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Deanne
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Jul 14, 2012 04:02AM
Ordered my copy, have to see what books are in and out.
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Yeah - will be interesting. Hope I've had the foresight to have read some of them already!
Have 80 on the 2006 list to read, so it will give me ideas as I was getting worried.
Maybe someone more familiar with recent lists will be able to determine if the list displayed on http://www.1001beforeyoudie.com/ is the newest iteration. Seemed to have a TON more international selections than I remember on the list I have. But I could be wrong! Maybe it is the most recent one from the book I do not own. (2010?)
Cass wrote: "Maybe someone more familiar with recent lists will be able to determine if the list displayed on http://www.1001beforeyoudie.com/ is the newest iteration. Seemed to have a TON more international se..."The webpage appears to be the 2008 list. The cover is of the 2008 edition, and titles that were added to the 2008 edition are on that list, but titles on the 2010 list are not.
Can someone please let me know if the combined lists are viewable online alphabetically by author's name, and/or how the Boxall's 1001 books list these titles? Alphabetically by title, author or original publication date?
nope they're not available in the form you're after. The book lists them roughly chronologically starting with the oldest.
Arukiyomi wrote: "nope they're not available in the form you're after. The book lists them roughly chronologically starting with the oldest."Thanks for the info, Arukiyomi
Wouldn't you be able to do that by checking the bookshelf here on this group, then using the option to search by selecting the author. There is a button at the side of author heading which will allow you to sort the list according to authors surname. I believe it will sort from a-z or z-a.
Mandy, thankyou so very much. It worked! Now I can search more easily (alphabetically) at the library. Thanks again.
Cass and Fiona, I love your threads! Fiona, I agree that two years is not enough time to determine the significance of a book. As I said in an earlier post, there were just 11 books dropped from the 2008 edition. Of those, six had just been added in 2008. So, how important were they really? (I say important because if I'm supposed to read them before I die--as the title suggests--they darn well better be important.)But I am also a major ocd list-fanatic. Between the three versions of this and many others I'm tracking, I have to live to be 69 in order to get to all the ones that I want!
I do have a spreadsheet of all three lists combined. There are a total of 1294 distinct books and 766 distinct authors. I'm happy to share with anyone who asks. (Since I don't advertise or charge money for it, I'm assuming I'm not infringing any copyright laws.)
Tej, unfortunately, you'd be wrong in that assumption. You only have to look at filesharing to know that logic doesn't apply. It's the distribution of the list that the publishers are objecting to, free or otherwise. They are worried that a the availability of the list in app or spreadsheet form will damage sales of particularly their ebooks. Making money from it is another issue but not their central concern.
So, if it is the spreadsheet I made, I wouldn't be too vocal about sharing a list that Quintessence has explicitly asked to be removed from distribution.
As for those 6 that were removed having been added in 2008, of those I've read, I'd say that Curious Incident and The Reluctant Fundamentalist were good enough to remain on the list as important books. Particularly the latter was excellent at capturing the spirit of the age.
Is the ebook of "1001 books you must read" available yet??? I have been holding off buying the hard cover tome/door stopper/book waiting for an ebook version.
I not sure if I should pre-order this or wait until I know what's on the list. I'm currently following the 2008 one and working my way through that nicely and I don't want to be plonked with a new list that will mess everything up.
Diane, there are already ebook versions of the 1001 movies list. An ebook version of the 1001 books list is in the pipeline so I'm told but I don't think it will be this year.
Arukiyomi wrote: "As for those 6 that were removed..."I thought that The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay was one of the best books I've ever read. I was very sorry to see it go.
anybody out there know if Arukiyomi has been able to rerelease his excel page for 1001 books? I have his latest page, but will be needing the updates. actually, what I really need is just the new titles that have been added in the 2012 edition. I'm working off a "masterlist" of all the titles from all the books, and just need to add the new titles to keep the "masterlist" updated... and I REALLY, REALLY don't want to have to do it the hard way! One title at a time... ick! help!
I can tell you that I won't be releasing the new list until at least 2013... but that's all I can tell you.
Arukiyomi wrote: "I can tell you that I won't be releasing the new list until at least 2013... but that's all I can tell you."Soon enough! I've got a few left on the current list to read yet. ;-)
I've been working through the combined lists from this group's bookshelf, and the various banned/challenged book lists because there's a lot of overlap between them. I know for a FACT that I'll never read all 1296 or so books that are in the bookshelf now, there are some I'm just flat not interested in, or they will be next to impossible to find. And...that's ok with me. BUT, it gives me a wide range of books still to choose from, including a gazillion classics I never read in either high school or college that were never in my curriculums. So I generally try to read 3 at a time, 2 list books & a free read. Keeps me sane, LOL. Or, well, as sane as it gets for me :) I'm 45 now, so I know that time wise, I don't have enough years left to finish them all anyway...
Is there a list of books that are on all three versions somewhere?
Andrea wrote: "Is there a list of books that are on all three versions somewhere?"On this group's bookshelf.
I mean just the books that overlap on each list. Is that on the bookshelf?
Andrea wrote: "I mean just the books that overlap on each list. Is that on the bookshelf?"There are 714 of those books. Not sure where that list might be.
There is a list in one of the discussion threads. You are best to check the discussion headings and you will find it.
Found 11 books so far that I've not seen on previous lists. Off to make a new shelf.
Deanne wrote: "Found 11 books so far that I've not seen on previous lists. Off to make a new shelf."I'm glad of the Julian Barnes and Eugenides, not so much about Franzen and Roth or Goon Squad. Will have to look further at the others.
I was thinking the same thing myself, Elizabeth. Of the 11 new books I've only managed to read 2-1/2 of them (one I put aside a few months ago with the intention of coming back to it).
Wait, y'all found the 2012 edition list already? Where?
Liz M wrote: "Wait, y'all found the 2012 edition list already? Where?"Deanne made a shelf.
http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/...
It would be cool to know what was deleted too.
I added a 2012-updates shelf to the group bookshelves. Please let me know if other titles need to be added. Thanks!
Deanna, MandaSo, is the cover illustration from Memoirs of a Geisha? And is it included in the 2012 edition?
Yes Memoirs of a Geisha is included in the 2012 list, it was on the 2006 list, but not on the 2008. would be interesting to see which books dropped off the list and were reinstated.The 11 I found had't appeared on a previous list, but there maybe more.
Deanne, thanks so much for making your shelf. I'm excited that a number of contemporary books I've been wanting to read (The Sense of an Ending, The Art of Fielding, The Marriage Plot, etc) will now count toward my 1001 total.I have to say though, it's killing me that I don't have a copy of the new edition in front of me! I want to comb through it and see what other changes have been made. :o)
Deanne, thank you so much for cluing us in on what is new on the list..very much appreciated!
Yes, thank you Deanne for adding the 'new ones'.
Yeah actually thank you for that Deanne, it's much appreciated.
Now the big question, what was taken off of the list?
Picked up The Art of Fielding, unfortunately I'm English and therefore unable to understand anything about baseball, just glad it's not about cricket. As for football just don't understand the offside rule.
Manda wrote: "found the following that have been added when comparing my two book versions last night -On Love (Essays in Love) - Alain de Botton
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Measuring the World - Daniel Kehlmann
The History of Love _ Nicole Krauss..."
On Love has been included in all editions.
Memoirs of a Geisha was included in 2006, removed in 2008, and apparently reinstated in 2012.
Measuring the World was added in the 2008 edition.
And The History of Love is new for the 2012 edition.
Huh. No Kafka on the Shore or The Ghost Road? Both were in the first three editions and now they don't make the cut? Arukiyomi might run out of font colors for the new spreadsheet.
Can someone please list the 11 books that were removed from the 2010 list?
So if there are 714 books which overlap from all lists that means there are 714 books you must read before you die and several hundred others you might consider reading....if they were "musts" they would appear in each edition, right? So logically the best idea is to concentrate first on the lists of constants, and when you've read all those it will be time to update your list ....just a thought.
With the 11 new books plus the reinstatement of Geisha we have plus 12. Kafka and Ghost Road taken off brings us to plus 10. Who has the new book and can check and see what other books were removed?
Jan wrote: "So if there are 714 books which overlap from all lists that means there are 714 books you must read before you die and several hundred others you might consider reading....if they were "musts" they..."Jan that was exactly my thinking. I was trying to find a list of those 714 books, do you happen to know where I could find it?
Andrea wrote: "Jan wrote: "So if there are 714 books which overlap from all lists that means there are 714 books you must read before you die and several hundred others you might consider reading....if they were ..."When Arukiyomi is allowed to publish his spreadsheet again, the core list is one of the tabs. It's the only place I've seen it.
ETA: Nevermind, it doesn't include any of the additions Deanne mentioned and still has the two removed books that Manda mentioned.
Liz M wrote: "Andrea wrote: "Jan wrote: "So if there are 714 books which overlap from all lists that means there are 714 books you must read before you die and several hundred others you might consider reading....."Thanks, I mean I could take the time myself to analyze each list but I have other things to do like read the books. Hope his list is available again soon.
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