How many of the 1001 books have you read? Showing 1,451-1,500 of 1,913

[Gemma]

I am on 62, really trying to get out my 4 (gulp) year reading slump and dig into it properly again!

[Sarah]

A hearty round of congratulations for you all! You're doing well.

Luis, we're at the same place. Keep going! :-)

Tim, I started last year and read a heap (101). You'll find your groove so don't worry. I'm tackling chunksters now and have finished 29 titles thus far and expect to add 30 more by the end of the year. The milestones will come and the ride towards them is sweet. Enjoy it!

[Kirsten]

I'm currently at 268. That feels like an accomplishment until I look at the statistics on my app and see that after 36 more I will still have 1001 to go!

[Sarah]

Kirsten wrote: "I'm currently at 268. That feels like an accomplishment until I look at the statistics on my app and see that after 36 more I will still have 1001 to go!"

LOL. I think milestones can be more encouraging. Especially at the beginning. I've wrapped up several authors and I'm aiming to add Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Proust to this year's list.

While the completion number may not be great, if you've gotten rid of writers with numerous titles or chunksters you'll feel a great sense of accomplishment.

And 268 isn't anything to sneeze at. Congrats! :-)

[Ed]

Since my last check-in in April when I thought I was at 200.... I have read the following 15 books.... but I also discovered 7 other books I had read and not added to my list....which puts me at 222.

List Books read since April:
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
On The Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life by Flann O'Brien
Passing by Nella Larsen
Bonjour tristesse by Françoise Sagan
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark

Has anyone else read Blood Meridien...I thought it was one of the worse books I have ever read and can't understand how it is on the list....and has such high ratings? Also not much of a fan of The Black Dahlia.
My favorite from this batch was Bonjour Tristesse.

[Nina]

My New Year's Resolution this year was to hit this list hard. As of, September 4, I've read 178 and 14 have been read in this year so far.

[Shaun]

180 and counting as of last week. At this rate, I will be done with the current list of "1,001" on June 4, 2271. Hmmmm . . . probably not going to make it that far.

[Gemma]

Shaun wrote: "180 and counting as of last week. At this rate, I will be done with the current list of "1,001" on June 4, 2271. Hmmmm . . . probably not going to make it that far."

Your comment made me laugh Shaun, I never considered what year it would be when I finished!

[George P.]

Ed wrote: "Has anyone else read Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West...I thought it was one of the worse books I have ever read and can't understand how it is on the list....."

I read this recently, and had a tough time getting through it- so violent and bleak. Evidently all his books are like that. Great power of description though.

[George P.]

I'm now at 230 (219 from the original edition and 11 from later editions). Ed, you've probably passed me by now.
I've nearly reached my reading goal number for the year, so taking on some of the longer ones: The Woman in White, Auto-da-Fe, and The Godfather.

[Jodie]

Where can the actual list be located?

[Bryan--The Bee’s Knees]

Jodie wrote: "Where can the actual list be located?"


Here's one source:

http://www.listchallenges.com/1001-bo...

I like this one because you can set up a profile and save the ones you've checked off. It has all the editions combined, so there ends up being around 1300+ books in this list. I'm not sure where the best place to find the updated list is at.

The only thing I don't like about the interactive list is that it can sometimes be hard to track down a title. Most of them are listed by publishing date, but the revisions were tacked on at the end, so something like Eugene Onegin, which was published in the 1830s, isn't listed until page 26, because it's one of the added titles, whereas novels from that same time period that were in the first edition are on page 2 and 3.

[Sarah]

For the ListChallenges website, click on the printer symbol to see the full list. You can use the find feature to locate the title.

A better option for iOS users is the 1001 app. Titles that are included in the 1001 Movies book are noted along with the option to follow specific editions or the complete version instead.

[George P.]

I like the 1001 Google sheet as a quick reference from my desktop pc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
It's alphabetized by author, you can use "control-F" to search for a title.

[George P.]

Bryan wrote: ...something like Eugene Onegin, which was published in the 1830s, isn't listed until page 26, because it's one of the added titles..."

Eugene Onegin is on page 3 now in the List Challenges site, so they seem to have updated it.

[Kelly_Hunsaker_reads]

So I just joined you all, but I read mostly Classics this year so I have added those in as read. I am at 48, but plan to finish at least 5 more before the year ends. Favorites so far: Far From the Madding Crowd and The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, A Prayer for Owen Meany by Irving, The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck.

[Karen]

Kelly wrote: "So I just joined you all, but I read mostly Classics this year so I have added those in as read. I am at 48, but plan to finish at least 5 more before the year ends. Favorites so far: Far From the ..."

Welcome to the group! A Prayer for Owen Meany is one of my all-time favorites!! And definitely add in any classics you have already read -- I did.

[Tyler]

It looks like I'm finishing the year at 180. Looking to get to 200 by the end of next year!

[J_BlueFlower]

141 here.

[Cara]

I'm at 33. I keep getting distracted by non-list books.

[Rory]

Cara wrote: "I'm at 33. I keep getting distracted by non-list books."

Easy to do, there's so much great stuff :)!

[Susana]

52, so far...

[Kirsten]

It looks like I'm ending off the year at 275. Maybe this means I will be at 1001 on the combined lists in 2018!!

[Sammy]

I'm currently reading number 57. Most of which I'd read before I discovered the list a few months ago, but I've been consciously adding books from the list to my to-read pile ever since...

[Kirsten]

Only up to 63.

[Brendan]

Hello! I've just joined the group and surprised myself by counting 65 books on the list that I've already read, including the December read. At least it's a head start! Several more were on my tbr already.

[Julie]

Managed to get to 92. Currently reading Moby Dick. Desperately trying to finish Gone with the Wind and just started The History of Love!

[George P.]

Kirsten wrote: "It looks like I'm ending off the year at 275. Maybe this means I will be at 1001 on the combined lists in 2018!!"

Ha, I doubt it but you're making great progress!
PS: I have family in Surrey and visited there a year ago.

I completed 35 list books this year (plus one book of a trilogy listing) which brings my total to 238. All but 11 of those were in the 2006 edition.
My favorite list books this year were Beloved and Broken April.

[George P.]

(the other) Kirsten wrote: "Only up to 63."
You're ahead of some people!

[Brendan]

Okay, I found more when I actually started putting them on a shelf. I've read 85 and have 27 on my tbr.

[Dree]

I only managed to read 19 this year, and am finishing the year at 190.

[Rory]

Julie wrote: "Managed to get to 92. Currently reading Moby Dick. Desperately trying to finish Gone with the Wind and just started The History of Love!"

Taking on some big fish, good for you.

[Rory]

I've made it through 240. A couple of my favorites from this past year are The Brothers Karamazov and The Colour

[Laura Hailstone]

I have finally seriously started reading books from the list, I am not counting books I read before as I would like to reread them. In 2016 I managed to check a couple off, but in 2017 this has increased to 42, 1001 seems a million years away never mind the 1305 from all lists however, I’m hoping now that I’ve joined this group it will motivate me to keep going.

[Dan]

I knocked off 21 in 2017, bringing my total to 437:
- "Fingersmith" by Sarah Waters: 3 Stars
- "The Kindly Ones" by Jonathan Littell: 4 Stars
- "Home" by Marilynne Robinson: 5 Stars
- "The Gathering" by Anne Enright: 3 Stars
- "The Accidental" by Ali Smith: 4 Stars
- "Family Matters" by Rohinton Mistry: 4 Stars
- "Thursbitch" by Alan Garner: 4 Stars
- "Giovanni's Room" by James Baldwin: 4 Stars
- "Lord Jim" by Joseph Conrad: 4 Stars
- "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" by Muriel Spark: 3 Stars
- "Tender Is the Night" by F. Scott Fitzgerald: 3 Stars
- "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift: 3 Stars
- "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen: 4 Stars
- "Daniel Deronda" by George Eliot: 4 Stars
- "Antic Hay" by Aldous Huxley: 4 Stars
- "The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiell Hammett: 3 Stars
- "Red Harvest" by Dashiell Hammett: 3 Stars
- "Our Mutual Friend" by Charles Dickens: 2 Stars
- "Silas Marner" by George Eliot: 4 Stars
- "Troubling Love" by Elena Ferrante: 3 Stars
- "Agnes Grey" by Anne Bronte: 3 Stars

[Kirsten]

Good job!

[George P.]

Dan wrote: "I knocked off 21 in 2017, bringing my total to 437: .....
- "Silas Marner" by George Eliot: 4 Stars
- "Troubling Love" by Elena Ferrante: 3 Stars
- "Agnes Grey" by Anne Bronte: 3 Stars
.....

I hadn't realized Ferrante has a book in the list. I see it was added in '08. I read and liked her My Brilliant Friend, so I'll consider "Troubling Love", though I see you weren't crazy about it, nor are most Goodreaders (avg rating 3.37).

[Ellen]

I started this list in August having read 33 books.
I read 16 books since August and one so far this year. So my total is a teeny tiny 50 books....a long way to go!

[Rosemary]

I ended 2017 at 536. I think I was around 502 at the end of 2016, so that's around 34 this year.

Goal for 2018: another 30.

[George P.]

Rory wrote: "Julie wrote: "Managed to get to 92. Currently reading Moby Dick. Desperately trying to finish Gone with the Wind and just started The History of Love!"

Taking on some big fish, good for you."

Was that a pun intended Rory? :) (good one) Moby is a good one to have on your resume as a serious reader Julie!

[Julie]

Yes! It's one of those books I should have read many years ago but never did because it filled me with dread! However, I am really enjoying it and also exploring all the biblical references too!

[Rory]

George wrote: "Rory wrote: "Julie wrote: "Managed to get to 92. Currently reading Moby Dick. Desperately trying to finish Gone with the Wind and just started The History of Love!"

Taking on some big fish, good f..."

I know it was a bit of an obvious pun but I was also saying 'Gone with the Wind' is a big one too. I still both on my to-ready list.

[Aileen]

I read 24 off the list last year, bringing my end of year total to 125.

[Nicole]

So far only 33 :(. My goal is 45 more this year. Just started working on this list last year.

[George P.]

Rory wrote: "I know it was a bit of an obvious pun but I was also saying 'Gone with the Wind' is a big one too. I still both on my to-read list...."

Millions of people [but probably 90% women] have read Gone with the Wind and liked it, I know, but it seems so melodramatic I'm just not interested. However, I seem to like books in which people die, or nearly do, and it seems to have that ;)

[Terri]

I have read 39 and counting!

[Ed]

Since my last report in this thread in July...I have read the following list books bringing my total to 258:

The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
Rameau's Nephew and First Satire by Denis Diderot
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life by Gillian Rose
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
Wittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard
Kokoro by Sōseki Natsume
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
The Invention of Curried Sausage by Uwe Timm
Back by Henry Green
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
Howards End by E.M. Foster
Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
Amok and Other Stories
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille
(total=258)

[George P.]

That's a lot of good books Ed! You're about a dozen ahead of me now. I've read some of the books you listed- Cold Comfort Farm was the most amusing of those, Beloved I thought a bit overwrought but very good, To Have and Have Not probably the coolest of those on your list I've read. Your favorites?

[Ed]

George wrote: "That's a lot of good books Ed! You're about a dozen ahead of me now. I've read some of the books you listed- Cold Comfort Farm was the most amusing of those, Beloved I thought a bit overwrought but..."

I agree Cold Comfort Farm was a fun one.
I was glad to finally read War and Peace...and I was surprised that it wasn't as difficult as I expected it to be. I did like it...but not as much as Anna Karenina.
As for To Have and Have Not.... I hated it. I'm not a Hemingway fan...and I'm not happy that so many of his works are on the list...although I recently read The Snows of Kilimanjaro (not on the list) which wasn't so bad.
I agree with you about Beloved too...but I watched the move immediately after I read the book...and it filled in the gaps for me in my appreciation of the novel.

[Ana MG]

I’m on my 48th now!