So which list are you using?

[Maryellen]

I purchased the first list book (2006) and made a small bit of progress on my own. When I joined Goodreads a year ago I found the group here and that really got me in a routine of trying to read a list book at least every second or third book I read. I did not realize until I joined the group that there had been list revisions so I first go by the 2006 book (I like the descriptions to read over) and then check the site's shelf for others I am missing. I love using reading lists to increase exposure to authors I have not read.

[Arukiyomi]

Mikela wrote: "The list I'm using has 1,194 books. It combines all books from 2006, 2008 and 2010.
mmmm... I think that should be 1,294 right? No cheating now!

[Will]

i've got the list that combines all 3 years.....1,294 total. a quick trip through the list shows I've readyat least 114 as there are a number of books that I think I read in my youth but am not 100% sure.

[Lisa]

I'm using the combined list here in the group on the bookshelf, I've been finding it helpful in my selections, & honestly, since I've never been either classics obsessed, or great literature obsessed, I've always just read what I liked, & it turns out that some of my favorites have been list books, so to find I was somewhere between 30-40 books ahead already when I first looked at the bookshelf was a nice surprise, LOL. This has given me an incentive to go back & read the classics that we never read in high school that a lot of others did, & not have that bias against them, & the courage to tackle some of the bigger works.

I have no intentions to read all of them either. There are so many that I'm simply not going to be ABLE to locate, but I do plan on working through familiar titles I've never read first, & if they are also on the banned/challenged book lists as well, then it's a double bonus for me, because I'm also working my way through those, excluding the obvious kiddie books.

Interestingly enough, I'm simultaneously reading both White Noise & Schindler's List, which actually compliment each other, LOL.

[Will]

get a nook or a kindle....hundreds of the books on this list (basically 1930 and earlier) are available for free thru gutenburg.org or manybooks. i'm sure there are other websites. rgds, will

[Mikela]

Arukiyomi wrote: "Mikela wrote: "The list I'm using has 1,194 books. It combines all books from 2006, 2008 and 2010.
mmmm... I think that should be 1,294 right? No cheating now!"

Lol, can't get away with anything. My fingers hit the 1 instead of the 2 and my eyes didn't catch my goof. Yes, there are 1,294 on my list, of which I've only read 172. Nothing to brag about but a good start nonetheless and I'll continue to plug along.

[Terri Lynn]

What I love is that so many good books continue to get published. I have decided not to die until I can read all of them so I am going to be unable to die. Fortunately members of my family routinely live to be over 100 and I am only 53 now.

[Ellinor]

I'm using all 4 versions of the list ('06, '08, '10 & '12).
I've got the German translation of the book at home. I always thought it was a translation of the 2008 edition. But then I noticed there were German books on it that weren't the English versions I found online. E.g. on the German list you can find Es geht uns gut by Arno Geiger which can't be found in any of the English versions.

[Angelique]

I am going with the 2006 list and the added books will be extras. You can never have too many books.

[Alana]

Speaking of multiple lists, when is the next one due out? I'm sure we'll have to add hundreds more... Is the link to the combined lists going to be updated when that happens? (You know, because I'm lazy and don't want to figure it out for myself :)

[Sandi]

So far the list got updated every other year. The original list came out in 2006. In 2008 they made several hundred changes to "internationalize" it more. In 2010 only about 10 books got changed, and in 2012 as well.
So my guess is, the next version will come out in 2014 and not much will get changed.

[Alana]

Is anyone reading through the 1001 children's book list, maybe along with your kids? Are there multiple versions of this list as well?

[Alana]

Speaking of the children's list, between when I started adding books to my GR shelf yesterday and this morning, they completely changed and updated the website, so my list is wrong already! Weird...

[Ellinor]

I'm reading my way along the 1001 chidlren's book list as well. I've read WAY more books from it than from the adult list (ca.360 vs. ca. 120)- the picture books just make it so much faster.

[Winter]

I read the complete list from the app. 1305 books, but if they continue to release them I need to change that probably. The app is so amazing btw!