How many of the 1001 books have you read? Showing 1,201-1,250 of 1,912

[Mickey]

I've read 58 which is way more than I thought I had read.

[Hollyinnnv]

I have read 72 according to the app I'm using. I just started attempting to read off the list-lots of fun!

[Jonpaul]

I made it to 307 on the combined lists by the end of the year, which was my goal. Less than 1,001 to go.

[Tricia]

I've read 244 from the combined list.

[Inna]

398 (on the combined lists)

[Kennie]

I have read 26... But I also read a few books that are not on the list. I might not read ALL 1001 books, but I will sure give it a shot!

[Teresa Dicentra]

I had read a lot of the books before I found the list. After taking a break from the list last year, I'm at 113. Back to checking off on my list. using the combined lists. 1305 books.

[Bucket]

I'm at 131, and nearing the end of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. Hoping to read 20-25 this year.

[Tyler]

I've read 122 of them. Working on Anna Karenina and A Suitable Boy right now

[[deleted user]]

Wow, lots of you are making really good progress-great job everyone!

[Ellinor]

I just finished my 250th book. That's 25% of the 1001 but as I'm doing the combined list I'm still far off from 25% there. But I'm still proud of myself!

[Linda]

Ellinor wrote: "I just finished my 250th book. That's 25% of the 1001 but as I'm doing the combined list I'm still far off from 25% there. But I'm still proud of myself!"

250 - That's certainly a milestone! Awesome job, Ellinor! :)

[[deleted user]]

Ellinor wrote: "I just finished my 250th book. That's 25% of the 1001 but as I'm doing the combined list I'm still far off from 25% there. But I'm still proud of myself!"

Great job!!

[Chris]

Just hit 375. Hoping to get to 450 by the end of the year.

[Ellinor]

Linda wrote: "Ellinor wrote: "I just finished my 250th book. That's 25% of the 1001 but as I'm doing the combined list I'm still far off from 25% there. But I'm still proud of myself!"

250 - That's certainly a ..."

Thanks, Linda and Sara!

[Dichotomy Girl]

I'm somewhere between 115-120 (my various lists differ and I'm too lazy to find out if I'm missing some on one list, or have duplicates on the other). My goal this year is to read about 50 off the list.

I read 376 books last year, but only 9 were from the list (and 3 of those were accidental)

[Tom]

Are there Short stories on the list, or collections of stories. Off the top of your head, or is that another catagory?

[Kennie]

Tom wrote: "Are there Short stories on the list, or collections of stories. Off the top of your head, or is that another catagory?"

I know that The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is like a collection of short stories, but I can't think if there are any others off the top of my head...

[Tom]

ooh, thanks. And I actually have that!

[Melanti]

Tom wrote: "Are there Short stories on the list, or collections of stories. Off the top of your head, or is that another catagory?"

Aesop's Fables, The Arabian Nights, In a Glass Darkly.

Several of the ones by Italo Calvino aren't quite stand-alone stories but there's just a few paragraphs narration between the stories to link them.

[J_BlueFlower]

The New York Trilogy is almost three long short stories. They are connected, but can be read independently.

[Kaycie]

For short stories, there is Reasons to Live, and I don't know if The Garden Party and Other Stories is on the list in its entirety or if its supposed to be only The Garden Party, but I have the whole book of short stories. Platero y yo is sort of a collection of short stories, as well.

[Kaycie]

Oh! after the quake is also a collection of short stories.

[Nicola]

Tom wrote: "Are there Short stories on the list, or collections of stories. Off the top of your head, or is that another catagory?"

The 1001 tales (Arabian Nights) obviously is and I'd also class The Street of Crocodiles as one. The stories are about the same family though.

[Kennie]

Tom wrote: "Are there Short stories on the list, or collections of stories. Off the top of your head, or is that another catagory?"

Oh! I also remembered thinking that A Visit from the Goon Squad was like a series as short stories. They are all connected and have to do with the characters in the story.

[Tom]

Thank you guys. Thta Mansfield saounds interesting

[Kennie]

31! I'm so happy! :D

[Kirsten]

I'm up to 58!

[Katherine]

150. I've been looking forward to this milestone for far too long.

[Trine]

15 ;o

[Ian]

Just nailed down my book number 400 !
370 from the original 2006 edition and 30 from the subsequent revisions.
Feeling quietly chuffed with myself.

[Winter]

I have started from scratch, so there's a couple I want to read again so my number is 4:P

I'm 29. Finished around 60 maybe :P But so fun!!

[Ginny]

I've been working on this list since 2010 and for the last month and a half have been recuperating from hip surgery but as of tonight, I've just finished 415.

[Karin]

Just started. Have read so far, three books of the list.

[Faouzia]

Only 64!! but i have a lot of them in my to-read list and i'm planning to read more during this year as my challenge :)

[Kirsten]

I'm only up to 32.

[Dianne]

I've just joined the group but been doing the list for a year now I had already done 120 when I started, now I am up to 225, feeling good about it.

[Frances]

Remarkable!
Is there one that stays with you that you might recommend over all others?

[Karen Michele]

I'm new here, too, and I've just finished tallying using the complete list on the app and the list challenge link posted on another thread. I'm at 307, but I am counting books I read a long time ago and I am not re-reading them unless I really want to. I have been using the list for ideas since the original book came out, so that represents about 7 years worth of using the list here and there. I haven't read many of the older works, so I am hoping this group will up my enthusiasm for that part of the list.

[Dianne]

I discovered I loved Dumas, which surprised me. But generally I have loved the variety of the list and some of the authors whose works have been translated, which I would never have considered otherwise. However, I still don't like George Eliot or Dickens, however much I try!

[Ed]

I'm at 119.

[Emily]

I keep saying that I'm going to do this, and yet I'm not diligent about it. I've only read 60, and I was an English major. It's hard when I'm exhausted at the end of the day of teaching students with emotional disturbances to then want to read a book that I'm going to have to think to understand. Any tips on how to tackle the list? Listening to books does not work for me since I can't retain anything that I just hear.

[Nicola]

Emily wrote: "I keep saying that I'm going to do this, and yet I'm not diligent about it. I've only read 60, and I was an English major. It's hard when I'm exhausted at the end of the day of teaching students ..."

Well reading the list isn't a short endeavour, so if your life is currently not conducive to reading books you have to concentrate on I'd head for the lighter or more digestible ones and leave the others for a time in your life when you've got the attention needed. Or holidays.

It's a shame you don't think audio books would work, I've been a real convert since getting serious with the list.

[Emily]

Nicola wrote: "Emily wrote: "I keep saying that I'm going to do this, and yet I'm not diligent about it. I've only read 60, and I was an English major. It's hard when I'm exhausted at the end of the day of teac..."

I would love to be able to listen to books on tape. I just am not an auditory learner. I have to take notes every time I hear something, because if it's not written down, I forget it. I can go to church, hear a great sermon, and 10 minutes afterwards if asked what it was about, I wouldn't be able to tell you.

[Dree]

Emily, I feel your pain! I cannot listen to audio books either. I have tried many times, and I just can't even follow the stories. I also can't listen to any kind of talk (talk radio, podcasts, books) while driving because I go straight to sleep.

I always struggled with lectures in school too. I just cannot listen and learn--I have to read or do.

[Jennifer W]

Emily wrote: "I keep saying that I'm going to do this, and yet I'm not diligent about it. I've only read 60, and I was an English major. It's hard when I'm exhausted at the end of the day of teaching students ..."

I work with mentally ill adults, so I get what you mean about being too tired to read thinking books. Some of the list books are a bit easier on the brain. I just finished Wise Children and am currently reading The Once and Future King, both of those haven't been as hard on me. Jane Austen's also fall into that category for me, too. Good luck!

[Emily]

Jennifer W wrote: "Emily wrote: "I keep saying that I'm going to do this, and yet I'm not diligent about it. I've only read 60, and I was an English major. It's hard when I'm exhausted at the end of the day of teac..."

Jane Austen isn't a "thinking" book for me - it's the more modern books that have a lot of symbolism, and the thick tomes of Les Miz, War and Peace, that have essays within the novel.

[Linda]

Luís wrote: "69 books reached."

Thumbs up! :)

[Ann A]

I'm at 152 books of the combined list. I don't have aspirations to read them all but I try to always have a book from the list in progress, along with whatever else I am reading.

[Nathan]

124 since I've started the list. If you count books I had read previous to that, I'm probably around 175.