1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

[Melissa (ladybug)]

NBRC 1001 Books challenge: Round 4
01 Jan. 2021 - 31 Dec. 2021

01. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 1/21/21
02. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway 1/22/21
03. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James 3/6/21
04. House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski 3/11/21
05. Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner 3/23/21
06. Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers 5/15/21
07. Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey 7/1/21
08. The Lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd 8/3/21
09. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie 9/5/21
10. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys 9/20/21
11. Jack Maggs - Peter Carey 10/14/21

[Anchrias]

I'm joining in for 2021 with a goal of 42 books.
Duration: 7/02/21 - 31/12/21
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[Tonya Marie]

I'm joining with a goal of 5 from this list in 2021.

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Duration 02.15.2021 - 02.14.2022

[Sammy]

25 more completed! (post 96) Let's see if I can manage another 25 by the end of the year :)

Current total 231/1316 (combined list from all 4 editions)

1. High-Rise
2. Oroonoko
3. The English Patient
4. Evelina
5. The Third Policeman
6. We
7. Disgrace
8. Their Eyes Were Watching God
9. Waiting for the Barbarians
10. Crash
11. The Heart of the Matter
12. The Honorary Consul
13. Treasure Island
14. Silence
15. Surfacing
16. Ragtime
17. The Shadow-Line
18. Northanger Abbey
19. Dangerous Liaisons
20. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
21. The Kreutzer Sonata
22. Wise Blood
23. Memoirs of a Geisha
24. The Satanic Verses
25. Passing

[Sehrish |]

I've been a group member of NBRC since late 2019 I guess and shame on me for missing this thread until now... 🤦‍♀️ 🤷‍♀️

But better late than never!! I am going to take part in this now.. I'll target 10 till Dec and start fresh in Jan again.. I hope that's not a problem!

Keeping the list here and here for reference.

May 2021 - December 2021

✔️ 1. Pride and Prejudice - 26Jul
2. The Great Gatsby
3. The Little Prince
4. The Picture of Dorian Gray
5. The Grapes of Wrath
6. The Secret History
7. Rebecca
8. The Color Purple
9. Small Island
10. Half of a Yellow Sun
✔️ 11. The Handmaid's Tale - 16Jun

Bonus: (didn't realize this until I was going through the Listopia) - I already finished these!! 😅
11. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
12. The Hound of the Baskervilles
13. Veronika Decides to Die

[Sammy]

And done (post 104). Still a LOT more to go, so I'm in for another round of 25. See how many I can finish by the end of the year...

Current total 256/1316 (combined list from all 4 editions)

1. The Guermantes Way
2. In Watermelon Sugar
3. Dangling Man
4. The Master and Margarita
5. The White Tiger
6. Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement
7. The Old Wives' Tale
8. The Brothers Karamazov
9. Cryptonomicon
10. Erewhon
11. Tipping the Velvet
12. Alias Grace
13. The Goldfinch
14. The Golden Notebook
15. A Fine Balance
16. Sodom and Gomorrah
17. In a Free State
18. The Cider House Rules
19. The Name of the Rose
20. The Fall of the House of Usher
21. Adam Bede
22. Fathers and Sons
23. Gone with the Wind
24. The Jungle
25. Cry, the Beloved Country

[Athira]

I've been intending to read more books from list on and off but 1001 is a huge commitment. Ove time I've realized I don't even want to read all 1001 even if I can. Some books don't appeal to me, but there are many which do. So I'd like to plan to read 12 books in the next 6 months, rather than committing to a whole year. Hope that's alright. I don't do well with long-duration challenges - always feel like there's a lot of time left to get something done.

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
3. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
4. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
5. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
6. Atonement by Ian McEwan
7. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
8. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
9. The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
10. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
11. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
12. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

[Christina]

2022 To Read Before You Die
1/1/22-12/31/22

1. Memoirs of a Geisha 1/11/22
2. Schindler's List 1/31/22
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[Amy]

Starting another round this year.

Amy's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Challenge
January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022

Completed: 11/10

1. In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan 2/19/22
2. The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren 5/31/22
3. High-Rise by J.G. Ballard 6/9/22
4. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino 7/13/22
5. Libra by Don DeLillo 9/12/22
6. Les Trois Mousquetaires The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 10/18/22
7. Democracy by Joan Didion 12/1/22
8. The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West 12/18/22
9. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 12/19/22
10. Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton 12/24/22
11. The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway 12/25/22

[Melissa (ladybug)]

NBRC 1001 Books challenge: Round 5
01 Jan. 2022 - 31 Dec. 2022

01. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë - 09 Jan 2022
02. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote - 29 April 2022
03. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - 28 May 2022
04. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - 09 July 2022
05. A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro - 16 July 2022
06. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov - 21 July 2022
07. The Godfather - Mario Puzo - 29 July 2022
08. An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro - 30 July 2022
09. The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers - 27 Aug 2022
10. Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs - 26 Sept 2022
11. Ivanhoe - Walter Scott - 21 Oct 2022
12. Hard Times - Charles Dickens - 22 Oct 2022
13. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - 29 Oct 2022
14. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - 20 Nov 2022
15. Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne - 26 Nov 2022
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[Sehrish |]

Completed in 2021:
1. Pride and Prejudice - 26Jul
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray - 8Oct
3. Half of a Yellow Sun - 18Dec
4. The Handmaid's Tale - 16Jun
5. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 26Mar
6. The Hound of the Baskervilles - 28Aug
7. Veronika Decides to Die

Trying again in 2022:

[Sammy]

And done! (post 106) Still many, many, many left to go, so here I go again...

1. The Catcher in the Rye
2. The Trick is to Keep Breathing
3. Dead Souls
4. Brighton Rock
5. The Complete Sherlock Holmes
6. Seize the Day
7. Jacob's Room
8. What Maisie Knew
9. Agnes Grey
10. The Captive
11. The Things They Carried
12. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
13. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
14. The Well of Loneliness
15. The Portrait of a Lady
16. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
17. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
18. The Fugitive
19. Les Enfants terribles
20. The Country Girls
21. Native Son
22. The Midwich Cuckoos
23. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
24. The Human Stain
25. Sputnik Sweetheart

[Mandy]

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Duration: Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2022
Progress: 7/25
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01 » Effi Briest | Theodor Fontane
02 » Alice im Wunderland | Lewis Carroll
03 » Der Idiot | Fjodor Dostojevski
04 » Villette | Charlotte Brontë
05 » Die Zeitmaschine | H.G. Wells
06 » Der Krieg der Welten | H.G. Wells
07 » The Shining | Stephen King
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[Sammy]

Another round done (post 112) and still have about 1000 to go, so here I go again, lol.

1. Black Dogs
2. Time Regained
3. Gargantua and Pantagruel
4. The Secret History
5. Cakes and Ale
6. Parade's End
7. Coming Up for Air
8. Woman at Point Zero
9. Moll Flanders
10. A Dance to the Music of Time: 3rd Movement
11. Rabbit Is Rich
12. The Grapes of Wrath
13. Half of a Yellow Sun
14. Chocky
15. Lord Jim
16. Daniel Deronda
17. A Dance to the Music of Time: 4th Movement
18. The Sorrows of Young Werther
19. Castle Rackrent
20. Wise Children
21. Sexing the Cherry
22. The Overcoat and Other Russian Tales
23. Tarzan of the Apes
24. Mary Barton
25. A Boy's Own Story

[christene_littlelibrary]

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Duration: Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2022
Progress: 1/25

01 The Time Machine
02 The Invisible Man
✔️ 03 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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[Sammy]

And another round complete (post 114). hoping to complete at least one more round this year! :)

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. North and South
3. The Rainbow
4. Doctor Zhivago
5. The Children's Book
6. White Teeth
7. A Town Like Alice
8. The Drowned World
9. The Colour
10. A Confederacy of Dunces
11. Bosnian Chronicle
12. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
13. Americanah
14. Cold Comfort Farm
15. The Cement Garden
16. Moon Palace
17. A Suitable Boy
18. The Sea, the Sea
19. The Talented Mr. Ripley
20. The 13 Clocks
21. Memento Mori
22. Cat's Eye
23. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
24. Vernon God Little
25. Mrs Harris Goes to Paris & Mrs Harris Goes to New York

[Laure]

That list is one of my reading focus for this year!
I would like to start by 21 books.

Challenge Start: 1st January 2023- 31st December 2023
📌First 21 from the list ...

1 Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2 Americanah -Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3 Suite Française - Irene Nemirovsky
4 The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
5 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon

6 Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
7 The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
8 The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L Sayers
9 Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L Sayers
10 Thank You, Jeeves - PG Wodehouse

11 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson
12 Gormengast - Mervyn Peake
13 Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
14 Tender Is the Night - F Scott Fitzegerald
15 Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen

16 Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
17 The Once and Future King - TH White
18 The Spy Who Came In from the Cold - John le Carre
19 Smiley's People - John le Carre
20 The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende

21 Legend - David Gemmell
(22 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C Clarke)

[Amy]

Amy's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Challenge
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023

Completed: 18/10

1. At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft 2/10/23
2. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene 2/12/23
3. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 3/30/23
4. The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy 4/12/23
5. Passing by Nella Larsen 5/1/23
6. Eugénie Grandet by Honore de Balzac 7/1/23
7. The Bell by Iris Murdoch 7/29/23
8. Ignorance by Milan Kundera 8/8/23
9. The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty 8/21/23
10. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion 9/1/23
11. The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White 10/2/23
12. Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham 10/8/23
13. The Professor's House by Willa Cather 10/11/23
14. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster 10/11/23
15. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson 11/14/23
16. The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien 11/29/23
17. Deep River by Shusako Endo 12/17/23
18. Silas Marner by George Eliot 12/28/23

[Melissa (ladybug)]

Starting fresh. :) Another year of books

NBRC 1001 Books challenge
01 Jan. 2023 - 31 Dec. 2023

01. Shipping News - Annie Proulx 1/17/23
02. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway 3/8/23
03. Democracy - Joan Didion 3/16/23
04. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 3/21/23
05. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov 4/2/23
06. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole 4/22/23
07. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark 6/9/23
08. The Newton Letter - John Banville 6/30/23
09. The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne 7/27/23
10. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold - John le Carré 10/19/23
11. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe 10/22/23
12. Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin 10/27/23
13. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien 11/27/23
14. Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton 12/30/23

[Nele]

Up for a new start on this one :)

Jan. - Dec. 2023

potential tbr:
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Michael Kohlhaas – Heinrich von Kleist
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
Hunger – Knut Hamsun
Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
✔️ The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dracula – Bram Stoker
A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
The Trial – Franz Kafka

[Mia]

I would like to read at least 50 this year.


January 1 - December 31, 2023

1. Kitchen
2. Cataract
3. Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
4. Midaqq-kuja
5. The Recognitions
6. The Trick is to Keep Breathing
7. Nervous Conditions
8. American Psycho
9. Murphy
10. The Cathedral
11. Storm of Steel
12. Rabbit, Run
13. The Nose
14. The Talented Mr. Ripley
15. The Enchanted Wanderer
16. Nana
17. Play It As It Lays
18. Martin Eden
19. Coming Up for Air
20. Like Life
21. Cranford
22. The Return of the Soldier
23. Rebecca
24. Here's to You, Jesusa!
25. Emile, or On Education
26. Hell
27. Trainspotting
28. The Death of Ivan Ilyich
29. City Primeval
30. Mason & Dixon
31. We
32. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
33. Jazz
34. A Confederacy of Dunces
35. Transit
36. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
37. On the Heights of Despair
38. The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
39. The Adventures of Augie March
40. He Knew He Was Right
41. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
42. Jude the Obscure
43. Kynttilät palavat loppuun
44. Lolita
45. Babbitt
46. Snow
47. Cancer Ward
48. Complicity
49. War and Peace
50. Nemesis
51. The Absentee
52. Pilgrimage, complete in 4 volumes
53. The Twilight Years

[Lynn]

I'll try this one.
3-10-2023/3-10-2024
Goal 25 books

1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

2. Atonement by Ian McEwan

[Elspeth]

I have already read a number of books this year, so I wlll have a small goal for this challenge.

June 2023-December 2023 - goal: 25 books.

completed July 2023. I'm going to keep going and see how many I can get through until the end of the year. I've got a few from the library so I'll see how far I can get.

✔️1. Uncle Tom's Cabin 6/10/23
✔️2. The 13 Clocks 6/22/23
✔️3. Thank You, Jeeves 6/25/23
✔️4.. The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel 6/26/23
✔️5. A Modest Proposal 6/27/23
✔️6. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 6/27/23
✔️7. The Master and Margarita 6/27/23
✔️8. Moll Flanders 6/28/23
✔️9. Invisible Cities 6/28/23
✔️10. Animal Farm 6/29/23
✔️11. Fahrenheit 451 6/29/23
✔️12. Rebecca 6/30/23
✔️13. The Postman Always Rings Twice 7/1/23
✔️14. Heart of Darkness 7/1/23
✔️15. The Moonstone
✔️16.. Cranford 7/8/23
✔️17. Lady Murasaki's Tale of Genji: The Manga Edition 7/8/23
✔️18. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 7/12/23
✔️19. Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief 7/12/23
✔️20. The Call of the Wild 7/22/23
✔️21. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 7/22/23
✔️22. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain illustrated addition 7/22/23
✔️23. Middlemarch 7/22/23
✔️24. Siddhartha 7/26/23
✔️25. Steppenwolf 7/26/23

now I've read 68 of the 1001 books. I'll start from there:

69. The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin
70. Mother by Maxim Gorky
71. The Voyage Out
72. The Age of Innocense
73.Ulysses
74. Lady Chatterley's Lover
75. The Maltese Falcon
76. The Count of Monte Cristo
77. The Body Artist
78. Great Expectations : Charles Dickens
79. Seize the Day
80. Atonement 8/6/23
81. Crome Yellow 8/10/23
82. So Long a Letter 8/12/23
83. Les Miserables 8/12/23
84. The Newton Letter 8/19/23
85. Story of the Eye 8/20/23
86. Moby-Dick or, the Whale 8/22/23
87. Robinson Crusoe 8/23/23
88. The Hound of the Baskervilles 8/23/23
89. A Christmas Carol 8/24/23
90. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame 8/26/23
91. The Island of Doctor Moreau 8/26/23
92. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 8/30/23
93. Flaubert's Parrot 9/9/23
94. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 9/11/23
95. Around the World in Eighty Days 9/14/23
96. Journey to the Center of the Earth 9/15/23
97. City Primeval 9/15/23
98. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 9/16/23
99. Worstward Ho 9/16/23
100. Les Enfants terribles 9/16/23
101. La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes 9/21/23
102. The Brothers Karamazov 9/21/23
103. Oroonoko 10/9/23
104. In the Heart of the Seas 10/29/23
105. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen 10/29/23
106. Bunner Sisters 11/4/23
107. The Royal Game 12/2/23
108. Reveries of the Solitary Walker 12/2/23

[Sammy]

Completed another round (post 116). going to try for another 25 this year! 😁

1. A Home at the End of the World
2. Cannery Row
3. Beloved
4. The Joke
5. The Violent Bear It Away
6. Kitchen
7. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
8. The Wasp Factory
9. The Swarm
10. Bonjour tristesse
11. The House of the Seven Gables
12. The Adventures of Augie March
13. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
14. 2666
15. Under the Volcano
16. Sentimental Education
17. Quo Vadis
18. Naked Lunch
19. A Tale of Love and Darkness
20. Herzog
21. Mason & Dixon
22. The Savage Detectives
23. Zorba the Greek
24. Mr. Vertigo
25. Money

[Dana]

I would like to read 10 from the list in the next year.

Start date: 9/4/23

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[Sammy]

Another round done. Hoping to get through quite a few in 2024. I have read 363 so far and still have loooooooads to go!

1. Devils
2. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
3. The Music of Chance
4. The Forsyte Saga
5. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
6. The Passion
7. La Reine Margot
8. H is for Hawk
9. Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
10. The Glass Bead Game
11. The Sun Also Rises
12. A Gate at the Stairs
13. Robinson Crusoe
14. Humboldt's Gift
15. The Way of All Flesh
16. Bel-Ami
17. The Marriage Plot
18. I'm Not Scared
19. The Mysteries of Udolpho
20. Kiss of the Spider Woman
21. Cider with Rosie
22. Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
23. Foe
24. Chess Story
25. The Awakening and Other Stories

[Fiona]

Read so far (end of 2023): 28

2024 tracking:
1. Little Women
2. Jane Eyre
3. Schindler’s List
4. Überredung
5. The Moonstone
6. The Sun Also Rises
7. Treasure Island
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
9. Don Quixote
10. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
11. The Island of Dr. Moreau
12. Siddhartha
13. Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
14. The Secret History

[Mia]

Let's try another 50 next year.


January 1 - December 31, 2024

1. Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
2. Vanhurskaan syntisen yksityiset muistelmat ja tunnustukset
3. The Wasp Factory
4. King Solomon's Mines
5. Promise at Dawn
6. Time's Arrow
7. V.
8. Vile Bodies
9. Peltirumpu
10. Kaima
11. The Crime of Father Amaro
12. Madame Bovary
13. The House in Paris
14. Rabbit Redux
15. Kello
16. Zorba the Greek
17. Mao II
18. Our Mutual Friend
19. Barabbas
20. Garden, Ashes
21. Keep the Aspidistra Flying
22. The Buddha of Suburbia
23. Half of Man Is Woman
24. Germinal
25. The Plot Against America
26. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
27. Compassion
28. Billiards at Half-Past Nine
29. The Living and the Dead
30. The God of Small Things
31. Cain
32. The Woman in White
33. Inho
34. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
35. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
36. A Prayer for Owen Meany
37. Baselin kellot
38. Meri, meri
39. Don Quixote
40. The 39 Steps
41. La Celestina
42. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
43. Decline and Fall
44. Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit
45. The Red and the Black
46. The Quiet American
47. Great Expectations
48. Kissansilmä
49. Les Misérables
50. Suite Française
51. Tono-Bungay
52. The Roots of Heaven
53. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
54. Ivanhoe
55. I'm Not Stiller
56. The Princess of Cleves
57. A Dance to the Music of Time, Complete Set: 1st Movement, 2nd Movement, 3rd Movement, 4th Movement

[Sheri]

January 1 - December 31, 2024

1) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2) Parable of the Sower
3) O Pioneers!
4) Ragtime
5) The Sound and the Fury
6) American GodsA Farewell to Arms
7) Peer Gynt
8) The Portrait of a Lady
9) Gravity's Rainbow
10) A Gentleman in Moscow

[Amy]

Amy's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Challenge
January 1, 2024 - December 15, 2024

Completed: 10/10

1. The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers 2/13/24
2. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters 5/19/24
3. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 7/23/24
4. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene 10/16/24
5. Adam Bede by George Eliot 10/24/24
6. The Cubs and Other Stories by Mario Vargas Llosa 11/2/24
7. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh 11/6/24
8. The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis 11/25/24
9. Evelina by Frances Burney 12/3/24
10. The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong'o 12/15/24

[Elspeth]

Last year I read 68 books in this list.

(My total overall is 122 I've read, though my list isn't as long as the 1316 total from all lists I've seen before. According to my list I still have 1113 books to read on all the 3 iterations).

My challenge for this year will be 50 books on the 1001 list.

Completed 12/22/24

✅ 1. The Castle of Crossed Destinies
✅ 2. Madame Bovary
✅ 3. Silk
✅ 4. The Breast
✅ 5. The Things They Carried
✅ 6. Mary Barton
✅7. Blue of Noon 1/18/24
✅8. Veronika Decides to Die 1/17/24
✅9. The Life and Death of Harriett Frean 1/19/24
✅10.. The House on the Borderland 1/21/24
✅11. Adjunct: An Undigest 1/20/24
✅12. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 2/10/24
✅13. The End of the Road 2/18/24
✅14. Amsterdam 2/29/24
✅15. The Comfort of Strangers 2/9/24
✅16. The Last of the Mohicans 2/8/24
✅17. The Old Man and the Sea 1/27/24
✅18. H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, Volume 1 2/10/24
✅19. The Wonderful O 3/1/24
✅20. Orlando 3/23/24
✅21. Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3/24/24
✅22. The Little Prince 3/25/24
✅23. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 3/28/24
✅24. Chocky 3/31/24
✅25. The Butcher Boy 3/31/24
✅26. The Fox 4/3/24
✅27. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris 4/5/24
✅28. None but the Brave 4/6/24
✅29. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick 4/7/24
✅30. The Pigeon 4/9/24
✅31. Thomas Of Reading 4/10/24
✅32 Ignorance 4/11/24
✅33. The Afternoon of a Writer 5/29/24
✅34. Closely Watched Trains 6/3/24
✅35. The Underdogs by Azuela, Mariano. (Modern Library,2002) Paperback 7/4/24
✅36. Hell 8/11/24
✅37. The 39 Steps 8/22/24
✅38. The Home and the World 8/25/24
✅39. Rashomon and Other Stories 8/28/24
✅40. Strait is the Gate 11/18/24
✅41. By Willem Elsschot Cheese (First Edition 11/19/24
✅42. Of Mice and Men 11/22/24
✅43. The War of the Worlds 11/23/24
✅44. Woman at Point Zero 11/29/24
✅45. The Girls of Slender Means 12/6/24
✅46. The Nose 12/10/24
✅47. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring 12/12/24
✅48. The Purloined Letter 12/14/24
✅49. The Pit and the Pendulum 12/14/24
✅50. No One Writes to the Colonel 12/22/24

[Melissa (ladybug)]

NBRC 1001 Books challenge
Jan. 2024 - 31 Dec. 2024


01. The Wild Boys - William S. Burroughs 7/8/24
02. The Cider House Rules - John Irving 8/19/24
03. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott 8/21/24
04. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote 9/2/24

[Sammy]

First round of the year done! (post 126) I'll be slowing down now that team challenges are starting up again, but definitely hoping to get another batch of 25 crossed off this year!

1. The Bluest Eye
2. Walden
3. Portnoy’s Complaint
4. The Three Musketeers
5. The Plague
6. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
7. Against the Day
8. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
9. Little Women
10. Amerika
11. The Black Prince
12. On Beauty
13. Freedom
14. The Bell
15. Nightwood
16. The Red and the Black
17. The Betrothed
18. Cecilia: Or Memoirs of an Heiress
19. The Charterhouse of Parma
20. The Corrections
21. The Wonderful O
22. The Man Without Qualities
23. A Sentimental Journey
24. Night and Day
25. Villette

[Mia]

I need 58 to get to 600, so let's try that.

January 1 - December 31, 2025

1. Infinite Jest
2. Gone with the Wind
3. Willard and His Bowling Trophies
4. Ormond
5. Suurkaupungin kasvot
6. Silas Marner
7. Siddhartha
8. Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
9. She
10. Talvi
11. White Teeth
12. Reasons to Live
13. Malone kuolee
14. Blaming
15. Portnoy’s Complaint
16. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
17. Broken April
18. Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
19. The Sense of an Ending
20. Three Kingdoms
21. L'Assommoir
22. Humboldt's Gift
23. Foundation
24. Cakes and Ale
25. Henderson the Rain King
26. Memoirs of a Geisha
27. On the Road
28. The Black Prince
29. Living
30. Possession
31. Lost Illusions
32. Albert Angelo
33. Antic Hay
34. Voss
35. Eugénie Grandet
36. Viides rooli
37. Of Human Bondage
38. Nadja
39. Party Going
40. Season of Migration to the North
41. Illuusioiden kirja
42. Main Street
43. Untouchable
44. Billy Budd, Sailor
45. The Book of Disquiet
46. The Magic Mountain
47. Loving
48. Kristuksen historia
49. The Glass Bees
50. The Forsyte Saga
51. The Female Quixote
52. The Things They Carried
53. Valvojaiset
54. Smiley's People
55. Kuinka kuolleet elävät
56. Tropic of Cancer
57. Doctor Zhivago
58. Heliodorus: An Ethiopian Romance
59. Dervišši ja kuolema
60. Gargantua and Pantagruel

[Amy]

Amy's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Challenge
January 1, 2025 -
Completed: 6/10

1. Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler 1/7/25
2. Kokoro by Natsume Soseki 4/16/25
3. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin 7/17/25
4. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga 8/7/25
5. The Castle by Franz Kafka 9/11/25
6. Call It Sleep by Henry Roth 9/23/25
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[Fiona]

Read so far (end of 2024): 42

2025 tracking:

1. Der Fremde
2. Lolita
3. 1984

[Melissa (ladybug)]

NBRC 1001 Books challenge
Jan. 2025 - 31 Dec. 2025


01. My Ántonia - Willa Cather 1/18/25
02. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy 3/24/25
03. King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard 6/24/25

[Sammy]

Oof! Took me more than a year to do 25 this time!! Let's see if I can get back on track...

1. The Sound and the Fury
2. The Trial
3. A Bend in the River
4. Murder Must Advertise
5. The Magus
6. The Castle
7. Vineland
8. Small Island
9. The Autumn of the Patriarch
10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
11. London Fields
12. The Information
13. At the Mountains of Madness
14. No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories
15. The Postman Always Rings Twice