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Read pre-19901. The Hobbit Tolkien J.R.R.
2. The Little Prince Saint-Exupéry Antoine de
3. Of Mice and Men Steinbeck John
4. Lord of the Flies Golding William
5. To Kill a Mockingbird Lee Harper
6. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Adams Douglas
7. Billy Budd, Foretopman Melville Herman
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain Mark
9. The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne Nathaniel
10. For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway Ernest
11. The Catcher in the Rye Salinger J.D.
12. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Christie Agatha
13. Last of the Mohicans Cooper James Fenimore
14. Heart of Darkness Conrad Joseph
15. Cannery Row Steinbeck John
16. The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck John (have re-read)
17. Oliver Twist Dickens Charles
18. Invisible Man Ellison Ralph
19. Homo Faber Frisch Max
20. The Jungle Sinclair Upton
21. Babbitt Lewis Sinclair (have re-read 2x)
22. The Leopard Tomasi di Lampedusa Giuseppe
23. Burmese Days Orwell George
Read 1990–199924. Rasselas Johnson Samuel
25. Hard Times Dickens Charles
26. Howards End Forster E.M.
27. The Mill on the Floss Eliot George
28. Native Son Wright Richard
29. The Name of the Rose Eco Umberto
30. The House of Mirth Wharton Edith
31. Main Street Lewis Sinclair
32. Sister Carrie Dreiser Theodore
33. Moll Flanders Defoe Daniel
34. A Tale of Two Cities Dickens Charles (re-read 2x)
35. Beloved Morrison Toni
36. The Woman in White Collins Wilkie
37. The Handmaid’s Tale Atwood Margaret (re-read)
38. The House of the Seven Gables Hawthorne Nathaniel
39. The Moonstone Collins Wilkie
40. Anna Karenina Tolstoy Leo
41. Tess of the D’Urbervilles Hardy Thomas
42. The Turn of the Screw James Henry
43. Candide Voltaire
44. The Thousand and One Nights Anonymous
45. Little Women Alcott Louisa May
46. The Sun Also Rises Hemingway Ernest
47. The Robber Bride Atwood Margaret
48. Ethan Frome Wharton Edith
49. Don Quixote Cervantes Saavedra Miguel de
50. Silas Marner Eliot George
51. One Hundred Years of Solitude García Márquez Gabriel
52. Le Père Goriot Balzac Honoré de
53. The Age of Innocence Wharton Edith
54. Frankenstein Shelley Mary (re-read)
55. Great Expectations Dickens Charles
56. Of Human Bondage Maugham W. Somerset
57. Pride and Prejudice Austen Jane
58. Brave New World Huxley Aldous
59. Adam Bede Eliot George
60. The Trial Kafka Franz
61. The Joke Kundera Milan
62. The Beggar Maid Munro Alice
63. The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald F. Scott (re-read)
64. The Sound and the Fury Faulkner William
65. Song of Solomon Morrison Toni
66. Sense and Sensibility Austen Jane
67. Where Angels Fear to Tread Forster E.M.
68. Of Love and Shadows Allende Isabel
69. Miramar Mahfouz Naguib
70. Like Water for Chocolate Esquivel Laura
71. Remembering Babylon Malouf David
72. Bleak House Dickens Charles
73. Cranford Gaskell Elizabeth
74. Eugénie Grandet Balzac Honoré de
75. Germinal Zola Émile
76. Memoirs of a Geisha Golden Arthur
Read 2000-201177. The Poisonwood Bible Kingsolver Barbara
78. Remains of the Day Ishiguro Kazuo
79. The Blind Assassin Atwood Margaret
80. The Corrections Franzen Jonathan
81. Atonement McEwan Ian
82. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Haddon Mark
83. Mrs. Dalloway Woolf Virginia
84. The White Tiger Adiga Aravind
85. Kidnapped Stevenson Robert Louis
86. Tarzan of the Apes Burroughs Edgar Rice
87. Things Fall Apart Achebe Chinua
88. Dom Casmurro Machado de Assis Joaquim Maria
89. Elegance of the Hedgehog Barbery Muriel
90. A Gate at the Stairs Moore Lorrie
91. The History of Love Krauss Nicole
92. Freedom Franzen Jonathan
93. The Talented Mr. Ripley Highsmith Patricia
94. Never Let Me Go Ishiguro Kazuo
95. Disgrace Coetzee J.M.
96. Middlemarch Eliot George (re-read)
97. A Visit from the Goon Squad Egan Jennifer
98. A Clockwork Orange Burgess Anthony
Read 2012–201499. The Third Policeman O'Brien Flann
100. Kristin Lavransdatter Undset Sigrid
101. The Invisible Man Wells H.G.
102. The Time Machine Wells H.G.
103. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson Robert Louis
104. The Sense of an Ending Barnes Julian
105. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr
106. Cloud Atlas Mitchell David
107. Day of the Triffids Wyndham John
108. Independent People Laxness Halldór
109. The Thirty-Nine Steps Buchan John
110. The Cement Garden McEwan Ian
Read 2015 111. Wise Blood O’Connor Flannery
112. The Country Girls O’Brien Edna
113. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Lewycka Marina
114. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes Anonymous The Life of La
115. The Unfortunate Traveller Nashe Thomas
116. The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman Szczypiorski Andrzej
117. The Fall of the House of Usher Poe Edgar Allan
118. Through the Looking Glass Carroll Lewis
119. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Carroll Lewis
120. Dracula Stoker Bram
121. The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky Fyodor
122. Ballad for Georg Henig Paskov Viktor
123. The Island of Dr. Moreau Wells H.G.
124. Invisible Cities Calvino Italo
125. The Pilgrim’s Progress Bunyan John
126. Oroonoko Behn Aphra
127. Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston Zora Neale
128. Robinson Crusoe Defoe Daniel
129. Amsterdam McEwan Ian
130. Foe Coetzee J.M.
131. A Modest Proposal Swift Jonathan
132. Hunger Hamsun Knut
133. The Vicar of Wakefield Goldsmith Oliver
134. The Shipyard Onetti Juan Carlos
135. Girl With Green Eyes O'Brien Edna
136. Pamela Richardson Samuel
137. After the Quake Murakami Haruki
138. Decline and Fall Waugh Evelyn
139. Black Dogs McEwan Ian
140. The Devil and Miss Prym Coelho Paulo
(30 this year)
Read 2016141. I, Robot Asimov Isaac
142. The Charwoman’s Daughter Stephens James
143. Nervous Conditions Dangarembga Tsitsi
144. A Suitable Boy Seth Vikram
145. Joseph Andrews Fielding Henry
146. Faces in the Water Frame Janet
147. The Wonderful “O” Thurber James
148. Breakfast at Tiffany’s Capote Truman
149. Pnin Nabokov Vladimir
150. Growth of the Soil Hamsun Knut
151. Deep Rivers Arguedas José María
152. The Purloined Letter Poe Edgar Allan
153. The Pit and the Pendulum Poe Edgar Allan
154. The Burning Plain Rulfo Juan
155. The House on the Borderland Hodgson William Hope
156. The Yellow Wallpaper Perkins Gilman Charlotte
157. The Castle of Otranto Walpole Horace
158. Treasure Island Stevenson Robert Louis
159. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter Anonymous
160. Agnes Grey Brontë Anne
161. The Blind Owl Hedayat Sadegh
162. The Iron Heel London Jack
163. The Sorrows of Young Werther Goethe Johann Wolfgang von
164. The Midwich Cuckoos Wyndham John
165. The English Patient Ondaatje Michael
166. Embers Marai Sandor
167. The Secret Agent Conrad Joseph
168. Vathek Beckford William Thomas
169. Martin Chuzzlewit Dickens Charles
170. The Summer Book Jansson Tove
(30 read this year)
Read 2017171. The Storm of Steel Junger Ernst
172. Titus Groan Peake Mervyn
173. Pippi Longstocking Lindgren Astrid
174. Cane Toomer Jean
175. Passing Larsen Nella
176. Watchmen Moore Alan
177. Wise Children Carter Angela
178. The Gathering Enright Anne
179. The Underdogs Azuela Mariano
180. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
181. The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary
182. Legend by David Gemmell
183. Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev
184. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
185. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
186. World's End by TC Boyle
187. Decadence (aka The Artamanov Business) by Maxim Gorky
188. The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
189. What I Loved by Siri Husvedt
190. The Cathedral by Oles Honchar
(19 this year)
Read in 2018191. Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
192. Women in Love by DH Lawrence
193. Deep River by Shusako Endo
194. Rickshaw Boy by Lao She
195. All Souls by Javier Marias
196. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
197. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
198. Jazz by Toni Morrison
199. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
200. Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
201. The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil
202. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
203. Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
204. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
205. Journey to the Alcarria by Camilo Jose Cela
206. Harriet Hume by Rebecca West
207. Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
208. Anagrams by Lorrie Moore
209. Pastoralia by George Saunders
210. Saturday by Ian McEwan
211. Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong
212. Roxana by Daniel Defoe
213. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
214. Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El-Saadawi
215. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
216. Unless by Carol Shields
217. Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
218. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
219. Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
220. The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
221. Sula by Toni Morrison
222. Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
223. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke
224. The Light of Day by Graham Swift
225. The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
226. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
227. The Water Margin by Shi Nai'an
228. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
229. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
additions:
books from the new edition that I have previously read:
230. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
231. The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
Read in 2019232. The Drowned World by JG Ballard
233. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
234. At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft
235. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
236. Summer by Edith Wharton
237. The Return of the Solider by Rebecca West
238. Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
239. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
These are in the order read, past to present. Re-reads will be noted if I can figure out how to do it so I don't get confused.