BABBLING BOOKS

katey · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:29 pm Post subject:

RP-Read Previously
PTR-Plan to read

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro PTR
On Beauty – Zadie Smith PTR
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell PTR
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon RP
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters PTR
The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho PTR
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare PTR
White Teeth – Zadie Smith PTR
Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters PTR
Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho RP
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy PTR
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden PTR
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres PTR
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks PTR
Looking for the Possible

– A.L. Kennedy PTR
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides PTR
The Crow Road – Iain Banks RP
Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg PTR
Beloved – Toni Morrison PTR
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson PTR
Perfume – Patrick Süskind PTR
The Color Purple – Alice Walker PTR
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou PTR
A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines RP
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote RP
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath RP
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee PTR
Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee PTR
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote RP
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak PTR
The End of the Affair – Graham Greene PTR
Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford PTR
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh PTR
Animal Farm – George Orwell RP
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier PTR
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck PTR
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell PTR CURRENTLY READING
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons PTR
Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos PTR
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster PTR
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell Tried to read-gave up
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton RP
A Room With a View – E.M. Forster RP
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde PTR
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy PTR
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy PTR
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll PTR
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott PTR
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll PTR
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë PTR
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë RP
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray PTR
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens RP
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen PTR
Persuasion – Jane Austen PTR
Emma – Jane Austen PTR
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen PTR
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen PTR
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen PTR
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift PTR

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Books 01.09- 18 (5)
Books 02.09- 12 (4)
Books 03.09- 9 (1)
Books 04.09- 3 (0)
Books 05.09- 3(0)
Books 06.09- 8(1)
Books 07.09- 9(0)
Books 08.09- 10(1)
Books 09.09- 3(1)
Books 10.09- 9(1)

Target for 2009- 100 (15)- 16(2) to go!

beauthewhippet · Babblers First Words Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 3

BOOKS READ

243) Perfume by Patrick Suskind

Tigerlily · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:02 pm Post subject:

What did you make to Perfume Beau? You know it was one of our book choices last month.
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Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10

eightlegs · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:29 pm Post subject:

Books read for challenge (ie in 2007)

Unless - Carol Shields
The Thirty Nine Steps - John Buchan
The House of Dr Dee - Peter Ackroyd
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

3/6 Edited to add:

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
The Virgin in the Garden by A S Byatt
The Fingersmith - Sara Waters

Daniela-26 · Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 7:07 pm Post subject:

Hi Everyone here is my list of what I've read so far and what I intend to read. It's a great way of getting round to the unread books that make me feel guilty!

Books Read for the Challenge:

1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
2. Veronika Decides to Die
3. The Godfather
4. All Quiet on the Western Front
5. The 39 Steps
6. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Books Previously Read:

1. 2 Saturday – Ian McEwan
2. 3 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
3. 34 Youth – J.M. Coetzee
4. 46 Fury – Salman Rushdie
5. 77 Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
6. 81 Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
7. 89 The Hours – Michael Cunningham
8. 93 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
9. 95 Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
10. 129 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
11. 130 Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
12. 135 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
13. 139 On Love – Alain de Botton
14. 140 Jazz – Toni Morrison
15. 156 The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
16. 163 Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
17. 165 Wild Swans – Jung Chang
18. 166 American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
19. 170 Regeneration – Pat Barker
20. 223 Beloved – Toni Morrison
21. 232 Foe – J.M. Coetzee
22. 237 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
23. 242 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
24. 261 Shame – Salman Rushdie
25. 266 The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
26. 272 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
27. 287 Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
28. 288 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
29. 300 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
30. 309 In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
31. 315 Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
32 367 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
33. 375 Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
34. 409 The Magus – John Fowles
35. 411 Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
36. 413 The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
37. 433 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
38. 434 The Collector – John Fowles
39. 435 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
40. 451 Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
41. 467 Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
42. 529 The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
43. 538 The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
44. 547 Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
45. 564 Animal Farm – George Orwell
46. 584 Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
47. 588 Native Son – Richard Wright
48. 589 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
49. 590 Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
50. 610 The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
51. 631 Burmese Days – George Orwell
52. 638 Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
53. 676 Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
54. 697 Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
55. 699 The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
56. 708 A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
57. 780 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
58. 783 Kim – Rudyard Kipling
59. 785 Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
60. 794 Dracula – Bram Stoker
61. 804 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
62. 805 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
63. 809 The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
64. 810 She – H. Rider Haggard
65. 820 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
66. 825 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
67. 876 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
68. 880 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
69. 886 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
70. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
71. Hard Times – Charles Dickens
72. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
73. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
74. 891 Villette – Charlotte Brontë
75. 893 Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
76. 897 The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
77. 888David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
78. 899Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
79. Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
80. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
81. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
82. 913 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
83. 918 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
84. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
85. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
86. Persuasion – Jane Austen
87. Emma – Jane Austen
88. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
89. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
90. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
91. The Monk – M.G. Lewis [/color]

To Be Read:

1. 840 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
2. 851 Erewhon – Samuel Butler
4. 725 Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
5. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
6. 559 The Plague – Albert Camus
7. 478 The Bell – Iris Murdoch
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Reading: The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
2009 '1001 Challenge':

willie96 · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 10:06 am Post subject:

Previously Read:

42. Atonement – Ian McEwan
135. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
254. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
831. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
872. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

Read This Year:

804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller (Currently Reading)

On TBR:

24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
857. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
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Stuffit UK · Babblers First Words Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 19

Books read

19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
312. The Shining – Stephen King
564. Animal Farm – George Orwell
610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
910. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

Mazzystar · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:45 pm Post subject:

Read for challenge (started April 2007):

Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Would like to read:

Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Temple of my Familiar – Alice Walker
The Child in Time - Ian McEwan
How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Unless - Carol Sheilds
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Fateless - Imre Kertesz
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte Agnes Grey – Anne Bronte
The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee

Previously read:

Saturday – Ian McEwan
What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
Silas Marner – George Eliot
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
1984 - George Orwell
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Challenge books read: 5

annecater · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:10 pm Post subject:

1. Never Let Me Go - read and enjoyed
3. On Beauty - started, didnt enjoy and abandoned
19. The Curious Incident - read and enjoyed
24. Fingersmith - didnt enjoy this one
29. The Story of Lucy Gault - read, was just OK for me
56. Under the Skin - read and enjoyed
63. Blind Assassin - read but found it hard going
81. Amsterdam - read and hated
84. The Talk Of The Town - read and enjoyed
89. The Hours - started but abandoned
93. Memoirs Of A Geisha - read, just OK
116. The Reader - on TBR
129. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - read but struggled with
130. Felicia's Journe - on TBR
157. Smilla's Sense of Snow - on TBR
163. Hideous Kinky - on TBR
195. Like Water For Chocolate - on TBR
196. A Prayer For Owen Meany - didnt really enjoy this one
272. The Colour Purple - on TBR
394. A Kestral For A Knave - on TBR
433. The Bell Jar - on TBR
436. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - on TBR
437. A Clockwork Orange - read and enjoyed
467. Breakfast At Tiffany's - on TBR
473. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - read and enjoyed
508. Lord Of The Flies - one of my all time favourite reads
547. Nineteen Eighty Four - another favourite
564. Animal Farm - another favourite
676. Lady Chatterley's Lover - read and enjoyed
687. Tarka The Otter - another favourite
819. She - read years ago
822. Kidnapped - another ancient read
825. Adventures of Huckleberry Fin - another old one
831. Treasure Island - another from years ago, maybe I should read them again.
863. Little Women - another favourite
872. The Water Babies - another favourite
876. Great Expectations - my favourite Dickens
880. The Woman In White - loved it
901. Tenant Of Wildfell Hall - another read from years ago
918. Oliver Twist - another favourite of mine
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seanat · Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:05 am Post subject:

1001 BOOKS 2008:

Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Silk by Alessandro Barricco
Under the Skin by Michel Faber

1001 BOOKS 2007:

Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
Fear & Trembling - Amelie Nothomb

1001 BOOKS I HAVE READ:

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
Perfume – Patrick Süskind
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
The World According to Garp – John Irving
The Shining – Stephen King
Fateless – Imre Kertész (didn't finish)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
The Bell – Iris Murdoch
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence (didn't finish)
The French Lieutenany's Woman - John Fowles(didn't finish)
Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

TBR;

2000's
Saturday – Ian McEwan
On Beauty – Zadie Smith
The Sea – John Banville
The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
The Master – Colm Tóibín
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
The Colour – Rose Tremain
The Light of Day – Graham Swift
What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
Unless – Carol Shields
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
The Human Stain – Philip Roth
The Blind Assassin – MargarGabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates

1900s Timbuktu – Paul Auster
Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
Another World – Pat Barker
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
American Pastoral – Philip Roth
The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
Jazz – Toni Morrison
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
Wild Swans – Jung Chang
Regeneration – Pat Barker
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
Possession – A.S. Byatt
The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
The Cider House Rules – John Irving
A Maggot – John Fowles
Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
Sula – Toni Morrison
Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
The Magus – John Fowles
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
The Collector – John Fowles
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
Voss – Patrick White
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
The Quiet American – Graham Greene
The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
The Years – Virginia Woolf
To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
Orlando – Virginia Woolf
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
Blindness – Henry Green
The Castle – Franz Kafka
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Trial – Franz Kafka
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
Howards End – E.M. Forster
A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy
The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
The Wings of the Dove – Henry James

1800s The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
What Maisie Knew – Henry James
The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
She – H. Rider Haggard
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
Germinal – Émile Zola
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
Nana – Émile Zola
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
Drunkard – Émile Zola
Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Middlemarch – George Eliot
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
Silas Marner – George Eliot
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
Hard Times – Charles Dickens
Bleak House – Charles Dickens
Villette – Charlotte Brontë
Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

1700s
Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe

Pre-1700
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

miranda · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject:

Is it just fiction that is on the list? I was looking for 'Longitude', but I don't think it is on it.
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Sally3 · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:36 pm Post subject:

Books read of 1001 list in 2007

The Outsider - Albert Camus
Under The Skin - Michel Faber
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
The Country Girls - Edna O'Brien
The Girl With The Green Eyes - Edna O'Brien
The Old Man And The Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan
Fear & Trembling - Amelie Nothomb
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Turn Of The Screw - Henry James

Read over recent years but not in 2007

Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time - Mark Haddon
In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck

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