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Tigerlily · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:22 pm Post subject: 1001 books REMOVED list

Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
Saturday Ian McEwan
On Beauty Zadie Smith
Slow Man J.M. Coetzee
Adjunct: An Undigest Peter Manson
The Red Queen Margaret Drabble
Vanishing Point David Markson
The Lambs of London Peter Ackroyd
Dining on Stones Iain Sinclair
Drop City T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Colour Rose Tremain
Thursbitch Alan Garner
The Light of Day Graham Swift
Elizabeth Costello J.M. Coetzee
London Orbital Iain Sinclair
Family Matters Rohinton Mistry
Fingersmith Sarah Waters
The Double José Saramago
Unless Carol Shields
The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
That They May Face the Rising Sun - John McGahern
In the Forest Edna O’Brien
Shroud John Banville
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
Youth J.M. Coetzee
Dead Air Iain Banks
The Book of Illusions Paul Auster
Gabriel’s Gift Hanif Kureishi
Schooling Heather McGowan
Don’t Move Margaret Mazzantini
The Body Artist Don DeLillo
Fury Salman Rushdie
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill
Choke Chuck Palahniuk
An Obedient Father Akhil Sharma
Ignorance Milan Kundera
Nineteen Seventy Seven David Peace
City of God E.L. Doctorow
How the Dead Live Will Self
The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood
After the Quake Haruki Murakami
Super-Cannes J.G. Ballard
House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski
Blonde Joyce Carol Oates
Pastoralia George Saunders

Timbuktu Paul Auster
The Romantics Pankaj Mishra
Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson
Everything You Need A.L. Kennedy
The Ground Beneath Her Feet Salman Rushdie
Sputnik Sweetheart Haruki Murakami
Intimacy Hanif Kureishi
Amsterdam Ian McEwan
Cloudsplitter Russell Banks
Tipping the Velvet Sarah Waters
Glamorama Bret Easton Ellis
Another World Pat Barker
Mason & Dixon Thomas Pynchon
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
Great Apes Will Self
American Pastoral Philip Roth
The Untouchable John Banville
Cocaine Nights J.G. Ballard
The Information Martin Amis
The Moor’s Last Sigh Salman Rushdie
Sabbath’s Theater Philip Roth
The Rings of Saturn W.G. Sebald
Mr. Vertigo Paul Auster
The Folding Star Alan Hollinghurst
The Master of Petersburg J.M. Coetzee
Trainspotting Irvine Welsh
Complicity Iain Banks
Operation Shylock Philip Roth
The House of Doctor Dee Peter Ackroyd
The Robber Bride Margaret Atwood
The Emigrants W.G. Sebald
A Heart So White Javier Marias
Jazz Toni Morrison
Black Water Joyce Carol Oates
The Heather Blazing Colm Tóibín
Black Dogs Ian McEwan
Time’s Arrow Martin Amis
Downriver Iain Sinclair
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord Louis de Bernieres
Wise Children Angela Carter
Vineland Thomas Pynchon
A Home at the End of the World Michael Cunningham
Possession A.S. Byatt
A Disaffection James Kelman
Billy Bathgate E.L. Doctorow
The Temple of My Familiar Alice Walker
The Book of Evidence John Banville
Cat’s Eye Margaret Atwood
The Beautiful Room is Empty Edmund White
Libra Don DeLillo
The Player of Games Iain M. Banks
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul Douglas Adams
The Passion Jeanette Winterson
The Child in Time Ian McEwan
Marya Joyce Carol Oates
Foe J.M. Coetzee
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson
A Maggot John Fowles
Less Than Zero Bret Easton Ellis
Old Masters Thomas Bernhard
Queer William Burroughs
Worstward Ho Samuel Beckett
Fools of Fortune William Trevor
The Diary of Jane Somers Doris Lessing
The Newton Letter John Banville
Concrete Thomas Bernhard
The Names Don DeLillo
The Comfort of Strangers Ian McEwan
Rites of Passage William Golding
City Primeval Elmore Leonard
Shikasta Doris Lessing
The Safety Net Heinrich Böll
The World According to Garp John Irving
Yes Thomas Bernhard
The Passion of New Eve Angela Carter
Petals of Blood Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ratner’s Star Don DeLillo
The Public Burning Robert Coover
Amateurs Donald Barthelme
Grimus Salman Rushdie
High Rise J.G. Ballard
Dead Babies Martin Amis
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carré
Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut
The Black Prince Iris Murdoch
Sula Toni Morrison
The Breast Philip Roth
The Wild Boys William Burroughs
The Driver’s Seat Muriel Spark
The Ogre Michael Tournier
Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick Peter Handke
Mercier and Camier Samuel Beckett
Troubles J.G. Farrell
The Atrocity Exhibition J.G. Ballard
The Green Man Kingsley Amis
The Nice and the Good Iris Murdoch
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid Malcolm Lowry
Chocky John Wyndham
The Cubs and Other Stories Mario Vargas Llosa
The Joke Milan Kundera
A Man Asleep Georges Perec
The Birds Fall Down Rebecca West
Trawl B.S. Johnson
August is a Wicked Month Edna O’Brien
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Kurt Vonnegut
Sometimes a Great Notion Ken Kesey
Come Back, Dr. Caligari Donald Barthelme
Albert Angelo B.S. Johnson
The Collector John Fowles
The Drowned World J.G. Ballard
The Violent Bear it Away Flannery O’Connor
How It Is Samuel Beckett
Our Ancestors Italo Calvino
Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow
Memento Mori Muriel Spark
Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris Paul Gallico
The End of the Road John Barth
The Wonderful “O” James Thurber
Seize the Day Saul Bellow
A World of Love Elizabeth Bowen
Self Condemned Wyndham Lewis
The Unnamable Samuel Beckett
Watt Samuel Beckett
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow
The Killer Inside Me Jim Thompson
The Third Man Graham Greene
The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene
The Victim Saul Bellow
Cannery Row John Steinbeck
The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford
Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges
Caught Henry Green
Go Down, Moses William Faulkner
The Poor Mouth Flann O’Brien
Hangover Square Patrick Hamilton
Between the Acts Virginia Woolf
The Hamlet William Faulkner
Farewell My Lovely Raymond Chandler
Party Going Henry Green
Coming Up for Air George Orwell
Tropic of Capricorn Henry Miller
After the Death of Don Juan Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Years Virginia Woolf
The Revenge for Love Wyndham Lewis
To Have and Have Not Ernest Hemingway
Wild Harbour Ian MacPherson
The House in Paris Elizabeth Bowen
England Made Me Graham Greene
Burmese Days George Orwell
Threepenny Novel Bertolt Brecht
Novel With Cocaine M. Ageyev
A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh
Sunset Song Lewis Grassic Gibbon
The Glass Key Dashiell Hammett
Cakes and Ale W. Somerset Maugham
Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh
Hebdomeros Giorgio de Chirico
The Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett
The Last September Elizabeth Bowen
Harriet Hume Rebecca West
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
The Childermass Wyndham Lewis
Quartet Jean Rhys
The Plumed Serpent D.H. Lawrence
Manhattan Transfer John Dos Passos
Billy Budd, Foretopman Herman Melville
Cane Jean Toomer
Antic Hay Aldous Huxley
The Garden Party Katherine Mansfield
Jacob’s Room Virginia Woolf
The Glimpses of the Moon Edith Wharton
The Last Days of Humanity Karl Kraus
Aaron’s Rod D.H. Lawrence
The Fox D.H. Lawrence
Night and Day Virginia Woolf
The Shadow Line Joseph Conrad
Summer Edith Wharton
Bunner Sisters Edith Wharton
The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf
Rosshalde Herman Hesse
Three Lives Gertrude Stein
Martin Eden Jack London
Tono-Bungay H.G. Wells
The Iron Heel Jack London
Where Angels Fear to Tread E.M. Forster
The Golden Bowl Henry James
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad

The Turn of the Screw Henry James
The Invisible Man H.G. Wells
The Real Charlotte Somerville/Ross
The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born in Exile George Gissing
The Master of Ballantrae Robert Louis Stevenson
Fortunata y Jacinta Benito Pérez Galdós
The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy
She H. Rider Haggard
The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
Return of the Native Thomas Hardy
Virgin Soil Ivan Turgenev
Daniel Deronda George Eliot
The

of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy
The Temptation of Saint Anthony Gustave Flaubert
He Knew He Was Right Anthony Trollope
Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens
On the Eve Ivan Turgenev
Castle Richmond Anthony Trollope
The Marble Faun Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
Hard Times Charles Dickens
Villette Charlotte Brontë
The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne
Shirley Charlotte Brontë
Mary Barton Elizabeth Gaskell
Agnes Grey Anne Brontë
La Reine Margot Alexandre Dumas
The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe
Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens
The Albigenses Charles Robert Maturin
The Monastery Sir Walter Scott
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen
Persuasion Jane Austen
Ormond Maria Edgeworth
The Absentee Maria Edgeworth

Cecilia Fanny Burney
Amelia Henry Fielding
Roderick Random Tobias George Smollett
Roxana Daniel Defoe
A Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift

The Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyan
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit John Lyly
Aithiopika Heliodorus
Chaireas and Kallirhoe Chariton
Metamorphoses Ovid
Aesop’s Fables Aesopus

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Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10

Tigerlily · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:23 pm Post subject:

Sorry it's such a mish mash!
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Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10

blueflower · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:19 pm Post subject:

Most of my 1001 reads are on the removed list.

eightlegs · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:02 pm Post subject:

Mine too Gwen - can't imagine what they have replaced all those with.

I thought only a few had been changed, makes a bit of a nonsense of it when so many have been swapped - getting a bit disillusioned with it to be honest.

Tigerlily · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:43 pm Post subject:

They should've just left it alone and started a fresh list with a different title!
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Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10

blueflower · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:47 pm Post subject:

I have read only one of the new ones

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian – Marina Lewycka

But I have on my TBR:-

The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
Vernon God Little DBC Pierre
The Kindly Ones – Jonathan Littell
Faceless Killers – Henning Mankell
Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
Small Island – Andrea Levy
2666 – Roberto Bolano
The Swarm – Frank Schatzing
Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky

katey · Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:12 pm Post subject:

I am getting so fed up of them changing it! Just going to go by my edition of it to monitor my reading challenge.
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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!

lovely treez · Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:29 am Post subject:

Erm, why have they removed them? Are they no longer considered worthy? I haven't been folowing this challenge or know much about the list but it does seem a bit farcical to chop and change with it like this.
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Currently reading - The Italian Boy - Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s London - Sarah Wise

Karen · Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:50 am Post subject:

I have not been following it in terms of especially picking books that are on the list to read. Removing all those books seems to make a mockery of the whole idea, one wonders if the original idea has now degenerated into a bit of a money making rip off? I could see the list expanding each year and the list growing longer as new works were published.

Tigerlily · Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:58 pm Post subject:

I agree with you Karen - a money making opportunity most definitely. I actually ordered the book this week, yet to receive it, so I'm afraid I'm not helping!!

They should just create supplements, saying 'another x amount of books you must read...' so you can build a collection to go with the original book. Less confusing that way.
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Reading: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Reading Challenge 2009: 8
2008: 4
2007: 10

eightlegs · Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:32 pm Post subject:

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