't think I will be in the challenge as I have too many 'other' books set uf to read this year - any way these are the ones I have read - quite a mixture!

Zan

1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
3. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
4. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
5. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
6. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
7. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
8. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
9. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
10. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
11. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
12. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
13. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
14. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
15. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
16. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
17. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
18. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
19. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
20. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
21. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
22. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
23. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
24. Billy

– Keith Waterhouse
25. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
26. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
27. The Bell – Iris Murdoch
28. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
29. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
30. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
31. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
32. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
33. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
34. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
35. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
36. Animal Farm – George Orwell
37. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
38. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
39. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
40. The Years – Virginia Woolf
41. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
42. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
43. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
44. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
45. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
46. Kim – Rudyard Kipling
47. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
48. Dracula – Bram Stoker
49. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
50. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
51. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
52. The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
53. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
54. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
55. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
56. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
57. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
58. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
59. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
60. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
61. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
62. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
63. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
64. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
65. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
66. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
67. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
68. Silas Marner – George Eliot
69. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
70. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
71. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
72. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
73. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
74. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
75. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
76. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
77. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
78. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
79. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
80. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
81. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
82. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
83. Emma – Jane Austen
84. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
85. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
86. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
87. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
88. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
89. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
90. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
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amarie · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject:

These are the ones in my TBR pile That I'll try to read before December.
Good idea as it makes choosing what to read next a bit easier.

2/ Saturday - Ian McEwan
42/ Atonement - Ian McEwan
81/ Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
95/ Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
302/ Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
6/ The Sea - John Banville

13/ The Colour - Rose Tremain
27/ Unless - Carol Shields
29/ The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
47/ At Swim, Two Boys - Jamie O' Neill
52/ The Devil & Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho
90/ Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
63/ The Blind Assasin - Margaret Atwood
77/ Disgrace - JM Coetzee
86/ The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
160/ The Heather Blazing - Colm Toibin
170/ Regeneration - Pat Barker
205/ Oscar & Lucinda - Peter Carey
223/ Beloved - Toni Morrison
265/ Waterland - Graham Swift
44/ Franny & Zooey - JD Salinger
467/ Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
481/ The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham
484/ On The Road - Jack Kerouac
677/ The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
686/ To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolfe
698/ Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolfe

MissMuppet · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:15 am Post subject:

Mine isn't as huge as others... but here goes! Will update as and when I obtain more books from the list.

What I've read in 2007:
Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
Perfume – Patrick Süskind
Veronika Decides To Die - Paulo Coelho
Under the Skin - Michel Faber
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

Books I want to read (not on TBR):

TBR Pile:
The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Emma – Jane Austen
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
Atonement by Ian McEwan

Previously Read:
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Animal Farm – George Orwell

smiler07 · Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:23 pm Post subject:

I'm going to join in too as I got '1001 books.....' for christmas and I had already set myself a personal challenge to read as many as I can this year. Right here goes

Read in 2007...... (2)

85. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier

On TBR (5)

Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë

Previously Read (22)

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe

Ruth · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:48 pm Post subject:

I have these on my tbr pile...

The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Tipping The Velvet - Sarah Waters
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
On Beauty – Zadie Smith
The Light of Day – Graham Swift
Unless – Carol Shields
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

Books read before the challenge began

The Colour – Rose Tremain
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
Great Apes – Will Self
The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
The World According to Garp – John Irving
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (several times!)
Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Emma – Jane Austen
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

Books read for the challenge

Slow Man - J.M. Coetzee
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time
Breakfast At Tiffany's - Truman Capote

Others I'd consider reading are...

The Sea – John Banville
Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
The Shining – Stephen King
The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
Junkie – William Burroughs
The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
The Trial – Franz Kafka
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon read

Black Dogs – Ian McEwan –read this year- anyone want it shout
Wild Swans – Jung Chang-on tbr
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins-on tbr

Read before-a lot seem to be what were on my dads bookshelves 25 years ago

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Sea – John Banville
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
Silk – Alessandro Baricco
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Shining – Stephen King
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
Chocky – John Wyndham
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The Third Man – Graham Greene
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Kim – Rudyard Kipling
The War of the Worlds – H.G Wells
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Emma – Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

angelicfi · Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:31 pm Post subject:

Books I Have read before the challenge

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
The Shining – Stephen King
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

Books on my tbr pile

Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd

Books I have read for the Challenge

Cloud Atlas ( cheating slightly as i gave up on it)
The Devil and Miss Prym
Hawksmoor

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