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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Nothing But Reading Challenges1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Duration: 2/1/2018 - 1/31/2018
Progress: 0 out of 1001
Did you know that there is a book and a list called 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die?
This challenge is simple.
Check out the list here, and decide how many you would like to read within a year from your start date. You can also look at the list on this website 1001 Book List which lists the book by publication dates.
You can always do this challenge again the next year and try to read more from the list!
Soooo, a long time later I'm finally ready to start
24/10/18 - 23/10/19
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Finally complete 12/8/19!
I've updated message 33 with Round 2. (I read 8 books for Round 1.)
I will read 35 over the next year.5/30/18-5/30/19
5.Gone with the Wind
9.Memoirs of a Geisha
11.The Handmaid's Tale
12.The Grapes of Wrath
14.Life of Pi
15.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
17.The Bell Jar
18.Lolita
19.The Old Man and the Sea
20.Catch-22
21.The Scarlet Letter
22.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
23.War and Peace
24.Emma
25.Siddhartha
26.Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
27.A Clockwork Orange
28.Treasure Island
29.The Poisonwood Bible
30.The Shining
31.Persuasion
32.Never Let Me Go
33.The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
34.The Hound of the Baskervilles
35.In Cold Blood
I am going to aim for reading 10 of these this year.Listing those that are on my radar right now, but the list is subject to change.
9/13/18-9/12/19
1. Jane Eyre
2. The Poisonwood Bible
3. Rebecca
4. The House of the Spirits
5. The Secret History
6. The Forsyte Saga
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NBRC 1001 Books challenge:01. Molloy by Samuel Beckett 30 Nov 2018 **
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Year Long Challenge
30 Nov. 2018 - 31 Dec. 2019
02. The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett 14 Feb 2019 ****
03. Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett 27 Feb 2019 **
04. Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald 38 Mar 2019 **
05. A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift 3rd Apr 2019 ***
06. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 4th Apr 2019 **
07. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz 10th Apr 2019 **
08. In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul 28th Jun 2019 ****
09. Neuromancer by William Gibson 13th Jul 2019 *
I would like to try and read 12 books from the list over the next year. These will be ones that are already on my TBR list so it would actually help me read some. Challenge dates:
7th October 2018 - 6th October 2019
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4. The Picture of Dorian Gray
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
6. Animal Farm
7. Great Expectations
8. Catch-22
9. Oliver Twist
10. The War of the Worlds
11. Lady Chatterley's Lover
12. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
13. The Handmaid's Tale
14. Les Misérables
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I'm going ahead and saving my spot for 2019. :)1/1/19-12/31/19
Going to try for 10 again.
1/31/19
10/31/19
I finished 42/40 here.I’d like to go for 50 this year
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The Comfort of Strangers Ian McEwan 127 p. 4 january 2019 4 stars2. Hunger
Knut Hamsun 134 p. 7 january 2019 4 stars 3.De tweeling
Tessa de Loo 480 p. 1/14/19 3 stars4. The Good Soldier Švejk
Jaroslav Hašek 752 p. 20 january 2019 5 stars5. The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad 304 p. 29 january 2019 3 stars6. The Turn of the Screw
Henry James 176 p. 30 january 2019 3 stars
TITLE: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You DieDATE: January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019
COMPLETED: 5/5
2. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
3. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
4. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
5. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie
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Congratulations Tahmina, Claire and Christina
Challenge posts are HERE
Ready for my third round with this challenge!1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Year Long Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019
39/25 Completed
1. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson FINISHED 1/10/19
2. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne FINISHED 1/12/19
3. Silence by Shusaku Endo FINISHED 1/18/19
4. Hunger by Knut Hamsun FINISHED 1/21/19
5. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien FINISHED 1/30/19
6. Home by Marilynne Robinson FINISHED 2/1/19
7. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides FINISHED 2/1/19
8. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev FINISHED 2/5/19
9. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole FINISHED 2/8/19
10. Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz FINISHED 2/9/19
11. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson FINISHED 2/16/19
12. Independent People by Halldor Laxness FINISHED 2/17/19
13. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway FINISHED 2/24/19
14. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse FINISHED 3/9/19
15. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver FINISHED 4/9/19
16. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee FINISHED 4/14/19
17. The Secret History by Donna Tartt FINISHED 4/15/19
18. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin FINISHED 4/25/19
19. Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey FINISHED 5/1/19
20. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera FINISHED 5/3/19
21. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis FINISHED 5/16/19
22. The Immoralist by Andre Gide FINISHED 5/23/19
23. Dispatches by Michael Herr FINISHED 5/23/19
24. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie FINISHED 5/23/19
25. Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon FINISHED 6/4/19
26. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro FINISHED 6/6/19
27. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin FINISHED 8/28/19
28. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky FINISHED 8/29/19
29. Century of the Wind by Eduardo Galeano FINISHED 9/18/19
30. A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov FINISHED 10/10/19
31. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell FINISHED 10/11/19
32. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard FINISHED 10/26/19
33. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan FINISHED 11/2/19
34. On the Edge of Reason by Miroslav Krleza FINISHED 11/3/19
35. Chocky by John Wyndham FINISHED 11/22/19
36. The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat FINISHED 11/26/19
37. Hard Times by Charles Dickens FINISHED 12/12/19
38. Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata FINISHED 12/27/19
39. Albert Angelo by B.S. Johnson FINISHED 12/30/19
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~Laura
This looks like a fun challenge to do! 20 seems like a good number to aim for since i have a few other books i am reading as well!1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Year Long Challenge
Duration: January 20, 2019 - January 19, 2020
1- To Kill A Mockingbird
2- 1984
3- Gone with the wind
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I will try to get to 20 books from the list in 2019. Let's see how it goes :DRead 5/20
1. 1984
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray
3. Brave New World - 29.01.2019
4. Frankenstein
5. Dracula
6. Rebecca
7. Siddharta
8. A Clockwork Orange - 22.04.2019
9. Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders
10. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - 31.03.2019
11. The Time Machine
12. Breakfast at Tiffany's - 23.07.2019
13. Der Prozess
14. Der Vorleser - 24.04.2019
15. The War of the Worlds
16. Cloud Atlas
17. 2001: A Space Odyssey
18. The Fellowship of the Ring
19. Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne
20. Homo Faber
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To Read Before You Die 2020Goal of 10
1. The Old Man and the Sea 2/11/20
2. The Handmaid's Tale 2/18/20
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God 8/30/20
4. The War of the Worlds 9/8/20
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You DieJanuary 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
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NBRC 1001 Books challenge:01 Jan. 2020 - 31 Dec. 2020
01. Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald 2/28/20
02. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 7/9/20
03. The Home and the World - Rabindranath Tagore 8/25/20
04. Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto 9/7/20
05. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger 12/25/20
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You DieJanuary 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
Goal: 10
Progress: 3/10
1. The Comfort of Strangers
2. Brideshead Revisited
3. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
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CiCi wrote: "It was a small goal, but it's done!Original Post"
Size doesn’t matter CiCi, Congratulations 🥳
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Well done CiCi- Congratulations!
1001 Books You Must Read Before You DieJanuary 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
Progress: 10/10
1. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson FINISHED 4/24/20
2. The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa FINISHED 7/8/20
3. The Joke by Milan Kundera FINISHED 8/10/20
4. The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections by V.S. Naipaul FINISHED 10/1/20
5. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison FINISHED 10/5/20
6. Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary FINISHED 10/15/20
7. Invisible by Paul Auster FINISHED 10/21/20
8. Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis FINISHED 10/30/20
9. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson FINISHED 12/2/20
10. Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov FINISHED 12/12/20
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NBRC 1001 Books challenge:1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Year Long Challenge
7.31.20 - 7.30.21
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1. The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien 8/7/20
2. The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
3. The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy: the Secondary Phase - Douglas Adams
5. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
6. Dracula - Bram Stoker
7. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
8. Emma - Jane Austen
9. Persuasion - Jane Austen
10. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Ohhh, I've been working my way through these anyway, so may as well join in!I'm currently at 174 (though I'm working through the combined list which has 1316 in total). Still a way to go!
Let's see if I can get that up to 200 in the next year!
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1. Cranford
2. The Quiet American
3. Phineas Finn
4. Quicksand
5. An Artist of the Floating World
6. The Poisonwood Bible
7. A Pale View of Hills
8. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
9. Kim
10. The Long Goodbye
11. Middlesex
12. The Unconsoled
13. The Razor's Edge
14. American Psycho
15. Oscar and Lucinda
16. The House of Mirth
17. The Woodlanders
18. Tender Is the Night
19. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
20. The Girls of Slender Means
21. The Sense of an Ending
22. The Call of the Wild
23. The Driver's Seat
24. Love in a Cold Climate
25. Persuasion
26. Casino Royale
Might go for another round of this in 2021I will try to read at least 20 of these books in the next year
2/20
Potential tbr
1. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
2. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
3. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
4. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
5. Faceless Killers – Henning Mankell
6. Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg ✔️
7. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
✔️8. Perfume – Patrick Süskind - 27.08.2021
9. Neuromancer – William Gibson
10. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
11. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
12. Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
14. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
15. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
16. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
✔️17. On the Road – Jack Kerouac - dnf
18. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
19. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
20. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
21. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
22. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
23. Dracula – Bram Stoker
24. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
25. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
26. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
27. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
28. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
29. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ✔️
Funny, I just bought this book off a Rakuten vendor and have been looking for a challenge where I could put it to good use. And I found one at NBRC!!1001 Books to Read Before You Die
January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
First I'll list all the books I've already read, then pick 18 to read over the year until I'm done with all 1,000 books.
Books Already Read (116 total)
Books Planned for 2021
Progress: 2/18
1. The Foundation Trilogy
2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
3. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
4. The Big Sleep
5. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
6. Childhood's End
7. The Moonstone
✔️8. A Tale of Two Cities - read 1/2/21, 4 stars
9. The Third Man
10. The Day of the Jackal
✔️11. The Virgin Suicides - read 1/9/21, 3 stars
12. The Call of the Wild
13. 84, Charing Cross Road
14. Les Miserables
15. Stranger in a Strange Land
16. The Bourne Identity
17. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
18. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
And done! (post 93)I actually found I'd missed a few when counting, so my current total is actually 206. Still over 100 to go before I even get to the "1000 left" point, lol!
But in for another round of 25 for starters :)
1. Silas Marner
2. Nights at the Circus
3. The Outsider
4. A Farewell to Arms
5. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
6. The Collector
7. The New York Trilogy
8. Flaubert's Parrot
9. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
10. Rabbit, Run
11. Smiley's People
12. One Hundred Years of Solitude
13. Middlemarch
14. On the Road
15. Midnight's Children
16. The Riddle of the Sands
17. Tarka the Otter
18. Within a Budding Grove
19. Far From the Madding Crowd
20. The Crying of Lot 49
21. Jude the Obscure
22. Crome Yellow
23. A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement
24. Possession
25. The Magic Mountain
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Going again for 2021. Maybe I'll be able to be a little more focused this year lol. 6/10
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude 4/19/21
2. Brave New World 6/19/21
3. Sense and Sensibility 6/27/21
4. I, Robot 7/14/21
5. A Clockwork Orange 10/29/21
6. Lolita 11/27/21
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Amy's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die ChallengeJanuary 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Completed: 13/10
1. Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor 2/5/21
2. Austerlitz by W.G. Sewald 3/3/21
3. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell 3/3/21
4. Native Son by Richard Wright 3/7/21
5. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3/28/21
6. Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens 4/12/21
7. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach 5/10/21
8. Howards End by E.M. Forster 5/16/21
9. Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon 7/16/21
10. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 8/14/21
11. The Accidental by Ali Smith 9/5/21
12. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte 10/19/21
13. The Nose by Nikolai Gogol 12/31/31
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